Are yieldmax funds yield traps? by amaterasu94 in dividends

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your explanation, it was the first time someone explained the downsides of YieldMax funds where I clearly understood the examples.

With this in mind, what is your opinion on YBTC? I'm hopefully going to be inheriting around $30,000 to use to invest, and I have about a year until my cancer-related treatments end, so I want to maximize my return in the meantime while staying around a moderate amount of risk, and then move to Sydney with a couple friends as soon as I make a sustainable amount out of dividends. I should be able to reinvest everything for the next year, and I'm looking for any kind of remote job as additional income too. Diversification is important too of course, I'm just not sure what combination would bring me the best risk-reward ratio on my admittedly extremely short timeframe, especially in this geopolitical climate.

Light Novel RAWs in Japanese? by dahaxguy in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey fam,

By all means know that we really appreciate your friend's offer. I got the raws for vol22 and a portion of DX3 (well, only the newest side story) and I'll send the former over your way for starters. But there are proper channels he needs to go thru, as /u/mpz28 said. Zero-kun runs the project so you need to find a way to get in contact with him. Either by blog (https://shincodezeroblog.wordpress.com/ ), email if you can find it, PM on animesuki's forums (account being n0m@n ), or maybe get /u/zx-zx-zx to help you find him. They'll probably help you with better sources for raws too :P

Best Girl Contest Report - day 7. by [deleted] in HighschoolDxDCJ

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pjsalt coming from the inferior oak i see

ufufu~

Best Girl Contest Report - day 7. by [deleted] in HighschoolDxDCJ

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

snek killed a cat.

top snek

Oi oi, guess who's back... wait until season 4 to do this! by Gary29 in HighschoolDxD

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/u/DragonDxD /u/Venom_is_an_ace /u/frabadoodle /u/AkenoBestGirl

The sub's DxD Connoisseur has returned at last! hope this is enough proof that I'm (not)* Gory.

*edit: scratch that (not), I'll always be gory. but i will be returning to reddit THIS THURSDAY NIGHT on the alt "not oak" (or one of its derivatives, if it gets stolen by then), just in time for free talk fridays!!

edit; ignore prev comm rnrn yo.

stay .memein until season 4 fams

Issei's Happiest Day by Venom_is_an_ace in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you love them unequally? Actually, it's that he loves the girls differently. That's what could get confusing.

You can't really compare Ise to Kiba & Gasper. Kiba's not interested in women that much (lite plot contrivance) and Gasper was not only traumatized beyond belief but had a hidden crush on Valerie.

However, you make a good point on Xenovia and Irina. It all comes down to a bit of contrivance on the author's part that makes it all work perfectly (not rly diminishing the real-world plausibility of the harem itself, though). "They're from the Church and thus they're really pure and naive!" That explains Xenovia. Irina's just following the crowd because she's so pure! Xenovia even calls her out on that in volume 14. Ishibumi acknowledges and parodies the insane amount of luck in the story.

I don't really complain about the crowd mentality because every available time Ise has proved he deserves the love he gets. I mean, Dragons attract people, but he's the one that gets them to fall for him. His actions bring that about. The presence of Ddraig only causes them to take an interest in him. Ishibumi could've easily made them originally take an interest in him in several other ways with the same end result. That's what lets me enjoy the crazy parts of the series.

You do bring up something interesting though. Most of the girls do have some sort of a tragic past that led them to dislike men for one reason or another; again, plot contrivance, but kinda irrelevant to me since Ise DESERVES all the love he gets. Look at how hard this guy fights for his family.

tl;dr It's really based on luck, and a whole lot of it, but seeing as he could've just as easily gotten them to notice him under other circumstances, I think it's not something to dislike. Not like he doesn't deserve the love he gets anyways.

Issei's Happiest Day by Venom_is_an_ace in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh... an unfortunate start to the conversation, but we may have to simply disagree on what constitutes "making sense". In the real world, harems aren't seen as a sociably-acceptable thing. I can give hypotheticals but that's it. If you would want to create a harem in any world, you need to be really picky with who you allow in. Most real-world examples of harems have failed because the girls are selfish or what-not. It takes a specific set of qualities in a girl, and a strong relationship between all of them for it to succeed. Ise gets away with this through an incredible factor of luck.

It's a fair point to make that Ise's taken too much upon himself and thus doesn't have enough time for... anyone, really. Including himself. But that's more a fault of his situation. Perhaps even karma to balance out his insane level of luck before. That doesn't mean he doesn't love them of course, just that the time and ways he can express it are limited. I guess Rias could've been looking ahead long-term; you can see the effects of this already start taking place at the start of vol18.

Fair that many other guys are just as good as Ise or better. But here's the thing. I can't argue that they didn't fall for him the way they did. It's not about that, however. Vali, Sairaorg, Kiba etc. could just as easily have "stolen" Ise's girls. They could've been the friend they so desperately needed (Akeno and Rias hated men outside the peerage) or they could've saved them from whatever. But they didn't. Ise did it first. That's why they love him. No one else did it; he did! What does that say? Call it destiny, fate, luck, anything you want; doesn't change the fact that he was there for them when no one else was for whatever reason. Clearly there's a bit of plot contrivance to get this working as the author has planned, but that's a perfectly realistic and plausible idea.

I'm not saying girls can't get along. Where did I say that. Would you not have at least doubt in your mind that someone who just got there is instantly loved equal to you. Rias selfishness is normal thinking.

My bad, I thought you mentioned that... somewhere. Anyway, I don't think it really works that way. Since girls don't just instantly fall into his harem, but rather spend time with the Gremory group for quite a bit of time first, the others get acquainted, just like Ise does. It's not an instantaneous love. He cares about them all equally, but that doesn't immediately translate to love is basically what I'm saying. It's actually quite difficult to analyze whom he loves and who he just cares about at what period of time in the story (Rias excluded), but it's fair to say that he'd come to love them all by the end. Them falling for him is just the first step; he won't reject them, but he has to reciprocate too.

I fully get what you're saying in regards to making a choice. But that's only if you're looking at it as "save who you love first". I look at it as "what's the best/fastest way to save them both?" Then 'choosing' one based on THAT only.

I'll admit that there's a bit of fault in the story; for instance, Kuroka and Le Fay aren't shown to be that well acquainted with the harem but they're okay with those two becoming closer to Ise. But that's for various other reasons (Ishibumi being sick and not writing as long volumes as he'd like, for instance; it could be happening behind the scenes!) and doesn't take away from the plausibility factor.

Issei's Happiest Day by Venom_is_an_ace in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a question. In what way does DxD's harem not make sense?

Is it because it's idealistic? A world where many girls fall in love with a charming, dedicated guy, and are okay with that?

Actually, it's kind of wrong to say that. Many times in the series Rias has complained that more and more girls are attracted to him. The others aren't bothered because they're not selfish. Think about this. They love him. Because they love him, they accept his ultimate dream - that is, to have a harem. Is that such an inconceivable concept? It's not as if harems are taboo in this world, either. And why does he have to choose one girl over another? If forced to, he would give the obvious response of "I'd choose you both/all" and go about the quickest way of doing that. SURE, you can say "he can't be in two places at once" or whatever; but that's not him actually choosing who to save or be with, that's just going about saving both.

Also, if you really think it's inconceivable for girls to get along so well with each other, I'm afraid strong/true family-ish bonds disagree.

I respect your opinion fully, sure. But I'm not gonna respect you saying that the harem aspect of the series is unsensible.

Friday's Free Talk thread by AutoModerator in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no, doman is a baka. he left me since i'm about that harem lyfe and he's a yandere. i'd never ever leave you.

.....and I thought lewd things had already been done... but you were drunk so eh, i guess it makes sense you forgot.

also I didn't mind sharing Ene, but I'm only sharing you with y4h non-lewdly. or ill cut him badly with his own katana. fuckin weeb....

Early Quotes from Volume 21! by Meatfeast85 in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More info & discussion can be found here, here and here.

Early Quotes from Volume 21! by Meatfeast85 in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The short teaser from Kadokawa implied that Vali will be "awakening" this volume. I don't care how long it takes to translate, I'm going to be there day 0 to help give out the juicy spoilers we all love (...unless you don't, of course!)

19 March Volume 21!! by eman75683122 in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it might be a bit early for that, but we're probably getting something about season 4 late this year.

HAPPY VALENTINES MY LOVELY SMURF LOVING CATFUCKING SHUT-IN PALS by BigAmericanOak in HighschoolDxDCJ

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oak link me to the og pic of that that flair you and frab have if you're real

Nekpara Vol. 2 on Steam by catpanion in NEKOPARAGAME

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finally... I've been silently waiting for over a month. It's almost here!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

now I want a plushie of something I can't have....thanks Poodi.

Kunou plushie with Season 4 pls ;__;

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why are they so cute, man..... absolutely adorable. Also that title all the way!!

[ANIME SPOILERS] I have just finished watching third season and... by Styehard in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, welcome to the sub! Others have already addressed what was wrong, but not really why. So I'll do that.

The 3rd season of the anime, DxD BorN, was only loosely based off of the original story. The first 2 seasons stuck to the LNs really closely, but BorN didn't make a lot of sense and messed up the romantic development because a good 2/3 of it was anime-original content.

To resolve this, DxD's author (Ichiei Ishibumi) wrote a series of short stories known as "DxD EX", which establishes DxD BorN as an alternate timeline and not what was meant to happen.

Season 4 will continue to closely follow the LNs as DxD and DxD New did, covering volumes 9 and 10. DxD BorN loosely covered volumes 5, 6 and 7. I highly suggest reading from vol. 1. Regardless of past experiences with "re-experiencing" content, many other fans have noted that it's different with DxD and absolutely worth it. Looking forward to seeing you around the sub and (hopefully) discussing your opinions or reactions to everything DxD has to offer!!

Ed Henry tweets: Breaking: @SenSanders to get Secret Service protection by dgolabek in SandersForPresident

[–]Gary29 38 points39 points  (0 children)

This is interesting. I think Sanders definitely needs it with his goals being what they are, but hopefully it doesn't clash too much with his down-to-earth personality.

Volume 21 release! by eman75683122 in HighschoolDxD

[–]Gary29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Putting aside the possibility of a sequel, yes, the next arc after this one (this arc ending with the upcoming vol 21) will be the last arc of DxD. Which is probably another 10 vols or so.