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- Mon May 02, 2011 12:20 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
Again: Gold is a fucking gamble . This has been demonstrated numerous times in this thread. You get lucky with selling high after buying low. If you weren't lucky, you're almost certainly a fucking criminal who engaged in some sort of securities fraud. Like insider trading. It is not an investment....
- Mon May 02, 2011 11:11 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
The source for that graph, http://www.zerohedge.com/(as far as I can tell, it is hosted there and a google for gold rate for today doesn't pop up a site), is not selling gold. And the reason chances are you are not that guy is because most people listen to the moronic financial advisors who didn't s...
- Mon May 02, 2011 9:32 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
Under that definition investing in ANYTHING is a gamble. You do not get guaranteed returns from anything at all. Property can burn down/get eminent domain'd/not get any tenants, business can fail, etc. You are betting on risks whenever you put money into anything(even a bank account). You can't KNOW...
- Mon May 02, 2011 9:30 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Pascal's wager is bullshit
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17574
This is bullshit. In order for a member of society to accept the fruits of others labours they have to be contributing to the society themselves. Society only works if the fisherman, the clothier and the builder all do their thing and then share the results. The only way that someone can decide to ...
- Mon May 02, 2011 8:49 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
- Mon May 02, 2011 8:41 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Pascal's wager is bullshit
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17574
Obviously wanting to live in a society like America or Rome or Greece is idiotic. Really, almost every single society in the entire world used slavery in the past. and it most certainly does not mean that every single nation in history was comprised of objectively evil people. We've still got slaves...
- Mon May 02, 2011 7:43 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Pascal's wager is bullshit
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17574
- Mon May 02, 2011 7:32 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: [Quasi-Political] Thomas Friedman is an idiot.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2510
This may be unfair, but the test I use primarily to test whether someone is worth listening too or is a worthless sack of carp is their stance on the 2003 Iraq war. Friedman didn't pass that test, and has failed many others, it amazes me that that man still has a career. I use a similar sort of tes...
- Mon May 02, 2011 7:21 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:01 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Pascal's wager is bullshit
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17574
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:15 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Pascal's wager is bullshit
- Replies: 121
- Views: 17574
- Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:23 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
...you still shouldn't invest your money in precious metals. Find some other, more sane thing to piss your cash away on... Are you high? Gold has gone up a fucking ridiculous amount recently. If you invested last year and cashed out now you would have made a ridiculously large profit. While investi...
- Fri Apr 22, 2011 11:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR/Level/HD divide
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4579
- Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:38 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's wrong with Inflicted Insight?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8187
- Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:45 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR/Level/HD divide
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4579
It seems pretty clear what the consensus on this is. Is anyone else interested in rewriting a few of the monsters out of the srd to actually fit this criteria? It seems like it could be another nice tome project. Rewriting Team Monster seems like a bit of work, but not too much work. I'd say the har...
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:14 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: CR/Level/HD divide
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4579
CR/Level/HD divide
Is there any reason why these should ever diverge? We know that level is meant to equal CR, so why should monster hitdice stop using the same formula? It does weird things when monsters start taking pc classes or become players, and I really can't see any reason why you wouldn't want to make them th...
- Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's wrong with Inflicted Insight?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8187
- Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:46 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: What's wrong with Inflicted Insight?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 8187
I don't see why transsexuals complain so much. After all, gender is just a social construct, so there's no reason they can't just re-educate themselves to be men with a good program. I mean saying that they should actually get surgery and that sort of thing is unconscionable unless you think there a...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Inflation: please explain
- Replies: 433
- Views: 45933
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:43 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: I want to get a job that will let me earn epic amounts of $$
- Replies: 130
- Views: 19811
The big reason people don't synthesize lsd is because it requires some pretty out there ingredients(not many people have ergot fungus just lying around), requires a lot of time and intricate procedures to actually do, a large initial investment, and people with real chemistry training who are willin...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:34 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: I want to get a job that will let me earn epic amounts of $$
- Replies: 130
- Views: 19811
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:58 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: I want to get a job that will let me earn epic amounts of $$
- Replies: 130
- Views: 19811
To go back to the original topic, crime. While dnd style murder hobo antics won't get you very far, there are a huge variety of ways to make money easily(but riskily). Considering that you're probably white and not poor, you'll barely have to worry about the police as well. If you're playing in the ...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:41 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: "Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic:The Straight Male"
- Replies: 230
- Views: 30225
Saying that virginity isn't desirable in a wife is fucking insane. There's a gigantic market for hymen restoration surgery for women all over the world, and in every society except modern western society, a preference for virginal brides is expressed. And in western society, we still have denigratio...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:24 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: "Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic:The Straight Male"
- Replies: 230
- Views: 30225
If you are a guy, you can actually test this for yourself. Just imagine your partner having hot, messy sex with another man, back when she was a bit younger. If this feels good to you, then congratulations, you are not anywhere near the average man. There's nothing wrong with 3 past partners, but ha...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:15 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: "Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic:The Straight Male"
- Replies: 230
- Views: 30225
If you can't see the connection between the general statement that men prefer virgins when marrying and men preferring not to get into relationships with women with high notch counts then I have no fucking idea what your deal is. Society not having an effect on gender roles is an aside that doesn't ...