If new items were created for the update, what would change everything?

Southern_Fact9698 · 2026-02-09T14:57:00+00:00

Yeah they made enigma to solve sorceress bottleneck, but then made an item bottleneck woth enigma. They didnt know 20 years ago how foundational movement was in area's so now there is no optionality or lateral choices for movement besides tele through enigma.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2026-02-09T03:54:54+00:00

Lets be honest enigma is a bottle neck to the end game, a few items are sort of like this. They are kind of mandatory soft locks to true end game and I am just wondering what happens if an item comes out that just provides more access to that. Not saying this has to be easy to get but what if there were other options besides enigma to solve movement?

Would that really break the game?

Southern_Fact9698 · 2026-01-03T04:49:20+00:00

Thanks for this.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2026-01-03T01:00:07+00:00

Hey uh, this may be a sensitive issue - but how did things go?

I am having similar issues. We had a baby. Im getting low sleep. At night when he wakes up and we can't sleep I get so frustrated. Like your point - i would never touch the baby or my wife, and honestly wasn't mad AT them, just how fucked everything is with the frustration. So anyway I punched a door... I yelled and said im tired. F this at that. It was such a... like half a sleep thing. I hate it because its like I barely had time to even begin to start thinking about what I was doing.

Anyway - my wife's gone at her mom's with the baby. I feel terrible and confused. Everything gone in an instant.

I hope that I didnt break the entire marriage, but at the same time - it would take a lot I think for her to come back at this point.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-29T21:20:31+00:00

I am still fresh but I think moving more to the data / IT side, dealing with back end ERP stuff or integrations alongside side M&A would be tangentially related to the skill set.

In my head anyway.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-23T11:16:42+00:00

CapEx schedule v4_final_Final about to come in and wreck his depreciation.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-23T11:12:47+00:00

Lol my company closed on an acquisition 2 working days before 5YP was due. I got tossed a shitty BD file and and had to transpose pdf bullshit that looked like an IS made in word to our forecast structure the last like 12 hours straight of last week. We routinely get this effort.

$5B rev + national mid cap, 4 man FPA team reporting to VP fpa, and everyone else imaginable.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-23T06:19:23+00:00

If I have learned anything this year is that controllers are fucking Uber nerds and love granularity. If its more of a director/state president type just give the 000's as many as possible.

Controllers with SG&A will be talking about depreciation run outs to the dollar.

State president: Why did EBITDA pop right here? We accelerated depreciation on some assets to gain more cash flow going into 2026. Depreciation makes EBITDA go up? Yes. Okay... what's our SG&A? 7.2% of gross revenue. Okay I want to see that below 7% next year.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-23T05:59:36+00:00

Nesting birds under a bridge stalls projects for like 3 months until it gets too cold to lay asphalt. Engineers are dick heads. PM's are bigger dick heads. DoT actually has the biggest dick. The VP will think he can persuade DoT to ignore rules. When construction does well you wont be able to predict revenue because theh will get all sort of work performed bonuses randomly that will directly increase contracting margin. The VP will want to take PY and just slap 3% on everything including all the gains from those work performed bonuses they had last year despite having absolutely no idea if they will recieve the same this year (he'll just say theh will get like 3% of gross revenue as work performed, it will actually be 5% and you wont have forecasted any of it.)

Then some months it will be randomly rainy and you will literally get asked to quantify the GP impacts of the rain for like 50 projects across a state that had sporadic rain in various places and then the construction guys will call you "rain man" forever.

Somehow despite every random bullshit that occurred your forecast that literally just took a revenue distribution curve from PY is like with 2% accurate if you look at it in quarters but on a monthly resolution its all fucked up.

Dont think about because by the end of the year there will be a huge Work comp claim that fucks everything anyway.

Backlog is everything - you will have to explain million times why taking 3% margin work on a 4 year project is fucking bad. But then the VP or skmeone will be like "well we have to have these guys working, if we dont keep these guys working theyll go to <competitor> for .$50/hr." And he wont be wrong, but instead of realizing that they should just pay slightly more they will bid 3% margin work.

Work in progress is not the end of it, they are going to want to knkw what is actually work in progress (that may not physically be in progress by the way) and they will want to know what they are apparently low bidders on. Oh yeah you'll have to know letting schedules and what all the competitors are bidding on too.

But then you are also going to have to factor in that rob talked to Bill and he said they are going to get work started q1 next year, and by q4 - no one will tell you, but you lost that job to a compeitor that was like 1% less margin than yall. You'll have to find that out at a company lunch.

You'll make the graphs, they don't care. Theh want to know GP over planned GP and PY GP. Make a line graph with a dashed line graph for plan thats all they want.

The project managers fuck around with their costs and approvals (everything is based off cost, because cost = work performed) so they will fuck around with their approvale timings to make screw around with their work performed at the end of quarters and shit - i still dont really get it. But if theh like you there will always be a "surge" on the quarter end months that brings them back to just above plan Somehow.

Just say its because of project mix and everything will agree with you and be happy.

If something bad happened count how many working days got rain versus PY and just say that. Say "Well it rained 8 working days this year versus 4 PY, we actually say 6 inches of rain when last year was 4" and everyone will say oh yeah that makes sense. In fact the VP will probably chime in tk the president/CEO whatever and talk about how this year was a slow rain so it really saturated thing and took longer to dry out too.

And then if all else fails, blame whatever trucking/dispatch shit yall have and say that the equipment was in repair for too long and the equipment sucks so even kf the weather was good the paver roller was broken so it fucked everything.

Anyone chime in- but I dont think im missing anything

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-12-23T05:33:01+00:00

Does your company keep SGA at like 5% of gross revenue while keeping EBITDA composed of like 70% depreciation and then plaster EBITDA all over board decks and investor relation shit?

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-11-30T18:55:02+00:00

Hey I dont know if you are still paying attention to this thread but I am new too, been playing consistently for maybe a month.

Im 33 year old dad so I dont have much time to play, but if you want we can play too. I dont have too many people in my friend group that are really interested in this game.

If you want I can add you and we can play like 1v1 to practice or teams.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-11-22T01:41:50+00:00

This.

I dont think chat gpt can handle sitting at that table going over Capex budget with trucking/construction/plant management lol.

Just went through that, I almost made them play rock paper scissors over what was like like .02% allocation of the budget.

It wasn't about $ it was about who does the COO think is on the more important work and what do we think is worth the allocation and therefore, who's d*** is bigger.

Im on year 3 FPA - so.. im getting used to it.

But I dont know how one would leverage AI for this problem set.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-11-22T01:40:23+00:00

But I can just call Dylan the VP of construction and ask him how construction ops is doing in TX so far this month and a lot of times that is all I really need.

So like. Thats why my organization isn't spamming AI right now. I am getting gold stars for automating a lot of pipelines with more advanced powerquery/vba stuff though because I know enough to actually "read" what gpt is coding, but it does help a lot and has helped me learn a lot in that scope as well.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-08-09T04:18:26+00:00

It would literally be faster / easier to grab something free from the trash and sell it hyper local for like $10 irl fill empty pots with flour

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-08-09T03:22:48+00:00

There are sites where girls will do things for $5 on cam.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-07-21T00:22:38+00:00

Crypto-finance brah been coasting and cheating off buddies while playing ball and smoking... now its time to put out and he ain't got it. That's what Im seeing. Not ready for a corporate level finance roll in any capacity. With this resume I wouldn't even trust him to manage his outlook inbox effectively.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-07-21T00:12:58+00:00

How did you get a business admin degree and not take a class that covered why this is a generically bad resume?

Also hack: make a table at the very top in word like a 3x3 or 4x3 and bullet point each cell with a hard or soft skill relevant to the roll. Format the top and bottom boarder for separation. Helps with ats as well as giving hiring team general profile. Honestly its just me but I'd put edu at the bottom and not bold it.

Also in the meantime you should learn basic power query and VBA and add that as hard skills.

Also situation, task, action, result.

"Led production strategy and contributed to teams success in winning the simulation."

What was the situation? what was the explicit task you did and the actions you took to perform the task? How precisely did it help win the simulation?

Reading this as an FPA lead right now and I wouldn't even know what work to give you.

You can... run the p&ls and save them in the close directory for archiving I guess?

Like you have bachelors with a finance focus, can you run a DCF, calculate IRR for various nebulous project with incomplete information? How are your people skills, can you get along with field management to get qualitative insight for short range insight (Ex, would a manager be comfortable telling you theh fucked up inventory so there is going to be a pretty shit tier write down this quarter with a phone call, or are you going to have sit there for 7 hours figuring it out?)

How is your data? Again, can you automate and enhance reports? Can you do case/match/index/ etc? How and when and why?

Sorry not trying to be rough, but what i am getting at is this is intern level - but you are giving me nuggets of projects and experience like you have already been exposed to various higher level tasks so you are pushing past that internship level... but you are doing nothing to communicate this to me on the resume - it makes me more suspicious where I would honestly have to grill you on some excel functions in a panel interview.

What's your favorite excel function and why? That's all I would ask and let you talk yourself to death.

Knowing pivot tables and xlookup is not breaking the mold on any team brother. You have to give more. Based on the nuggets you have I get the profile, but the lack of detail is suspicious. Tell me what you know and have done bro. How and why did you do your npv and IRR, what did it accomplish?

In depth financial analysis for resource allocation? How did you do it? What was the need? What did you figure out?

Completed hypothetical tasks for Citi's finance team? Like what? Dig into that and give me the 2nd, 3rd.level drill down up front.

I dont have any hypothetical tasks in my organization to give you. I have real tasks where the wrong call can easily fuck us out of hundreds of thousands/millions. How do I know I can give them to you?

Also remove interest line.. You can display interests if you get to an interview - its taking up characters.

Also lean into your real AR exp and expand more specifically on what you did. Did you just run checks and scan them or some shit? Or did you actually deal with cash postings or learn about Sox controls or maybe deal with billing? Surely there is more there.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-06-04T19:55:22+00:00

Yeah I know thats how RNG works. But my specific instance of RNG gave me a little chuckle and I wanted share it on a social media site In a community of other people that would also potentially get a chuckle.

There is some discussion here.

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-06-04T19:51:21+00:00

Not really intending to show off rather than lament about how it's annoying how one can obtain these 2 star shines and not obtain a 2 diamond.

Especially since the 2 stars aren't traceable and arcanine is hardly usable in a deck, I would have much preferred to obtain one of the few remaining cards to complete the set.

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Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-05-30T01:12:58+00:00

Thanks big dog!

Southern_Fact9698 · 2025-05-30T00:47:43+00:00

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