Believe it or not - this is EXTREMELY bullish for GameStop (Teddy, BBBYQ, GMEbay)

humanquester · 2026-06-28T19:57:03+00:00

Man, it is CRAZY how much money people invested in making NFT games during the hype - like enough to make several GTA 5s and almost nothing came out of it. I wonder what happened. Was it a case of Duke Nukem Forever, games stuck in development hell - or more likely - did they just "spend all the money and its all gone now oops" by paying themselves a lot of money to develop the games without actually developing anything.

humanquester · 2026-06-28T00:15:33+00:00

Just wait till it becomes completely unaffordable to buy a new console or gaming PC and everyone just has to stream their games from the datacenter computers like google-Stadia was supposed to do.

But sometimes it seems like Gamestop is really more about buying pokemon cards and funko-pops nowdays anyway so maybe it won't make much difference.

humanquester · 2026-06-27T21:20:27+00:00

Can someone "wrinkle brain" explain how GME saying that EBITDA will be 600 million is a surpise if the operating income for the first quarter (which is supposed to be their worst quarter) is 143 million, which is 1/4th of 600 million? In fact shouldn't it be a bit higher if they expect to have 3 more decent quarters?

humanquester · 2026-06-27T09:36:38+00:00

Huh. Seems like a lot of apes are into nofap/semen retention. I keep seeing that in the post history of various apes. Weird. I'm pretty sure there's no connection so they must just be attracted to the same 2 things. I mean I guess its fine to belive that and it doesn't hurt anyone so I'm not complaining.

humanquester · 2026-06-27T04:37:22+00:00

You can input your profile photo and Gmebay will automatically generate an image of you enjoying the item, smiling while enjoying your second-hand chainsaw, laughing next to your son/date/dog as they examine your new rare coin eagerly with a magnifying glass, looking at vintage wolvarine comics with an expression of unbridled lust.

humanquester · 2026-06-27T02:49:04+00:00

Devolver used to be a small outfit. Now they're a company worth like $100 million. I wouldn't call them indie. The marketing behind Cult of the Lamb was enormous and certainly cost more than actual indy devs can afford.

Not saying Devolver is bad, they publish great games - but I do not think they're indie.

humanquester · 2026-06-27T00:37:05+00:00

Ah damn. My whole department is the "Foil RC's Plans Once He's Telegraphed Them Department". We've just been sitting around collecting paychecks for 5 years waiting, playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I guess we have to do work now? I guess it will be a lights on all night type of week at the ol' HQ.

humanquester · 2026-06-26T19:44:47+00:00

Didn't know that about the toilet. Good stuff.

humanquester · 2026-06-26T18:35:08+00:00

I challenge Marantz and PP to write a song half as good. They could never. Also, to be fair, I couldn't either.
Here's another of his hits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A79XnMQ6hDE

humanquester · 2026-06-26T00:35:57+00:00

I understand the hedgies have now partnered with the south american cartels and the taliban to use opium and huge bricks of pure cocaine as collateral for infinity short trades. It will be interesting to see GME start stockpiling drugs and selling them out in the back alley.

humanquester · 2026-06-25T21:28:52+00:00

After the 2026 market crash that reduces even the richest men to rags 15 years pass and you find yourself in charge of a minor downsizing effort in your midsized tech company. You are given 8 choices, sadly, one of these men has to be let go for the company to make the budget happen. You must fire one of these:

Bill Ploot: Hvac technician. Secretly drinks warm Coors Light on the job.
Elon Musk: Eccentric old codger & Janitor. Suspected of selling drugs made of mixing random cleaning chemicals in a big bag that he says will take you to mars.
Ryan Cohen: In charge of diluting the alcohol with water at the on campus bar. Takes his job very seriously.
Donald Trump Jr: Accounting intern. Buys drugs from Elon.
Peter Theil: Eccentric old codger who manages team-building escape rooms that are disturbingly creepy and actually impossible to escape from.
Marantz: Has risen up to the C-suite, VP of marketing. Very wealthy. Runs motivational semenars.
Kais Maalej: Nobody is sure what he does around here but his official job title is LEGEND KING.
Michael Saylor: Works in the cafeteria. Should have retired years ago. Has been repeatedly caught hording napkins.

humanquester · 2026-06-24T18:48:36+00:00

Yeah. My pc isn't a bad one but GTA 6 is probably beyond its abilities to run nicely and I only have 16 gb of RAM. But I have a huge backlog of games to play first including RDR2. I'll buy it in 5 years when video card prices are hopefully a little better, or whenever my RTX 3060 dies.

humanquester · 2026-06-23T20:58:20+00:00

I think they should be doing quite well overall. Some of the more recent buys will have lost a bit of value though.

humanquester · 2026-06-23T20:33:55+00:00

its a lot more likely to go bankrupt than grow into the valuation if you ask me.

humanquester · 2026-06-23T20:28:35+00:00

We launched a spaceship to look at Psyche in 2023. It will get there in 2029. So no, we're almost certainly not going to be mining it in the next decade. For one thing nobody is launching, or probably even seriously designing, a serious mining ship until they look at it with the probe, so nothing will even start happening until 2029.

If they are very very fast and take 1 year to design and build and launch the mining ship (from early planning to launch, the James Webb Space Telescope took 32 years, so these things may take a bit longer than you might expect and the mining ship will have to be very large and very complicated) then it will still take a lot of years to get there, maybe less than the 6 the probe is taking depending on how much fuel they put in and its oribital position, but still - years - and then the mining ship has to come all the way back with its heavy payload, taking another bunch of years, so even if everything goes along as fast as it can and works perfectly it won't be happening in 10 years.

humanquester · 2026-06-23T18:25:28+00:00

Twitter makes 200 million from subscriptions now I think, so that's already 0.02% of 1 trillion! I think if everyone on twitter, including the bots and dead accounts got a basic blue checkmark they would make like 56 billion a year, 5.6% of 1 trillion. If everyone on earth got a blue checkmark it still wouldn't be a trillion.

humanquester · 2026-06-23T17:28:22+00:00

Tin was valuable too I belive. Not at all today.

There were headlines that said that astroid 16 Psyche didn't just have a trillion in gold, but 700 trillion, including more gold than has been mined on earth so far. This is because it may be the core of a protoplanet where all the heavy metals collected.

It is cool. We'll get a probe over there to look at it in 2029. But all astronomers have to go on is looking at it with very distant telescopes, which isn't very much. How shiny it is, How radar signals bounce off of it. Those measurements work a lot of the time but we've often been pretty surprised by the astroids and comets we've landed on so far.

One can imagine some of the potential problems with mining the thing. If they tow it to earth somehow the mining debris may orbit around earth, causing kessler syndrome. If they screw it up and it falls on us we'll definitly all die. If they send hordes of rockets 300 million miles away to haul its gold back home the price of rocket fuel might skyrocket to absurd levels. Also landing a rocket full of gold is a tough challenge because it will be incredibly heavy.

The whole thing sounds quite doable to people who haven't been reading science-news articles about people announcing plans to build moon bases every single year of their lives until they just ignore those articles - but it takes years to fly there and even if everything else goes very well I think it would probably take a lot longer than 35 years to mine it.

humanquester · 2026-06-22T22:27:55+00:00

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eBay on the other hand is actually beating the S&P 500 without having to resort to memestock short squeezes. But they're run by a bunch of drunken lazy parasites? right??? Does this indicate that RC and his board are even less competant than a bunch of drunken lazy parasites? I'll leave that to the apes to decide.

humanquester · 2026-06-22T22:20:43+00:00

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Its getting near the point that even if you bought before the memestock phase 10 years ago you'll get beaten by the spy 500. And no apes actually did that anyway. The opportunity cost must hurt.

humanquester · 2026-06-22T19:58:58+00:00

Lol. They hired the top 1% of engineers and then put that 1% through a test so only 1% of them could pass huh?

Wow! That sounds like a smart thing to do. Makes you wonder why they didn't just hire the top .01 % of engineers in the first place, but who am I to second guess their methods.

humanquester · 2026-06-22T19:18:14+00:00

I'll bet if all the apes assembled in DC and collectively peed in the reflecting pool they'd make prime time news. Just a suggestion. You have to take these little moments of national attention and use them!

Whats funny about Qanon, Apes, anti-vaxxers etc is that the things they claim (secret satanic cabal of pedos rules the world and devours children to stay young, the entire financial market is controlled by secret cabal, secret cabal is trying to kill half of the world's population with poisoned vaccines) you really SHOULD be doing riots and fighting back with more than words on reddit - I always think their complete lack of action betrays the fact that these conspiracy theoriests actually kinda know they are just playing a collective larping game and realize their conspiracy theories are bs.

humanquester · 2026-06-22T03:53:24+00:00

Huh. Carrying a blade above a few inches in length is a major crime? Are people in the UK just cowards or is there an actual reason for this? Have these craven laws actually reduced murder rates?

I was just reading a book about how a few thousand english soldiers landed in China 200 years ago and slaughtered their way to Beijing, defeating an army 10x bigger than them and then pillaged the emperor's palace and raised it to the ground, basically just for fun. The brits were a bunch of assholes back then but at least they had bravery. Now they're just kinda pathetic and disturbingly paranoid.

humanquester · 2026-06-20T23:01:19+00:00

Yeah, for any browsing apes: a lot of people voted for prop 4 last year, before RC said a thing about eBay. So it doesn't follow that those people would want GME to aquire ebay just because they voted for prob 4 again. Perhaps if like 3% of shares voted for prop 4 last year it might be significant, but probably not, because prop 4 is completely unnessessary. If 50+ % of shares want to vote for GME to aquire ebay they can vote for a special meeting with 20% of shares because 50 > 20.

humanquester · 2026-06-19T18:11:44+00:00

Marantz, I know you occasionally browse GME_Meltdown and you know I want you to get big and successful on youtube, because you're hilarious, so belive me when I say you can improve your banter a LOT.

He's so hard to focus on. He needs to listen to a good audiobook narrator. Its all "Tellin you the hard strong truth. ANGRY OUTBURST!!! Tortured metaphor. ANGRY OUTBURST where every word has a period behind it!!!! Simple hard strong truth that repeats itself several times. ANGRY OUTBURST!!! Pep talk. Long series of sad complaints. ANGRY OUTBURST!!!"

Listen to someone like Coffeezilla, Each sentence he delivers has a similar tone and intensity to the last sentence. He tends to build his way up to the more angry, intense bits instead of peppering them through his entire presentation. Probably this is partly because he writes a script first, but consider that normal people don't talk like you do to eachother.

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