So can you, you just have to lower your standards to levels you're not willing to do. Just like them.

The difference is, you think your standards are appropriate (because your frame of reference is your own standards) and theirs are insane (because their standards exclude you). The reality is, it's the same everywhere: People have a hard time finding others who meet their standards, particularly because for most people, if it's easy, your standards rise.

That may be because "all be it" isn't the root of albeit.

Yup!

Oh yeah, forward-thinking. Like, they were forward-thinking enough to realize, "hey, we're not letting women participate in these 'discussions', but let's be nice patriarchs and set up viewing parties so they can passively observe as their masters decide how the inferior little creatures are going to live their lives."

Man, those guys are so cool.

Not anymore it doesn't!

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Me too, but hey, it's their mod points. But, to the point, you don't have to be good with money to be able to pick a winner. You just have to be good with money to capitalize on that pick.

Thus, a record of a prediction that I have no power to edit.

I'll make more as they occur to me--the idea of publicly recording them to keep myself honest just came up, and trying to force an intuitive process seems ... counter-intuitive.

As for savings, I've spent the last two years making up for the last ten years being incredibly stupid with credit and delinquent bills. I just, today, made the payment that brought the total money I owe to anyone in the world to $0. Like I said, I'm bad with money. Anyway, I'll be doing all of that soon. I'm taking two weeks to breathe... I owe nothing! Holy shit! And yeah, the thought of "forced" savings did come to mind. It's hard to be honest enough with yourself to realize that you're bad at something without seeing how to mitigate it, although if I'm completely honest a large part was just increasing my earnings. But, as somebody with an admittedly poor record and no experience saving, I'll be looking for advice, so the advice is, while something I'm already going to do, appreciated.

Actually, the combat in the game is one of the most fun action-RPG combat systems I've ever played. The story was also fairly interesting, and more mature than most.

I ended up clicking past the dialog like I usually do, because good for a videogame means "absolutely fucking terrible" by literary standards, so I lost the story, and the extremely limited enemy variety (there were about 10 monsters total when you discount reskinnings) meant that the combat, while really, really good, also lost its charm, so I never ended up finishing it, but it was far from a "serious bullet".

All in all though, if you're a videogame person, I'd say it's worth $20 easy just to try out the really neat combat system that they should totally tack onto one of the oodles of games that needs a fun one.

I'm terrible with money (poor impulse control, I don't think it's because I'm credulous, stupid, or have poor instincts although I guess I wouldn't know), so I don't have the cash to invest in this, just like I didn't with Google or Apple, when people were poo-poohing that stuff too. I realize there's confirmation bias and all, but I haven't made a prediction that turned out wrong yet (I thought people were crazy for buying MS stock in early 2000, that's the only other thing I've been willing to predict), so I'm posting this to give me an opportunity to be wrong:

Buying Facebook stock now will result in making a bunch of money.

If I'm wrong in 5 years, feel free to rub my nose in this post.