The people who were able to keep contributing in 2008-2010 made great returns.  Yes the money already in there took a while to recover, but continuing to contribute paid off greatly

There wasn’t a standard in the early days of 3D games, so I can adapt to either too.  I prefer normal, but usually do what the game defaults to.

My friend refuses to play a game if you can’t do an inverted x-axis.  I see the logic that if the y-axis is inverted the x-axis should be as well.  But I don’t like either inverted.

If your birthday is 2 months after Christmas, your 1999 birthday would have been before Dreamcast released in NA/Europe (I remember the 9/9/99 commercials vividly). Either you got a Japan DC, you got a PS1 in 2000 or later, or you got a PS1 before a DC.

97.32% is not more than 999/1000.

You can do broadcast with a one time purchase of antenna and TV or TV tuner. Or if you prefer a subscription, Locast is available for $5.50 per month “donation” in Seattle.

OK, the wording was poor.  You have fewer options at buying games on consoles and the prices are not as good in my experience.  In the end the reason for it doesn’t matter, unless the pricing discrepancy between consoles and PC is going to go away (or be better for consoles).

So why are sales so much better for PC games?

The PC market has multiple storefronts for games.  You are at the mercy of Sony/MS on pricing for console games.

Heath is the character’s name you’re thinking of. We saw his RV in the heapster’s dump. He was seemingly taken by the same people as Rick.

The people of Florida decided they do want these people to vote.

A specific situation that I may find myself in is: my great aunt was living on Social Security and supplemented it with dividends from a particular stock. That stock went to her sister, who later passed and left it to her two sons. If the older one dies first, he’ll give it to the other son, my dad. Some portion of…

This game was amazing on all levels, except the controls were awful.  I tried very hard to power through it but just couldn't.  A remake would be so good.

Removing the step-up basis sounds like it will be a nightmare for the middle class. I think part of the reason in creating step-up basis was because of the logistical hurdles in tracking cost basis on everything. If you can’t prove it, you’ll probably have to pay it as 100% gains.

Hopefully it will work as intended on…

Real wage growth has slowed, but it’s still there. But inflation is related to nominal growth, and nominal growth is greater than real growth. Games started selling for $60 in 2005. With inflation they should be $80 now. And because there is real wage growth, the average household would still be better off today than…

The difference is between a 30 year and a 15 year. With the strategy of a 15 year with no extra room in your budget, losing a job means you have no way of paying your mortgage.

Yep. The worst nominal 30 year return for the S&P 500 has been around 8%.  Past performance doesn't guarantee future results but in US history you never would have made a bad bet by paying the minimum and investing what you can.

You said “no sane person could claim they need more than that” and don’t understand why there’s disagreement. Your claim wasn’t that it’s enough for you, it’s that anyone who needs more than 500 GB is insane.

The media typically says what today’s cases are in addition to total cases.  Currently sick is impossible to track, but some states try to guess at number of people recovered.  You can also find data on how many hospital beds are available in many states.

1) 6% of people have no preexisting conditions. That means that over 12,000 people were young and healthy and died from Covid in the US so far.
2) People who survive Covid-19 don’t necessarily fully recover. There are reports of heart inflammation and other organ damage that appears to be permanent. Even in young,…