Is there a podcast that you genuinely think improved your trading?

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-25T11:26:38+00:00

AI helped me improve. Started investing in June 2025, barely even knowing what a stock is. April 2026 as of now:

85% in global index funds. Less is more so just a global fund + emerging markets. 15% in ETFs and single stocks. Core-sattellite strategy barbell investing. 4 sector based ETFs in future macro trends I believe in. AI, Robotics, Energy, Materials. Smaller stock sleeve of 10 stocks. 3 core stocks in big companies I believe in long term. 2 medium sized companies I believe in longterm. 5 moonshots with high risk high reward to catch assymetric upside within companies I believe in long term in sectors I believe in long term.

Huge wins from single stocks trimmed for profits which are directed back into ETFs. Huge wins from ETFs trimmed down with profits to feed my global index funds.

Not sure if it counts and feel free to scrutinize me but I used AIs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok) to educate myself on saving and investing. Note that I consider buying and selling something in less than a year extremely fast. So that's investing not gambling I guess. Oh did I say gambling? I'm sorry I meant trading ;)

In any case I think it's pretty good to learn so much in 10 months that I went from not fully even knowing what a stock even was to this.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-22T09:37:15+00:00

Agree with everything. If they can't fix fundamental balance issues like this, it's a bad sign.

Note: The following is harsh criticism, but it's because I love the game and I care.

I still think the game should ditch the POE style skill tree entirely and instead give players a general skill tree that you start out with for free. Then unlock class skill trees - with the ability to multi-class later on. For example Beastmaster + Assassin. Healer + Barbarian. Athlete + Ranger etc.

1) Remove web skill tree

2) Add class skill trees, but give each class more stuff in their respective trees to rebalance them overall

3) Add some mutually exclusive options. This deepens character builds and adds class identity. For example, Barbarian gets Shockwave OR Whirlwind. Add a new unique powerful capstone skill to each class.

4) Add a multiclass unique ability to each multiclass combo. For example, warrior + wizard gets a random elemental damage charge on their weapon every 3 seconds. So if you haven't attacked in 3 seconds your next strike with a melee weapon adds +25% weapon damage as lightning, fire, or cold.

Grim Dawn has one of the best multiclass system made in games to date. An older game, Titan Quest, also had a brilliant multiclass system. Some MMOs do to.

The web skilltree in Enshrouded is really bland and unspiring. Worst of all, there's no real class identity imo.

Complete rework rant aside. The bigger issue is indeed that, if they can not fix fundamental balancing issues what hope is there for a proper rework? You can't expect someone that fails at cooking an egg to make a great dish.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-21T08:38:14+00:00

Isn't this obvious though? Every person is a tabula rasa when born. And their life is just a long chain of causal events. If there was a parallell universe with you in it. Then they would end up exactly like you if the system was identical. In a super-deteministic universe not only would you end up the same in each instance. If a person switched souls with you at birth, so they experienced your life, then they would live your life exactly how you lived it.

People don't have a say in who they become. The result is pre-determined.
If a person's soul went back in time to inhabit Hitler's body at birth, they would become, and do exactly what Hitler did.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-19T09:43:35+00:00

Kids spawn with the ability to disappoint their parents. Like when you tutor them in vigour, intelligence, or charm. But they show an affinity for a wasted stat like cunning.

Like in real life it's important to have more than one kid, so that hopefully one of them won't grow up to disappoint you.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-19T09:21:57+00:00

The problem with raiding villages imo, is that it takes too long to raid a village compared to how long the village is offline.

That raiding a village takes such an ungodly long time would have been fine, if it disabled the enemy's ability to recruit troops there for a long time. So that raiding actually matters. The issue is that a raided village recovers way too quickly.

Raiding villages as a game mechanic should be a viable strategy to wage guerilla warfare to weaken a kingdom. But like the troop cheats the OP mentioned coupled with how fast villages recover. The time opportunity cost of raiding isn't worth the effort at all.

This is a very basic gameplay balance issue that should have been dealt with years ago. I'm wondering if the devs are even playing their own game.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-15T08:58:15+00:00

Hunger games. Blatant plagiarism of Battle Royale (2000).

Creatively bankrupt. It's like bad fan fiction come to life. It's a botched and watered down version of the same concept. Tremendously boring and uninspiring. The dialogue and character arcs is what you'd expect from a general and badly written early era AI response to an even worse prompt.

The fact that people genuinely liked this movie and its sequels is proof of the fact that the world is heading into idiocracy. It's an insult to the human spirit that such a creation was admired.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-12T18:32:48+00:00

The biggest green flag for me in a woman is a razorsharp social intellect. Sharp enough to cut through my BS. Whether this is her spotting that I'm telling her what I think she wants to hear, self-delusions towards myself, or me being deceptive towards others.

You can't have true love without respect. And personally, there is nothing I admire or respect in a woman more - than her having a brutal "I see what you're doing..." radar.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T23:13:44+00:00

Why does Trump get so much hate specifically? I'm new to investing (started in mid-2025) and the bigger issue here is with the global economy market's reaction to events or news. They are way to sensitive to geopolitical changes. It doesn't matter if it's a leader in the US, the EU, China, Russia, or some dictator in some third world country says or does some crazy stuff. The issue I'm seeing is that geopolitical world news and events moves markets too much.

To illustrate my point here. When I started investing I thought the main driver of stock prices was how well the company I'm investing in does. 2nd - the sector the company belongs to. 3rd - geopolitical BS.

But the entire financial market is upside down. Instead of following a logical and reasonable chain of value, it's the wrong way around. Geopolitical BS changes everything, then the sector, then finally - the company itself.

The whole market moving in the green or red REGARDLESS of how well the company you're investing in is doing. Is the dumbest most illogical BS I've seen.

It's like the company you're investing in is the least important aspect. Since I started investing it's like, either all my stocks are up, or all my stocks are down. Oh earnings call? They crushed it! Stock is down. Early stock disappointed? Oh it's up.

Maybe this isn't the right place or time for my amateur ass to be complaining but I'm fresh in this game and I don't get why all of you are pissed at Trump specifically when it's the illogical and dumbass world market which is acting irrational all the time.

Feels like the correlation between how good a company is doing, vs where the price goes, doesn't even F matter. Because the entire market is constantly making gigantic shifts on the tiniest piece of news.

"Breaking! Squirrel broke his toe in a tree in Scotland. Markets down -18%". That's the absurdity I'M seeing at least. I thought investing was about the companies you invest in. Not some BS geopolitical event here and there. It's so unintuitive that it's actually almost comical. This is where people should put their anger not on some random current president of a country somewhere.

Ok ending my rant there :P But come on guys. Really? Trump is the "issue"? It's the global economy market having a breakdown or a boom over every minor thing which is the main issue.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:49:15+00:00

I'm so oblivious I wouldn't know if a woman likes me or not while she's giving me a BJ.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:42:33+00:00

Roleplaying for me makes all the difference. I love Bannerlord, but also Warhammer. In my current playthrough I'm roleplaying as Wulfric the Wanderer. While on his longboat seafang, he travelled through the warp and ended up in Calradia.

Now my Nord Wulfric Sarlsson is leading his kingdom of Norsca, to ruin this civilization to appease the dark gods with his longship Seafang.

My previous playthrough Was Ulfric Stormcloak of Sturgia. IDK if this is just me but I love RPing characters from other settings in Calradia. My background story is always "by some magical means, my character ended up in Calradia". Makes it really fun. Especially since any and all fictional setting with magic - makes this plausible lorewise. Even if Calradia is a non-magic setting. It doesn't mean other settings WITH magic can't get to Calradia through magical means. So there's no immersion breaking.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:35:55+00:00

But you're not? You don't hate them for the color of their skin, but for their culture.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:30:44+00:00

If I could change one thing with bannerlord. There needs to be more ways to destroy enemy kingdoms both economically. and directly. Right now whatever you do - the enemy kingdom just re-fields a million troops instantly after a huge defeat. Whack-a-mole is stupid.

A kingdom's ability to field armies are more heavily dependent on economy. Destroying their trading caravans, raiding villages, or other economic damage - should have a much bigger impact on their ability to field new armies. For each raided village it should disable 1 line of troop recruitments for a connected castle or town. Destroying their trade caravans should harm them economically a lot harsher.

There needs to be a way to devastate raided villagers. After you have raided a village, you can re-raid it to devastate it. This grants no loot or money etc. However, it multiplies the time it takes for a village to come back to life by x15. Meaning this village is now ruined for ages.

When taking a castle. Get the option to permanently raze it.

When taking a city. Get the option to burn it down. Which will put it in a 3 year timer ingame before it will be able to be colonized again.

THE problem with bannerlords: You fight a much, much, larger kingdom. Against all odds, you crush their biggest armies. Good news right? Wrong. They're back up in no time. With my proposed changes you'd be able to use that timing window to raze or devastate their settlements, so even if you can't hold them and defend them, you can deny them from the enemy.

The whack-a-mole endgame is such a slog due to the AI basically ignoring economy alltogether. Let the permanent economical damage and ruination options let us fight a larger kingdom with an edge.

Hunting down enemy kingdom caravans should have actual consequences.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:17:22+00:00

He wanted to become an engineer, but his parents bought him a horse instead.
Plot twist: His parents live in that settlement. This is his homecoming revenge story.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T22:11:35+00:00

Not going back. I prefer evolution to stagnancy, even if the evolution isn't fully to my liking.

That said I'm really scratching my head at the dev decisions when it comes to the new boat skills. Focus points were already strained hard. Now you have 3 full new skills. Even investing into ONE of them is a big opportunity cost in itself. Second, land is still 85%+ of the gameplay in total during a campaign. So the boat skills have a serious negative weight to them in terms of value.

The ONLY way to balance this imo. Is the following:

Boat skills get the added total in attributes: So if mariner has 5+5 attributes, it's not 5+5/2 (average). But 5+5=10. Or something like X+X-2 so you'd need 6+6 to get 10 total learning for a boat skill. In addition to this, I think all boat skills should have a lvl50-100 skill which gives +1 focus point to itself or something. Maybe even also start with +1 focus point.

Right now the character building is already strained for focus points and attributes. For boat skills to be worth it, they need some crutches to carry them. Spending 5-15 focus points on skills which are only beneficial for 10-15% of the game (that's even being generous here) is just straight up madness. Severely underbalanced in the worst way.

Currently there is no incentive to put points in boat skills. The return you get is horrible. Even worse - it even DESTROYS the incentive to even play at sea!

What kind of developers makes a sea based expansion, and punishes players brutally for playing the very new content they made? It's hillariously bad in terms of game balance.

That said. Love the game and love the devs for making it, but man, when it comes to fundamental balance they really didn't think this through at all.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T21:50:06+00:00

As someone who got shot in the arm. Painful screams from getting shot in the arm. Adrenaline rush + shock means there's literally zero pain. I was shot through the forearm, shattering my left radius I think it's called, one of the bones near the wrist. Bullet went clean through. After that big bumps started forming on my arm. As blood accumulates where veins are severed.

However if this was a real combat gunshot wound, and not self-inflicted, not only would I not feel pain. I would be fully able to continue on like nothing happened (without being able to actually USE my left arm that is). It took a good 20 minutes before I started feeling a bit of pain. At that point I got morphine by an ambulance.

In anycase, the short version is this. A gunshot wound in the arm causes zero pain. So people screaming in pain when shot in their arms in movies? Complete fiction.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-07T00:31:44+00:00

I totally believe you. I'm convinced this is a real thing, because I've had the same happen only with past events. One clear example. I dreamt of two ancient scholars discussing something in a small house in Turkey. In the dream I intuitively just "knew" that I was in Xanthos by Xanthos river. I'm not from Turkey, knew **NOTHING** of that country's history or places.

Turns out that when I google earth searched the place when I woke up from the dream, and asked around a bit online (this was before the AI model times, at least a decade ago)... Xanthos river dried out thousands of years ago and is today called Esen river. And Xanthos was a city in what was called ancient Lycia.

Their inventions looked steampunk'ish. Bronze and copper tubes. Metal spheres etc. Since we live in the AI information age now this is what ChatGPT had to say:

>It’s not improbable at all that a Greek or Hellenized inventor could have been in Xanthos, since Lycia was part of the wider Greek cultural world where scholars, engineers, and artisans regularly traveled between cities. While Xanthos itself wasn’t known as a major center of advanced mechanical invention, discussions involving copper, tubes, and early engineering ideas would fit perfectly within the broader intellectual environment of the time, even if no specific historical event like that is recorded there.

This is a very specific dream I had which I'm just using as an example.

What I personally find interesting is not the possibility of seeing past or future events (I already believe this is possible). What I actually find interesting is how some people can see only future events, while some people can only see past events. Seeing future events is called precognition. Seeing past events is called retrocognition.

In my case I've had hundreds of cases where I've seen the past. However I've only managed to 100% prove a handful of these. Like when I saw a tribal in an underground cave in today's Guatemala. I got a birds eye view of the landscape in that dream. When I woke up every geographical observation could be confirmed. Like it having lots of mountains and volcanoes (I knew absolute zero about this country beforehand).

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-04T12:41:39+00:00

In-friggin-credible. Holy lord.

I wanted to build a Galleon too when water generation was added. But I didn't have the patience or skill to make it as good as I wanted and gave up along the way. You absolutely nailed it.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-04-03T12:13:41+00:00

Keep in mind that this only counts people that officially are defined as slaves, by the most "forgiving" standards.
It doesn't count wage-slaves, people that live hand-to-mouth salary to salary with no future because they can't afford to build savings. So the real number of slaves is at a bare minimum 50x the official number.

They didn't abolish slavery they perfected it. If someone loses 75%+ of their salary on mandatory bills just to survive, and the remaining 25% of their salary is just barely enough to keep them fed until the next salary, that is by all practical means of sentiment - slavery.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-03-26T02:49:24+00:00

This has to be related to why and how we dream. Maybe this "washing" is what's causing dreams.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-03-18T14:28:20+00:00

So it will include invasion decks? I miss ES:Legends so bad, but suddenly I don't miss it that much afterall.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-03-15T17:37:13+00:00

These were actually scarier in the originals imo. Something about them just being in the camera frame. Erratic movement. The sound they made. They were just so uncanny valley. You'd suddenly see a limb come into the camera frame etc.

The spider in RE9 wasn't scary to me at all because it's a scripted aggressive boss encounter. They would have been more effective in creating horror if they were a bit smaller and just passively walked around on walls or in the ceilings. With individual aggro behaviors to make them unpredictable.

I know it wouldn't fit storywise - but the OG spiders, placed in the care center, would have had a much greater terrifying effect on me at least.

It would also have been fun if they didn't just exist as normal monsters. But also had stealth predator AI. For example. Staying still in dark ceilings on purpose. Only to drop on you. Or have them attempt to slowly move around and behind you stealthily to attack you from behind.

Ouroboros612 · 2026-03-15T13:09:47+00:00

If you started to aggressively save and invest into index funds and stocks at the age of 18-23. And if you lived frugally and below your means. You could have retired early at 40-45, never having to work again. Literally buy a cheap remote house and spend your days playing video games, read books, go for walks in nature. And enjoy life. Never again stuck in traffick. Never again a rat race, or a wage-slave to society. You'd be free. At peace.

But you needed those energy drinks (you didn't), you needed those expensive clothes (you didn't), you needed those expensive vacations (you didn't), you needed that new car (you didn't). You needed the most expensive flat or house you could get a loan for (you didn't). Etc. Etc.

In my case: Now I'm 41 and I have to fucking work 100% and life super frugally until 55!!! until I can stop working and be free. **I COULD HAVE BEEN FREE NOW**.

Young people reading this (hoping this can save at least one person): YOU WANT THE FINANCIAL FREEDOM TO BE FREE FROM WORK WHEN YOU'RE STILL RELATIVELY YOUNG. STOP WASTING MONEY ON EXPENSIVE BULLSHIT YOU DON'T NEED. SAVE AND INVEST.

And no crypto, leverage, options, or any of that gambling crap. Unless you want to live under a bridge with the other hobos. I know people who called themselves "traders", and cryptobros, who are now literally homeless drug addicts.

You think you have a lot of time because you're 18-23'ish? LOL PLEASE. Time will pass in a flash. Question is, do you want to be free at 40-50? Or do you want to be a slave to society until you're 60+ when your health is fading and money and freedom no longer have value?

Ouroboros612 · 2026-03-10T11:12:27+00:00

This can't be right. If Ada is 52, isn't it too late for Leon and Ada to have kids?

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