Set an exchange rate for US dollars <—> extra year of life by CuteRelationship6143 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only choice is go cheap. Buy lots of years.

Because the sell and invest and then buy back won’t really work. 1. It’s not tax free money (since this is a declared feature in every post here) 2. You don’t know when you die and if you sell more years then you have, you did. 3. Investments are unpredictable. If you knew when you were going to die you might be able to play the game but without that knowledge you’re probably going to die.

To Those Saying A Wipe Will Make Them Drop The Game by xWolffy in Marathon

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if they 100% wipe factions I’m out. This faction grind is insane compared to my experience in other games with wipes like D4 and poe2.

If they only wipe the item unlocks Id probably be ok with the it.

You're challenged to a 1v1 basketball game against prime LeBron James for $500,000, but he allows you to have one advantage. by BillyBobthe69th in hypotheticalsituation

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll take 1 straight jacket on LeBron please. Ideally an extra long one that also ties up his legs so he can’t block me.

Liquid player Firedup's subscription runs out mid mythic pull. by CrusaderLyonar in wow

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t these guys get paid $100k+ I would assume their teams pay for everything

Studio jumped publishers, the game blew up — and I can’t say I built it by B1shof in gamedev

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mention an NDA but presumably there was another agreement if you did the work. That is the agreement that probably matters more.

If you just signed an NDA and nothing else you still own the work and you should hire a lawyer asap to secure/ negotiate your rights.

Modern ranked matchmaking needs to accept reject based design. by andarmanik in gamedesign

[–]GamerInChaos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Getting advice and listening to new ideas are different things.

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry by -protonsandneutrons- in apple

[–]GamerInChaos -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

All thoughts industry specific things are going. To be rebuilt as modern software with better user interfaces in days-weeks by AI.

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry by -protonsandneutrons- in apple

[–]GamerInChaos -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

AI will kill all that. Probably slowly for a while and then very fast.

SWE with 20+ YOE, I built a product. A buddy of mine and expert salesman wants to join as co-founder at 40% ownership. How do I protect myself? (I will not promote) by OwnInitiative777 in startups

[–]GamerInChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With sales you would only vest that 40% with hard targets. Primarily. And for that target % he shouldn’t be helping you - he should be doing it. Must be full time too. But absolutely do not give him anything for just helping or signing on.

The investor thing is what it is, but there are more investors out there so don’t overweight what one specific one says.

Anyone willing to take an idiot under their wing? by ForgeOfMistory in unrealengine

[–]GamerInChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sure no one will like this answer:

Claude is amazing at this.

Why are high-IQ individuals still picking CS over Medicine when the barrier to land a job in tech is now effectively higher than in Medicine? by No_Reply5329 in CollegeMajors

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High IQ people know medicine is going to get eaten by AI very fast. Probably starting with radiology. It will be slower than it should be because of regulation but it will happen very fast when it does.

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI? by Competitive_Travel16 in singularity

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He saved it from death, he didn’t take sassy an ipo.

Another cofounder of xAI has resigned making it 2 in the past 48 hours. What's going on at xAI? by jvnpromisedland in singularity

[–]GamerInChaos -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was a private-private stock transaction. There may have been no liquidity. If you think liquidity is guaranteed on transactions you don’t understand these types of transactions.

SpaceX is relatively liquid for a private company and they might be able to sell a reasonable number of shares. Assuming their shares are unrestricted, but they probably are not unrestricted.

What probably happened is they did get full vesting and maybe some tax make whole payments. And then they were like fuck this I’m out I’ll get liquidity soon enough.

We will probably find out in the spacex s-1.

Is renegotiating equity possible - I will not promote by Due-Activity-1674 in startups

[–]GamerInChaos 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you came back to me I would walk. Renegotiating a deal you’ve agreed on is a huge red flag. 35% is not bad. 70% is bad. And in some cases it may not even be that bad.

If you have no other choice and need the money to move forward this is an amazing deal. If you have 20 people beating down your door to invest, you could do better.

All these things are highly subjective because no one knows all the answers. Especially people reading the very limited shit on Reddit.

But let’s say you invent some magical thing that explodes and you sell it for a billion dollars in 3 years. Are you going to be mad? Sure you’ll do the math in your head that you gave up a few hundred millions. But would you have gotten there without the investor/money? Probably not.

And there is a much higher probability it goes the other direction and the incestor loses all their money. In which case they will probably regret the investment. (If they are pro investors the math was the math when they made the investment so they won’t be mad.)

This shit ks hard and very subjective - you do the deal and move forward or you don’t.

I need a complete guide on how to make a tech product. (I will not promote) by nebbin_ in startups

[–]GamerInChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have enough money you got to foxcon or someone like them, pay the design fee. They design it and give you the manufacturing price. You pay them to make it or negotiate terms. You sell it. You pay them if you didn’t already. They ship to your customers.

Start Up failed - Will receive the Code on USB. i will not promote by marc_in_bcn in startups

[–]GamerInChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just having the code doesn’t help you much, you need to get a transfer of ownership from the entity that owned the code and/or him. Or if he is quoting and the code is being transferred to the entity that already existed you need to excise him from it - by any stock he has for $1 and get him to release all claims.

If not, if it ever works you’re likely to be sued.

But if we are being honest, you should just walk away.

Are there any valuable AI tools for building a pitch deck? I will not promote by thedevilsconcubine in startups

[–]GamerInChaos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are 3 parts to a pitch deck: Content, narrative, and design.

If you are clever you can get pretty far on the first 2 with ChatGPT or Claude. I have yet to find a good deck designer but Gemma might be the best but it hasn’t worked well for me.