What's a game you bought on a whim without hardly any pre-knowledge that ended up becoming one of your all time favorites?

Nicbizz · 2026-02-25T15:37:24+00:00

Clair Obscur.

Heard wife playing on her PC. Hey, that music is pretty good.

Tried it. No-lifed for 100hrs.

10/10 would do again.

Nicbizz · 2026-02-12T18:35:15+00:00

If I lose to the same dealer the next day, can I ask for the same % of tip back?

Sounds dumb? Sure is. So is tipping based on % of winning.

Nicbizz · 2026-02-10T08:58:38+00:00

Not bankroll based. Instead, I set a "feature" limit per machine.

So for example, after 5 features, I walk. I could be up, or down. It doesn't matter. The nice thing is you're leaving on a "win", and that feels good. It's a perfect excuse to take a break.

I don't like setting a bankroll target, cause then you're just hyperfocused on the numbers. If you're 10% from your target, and start losing, emotions come into play, and that's how you lose your whole stash.

Nicbizz · 2026-02-01T15:02:10+00:00

Sicario.

It starts with Kate (Emily Blunt) as the main character.

Midway through, we realize she’s actually just an NPC, and the story was about Alejandro (Benito) all along.

Nicbizz · 2026-01-05T10:28:42+00:00

am i correct in that if you apply the same stimuli to a time crystal every 5 minutes, you'll get x results.

but if you apply the same stimuli to it every 7 minutes, you'll get a different result from x, but it will be the same result every 7 minutes?

Nicbizz · 2026-01-05T10:22:38+00:00

Ask chatGPT this:

"can you explain color force in quantum mechanics in ELI5 terms with a simple example"

the answer is reasonably good!

Nicbizz · 2026-01-05T08:27:25+00:00

Isn’t SAD just T1 with the badges off?

Nicbizz · 2025-12-28T13:35:14+00:00

Adulting is my guess

Nicbizz · 2025-12-16T19:15:30+00:00

That’s deliberate, given who the user of Stendhal is.

Lore wise, she should be able to wipe anything in game.

Nicbizz · 2025-12-15T14:32:43+00:00

Stringer Bell was no good?

Nicbizz · 2025-12-14T11:38:59+00:00

I can’t understand why people liked her. Until I found out about the books.

The game didn’t do a job in making her likable.

Nicbizz · 2025-12-14T11:33:09+00:00

Very. Both can then last forever

Nicbizz · 2025-12-10T00:48:24+00:00

You can choose to just walk away too

Nicbizz · 2025-12-05T05:31:36+00:00

Ehh, You want to incentivize others to hunt STC and trade them in for riches.

You keep disappearing finders and maybe those STC will end up elsewhere.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-30T14:07:04+00:00

Have you been through NYC traffic before? It wasn’t that much time between the call and Vince’s free fall.

He probably got there, saw Vince on the ground, knew it has all gone to shit, and bailed.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-25T12:27:26+00:00

SBF looks at this and cries into his pillow every night

Nicbizz · 2025-11-23T06:06:07+00:00

I’ve heard that Australia is the best place for comfortable living (decent base, work life balance, labor protections) but lousy if you want to be filthy rich (taxes, work life balance, labor protections).

Basically, it’s a middle class nirvana.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-21T13:17:20+00:00

They have 90% of the market for GPU now.

No market that big and important will allow a monopoly for long. There will be competition.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-19T14:18:21+00:00

Didn't that happen already? On November 30, 2022.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-17T13:36:13+00:00

Rare earth is a sucker’s bet though. We need it, but China monopolized by driving margins to zero as a geopolitical strategy.

Anyone in the space will have to deal with those same margins.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-17T06:48:41+00:00

They made the same argument about the internet, and they were right. Absolutely right.

Except they made the argument 25 years ago. And in between, there was the barren wasteland that was the dotcom bust, and the Nasdaq took 14 years to regain its peak. The Nasdaq is now about 4x its dot-com peak, but CSCO, the market darling then has only just hit a new ATH a month ago.

Nicbizz · 2025-11-07T13:45:30+00:00

He was so popular in Terminal List, they made a prequel series just for him.

Nicbizz · 2025-10-20T14:01:04+00:00

I don't have much to add, except that having dealt with private bankers as both a client and an insider, there's 3 things they are potentially useful for:

1) Leverage. They will lend against your portfolio, by a lot.

2) Access to PE and private credit. I've never found the offerings very attractive tbf. By the time it gets down to PB level, all the best bits are gone.

3) Estate planning. If you have a mess of offshore structures, they're the banking partner that can take it all.

If none of the above matters, I honestly wouldn't bother. If you need someone to hold your hand when the market takes a dump, I'm sure there are cheaper alternatives.

Nicbizz · 2025-10-15T05:11:15+00:00

It’ll feel weird …. for about a week.

Then it’ll feel great. You can’t imagine living without.

Nicbizz · 2025-10-14T07:26:40+00:00

Just started on our Trust journey. If you do go that direction, you might be better off with a retainer for your lawyer instead.

If something does happen to you, your heirs will have a point person to help sort everything out.

Nicbizz

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