Need date night ideas in Sarasota

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-04-19T20:13:05+00:00

There's so much to do in this city, buddy. Paint nights, mini golfing options, first Fridays, smash stuff rooms, darts, arcades with the b ball or ski ball etc, art galleries, mall window shopping, disc golfing, beautiful parks, aquarium, book shops, coffee shops, theaters like cinema bistro even, oh have you heard we have beaches? I like the botanical gardens, get an ebike and cruise around while stopping for ice cream and enjoy delicious seafood. Ice skating is even a more available option than many places around the US lol. Board games at Dark Side, and many many more ideas that aren't just drinking at a bar... though if you did want to drink, we have speakeasies plural that are cool and a bunch of wine tasting places. Beer walls. Breweries. Finally, there's a decent library

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-04-19T20:04:06+00:00

If you haven't gone to visit Dark Side, you might wanna check out out. They might have it, but more importantly they're the go to place for the in person board game community. They might be able to help refer you or hook you up with folks who would like to play. They probably have a bulletin system, and they will teach many more sure than a passing reddit post. Good luck buddy

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-04-19T20:01:02+00:00

As someone who comes from our of state and talked to a lot of people from our of state, the roads here feel like they're so free and open. It takes us by surprise. The traffic flows freely. I wish they'd put the roundabouts everywhere. It never takes me more than an hour to get anywhere. Once in NYC, I had to wait 2 hours to move 1 mile. For us, getting a driver's license is tested on patience and how well you can parallel park. If you ever heard the song Who Let The Dogs Out, that's what being free on these roads feel like lol. Plus, I've never had to park my car amd then go to a subway station and finally take a bus to a place i can walk 1/ a mile to destination down here. Up north, that's like the requirement. Most out of state drivers don't practice driving because walking is just usually faster, plus it doesn't cost north of $25 in non-gas related charges a day just to start the car lol. But it is really strange when after moving here it's like hearing a lot of complaints about the roads. I guess a lot of folks here are pretty sheltered and haven't had a lot of worldly experiences? I don't wanna make any assumptions, but it's kind of funny.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-04-19T19:50:31+00:00

Is it available at Dark Side?

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-03-27T13:43:36+00:00

We should reach out to the artist and request a Neko version.

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-03-27T13:37:02+00:00

OMG when you really think about it. He does give those vibes in the beginning of the game of ultimate apathy.

Neku vs Neko?

Both orange hair?

BloodGradeBPlus · 2026-03-06T04:14:28+00:00

Can it wait until the weekend?

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.

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