No, the SEC distinctly defines market manipulation as low as “intentional interference with free forces”

It is absolutely not illegal to buy or sell stock strictly to screw over other people. Where it becomes illegal is if you were also doing so in order to move the price to then blow everything up.

That doesn’t make it a coordinated pump and dump. For the SEC to go after people for “pump and dump” style market manipulation, they typically look for something to hang their hat on that states the actual plan was to dump the stock after the price runs up.

I’m in my 20s and I have a pension and a four-digit amount in investment funds

“And that’s the point, that it’s completely detached from the wider economy, that it’s currently being sustained by amateur investors spending their life savings based on social media, and it’s being aggressively manipulated by predators both ways.”

Hence my point about “not real” and “fake” really referring to things…

This is getting to the point of splitting hairs.

Yeah, it’s pretty straightforward. Honestly, the initial implication of “it must be real because people make lots of money on the stock market” shows a values system that’s so bizarre to anybody with a basic understanding of capitalism as a man-made system instead of some kind of natural order that I’m not surprised…

Right, but the point everybody keeps making that you seem to be deliberately ignoring is just because something has an impact on our lives doesn’t mean it’s logical, rational, or in any way based on reality.

Like a dumbass (or so I thought a few years ago), I bought 100 shares of Gamestop in 2014 in a IRA account that I had from a previous job’s 401K rollover. I also bought other things (including Apple, and an S&P 500 Index fund) that have done well over the years. Being an avid gamer I should have known that Gamestop’s…

You could have never known this was gonna happen, you can’t think that negatively. At least you didn’t offload it in like 2018. That’s like regretting buying Amazon stock on day one and holding on to it until 2014, like who freaking knows.  

If it wasn’t real people wouldn’t be doing it to make serious money would they...

Speedrunners in general? Yeah. Some speedrun methods in Hitman? Sure. This one? Nah.

It’s like when you turn the volume up on the amp, but down on the source :)

Counterpoint: all of what you said is true, and the speedrunners are still impressive.

Theoretically there is a difference but it’s mainly a technical reason. With the move to consider gender a spectrum rather than a binary, so using bisexual sort of implies that it is not a spectrum. 

Golf Story is honestly pretty close!

Dredd 2012 for sure.

We really need a Star Trek game that takes notes from the SNES TNG game. An original story, ship and crew that has a mix of exploration, RPG and action, Bioware style.

I’m currently playing H1 and 2 and will say that the generic list of villains do just seem to pass you by when you listen to the briefings, but there are tons of links about them in the larger narrative hidden in the levels. There was one mission where I checked some kind of schedule on a whiteboard and spotted the…

okay person on the internet who is 100% no fun.