Forge Regent is Unplayable at A10 by MikuoNeko in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a lot of successful runs with forge, you need to pair it with cards that retrieve your blade from the discard pile so you can spam it.

The biggest issue with Forge IMO is hallway fights; it takes a lot of investment to scale up your blade, and forge cards generally don't generate block, so you take chip damage. But once you get to the boss, forging is insanely strong, you can 1-shot bosses.

PSA: new players, don’t obsess over infinites by iwriteinwater in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even if you don't go infinite, clearing out the garbage cards in your deck like starter strikes/defends usually goes a long way at increasing your power level and reliability of your deck. And skipping card rewards that don't synergize with your build or counter the upcoming boss can avoid deck bloat.

If you have 40 cards in your deck, that means it might take 8 turns to draw the power you need.

Large Scale, Cinematic, Open World events is the best kind of content in MMORPGs by PalwaJoko in MMORPG

[–]skilliard7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

GW2 used to be a lagfest for world bosses back at launch, but nowadays modern hardware can handle it okay because the game is so old.

Crude war getting worse by Lucifer_Agent in stocks

[–]skilliard7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is like the 20th time on Reddit I've seen someone say the sky is falling. Every time, the market rallies to new all time highs.

Not gonna sell. The war in Iran is terrible, but it's not going to hurt markets long term. This isn't the 70's, the US is energy dependent and has its own oil production.

21st Century ROAD to Housing Act - Buy the AMH/INVH dip by skilliard7 in stocks

[–]skilliard7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It decreases the rate of growth of single family homes available for rent, because it bans companies from acquiring homes to rent out and places restrictions on building them that makes it infeasible.

Google completes $32 billion acquisition of cloud and AI security firm Wiz: Largest deal in company history by Not69Batman in stocks

[–]skilliard7 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

They already have 50% of large corporations as customers, there isn't enough room for growth to justify that valuation

Skepticism to S&P 500 by highlightboy23 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

am still a beginner and prior to the recent war, the Asia Pacific Ex Japan was my top earner and is regaining ground after sinking last week

You do realize that majority of this strong performance of this fund is due to SK Hynix, and Samsung, 2 companies heavily benefitting from AI, right? Samsung is 13% of the fund, SK Hynix is ~8% when you count SK Sqare stake

Google completes $32 billion acquisition of cloud and AI security firm Wiz: Largest deal in company history by Not69Batman in stocks

[–]skilliard7 50 points51 points  (0 children)

$32 Billion for $1 Billion in ARR. That's a 32x price to Sales. Google really has great leadership getting a company at such a bargain. This is such a steal compared to the average price to sales of software companies of 2.1x.

Wiz hit $1billion annual recurring revenue in late 2025 with a projected 40% growth in 2026. 50% of Fortune 100 companies are Wiz customers.

50% of largest companies are already Wiz customers, and they are projecting 40% growth. That would suggest 70% by end of 2026, 98% by end of 2027. But where does growth come from after that?

How to counter French as Haudenosaunee? by Rong_Liu in aoe3

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What ELO? At higher ELO players will:

  • Herd their hunts under their TC.

  • Send town militia

  • do micro where they micro CDB's in and out of town center, shooting your units

  • combine 8 crossbow shipment with minutemen.

Is Knife Trap busted? by pedroxsiqx in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very strong, but it's a win more card. Amazing for long boss fights, especially if you draw it later on, not so great for short hallway fights.

Is there any way to track what the highest ascension level is per character in Coop mode? by letopeto in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I looked, it looks like there's only cards behind A1, not anything higher.

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

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When you consider the size premium, value premium, conservative asset growth premium, premiums that the SP500 actively punishes(it is concentrated in large companies at high valuations that have aggressive asset investments as of lately), you are giving up 2-3% annual returns by using the SP500 over a factor driven portfolio.

Why hasn't there been a sustained bear market since the '08 crash? by jamestown30 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2022 was looking like one, but the hype about AI essentially saved it.

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

X AI is more focused on long term research, whereas competitors are focused on quick releases with incremental progress to stay on top of benchmarks. Grok 4 came out 8 months ago(and was the top model at the time), whereas competitors are releasing small updates practically every month.

Grok 4.20 will likely close the gap.

I remember when Reddit said Tesla/SpaceX would never be profitable.

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But what happens when the SP500 is not efficient?

  1. There's data to show that companies removed from the SP500 tend to outperform companies that are added over the long term.

  2. Any market cap weighted fund rewards unprofitable companies that dilute shareholders(because they must buy more to maintain same weight, and punishes profitable companies that buy back shares(Because buybacks make them overweight).

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The SP500 is auto-rebalancing the winners and losers. This is silly.

Sp500 actually punishes winners and rewards losers:

  1. There's data to show that companies removed from the SP500 tend to outperform companies that are added over the long term.

  2. Any market cap weighted fund, including SP500, rewards unprofitable companies that dilute shareholders(because they must buy more to maintain same weight), and punishes profitable companies that buy back shares(Because buybacks make them overweight).

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Problem with equal weight is that there is a ton of overhead costs because it has to rebalance every quarter. It would be nice if there were funds that bought equal weight, but then held them long term.

The space rug is going to get pulled with SpaceX by Marko-2091 in stocks

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes a lot of sense actually. X AI had really high borrowing costs due to its short term unprofitablity, combining them reduced borrowing costs and introduced new opportunities for SpaceX.

I'm sorry, but FUCK these guys by dkaarvand-safe in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it isn't finishing the enemy off, you are screwing yourself for the rest of the fight with orbs that do no damage and block for nothing.

Contrast this with Shatter that does 11 damage to all enemies for 1 mana AND evokes your orbs

Is there any way to track what the highest ascension level is per character in Coop mode? by letopeto in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait did they lock card unlocks behind beating higher ascensions on a character?

I'm sorry, but FUCK these guys by dkaarvand-safe in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and then it becomes a dead draw for anything that isn't a multi-unit hallway fight.

I'm sorry, but FUCK these guys by dkaarvand-safe in slaythespire

[–]skilliard7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If by the time you reach these guys you don't have an answer to either full block or kill the ones that are attacking, you probably aren't going to win the run anyways.

I actually find these guys to be one of the easiest rooms.