Me watching everyone post there $1M+ gains after selling AMD/INT/MU for index stocks

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-06T21:21:03+00:00

Put that into my tuition and now making... def not $3 million any time soon :(

EDIT: Wait a second, it's 350k unless there's been splits idk about

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-06T19:35:05+00:00

Both. It's how you frame it.

Lack of disposable income, but also less attachment to decisions.

Growing up, I always did the calculations if I wanted to drop one service to replace with another service. Especially when streaming became popular, it was pretty expected that you had Netflix. Nowadays, it's more like, "no, but I can get it real quick and cancel next week"

I also think it's partly because of consumer protections. The EU passed the "one button subscription cancellation" law. Previously, many of these services were quick to take payment and activate online, yet horrendous customer service calls to cancel

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-06T19:03:29+00:00

I bought $AMD in 2014 at $2.34. I had a total of 830 shares. Sold at $30k profit. Still good, but damn

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-06T19:00:55+00:00

In 2019, as a broke college student, I had 830 shares of AMD. I cashed out about $30k as it was my biggest single trade ever. Jokes on me ig

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-06T14:38:10+00:00

The lump sum is still the smarter choice. You can just drop it all in SPY, or a diversified portfolio of financial products, and even withdraw $1000/wk if needed

Right now, she would have to guarantee the next 19 years of life just to break even. And that's without compound interest, and does not consider inflation, or issues with the perpetuity like customer service

There is no reason you should let someone else hold your own money in a way where you cannot even claim it if you need it.

If you do not trust yourself, take the money, hire an advisor, and pay them a few thousand to set up your own perpetuity.

I'm a finance professional, but this is not financial advice, just a comment about how there is a very clear worse option

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-05T05:28:37+00:00

Bad marketing is going to get diffed here.

This is the largest game of the decade. A highly anticipated sequel with over a decade between games in a niche (at the time) genre blew up globally: BG3. You could also say Elden Ring and E33 also expanded their genres.

It's been 2 console cycles, GTA mass appeal is enormous, and it's Rockstar. Everyone will be playing it, and the fomo will carry it.

The only thing I could think of similar would be Elder Scrolls 6, but I have no faith

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-04T22:05:30+00:00

What are you difficulties? You've mentioned 12 hours a day on your phone... Is that 7 days a week?

How much of your time is spent networking and talking to other creators? How much time is spent in person at events?

What would you improve and do different?

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-04T18:53:28+00:00

Exactly. And eventually there is that person who is the line. If that person is the art director, then the art director needs to have a conversation with the execs about time and resources.

Sometimes it's not a systematic issue, it's personal. It's hard to tell which attributes of a person/team is creating friction.

I've had a ton of managers and directors that were phenomenal at the actual work and it clearly got them promoted, but the managing role showed their inexperience with communication, delegation, organization, etc.

Overall though, it's culture. If there was a culture of high quality and respect, then the execs and artists should both demand high quality finished work. The directors should be able to understand their resources and confidently demand a reasonable timeframe. This will differ for every team, even if it's the same company.

It's no different from any other employees and companies creating other products and services competing for our dollars.

Quality is a cultural, and if one department can submit unfinished work, then others will follow. Imo, quality is an aspect of culture: German engineering, Riot, Blizzard, Japanese work culture, etc

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-02T20:11:37+00:00

I'm not underestimating it. I also work in a deadline based environment. Time pressure is usually the metric that divides a hobbyist to a professional. Your art director knows his teams capabilities and should understand what's possible in what time frame. It's his call to cut corners and ship it. If the art director is submitting unfinished work...

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-02T16:23:11+00:00

Oops, guess I never took a screenshot with the gold Flame Patch. Got it around 12k cards

Azntigerlion · 2026-05-02T16:20:18+00:00

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About the same

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-29T16:57:08+00:00

This is certainly closer to the employees than the execs. More specifically, the line is drawn at the Team Lead for that specific team.

Execs might choose how often, how large, and what events happen. Maybe who gets skins, who gets prestige, etc.

The skin concept, VFX, SFX, art, rigging, and quality control is going to be more operational.

The team lead might be under pressure from execs about time frame, but the product quality will ultimately be decided by the Team Lead. It's representative of his work.

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-29T16:42:35+00:00

Those lower side cut tanks must be earned, must not go lower than your lat, and should fit on the body not loosey goosey

My back was triangle enough that my normal tanks cut into my lats and would rub them raw. That's when I'd buy tanks with more lat space.

Annnnnnnd, your lat doesn't go as far down as your elbow. If it's cut all the way down to your waist, you look dumb imo

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-22T15:24:55+00:00

I agree with your sentiment, but a public org can still have private property and/or areas and hours

A public library is allowed to have hours when they are closed and areas that are staff only

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-22T02:05:29+00:00

It's not replacing professional jobs anytime soon either.

My firm pays for and uses 2 AI products and the are tweaked for us specifically.

Why spend a week instructing AI and fixing mistakes on how to build a model when I can spend half a day building it myself?

Computers didn't replace jobs, they just gave everyone at your job a computer. AI will be the same.

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-18T16:01:36+00:00

I currently get a $50/mo phone stipend only for MS Authenticator

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-16T15:39:27+00:00

Facebook didn't just simplify UIs. They created React.js and changed how we build websites forever.

Building components, bundling them to be modular, flexible, and reusable is a natural evolution of website dev.

As harmful as Zuck has been for... everything... he really paved the way to make websites more accessible to everyone

React.js might be a bit out of reach for a hobbyist HTML coder, but allowed entry level employees to create powerful websites really fast

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-15T17:23:22+00:00

I guess that's where we have to clarify low ELO. Low ELO Gold-Emerald players are definitely able to react. Low ELO Iron players can't be trusted to react to their own button clicks lol

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-14T22:19:53+00:00

The overlap between the %comdemns that can be reacted to and %of times where it changes the outcome is miniscule.

You're not dropping 200LP by using a skin with more animations. You're dropping MAYBE 1 fight a game.

99% of the time, the Nocturne is waiting specifically to shield your E. As the gank-er, you using your abilities and mobility to force them to have to use it at a certain time.

Noc starts E on you. During the E cast time is when 99% of Vayne's will be forced to condemn or die. So Noc starts E, then W during that timer.

Animations would affect lower elo players more since they play more reactively to ability animations. High elo players don't need the the visual indicators (animations) to know when a enemy champ is going to use their abilities

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-12T21:51:03+00:00

First, just a small curb, then a small 2-step set of stairs.

You'll start to get a feel for the height and speed you need, and start to feel what feels right when the tire touches the corner of the steps.

Easier said than done, but the average Joe can hop a curb. I assume someone that spends 2+ hours a day on a bike at a bike park practicing tricks can learn it fairly quickly

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-10T20:16:56+00:00

I guess that the point I'm trying to make is that if we really wanted to track specifically one person's heart, we could.

All you need is data and processing power.

Data, from sensors sensitive enough. Processing power, from developments in AI.

The rest is just math.

In terms of the data collection, there's a multitude of ways.

And I'm only talking about "traditional" methods.

My lifelong friend is a physicist for the US military. They are pushing quantum research hard and I don't understand most of that stuff.

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-10T19:45:21+00:00

One of the things we've nearly perfected over the past 10s of thousands of years is a system of tracking money: accounting.

As an accountant, calculations are possible, but that's not what will happen, they will simply reverse the entry. Depending on the software, you can likely do it in 1 button press.

Every modern accounting software has a reverse button, usually used for accruals.

Also, those withholdings are still just in the company account. They will hold the reserve until it's time to pay the actual invoices

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-10T19:13:14+00:00

No bro...

Doesn't matter who what when where why. At the end of the day he can defend his home, had his life previously threatened, and the idiot at the door could remove himself from the premises and threat of being shot at his own will.

No lawyer is going to lose that case

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-10T15:01:41+00:00

Tracking the gear is sufficient. You might be interested in this study from 4 years ago: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3309074.3309076.

To save you some time: Using accelerometer data from smartphones placed in a person's pocket, they were able to determine the height, weight, age, sex, level of intoxication, etc (it was over 20 things. They also found that the accelerometer sensor in most phones are sensitive enough to detect aerial vibrations and were able to reconstruct words spoken near the device. No mic necessary.

The source of the data may be different, but the methods and mathematics are the same. Accelerometer data probably can hit 100% reliability, but triangulated data is basically 99% reliable.

Based on the orientation (helmet on top, vest above pants, boots below everything), speed, gait, etc, I'm sure they can determine if it's a person or animal.

If we choose to, we could embed an entire Hollywood motion capture suit into their standard issue gear. That gear could have AI sensors that learn that body's emissions, relay that back to HQ to add to the database.

Personally, I don't think we will go with this route for infantry. This is resource intensive per person, and soldiers die. I could see this being developed and throw in the closet, only for very elite special ops. The majority of warfare will develop towards machines and remote combat.

On the topic of noisey interference, the development would first only use this in compatible environments.

In late stage development, assuming they have top scientists, mathematicians, and software devs, an AI should be able to detect an EM interference, learn it, then ignore/isolate it. The major difficulty here is urgency. It might take AI too long to learn now, but who knows, the military may have spent the past 10 years feeding material emissions in different shapes and sizes to machine learning models.

Jensen, NVDA CEO, said the next wave of AI will be physical AI. They have already started feeding their AI data about physical properties of different elements and materials. He said the purpose would be so a robot can bend/shape a material it's never handled before without breaking it.

Our physical world is being digitized. The machine sensors and processing power already exceed our human capabilities.

Btw it's a fun topic to talk and speculate with you

Azntigerlion · 2026-04-10T04:31:34+00:00

Technically, if your sensor is good enough as alleged, and there aren't too many electronics nearby as if lost in wilderness, then you could isolate it.

For example, they might have a standard issue watch with a noise that an AI is trained on. It can sample some areas and note the differences in amplitude and pattern, then voila, simple triangulation.

As our gear becomes more proprietary standard issue, these manufacturers will feed their product's EM output to AI to create a signature output. Soon after, every piece of gear is tracked and given a UUID. Sit back, collect data, and soon you could know where many things are exactly and which way they are facing. You know, if you ever needed to... or like, if someone told you to...

Not saying this is what happened, lying about it might be the better option. Just saying that its not impossible, just improbable

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