You’re assuming she took the loan outright. It’s very possible she took a non-purpose loan backed by her investments in the market with a really low interest rate, and her money generates more than the loan amount on an annual basis to pay off the bill. 

That’s funny you mention that. My ex had a Saturn that I convinced her to get as a manual. She eventually learned and got the hang of it quickly, and I recall that the clutch was extremely light. I got an RX8 not long after that, and it was quite the difference. Despite the fact she had been driving the Saturn for a…

I made a comment on this without seeing yours. I have yet to do the third one since I don’t time travel and I didn’t get the update till yesterday, but good to know that it’s 1.2mil. Those bells have been sitting in my bank account unused for a while during my 11 month hiatus from the game.

You can also expand your home storage further, beyond previously available storage expansions. I’ve already done it twice. First one was 700k, and then 900k. Nook makes you have the full amount on you, so no paying it over time.

The pub’s finances really haven’t been a topic since the early seasons, but I believe it’s just assumed that Frank handles it all after buying the bar.

I really hope the crossplay trend continues and becomes available in essentially every game. It has allowed me to play Destiny 2 and more recently Back 4 Blood with some friends on PS. I’m on the ultimate sub for console, but I can also pick up games on my PC if I’m in my home office away from the tv and play there as…

I wonder what the number of subscribers Microsoft needs for the service to be profitable is. Given price tiers, and promotional periods, and a completely baseless guess of an average of $5/mth per subscriber, is the service already profitable (meaning the cost of running it, plus the price they pay to the developers…

I was really being tongue in cheek, as I understand his CEO income is likely paid on a W2 basis, and he will have plenty of taxes withheld. All I meant is that he could realize (he won’t) that someone who only makes that as a salary, and still loses a large percentage of it to taxes, is much more impacted by that…

I know this doesn’t add to the discussion, but if the board actually reduces his comp to 62k, at least for one year I will be able to say I earned more through regular wages than the Activision/Blizzard CEO. :p

I bought them for two different families... Would’ve needed two PS5s as well if that was the case. Also, it would stand to logic that a console that’s been out for 4 and a half years might not move as many consoles as a less than 1 year old console, specially coming up to it’s second holiday season, yet remarkably,…

It’s not that easy to get Switches either. I bought two Switch Lites to bring to my family in Brazil because it was a last minute purchase, and no stores near me had the regular Switches in stock.

Well, time to get back in. :)

The Kotaku fish would make for an awesome combatant. Censorship powers FTW. 

You say this as if chip shortages don’t also impact consoles.

While that two pack was on PS only, SoTN came out on Xbox 360 a while ago, so it could make the platform switch.

Alright, so there are definitely some great looking games here. Bayonetta 3 looks insane in all the right ways, although I never got around to playing the second game. ActRaiser is definitely cool, and might have to check out.
Kirby looks sweet, but hopefully it won’t be too easy, and I’ll certainly check out the N64…

One of the toughest “events” of the game. 

Stock manipulation and insider trading are different, but you’re right that it’s worrisome that these types of actions can impact your retirement plans. Having said that, the rules are really iffy. For example, a hedge fund manager can go on MSNBC in the morning, shit on a stock that their company had shorted weeks…

That’s correct that he didn’t work as a stock broker, but he was licensed as such, and therefore the company supervising his license has the same responsibilities for his actions. I’ve had my series 7 for years, and even when I wasn’t actively using it to manage people’s accounts, I still needed to report any trades…

The division was fairly new, and experimental, but to my knowledge and understanding, they were accomplishing what they set out to do. When all of this came to light, and he just stopped showing up to work, the fallout is that initially things slowed down to a crawl, and then it was all shut down. He was one of the…