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I think so yes. The video has gameplay from the first PS1 game that was 3D. There was an earlier game that was top down isometric, that one is not worth playing.

The games are platformers and old school ones at that. They're mostly a vehicle for the story, the gameplay is nothing to write home about.

The scenery, environments and opponents are all part of the storyline, well worth playing through.

Or you can try bloody palace. I think F80+ mobs have same level of dmg as highest level difficulty mobs.


That being said, some people said Lies of P DLC is the hardest Souls like. You may find every game on Earth too easy once you get past that level, lol.

It sounds like you are confusing income with net worth but I know that you know better than that.


This is true.


I made a conscious decision not to.

None of this disputes what I said above.

I heard majority of members are leaving this club right now.

The two are basically synonymous if you aren't living on social security. A fat investment in tesla or btc at the right time rolled into a safer asset could definitely increase your income by 7-8x (more, really).

Didn't find that to be the case at all tbh; difficulty felt similar to what you would expect from any Fromsoft DLC. And I found Elden Ring's DLC to be harder (especially the final boss).

LoP's basic combat gives you many tools to aid you in battle, as opposed to needing a specialized build to try a different strat, as is the case in Elden Ring.

Lies of P I sleep.

Nightreign... I half open my eyes for Recluse and Duchess, and smile at Raider.

Then continue to not buy it, because I have no interest in Battle Royale nor in 40 minutes for solo boss do-overs.

Despite the shortcomings of TLOU 2, I am looking forward to their next game. Season 3 actually has a chance to be good because of Kathryn Devers, or w/e her name is.

They really shouldve bounced the story back and forth. Despite Abby having an objectively better story no one is going to watch a third season.

Some random *** killed my dad who is a Doctor. Revenge! Everyone roots for that guy. We'll watch 300 hours of revenge seeker porn and ask for more.

Unless he's a girl who looks like a guy.

I finally caved in to my friends' incessant foot-in-the-door pitches and bought it yesterday.. it's fun if you play it with friends

Which one is John Eldenring lol. I thought that was what the 1000 or so Temu-Vaatis were calling that one statue of the cloaked figure that shows up all over Lands Between?

I don't know, viewership for s2 didn't end up being bad. With a better actress leading the way, i think s3 will do fine.

"Not bad" and "fine" are by definition, "not good" lol

Fine doesn't pay the bills.

Oh, and Old Guard 2 just randomly spawned today, to zero advertisement and zero trailers. Who remembers the first one, anyone!? (it's pretty ok)

Mephisto tho!

I'll watch anything with Sacha. No matter what it is.
(*) ... I really don't like the Ali G character though

That movie is getting crushed by reviews and fans of the first one.

It's always the vanilla poster guy!
(actually I only tried him, since I only did one run. I wanna try birdman (Guardian) and the barbarian (Raider)for some umbara-gumbara action)

He does have that standard issue vibe.

I did not. Income means money received not salary.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/income


So if you own 1m worth of stock, it increased by 50% and you sell them, you made 500k. That 500k is income.

Stock also give you dividend. In my region, "safe stocks" like banks generally average 5%-6% per year.

So if you own 1m worth of bank stocks, every year you get $50000-$60000 free money without having to work nor take the risks with trading stocks. Since this is % based income, the higher the capital the more free money you get.

If you have combination dividend, good timing on buy/sell tech stocks, real estate rents and extra cash flow from profitable IP work (such as books, music, paid online tutorial etc) and pension, it's possible to have pretty good cash flow after you retire. But you absolutely have to work on building those cash flow assets when you were younger.



I made a conscious decision to, personally. I don't want to become poor and grumpy. I want to have free money every year without having to exchange my time for labour. Owning money generating assets is the best way to get that kind of life.

This may come as a shock. The vast majority of careful investors did not buy APPL at $7 nor mine BTC when you could do that at home.

This relates to the passage at question just how?


The dividends do not increase after retirement.

They do actually.....


If you retire during rapid economy growth period then even safe stock will see huge revenue increase because of huge amount of money entering the economy.

Case to the point, one of the bank stock that I owned has increased dividend by nearly 100% in 2024 compare with 2017-2020 era. And it's stock price increase by nearly 300% since 2016 to reflect increased dividend they gave.

So if you buy them in 2017-2020 you'll have massive gain in 2024 due to the whole economy just having way more money now.

This is safe stock, mind you. If you go aggressive with AI stocks then it's more like 100%-300% gain or more within 1 year in 2024.

You are 80 yr old. Surely you have experienced economics boom period at least once in life? How can you not know dividend can increase during economic boom >.>.

Well first of all I said "income increased by 7x, not "yearly performance increased" by 700%.....

Secondly There is still 2x or 3x ETF if you missed APPL and BTC.

Last year plenty of people are showing off their 100% gain within a year with 2x or 3x ETF. There are plenty of tools to increase risk and reward without needing cheap APPL nor BTC.

Also you can pledge assets for more cash if you don't have enough capital.

Hell, just buying 2x or 3x ETF in this April would already push your performance to 40% or so within 2 months. I know a bunch of people got a loan just to buy the dip in April.

IMO the chance to make big gains comes quite often, in the last 5 years we got covid crash, 2022 QT crash, 2024 AI boom and 2025 tariff panic. Buying 2x ETF during those times can yield significant gain. Especially if you live in a rapidly growing economy.

It's just the matter of people's willingness to take it.

And if you graduate with a STEM degree during an economic downturn you are financially ****ed for the rest of your life compared to those with the sane degree issued a few years before or after yours.

If has no place in economic planning either for people or nations.

Case in point: I sold all my stocks in the mid 1970s while the dow was in a 10 year flirtation with 1,000. Or, in other terms, essentially flat for a decade.

So, IF someone bought in '65 - '68 and held for 10 years (and buy and hold is considered long term safe) they would have LOST money due to the dow holding steady while inflation didn't.

And you are not too young to know that there are both bulls and bears in them thar woods.

I have been a citizen of Windurst for 20 years and I think this is the first time I have realised there was a basement in the tower, when doing BLM AF quest.

The Sandman s2 releases on Netflix today, they are splitting the release of it up by a few weeks. I guess the show got cancelled when those allegations against Neil Gaiman came out. The lead actor does a great job portraying Dream, and Boyd Holbrook is great in everything he does. The story and pacing just needed to be better. Too late now though, I guess.

Also critics are really hating Jurassic World, but that probably won't stop it from making a lot of money.

Came here to post this. Season 1 was amazing, and if you are a fan of the book series, the TV show is literally panel for panel of the books.

Hence I said "I know somebody's income increased by 7x after they retire(income after retire compare with salary pre-retirement)" NOT "if you invest now your performance will increase by 7x every single year".

The individual in the story got several pretty lucky timing in a row, I admit. Lucky to retire and start studying stock market right before economic boom. Lucky to enter the market during Covid crash. Lucky to sold most in 2022 at peak then buy back at bottom, lucky to sold most during 2024 AI boom again.

At no point I believe such lucky timing can be sustained for another 20 years. But it doesn't change the fact that sometimes it could happen.

I am under the impression that one economic cycle = 30 years, not 10. Also when people said buy and hold is the best strategy, they actually meant "continue buying until you retire", not "buy once then sell them after 10 years because they are flat".

Case to the point, Even if you are in Japan which experienced 30 years of depression. You should still have significant gain if you continue to buy, even if you entered the market at peak in 1990.

In 1990 Nikkei 225 index peaked at 37189, then it continue to decline in the next 20 years, it finally come back up after 30 years and it's currently at 39785.

I asked AI to do a calculation on investment gain if you invest $1000 a month every month from 1990-2025. Here is the calculation:

Total invested: $427k
Gain: $673k-873k
Total portfolio:1.1m-1.3m
Average annual return: 5.5-6.5%
(Considering Japan had deflation from 1990-2013, this performance actually beats it)

I believe I made it super clear that you have to start building portfolio when you are young because economic cycle is 30 year long. But all the back testing and data shows if you continue to buy for 30 years, even in the worst case like Japan it still give you 5-6.5% annual return.

If you invest once before economic stagnation and don't keep buying the dip until the 30 year cycle is complete, of course there will be a chance that you don't gain anything. You aren't even following this strategy correctly. >.>

I am very well aware of how the whole thing works.


How long can economic downturn last, compare with one individual's average life span?

If you graduate at 22 and retire at 65. You have 43 years to make that money back.

Which economic downturn in the US history last 43 years? I don't know, you tell me.

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