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I want to clarify a few things to some newer members. You have taken a few jokes we make seriously and it will cause you to lose money. First, FOMO is an extremely bad reason to buy a stock or options. If you have to every ask “is it too late?” It is too late. Don’t ever buy a stock after it has rocketed up to ATH. This was a very very standard but of advice until GME made it’s crazy run. Now it seems like the norm. It’s not. It never was, and it never will be. GME is a once in a lifetime run. You will very likely never see another one. Second, diamond hands. Pretty much the same story. Diamond hands was seen as a very very stupid thing to do. Anytime you nailed even a 2 bagger we would always always tell you to sell it all, or at the very least sell half to secure some profit and hold the other half as a gamble. Another note on diamond hands. If you are not familiar with organized pump and dump groups please read up on them. They create runs on a stock, then convince other people to buy it while they sell off securing profits. The 3 biggest ways to spot a pump and dump is 1 fomo, and 2 they tell you have diamond hands. (Prior to diamond hands they would say “it might dip, but that’s expected! Don’t sell it will go up!” Lastly they will always sell it as a sure thing. No stock is ever a sure thing. New people that witnessed GME are making these pump and dumps extremely easy to pull off. My last bit of advice, bag holding isn’t a sound strategy. Holding a stock because you are down on it and only because you are down on it is stupid. Plain and simple. Only ever hold on to a stock if you really think it’s going to go up. (With good reason.) you can sell, take what money is left and buy something else that will return a better profit. When you lose, ask yourself, if I didn’t own this stock right now, would I buy it at its current price having seen it drop? If the answer is yes, then hold it, if the answer is I would cum in my pants for a chance to buy in at this price having no losses! Then double the fuck down and buy more. I have been on wsb for almost 10 years. I learned to trade here. I don’t have a job and trade full time for my income. There are some very very smart people here, it is up to you to find those people and learn from them while ignoring or laughing at the retards losing money for the memes. Lastly, inverse wsb is a very legit strategy, think about that. Doing the exact opposite of the front page of wsb has good returns. (fscomeau, I’ll miss you, you glorious bastard.) Edit: someone rightfully pointed out that the inverse wsb strategy has gotten its ass royally handed to it in the last 8 months. So maybe I’m that old guy that is struggling to keep up with change.
Welcome to the /Fitness Daily Simple Questions Thread - Our daily thread to ask about all things fitness. Post your questions here related to your diet and nutrition or your training routine and exercises. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer.
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Welcome to the /Fitness Daily Simple Questions Thread - Our daily thread to ask about all things fitness. Post your questions here related to your diet and nutrition or your training routine and exercises. Anyone can post a question and the community as a whole is invited and encouraged to provide an answer.
As always, be sure to read the wiki first. Like, all of it. Rule #0 still applies in this thread.
Also, there's a handy search function to your right, and if you didn't know, you can also use Google to search Fitness by using the limiter "site:reddit.com/fitness" after your search topic. Other good resources to check first are Exrx.net for exercise-related topics and Examine.com for nutrition and supplement science. If you are posting a routine critique request, make sure you follow the guidelines for including enough detail. (Please note: This is not a place for general small talk, chit-chat, jokes, memes, "Dear Diary" type comments, shitposting, or non-fitness questions. It is for fitness questions only, and only those that are serious.)
[Webcomics] From rise to loss: the story of Ctrl+Alt+Del (CAD)
Ctrl+Alt+Delete may be one of the most iconic internet comics of the 2000s. It represents the worst of mid 2000s gaming humor and the comic still lives on current day through memes. So today, I thought it would be fun to dig into the rabbithole that is Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Penny Arcade and the beginning of Ctrl+Alt+Del In 1998 the webcomic Penny Arcade was born. It was a gag comic about video games in which the characters would make jokes about video games. Each comic often had only 3 panels, so the creators could pump out a lot of comics regularly. Penny Arcade became an internet sensation quickly. Online content about gaming was very sparse in the early ages of the internet, so a comic entirely dedicated to video game jokes was such a cool novelty it became a cash cow. Penny Arcade probably wasn’t the first gaming comic of its kind, but it was the first to get really popular. Penny Arcade began making tons of money from ad-revenue and even Merchandise. Naturally, with such a simple concept that seemed every single soul with a pencil could do, copy-cats of Penny Arcade started to appear everywhere, and on October 23 2002, the first comic of Ctrl+Alt+Del was created by Tim Buckley. Just like Penny Arcade, it was a gag comic about video games. And just like Penny Arcade, it caught lots of attention, but not always for the right reasons. Story and Criticism Ctrl+Alt+Delete revolves around Ethan, a videogame-fanatic, and his roommate Lucas, the voice of reason in the comic. Ethan strangely looks like how Tim Buckley draws himself, so it was obvious that Ethan was a self-insert. And that was the least of the criticisms the author got. Like I said, online content about gaming was just a novelty in the 2000s. Gaming webcomics were in that context even cooler. So with gaming webcomics in its early days, they had very low standards for comedy. Ctrl+Alt+Del was no exception to this. If you now check any Ctrl+Alt+Del comic made in the 2000s you would probably scratch your head and question yourself how anyone could find this funny. Lots of overused gaming jokes, lots of jokes which punchline was just violence, some pages didn’t even have jokes and had the main protagonist Ethan complain about how everyone was stupid and not real gamers. As you may have guessed, Ethan got lots of criticisms as a character. Ethan was wild, spiteful and did everything in his power to defend video games. Every single issue Ethan came across was resolved easily and nothing was Ethan’s fault ever. He was a dick to everyone who he considered stupid, but in the comic he still had friends and even a girlfriend (oh we are gonna get to girlfriend soon). Lots of accusations that Ethan was a Mary Sue. What also got lots of criticisms was the art of the comic. From the beginning to the late 2000s, the comic had a very boring artstyle that very little improved over time. People began making fun of the artstyle by using B^U, which if you would put it on its side it would look like all of the faces in the comic. And if the art didn’t bother you, the writing suddenly would. Disregarding the cringe pro-gamer dialogue, lots of pages had enormous amounts of texts that said fuck all. Ctrl+Alt+Del got lots of criticisms on its forums and even from popular content creators. Creators like Zero Punctuation (you can find the rant on 23/4/08, bit of scrolling) made entire rants about how garbage Ctrl+Alt+Delete was. Well, how did Tim Buckley respond to the amount of criticism? With bannings of course! Tim was notorious for banning people who criticized his work on forums, using arguments like “I don’t see you do any better” etc. So in short, Tim got lots of criticism for his lackluster comedy, bad characters and lack of improvement over time. But the comic was still making money, enough money to create something truly terrifying. CAD Premium, the animated series and Jack Thompson In the latter half of 2005, CAD premium was released. It was a membership service which you could subscribe to for exclusive Ctrl+Alt+Del content, such as exclusive comics and most excitingly, the Ctrl+Alt+Del animated series. Yeah, this comic got an animated adaptation. It launched in 2006, with a second season released in 2008. Not surprisingly, it was really bad. Each episode was only 5 minutes long. The animation was very stilted and amateurish. The voice acting quality was on par with “The Room”. People paid money to watch this show. The animated series even tried to parody Star Wars, with 3 episodes of the 12 episodes first season reenacting the first three Star Wars Movies (again, each of the episodes were only 5 minutes long) and with our lovable protagonist Ethan doing acts of terrorism to save “gamers”. The villain of these three episodes was Jack Thompson. If you don’t know, Jack Thompson was a lawyer and an anti-video game activist. He specifically criticized the amount of sex and violence in games, with him making numerous lawsuits against GTA games, connecting these games to murdercases by teenagers. He was really prevalent during 2000 and 2012, the exact period which Ctrl+Alt+Del was relevant. Tim Buckley did not like Jack Thompson. You could almost Tim Buckley was a bit too obsessed with Jack Thompson, because he not only made Jack Thompson the villain in Tim’s animated series, Tim also dedicated an entire comic to Jack Thompson, with it basically being a mini novel directed at Jack Thompson with no jokes whatsoever. I digress. The point I want to make is that Tim Buckley was making good money. He sold lots of merch, he got good money from putting ads on his website and later on he got good money from kickstarting the making of box sets of his comics. He was still getting lots of criticism, but that would only be temporary, right? Loss As the comic continued, Tim wanted his comic to be bigger and better. So he began introducing storylines. A female character was introduced called Lilah, which entire character could be summarized with “gamer girl”. Lilah became the girlfriend of Ethan (ofcourse). They began going on dates and at some point even anticipated a baby. More characters were introduced like a robot who dissed humans all day (basically Bender from Futurama). In 2008 the comic began alternating between weirdly serious and standard gaming comedy. Characters got girlfriends, new characters got introduced which had nothing to do with the main characters and long story arcs started to appear more often. This clashing of two different tones would finally lead to the disaster we all know and love. After a storyline about how Ethan and his girlfriend were expecting a baby, a comic was released in which Ethan was barrating a stupid normie gamer like usual, but in the second panel of this four panel page he got a call that his girlfriend got a miscarriage. After he was down barrating the normie gamer, he hurried towards the hospital. Then, on June 2nd 2008, the comic “loss” was released. No text. No jokes. Just the dread of Ethan discovering that Lilah had a miscarriage. The days after that the comic covered how the main cast reacted to this miscarriage with very little jokes. Then between those pages, pages with consisted of stupid gaming jokes (which you would normally see in the comc). So the tonal clash was harsh. And to top this all of, Lilah ended up apologizing to Ethan for her miscarriage. Before I’ll go further, It is important to note that the comic “Loss” was inspired from Tim Buckley’s own experience. From a now unfindable blog post, Tim Buckley mentioned that he himself had experienced an unplanned pregnancy and a subsequent miscarriage which brok him out of a toxic relationship. However, the internet didn’t care about Tim Buckley’s personal experience. This entire arc caused a shitstorm of a reaction. Widespread mockery and criticism. Youtubers like Yahtzee made scathing criticisms of this stunt, alongside criticizing gaming comics as a whole. The forums on Ctrl+Alt+Del were set on fire. But what you all probably most know about, the meme “Loss” was born (also sometimes referred to as “CADbortion” or “Loss.jpg”). One line, long line and short line, two long lines, one long line and one laying line. This meme format became so widespread that it has stood the test of time, which is rare for memes. With this, Loss has also become the only thing most people really remember of Ctrl+Alt+Del. Life after Loss This drama gathered Ctrl+Alt+Del a lot of attention, but it wasn't given any positive attention, thus it didn’t stay around for very long. The comic continued along, because Tim couldn’t do anything else. He did began to improve his art though. A new cast of characters were introduced, which were basically primary colors constantly killing each other. After realising that making long, drama-filled story arcs didn’t work for his comic Tim Buckley began to focus more on his roots, aka gaming comedy. That didn’t mean he fully step out of the drama-filled story arcs, because in 2012 Ethan fucking died. November 2012. After a long arc about Ethan trying to save the future of humanity, the time machine which was essential to the arc was about to explode and destroy all of time. Ethan was the only one that could save everything. Ethan bursted into tears, remembering his friends and his… best friend (weird way to spell wife), but he knew what must be done. He grabs the time machine as it is about to explode, and on November 25, 2012 the comic “Endings… And Beginnings” was released, which confirmed that yes, Ethan died. His loved ones mourned Ethan’s death and this comic ends with Lilah setting up a “Church of Gaming”. Can I remind you again, that this was a gaming comedy comic. This got a strong reaction from CAD’s community, with most wondering if the comic could still continue after such a dark end. The answer was yes, the comic continued, because Tim Buckley couldn’t do anything else. The comic turned back to it's real roots, fully focusing on stupid gaming comedy. The art also continued to improve in quality. Eventually Ethan and his crew got brought back, but they were more or less used for cameos and just gaming jokes, none of that drawn out story arcs. After 2012 nothing really big of note happened. Ctrl+Alt+Del was dedicated to just gaming jokes and Tim Buckley began to turn his focus on other comics like Mindstate and The Starcaster Chronicles. As of today, almost 19 years after Ctrl+Alt+Del was started, Tim Buckley is still continuing the comic, albeit he is mostly focusing on his different comics, like The Starcaster Chronicles (which are on his homepage right now). Tim Buckley still has a small dedicated fanbase reading his comics and supporting his patreon. As for Tim Buckley’s thoughts on Loss? From an interview he did with Intelligencer in 2015, he said that he didn’t regret making Loss. He was proud that he made light of such a serious issue. And as for his thoughts on all the memes of Loss, while at first he was uncomfortable with them, he has come around to find them amusing, especially since most of these memes have no harmful intentions. Final Words It has been a wild week for me digging through this entire comic. While I personally don’t like the comic, I do respect the bizarre history it has and Tim Buckley’s determination to continue it. He might have not been the guy that took criticism the greatest, but he has definitely grown over almost 20 years of making comics and that is something I wholeheartedly respect. So here is to almost two decades worth of CAD: | || || |_
No one panic. I do heavy tech analysis. And this is GOOOD! PULL BACKS ARE NEEDED! (READ)
Everyone thinks that stocks and crypto should only go up and never down. And when it goes down people panic and sell off. That's the dumbest thing you can do as that just drives price down more. We have day traders, scalpers, shorts and long termers. If you panic because you see a pull back you need to just stop and find something else to do. Dogecoin has been consolidating and building a TON of support and I got to say itsnseffinitely going to go the lengths. You want to sell because your scared than don't come back. The same thing going on happened beginning of the month 3rd-6th. Consolidated and went on its next leg and now past few days has been consolidating and now had a little pull back earlier but support brought it back up. You guys need to learn to read charts. It's in a clear up trend. Rising wedge the little sell off made it fall off a tad but it is recovering. The other day same thing happened and we moved up about 2 cents you guys want to make money than just sit back and enjoy the show because I will tell you. This started as a joke meme coin years ago. But now we are going to be something big. I say in about 2-3 days if pussies don't sell off than we will be .9-.11 cent range. If you like what you read throw thumbs up so people can see it. Thanks. And good luck!
Hi, guys. I know we're trying to limit the old WSB talk, but I've been thinking a lot about the GME threads, and this won't fit as a comment, so I hope it's alright that I post this here. I'm shocked by what the community has become, and I'm sure you're seeing it, too: the onslaught of misinformation, delusion, emotional volatility not unlike GME's volatility, and (since Friday) sells at massive losses and debt... Oof. It hurts to see it. (But I still can't look away.) WSB has experienced massive communal losses like this before, but never like this. How did it go from a simple stocks subreddit to an echochamber of GME hype and conspiracy theorists? The threads from even just a month ago were radically different than what they were a week later, and even more different than they are now. It's fascinating. It certainly raises a lot of questions. Here's my opinion: The GME community has plunged into groupthink faster than their stock price plunged to the ground (if you're not familiar with groupthink, check this out). But how did this happen so quickly? Let's take a deep dive.
Forming a collective identity
We'll start at the basics. Formation of a collective identity is a necessary first step; you can't develop groupthink without the group part. From where I see it, WSB as its own collective identity certainly helped speed up the process of forming GME's identity. When the sub boomed, most members were, at first, generally welcoming (if not by old sub members, then by the thousands of new ones pouring in), and the lingo was easy to learn. It was easy to feel apart of the community. Not only that, it was exciting for new subs: GME brought a sense of solidarity. Just check out this thread to see what I mean. Whether their goal was to 'stick it to hedge-funds' or get rich quick, all new subs who didn't know much about investing felt an expectation, and maybe even certainty, in their GME investment: an upward spike was coming, it was only a matter of when.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is very important to a collective identity. It's like an inside joke; other people might not get it, but you and your friends do. I was playing a multiplayer video game the other day, and someone came in the lobby with the username GME. Another player in the lobby got excited when he saw it. He said, "WSB?" and the first person answered, "to the MOOOON!" Instant friendship. Rhetoric strengthens camaraderie. It makes you feel like you're part of the "in" crowd. This is another reason that the existence of the WSB community probably aided in the rapid formation of GME identity: new subs quickly took on WSB rhetoric. Diamond hands vs. paper hands, to the moon... you get the drift. New investors wanted to feel part of WSB, and rhetoric is one of the easiest ways to do it. I want to talk specifically about the terms "diamond hands" and "paper hands" for a moment. These are very important terms for the GME identity. Prior to the GME explosion, I think WSB members would agree that diamond hands and paper hands didn't really mean that much. I would even say that diamond hands were viewed somewhat negatively. Regardless, those terms are loaded with some heavy positive and negative correlations, and without the self-deprecation and self-awareness generally present in WSB, the use of those terms could easily slip into the beginnings of discrimination-- which is exactly what happened when GME took over. To newcomers, diamond hands sounded great! If you're investing in GME, you're not only part of the in crowd: you've got diamond hands. The sellers? They've got paper hands. They suck. You don't want to be one of them; they're gonna wish they were one of you. Now, we're subtly digging deeper into that "us vs. them" narrative.
A sense of urgency
Throughout the GME boom I saw a lot of people ask, "is it too late to get in now?" The general response: No. But you need to get in NOW. There was a real feeling of time sensitivity, and there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding it: who knows if you missed your only chance in? Easily-swayed, brand-new investors wanted to get in. The idea of making easy money was certainly appealing, and there was an undeniable FOMO factor. When the young investor became interested enough to ask if it's too late and became spammed with comments to get in now, it probably felt like an easy decision to make. It probably made GME profits feel like an inevitability. Who were they to know any better? Even if our brand-new investor had a chance to profit on GME, there were a lot of red flags in their decision to invest at all. They were emotionally investing, and there's lots of signs that point to it. And just like any emotional investor, once they were in, the easy-swayed, brand-new investor felt the actual implication of investing actual money like they'd never expected. They might have been certain of GME's upward movement before, but now, they felt the dips a lot more. I don't need to tell you how volatile GME's dips were-- they were bad. Our brand-new investor probably tried not to panic; the diamond hands vs. paper hands rhetoric probably played a large role in their ability to stick around. Our new investor didn't want to be a paper-handed fool. And they probably tried to convince other people to get in with the very same rhetoric, too. They had to! Their money was on the line now, and the end goal was to get enough people to invest so that the squeeze will happen, right? Right?? Oh, the squeeze. The very reason for our GME adventure. Because of its role, there was a lot of information being touted about short squeezes, a lot of copy-and-paste action, and a lot of outdated sources. People relied on a website called isthesqueezesquoze.com without much consideration into who was running it, or if it was updating in real time, or even how it would determine if the squeeze had been squozed. Eventually, the message seemed to become: if other people sell when they want to, then the stock price and volume will go down, and hedge-funds will cover their shorts, and our brand-new investor will be left with nothing. That's not fair, right? We can't even squeeze if people aren't buying on the dips, right? We're all in this together, right, guys?? Uh oh. You see where this is going?
Group polarization
Group polarization, which is a common red flag for groupthink, is the tendency of a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members. You've seen it: that leftist friend you have starts hanging out with other leftist people, and they become even more leftist. For the GME-community, mid-to-late January was likely the biggest push for polarization. At this time, we had the emergency of more GME-community "enemies:" the mainstream media and big brokers. MSNBC called the GME movement a terrible idea, hedge-funds cried about their losses on air, interviewees suggested that WSB could be considered insider trading, others called WSB's move cheap and illegal. Shortly after the media attacks, Robinhood and other brokers began to shut down trading. The media coverage sucked, but this was a lot worse. Now, it was personal. GME couldn't trust the news, but now, GME couldn't even trust their brokers. GME was angry. The threads were spammed. The general sentimentality was hurt, betrayal, mistrust, and war cries: how come hedge-funds are allowed to play dirty tricks but we're not? The news is owned by a bunch of rich guys, so of course they would be against the GME movement. The "us vs. them" narrative dug deeper, and now, it had more meaning: we're the underdogs! We'll fight our way up to the top by ourselves! Us vs. them! The more that the GME-community grew, and the longer that they gathered in their threads, the more they mistrusted the stock market, and the easier it became to blame a lot of things on them. Not only that, but they felt more right. GME will skyrocket. This is getting national attention because we are succeeding. You can literally see the real-time descent into group polarization in thememesthey used: "GME $100 is not a joke" became "GME $1,000 is not a joke," and then $5,000, and then $10,000, and then $20,000..... I believe there are some people out there that genuinely thought GME could break 5 digits. A lot of people genuinely thought it would break $1,000. Stock peaked Thursday morning around $470, but that wasn't enough for GME. Even after it dipped back down to $200 at close, the community was certain it would boom again. GME $1,000 was not a meme. I can't figure out why, but somewhere before or on Friday, a lot of the community began to believe that $320 was the number to hit. The squeeze would happen after they got back up to $320. People went with it. Friday morning, the stock struggled to go back up. When the market began to close, GME had one goal in mind: close at $320. Minutes before closing, the GME thread exploded, comments rolling in the thousands per minute, filled with the now-familiar GME rhetoric: "hooooold" and "buy guys! we need you to buy!!" and "GME TO THE MOON!" among many, many others. The ticker looked like a tug-of-war. Market closed at $328. GME won the battle. This is exactly where it went downhill fast. GME had an entire weekend to fill until the U.S. market would open again, and their win left them glowing all weekend. Here was the proof that they needed; if they could win a battle, they would win the war. Just take a look at the weekend thread to see what I mean. "Be prepared for the fight next week." "The media is going to try to scare me into selling? Nah." Rocket emojis. "Hold the line." Remember, this was an entire two days of celebrating their win: the more they celebrated, the further polarized they became, and the more they mistrusted everyone else. The romanticism might've been strong before, but it was getting stronger. I saw one comment comparing GME-investors to movie superheroes. MOVIE superheroes. Jesus. In the midst of their celebrating, what did they do when someone said they should sell?
GME-specific rhetoric and the WSB fracture
Now that GME had effectively polarized itself, it needed some new rhetoric. The WSB stuff just wasn't extreme enough for them anymore. Hedge-funds became hedgies. People who doubted GME were spreading FUD. Hedgie-bots were a huge issue. GME needed to "hold the line." Do you notice a lot of the rhetoric became blatantly war-related? Wonder what the benefit of that could be. But what about the old WSB community? Towards the end of January and up through now, the ones who sold their stocks and talked about it were downvoted to hell. The polarized hivemind had decided that anyone who sold for any reason at all were weak, paper-handed, they would regret everything. The ones who cautioned others to do the same were even more so. And don't even think about talking about other stocks. What do you think this is? A subreddit for the whole market? Some studies suggest that online rhetoric is tied to an increase in aggression. When a user feels like they're part of community identity, they'll behave the way they think they're supposed to, and the way that they see others behave. Our new investor sees someone call someone else a paper-handed tard for selling? Well, they'll do the same. Even if they don't feel that strongly about it, they might do it anyway, just to feel like they belong. It's all pretty much subconscious. There's not a lot of critical thought in the beginnings of groupthink. If you said GME wasn't going back up, you weren't just wrong, you being wrong made them very angry. I commented something about how people should sell GME and one user replied, "you clearly haven't been paying attention at all. That is the most stupid bullshit I've ever seen. You truly are the tippy top tard of all tards." It's the perfect example for this: using the retard rhetoric, full-on aggression, etc. Old WSB members were a new enemy of sorts. Anyone who said anything against GME were hedgie-planted bots aimed at creating FUD. (See how complicated this rhetoric is getting as polarization gets stronger?) Any other stocks? Distractions. Stupid bot, the hedgies won't fool me into buying anything else. The entire subreddit served only one purpose: GME, and GME alone. Everyone else can get out. I think it's clear that we've arrived at the end of the line...
The fall of GME
So, the stock market opened up Monday, and GME charged into battle again. But it didn't go as expected: GME went down fast. People were getting scared. A lot of them had probably invested a lot more than they were willing to lose-- there were stories of loans taken out, inheritances given early, rent and grocery money being spent. Even if they weren't on the brink of financial devastation, the losses were massive for some. That shit hurts. For emotional investors, it might feel like the end of the world. So, here's our brand-new investor staring at some deep red numbers on the screen, maybe more terrified than they'd like to admit being, wondering where to go next. Well, good thing our brand-new investor had a daily thread to turn to! What would make them feel better than to settle comfortably into their echo-chamber? Here were users calling them brave and intelligent. Diamond hands! Keep up the good work! Tasty dip, get these discounts! There were copy-and-pasted messages. Our brand-new investor was swayed into buying this easily, so wouldn't they feel reassured this easily, too? Then came the negative brigade. A lot of people came back for their 'i told you so's: get out while you can, stupid bagholders, can't believe you guys are still holding, etc... To the brand-new investor, these negative comments were like a cold slap of doubt-- at this point in the game, with our investor possibly thousands of dollars under on the first stock trade of their life, they can't handle the doubt. They probably can't even process their losses yet; it cannot possibly be real. The echo-chamber was certainly convinced it wasn't... So, these negative comments must be bots. Nobody really has any doubt. If anyone does, they just have paper-hands. As the stock fell harder, the GME-community got really desperate. They tried to appeal to your pathos. There was a lot of "if you never sell, you'll never actually lose." A lot of "if DFV isn't selling, I'm not selling," ignoring the fact that DFV had sold more than enough to cover his initial investment. It became downright misinformation: Mark Cuban's comment urging GME-holders to keep holding was frequently turned into "if Mark Cuban isn't selling, I'm not selling." The VW squeeze was referenced several times as a comparison. Here's a great list of the misinformation spewed from someone's post earlier. This was where the delusion really began to set in. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be attributed to the fact that GME was steadily falling. At the end of every day, the narrative changed: the squeeze would happen tomorrow. No, the next day. No, sorry, the day after that. No one can be trusted anymore: the news is fake, the negative subs are bots, and hedgies are cheating! That dip was just a short ladder attack. That dip was just the shitty paper hands selling. That one was the hedgies cheating. Thousands of comments rolled in by the minute. Millions were accrued in losses, many by those who couldn't afford it, and yet, the GME-community lashed out at everyone else for doubting them. Wednesday rolled around and the stock could hardly break $100. But WHO were the idiots? The paper hands. The liars. The cheats. GME will return, they said anyway. The media is wrong. There was misdirected anger. Memes rooted in the thought that GME would rocket. You guys knew the utter delusion that the threads became. I don't think I could describe it well, even if I wanted to. But here's the most delusional comment I've seen, the one I think perfectly sums up the GME-crowd: "Stop questioning. You are told to buy and hold. Just follow directions." Stop questioning. Just follow directions. Thatis fucking groupthink.
What now?
I could really get into other contributing factors here. There have been a lot of IRL events that have probably been a catalyst for this; we've been seeing a lot of mistrust of the mainstream media, growing support for the rich vs. poor narrative, and mistrust of the government lately. There's been a lot of conspiracy theories and echo-chambers online. I don't know the future of GME. I also know that there's some truth to the things that the GME-community has said: I'm sure there were bots in the subreddit. I'm sure there was market manipulation. But, like all truths man-handled by groupthink, it was warped beyond belief. Not everyone disagreeing with GME was a bot. Not all downward dips were market manipulation. But that's exactly what they believed. So, where do we go from here? There are many implications this phenomenon will have on an individual investing level and, with WSB, on a group-wide level. I hope that investors burned by the GME movement will learn the implications of emotional investing and FOMO-- we've certainly all been there before. I hope GME doesn't continue to become a massive conspiracy similar to Qanon (the rhetoric has evolved to be something scarily similar). I'm curious to hear what everyone else's thoughts are. Let me know what you think.
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor. This entire post represents my personal views and opinions, and should not be taken as financial advice (or advice of any kind whatsoever). I encourage you to do your own research, take anything I write with a grain of salt, and hold me accountable for any mistakes you may catch. Also, full disclosure, I hold a net long position in GME, but my cost basis is very low, and I'm using money I can absolutely lose. My capital at risk and tolerance for risk generally is likely substantially different than yours. So.. I mentioned possibly doing a 'post mortem' on my GME trade, and apparently that was in high demand. That being said, I'll call it an 'evolution' instead, as we still don't yet know what will happen next. Rather than going through a full narrative, I made a crazy annotated chart to chronicle some of the key points in my trade decisions. Strangely enough, I think it might better convey how the week went from my perspective a little better than a full narrative. If you catch any inconsistencies between the chart, or my writing below, please point it out. It's very easy to ex post facto ascribe to yourself the benefit of 20/20 foresight and overlook mistakes you made at the time. I'll walk through my thought process for newer traders. Keep in mind I'm trading my hobby account, not a self-directed IRA, so the stakes are a lot lower and tolerance for risk is much higher:
I would probably trace the initial origins of this trade for me back to November. I wasn't a genius like DFV finding GME at that point, but once the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine efficacy data came out, I decided to go rummaging through XRT (retail) and other unloved sectors for value that should rebound on the sector rotation to the 'reopening trade' given the nosebleed multiples in QQQ (the NASDAQ/big tech companies that dominated the market in 2020). Figured I'd mostly ride the SMH (semiconductor index) and a few other favorites while digging around. Looking at unloved sectors is the value/long term investor version of 'buy the dip' (typically the dip might last years, but I figured in this case the evolution would be much faster because it would be driven by progress against COVID).
ID'd GME for the short list because of an unusually regular pattern on the daily chart RSI. In hindsight I would probably attribute that to one of the hedge funds trying to stealthily unwind its short position veeeeery slowly, but GME being a dead corner of the market, it shows up in the data like a lighthouse beacon, in a channel upward just bouncing off RSI 70. Someone is gradually accumulating a big long position or covering a big short position. TJX's looks better, but valuation too high already (over-loved).
Deep dive DD, including DD from WSB just makes me think this is exactly what I've been looking for. Better buy in before it escapes completely.
Ok..it made some massive moves already, but with the bonus of the short interest anomaly this is too good.. and it comes with awesome memes--can't say no to the package deal. $38 (my first buy) is pretty good, but I'll write April $40 cash-secured puts to net me a better entry (or additional profit if they go unexercised). This is a common technique investors can use to get either a better entry than they otherwise could get, or some participation in the upside if the price runs away--I find it easier to do this than setting an aggressively low GTC limit buy and keeping my fingers crossed.
Digging deeper into the short squeeze thesis tells me it's practically mathematically guaranteed to go off any moment. I take off some cash-secured puts, liquidate a lot of the rest of my portfolio, etc. because if things get as crazy as I think they might, it's better to have almost nothing else in your portfolio to complicate matters. This is especially true as margin requirements start rising.
Volatility starts going crazy. You almost can't see it on the daily chart with the scaling of the 500+ peak, but if you focus on the 1/21 to 1/26 timeframe there were a few brutal Eiffel tower moves (parabolic up then down). All kinds of misinformation about what is going on starts flying. People start FOMOing into those moves only to despair out on the other side for a loss. Few if any seem to be willing to talk about the situation in a way that newer traders can understand. I start posting a bit here and there, just getting a feel for reddit.
On 1/25 I see a few heated discussions regarding whether the gap up over the weekend, then crash down that day in fact WAS the squeeze, and I try to jump in and correct the record a bit.. people are panicking out on the downside of that move because they're being told the squeeze is over. That motivates me to write my first article in the series. Don't finish it that evening, decide to finish it in the morning. It drops on this sub essentially as what we now know was the squeeze is achieving liftoff.
Looking at my posts from 1/25 to 1/29, I'm probably too tuned in to the hype, but tuning in to sentiment is important in sentiment-driven momentum trading. I do try to consistently try to warn new traders from FOMOing in, but that doesn't stop me from trying to help them understand what is going on.
One thing I've learned the hard way--don't carry a sentiment-driven momentum trading position through a weekend. That usually does not end well.
The weekend gives me time to step back and resume a more analytical approach and you may notice my writing style reflects that at that point. Looking back, I notice a lot of sloppiness and some outright errors in my realtime read of the situation. I try to point some of those out if I feel they might be material to others' trading decisions.
At this point I'm thinking the squeeze has been mostly squoze (but for a few 'technically it's still possible' type scenarios). I figure since so many of the regular readers/commentators on my posts are going to ride it, I'll keep a position on to ride it with them too. We'll see where we go from here!
I actually did really well on the trade overall. Could have done much better had I just stuck to my trades rather than reading and writing on Reddit, but the numerous comments I've seen where I or other commentators in this sub were able to provide good, level-headed feedback and advice helped people make better decisions make it worthwhile to me. I guess it just bothered me too much to see the vacuum of real information and willingness of people to push their trade on others. I didn't see that kind of behavior in WSB even just the week prior when I first joined. Also, while it turned out very well, I have to be completely intellectually honest and admit that I could have lost it all too. This was a crazy volatile trade with more twists and turns and unexpected developments than I could have imagined, and that's even given that I actually believe it when I say that I don't know what will happen next. This is something anyone knowingly walking into this type of situation should realize and plan for. Each person has a different tolerance for risk, though I will say that while I was and am willing to take significant risks with my hobby trading account, I try to never take entirely irrational risks. I also actively put at risk a relatively small percent of even my hobby trading capital (~20%). It may not seem like it, as you've seen my writing on a high volatility play, but my overall capital disposition is very conservative and low-risk/low-volatility in aggregate. It's because I know that most of it is safe that I can feel comfortable and controlled making very high risk plays. I've seen people put it all on the line and totally clutch trade big momentum--I wish I could, but I know that's not me. There are a few sayings that traders have as almost jokes, but with an undercurrent of dark humor in many cases:
Rule #1: never lose money. From Warren Buffett, value investing legend. I'm a little more flexible with this for myself, and amend it to "always have a plan that guarantees you can never lose more money than you intended to put at risk." If you are in the red on this trade, realized or unrealized, don't feel bad--I'm very confident that most people are in the same boat. Try to think of it as tuition for one of the most intense, and hopefully intellectually productive seminars ever, held only once every decade or so.
No one ever went bankrupt taking profit, or pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. (counterpoint: tons of people have gone essentially bankrupt riding profits right back into the ground--particularly in climactic late bubble market action, like the dotcom bubble). To those of you feeling bad that you could have made more, be glad that you were in the green. It's something to celebrate. You traded a black swan event and came out ahead.
Buy low, sell high. MUCH harder to do consistently than it seems. Particularly if you initiate a trade from FOMO. For those of you who did this, try to remember what that was like, and think of ways you can manage those emotions in the future, or ensure you never put yourself in a similar position if you'd rather not have to. Either approach will be healthier for both you and your wallet in the long run.
Alright, this post is long enough as is. We'll see where the rocket takes us tomorrow. Good luck in the market!
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So, if you see this you most likely have been followed by me. You aren’t the only person and you have probably questions you would like me to answer. Luckily this post will answer the most asked questions. (If a question you have isn’t on this post, first look in the comments for the answer and or write your own down there. Only message me if it is personal.) -Why do you follow me? I follow many people. You were probably followed by me at random. -Why do you do this? I don’t have a real reason for doing this. This account has started as a joke, but now this is a personal challenge for me to see how many I can follow. -Am I a shark lady now? Because I am neither. My name doesn’t mean anything and you are free to do what you want after I have followed you. -Are you depressed and are doing this as a coping mechanism? I am not depressed and there is no deep intend in me doing this. Someone already recommended the suicide prevention hotline to me and I advise you to not do the same. -I don’t want you to follow me. Can you unfollow me? I personally don’t like to unfollow people, but I am willing to do it if you message me. Blocking me is also an option. -I asked you to unfollow me, but later you followed me. Why did that happen? I can't remember every name, so I must have seen you again and have followed you without knowing I did it before. If that happens message me again. If it happens a third time, then consider blocking me, as it would make it easier for the both of us. -Where did you find me? I follow so many it is impossible for me to remember where I have found you. If you want to get a picture from where I likely followed you, I have a list of subreddits I have visited (which I update every time) at the bottom of the post. -I looked at the list and I still don’t have a clue. How else could you have found me? Then a hit was send out on you specifically, you commented on an advertising I followed you on or you were on a post where I was mentioned. -How many do you follow? As of the time of writing I am at 7.000 people. This will probably outdated later so I have the current number of the people I follow in my profile description. -What is the subreddit on which this post is on? The subreddit Shark_Park is the sub I made for everyone I follow. You are free to go on there or not. You are free to post there what you want, as long as it doesn't break the rules. It is my goal to make that place one of the most diverse and interesting subs on Reddit. -Can I ask you to go to a specific subreddit or follow a friend? Yes, you can. If you want me to go through a subreddit, suggest it in the “suggestions” post on my subreddit. If you want me to follow someone specific then message me. Also if you mention me I will try to follow everyone on that post. -How do you go through subreddits? I usually sort by new and go down the posts and I also go through the pinned posts. -Do you follow everyone who was ever active on a sub? I usually don’t do it, my common time frame is the last seven days. I only manage to follow everyone on a sub, if it is small enough for me to do. -What kind of subs do you follow? Like I said before, I follow suggested subs. But I do have my limits. I do not go through NSFW subs and I usually don’t go through subs that have more than 500.000 members. -Can you stop following people, please? I won’t. I will only stop when I want to. -Do you believe or agree with the politics or opinions of the subs you go through. This account does not give opinions on controversial topics, as this account isn’t for that purpose. And also don’t try to talk about politics with me, as I do not care. -I never post, so how are you following me? I also go through comments. -Are you a bot or using one? I am not a bot. I do this manually by myself. -Why don’t you make a bot for this? Wouldn’t that be easier? Of course, it would be easier, but first, I do not want to make a bot, as I don’t even know how to code or make one. Second, I want to have pride in doing this by hand, and third, I would probably get banned from Reddit if I would make a bot that would follow everyone. -Who are you? Who I am isn't really important, but if you want to know me beyond this account then look at u/Text1O1, as that is my original account, with which I give my opinions. -Why is your name I_Follow_Shark_Ladys and not I_Follow_Shark_Ladies? That is due to name length and I also think it's funnier like that. -How many follow you back? It is hard to give a number that won't be outdated later, so I will give you the common amount. For every thousand I follow a hundred follow me back. It is always about 1/10 of who I follow which follow me back. -You follow someone with a problematic name, do you agree with them on that name? Some people I follow will most likely not have a name that might not seem socially acceptable, but saying that I agree with them on that name is a stretch. I follow so many, I do not look at the names anymore and even if that account is controversial, I will still give them the benefit of the doubt. -Are there any other gimmick accounts like yours? Yes, there are. The first one to start this was u/I_Follow_Femboys and after I was one who was followed by them I made this account based on a suggestion from u/TheRealTealOWO. I don't think any of the other gimmick accounts have taken it as far as I have though. -Would you find it funny if I messaged you a joke? No, I have not once laughed or made a smirk at any joke told to me in messages and if you think I will laugh at yours, I won't. -Is there a limit to who you follow? No, not really. I also follow bots and advertisers. -Am I allowed to sext or have erotic roleplay with you? No, please do not. I am not interested in those sorts of things. -Is this maybe a social experiment? I didn't set it out to be one, but if you want to see it as a Reddit event like place that is run by one normal person, then you are free to do so. -Is there something you hate about doing this? I think everyone who does the same thing as me, can agree that the words "Invited you to chat" are the most dread-inducing ones. -Would you be interested in my political ideology? No. If you send me your manifesto, I will not read it. I don't believe in the ideologies made by other people. I am not getting indoctrinated that easily. -Is there any current goal you would like to hit? The most logical step is to overtake the sub GawrGura in members. At the time of writing, They are at 16k members. So, I did the maths. Approxemently with all the data I have collected up to this point, I need to follow over 200k people to overtake them. It took me 16 days to come to the point of following 15k. This would take 212 days with my current speed. -Are you someone from the government? (Yes, that was a question I have been asked) No, I am not affiliated with any type of government or terrorist organization. If you think that an account like mine could steal your data or spy on you, then I would seriously question your mental state. The list of subreddits I have gone through in chronological order. 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Dear Coco Kaichou, I hope this letter finds you well and that the meal you had with Kanata was filling. We may not know each other personally, or even in passing, but I feel that you should know how much of an effect you have had on my life. Despite our interaction being limited to a few super chats of mine you have read and me watching your live streams from my home, the influence you have had on my life is greater than you may ever know. If you have the time, I would like to express my feelings to you. I was in a dark place before finding you in the summer of 2020. I had lost my job, my apartment, and I was running out of options at maintaining a normal life. It was beginning to seem like the only one was "the easy way out." That is when I found a clip from your meme review streams. It was the first honest laugh I had in a long time. I had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be happy, even if for a brief moment. I found the full stream the clip came from. It was a candle in the window on a dark night. Your channel was a warm and welcoming place for me to rest my weary head. And it was not just you. You introduced me to the rest of the HoloLive family, and the wonderful community that it has garnered. I heard from other members (of HoloLive and of the community) about all the wonderful things you have done to help your colleagues, and bring the community closer. From comforting Aqua and Watame, to making foreign viewers feel like they belong, I was inspired to better myself. Your drive and determination to help further this grand experiment showed me that if a shit-posting dragon can make a place for themselves in this world, then god damn it, so can I! You helped me to pick myself up and get back out into the world. At first it was just so that I could support you and the other members, but I am now able to support myself as well. What started as motivation to make you more successful has ended up as motivation to make myself more successful. I still remember when the turning point happened. I sent my first super chat to you. It was not much; just a short three dollar message with a lame joke. I saved for that super chat for several weeks, waiting for the time when I could spend it safely. And when you read it out on stream, had a little chuckle at it, and said "thank you" in that bright, cheerful voice you always have, my whole world regained its color. It made me reflect on my time finding a new job and working to pay the bills. I realized how kind my co-workers had been to me, just as you had been. I had a new appreciation of the little things in life. I learned to take things day by day, even if it was a bad one. I now knew that a better one always would follow, even if it took a while. Coco, you helped me claw myself out of the lowest point in my life, even if you did not know it. I do not know how much this letter will help, but I would like to return the favor. You helped me in my darkest hour, and now I would like to help you. I love you Coco. I love the content that you make. I love the sound of your voice and your laugh. I love the way you sing. I love your sense of humor. I love that you care so much for all of your colleagues. I love that you are so welcoming to the community of fans. I love your drive to make yourself and HoloLive successful. Without you, the whole of HoloLive and all that connects to it would be different (for the worse in my opinion). I may not have been here to say these things without you doing all that makes you amazing. This community of fans would not be here smiling and laughing along with each other. All of the smiles you put on the faces of fans across the globe have meaning. All of the laughs you have had with the other members during collabs have meaning. The green screen dancing videos you make have meaning. So, when you are feeling like the world is turning against you and that you want to give up, take solace in the fact that you have all of the Tatsunoko's support. You have your fellow HoloLive members' support. You have my support. We will all be here to pick you up whenever you need it. Believe in the community that believes in you. Sincerely, SabreLilly
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There are lots of success stories around here, and sometimes an "how did you get rekt?" thread. But have you consistently been so bad at crypto that it made you laugh out loud and call yourself a dummy? So I thought it'd be cathartic to go down memory lane and write down my painful crypto story, which, as the post title says, is pretty much a textbook guide of what NOT to do. You can read, laugh and who knows, maybe even learn something.
1) I bought the literal top in December 2017. You know that running joke in crypto how a coin tanks as soon as you buy it? My first BTC buy was on December 16th 2017. Check the charts. I sometimes wonder if I single-handedly fucked the market. 2) I initially bought BTC and ETH. As I was an early adopter of the "buy high sell low" philosophy, I panic sold my BTC shortly after. Then I proceeded to use my precious ETH to chase pumps and shilled shitcoins, signing up left and right on obscure exchanges in the process, and you guessed it, always buying the top of trending alts. To name a few of my shiny early acquisitions: BNTY, DBC, PRL. Thanks /cryptocurrency daily discussions! 3) In my everlasting quest to being a super early adopter and smarter than everyone, I had an ICO phase. What's an ICO phase you ask? That's when you share a photo of your passport and your face with complete strangers on the Internet (KYC process, for those unfamiliar), in order to obtain the privilege to invest in their Initial (Shit)Coin Offering, supposedly at bottom price, before they're listed on any exchanges, with little to no guarantees that they're even legit. I did however always do diligent research: I ensured the project websites had cool animations and logos, that they used words like "industry-disruptive", and that their subreddit top 10 posts of all times had at least 9 hysterical price predictions. What do I have to show for it? The pride to have sponsored the lavish lifestyle of some "blockchain entrepreneurs", and that my passport is probably used nowadays to rent hookers in Moldova. 4) I stayed too long involved in idealistic and promising, but dying projects (Elastos, Elix, HorizonState, FunFair, Babb). I am ashamed just writing those names down. 5) I bought literal scams, like XTRABYTES and SUBSTRATUM. I'm only missing BITCONNECT for scam bingo. If you guys have a bridge to sell, let me know, I might be interested. 6) The few successes I had, I was too greedy and didn't cash out any profits. I saw NANO do an 8X, then watched it crash back to below my buy price, with a surprised pikachu face all the way up, and all the way down. I by the way almost lost all my Railblocks in the Bitgrail disaster, but thankfully transferred them right before it happened (possibly my "smartest" move to date, completely accidental). 7) I screwed up some decimals when placing orders on IDEX, buying for way higher than market price. 8) I placed some buy orders that never filled because I had set them as Limit instead of Market. God I've done this so many times. I was once even so dumb that I contacted Binance customer service to ask why the order didn't fill… 9) During a coin swap process, I lost private wallet keys, and wrongly updated my passphrase. 10) I wasted so much in transfer fees moving coins in and out of MEW and between exchanges back and forth, most of the time for no good reason. 11) I signed up for all kinds of worthless airdrops that only filled my mailbox with spam. 12) And last but not least, the grand finale: I bought a ledger, but never used it! That's right, I was going be a millionaire, you see, I had to get ready to store all that digital gold. It's still in its plastic wrapping, in my bedside table drawer, staring at me like the disappointed cricket fan meme every time I open it.
Now, what I did right (I think):
I DCAed for a while after the early 2018 crash. As it kept crashing, I eventually stopped throwing good money after bad.
Whatever shitcoins I had that still had value, I converted them to serious projects like ETH and VET, and I held.
I fucking stopped trading. How I thought this was something I could do, having literally zero experience on financial markets, is hilarious in retrospect.
During the long winter bear, I looked at prices only weekly, and kept up to date with general news, but without obsessing. A bit like polishing your meat to an ex-girlfriend you stayed in good terms with, but without the tears.
I did a lot of reading on crypto throughout the whole ordeal. It's fascinating and despite my financial misfortunes, I'm a firm believer in the future of crypto.
I bought some ETH when it dropped to $150 early 2020.
I'm the proud owner of 5000 DOGE.
Where am I now? Almost breaking even. It took more than three years in the red, but thanks to DCA, holding, and sticking to solid projects, I stayed afloat and it will eventually, hopefully, make up for all the stupid mistakes I made. When I finally break even, I'll reduce my position, keep some ETH, post on crypto forums what a boss I am for being in the green, and that will be the end of a rather long and agonizing learning experience.
Thank you for reading :]
EDIT: added a link to the disappointed cricket fan meme
So, hey wastelanders. It's been a while. I hope you are all still doing well out there in the Fallout. Been a little extra radioactive of late, and we're all kinda dodging the flames of another project each of us had a lot of hope for.
This isn't meant to be a distraction from the very unfortunate and disappointing situation with The Frontier. We all know what's going on, and it's heartbreaking, infuriating, and sad all around. There were some unconscionably poor leadership choices made that led to the loss of something I think all of us had the highest hopes for. My heart goes out to those coders, voice actors, artists, and friends affected for the loss of dignity and years of hard work, and the betrayal of ethics and trust we placed in those who ultimately turned out to be the antithesis of the standards we should all hold ourselves to, not just as modders or devs, but as people. Our projects may not have been connected, but I know people who loved us both and feel this tragedy deeply. To the users, who found themselves burned and bummed out, I can only offer refuge in knowing the community sees the mistakes, and I hope other devs take a long hard look in the mirror at how they treat others and their teams. Years from now, should anyone revisit this post, I hope it's in better days and we don't even remember what this disclaimer is about.
That said, because my feed is blowing up with refugees from the great meme war coming through Vault 18, I'm getting some reminders that New California, released in 2018, has a mixed reputation here and among some Fallout modding communities. And you know, that hurts me a little. Not in an emotional way, but more just... I hate letting people down. Obviously a lot of the criticism we received was fair and rational, and I want to respond to that in a positive and constructive way. We have a lot of love and encouragement of course, but this is more a post about addressing some concerns, and hopefully that helps our supporters as much as our detractors too. I'm not one to just throw in my hat when I make a mistake or fall short of expectations. Usually that puts me into listening and responding mode where I want to figure out what went wrong and how I could fix it. So back in 2019, after it became abundantly clear FNC just wasn't going to receive the community support we needed to overhaul our oldest and clunkiest dialogue or add side content to build up the anemic wasteland, I sat down for a number of nights over a couple weeks and wrote this post-mortem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qZGbmXQ1aqZO4RholmyO9dgPxULLJdRYvsTgUPD2jp0/edit What you'll find in here is first and foremost a breakdown of our successes and failures. Be forewarned, it is many hundred pages long. That document only serves as a hub linking to this folder of documents: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11pKvUpZDEzaiBOsCigePZ-pGjty5LxHm I intended this to be essentially a re-write that would be feasible for any modder with the time and dedication to take what is already there in New California, remove the undesired content, and replace it with this content. We all have a AAA multi million dollar dream game in our heads. This is not that. This is a "what if, knowing what we know now, and having processed all this feedback good and bad, how would we proceed if we could in fixing its shortcomings?" The Big Points:
There are few Side Quests after Vault 18 of note
The Story after Vault 18 is a tail-spin of too much combat in an empty space
Undesirable bottlenecks where we had to scope control branching paths
Crashes from New Vegas Engine being overwhelmed with actors & effects
Combat alternatives need to be presented as a main option, not a side option
Performance woes
Quest Breaks and Sequence Breaks (rare)
Confusion in direction in large open spaces that feel too linear, branches aren't obviously branches (see Pinehaven and Wilco's Raiders, people don't thin to shoot on sight, and if they do shoot on sight, don't think to roll back and try talking instead)
Balance in Combat and Loot is skewed to the generous early and crunch later
Too Many NPCs overall, especially waves of enemies in spawners
Bullet sponges even after massive nerfs still bother folks depending on settings (Very Hard is often on in a player's menu and they never look again, combat overhaul mods are inconsistent)
Map is Too Big and Too Empty (\Moar Side Quests* *More Urban Ruins*)*
No way to not be captured by Raiders? I hate that! (Alternate path to join willingly)
Shi being Japanese NOT CHINESE (Nobody cares about the explanations why)
Charisma checks “should” be speech checks (really we just needed more speeches up front to sell the reason why we used SPECIALS & Earned Perks, so people don't feel path locked.)
Kieva joining the Legion (\maximum jimmy rustler*)*
The Father believing the player is a clone of the Vault 13 Vault Dweller is poorly written and not refused in dialogue, only a terminal few read
The Father had no lead up and is seen as a twist rather than any kind of culmination of clues
The Father isn't seen as a threat and is just pushed aside at the end (would have been a cool 3rd faction if that was even remotely possible, which it wasn't unfortunately)
The Star Player being the Courier is HATED, since we all like that blank slate staying blank, but they appreciate starting New Vegas afterwards
General disappointment in the Companions falling off a cliff and being inconsistent in personality, and then just vanishing after a while (resource shortage, content cuts)
Wasteland Outside Vault 18 is hideous (True)
Jokes / rumors about incest are taken as if they are actual endorsement of incest
Crude humor in any form, gets 2016+ people very twitchy. Should just expunge all humor around sex jokes or libidinous characters, as if it doesn't exist
If 1 character has a bad audio take, 15,000 lines of good dialogue around it become irrelevant
The Enclave are given real justice, but most fans wish they just stayed dead with Fallout 2 and never show up again, which is a massive shame as they have so much potential as an exploration of nationalism if given even 5 minutes of rational justification for their actions
We didn't set out to invent a better plasma gun gut the new gear is cool, and people seem to want more of that kind of thing from an Enclave playthrough
More opportunities for Enclave players to use power armor and weapons, less lonely play through (ignore that they are the last of their kind on the West Coast after F2, add a new companion for Enclave players)
Nobody likes teen drama. Cut it and age companions by 10 years of maturity and competence, such as giving them vital jobs and real lives outside their bubble
Update characters that are undercooked but have potential (Raider Warlords, Union City Civilians, Super Mutants, and the Trade & Personality ties between them)
The Vault explodes, though it is a beloved landmark (no resources to keep it around in the story without it being a throw away due to lack of volunteers to justify all those voiced survivors)
That's a lot to unpack. If New California were an Indie game of its own, we'd have a bright red Overwhelmingly Negative at the start, and Mixed after 2 years. Obviously, in my career going forward, I'd like to never repeat these mistakes that led there. And I'd like to see other projects learn from my mistakes as well. I was 22-24 when the overwhelming majority of dialogue was written in Vault 18 back in 2012-2013, and the second part was written almost entirely in 2015, with voice acting recorded in October-November 2015. VERY compressed and hurried, compared to that span of several years. 2012-2018, only Rick and I were committed to the project. We couldn't capture and retain talent. We didn't have a robust community of modders we were a part of such as Nexus or Gun, and the other large mods were openly hostile and transactional with us, only interested in what benefited them directly, such as talent poaching, rather than cooperation. When we did have contributors it was brief and glorious, but limited to specific things, such as animating a vault door or throwing a vault ball. So large scale re-writes, even when we were acutely awarethey were needed*,* were an impossibility without sacrificing forward momentum or causing fatal burnout. That led to a "race to the end" mentality with as few revisions and as little backtracking as possible, and flaws being baked in. Which succeeded in finishing and releasing instead of failing to deliver anything, but at a painful cost. The final writing for the mod was in 2018, when I wrote Hrafnkel, Atl Irepani, and Vayger. This content, and the voice acting for it, is a radial departure from the cringe early writing. Had the mod stood up to that level, it would have been a cleaner experience over all. A character like Dakota Ferron, who is a mature adult with her own complex motives and goals, and keeps up the drum beat of intimate dialogue with the player across the mod, would have been a huge success. As well as if the wasteland had been smaller, so criss crossing was limited. The companion overhaul would help tremendously with the criticisms of the writing, but is complex surgery. And packing the empty space is a massive team effort, not belonging to 1 or 2 of us original devs, but the voices of other volunteers who understand the vision and don't just fill it with jokes and bullshit. Unfortunately, the reality is, the New Vegas modding community doesn't have a talent pool of skilled modders willing to take on this content. Not because we soured our good will or respect, but because of the stratification of mod teams that have no desire to work together, and over many years of deep investment in their own projects as a hobby, do not want to work on a new project. In the meantime I have a family to raise and a business to run, so I can't be of much help either except to provide financial and directorial support. So at the core of this is a feasibility study, and the results are just simple: there's no need to shutter the project, but let it stand. If someone is wiling to volunteer, we will help get the ball rolling and provide any support required. Until that hero arises however, we have a new IP that is funded and doing very well. We're happy with the way Project Morningstar is shaping up, it pays the bills, and things are looking up. So lets hope at the minimum you all enjoy the writing left in the 1.0 documents, and what we released back in April 2020, which is the last official update from the Project Brazil team for the foreseeable future. I know it's dark putting a project to bed guys. I know 2020 was a hell of year, and 2021 has been painful in new ways for us all. But there's hope. There are lessons to learn from. There are new opportunities to rise to new challenges. Your life doesn't end with failures. That's where you show who you really are. Do you fold? Or do you learn? Best of luck, to all of you. Whether you enjoyed FNC or not, your feedback as shaped me in a positive way and I hope to provide more content for you to enjoy in the future. --Thain
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🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀💎🙌🦍💪🦍💪🦍💪 If you were faced 70 BILLION in the hole, losing to self proclaimed retards, autists, and degenerate gamblers you’d be doing EVERYTHING in your power to not lose. I read a post that said this is financial warfare, we’re in WWIII right fucking now. It’s the 99% vs the 1%. It wasn’t a joke. We broke the market last Thursday and they want to keep us down. It will not be a big swoop, currently it’s psychological warfare - want confirmation look at any social media or main stream media. They’re either silent or telling you you’re an idiot. The hedge funds want you to sell, they want you to feel like an actual retard. Look at the Melvin citadel tropic thunder meme, look at the “ladder attack” meme. Fuck look at all the shit head memes that are not making any of us feel good.
hold the fucking line because this IS bigger than all of us. Realise your place in history and take part in showing Wall Street that retail investors can say what the price is at.
These fucks are mad that you are not doing what they say and what they want to you to do. The free market was established to let the people (common people) invest in what they want & make bank collectively. With every decision you make comes a form of belief, which is a truth in this world. You believe in love, laughter, family yet it can’t defined by any one word sentence or photograph. The shorts -are- still higher than the float, and what the fuck are people missing here?? WE LIKE THE STOCK BUY THE STOCK STOCK GOES UP HOLD THE STOCK UNTIL WE FUCKING WIN. You’ll know when we’ve won. I’m fucking disgusted by what this sub has become. Infiltrated by bots, shills, provocateurs. The old crowd might never come back unless we grow a pair of balls stop wallowing in self pity and fight together like the wallstreetbets we are. Please think for yourself. Do not yolo your life savings in hopes it will rocket to the moon, do not put yourself at risk of losing the little stability you’re holding onto right now in hopes this will be your light in the glory hole tunnel. But if you can... Do you want to stick it to the people who said “hell is coming” and then made BILLIONS of dollars off the little people??? Do you want to fight for the people who worked 20 years day and night to grow their restaurant, ma and pa retail stores who are locally owned??? Fucking fight for all of those people. The situation seems absolutely ludicrous and ridiculous that THIS RIGHT HERE is our fight, but do not get confused or allow the media to gaslight you. We DID break the market, we did make every single hedge fund shit their pants but this fight isn’t fucking over. You need to dig deep as this is emotional, hope is emotional, making a change and defeating a bully is hard as fuck. LOOK AT EPSTEIN. Guilty as mother fucking sin. We don’t even have a mother fucking answer about that one. You think the people in charge are just going to give up? That they won’t pull every single dirty, manipulative, callous, petty, illegal trick in the book to make sure a bunch of autists and retards lose it all??? Fucking wake up and ask yourself where you want to be next week, a year from now. Do you want to look back 20 years and feel like you got fucked in the ass?? Fuck no. It’s that simple. Hold the fucking line and make sure everyone else does the same (within reason!!) or we deserve the royal ass fucking these elites give you every single day, stroking it to the loses you took in 08. This is not financial advise. I’m not a financial advisor and fuck you to everyone trying to destroy mother fucking retail AGAIN. Seriously when the fuck is it going to be enough for you greedy ass fucks?
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"I think I've lived long enough to see competitive Counter-Strike as we know it, kill itself." Summary of Richard Lewis' stream (Long)
I want to preface that the contents of this post is for informational purposes. I do not condone or approve of any harassments or witch-hunting or the attacking of anybody.
Richard Lewis recently did a stream talking about the terrible state of CS esports and I thought it was an important stream anyone who cares about the CS community should listen to. Vod Link here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/830415547 I realize it is 3 hours long so I took it upon myself to create a list of interesting points from the stream so you don't have to listen to the whole thing, although I still encourage you to do so if you can. I know this post is still long but probably easier to digest, especially in parts. Here is a link to my raw notes if you for some reason want to read through this which includes some omitted stuff. It's in chronological order of things said in the stream and has some time stamps. https://pastebin.com/6QWTLr8T
Intro
"The last month has convinced me, that we are going to be heading into a dark place for Counter-Strike esports in 2021."
"I think I've seen the scene essentially kill itself."
"For the past 5 to 6 years, we've basically been in a holding pattern of people coming into our game wanting to run it, wanting to run all of the esports and wanting to profiteer and its been sort of a concerted effort to drive them off and push them away."
"We're spread way too thin."
"If Riot don't get involved and stop the scumbags that have moved over to Valorant from getting their feet under the table, Valorant is going to have real problems."
RL thinks too much has happened all at once for us to do anything except watch it play out, like:
Recent CSPPA strike against BLAST
ESIC failures and them not being supported enough
Teams cheating i.e. coaches/bugs
Widespread match fixing
The Pandemic
"People who try to hold bubble events are so incompetent and fuck up and people get the 'rona and its their fault."
"People who say Flashpoint is a bubble is full of shit and is a lie and people are now suffering for that lie."
"To save money they let people go home and break the bubble for a week."
"Not just Flashpoint peoples decision, they have a partner that handles the production." (hinting FACEIT)
"People are trapped in hotels essentially under house arrest because of COVID restrictions and has fucked peoples lives up."
"It's all too much, all of this incompetence, all of this greed, maybe we ride it out."
RL says he has talked to the Riot devs (the ones working on Valorant) and says, "They are so cognizant of all the fuck ups and all the problems we have in Counter-Strike."
He continues to say that this is factored into their business plan and that we never had a competitor, but just so happens to have one coincide, when we are at our worst.
CSPPA - Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association
"Who does this union really fucking serve?"
RL believes that the CSPPA is a mockery.
He points out the hypocrisy that they wouldn't strike for the pros who were kicked out of ESL Pro League, or for Jamppi or dream3r.
He also says ESL paid CSPPA and are racketeering and many other TOs have to pay them to get their "seal of approval"
He says they would strong-arm TOs saying "well if you don't give us the money, these guys are so we'll just have to commit to playing their event."
Also points out that they will strike against a competitor they are not in agreement with (Flashpoint)
RL: "It's what it says about every other time you haven't done it and it's about every time you don't do it now moving forward." "The issues they've chosen to ignore this year alone are embarrassing."
Then he points out that there was no strike for Valve qualifiers even if we have no major but Jamppi and dream3r can't play in them.
"and Valve have said 'Oh yeah we know actually their stories are accurate, Jamppi didn't cheat, now in a legally binding document. Yep dream3r did have his account hacked in a LAN café', but they still can't play. Where is the fucking solidarity? Gone. Doesn't exist. It's not important [because] it doesn't affect you." "That's what the union does right now, it looks after all the tier 1 people."
He says the CSPPA doesn't represent all players all the time and has driven a divide where you have the haves and have-nots
"We have a tier of players that operate with impunity and do not help their tier 2 or tier 3 players out at all." "If you are not a tier 1 player you do not matter, they don't event ask your opinion."
He tells chrisJ to admit and own the fact that the reason he didn't speak up during the ESL Pro League debacle is because it didn't affect him
"They are looking after some players at the expense of other players. How the fuck is that a union?"
He says the BLAST situation is a reasonable dispute and supports the players but is not the right time for a strike and have not even identified the correct enemy
He thinks players are lashing out now due to previous incidents and are upset that BLAST are working with ESIC
He stated that CSPPA shouldn't beefing with ESIC and they should be working in harmony
He says what they need to do is talk with the teams/organizations that have sold that right to BLAST
RL: "Your employers, the people who pay you that massive exorbitant salaries, when you don't stream and you don't do interviews and you offer no value beyond your ability to click heads and you get 25k dollars a month." "Why don't you talk to them about it? Oh right. You're happy to take away BLAST's paper, but you don't want to risk your own."
"I am seeing such unbelievable cowardice from the players here with the battles you choose."
"Where was the strike action when in the qualifiers for the world championship, there were teams and players engaged in huge conflicts of interest?" "Where was the strike action when your image rights were taken and sold to every league you've ever been in every union type organization you've ever been associated with like, WESA, to your org every time you sign a contract, to the leagues you play in."
"Your image rights are essentially worthless now, there's about 10 fucking separate parties that have them, and how many of them are giving you anything for it? Not much pretty much your org by the way."
"That's a big issue. Your image is you, your image is your brand. What are you doing about that? Nothing."
He is also angry at SirScoots who is "popping off" at people on Twitter who all want the same thing, which is 'A unified Counter-Strike scene for everybody, that works for everybody, that has a sustained ecosystem that nourishes everybody.' "We don't have that now."
He also says their rankings are a joke
"Just so happened, oh look TACO, that very important prominent member of the board, we pushed his team artificially up when they weren't even in the fucking top 20, not by a long shot."
He also says the ineptitude of the CSPPA cost Flashpoint a monitor sponsor
"Is it really a player association or is it like a fucking agency at this point"
ESIC - Esports Integrity Commission
"They have been put in an impossible position."
RL says that Ian Smith, the founder of ESIC and who was done work in mainstream sports, is a good and honorable man who has dedicated his life to integrity and sports. He takes on both sides, ensuring match fixers are punished, but also doing appeals and ensuring those punishments were fair.
"ESIC is a tiny organization" and are in need of money, "They didn't run a grift like the CSPPA did."
"Saying 'you want our support and you want the players to turn up you better pay us.' They don't do that."
"Had startup seed money from MTG and since then they've been pecking shit with the hens."
Ian Smith made sure that the money given by MTG (Modern Times Group, parent company of ESL, ESEA, DreamHack) was nothing more than startup money and wouldn't be in debt to them
Ian Smith sat down with other TO's not part of MTG and wanted to partner with them. They declined and called ESIC "ESL spies and we will never align ourselves with you"
"They only were just able to afford, hiring a PR guy on a full time salary to deal with the press and send out those releases you've seen, this year."
"They have a tiny group of staff investigating these things and they have taken on the biggest problems in our scene: the cheating, the match fixing."
ESIC have had "unprecedented levels of cheating to deal with, because there's something wrong with our scene ever since we went online. There's something wrong with it, everyone's lost their fucking pride and self-respect and they got no passion for it anymore, so they think fuck it, what's in it for me?"
He calls out coaches who are talking about players rights when they would rob and steal from them.
Also says more coaches being banned are coming
He also points out flaws in community's reaction to the punishments to coaches bans: "Half of the cunts still have jobs and some of the cunts got new jobs. We didn't even shun the cheating coaches."
ESIC have "found I think another 2 or 3 exploits like that one and they are investigating them all right now, it's going on right now."
"I know that there are going to be more names getting banned, again."
"So they're doing that on a skeleton crew while, investigating 3 continents worth of match fixing in MDL and semi-pro level CS." "They're doing this with half a dozen people." "They don't have any money or any help. People barely even fucking cooperate with them, they are treated like pariahs. It's ridiculous."
"Why are the CSPPA popping off at ESIC on my Twitter timeline, when you should be working together." "because its all about what's in it in for me." "2020, the online era of CS: 'What is in it for me?' How can I cheat, how can I get my paper, how can I bleed this scene one last time before I fuck off and play shooty shooty bang bang Riot Games babys first fps."
RL says that in the CIS region, teams have gone to tournaments and have been eliminated multiple times by the same team. We found out they were cheating and those players who lost, have been cut from their roster, careers ended because of cheaters.
Stream Sniping
"They're all at it in the online era, they're all at it, they're all cheating, they're all using exploits, probably that see through smoke bug got used a bunch of times"
RL talks about how there is no integrity from dead (the player), always denying when caught doing something
On the topic of 'BLAST never said we couldn't stream snipe': "Lies, BLAST never said you could do that, they had to sort of retcon it." "because what happened after that they fucking started snitching and squealing"
"Suddenly you had like, 10 of the top 15 teams in the world, staring into the abyss of being banned for 6-12 months in line with ESIC recommendations."
He says that ESIC was put in a tough situation and couldn't enforce the bans because it would have resulted in killing CS. What resulted was, BLAST, ESIC, and teams came together and gave them a warning and told them, in RL's words "don't do this again or you're gonna get got."
He then says the top teams brushed this off and didn't give a fuck
The new MiBR team playing Flashpoint, that wasn't involved in the previous incidents are doing it again (stream sniping). He gave credit to Flashpoint for the quick resolution and punishment and respect for cogu's response to the situation.
"ESIC came out and said, once more, 'Guys, zero tolerance from now on.'" RL then got upset at community's reaction calling ESIC "pussies" for their non enforcement and said if we want competitive CS we cant ban the top 10 teams.
He points out how players have no integrity and will do anything for an edge as long as they won't get detected or banned or it's within a grey area.
"All of this shit was mad avoidable, even in the pandemic era."
He talks about why aren't we filming them. Why aren't there representatives for leagues and tournaments making sure players aren't cheating?
Match Fixing
"How many years have we let our scene be fucking pillaged by these greedy cunts?" "We just let it happen."
RL says that gambling and skins betting which existed in moderation was "accelerated and blown up by the Call of Duty greedy fucks."
"Never forget TmarTn was on the board of EnVyUs." "His website, CSGOLotto, they had a bunch of off-the-books sponsorships." "NBK promoted them. People forget."
"Those people who had access to the skins, go to the players" "Even people like s1mple, best player in the world, even he scammed knives and skins off fucking fans."
Owners of skin casino sites would approach pros and lend them skins to use in tournaments and possibly keep them after reaching a deal
Players would tip off inside info about matches and teams in exchange for skins. Info such as: roster changes, how they played in scrims
They would use this info to bet and subvert the odds on their sites. "That happened religiously, I can't even tell you how many times it happened."
"I had access to the biggest database of information, from an inside betting circle in NA, and it would take information and screenshots from other pro players, who were feeding them info in exchange for money or skins."
"Some of these players are still playing." "Incredibly, there are players still in the CSPPA today, complaining about the BLAST recordings, that were embroiled in this murky shit back then."
RL also says that there were tournaments where teams contrived with each other, who should throw, who should win.
"There's a handful of people that are trying to fucking clean it up, and you think you get something over the line and you see something like the CSPPA and it's run by corrupt fucking chuckle heads, and now you've got another corrupt body you have to fight on a fucking daily basis, it's demoralizing."
"It's too far gone. Our entire semi-professional scene is compromised."
"It's rife guys, I'm not going to lie any more. It's not just China, it's not just Russia, it's here, it's NA, it's Europe, it's Australia, so much more than you think, so much more than we can prove."
"I get sent chat logs all the time […] and they're morons, these players, short-sighted, amateur, morons and they're doing it on WhatsApp." People would get cut from the bets because they want to make more money, then they leak the logs. He says, from the chat logs, they spread "little" bets across every site they can (400 to 1k dollars) to prevent shifting odds
He says the scumbags who've fucked off to Valorant will do the same there if Riot doesn't do something and says Valorant "is an esports scene heading for a very early fall based on the sheer volume of scumbags that are already there."
"That's tier 2 CS in a nutshell these days. They know they're never going to play in a major, so what's the punishment?"
"All of these tier 2 fucks that are fixing games now they are like the fucking mafia compared to iBuyPower" "These guys are working with organized criminals to fix entire seasons worth of games. That's what's going on in your tier 2 CS."
"I'm literally being told that there are players fixing games at all levels of Chinese esports and motherfuckers with guns are turning up to team houses and stuff."
North America
"Everyone in NA has left we've lost a continents worth of support during this pandemic and Valve haven't said a fucking word."
RL says the Call of Duty "goblins" that destroyed CS for years are the same people who are now trying to leave CS. "The nerve to treat a game where the fans, and the community, and the TO's were nothing but good to you." "To just kick the players out now and go and leave and say 'It just doesn't make financial sense.' Oh you'll slither back when we have a major though for them stickers won't you."
There's a cascading effect in NA where people don't bother with CS anymore and people like Chaos suffer.
He says NA team owners are incompetent for always wanting it easy and always wanting a guarantee on their investment without skill or nuance.
RL says he would be able to market a team correctly and would have a good ROI and also points out how TSM wouldn't even be bothered to tweet that their team, which was one of the best in the world, was playing at the Major.
He also says not all NA owners are like that, compliments and respects Jason Lake who nearly lost everything to keep Complexity going.
He then calls out the incompetence in Infinite Esports when they acquired OpTic Gaming and bought an Indian CS team.
He says HECZ is not to blame here and that they couldn't tell forsaken was cheating when it was so obvious.
They measured his reaction time to the likes of dev1ce and s1mple
When an enemy showed up on his screen he won that duel something like 44% of the time
"was like the number 1 player in the world statistically"
He brought a laptop to their bootcamp and refused to use the high end PCs that hey provided
He respects Andy Miller (NRG CEO) and HECZ but says that the attitude of not being able to easily monetize their teams is "piss weak" and there needs to be a risk.
He says Chaos EC shouldn't be cutting their roster and should be competent enough to be able to figure out how to make money off their team.
He says there are still opportunities in NA and people are panicking and pulling out, and says Valorant will be the same if not worse.
He also says "bums" who couldn't even get out of groups in NA competitions, are making crazy money in Valorant and says it will continue to inflate.
He also said that he heard rumors that EG (Evil Geniuses) are done.
He also thinks that the rumors of a Valve franchised league from before was sparked up from "these lazy fabled weak NA fucking team owners basically trying to see if Valve would bite at the hook if it was dangled and they didn't"
Slasher says NA team owners are really in favor of franchised leagues because they want to make more money. "Most of the powerful team owners right now are on board with ditching this third party organization structure, or they are trying to play this power politics with all the TOs, and that is contributing to a lot of the problems there"
RL says that Riot has proved they can run a franchised league (LCS) and will be profitable in 2021 which is what a lot of team owners care about and says the competition will only serve to snatch people away from CS.
RL continues to say, "I am so sick and tired of what we have done to this scene, I am just exhausted with it." "I think we have legitimately fucked it, I really think we have. I think we're staring into almost like a CGS (Championship Gaming Series) wasteland in NA." "Counter-Strike esports is a fucking joke."
Talent
"TO's have treated CS talent like absolute human garbage for years now."
RL says that people like Sean Gares and ddk switching over to Valorant isn't for financial reasons because they are making less over there.
He points out that TO's can't even give talent a 3 month in advance calendar.
Because of the pandemic TO's won't hire certain people and some people are working more hours for the same money.
He says we as a community don't respect journalists enough which is why we don't have good journalists.
He also says DeKay is leaving the scene soon and that Thorin is close to leaving also
He says he had to talk a caster down from quitting and was struggling to find reasons.
He says that DreamHack told Vince they would hire him but not if he wants to stick with dusT and says that this is the norm in esports. "Constant leveraging of people against each other." and says this is why we don't have a talent union.
New gen casters are getting put into shit situations and the community's reaction to them is adding fuel to the fire
He says the reason Moses left was because of the terrible conditions
He says that Anders had to constantly leave his family and kid because someone fucked up or broke promises and had to constantly tell his kid to their face that "daddy can't be home this weekend."
He says that esports has always been a lie to sell you this dream, "Meanwhile there's about 2% of the cunts getting all the checks."
Valve
"Anything that Riot does, is better than Valve's inaction"
Slasher says that the larger aspect of esports as a whole compared to other entertainment mediums and Valve's lack of inattention are the bigger problems. He continues saying that the fact that Valve let their game be ran as an esport, they need to take on the responsibilities of it.
Both Slasher and RL wants Valve to take control but not on the level of Riot Games, there needs to be a balance.
In case it was ever a question: Gabe Newell has been to 0 CSGO Majors.
RL calls Valve out saying they could have done something during the gambling era.
He says Valve used to come to the majors, but doesn't think they do anymore.
RL had met with Valve at the Cluj-Napoca Major and had tried to appeal iBP's indefinite punishment and had also gave Brax's life story:
A recent family member passed away, they had lost a lot of income, they had to live in trailer, iBuyPower did not pay any salaries, and was pressured by family to make money who didn't support his career.
RL said that Valve told him, "How dare you try and make us feel guilty." "We shouldn't feel bad about enforcing the only thing that matters that we need to make players afraid of: cheating and match fixing"
RL also tried to share other info about match fixing and nothing came of it
RL points out that Source 2 or a new engine is not something you will want based on the experience of transitioning from CS 1.6 to CS:S. "Valve's track record with brand new engines being launched, not fucking great from what I remember."
Slasher says "If there is anything the community should do, is pressure Valve to hire a community manager."
They say that we need a commissioner, a community manager (not the person who runs the Twitter who posts memes all day), then we need to have a circuit
RL reiterates that Valve doesn't care about CS esports and says they need to change the culture at Valve to make them care about CS esports
Slasher says a systemic problem is making it so working on CSGO would be a bad decision for you as an employee for Valve
He also hasn't talked to Valve in ages and have sent over bugs and cheats and doesn't get emails back anymore
Slasher says we should be directing attention at the developer leads, pointing out Ido Magal, if he even is still the project lead
RL thinks that Ido and Brian are the only people that "vaguely even give a fuck about CS" and were the only people that RL recalled that actually read Reddit and paid attention from time to time
"It is really fucking precarious. Somebody has got to step the fuck up and start giving a shit"
Slasher suggests org owners, with CSPPA, with ESIC, with TOs have a concerted effort against Valve
"Riot Games are doing better things than Valve in the esports space" which is something RL didn't think he'd say.
"People who used to be talent, working with unions, arguing with other talent, when the unions fucked them over, can't understand their perspective, TOs fucking over broadcast talent, broadcast talent wanting to leave and go and work for orgs, orgs having no money, Valve might take coaches away because all the coaches are cheating, ESIC has about 4 people in a fucking call doing the investigations, everyone thinks they're spies for ESL, ESL are just the evil fucking overlords wanting to rule the scene and will just somehow, like cockroaches outliving a nuclear bomb, and Valve are in a fucking holiday in Hawaii thinking about the next Dota character because they don't give a fuck about us."
Closing Statements
"We've peaked. If we want to sustain and exist, now is the time to figure it out. No esports lasts as long as this, we've already done 8 years. We've already broke the records. We have got to figure out a way to coexist and drive the negative forces out and we need to do it as a collective and we're not doing that."
RL compared the Counter-Strike scene to the people on the Titanic who ran around with guns robbing people while the boat was sinking.
"We have given up on being a respectable esports scene." "We are now a conduit to make money for those who want to just milk it, just have one last ride, one last roll of the dice. It's done." "What a fucking mess. What have we done to our fucking scene?"
"There's just too much self-interest driving all of this." "I don't see a way we stop the dominoes." "When it's that bad, when there's that many dishonest people that ESIC have to come out and say that if we punish them all there's no one left. What does that tell you?"
"How many opportunities have we had to clean house? How many times have we said, 'this must never happen again', and another scandal." "The entire skins betting operations was the biggest criminal conspiracy in esports ever executed and no one has been punished for it." "The people who could be driving that don't want to."
"Right now people are fans of those organizations because the scene has value. It is worth being a fan of Astralis because they are excellent at Counter-Strike. It is worth being a fan of s1mple because he is the best player in Counter-Strike, maybe the exception of ZywOo. If the scene is devalued, if the scene loses its meaning, those things lose its meaning too, and people will leave, people will stop tuning into the games. I have seen it happen in multiple esports, this is not my first time at the rodeo. I am getting big Brood War vibes right now and I don't like it."
"The role you play in all of this as fans, as viewers, as listeners, as consumers of esports content, it's absolutely imperative that you know who the good guys are. It's absolutely imperative that you use your voice. It's absolutely imperative that when things are bad, you know who, at least, is trying to make them good, and you have to apply your criticism to the right targets."
He continues saying it's no good in continuing to attack ESIC and saying how they are bad, ESIC have it hard
He says CSPPA are on the right side of the argument on BLAST but have been on the wrong side of many arguments many times.
"If you are not willing to stand along side the weakest member of the union, with the least amount of influence, and the least amount of power, then it is not a union at all and you shouldn't pose as one." "You wanna serve a bunch of special interest do it, everyone else in esports fucking does, but do not pose as something you are not." "We love the players. I've been fighting for players rights for as long as I've been able to, but the CSPPA is not what we needed."
"They are not applying the pressure to the right people, they are not fighting the right battles, they are not helping their weaker members."
He says what orgs have done by keeping or hiring coaches is bad. "When you give up on holding an appreciable standard, you've lost the scene" "Competition matters, rules matter, punishments matter, achievements matter, excellence matters" "If you start stripping that away, you have nothing" "You guys need to take that knowledge and apply it sensibly."
"Valve has sold you all down the river, they sold everyone in the esports scene down the river, tournament organizers are selling their talent down the river. Don't hate on them for sounding tired after a 16 hour day. Don't hate on them because the hype for a matchup they've seen for the 20th time in the past 3 months, they can't be as excited or it sounds contrived. Support your guys, they're there for you, these are your people."
"This community has got to start acting like one for the first fucking time. Just put the petty shit away, let's try and fix this fucking scene while we still have one to save."
"You can't rely on Valve, you can't rely on ESL, you can't rely on the CSPPA, you can't rely on anyone." "Once again, it's gonna be the likes of us, the amateurs, the people who give a fuck, rolling up our sleeves and grafting." "I'm old and tired and I don't want to have to do it again. People need to pick up the torch and do it."
"Like Michal did, like Dudenhoeffer did. You see something wrong, fix it. You see somebody doing something wrong, call it out. If you think something could be better, let people know."
"Vote with your wallets if you're not happy with the direction Valve goes in. If when we do get to the Major, they serve up another subpar, same old bullshit stickers and signatures package again, do not buy it."
"You're a powerful block and if you use it correctly we can fucking avert this disaster."
"I'm not doing another year in this broken, bust-up fucking scene, where everyone is miserable, everyone is broke, everyone is tired, and everyone is trying to fucking rob everyone else, blind, while the fucking people who are meant to be protecting you, are just fucking enhancing it and lining their own pockets."
"I'm not doing it anymore and you shouldn't want to do it either."
"I stand by every fucking thing I said. I mean it, because this game fucking matters to me, this scene fucking matters to me. I put my life into this, my adult life, and to see it in this state is fucking sad."
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I [25/F] have a crush on my senior [33/M] but he sees me as a younger sister. What should I do?
We both met at work but managed to keep in touch even outside of our rotation. He is a generally easygoing, friendly, and jokester kind of guy and hence we always engage in friendly banter bordering on cheeky flirting, with the tongue-in-cheek burns and insults as well. I have tried to push away my crush on him, but he's making it hard to. He texts me everyday, sends me random news articles, memes, youtube videos and jokes and a good morning without fail. He even calls me regularly (nothing romantic, just more banter but verbally) and I can't help but smile to myself just by interacting with him. I have mentioned to him I like games so he has also introduced me to online 2-player games and spends time after work to play with me. Many of you must be asking why I don't just ask him straight out - I'm afraid to lose him as my friend. I jokingly call him my bestie and he has also called me his "bestie" and he's generally a really nice guy who I get along with and if I confess to him, it might just cause things to be weird. Are there are any hard signs to tell for sure if someone likes you or just sees you as a younger sistebest friend? Edit 23/1/21: Wow, thanks everyone, did not expect so many responses to my lame predicament, would love to reply each and everyone of you.... Just to make some clarifications: - We are no longer working in the same place, just the same industry but there are no rules, in fact, many coworkers date and are married (it's the nature of our fratenity haha). - We have met each other 2 years ago and got close then, but drifted apart, only recently got close again because he wished me a happy birthday, lol. - He has never explicitly called me a younger sister, it's just what I feel. Am secretly terrified that he sees this because he was the one who introduced me to Reddit... he calls me to read off the trending threads on Reddit such as the #TIFU page and we will giggle like mad together about it but well I'm loving this community! tl;dr I have a budding crush on my senior who is giving me mixed signals and am afraid to make the first move for fear of losing our friendship.
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