General chat thread

I wish we could put symbols or notes next to people's profile pictures that only we could see so it would be easier to remember whose an idiot and who isn't. I came across someone today that I haven't seen in a few months and I couldn't remember if I thought he was an idiot or if I thought he had good ideas, I just knew that it was one or the other .

 

i try to treat every interaction like it’s the first one, because outside of authors I don’t pay much attention to names. I do tend to remember when someone is consistently an asshole for no reason, though.

 

Noob question: how do you post a gif?

 

Same as posting an image. Note that this doesn't work if the gif is on twitter, because twitter converts all gifs to mp4

 

Ok, because when I post gifs from Reddit they don't always work.

 

Question: Do bullies only target people that are their age and younger or do they sometimes go after people that are slightly older then them?

 

Bullies attack anyone they perceive as 'weaker' then them. Age rarely comes into it.

 

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Check it out and see how bad things are.

 

How do you cope with your favorite franchises getting ruined?

 

So how does one commision an art piece? I have an idea that I want to see picturised, but I don't know how that kind of thing works?
How do you even know if the artists art style fits your taste?

 

Most artists openly advertise commissions on their social media pages, just send them a message and go from there.

 

I consider Ward to be Worm fanfiction, and treat it accordingly. Was it written by the author? Sure. Why would that matter? George R. R. Martin wrote a story about Jamie Lannister fighting Cthulhu.

Whenever you think a franchise is ruined by later work in the series, let that be your guide.

 

I go “wow that kinda blows” and after being mad for a while I ignore it. Now I forget the ruined part exists until I’m reminded.

 

Evergrande is defaulting on a massive amount of debt Monday. This is expected to have ripples throughout the global economy. Word on reddit is to prepare for a potential market crash in the coming weeks.

 

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A Chinese property developer that’s over $300 billion in debt. It is required to pay back part of said debt tomorrow, which it has already stated it cannot do. The company previously demanded that its employees loan it money or lose their yearly bonus, and tried to get the Chinese government to get it a bail out, but the loans weren’t enough and the government isn’t playing ball. They’re going to need to produce something like $160 million in the next month to avoid being liquidated, and that’s only the start of what they need to cover.

 

I'll be blunt, this also really, really is not appropriate for this thread and likely falls afoul of rule 8 due to the circumstances surrounding it. If you want to discuss this, you probably should be on one of the sister sites.

 

Sounds pretty fucked.

Anyways I still can’t get a PS4, and my brother wants an XBox but we can’t find one of those either. It’s been a hot minute since the new consoles released, but I feel like I won’t be able to get one until after the inevitable WWIII, which is kind of a bummer.

Can one of you smort ppl tell me when the scalpers will get screwed over enough to stop, or is it a new fact of life at this point?

 

I thought Rule 8 was politics, not economics? Either way, I just wanted to mention it. I’ll stop bringing it up.

 

Politics and economics are inseparably intertwined, like incestuous conjoined twins.

 

well, my attempt to report you for rule 8 baiting to see if it qualified was rejected, so feel free to talk about it.

 

I suppose that is the fastest way to check. Thank you?

 

Pog. Just had a mega IQ gamer play so extreme my internet cut out. Was playing Modern Warframe, guy in a shipping container and an LMG. Ran out of ammo, no grenades, but I had an ammo box. Rather than throwing it on the ground and replenishing my shit, I threw it in the shipping container and he shot it. Instantly the FBI cut me off because I was too smart for them.

 

i couldn't really see how it was, and technically the rule is "if you think something is questionable, report it" so it's not even wasting moderator time.

so why is a chinese real estate company having a financial crisis going to cause global problems?

 

Because they borrowed a lot of money from everywhere, including from outside of China. That's likely going to be $300 billion that isn't getting paid back. And some of the companies that they borrowed from in turn borrowed money from other places. Covering for the missing money from Evergrande could well put a lot of them in serious debt trouble, creating a domino effect. And even for the places that didn’t borrow money themselves, suddenly having Evergrande’s debt dumped on them will make it more difficult to meet their own financial obligations.

 

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Economics, specifically the stock market, work like the orks in Warhammer. Startup companies that haven't produced a single product are worth hundreds of millions of dollars because investors believe that maybe one day it will be successful. Netflix is somehow growing despite consistently being in the red. A company's worth can tank not because of something tangible like sales, but because the ceo said something objectionable

 

Economics is more the art of learning how people work and how to manipulate herds to do your bidding without becoming part of a herd or getting into a bubble.

The best economists are usually a bit wacky or weird for this very reason.

On a different note where can I steadily show the books I'm reading in lockdown? Just wanted to make a thread talking about what I'm doing and making a log of it.

Internet sucks in Australia so I can't just upload stuff on YouTube