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Merry Christmas!
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If you haven't finished a project in a while, maybe just make something with very limited scope.
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Zen, you might consider starting with a scooter or a motorcycle. The engines are much more accessible and major overhauls are easier because there's less that you have to move out of the way.
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Let us hope that our motorcycle-maintaining Zen fares better than that book's hero.
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If you really want to see people who have no idea what they're doing, check out WallStreetBets on Reddit. A few times a week you'll see someone post about his 5-digit losses, and sometimes more. And once in a while you'll find people who perhaps know a little about what they're doing, but perhaps not enough, like that guy who found the "infinite money cheat code" on Robin Hood. It let him borrow essentially unlimited money to put into leveraged positions. And he lost it all in one stupid move.
For real though, if you feel like you don't know what you're doing, my advice is to buy an index fund and hold onto it. Or even better... you're in the US, right? Open up a Roth IRA that lets you put your money into an index fund. It will probably earn you more, tax-free, over the long run than a managed mutual fund. And it will almost certainly earn you more than striking out on your own.
But did you buy some stocks because you want to force yourself to learn how to trade? Do you really want to learn this on your own? Then I would suggest you start with this question: Do you want to learn to invest, or do you want to learn to speculate? Speculating is fine, if you know what you're doing, but you already say that you don't. And the efficient market hypothesis isn't on your side. But if you still want to proceed, then read Investopedia's articles on fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Then read their articles on alpha, beta, and options. After you read up on those, I'd be interested in hearing what you want to do.
For real though, if you feel like you don't know what you're doing, my advice is to buy an index fund and hold onto it. Or even better... you're in the US, right? Open up a Roth IRA that lets you put your money into an index fund. It will probably earn you more, tax-free, over the long run than a managed mutual fund. And it will almost certainly earn you more than striking out on your own.
But did you buy some stocks because you want to force yourself to learn how to trade? Do you really want to learn this on your own? Then I would suggest you start with this question: Do you want to learn to invest, or do you want to learn to speculate? Speculating is fine, if you know what you're doing, but you already say that you don't. And the efficient market hypothesis isn't on your side. But if you still want to proceed, then read Investopedia's articles on fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Then read their articles on alpha, beta, and options. After you read up on those, I'd be interested in hearing what you want to do.
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Finished off the year by reading the last 150 pages of this Falconfar trilogy I've been lugging around for years. Awful series.
I feel not satisfaction by completing it. But it was like a festering wound on my bookshelf; and it's finally healed. So.
Happy New Years! :toot:
I feel not satisfaction by completing it. But it was like a festering wound on my bookshelf; and it's finally healed. So.
Happy New Years! :toot:
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Amy":dvc83do9 said:
Seriously? I think I must have put over 200 hours into Skyrim. For me, that's a lot. Some people have played Skyrim for thousands of hours. Have you climbed to the top of all the guilds? Are you making the best gear with smithing and enchanting? Do you have Azura's Star or a supply of black soul gems for enchanting? Can you make poisons that will DoT anything to death? Or have you tried making potions to increase your enchanting skill, which you use to enchant a ring to increase your alchemy skill, which you use to make an even better potion to increase your enchanting? Have you mastered sneaking, and can now walk right up to anything and dagger-stab it for a million damage? Have you built, improved, and enchanted a masterwork dwarven crossbow, equipped with exploding bolts, that you use to shoot dragons out of the sky? Have you ridden on a dragon? Have you become a werewolf, and have you eaten the hearts of everyone in a bandits' hideout? Or have you tried becoming a vampire? Have you built a house? Gotten married? Adopted kids?
There is so much to do in Skyrim. I can't believe anyone would feel like there's nothing to do, especially after just starting.
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Amy":2yrnbb7p said:
Completed the map? As in discovered every cave? Every camp? Every settlement, dungeon, and tower? That's not possible.
How much of GW2 is vast, empty wilderness? I remember playing GW back in the day. I don't remember if I ever tried GW2. But I remember the setting being mostly empty space for mobs and quest items to spawn, so that a few dozen players in the same tiny settlement can all do the same quests at the same time. Unless there has been some renaissance in MMOs since I stopped playing, I think that's just how MMO worlds have to be.
Visited every town, settlement, tower, etc; not ever cave but that that doesn't count towards GW2 map completion.
Can't recall much empty space in GW2. Everything's insanely detailed, and compared to Skyrim there's just so much going on in the world.
I mean, Skyrim is just empty, there's barely any mobs or wildlife either.