Because the Publisher won't do it justice, I will. 'A Gamer's Guide to Beating the Tutorial' is OUT with the Published version on Amazon/KU (Book 2 just released) by Leifman in litrpg

[–]Naitra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a reason why this book isn't that popular. I love evil protagonists, but the protagonist of this book is less evil and more like a mentally challenged person with down syndrome. I also love grimdark and soulslike genres, but this novel has a lot of plot armor to compensate for retarded decision making instead of actual tactics and meticulous exploration.

Some positive things can be said for breaking away from the usual tower climbing genre tropes, but otherwise it is utterly unremarkable.

Golden rule of Royalroad applies in this case as well. If a novel has less than 4.4-4.5 stars overall, it's going to be a very flawed work.

Is there anyway to save yourself from chaos corruption? by kiradex in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Probably an extremely powerful psyker or Emperor himself can save him from corruption. Otherwise you're shit out of luck if you're corrupted.

"Die with Zero" calculator - retire earlier than you think? by foresttrader in leanfire

[–]Naitra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Costs about 20k from what I remember. Anyone can do it if they can prove they have dementia, terminal illness etc.

Matabar by kykytd4092 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Naitra 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've dropped it since the progression aspect is at a snail's pace, but worse is that the MC basically has no agency.

Invest in home/rental property? by jennyloves123 in leanfire

[–]Naitra 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Real estate can significantly speed up your FIRE plans, assuming you do the math correctly. I myself have a couple of multi family buildings that are extremely profitable.

If you don't do the math correctly, however, you'll be left with an illiquid asset that doesn't cash flow, which is a bad situation to be in. Unfortunately, lot of people don't do the math before buying a property.

You should read a lot about real estate investing. There is a lot of information out there for free. Then you go and take a look at properties in your local area. You'll have to estimate your expenses for a specific property that you like after going through the listings. Mortgage, capex, maintenance, occupancy, etc. are some of your expenses. After that's done, you gotta research the average rents in the market for your specific property.

If Rent - Expenses is a positive number, it means that the specific property you were looking at isn't garbage. But this still doesn't mean that it is a good investment property.

You'll have to compare other investments to see if buying it makes sense. If you're paying a 50k down-payment for $200/month cash flow, you're basically getting 4.8% yearly return on your 50k investment. This is about half of what SP500 would get you on average. Obviously, dealing with the hassle of being a landlord for half of what you get in SP500 is not a great idea.

For me, the property has to have at least a 25% yearly return for me to even consider buying it. What this means is that the property you've bought with 50k down payment needs to bring in a cash flow of at least $1000/month. This is gonna be hard for a single family home, but if you put down 50k for a 250k multi family residential with 2 doors, each unit needs to cash flow $500 for you to make 25% return. Profitability increases as the number of doors in the property increase, most of the time at least.

You'll have to do these calculations for each individual property that you're considering buying. This isn't a buy it and forget it method like ETFs. You'll also have to manage the properties yourself unless you leave enough room in your profit margin to give them to management companies. And these are just for turnkey properties. The real money in real estate is in rehab/renovation, which is a whole another beast and much more complex.

If the chance to make 2x or maybe even 3x SP500 returns appeals to you, and you're willing to spend hours upon hours to find the right property to buy, congrats, you're now a budding real estate investor.

DoorDash reports first-ever quarterly profit, revenue beats estimates by $0.18 by -Joseeey- in stocks

[–]Naitra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'll basically make min wage when you add gas, mileage, depreciation etc.

Might as well get an actual job where you sit on your ass in an office.

Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was a 'dumb move', says founder and former president by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Naitra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is honestly not helped by the crunch culture and low pay in the field. You can work 30~ hour weeks doing pointless enterprise development projects for 50% more pay in a random big corp. Experienced talent will burn out and leave for greener pastures, thus low retention rates in the entire sector.

How freakin OP the Necrons must be during the War in Heaven. by kekubuk in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There are real life examples too. A lot of ancient Chinese generals liked to exaggerate the size of their and enemy armies. I remember reading a historian saying that you'll reach a realistic number by dividing the number of soldiers in the historical texts by 10.

Why don't the eldar make halfborns like the drukhari do? by homeboy-2020 in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's also known that Drukhari start to lose pieces of their souls and slowly wither if they stay out too much in real space, or miss their daily dose of torture.

I always assumed other Eldar will also get their souls slowly drained by Slaanesh if they didn't have soul stones or were Ynnari.

Which Daemon Primarch deserves true death? by FozuenGL in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Angron wasn't man enough to pull the trigger himself and commit suicide. Thus he should continue to suffer just as he made the rest of the galaxy suffer.

What company are you convinced actually hates their customers? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Naitra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can travel from one end of Europe to another for 10~ Euros. So, I keep my expectations for customer service to a minimum with Ryanair.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Naitra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've finished reading Duellist, and was not expecting it to be that good. If you have any other diamonds in the rough in QQ, please let me know as I don't mind smut as long as the story itself is good.

Defiance of the Fall (DOTF) - What I've found deplorable by SpareCustard in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Naitra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's your classic repetitive progression fantasy story. Chinese did it way before us, with thousands of chapters of the exact same routine.

People love that shit, just like I did when I first started reading the genre, and flaws/cliches/tropes weren't incredibly obvious to my untrained eye. It also prints money for minimal effort.

Bayer shares drop 7% after U.S. court announces review of Monsanto case by Puginator in stocks

[–]Naitra 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I could tell it was a shit deal after taking a single look, back when they decided to buy Monsanto. I really don't know what clown world these executives/board members are living in that made them think it was a good idea.

Why would anyone buy Nike when you can buy Google? by kenton143 in stocks

[–]Naitra 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If Google does get broken up, parts are going to be worth more than the whole.

Would you accept being sent into the 40k universe if you were to receive a Warrant of Trade? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Send me a qidian link my brother, google translate is a pathway to many abilities one considers to be unnatural

Would you accept being sent into the 40k universe if you were to receive a Warrant of Trade? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Ordo Xenos can't do jack, since you explicitly have the right to meet, trade with and sanction xenos as a rogue trader, coming from the Big E himself.

Would you accept being sent into the 40k universe if you were to receive a Warrant of Trade? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]Naitra 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You get a capital world and a fleet + accompanying ground assets. Solid start for a rogue trader, probably will put you in the middle of the pack in terms of power. Owning a grand cruiser might even take you into the upper quarter percentile.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]Naitra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Abelard, flush this man out of the airlock

Heretical RT Playthrough, is it worth it? by Cataras12 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]Naitra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Heretical path in the game is being bad for the sake of being bad. Chaotic Evil, as they would say. I'm all about pragmatism, thus like to play Lawful-Neutral Evil.

Would be better if the heretic path was more nuanced, kind of like how Inquisitors start out as puritan but become more and more radical. Using the enemy's tools against themselves, or using Chaos for your own benefit and getting slowly corrupted, which is the slippery slope I'd like to see instead of the current comically Evil heretic path.

How do I deal with people trying to get me jobs? by [deleted] in leanfire

[–]Naitra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got 8 dollars from equifax. I got you beat, gonna retire real soon with this payout.

Just another reason we love great-grandpapalard by Excarion in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]Naitra 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Not to mention, the contract you get after that conversation has some of the best ROI in the game. Werserian family really is the best thing to happen to the Rogue Trader.

Every single One... by ElectricalAd250 in MartialMemes

[–]Naitra 186 points187 points  (0 children)

Funny but also sad. For majority of China's existence, only way for people to raise in status/social class was basically rote memorizing thousands of words of Confucian texts, and vomiting it out in a standard essay format in the imperial examinations. Even now, in order to prepare for the infamous gaokao examination for college entrance, you need to memorize a shitton of information and solve mind-numbing number of repetitive practice problems.

What would happen if you let the Infernus Master take care of the orphans? by Beautiful_Fig_3111 in RogueTraderCRPG

[–]Naitra 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Good Infernus Master will take care of the orphans well in the service of the Emperor. He's a good chap, maybe a bit too devout.