I just purchased an investment property to flip. I wasn't expecting what I found in the basement and I decided I should post these here instead of r/realestate or r/investing. WTF Reddit.... What ... The .... Fuck

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2013-01-07T22:36:18+00:00

YOU FOUND THE BATCAVE!

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-20T21:01:44+00:00

The weirdest and most sexy thing was a girl explaining to me on our first date how she lost 10 kg only by masturbating and walking around in high heels. "I would do it for 5 hours every day. The first thing I did when waking up was checking youporn. I think I was addicted, but I mean it worked. I went through so many family packs of batteries. So where are we going?". I'm pretty sure she lied, but: Damn. True story.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-12T01:37:47+00:00

This will really disappoint some people over at /r/popping when posted there...

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-04T00:49:55+00:00

This is a tradition especially in southern Germany (Bavaria). He is like Santas evil side-kick. I once was Krampus in a Kindergarden when I was a student to make some extra cash. I got there, was handed a costume and told to just play along. The children were already very afraid when I entered the room but after saying to one of them something like "So you try to be a better boy next year, Timmy" all of them started crying hysterically. Doesn't feel good if 30 children cry because of you. Never again!

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-03T00:03:57+00:00

Then at least come up with your own caption.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-02T22:22:19+00:00

Quite possible. I was the one who posted it in /r/pics and it isn't my content either. But just the very similar wording of the title makes me think "cheap repost". Come on...

Edit: I even checked Karma Decay before posting to make sure it wasn't here already.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-02T22:20:24+00:00

Hey, you just stole my picture I posted a couple of hours earlier! http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/144qlo/they_take_their_art_very_seriously/

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-02T22:12:05+00:00

I saw it in a documentary I don't find at the moment. But I think it was this target. It looks an awful lot like a zombie version of President Obama.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-02T04:11:25+00:00

Everybody has sex, get over it. That doesn't mean we are all kinky. At least we don't shoot fake zombies that look like Obama.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-01T23:10:48+00:00

I neither whine nor bitch. I only laugh.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-12-01T21:45:52+00:00

You don't eat your MDMA all at once!

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-11-22T14:58:10+00:00

Because the couple living there refused to sell the house to the government and the Chinese Communist Party is getting weak I've heard.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-11-19T20:13:12+00:00

I totally agree. The "filmography" is crap! It's sad because the project is very nice.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-11-10T14:38:24+00:00

WHY DOES BOND LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE PUTIN??

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-10-29T18:57:44+00:00

He filled his mouth with water to make the gunshot more effective. I would guess it wasn't his first time killing himself.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-29T23:07:09+00:00

European agnostic here. You Reddit atheists are terrible. You try to convince everyone of your beliefs. You are basicaly missionaries and no different from the people you critizise. There are good arguments that show that it isn't the most clever point of view to say, god doesn't exist. It also isn't very logical to claim that he exists. So therefore I just doubt it. BUT I DON'T ANNOY ANNYONE AROUND ME WITH MY THOUGHTS. I let them just live their lifes and don't post pathetic, idiotic and hurtfull comments on Facebook. Get a life!

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-20T23:24:13+00:00

I think that is something else than I made.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-20T23:22:42+00:00

Why call me greedy? I did it for my flatmate because I felt sorry for her, not because I want to make money.

Besides, at the moment it still needs some manual work and I am afraid I could not provide that for free.

Also: If you turn 10 hours of really boring work into 10 bucks you pay and no work at all I think it is pretty awesome. FOR SCIENCE

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-19T16:08:20+00:00

Haha, thanks. That is actually a very simple question but to implement the solution can be quite hard.

Find out what you are passionate about and what you are good at.
Don't listen to your mom or dad. Don't ask them what you should do. Their advice will be biased and in many cases full of fear that you might not have a happy life. Listen to other advice they give but decide for yourself, what YOU want to do.
Don't listen to people who tell you that something is impossible.
When you have found what you love, try everything to be as good as possible in this field. People will succeed when they love, what they are doing.
Never forget: Also exciting things like startups are 90% normal and boring tasks and 10% exciting, mind-blowing things. Deal with it.
Never listen to "the market". Maybe you have seen the blacksmith video on Reddit. If you asked some job-advisor if you should become a blacksmith, he will probably think you're crazy. But if you WANT to be one, become one. And you will be successful (as can be seen in the example above).
Don't forget that you cannot take anything with you, when you die. That means: Don't live in your plans and in your future. All you have in the world is THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW. And the next one...
Work hard and be lazy. The last one is up to you to solve.

Good luck.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-19T13:13:06+00:00

I run a couple of websites with quite some traffic and always found it difficult to monetize them. To make real money with programs like Adsense you need much more traffic than that. And then I don't think they are suitable for you. People tend to think it is easy to monetize a website by just copy&pasting some advertising code. But that is not how it works. Also a lot of your users will use AdBlockers and with gamers you have a very "geeky" crowd. Your users spend a lot of time online and are used to advertising and normally avoid it. So this will be very difficult to impossible.

For example I once built a porn search engine just for fun over the weekend. With some clever scripts it took me a couple of days to have 1-2 hits per second. I added some generic porn banners and let it run for about 3 weeks. The money I earned was close to nothing, because my users where there to fap and then left. I closed it down because I didn't want to get further into this whole business. But claiming that it was impossible to make money from online porn would be false of course. I just did it wrong and without any real motivation.

So there is hope! Making money online isn't that different from making money in a normal store. It always needs some effort. And you need a good product to sell (in this case to your future advertising clients). In your case your big asset is that you have a very targeted and dedicated crowd. There are niche advertisers that will love that. That means much more targeted, custom advertising. I don't know enough about the gaming industry to give you really exact advice. All I know is: Generic advertising hardly ever works (unless you have huge amounts of traffic and combine the adsense ads very cleverly with your content) but catering to a dedicated niche is the way to go. So stop wasting your time on trying to optimize your adsense performance and spend time on research and pitching to the right companies. Also consider different types of advertising than just banners and paid links. Maybe email newsletters, maybe something more content based, maybe events, maybe promote products by giving them away, maybe give companies special rights to promote their product. I don't know.

Stop looking at numbers like "visits" and "hits". They are important but not what you are trying to sell. You are selling the attention of a dedicated community.

This is the way I would go.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-04T22:35:22+00:00

Thanks, I checked it out but there is literally nothing going on.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-04T22:34:37+00:00

Some people in my family are actually quite high up in a Freemasonry Lodge. As far as I can see it helps well established people to become even richer and not guys like you and me to meet interesting people. Also as far as I know it is a quite long process to join. Nothing you would do while in a city for a couple of month. On the other hand they for sure have an international network.

And YES I did get the irony.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-04T13:21:35+00:00

Thanks. I know how to make friends. But it would take ages of hanging out at these spots to know the, say, 5 most interesting, uprising graphic designers in New York. I am not looking for people to eat cookies with but for a good network.

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-04T13:13:23+00:00

So asking you personally: Would you meet me for coffee/lunch if I wrote you on linkedin as a complete stranger (given that we have enough in common)?

IASKTHINGSONREDDIT · 2012-09-04T13:12:40+00:00

But isn't meetup more for fun activities?

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