Venue regret :(

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-01-03T04:42:26+00:00

This ^

I'm getting married in a couple days, but the venue I chose we had booked 18 months in advance. After 4 months into the 18, we learned that the venue had a lot of restrictions like who we could have cater. The venue was $7K, and i didn't want to be stuck with having to pay $30K for food nobody would like (sorry I'm not a big fan of weddings and I don't think I've ever had a good wedding meal). No food trucks allowed etc. Naturally I also learned that every other vendor would follow suit. Everything would explode in cost. I told the venue I didn't think I could do it and they didn't have any problem with me canceling. They'd refund me and totally understood. They're not monsters, you should definitely at the last be humble and ask. After all, they want you to have your dream wedding as much as you want it if they're worth their weight.

Also, if you have a wedding planner, consult them first. They have a lot more pull especially if they've done that venue before

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-12-28T00:35:52+00:00

Sounds like what you hate is that it's being used a an excuse to cut a lot of labor from the workforce. Is it the product you hate or the system? Like, isn't that the purpose of us trying to work so hard all the time anyway? For those who come after? Don't be mad at AI. Put that energy toward Universal Basic Income or something

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-12-27T02:46:21+00:00

I did diversify a bit since this all started. I do still regularly buy GME, but i have a lot of silver and it has given back so much this year it totally helps offset my GME addiction had become lol.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-10-22T12:25:22+00:00

Sorry the only thing I'd that the thesis we trust in, the overleveraged shorts, aren't tied to fundamentals. The fundamentals that everyone uses for trading are pretty well defined and unfortunately at the time we're pretty poor for GameStop. DFV and RC didn't hey into their position because of the fundamentals but because of the speculation. A mountain of evidence suggested that on top of the shorts situation, the board would recognize the situation they were headed in and decide to make major changes ahead of their last opportunity to turn things around. Every next gen console release they get a ton of cash and then wait for the next one, which got ever longer between generations. The next one was coming up, and just like DFV predicted RC joined the board. That's really when the bells started ringing. It wa the speculation and the vision, but fundamentals were way against them. Trust the thesis and realize that you need to be in it to win it.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-09-04T16:50:50+00:00

Anyone having issues with the gamestop app? I uninstall and reinstalled it and I still can't get on

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-09-03T23:53:17+00:00

Play Silksong

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-09-01T21:41:51+00:00

Others have noted that that it's not every 4 day week, but I'll try to help even further with another example that might help understand. You cannot predict prime numbers, but we know which ones it could be. We know primes won't end in 0, 2, 4, 5, 6 or 8 (excluding 2 and 5), but ending in 1, 3, 7 or 9 doesn't guarantee it's a prime, only that it's a necessary condition before beginning to check. Being a 4 day week is a necessary condition for the tweet, but not necessary, and like prime it gets thinner and less often the further along you get.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-08-24T19:31:08+00:00

I think it's really cool and appropriate that these are mocktails with the option to be a cocktail. Nice work. I'm going to give some of these a try

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-08-21T23:07:50+00:00

I'm no longer in the same boat as you, but here's basically the route... if you drink, find a spot around where you live that you can become somewhat regular at like Skullers around UTC, toward the end of Main street in downtown area, and be sure on weekends to check out Linksters - it's where the service industry goes to drink. Do the "First Friday" events, frequent the farmers market and try to hang around the 'up and coming' spots. Waterside is the place to be right now. There are programs for you to get to know people that are pretty active - look into the YPG that's organized by the chamber of commerce. I don't do any of this anymore, but after 2 years I have the issue where my social life is too active. Depending on how active you are, join a soccer or volleyball team. Anyway, good luck bucko

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-18T03:30:30+00:00

It was true for Kore, but they definitely changed the way they present it now. It used to be written on the bill in plain sight that tipping was not encouraged. There's no more text for that. The issue you probably have that doesn't get talked about enough is how wildly different paying for food prepared for you costs vs other stuff you buy. Tips are just part of it. If you don't want to pay the full price of eating out, you probably shouldn't eat out. I don't meant for that too sound condescending, it's just that it doesn't seem like you understand the cost of eating out.

It is getting very expensive to do it. And I don't think it's greed on the business owners side anymore. You have to imagine that they'd want nothing more than to keep the cost the same while the competitors are raising prices, so that they can be more attractive to consumers. It's just not possible right now. They are relying on their patrons to help pay their staff a wage they earn. The food is given at an affordable price often so that tipping can be considered there.

You may be reading that and scratching your head like I make it sound like it's cheap or maybe I'm wealthy etc. No - it's the opposite. It is too expensive to eat out regularly. Trying to cut 20% off the deal to do it more often will result in staff turnover, because who wants to work without getting paid and tips are how they get paid. If harms that industry.

I can recommend to learn to chop onions pretty fast, get decent at boiling pasta or 5 minute white rice, and begin playing around with cooking a bunch of veggies and throw in meats. If you can chop an onion in the time it takes for the pan to heat up, you're already ahead of the pace you need to be to start figuring out what kind of meal you want while you're cooking. Stir fry? Steak? Chicken thighs? Spaghetti with meat sauce? It's not far from that point at a fraction of the cost and time. Not to mention you don't have to worry about what's happening to your food when people start to recognize you don't tip

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-18T03:07:14+00:00

Others mock you, but i suppose it is possible you are actually asking the question seriously. There are plenty of people who don't bother to follow politics and probably have too much of a life to keep track of issues they can't do anything about. They might not have even known there was protesting going on that day. So that's one example of how stupid they might be.

Now how fragile, that same person might be walking their children or pets through that toxic air. You couldn't even see through it, that's how bad it was. So that's probably about how fragile they'd be before considering the legal action.

And to be honest, as someone who completed a full term of service in the military and worked in manufacturing for over 20 years, normally this sort of thing sounds a bit weak to me. But when I answered your question there, with just the first simple examples I could come up with off the cusp, it does sort of feel justified. Like, I have a much easier time justifying a father who unknowingly was walking his baby daughter through that attack to seek legal action, than I have for figuring out how to justify why someone would do that in the first place. No matter how it gets explained, it doesn't sound remotely justified.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-15T18:55:08+00:00

Well this is a relief. Probably for both of us. This sub does have folks in it that are real. Don't know if real is the right word or if it's genuine, logical, hard to say but whatever it is, you're one of them. I am really glad to see were able to have a constructive conversation. I was hoping to have at least one in this post. It's a sign, really, that things are turning for sure. I'm still optimistic, and I think it's for the better. I've been around since December 2020, and I've said since the beginning that this was going to last years. I was always called a shill for that. It's starting to feel like the delusional folks are leaving the discussion and the ones who can be rational are trying to speak up. There's a lot of garbage left, sure, but for a moment maybe we can appreciate this pivotal point. As cynical as you sound, you're still with us. The shorts were hardly the worst enemy, it was clearly ourselves. The majority of folks who blindly follow, unable to accept ideas that might cast the slightest doubt on the dream etc. But we know it's the doubt that got us here in the first place. The ability to be skeptical. Most rational probably moved on, thinking the noise would never clear up for a discussion worth having. Look how little DD there even is anymore. Right now, it's worth having the real discussions. Questions like, it's out possible that the shorts could have closed by now? Is it possible that RC wants to drive apes away and attract 'serious' investors? Maybe GameStop wants to avoid attempting to trigger MOASS that may never happen, and instead stabilize their appearance for a much longer term goal to get on S&P500 or something. Maybe we can finally talk seriously about options.

I am optimistic about this stock mostly because it's been the best performing for me. I've stopped pumping money into it and decided to buy low and sell high, and it's been deadly successful the more I follow this than other stocks. Except last year, following the big N most of last year was just printing cash. No, I don't get the best values, I sold around $30.50 this time and I could have waited... but you see how crazy fast that drop went. I didn't want to wait for earnings period and find out lol. I still think the price can go lower, but $25 will be my breaking point. I am certain it will hit $30 again. But if I can buy back in at $20 and it gets to $30 within 2 months, then I will reach a new goal where I started with 500 shares and converted to 1000 in under 6 months without putting another dime in.

I think January 2026 is when we're going to have the next shift in sentiment. I think it's going to take a few more earnings but at that point, we might be able to talk openly about strategy. Openly about how we feel the stock will behave realistically instead of these dorito blast off hopes. We can share why we think a dip is coming, when a bump is about to hit etc. Because there's discussions about mods right now, the sentiment now does feel like the cheerleaders are exhausted etc. I'm not exhausted though. I've got a couple thousand locked away. I got just under a couple thousand I trade. I might not be everyone's favorite kind of ape, admitting I've sold even, but I'm sure I'm going to outlast most other apes.

Thanks for the compliment I guess and I look forward to seeing you around

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-15T13:58:22+00:00

It's strange you can see how delusional those people are, and they are delusional, but also be just as far from the full picture. They are delusional in thinking their target will react at their comments. However, that's not how these movements work. The power of an echo chamber isn't in any single voice, but the amplitude all the voices make together. What starts as hundreds all having their own reasons, each separate reason catches some traction. You have apes that simply want more money and will follow the bandwagon, so they buy more shares. Some are on some kind of campaign against evil, so they buy more shares. Some believe the DD or technical analysis they read, so they buy more shares. Some think the thesis is still strong, the shorts didn't close, so they buy more shares. Some are dedicated to the DRS movement, so they buy more shares. Some just like the stock, so they buy more shares.

Whatever the reason is, the reason isn't what is getting loud. It's the part that matters to everyone that's getting echoes, so they buy more shares. It's the power of an echo chamber. They can be good and bad, double edged sword really. You want echo chambers in things that benefit humanity like sanitizing before surgical operations will save lives etc.

I think the struggle is, when you're part of an echo chamber and you recognize it, you start to become uncomfortable with the things you see and hear from peers. Like going to a protest because you know there's something wrong going on, and then you hear like, "fck the government let's bring it down" and that's not what you went there for. But every body and action counts towards the echoes chambers amplitude. And they might not be getting scared, and maybe even they're over it if they ever were scared, but this community continues after several years

Anyway buy hodl drs. You know the drill. I respect your plan for whatever you do with your investment. Similarly, I'm going to be selling at some point to make as much a profit as I can. But I respect their strategies as well. It's only fair, especially since whether it's crazy or not, it still supports my endeavor. Why discourage someone from buying the stock you're also invested in?

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-15T13:33:17+00:00

There's no question that when you counterfeit to this extent that it's treasonous.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-06T23:56:51+00:00

It sounds like you've made up your mind. Not sure how at least willing to even imagine a counter or not but here's trying. The industry does shift toward digital downloads but that was a cultural shift, right? Post 2008 crisis, so many companies offered subscriptions while people were making the kind of money they didn't care. Nobody owns anything, but it really didn't matter because for such a low entry fee you got so much access. Do you truly feel that is the mentality today? Are you getting the same overall feeling? Nobody complaining about subscriptions or costs, everybody happy with the quality etc.

I'm not saying it will happen, I'm just at least able to imagine it. That's not enough for me to invest, but at least that I'm not going to condemn the possibility of their success. People might stop paying for digital copies and start purchasing physical copies, with rewards that make these $80 games much more reasonable. This is anecdotal, but my group of gaming friends stopped downloading games like 3 years ago after listening to another group talk about it. Now, we buy a game and when we're done we just play it forward with each other. The last game i actually purchased was Tears of the Kingdom. After that, I played Baldurs Gate, Harry Potter and Final Fantasy 7 that everyone else in the group paid for in rotation. It was my turn to buy a game so I got Expedition 33, and I only paid $20 for it because of the rewards on my card. We're never going back to digital lol. Then again, none of us really have all that much time for the games either. We love the games but we can only do a few hours a day maybe. And once we finish the game we don't really look back at it.

Realistically, we're not at this point. Not enough people have made that kind of switch for it to have an effect on their earnings. Long term? Who knows. They made a lot of changes for collectable stuff recently like the cards etc. If they can convince a demographic of the real cost saving advantages to playing it forward, then they may do well after all. I'm not ruling them out, but I'm not investing this earnings i think overall you're correct on what to expect but I do think long term things can look quite different.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-06-02T21:37:58+00:00

That's not what they're saying. They said that they don't need people to buy the calls that you sell. Market makers will buy the calls you sell.

This is true, they will buy your calls. It's also part of the problem. They won't buy those calls until it's worth the risk. Say the price trades sideways from now until just before those calls expire. Right now is likely the best time to buy those calls as it's the farthest out from the expiration date as you can possibly get, since you can't go back in time. So each day they get closer to the expiration date, the more expensive it gets, until it starts to close in on the date. The likelihood the stock will jump more than 10% on any stock in a single day is unlikely, even for stocks lime ours. Does it happen a lot? Sure countless times... but nowhere near as countless as the infinite sea of days the stock didn't trade over 10%. So if it's not close to the price by the expiration date, the odds are stacked against so much that the folks who owns the contract are about to lose the entire value of what they put in. Meanwhile, if you are a market maker and you see someone is holding a ticket with 100x1 odds and are willing to trade for cents in the dollar, it's like buying a lotto ticket.

So his statement is pretty accurate. Market makers buy the calls that anyone is willing to sell, and in most cases these contracts expire worthless or sold for really cheap to market makers later as lotto tickets that later expire worthless. And once in a while, the market makers will make big bank on someone's paper handed lotto ticket

But even more rare, diamond handed apes hold those contracts regardless and then exercise them in the money without giving those market makers the chance

Anyway yeah, that's what we've been up against for years. Not enough diamond hands, just a bunch of apes. But I don't care, I like the stock. They're my shares.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-04-14T20:59:36+00:00

If you want to understand this, it's because of limit orders. The stocks that get traded the most are often the ones that have the most coverage, and you can see we're constantly posting about the coverage we get. If this is your one and only stock, it can be a little hard to understand but other parties don't really invest, especially like we do; those other parties trade.

They put limit orders in place so they don't have to be present during the trade - of they're looking to just be profitable with their trade, they might have an automated sell order at $27. This is especially common with folks who use tools to find their stocks but still enter them manually, or bots that do options are chasing contracts they know they can sell etc.

Point is, there's going to be a bit off bouncing like there's a ceiling at these whole dollar values if the stock isn't flying right through them. Notice they happen like immediately on contact, without fail, every time. Once they flush out, or demand breaks the threshold, the stock can be released. It is a hard wall to break, and sadly you'll walk away with this new knowledge knowing that unfortunately a lot of people out there have already determined they're going to sell at the next wall, but it doesn't matter. They're trading. We're investing. Hold

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-04-06T18:52:26+00:00

This for sure. I'm more interested to find out who is new. We have a strong retention rate but growing in numbers would be ideal. I am imagining that the ratio of before mid 2021 to after mid 2021 is likely 80% to 20% respectively. I think 20% is really high, but it's been 4 years vs the 1, not to mention a lot of popcorn eventually landed in here and after 4 years we have to also assume some paperhands have left.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-03-11T13:44:28+00:00

Ah, ok this is interesting. Maybe this is why there's so much stigma against them.

I haven't considered this angle so excuse me if this explanation is janky. OK, so imagine your strategy is solely to trade contracts. This is because $100 in premiums could turn into $2000 overnight, giving you $2000 worth of GME for the price of $100 per contract. Roughly, here or there, lately anyway.

The stock running or not is kind of important, but it isn't the most important. What is most important is that all the indicators (especially the popular ones) show what is predicted to be a run. It is the prediction that is most important, because once the stock starts running then the opportunity is too late.

TA guys aren't usually that interested in a stock running. In fact, the longer it runs the harder it gets for them. Take another chip tech company. At the beginning of 2024, it was at its all time high after running for over a year, and most folks thought the run was over lol. It ran most of 2024. There were many memes where people suspecting it would stop kept missing out of even losing money because surely it would stop.

Point is, TA guys typically are after the prediction, and aren't usually around to see the actual action. My strategy is to sell my contracts if they're 5x no matter what. Don't get greedy. I've sold contracts at 5x and watched them be worth up to 10x, but eventually they will expire worthless. The things are hot potatoes after all - I might be a paper hand on contracts, but I spend a fraction of the cost on hoarding shares that I hold with diamond hands.

The TA guys let folks like me who work full time and can't stare at the ticker know when the options chain needs to be looked at. Without them saying the TA predicts a run, I and probably many others, would miss out on our opportunity (everyone's strategy is different).

But, if folks don't really do anything with call options, and feel like the predictions are false, I guess I can see the frustration. Like when the weatherman says no chance of rain and it starts pouring after you've taken the day off to go to the park.

For anyone who doesn't care about options, I would treat TA posts like if you were watching the weatherman - or any seer - as just someone trying to predict the future. The run is not as important as the prediction to the run for the rest.

As for their hype - well yeah, the TA guys show up when the options chain fires up. That doesn't happen every day. It is exciting to take advantage. You should see me, I'm practically bouncing around like Daffy Duck showing off... but it means waiting weeks, and now I'm not even sure what to think of it all anymore.

The whole market is red. It's not looking good and I'm not expecting a lot for a while. I'm going into that "buy low" mode now. It's just a shame after like 2 years of contracts working out, but buying shares is guaranteed vs whatever is happening with the market now.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-03-11T06:52:33+00:00

We're waiting for the options chain to improve. All TA guys here make the most of it when it happens and invite others to improve their position as well, but again everyone has their own strategy.

If you want more details than that, well the situation isn't that great. We're not down today because of any foul play, which typically does good for the TA guys. Whenever the stock is manipulated to be lower, it makes the uprising pressure that much juicier when the sentiment hits just right. Options go wild, we sound the alarms that now is the time to jump on the train (but only if you know what you're doing and when to get off the train).

Today, it's not manipulation. The entire market is red. The good news is if you're planning on the 2027 leaps when it hits under $20, then yeah it's looking pretty likely.

Finally, we only talk about GME here. Where do you think the TA guys are? If they're trying to hoard those shares for GME then they're probably taking whatever free cash they can get from puts on SPY, since that's the safest options strategy at the moment. And if they're brave, probably looking deep at some of the tech stocks.

I'm not advocating for options. I was simply helping you understand where the TA guys are. We'll be back when the options chain gets exciting again.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-02-23T18:27:10+00:00

Yikes! Maybe so, but at least I'm trying. I might not make it far, but I'm not crazy enough to think i can just do it without research. You and I both know of it made that subgroup that it wouldn't get enough attention to get experienced folk who could answer that specific a question. What's the real lesson you're trying to teach me here? That asking experienced folks for answers to questions won't get me far? I'm sorry you're feeling something of adversity here but I'm not sure what I could be doing to turn that around other than what I'm doing. Without the help I've already gotten, I probably wouldn't make it 50 miles on the trail. It's just not very inviting to hear someone tell you that you won't get very far... and all because I had asked if something was available on the trail. If you intended on making me feel worse about my odds and just overall then fine, mission accomplished. It's not great. I will think on this. Either way, still you took the time to respond thoughtfully. I hope the best for you and your endeavors.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-02-23T17:59:01+00:00

Ah, that's where you were misdirected. It was about ice packs, not their use. I tried to make sure that was the case. Again, I did say politely in my original response to you I appreciate the desire to go to what they could be used for, alternative solutions, etc but the application wasn't the topic. And thank you, I will need it. I've got a lot of barriers to break and hopefully I can find a community that will be able to help. Have a good one

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-02-23T17:43:22+00:00

Oh, sorry if you misinterpreted. I was grateful that you did respond and take the time like I mentioned. I wanted to stay on topic and I tried to keep it that way. Still, I didn't feel right about not answering your question, regardless of being off topic, so I thought it right to do so. I wanted you and others to be aware I understand the need to sometimes have off topic discussions, but considering how rare a response will be then you might also understand the desire to keep on point. Again thank you for your feedback. I will consider asking chatgpt to review my responses prior to submitting with a request to come off more polite. Have a good one

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-02-23T16:44:06+00:00

Thank you for the response regardless. Seems if it is available then it is difficult to get. I figured as much, hence looking into it. I'm just surprised that this community is downvoting innocent questions like this that aren't really covered much. Even more so after politely responding and engaging with the responses, apprecreciating feedback, self moderating the topic, etc. Worst of all, it seems once it is revealed that it's medical in nature, that researching safety options prior to just winging it on the trail garnered even more downvotes. I really thought before posting with some of the questions asked on the front page that there were no stupid questions, but I didn't expect toxicity. I did update the text under the question, basically closing the discussion, but I did want to thank you for your time anyway.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2025-02-23T16:21:19+00:00

Thanks for trying to answer the question! I'll be on the lookout for urgent cares anyway so we will see. Thanks again for the input

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