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Yeah isekai is mostly just a cover for bad and unimaginative plots.
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Nov 8, 2019 21:04
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'll never quite wrap my head around companies being able to buy another company using debt then load that debt onto the other company and suck it dry with interest payments. I literally cannot understand it. Why is this a thing that exists even? What value does it nominally have? Is there a breakdown/explainer or something that I can read?
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Nov 8, 2019 21:07
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PopZeus posted:I literally cannot understand it. Why is this a thing that exists even? What value does it nominally have? Is there a breakdown/explainer or something that I can read? Das Kapital
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Nov 8, 2019 21:09
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AngryBooch posted:This person's tweets are protected. https://twitter.com/shrekpisssIave/status/1192872354176753664 I assume her account is protected because she went on a tear of retweeting every person she could find saying "ok boomer" and screaming JUST CALL ME A N***** YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO Extremely normal brain.
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Nov 8, 2019 21:09
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PopZeus posted:I literally cannot understand it. Why is this a thing that exists even? What value does it nominally have? Is there a breakdown/explainer or something that I can read? It doesn't make sense and it's why both Toys R Us and Remington Outdoor went bankrupt and the media mostly hosed up reporting on it. It's called a leveraged buyout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 8, 2019 21:12
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boomer is every slur at once you boomer
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Nov 8, 2019 21:14
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PopZeus posted:I literally cannot understand it. Why is this a thing that exists even? It is profitable to the company that does the initial buying. PopZeus posted:What value does it nominally have? Profitability, for the company that does the buying. PopZeus posted:Is there a breakdown/explainer or something that I can read? People with a lot of money are always looking for new schemes that are legal, but probably shouldn't be. Those people discovered that if you were to purchase an asset (company) that was not doing well, there was no normal way to ensure it was profitable. So, they worked very hard to arrive at a solution, and discovered that if an asset wasn't profitable you could load it with debt to at least clear some of your debts. This guaranteed the asset would fail, but it's like stripping some metal from a sinking ship. Naturally, they quickly realized it was more profitable to go into debt when buying the bad asset and transfer that debt to the asset, then as much more debt added as you can before the banks get upset. As usual, this is because rich people & banks have too much money and they can only think of one goal: make more money.
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Nov 8, 2019 21:18
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Also Donald Trump would load his personal debts into his failing companies to wipe them away.
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Nov 8, 2019 21:19
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PopZeus posted:I literally cannot understand it. Why is this a thing that exists even? What value does it nominally have? Is there a breakdown/explainer or something that I can read? Here's a short case study on how you do it with a well-established company: https://web.archive.org/web/2016112...is-after-crisis quote:Over the next several years, Colt Defense went through the private equity leverage wringer. Sciens Capital and its affiliates loaded the company with debt while taking out cash in the form of “distributions” and “advisory fees.” The 2005 SEC filing shows payouts totaling $40 million over the two prior years—a significant amount for a company in such fragile financial health. In 2006, another SEC filing shows, the company redeemed “members’ equity” worth $41 million. In 2007, Colt Defense agreed to borrow $150 million in a “leveraged recapitalization” that featured distributions to “members” of $131 million. In 2009 it borrowed an additional $250 million, while multimillion-dollar payouts continued. For 2010, Colt Defense had sales of $176 million—more than double what they were in 2004—but registered an $11 million loss. More to it in the article of course
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Nov 8, 2019 21:20
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T-man posted:boomer is every slur at once Ok boomer. Translation: I hate women and POC
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Nov 8, 2019 21:21
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I imagine a lot of it is just the same problem of the lovely corporate media that most people interact with isn't talking about it. Off the top of my head, how many people just shook their heads and said that Toys 'R Us was just doomed to fail because they were old and couldn't compete with Amazon. How many people are going to bother to dig into deeper business articles to find out all the weird private equity vulture bullshit that actually sank a probably salvageable company (even if they did have other issues)? the toy industry would probably have propped it up for years if it wasnt for bain's bullshit, lego lost like ten percent of their sales when toys r us closed and the industry at large used it as a test ground for stuff before it went to like, walmart or whatever
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Nov 8, 2019 21:34
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just found out about this and watched they start researching nuclear weapons in 1936 and it only gets worse from there they really should have gotten someone who knows how to play because woof its boring watching someone not know how to make an army
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Nov 8, 2019 21:43
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Private equity leveraged buyout poo poo is a bold faced scam that outshines the housing market scams that blew up the world economy in 2008. Just a bunch of rich failson psychos creating billions of dollars in debt, laundering it into money for their own pockets by dragging it through a drowning company, and then shoving the company's head fully underwater until the bubbles stop so they can say "what a shame it died with so much debt that can never be recovered."
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Nov 8, 2019 21:55
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Do the rules of corporate personhood allow you (or a holding company) to own a company without being liable for any of its debt? Man, sovereign citizen poo poo is just people wishing that the rules that apply to corporations applied to them.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:10
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SlimGoodbody posted:Private equity leveraged buyout poo poo is a bold faced scam that outshines the housing market scams that blew up the world economy in 2008. Just a bunch of rich failson psychos creating billions of dollars in debt, laundering it into money for their own pockets by dragging it through a drowning company, and then shoving the company's head fully underwater until the bubbles stop so they can say "what a shame it died with so much debt that can never be recovered." It's pretty cool when people ask how will you pay for such and such a social service when these folks can just make their debt magically disappear in a collapsed company.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:12
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Gripweed posted:Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks quote:Masato Oosuki is a teenager who is usually annoyed by his overly doting mother, Mamako, until both are sent inside a fantasy themed game. Masato tries his hardest to show his prowess inside the game, flustered by the fact that his mother possesses much higher stats, thus she can easily defeat all opponents with her twin swords, leaving little room for him to act. japan are you ok.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:32
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uber_stoat posted:japan are you ok. That is honestly among the least bad isekai poo poo. So no, they're very clearly not ok.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:39
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Yea 'my mom's better at my game than me' is like the LEAST weird mommy issue isekai out there.
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Nov 8, 2019 22:47
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Getting transported to a fantasy world with your mom and she thrives there is a funny concept. I'm guessing that anime doesn't think so.
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Isekai* can be a formula for a person to unmoor a narrative from the grinding pinions of society in order to completely and fully tell on themselves, unfortunately. If they're all terrible yeah you start to wonder if it shades towards a culture telling on itself, though presumably the genre is not attracting the best / "is not sending us their best". Not that US culture is any prize, mind you. *and, to a lesser extent, science fiction and fantasy generally... but I think having things start on earth (generally) means you're basically reading/watching somebody's daydream. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 8, 2019 22:59
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thinking about the most famous isekai of all time, a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court
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Nov 8, 2019 23:15
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Getting transported to a fantasy world with your mom and she thrives there is a funny concept. I'm guessing that anime doesn't think so. It's half "mom is better at video games than me" jokes and half "Hey viewers I bet you're real horny for this mom" from what I can tell having watched half an episode.
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Nov 8, 2019 23:23
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'll never quite wrap my head around companies being able to buy another company using debt then load that debt onto the other company and suck it dry with interest payments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeK9e07Y65o
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sirtommygunn posted:It's half "mom is better at video games than me" jokes and half "Hey viewers I bet you're real horny for this mom" from what I can tell having watched half an episode. Well were you?
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Halloween Jack posted:Do the rules of corporate personhood allow you (or a holding company) to own a company without being liable for any of its debt? yeah it's called a limited liability company there's a further thing called c corporation where the company itself is taxed on profits rather than the shareholders (vs an s corp), but you can just set up a series of overseas passthrough entities to dodge that Halloween Jack posted:Man, sovereign citizen poo poo is just people wishing that the rules that apply to corporations applied to them. libertarianism in general is in large part recognizing the superstructure and wanting to be a part of it rather than wanting to destroy it The Muppets On PCP fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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Nov 8, 2019 23:48
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Getting transported to a fantasy world with your mom and she thrives there is a funny concept. I'm guessing that anime doesn't think so. Yeah it's a good concept but it immediately goes borderline incest levels of horny
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Nov 8, 2019 23:58
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The private equity stuff is last generation’s scheme to do something that is illegal as hell, but technically legal; therefore, it’s just and good. It’s like how Uber, Airbnb, etc’s business model is literally “outpace the regulatory arm of the government (optional: until we establish monopoly)”.
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sirtommygunn posted:That is honestly among the least bad isekai poo poo. So no, they're very clearly not ok. That reminds me, they announced So I'm A Spider, So What? is getting an anime over a year ago and there's been no news on that since.
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Nov 9, 2019 00:32
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I'm actually from a small clan of eleves with enormous titties and magic, this world is my isekai story. Weird how ya'll call H cups big.
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Nov 9, 2019 00:39
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Well were you? Not enough to keep watching.
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T-man posted:I'm actually from a small clan of eleves with enormous titties and magic, this world is my isekai story. Weird how ya'll call H cups big. You're from the Plus Sized Elf world?
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Nov 9, 2019 01:54
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Gripweed posted:You're from the Plus Sized Elf world? How does one get to this world. Asking for a friend.
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Nov 9, 2019 01:56
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Heath posted:How does one get to this world. Asking for a friend. I don't know, I only read the first few chapters. That manga is rather light on worldbuilding, and heavy on other things.
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Nov 9, 2019 01:59
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Anyone who says that everyone has gender neutral bathrooms in their houses and is fine with it never had a sister. Women be shopping, am I right fellas? Seriously though, my sister was a bathroom tyrant who would yell at me for using the main bathroom to poop and once made a serious effort to lobby my parents to forbid me from using it. Not because I stunk it up or made messes, but because she thought I took too long and was inconsiderate of the fact that she would want to use it for primping. Not even at the moment, just in the near future. There was a sliding door between the sink and toilet/shower, and she would barge in through an unlockable door to grab Kleenex while I was on it. And with the “classy” seven-year-old barging in on those poor boys during what should be a time of quiet contemplation confirms what I’ve always suspected: Cis men are the real victims of bathroom invasions.
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Nov 9, 2019 02:05
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They should do an ep on Goblin Slayer.
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Nov 9, 2019 02:07
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Dr Christmas posted:Anyone who says that everyone has gender neutral bathrooms in their houses and is fine with it never had a sister. Women be shopping, am I right fellas? hi virgil
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I don’t wanna take a big stinky poo poo and leave the stall to find a total babe waiting to use it, but it’s for the greater good.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:libertarianism in general is in large part recognizing the superstructure and wanting to be a part of it rather than wanting to destroy it
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Dr Christmas posted:Anyone who says that everyone has gender neutral bathrooms in their houses and is fine with it never had a sister. Women be shopping, am I right fellas? small
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