Game: Tie between Dragon Age: Origins and the original Bioshock.

Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street

TV Show: Stranger Things

Book: Man, too many to mention, but maybe The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.

When 99% of voters pick the two major parties no matter how shitty the candidate, it’s unreasonable to expect meaningful change.

Hell, we’d still have two cognitively-impaired presidential candidates if Biden hadn’t had a nationally-televised meltdown, and those 99% would still be defending their cognitively-impaired candidates.

Came here to say this: The Fediverse is what you make it. If it seems slow, take a few minutes and make some posts every day.

Solid choice.

I’ve been reading a book about the Theranos scam and learned he was on their Board of Directors, and it made me a little happy to know that, at least, he got taken in by a con woman and lost a shit ton of money.

Facts.

Yikes. I’d have called the cops in your situation, if for no other reason than the potential of shouting to turn into something worse as tempers escalate.

I don’t have an ironclad rule when it comes to cops, but in general, I avoid interacting with them in any way unless there’s violence afoot. I carry a non-lethal weapon so I have a means of defense if something happens to me, but I don’t trust American cops not to shoot people, so it has to be an explosive situation before I’ll engage with them.

Man, a hard choice here.

I’ll go with Columbus. It takes a special kind of motherfucker to arrive in an unknown country, observe peaceful people living in tranquility, and your first thought THAT YOU EVEN WROTE DOWN was: “Holy fuck I can steal all their shit if I want to.”

And then you go on to make them basically extinct.

You’ll hear it a bit if you hit the gym every day. It’s a positive thing.

I have no idea what it means in incel-speak.

Ah, yeah. Thanks for clarifying.

There will be, no doubt.

The thing with crypto is to just add small amounts over time, so when those spikes happen you can take advantage. It’s pointless to try and time it.

Or been unable to pay his bills and been forced to sell at 4k / coin.

Crypto’s too volatile to put that much risk into it, if you ask me.

I made six months’ worth of rent off the 2017 surge. I sold in the 18k range, because people’s greed at the time was legit scary. I knew a guy who took out a second mortgage on his house to buy more $18,000-priced BTC.

I didn’t quite get that but I am in a way better place than I expected to be thanks to those choices.

2: the 2008 housing crash happened

My dad’s 50 year-old roofing business never fully recovered either, which is partly why I hate our government and how it works for the wealthy.

He now drives for DoorDash, at age 80, using my car. The alternative is starvation.

Didn’t get “rich” per se, but I got in on dogecoin when it was at a penny, missed the peak, and ended up selling in the 30 cent range. I also picked up a ton of oil stocks in March 2020 when it bottomed out that I later sold for more than 15x their original value.

The irony is that I invested in dogecoin because Robbing Hood locked down investments into Gamestop. I didn’t realize that would be such a lucky development at the time.

Those investments paid off my student loans and got me a down payment on a condo. I still have five-figures in my investment account that I’m growing into early retirement. My current focus is gambling stocks, in large part because every election year it seems like there’s a smattering of states legalizing online sports betting. (MO and NE have it on the ballot for this year.)

Not fuck you money or ‘rich’, but life-changing.

Thank you for adding information to my reply.

It’s not the propaganda that’s good, SunZu.

It’s the poverty. Tens of millions of young people in this country have no other way out of debt or to move upward economically.

Depends on the country, but the more important point is universal: adopt a defensive mindset and the means to fulfill it.

Please do not spread misinformation in order to entertain yourself.

Acquire some means of personal defense, also.

Mace, stun gun, etc. I carry a pocket stun gun because in my city there is occasionally violence on the public bus.

Little Monsters

Still fun. Still relevant.