Shout out to this recent video made by Stop Skeletons From Fighting for providing the reminder of this story and the writeup.

> Introduction

Console wars have always been a part of video games, going all the way back to the 90s with the feud between Sega and Nintendo. It makes sense from a tribalism perspective; consoles are hefty purchases so you need to be able to feel secure that you bought the right one, especially if you're a child as you may not have the funds to secure the competition unless your parents were exceedingly generous. Today's post focuses on one such entry into the console war, and how focusing on the wrong aspects cost its parent company the entire generation in terms of PR and public image. This is the story of the Xbox One.

> The setup

In 2000, Microsoft would enter the console market race with the original heavy-enough-to-be-a-murder-weapon Xbox. While it would fail to beat its primary competition, Sony's Playstation 2, it would carve out a niche for itself in the Americas, helped by several successful exclusives like Halo Combat Evolved and Halo 2, fantasy RPG Fable, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Then again, going blow to blow with the PS2 is no small feat given it's the best selling console of all time as of writing at over a hundred and fifty five million units.

In 2005, Microsoft wound launch the Xbox 360 and this would be a much bigger blow against Sony. In fact, for much of this console generation (generally seen as the 7th generation, or Pokemon Sony and Microsoft) it was the common opinion that Microsoft had won. This was thanks to Sony's Playstation 3 being an overpriced beast of a machine that was way harder to develop for thanks to its processing techniques, while Nintendo had gone for a more casual gaming audience with the Nintendo Wii. Thanks to heavy hitter exclusives (some timed) like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock and Fable 2, the 360 quickly became the juggernaut console of the generation, in spite of having a disaster launch involving the console overheating itself to death with the infamous Red Ring of Death issue. Chances were, if you saw a show on TV with characters playing video games betw

By "agency recruiters" I mean the people who reach out to you on LinkedIn with opportunities at early-stage startups especially. Agency recruiters target both experienced and early-career designers, and as an experienced person myself, learning to navigate the temptation was...interesting, and I wanted to share thoughts. If you're early career, you may not have as much latitude and your best opportunities might come from agency recruiters; if you're experienced, I would recommend against dealing with agency recruiters at all.

This all might sound obvious, but it's worth keeping in mind:

• the recruiter doesn't care about you or your career. Always remember, they get paid to place you and typically make a cut off of your negotiated salary, or if its contract work there's a difference between what you get paid, and what the agency gets paid.
• Contract work is FINE, there's nothing wrong with taking contract work and agency recruiters seeking contractors are actually more trustworthy than those seeking full-time positions. With contracting, everybody knows the score and you're not taking on that much risk. With full-time, if you take a bad role and need to get out of there, that's a dicier situation for you.
• If a company has resorted to an agency recruiter to find full-time staff, there's a reason for this: the company is bad, or has weak prospects, has an unclear pitch or value proposition, or has terrible culture and it's catching up with them. The culture problems are very, very common. It's really difficult to find the truth about a company's culture, especially seed / series A / series B, and quite often startups are founded by people with impressive experience at reputable companies. This can be misleading, it guarantees very little about their startup's future or culture. You can try checking Glassdoor, but it's common for companies to have HR-seeded Glassdoor reviews, and it's also happening on Blind now. You can search a company name on Blind, and often (not always) you'll have an option to vote on if you'd work for it in the search results. I don't recommend voting unless you have an informed opinion, but once you do vote, you'll see the percentage breakdown. When reading reviews, you can probably tell when it's faked--anything that's overly enthusiastic, vague, really short. Also, be aware of any reviews saying "well, it's really team-dependent." At huge companies, this is the case at times but that's also not a great sign, strong cultures

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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TL;DR the title is all you need to know

There’s no shortage of advice regarding what people shouldn’t do with their money and where they shouldn’t hang out. “Why isn’t CMS shut down, it’s all scams!” “Stay away from wsbc, it’s just shillers!” “How do people learn about projects before they take off?”

Think how kids learn, they do so by doing and failing, not from listening to their parents. At least that’s true with mine.

So take a stroll through the BSC casino and see what table looks good. Now I’m not gonna tell you how much you should/shouldn’t bet, just be expected to lose it all. It’s not gonna moon no matter what they tell you, in fact you prob already missed the big run.

Take note of what’s lively in the discussions off of /cc. Click on the thumbnail of a YT’er with a really stupid, contorted face, lazer eyes and lotsa raging fonts. Then go visit the token’s CoinMarketCap page and see if there’s an About blurb for the project. Note what chain it’s on and see how many markets carry it. Find the “official” Telegram group and just lurk to see about the signal to noise ratio. If it seems legit, learn to interpret the TokenSniffer and MarketMove analysis and if there’s a smart contract audit.

Sometimes the TG group makes it painfully obvious it’s a rug. I checked one out recently for a “hot pre-IDO game” and asked where I could find the site or even the white paper. Was told to check the pinned posts, which were all long rambling selfie videos from the project lead. He seemed to be on a Miami balcony, no shirt to show his gold chains and had some really interesting artistic neck tattoos. Big claim to fame was his last project that 100x’d. And I think people fall for this stuff.

Now, did you actually find a potential winner? After you learn about slippage and how PancakeSwap works, this is where you can practice HODL or DCA Out strategies before the big game. Make a chart and plot when you’ll take out your initial investment and different profit levels. I’m talkin about practice here. Not a game. Practice.

Here’s something I like about the lawlessness of BSC. There’s actually a fair amount of financial innovation going on. The tokenomics are wild and are things we don’t see in the Top 100 coins. Take the buy/sell taxes: they’re sometimes a whopping 10-15% but do interesting things like fund the LP, pay dividends (reflections) to existing holders, pay for more marketing (shilling) and even straight burns. Check the audi

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

What's up Degernates? The $DUDE here with my periodic "Dude Diligence" reports on $CLOV - Clover Health Investments Corp and thoughts on potential price action for the upcoming week. Be prepared to read a little bit (and I realize what I have here is probably more reading than most of you crayon-eaters have done collectively since the first grade) ...but it will be worth your time if you're seriously considering trading CLOV

I want to start off with a quick intro- I'm a long-time lurker here on WSB but rarely post. I joined a little over a year and a half ago right before COVID hit as the subreddit was on the verge of breaking 1M Degenerates. I spend a bit more of my time on Twitter and am active there if you care to follow me aka, The $DUDE (https://twitter.com/nikiped1a).

Anyway, I don't want to make this too long but I've been trading for about 16 years which started with a single $2000 deposit as a college student in my early 20s which was a good chunk of my net worth at the time. That $2K has grown significantly over the years through working, trading and has been diversified into real estate as well. I work in tech for a publicly traded software company and now have few healthy trading accounts (primary trading, IRA and Roth IRAs) where I mainly swing/momentum trade some YOLOs and occasionally invest longer term if I feel there's a disruptive technology/company w/ high upside potential.

Originally I came to WSB for the memes and then quickly realized it was a really helpful community w/ useful crowd-sourced info, strategies and data in addition to the solid meme game. That was before it exploded 10X in size over about a 6 month period time leading up to the GME and AMC squeeze craziness earlier this year.

While I will say most of the info here is still good for the most part, you do have to dig a bit deeper now, verify a little more often and pushback on a lot more misinformation than in the "early days". And that brings me to the point I'd like to speak about today. Misinformation and how it has run rampant especially when it comes to Clover Health Investments Corp aka $CLOV.

I've been trading this stock since late Feb and seen the many ups, then downs, then big ups again and then downs. But more than anything, I've seen and still see the disruptive potential of A.I. in a dinosaur of an industry like Healthcare.

Here's my fresh take since I know there are a lot of new traders/investors in CLOV and t

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

2021 was an exciting and monumental year in e-commerce. BNPL became a standard way to purchase items online. Major companies changed their names and experienced high profile executive turnover. Google fought to regain its share of e-commerce searches. India rewrote the rules of e-commerce within their borders. Shopify integrated with, well, everyone. And aggregators popped up faster than weeds in a garden.

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December 2021

• Shopify rolled out its integrated NFT feature for Shopify Plus merchants
• Alibaba revealed its vision to 5x its Southeast Asian platform Lazada
• H&R Block sued Block (formerly Square) over its name change
• Amazon partnered with Instalments to offer BNPL in Britain
• Belk brought BNPL to brick-and-mortar stores via partnership with Afterpay
• Business Insider leaked Meta’s plans to take on Shopify next year
• TikTok produced its first live shopping event
• Target Australia re-platformed to run on AWS
• Amazon reportedly plans to launch Instacart-like service in USA and Europe next year
• Shopify [was sued](https://newsletters.shopifreaks.com/link/c/YT0xODM1MTIxMDUwOTU0NzY3MDk3Jm

I won't be doing that today!

I was wondering if there was a way to execute

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "