Ok retards listen up. Been seeing lots of cucks writing small DD pieces of bullish or bearish shit. You cucks need to read this cos this is the whole fucking thing.

this is also basically my magnum fucking opus so upvote retards. Dont give me awards, legit go buy a powerup membership for a year. Cant tell you to buy shares because we gonna get closed down by SEC somehow.
im also not some fininacial advisor or whatever just read this and make your own conclusions degenerates. Im not fucking liable lmao but i am balls deep 125 shares @ 19 average now, its literally all I have on this earth.
TLDR: GME DD sumarized, Margin wont affect longs the same way as shorts right now. Dont buy shares on margin though and get ready to supply collateral regardless. Short interest is up and some smart retards are on our side. Read the post to raise your IQ from 8 to 9 though. 🐻 🌈s mega fuk and even posting high level bear shit to scare us.
Compulsory 7 rockets so you autists dont start having a seizure or something:
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Basically been seeing posts about "blah blah margin this, short interest this, WS to clever blah". Going to split this post into distinct sections but im no english degree cuck so dont expect any bear bloomberg level shit or something

1. GME is a fucking steal regardless of squeeze. Buy now or be left on a dying planet while we head to alpha fucking centauri.

So basically everyone here knows about Ryan cohen and his horsemen of the apocalypse coming to steal melvins lunch money. This man bought apple stock in 2017. Hes fucking rich. Hes also an eccommerce wizard, taking CHEWY from a measly 100k co-founded company to a $4 Billion company in 2017 at which point he sold it to petsmart or something. Its now valued at $40 Billion, granted anything eccommerce now gets money thrown at it like a stripper in a high flying strip club or some shit idk im a virgin so dont listen to me, so it may well be a bubble. Regardless the thing grows its revenue like bacteria doing binary fission on agar jelly 🚀🚀🚀🚀.
THEY SELL FUCKING PET FOOD. the market for that is like what? $1?. Gaming is going to the moon and is basically recession proof because of how cheap game is compared to other things for how much you get out of it. Any bears saying that Gamestop cant compete with digital or with amazon. Ryan cohen already slapped amazons head in with a no name brand. Hell fucking do it again. About digital everyone here already knows, microsoft deal, Ryan cohen also mentioned the possibility of having "Digital game exchanging" or something, image below.
Online trade ins. It says online.🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
He also mentions streaming, digital content etc and aside from all the digital stuff wants GME to move to a community centric structure where big stores operate with VR centres, Internet cafe, table games like Dungeons and dragons and 40k (rapidly growing somehow will boom post covid) and as we now might know due to this post:
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/kypuyb/gme_dd_buildapc_kiosks_coming/
BUILD YOUR OWN PC KIOSKS. This is the literal smell of money. Go to your Gamestop to build your PC with your kid? Gamestop is already the goto place wher your parents go to get you your latest digital fix so now they can go build PC's and it cant go tits up?
Now for some pussy boomer talk (aka fundametals or something).
The expected Q3 EPS was -0.84$ or something close to that. The actual loss was -0.53$ but boomzoids only talked about the revenue drop. No shit sherlock its closing all its dead weight stores.
In the holiday report I will talk about a bit more below, 11% of stores were closed and revenue dropped only 3%. Comparitive store sales increased nearly 5%. They cant get enough consoles to sell so expect the momentum to carry on for the whole year I expect. Eccommerce is up 300% over holidays. In Q3 they reported 800% to date. In 2020 Gamestops eccomerce went up 24x. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT. Online sales now account for ~33% of Gamestops sales now. This is literally gold dust for ryan cohen.
We are still trading at 0.38 P/S at this price. The average P/S for the SP500 is 2.753. Massive upside on these two numbers alone.
Burry got in this for the MOASS and the intrinsic value. At the time intrinsic value was like $22 and this will pump up as RC takes it to new heights.
GME in Q3 somehow halved the expected loss. Big Bad Boomer sherman somehow didnt fuck it up that bad by saying "omnichannel" at the speed of light. Yes the revenue dropped 30% but thats covid for you. As the PC kiosk post above shows GME now sells small items basically so fast they have to have fake stock lmao. The new console cycle always spikes the share price sky high too, as youll see in a crayon drawing later. The potential revenue that this console cycle brings in could be huge. Biggest ever is potentially a true statement and Gamestop sells every fucker they get. Combine the fact that they share game pass ( a massive hit) revenue from the xboxes they sell, something no other retailer has, revenue could be sky high.
Now I know you autists are starting to develop short term dyslexia or something but keep reading. This could be the most important piece of shit you read in your life. How do you think I feel? My brains overheating just trying to write coherent sentences.
Holdiay report was a bear trap imo, saw people saying the decrease in revenue was bearish blah blah blah. Lies. Comparitve store sales rose 5% and thats with some towns having like 4 gamestops. When the leases dont get renewed and these stores get liquidated (Also in Ryan cohens letter) they can just get this influx of cash and pay down debt and invest in logistics and marketing and new growth. Gamestop realistically needs like 1/2 the stores they have now and just need to improve efficiency.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/349890 this article the messiah himself wrote. In it he states:

At Chewy, we had maniacal discipline when it came to how we spent money. The company-wide culture of frugality came from his example. Free cash flow was our unwavering governor of growth. We grew Chewy from $200 million in sales in 2013 to $3.5 billion in 2018 while spending only $130 million in capital, all of which went into opening distribution centers across the country and acquiring new customers.

Maniacal. Thats all I need to say. The guy is going to get to mars before papa musk and he wont even break a sweat. When FCF starts to catch up to WS expectations every analyst who donwgraded them is gonna get ditched and upgrades will start to happen.
So in the heading i said its a steal. That implies some future higher price target right? Well here is my guess for a conservative price target based on the information above and also some more I probably forgot cos im a retard.

The difference is where share price looks to be and where market cap places us is due to difference in outstanding shares (another reason shorts are fuk)

The difference is where share price looks to be and where market cap places us is due to difference in outstanding shares (another reason shorts are fuk)

This alone means if for not inflation adjusted terms we reached 9.8Bn or whatever the crayon chart says we should reach:
9.8/2.48 = ~3.95 3.95 * $35.5 = ~$140. The share price now to reach old mkt cap is $140 fucking dollars. Thats a 4 bagger from now. It gets better.
from statista :

Considering the annual inflation rate in the United States in recent years, a 2.24 percent inflation rate is a very moderate projection.

If we take 2.24% inflation, the this share price target in todays money means we should reach $182 because of $140 * 1.0224^12, = $182 in adjusted. Thats more than a 5 bagger. basically we could see $10 GME price from short manipulation and buying more is basically a lottery ticket!
I really dont understand the bear thesis. The only bear thesis ( short term this one) was that margin would affect longs more but I looked at it on ortex and its basically bullshit. Buy shares with cash though dont use margin. Own your piece of GME dont borrow it. Bears just spout "DigITaL" or "BlOCKbuSTER" so much Ryan tweeted a shit emoji at them. All the bears think theyre clever. What the fuck makes those cucks special? How are they different now than the ones from $2, or $4, or $10.
Bears are betting against:
Ryan fucking cohen, buisness legend CHEWY from 100k investment, now 40 billion
Michael burry, Investing legend, predicted the housing crisis and is in GME since april
u/DeepFuckingValue , the new WSB god chad, now basically a whale
Reggie Fils-Aimé, gaming and buisness legend, former COO of nintendo
Senvest, a mega fund thats actively managed
Norweigan sovereign wealth fund
Fidelity, Vanguard and blackrock own this shit and are never selling they literally dont give a shit
All of WSB has now formed a shield wall against the bears
Microsoft gave GME highly discounted azure deals and free office use for all employees and a revenue sharing agreement. Bears are stupid if they think MSFT didnt vet GME.

Some valid bear thesis left now (the only ones left) -- Ryan Cohen dies.

2. Now some analysis on the short squeeze and some technical data on puts and calls and ortex data.

Ok everyone on here and their cat, dog, bedbugs and wifes boyfriend knows about the squeeze. Jimmy chill aka cramer even talking about it. Gamestop is literally the most shorted stock of all time and space. The squeeze makes every autist salivate because its basically free money while cucking big money out of like what 1% of their fund.
Although I know all you cucks hate shares, and hate holding, if the squeeze doesnt happen selling is probably the most retarded thing anyone could do. Its literally buy high sell low and you fucking disgust me. STONK ONLY GOES UP.
This squeeze is so monumental that its been sucking sharks in like fresh blood. Most of the funds where shorting this from 30-15 dollars before this year so they didnt really care. It all changed with 2 people. u/DeepFuckingValue and Dr. Michael Burry. These guys are as OG as it gets with GME. I think u/DeepFuckingValue may have even sniffed this trade out before the legend himself. Since then funds will have churned this through their rules and started jumping on this train. Ive been in since $13 with 125 shares. If I had more money Id be buying but im just some stupid student ok. Im merely a medium for this money made information.
The stats for this stock now short wise are, from ortex:
Concrete short interest as of 31 December 2020: 71 Million.
Estimated short interest, January 11th data: (This isnt predicted, this is from data in flow, has margin of error) : 77 Million
Short shares on loan 7 days ago: 50 Million
Short shares on loan now (This breaks the bearish margin calls affect longs more thesis): 54.2 Million
% of known float short: 147% as of 31 December 2020
% of know free float on loaned shorts: 108% as of January 11th.
Some guy on here took into account extra buying on wednesday, Institutions, Burry, RC's extra 7% and WSB ownership (something so stupendously retarded no serious firm will do it) that float on short could be in the 100s of %. Total short float now I would say could be 200-400% if the numbers are correct. This pisses on all other short squeezes. Some countries ban shorting above 100% cos of how autistic it is.
The recent hike in interactive brokers available shares is probably a mix of sell off on friday (remember some guys are now buying lambos with GME money. If they held they could buy 10), calls exercising and puts being covered and brokers ditching the shares. Nakedshort even reported 5 million naked GME shorts on friday. This is bullish as fuck because the best the shorts could do on a red market day was -10%.
Gamestop is still on the SECs threshold list for 27 days now.
This shows naked short selling and downwards pressure hasnt capitulated
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Ok so now if WSB owns an estimated 6-8% of the stock and we all know to move over to cash accounts now to avoid margin calls, we should be minimizing longs getting margin called. Every bear on stockwits is a clueless cuck who spouts "blockbuster" and these guys dont even know what margin even is so my bet is the colossal 54 Million shares short on loan are gonna be affected by the margin calls more. Why? Because every long on margin is in the green, and now a true zealot/extremist/autist for ryan cohen so will supply their account with collateral to avoid margin call. Shorts are in the massive red zone. How do I know you ask?
Ortex data from Jan 4th 2021:
This is the data from ortex for short interest for Gamestop for Jan 4th
So this shows for jan 4th the estimated short interest is 66.98 Million shares. From the exchange reported 71 Million on december 31st this makes a lot of sense because the share price fell from ~21 to ~17 so shorts took profits. The shares on loan arent for longs too. This is all purely short data, and 47M shorted at $17 this shows.
These shorts are in a circle of hell we cant comprehend and makes satan scared.
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Now for the data for this week:

Ortex short data for Jan 14th for Gamestop
SHARES ON LOAN HAVE GONE UP. BUT 87% OF LOANED SHORTS WHERE SHORTING AT SUB $20.
Cost to borrow is also up, estimated short interest is up to a cataclysmic amount.
Longs on margin need to supply collateral, but we are in the massive green zone, shorts are underwater. Margin calls will ravage the shorts and sting the longs. We also have the uptick rule in place until the end of the day, so shorts can only short on the way up. Im not saying itll happen but this shit is skewed in our favour big time. we need to 💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌💎🙌.
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Seen a lot of talk about Gamma hedging and delta.
You realize that the fucking bankers and brokers dont understand gamma hedging right? That shits up their with the black-scholes equation and feynman-kac solution. Forget about it. The retards claiming to understand it are either payed by hedge funds or lose money. The guy who took out outs thinking options exercising and gamma hedging would lead to a collossal sell off on friday lost money on his puts because no one except some quants in a goldman sachs server room know this shit. The idea is simple about neutral delta on options that people take out, but the simple system interacts with every other thing in the stock market, and wow who couldve guessed it, like nearly any other element of the stock market predicting something by the day is nigh impossible. That guy talking about Gamma , Delta and margin calls is on weeklies. Hes no more autistic and equally retarded as all of us. Hes a chill guy though so dont berate a fellow brother.
Now weve established the likelihood of longs getting margin called is far smaller than shorts, on to the options distributions
Two images now: Top one is before the end of the 15th, the other one is after market close:

This shows the suspected melvin puts (51000 contracts, 5 Million shares, rolled up from july, strike price $24) and lots of big ITM calls.
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This shows the big put contract didnt get rolled over and the big ITM calls got exercised on friday. Large puts are underwater big timem while calls are in the big tendy zone.
These two graphs, show before market close and after. As we can see the massiver 51000 put contracts didnt get rolled over and the chances that those were melvins july puts rolled up is very high. They expired worthless. Lots of calls are printing big time while huge amounts of puts are worthless and bleeding money.
Something else we can extrapolate from the charts is that massive options trades are not present on the scale we saw before (tens of thousands).
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We are seeing a discrepancy in the number of puts/calls opening up at the higher prices with calls gaining fast. This could show that some funds are now becoming optimistic on the long or short term prospects of gamestop. There are also more puts than options and if we assume this for shorts vs longs on margin (without even taking into account that all shorts are borrowed shares and pay interest further bleeding cash) then shorts are likely on more margin than longs.
Regardless fellow autists my main point is two show that the bears are underwater and the bulls are flying high with regards to options.
Now lets compare this possible squeeze with others.
Bear in mind this is the most shorted stock of all time, but differences in free float change the share price differently.
Kodak went from $2.16 to $33.2
Volkswagen went from ~200 euro to nearly 1000.
Overstock went from ~$21 to $123
Blue apron went from $2.31 to $18
Ive been seeing some estimated that 1 million shares is roughly a dollars move in share price. This maths is about to be pretty autistic so bear with me degnerates.
$1 now is 2.81% of the share price. Everything in the markets is exponential and based on percentages. So if we assume a full squeeze of ortexs estimated short interest (This assumes no sell off and no new shorts, new shorts can be positive or negative depedning on when in the squeeze they happen) $35.5 * 1.0281^77 = $299. GME to moon. 🌑 .
This shit can happen. Hold on.
GME has squeezed and been manipulated before and it always happens around the console cycles. Shorts never win and they wont win now.

This post right here I found months ago and got me in the squeeze from the honourable and valiant u/Uberkikz aka Rod Alzman
Basically the crayon chart shows green (outstanding shares) orange ( short shares) purple (Market cap) and cyan (Share price). In 2006-2008 the share price rose in tandem with short interest ( Like now ) Until console releases when you can see an abrupt squeeze happend mooning the share price.
This happend to a degree in 2013 with the xbox one but worse conditions for the company and a worse console launch lead to slow short covering but the share price still mooned.
Now we get to the best part. History is repeating itself for the third time and the shares sold short are literally higher than the outstanding shares, which have been decreasing since 2010. Short shares are also at the highest point ever and GME hasnt had a brighter future, well ever. Ps5 and Xbox Series X. are the two most hyped consoles since the Ps2. This is setting up the foundations for massive price movements weve never seen before. This shit has literally never happend, ever. Uncharted waters and we are the captain.
For the insurmountably retarded autists who think that the squeeze has happend look upon this and despair:
https://www.reddit.com/wallstreetbets/comments/kwpf6k/gme_gang_there_hasnt_been_a_short_squeeze_yet/
IHOR IS A MEGA WIZARD
Ihor I quote:

A long-buying tsunami ... is the primary factor for the price move

Ihor Dusaniwsky is managing director of predictive analytics at S3 a firm similar to ortex. He told bloomberg that the squeeze hasnt happend yet and that this was long buying. If someone knows this shit its him. He was talking about the tesla squeeze in january 2020. He has access to resources we can only imagine. Barrons cut his comment that the squeeze hasnt happend yet out it was that fucking bullish. All the media ramming down "Short squeeze has happend" down peoples throats because bears are fucking scared.
The bots on stocktwits spamming bearish sentiment should show how rattled they are.
Edit: You fucking degens just enlightened me that cramer pump is real, funds are ruminating over the long weekend, and stmmy bills pumps stonks and that stimmy bill buys many an xbox. See you at andromeda! Also more rockets.
Edit**: Some autists thought lottery ticket was misleading so instead, gauranteed lottery numbers!**
Edit 3: RYAN FUCKING COHEN TWEETED THE HOMIE JUST TWEETED. PEANUT EMOJI. HES 1) NUTTING 2) SAYING 35 IS PEANUTS 3) GIF SAYS THERES A CHANCE, SHORT SQUEEZE IMMENINT HOMIES
Edit 4: Amazing post here showing that unlucky prize guy was wrong like I said. Ihor also talked about the hypothecation agreement.
Edit 5: This is true and I forgot to add

from u/luncheonmeat79 via /wallstreetbets sent 2 minutes ago
There’s also the chance of a ratings upgrade. Moody’s and S&P have GME at B3 and B-, which is rated “highly speculative”. Ratings are reviewed every quarter, and a review might be due this month (i.e. this coming week or next). Good chance that the agencies might upgrade GME to a B2/B, or even better to the next higher band (Ba/BB).

Edit 6: We are scraping 42 in frankfurt. Granted its low volumes but pre market should open at these prices I think?
Conclusion: Buy shares with cash not margin. Hold shares forever unless RC dies (Shame hes a cybernetic demigod), Melvin bad, Shorts fuk, 🐻 🌈 posting bearish shit are doing weeklies for the second time after they expired red on friday, GME to $200 without squeeze, Ryan cohen a god, GME is still a value play, Good luck have fun.

** Post preface: I own GME, GE, NOK, and AMC. I am a man of the people; I have 14,000 Karma and have been active on this sub for well over 1 year.
** BEGIN BIG DICK DILIGENCE**
This is prime buying szn for Castor Maritime and I would absolutely hate to miss the next goddamn 🚀 to paying off my mounting law school debt. For this reason, I’m going long on 20,000 shares to start. This summer, I’m looking to sink another 40,000 shares in them. 2021 is going to be a big year for maritime shipping.
Why is it a good buy, you might ask? Let me fucking tell you. The maritime shipping industry hemorrhaged during COVID and lost 4.1%. It is on track for at least a 4% gain industry-wide this year. The industry itself is gearing to boom. Freight prices are increasing and importers have signaled their willingness to pay the increased rate. CTRM is going to have unprecedented growth in the next two quarters as a result.
With Biden’s clean energy agenda coming down the pike, reformation of transportation emissions guidelines are to be expected. CTRM operates six dry bulk carriers with one capsize carrier being acquired just last week. The dry bulk carriers are among the lowest carbon-emitting vessels available for maritime transport. CTRM is already positioned well for this environmental leap.
It’s also stupid fucking cheap at $.45 per share. Most analysts with more than feces in their skull will see the $3+ one year target potential organically. If WSB gets behind them, anything is possible. Look at the lucky fuckers who got in at $.19 a few months ago. I bet life sucks from their sheep's wool jump seat window in their Gulfstream G650.
Get in loser, we aren’t going to the Moon or Mars. We are going to the motherfucking Andromeda Galaxy 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Edit: u/floatyfish brought to my attention the fact that their 2005-built dry bulk carrier is called “Magic Moon.” This should be enough DD for most of you. You know what to do.
Edit 2: CTRM now has its own symbol-specific sub

CTRM BIG D(D): Why it's a strong buy and everybody needs to go balls deep rn so let's fucking send eeeeeeeeeet
** Post preface: I own GME, GE, NOK, and AMC. I am a man of the people; I have 14,000 Karma and have been active on this sub for well over 1 year.
** BEGIN BIG DICK DILIGENCE**
This is prime buying szn for Castor Maritime and I would absolutely hate to miss the next goddamn 🚀 to paying off my mounting law school debt. For this reason, I’m going long on 20,000 shares to start. This summer, I’m looking to sink another 40,000 shares in them. 2021 is going to be a big year for maritime shipping.
Why is it a good buy, you might ask? Let me fucking tell you. The maritime shipping industry hemorrhaged during COVID and lost 4.1%. It is on track for at least a 4% gain industry-wide this year. The industry itself is gearing to boom. Freight prices are increasing and importers have signaled their willingness to pay the increased rate. CTRM is going to have unprecedented growth in the next two quarters as a result.
With Biden’s clean energy agenda coming down the pike, reformation of transportation emissions guidelines are to be expected. CTRM operates six dry bulk carriers with one capsize carrier being acquired just last week. The dry bulk carriers are among the lowest carbon-emitting vessels available for maritime transport. CTRM is already positioned well for this environmental leap.
It’s also stupid fucking cheap at $.45 per share. Most analysts with more than feces in their skull will see the $3+ one year target potential organically. If WSB gets behind them, anything is possible. Look at the lucky fuckers who got in at $.19 a few months ago. I bet life sucks from their sheep's wool jump seat window in their Gulfstream G650.
Get in loser, we aren’t going to the Moon or Mars. We are going to the motherfucking Andromeda Galaxy 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Edit: u/floatyfish brought to my attention the fact that their 2005-built dry bulk carrier is called “Magic Moon.” This should be enough DD for most of you. You know what to do.

** Post preface: I own GME, GE, NOK, and AMC. I am a man of the people; I have 14,000 Karma and have been active on this sub for well over 1 year.
** BEGIN BIG DICK DILIGENCE**
This is prime buying szn for Castor Maritime and I would absolutely hate to miss the next goddamn 🚀 to paying off my mounting law school debt. For this reason, I’m going long on 20,000 shares to start. This summer, I’m looking to sink another 40,000 shares in them. 2021 is going to be a big year for maritime shipping.
Why is it a good buy, you might ask? Let me fucking tell you. The maritime shipping industry hemorrhaged during COVID and lost 4.1%. It is on track for at least a 4% gain industry-wide this year. The industry itself is gearing to boom. Freight prices are increasing and importers have signaled their willingness to pay the increased rate. CTRM is going to have unprecedented growth in the next two quarters as a result.
With Biden’s clean energy agenda coming down the pike, reformation of transportation emissions guidelines are to be expected. CTRM operates six dry bulk carriers with one capsize carrier being acquired just last week. The dry bulk carriers are among the lowest carbon-emitting vessels available for maritime transport. CTRM is already positioned well for this environmental leap.
It’s also stupid fucking cheap at $.61 per share. Most analysts with more than feces in their skull will see the $3+ one year target potential organically. If WSB gets behind them, anything is possible. Look at the lucky fuckers who got in at $.19 a few months ago. I bet life sucks from their sheep's wool jump seat window in their Gulfstream G650.
Get in loser, we aren’t going to the Moon or Mars. We are going to the motherfucking Andromeda Galaxy 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
Edit: u/floatyfish brought to my attention the fact that their 2005-built dry bulk carrier is called “Magic Moon.” This should be enough DD for most of you. You know what to do.
Edit 2: Updated price to reflect new $.61 price point. Price was $.41 last week Wednesday when I originally posted this on WSB

I know many consider EA to be the evil empire, etc but as a PC gamer I appreciate that they seem to always release well optimized games. Seeing as Andromeda uses Frostbite 3 I can't help but feel it will launch with similar performance/requirements to BF1. Any thoughts? I haven't even seen any PC specific gameplay videos where they give the specs of the machine running it. I really want to preorder the game since Origin had a phenomenal return policy but at the same time I'm hesitant as 2016 as a whole was a rough year for PC ports.

So, I am one of the ones that bought in at 320. And I am holding.
I am seeing a lot of posts here where people are dumping their life savings into GME. Some of them can probably afford it (looking at you, millionaires), but there are some here who are really struggling financially and are hyped about this GME trend.
Me? I have never once bought a single share of anything until last week when i spent $1000 on 3.17 shares of GME. My current "investment" is now at $284.40. And I dont care.
I am not an investor.
I am a gambler.
Now, this is for those people that dont make a lot of money and dont have a lot of disposable income, but want in on the GME rocket to Andromeda.
One of my favorite games is blackjack. Its slow, its relaxing, you can sit at the table and just kind of shoot the shit and throw a few bucks down on each hand.
Say you go to a casino tomorrow and all you have in your pocket is 300 dollars. You took out a bit more than you can afford, but you dont plan on spending it all. You're Jon Favreau from Swingers.
You sit at the blakjack table and everyone is telling you how hot the dealer has been. They tell you that you should bet big because you will definitely win.
Dealer throws down the cards, and you get 11.
DOUBLE DOWN! everyone says. But, you put half your whole wad on this hand and doubling down would clean you out. You know you only get one card, but everyone (including the dealer) is telling you to DOUBLE DOWN! There are still a TON of face cards left! You cant lose! You ALWAYS double down on 11 and split your aces. ALWAYS!
You do it. You get your card. Its a 5.
Dealer hits and gets 19. You lose.
Whose fault is it? Its not the dealer's fault. Its not the fault of the other people. Hell, it isn't even the fault of the dude before you who hit on 14 even though the dealer was showing a 6, taking your face card.
Its your fault.
This is gambling.
Ultimately, you are making a bet. This bet may pan out. There are a lot of stats that show it might. There are some that show it wont. Experts are saying you'll make a ton. Experts are saying you'll lose it all.
At the end of the day, you are a gambler, not an investor. Treat this like a blackjack table. Are you comfortable doubling down with all the money in your pocket? If that money were gone tomorrow, what would happen?
There is a reason I spent 1K on the stock. That is because I love to gamble, and when I hit a casino 1K is my limit.
With COVID, I cant go to a casino any more. But I can do this. And I took my limit, Doubled down on 11, and I am anxiously waiting for the dealer to lay my card down.
Problem is, the dude before me took my face card. That's OK though...makes it more exciting.
This is not financial advice.
I just love the stock.
And blackjack.

There are so many imposters among us, and if you're new, it might not be as obvious. This is one more post to remind you to remain skeptical and analyze the posts you're reading and do your own DD. I'm not a super OG here, but I've been around for over a year and it's insane how obvious the trickery is, how many super manipulative posts and comments I'm seeing that oppose this sub's mantra right now. SO MUCH sudden gain porn amount gme sellers, posts trash talking holders, saying holding is a bad strategy when you're down, and posts trying to justify selling right now in any way possible. They are designed to sound logical, or even be filled with a few logical points, with the part about how you should sell carefully transplanted in. BULLSHIT obviously. Listen, retard, you don't typically buy SHARES to try to make a fat short term gain, you trade options, so anyone convincing you that it's a normal, good idea to buy and sell shares on highs and lows in a small time frame is a dumbass. If you buy shares, you typically hold for longer than a fucking week and go for a ride for some real growth; or you learn your hypothesis was wrong or was changed by an event and you pivot. This is normal. Yes, there is a potential squeeze, which is more reason to keep your fucking pants on. Yes, the hypothesis has remained 100% unchanged, though certain news sources will try to have you believe otherwise. Missing a high isn't the end of the world, be patient and it will inevitably surpass that price in some amount of time if the company isn't doomed (it's not) and the economy isn't tanking (it's not). In this case, probably pretty god damn soon. At least if you don't listen to me listen to fucking Cuban, his words were a blessing for this sub, powerful messages to keep us united through this shit storm coming from someone that has a lifetime of experience. Remember why you bought GME, has it changed? Then continue pursuing the value play you started until it does. If you bet more than you can afford to say goodbye to for months/years, you probably fell prey to fomo and are an amateur. That's not ideal, so don't ruin your life over this shit, be realistic. If you can afford to, it's common fucking sense to hold right now. Hey, now you get to learn to weather a storm like any seasoned trader so SIT DOWN, BUCKLE UP, AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
This is not financial advice I literally just got done snorting glue.
GME to Andromeda and past 💎✋🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

It seems like every year since the game came out there is hot debate about whether the game is 'really that bad' and if it 'deserves another shot with fresh eyes' and I'm going to say: It's pretty damn bad and it isn't really worth the time it asks of you.
First and foremost my full disclosure that I'm a huge Trilogy and extended universe fan. The first 3 mass effect games were not perfect but on balance as collection I can't think of a more impactful trilogy of games or a more well crafted sci-fi universe.
When Andromeda was announced I had mixed feelings. Sure I wanted a new Mass Effect game because I loved the franchise, but I did question if I needed a new Mass Effect game. Was I really ready to re-invest my attention, love and time into a new cast of character who almost certainly wouldn't be as memorable as the first?
I decided to just accept that I'd play it sooner or later so I wanted to give it a chance, I wanted to try and build cautious excitement for it. I should probably also say I completely ignored the development 'backlash' re-the facial animations and the Ess-Jay-Dubyoo reactionary shit. I never let these things colour my opinion of a game. Not FF7 Remake, not TLOU2 and certainly not a Mass Effect game.
So when I finally got the game I really wanted to give it a fair shake, despite there being things right off the bat I didn't like.
I really didn't like the opening, it felt cold, disconnected and frankly kind of rushed. I found it hard to get invested in the Ryders because they frankly just lack the subtle charm of Shepard. I also was not crazy about the 'Important Father' plot device that annoyed me in Fallout 3. But I stuck with it.
Then, finally after about 25ish hours into the game I gave up. I was bored and I saw no reason to keep playing. Andromeda was the first game I ever returned after getting halfway through it. I left it feeling angry both that I wasn't able to see the game through and that I wasted time trying to like it in the first place.
It wasn't the worst game I ever played, but it was a pointless, messy slog that missed the mark on basically everything that made the Trilogy special.
The Story
Now I think I should mentioned that I didn't find the story of the original Trilogy to be anything groundbreaking. It was a fairly standard 'ancient evil' action-adventure. But what made it stand out was the world building, and the story-telling. Andromeda lazily tries to re-hash the entire story of the Trilogy into one game and sacrifices any sincere attempt at world building which leaves the conflict feeling weightless.
When i played the Original Universe I felt I was part of a living breathing universe that was turning and developing independent of me. Andromeda had me colonizing empty, boring, barren planets in a universe devoid of any life or personality while I fought the most insultingly one-note B-movie race of 'baddie aliens' the Kett.
There is no getting around it, the Kett suck. They have no proper introduction so for a lot of the game you're wondering why the hell you are shooting at them other than the fact they are shooting at you. This is where I start disregarding arguments that it's a good game but just 'not a good mass effect game'. No. The Kett are just bad sci-fi villians, they belong in an a retro arcade shoot em up like Galaga, not in a Triple A franchise of any genre. But because they ARE apart of Mass Effect you are left wondering how they went from Saren to that.
The Characters
I honestly don't hate the all of the cast of Andromeda that much. I really don't like Ryder, but then shepard casts a large shadow. Liam or Cora bored me but then so did Kaiden, Ashley, Jacob and Miranda.
Peebee was tolerable but kind of annoying and a clear pandering to the 'bet you can't wait to romance her!' crowd. Drak was okay, but I couldn't shake the feeling that if he was in the original Trilogy he'd be a quest giver character with maybe 20 mins of dialogue, and for that he just feels like a stretched out extra.
Vetra was my favourite. Garrus and the Turian race in general set high expectations with their unique writing and development and I think Verta did the race proud. She was funny, relatable and probably the only one who I looked forward to talking to, or was interested in what she thought.
Jaal sucked. I hated Jaal. Similar to the Kett he feels like watered down versions of what was interesting in the OT specifically Javik and Thane. Jaal is nowhere near as interesting or unique as either of them, precisely because he is so shamelessly modelled after them in personality and character. Apart from the annoying passive-aggressive Scottish religious woman I can't for the life of me remember any other character, so they must not have stood out.
The Gameplay
Let's talk about the combat! This is the 'saving grace' of the game isn't it? It's so expansive and customizable, and it gets back to the more RPG roots of ME1, right?
Well, no. The combat is indeed more developed and there is far more freedom between class powers but this doesn't nessecarily make the game more fun when you look at the context it grants you these freedoms. Yes you have more powers to play around with, but when you spend you time fighting waves and waves of cookie cutter Kett mooks and the occasional bullet sponge charging beast the combat loses its tension.
Mass Effect OT had fairly simple combat in terms of functions but there was thought out map design for each encounter. When I was pinned down by enemy fire and being actively flanked by foes who could do some real damage up close I was having fun, I had to think on my feet, I had to think about which team mate could assist and from which angle. I had less freedom but more engagement.
In Andromeda if any enemy is giving me trouble I can leap out of danger or abuse some poorly designed structure or landscape to cheese combat encounters. No tension or excitement just different way to throw colorful effects at repetitive enemies.
This also becomes more glaring when you realise just how much damn combat you go through. Because of the nature of the planets and the awful 'go there, kill that' quests you burn yourself out on the encounters and fighting just becomes a slog. Combat encounters in mass effect should never feel like 'gameplay filler' they are supposed to immerse you in the dangerous world. Andromeda just plays like a subpar looter shooter. Nothing has any meaning.
Being a vast open universe isn't enough if there isn't places I want to explore. I spent time reading about planets in the original 3 games because the universe was bursting with character, it made the lore something to give a shit about. Andromeda just has worlds the look like standard video game levels.
Again I want it to be known I don't think Andromeda is the worst game ever made, I just think it fails to do what it's trying to do. There might have been an acceptable sci-fi romp game in there somewhere but the execution was terrible.

For the majority of us, the money we won or lost wasnt going to be life changing (edit: unless you bet a mortgage, then that is the way 🚀🚀🚀). Otherwise, the average person on here probably wouldve just paid off rent for a year or two? Or two nice vacations from the potential earnings had they sold @ 450$. I quite frankly dont give a fuck about the 5 digit missed profits or unrealized losses, I can make it back in half a year tops if Im lazy. Technically, I didnt lose anything yet as I plan to hold my shares @ average of 40 to the grave or give them to my great great children but you get my point.
It wasnt my first degenerate gamble and the logic and maths were there. It was a once-in-a-lifetime play. What grinds my gears though was when momentum was totally cut off last week and shit started crashing when no one could buy. We were on track to soar but we didn't count on brokers taking a piss. It blows.
I'm OK losing money I was willing to gamble. I have no problem sinking with the ship at this point, but not in an unfair game. Imagine sitting at a blackjack table and the dealer busts just for him to take a card off and say 'Oh yeah, I changed the rules. I unbusted! Hooha!!' What I'm upset about is that they had to bend the rules to beat us. We were on track to hit 1000$ per share had RH and other fuck faces not halted all ability to buy GME. What ever happened to a free market and land of the free?
My second disappointment isnt with the system, its in myself. Many moons ago, I used to work 9$ an hour scanning pineapples and bananas as a kid. Soon after college I worked a construction job for 15$ an hour till I found a more stable job with my college degree. I bought my shares @ 40$, I couldve sold each for 200,300, or even 400 easy. What happened? I got greedy. Lets be honest with ourselves, most of us did the same shit. Everytime I hit the refresh button I was printing 2K and imagined ruling the world from a yacht in the Hvar with my GME shares. I was too fucking high off benjamin franklins to sell each share for 5-10X what I bought them for that I phoned my broker and set each share at 10,000$. The kid that used to buy freezies from the 7/11 for 0,50$ and dove a 500$ rust bucket to and fro college was setting each share for 10,000$ a share cause his head was too far up his arse, somewhere on the outskirts of Andromeda.
TLDR: The squeeze hasnt squoze, holding till alpha centauri 🚀🚀🚀🚀 but let's take some time to do some gay reflection

This is not a post about whether GME is going to 0 or Pluto. This post is strictly about what one should or shouldn’t do if one wants to buy/sell GME.

Figure out how much you are willing to trade. Treat the money you are willing to trade as lost money. This way you know your max loss and if you are willing to accept that loss, then you can diamond hand any red day.

Don’t trade on margin. One of my best friends bought AMD at $2 and still lost it all because he went on margin and was forced to liquidate. Brokerages can and will manually liquidate your positions to cover their asses. Bottom line, don’t do it.

Have an exit strategy. Let’s be honest here, the distance to the moon, Pluto, and Andromeda are finite, same goes for GME. You don’t have to admit it to anyone on WSB, but you should always have a number that when reached, you are willing to exit.

Don’t get greedy. The saying that pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered is very true. Ask any 🐻 who held on past 4/1/2020 to show you their account and you will see. Again, you don’t have to admit it here, but know it in your heart.

Be fluid. Market condition changes, that goes both ways. Assuming you are following the above rules, there may be days where you will buy the dip. To the contrary, there may be days when you profit take.

Don’t be a sheep. Let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment. Not all hedge funds are betting against GME. There are hedge funds betting on GME. Moreover, there are people who are trying to profit from directional movement in either direction and are spreading lies on WSB to enrich themselves. Don’t be a sheep and blindly follow others.

Be on the look out for the next 10 bagger. I assume that almost no one here wants GME to be their last trade. I’m not saying you should sell your positions, what I’m saying is always be on the lookout for the next big thing while you hold on to your position. It would be the same thing as you getting into GME when it was $5.

Don’t let GME break you. Trading takes a toll no matter if you are up or down. Don’t let one trade crush you. Remember, you are trading to get rich so you can better yourself, not trading to become a slave.

*I have never purchased or sold short, nor do I intend to purchase or sell short any GME equities or derivatives. Having said that, I wish my WSB brothers best of luck.

I've been kicking this around in my head since the whole Liara teaser and I want to preface this by saying I don't think it's what they'll go with, but it could be a fun way to honor a choice from ME3 and fix a plot hole in ME3 and by extension ME3:EC.
Spoilers Obviously
So Starchild tells Shep that Destroy will destroy the reapers but also all "synthetics." Even Shepard is "partially synthetic" so it could kill them too. Additionally lots of "technology" will be affected but it can be repaired by those that remain.
Of course the bits of this ending that stop it from being devoid of consequences are that this would thus kill Edi and the Geth for sure, and maybe Shep.
So if ME4/Andromeda 2 really does canonize Destroy, you'd expect the geth would be gone, same with Edi.
Of course the obvious loophole is everyone can just reboot the Geth and Edi since we know their conciousnesses are probably backed up like any program. In fact, I'd bet top dollar that is the route they choose.
However, I think another possibility is Destroy was actually semi-selective.
For example, Shepard survived Destroy, but the synthetic parts of their body being destroyed should have made that impossible. I mean their spine, heart, lungs, and even their brain had some form of synthetic component. Unless the excuse was that Shepard had some kind of failsafe to resuscitate him and restore his augments in the event they turned off, it would imply that his "synthetics" were partially spared.
Maybe Shepard had partially melded with his synthetic components, which is a possible subplot in ME2 if you pay attention to the implication of the scarring. Paragons have less scars and appear human, while Renegade Sheps scar over and their eyes grow red. Become colder and you become robotic looking, as ig their bodies reject the implants.
Regardless, by ME3, Shepard has healed and thus fused with their implants.
HERE'S THE JUICY BIT.
If in theory this could have worked to spare Shepard, maybe it goes both ways. Edi's whole story in ME3 was learning to be human and thus a kind of alive. Same with the Geth. They learned to be organic and once upgraded they also became a kind of alive.
The Reapers and the Starchild were completely AI and clearly distinguished themselves from organics as such. It's kind of like binary. They could only recognize binaries and thus Synthesis would be the only real out for their logic.
Either things are organic (0) or synthetic (1). They can't grasp blurred lines. They say Shapard is "partially synthetic," when in reality the line between synthetic and organic was blurred for Shepard. A 1 can't also be a 0 to them. A synthesized entity is like a 2. It's something else entirely. Even something that's gone past AI, to full blown intelligence for example could be a grey area.
Now, maybe this is why the Geth and Edi could survive. Though their bodies are mostly, if not all technology, their actual beings were taking on organic traits. Edi was an unshackled AI and post-upgrade Geth attain a sort of individualism. They also blur the line.
So this could honor your choices in ME3, explain why the Geth being in the final battle doesn't cause the reapers to understand their logic is flawed, and allow the destroy ending to canonize without killing off a whole race unnecessarily.
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Again, I don't believe this is the case. I just think it's a plausible loophole to retcon the Destroy ending so ME4 can write around it in a way that's not as anti-climactic as "we plugged them back in."

So with everything involving GME, AMC, NOK, BB, etc., and the continued press about a market crash, I started thinking, "What would hedge fund managers do in order to regain their position?" and I came up with a thought that I'd like to share.
Mind you I'm a novice, I've been learning about investing, stocks, and everything else over the past year so if someone is able to shed some light on or discuss why or why not this scenario would play out, please educate me.
So we know the story, GME moons, hedgies are eating shit because of their short positions and everyone here with diamond hands won't sell until those rockets are in the Andromeda galaxy. We start hearing from the media that Melvin already covered their position, but simultaneously that GME's situation will cause a market crash. Well, how could that happen if they've covered their position? Unless more shorts are put on the stock and the squeeze happens as planned. So my question is if you were a hedge fund why would you not continue pushing the market crash narrative, not to scare us into selling, after all we're all retards riding this ship to the moon, but for the boomers to take their money out to save themselves from the impending crash. Couldn't a hedge fund with the resources available begin closing positions in the market to cover for GME losses causing prices to fall market wide. Use the media to plant the story of a market crash to instill fear. Bet on the market falling as boomers take money out causing prices to dive lower. Then in the aftermath, when prices are down, go back into positions around the market when everything is dirt cheap. The media will vilify us as the catalyst for the crash and nothing will change on Wall Street.
Granted they'll lose money on GME when the squeeze does happen but why would this scenario not be advantageous for them to do? Also with that in mind as an investor, understanding the sway these people have over the market, wouldn't the smart move be to close positions and ride the crash to the bottom and scoop up those shares at value prices?
Again, I'm learning here but I know these fools on Wall Street don't give a shit. They will gladly crash the market while betting against it to prove a point that they're better than us in the long term and not give two fucks about any casualties of the crash. Maybe I'm a moron though and this is totally incomprehensible. If so, can someone discuss why or why not along with discussing what the long game would be.
Also for full disclosure, I am holding both GME and AMC until I can take a shit on Mars.

So in the ending of S3E26 "Nevermore", all of the Team are hanging out at Bibbo's diner, and we get a brief glimpse of the waitress there, who sports an unusual piece of jewelry: a Legion of Super-Heroes flight ring. Now, the Legion of Super-Heroes is known for its incredibly large cast of characters, so it's not 100% clear who the waitress is, but given her physical appearance, we can make some educated guesses.
She appears to be a blonde, Caucasian woman, and from that information alone, we can deduce that the most likely candidate to be this character is Saturn Girl. Imra Ardeen comes from Saturn's moon, Titan, and possesses psychic powers like the rest of her race. In most depictions of the Legion, she's one of the team's three founders, alongside Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, and would be an obvious choice as she's one of the more familiar Legionnaires to people with only passing knowledge of the team.
If it's not Saturn Girl, then the next most likely candidate would be Princess Projectra, or "Jeckie" as she's known familiarly. Projectra Wind'zorr comes from the planet Orando, and has the ability to generate illusions. She's often been a member of the Legion's Espionage Squad due to her powers, which would enable her to disguise herself, as she usually has platinum blonde hair (except when she was a snake). Projectra also had blonde hair when she was in disguise as Sensor Girl, but that was a wig attached to her mask. Nevertheless, Jeckie is the #2 most likely candidate for the waitress's identity.
The third and final Legionnaire I'd like to spotlight is Yera Allon, alias Chameleon Girl. As the name implies, she's a Durlan with natural shapeshifting abilities, which would allow her to disguise herself in the present day. However, she's fairly obscure compared to Imra and Jeckie, and would likely be redundant if they included Chameleon Boy in the future Legion, so for those reasons I consider her less likely.
Other possible candidates that would be massive longshots are Dream Girl and Andromeda, but knowing this show's tendency to pull out obscure characters, it wouldn't surprise me if the waitress was any one of the characters I mentioned. For my money, though, I'd bet on Saturn Girl.

I’ve heard that copying someone you admire is the sincerest form of flattery so I hope u/chromophlomo doesn’t mind me copying her review format and posting some thoughts/impressions about Cherry notes in a bunch of fragrances.
I love anything with a fruity cherry note. We aren’t talking delicate cherry blossom and sakura here; we are talking sweet, juicy, ripe cherries. The ones that stain your fingers and threaten a broken tooth with their pits hidden in that delicious, yielding flesh. Whew, is it getting hot in here? No. Just me? Ok, well, let’s get down to it.

These are not all the cherry options out there in the Indie universe, just the ones I’ve sampled.
I'm sharing my impressions and rating them on a 1-10 scale. I also included if I decided to FS or destash them.
There are a lot of houses that handle cherry with some nuance and some love so these are presented alphabetically by Maker (because that’s how my notes are organized for my collection).

1) Astrid – There are so many in my collection, I will keep most of these brief:

Pink Cake – Cherry vanilla cake, makes me want to eat my wrist. 8/10 This is the Astrid cherry note that made me hunt down any cherry note of hers to try. Kept the sample because I knew I was on to something with her cherry notes.
Red Candy – Very sweet but to be expected. I destashed this sample as it was not for me 5/10
Corktown Candy Shoppe – Can’t pick out the cherry over the lemon notes here. Lovely, sweet scent for a younger person who wants to smell like candy all day. 7/10 Gave this to my 21 yo daughter who loves it.
Bee Bait v2 – Not cherry forward, more like a Dole fruit bar with lemon and jasmine. I can see where the name came from. 5/10 It’s verrrry sweet, I moved this sample to my destash list.
Candle Glow – I love the wax accord here, cherry plays second fiddle to the other fruit notes. 6/10 as a cherry scent. I have this in FS and am keeping it. 10/10 as scents go in general.
Merci 9 – Honestly, my nose can’t tell this apart from Pink Cake. Which is kind of a good thing since my sample of Pink Cake was almost gone. 8/10 I’m keeping this FS to try layer it with other Astrid scents.
Merci 21 - I scoured swaps and sales for this one and finally got a bottle, FS blind buy. Maraschino cherry and marshmallow. Really fun and well balanced. Two notes that don’t outshine each other. 10/10 I call this one my playful cherry. I bet it would layer well with Pink Cake.
Cherry Musk – My latest Astrid Cherry experience. This is a grown-up cherry that is deep and dark. It’s both fruity and floral with musk that is complex. I got this as a freebie on Black Friday. I want to see if this one changes at all with rest. Right now it smells good, I am hoping for great. 8/10

Alkemia - Arcanum 21 (2020) (Black cherry) This one is cherry with an incense note and not a lot more. It's pretty but it doesn't have much throw on me or longevity. 5/10 I can see why this was only an arcanum and not a general catalog offering. Should add to my destash list.
Andromeda's Curse - Wild Child (Cherry cola). Too much fizzy cola and not enough cherry for me in this on. I find Andromeda's Curse a fun and easy house to buy from. Great tat and price points. 6/10 More for Fizzy soda lovers, destashed.
Area of Effect - Sable (Maraschino cherry) This is a very artificial, maraschino cherry, bright and sweet. I don't get much longevity with AOE but I do like their scents and price point. 7/10 so affordable to FS, I did.
Forelsket - Snotra - (Fruity Cherry & sandalwood) This is a creamy, dreamy cherry scent that I reach for often. Not so much because of the cherry, it's absolutely one of the nicest sandalwood notes I have ever worn. This house is a hidden gem. 9/10 I did FS.
Hexennacht - Hans van Trapp (Spiced & fruity) Reminds me of baking with dried cherries. Not that it smells like baked goods but that the cherry is concentrated and it has supporting spices with it that I associate with baking. 8/10. Keeping my sample because I appreciate this scent, even though it's not the cherry I was hoping for.
NAVA - Cherry Santalum - (Cherry and sandalwood) For a while, this is my cherry note. It's wonderful when first applied. NAVA's whole Santalum line has the same base profile and I wish it allowed more of the cherry through on this one, because, it's a very realistic cherry note. 7/10 I did FS this and this was my go-to cherry scent for the longest time.
Stereoplasm - Star Trader (Zesty cherry) - This one has a lemony zing to it that cancels out the cherry until later in the wearing. I don't get much longevity from this house. 6/10 I haven't tried this scent again since they went to a higher concentration. I should put that on my to-do list.
Traveling Vardo - Screaming Mimi - (Cherry and chocolate lollies) Artificial and overly sweet. It's like getting a Tootise Pop stuck in your teeth. 4/10, destashed.

So that's what I've got (so far) I'd love to hear about more cherry notes from all of you!!!

I've made five posts (1, 2, 3, 4 5 ) presenting some rarely seen or discussed quotes from GRRM on ASOIAF. Now it's time for the 6th part.

Q&A in Portugal (Apr. 2012)

The greatest discovery since last post is GRRM's Q&As during his visit to Portugal in April 2012. In NaB GRRM remarked "I did a hundred interviews". But not even one can be found in the English world. So I asked a Brazilian fan altovaliriano to check if any records in the Portuguese online communities still survive after all these years. We found 8 reports, and there is some quite interesting info indeed!
George first had a half-hour press conference with several journalists and bloggers ( partial video, report 1, report 2 ) then watched S2E1 with the audience and then a Q&A of 40 min.( video )
The biggest info is when asked if he knew the fate of all the characters from the beginning, GRRM said:

not necessarily. i mean i knew the major shape of the major characters. i didn't necessarily know all of the minor characters. and of course there are lots and lots and lots of minor characters. if you look, if you can find a first edition, or an old edition from the 1990s of game of thrones, and you look at the original appendix in the back of the book, you'll see many character names. some of them still haven't appeared, but i had plans for all of those characters. i mean, i created them and put them in there, because eventually i would have some roles for them. so if they're not in the game of thrones appendix, i probably hadn't thought of them at that point, and they were people who showed up later. and because the appendix gets longer and longer just as the books do, i mean, by the time of dance with dragons, the appendix is practically a novel by itself here, and concludes many things. i didn't know in the beginning that dany would necessarily be meeting all these particular people in the city of Meereen for example. i just knew in broad senses that she would be eventually going to slaver's bay and acquiring some unsullied soldiers. you'll see that the unsullied are in there, they're in...you see the unsullied in Magister Illyrio's manse. so i already had the unsullied in mind. but i didn't have all the things developed. so it's a kind of an organic process that goes on

which confirms (1) Dorne and Highgarden were planned to be on stage since 1996, since their captains of guards and maesters are listed in AGOT. (fan fact: when Captain of the Guard was first read at a con in 2002, people wasn't sure how to spell the new characters' names, then Elio pointed out they are already there in AGOT ) (2) Dany was to go to west not east since 1996.
George asked us to check the first edition is also quite interesting. Thanks to Daendrew who kindly photographed his book for me, I checked it. The only difference between editions of AGOT appendix is Viserys II changing from a son into a brother(as you'll see below). So it seems George confused two things.
Off-topic: some unappeared new characters are also listed in AFFC appendix: Lame Lothar Frey's newborn daughter, the Manderly family, Khals Moro and Jommo. Apparently GRRM wrote them quite early, bearing in mind that Davos would appear and Dany would conquer Dothraki in this book.
Another quite interesting moment is one asked why silver died in S2E1 cause she is her favorite character, to which GRRM said

the horse was your favorite character? i really don't know what to say if the horse was your favorite character. i'm glad you like the horse, but i thought i created a few characters who were even more engaging than the horse. you know that surprised me too when i saw it, uh because silver is definitely not dead in the books. in fact uh i've was just writing a scene, the battle of Meereen which opens the winds of winter where Ser Barristan, uh dany is is gone from the city, so Ser Barristan rides to Silver into battle to kind of uh conjure her up, so the horse is still around in in book six in the thing and is only dead in the in the tv show. i guess they just wanted to show the crossing the uh cold, the red waste and how dangerous it is. on the other hand although they killed the horse they kept the handmaid alive, you may recall that in the book one of dany's handmaids dies of thirst and sickness and dehydration while crossing the red waste, and that handmaid who was seen in the background is still alive but you you'd rather have the horse. okay ah you're one of those people. huh you got to be very careful about killing animals, uh when we killed lady in in the first season, you know we got hundreds of letters of protest and and angry things about people i'll never watch your show again. nobody cared that we also killed micah the butcher's boy. uh the the dog got a lot more uh a lot more impassioned defenses than uh than the poor kid. so i don't know what that tells us about people. i can tell you a funny story about the horse though if you want a funny story about the horse...(then he told in length of the two horse jokes happened during shooting the pilot, which I guess many folks on this sub are familiar by now) So maybe that's why they killed the silver horse, for all the trouble that horse caused, wouldn't jump the fire, and you know, getting turned on during the sex scenes, is terrible.

I'd list other interesting tidbits bellow, but the full Q&A video is also quite worth watching too!
Q: As for the second season of Game of Thrones, I couldn't help but notice some characters relevant to the story missing from the cast, like Thoros or Jojen and Meera Reed. Will these characters eventually appear in season three?
GRRM: you know David Benioff and Dan Weiss, the showrunners are really the best proper people to answer this question. i don't know. my understanding is that the Reeds will eventually come in probably during the third season. Thoros has already been referred to in dialogue, so he certainly exists in the world, he may come in in the third season as well, but I can't speak to that quite as authoritative way. you know certain characters do have to be eliminated. we already have the largest cast of continuing characters on television. and if you know the books the number of characters just gets larger and larger with every with every book as the characters spread out across the world, and each of them encounters new civilizations and their cities and and new peoples. so that's the challenge for for Benioff and Weiss and for HBO as to how to how to keep that under control, because obviously it's harder to do, you know, in writing a book I can have as many characters as I want doing a television show each of those characters were quite as an actor each of those actor wants to be paid it can add up pretty quickly even if they're relatively minor parts, so that's what David and Dan have to deal with. and I'm grateful it is their problem and not my problem.
Q: The literary series will have seven books. However, the television adaptation is likely to need more than seven seasons. What are your expectations for the future of the series? Will a full adaptation be made?
GRRM: I hope the series reaches the end of the story, of course. How many seasons will it take? I don't know. I know that the third season has just been confirmed, and it won't fully cover the events of the third book, but only half. So the fourth season - if there is a fourth season - will probably cover the second half of the third book. And then we come to the fourth and fifth book, which are a problem because they run at the same time, but with different characters. These two books will have to be recombined, and contain material for at least two seasons - probably for three or even four. In other words, things are starting to get complicated. At some point, David and Dan will have to start to simplify, because the story grows more and more, with more and more complexity, armies, battles, characters in different parts of the world, but we will cross each one of these bridges when we get there. I suspect that to tell the whole story the series will need ten seasons, or even more - maybe eleven or twelve. We'll see. Will we have those seasons? It depends on the audience. If we continue to win awards, get great reviews and have good audiences... DVD and Blu-Ray sales have broken all HBO records; foreign sales have also broken records - never before has an HBO series been sold to so many foreign markets. If all this continues, HBO will continue to bet on the series. If at some point the results fall, if production of the series becomes too expensive, or if audiences decrease dramatically, then HBO may give up. Of course, I hope that doesn't happen; that's out of my control anyway, and it can't be a concern for me. I am the author of the books, and in the books I will finish the story. HBO will decide the future of the TV series, and I won't be able to influence that.
Q: Still about the future of the series, could younger actors be a problem? Actors grow up, and it might be strange to see characters like Bran or Arya too grown up.
GRRM: It will undoubtedly be different. The series started with all the characters older than they were in the books, and they are growing even faster. Arya grew about three years in five books, but Maisie Williams grew three years during the adaptation of the first book. It's hard. Maisie and Sophie [Turner] are going to become young women - in fact, they are already becoming young women. Once again, we'll think about that when we get there. I don't think that will affect the series too much. Except for Hodor, who may have to stop carrying Bran on his back, because soon Bran will be as big as Hodor. I think Kristian Nairn is already starting to accuse the effort of carrying Isaac Wright - I think the filming is done faster!
Q: whether Howland Reed, one of the most enigmatic characters in A Song of Ice and Fire, will eventually appear actively in the narrative, or whether he will remain absent and shrouded in mystery
GRRM: eventually Howland Reed will appear.
Q: if you have to live in one of the cities in the westeros which one do you choose and why
GRRM: if i had to live in one of the cities of westeros, uh i suppose i would choose oldtown which you haven't seen much of, but it's got the citadel there which has a really good library. and you know i would probably be a maester or something like that and and going in there and reading the library and teaching teaching ravens how to study, uh how to carry messages and that sort of thing. i think that sort of life suits me a lot better than wielding a sword. i would not last very long as a swordsman i fear.

Stark Family Tree. Apr. 2008

George sent Elio a letter saying:

I have been doing lots of work with that geneology program that Ty found for me, which I believe he also pointed you guys to, so you should have a copy as well. Of course the more work I do, the more work there is to do… birth dates, death dates, marriage dates, etc. It gets addictive after awhile, and I find myself inventing all sorts of new characters who are never referenced in the books--siblings who died as small children, forgotten first wives, brothers and sisters who married off outside the main tree and produced cadet branches, some of which died out or got reabsorbed into the main line by a later marriage (most common with the Targaryens) or continued as a separate family. Of course there's no end to this. You can play the "and who was HIS father?” game until the end of time.
The family trees are nowhere near complete — crossreferencing between my story notes on one computer and the geneology program on another is a cumbersome task -- but are still considerably more detailed than anything that you’ve seen so far, so I'm thinking I'd like to send a few of them to you and Linda to have you check over for mistakes, contradictions, etc. Don't want any more glitches like the one with Baelor Breakspear that required me to change a son into a brother. (Ed. note: in Nov. 1999 Elio noted a conflict between THK and AGOT, so GRRM changed Viserys II from a son into a brother)

It would be interesting to figure out who are those "siblings who died as small children, forgotten first wives, brothers and sisters who married off outside the main tree and produced cadet branches, some of which died out or got reabsorbed into the main line by a later marriage" never referenced in the books

So hello everyone!
Yesterday I have finally completed my adventure with Andromeda, had a bit of a fun to be honest. But what really caught my attention are the Kett biology and reproduction.
So from the game we have learned that they do not possess the reproductive organs and their only way to create new Kett are through "exaltion". That does creates a thought, that in a long run Kett empire will fall. What if they won't find a new species to exalt? They will just die out? We know that Archon has maintained control of the cluster for almost seventy-five years, yet they're really interested in the long life of Asari and Krogans. So I guess they're natural lifespan must be somewhere like with humans and Turians. Just imagine if whole Kett empire would just die out in 200 years.
These thoughts lead us to some thoughts about the origin of the Kett. How a race that could not reproduce has come so far technologically? It is not possible that in the supposed 150 years of their lifetime, they will find out how to travel through space. We know from the codex that thanks to their exaltation, the Kett brought order and united their "home" planet. But what if it wasn't exactly their planet?
We know that Kett reproduce from a serum to rapidly convert other species into Kett. So that leads to my main point of this post.
Kett are not a species on their own, the Kett are a virus, parasite that takes over the body. Their "home" planet, Sarhesen, what if they hasn't developed there as a species but instead infected it. The virus could have come to them on a meteorite and infect nearby animals. From Archon's and the other Kett's statements, we know that they have changed countless races, but seeing that they also infect the fauna of the Heleus cluster, we know it is possible.
As it wasn't as fast as with the Serum, it could have take a few years before the Kett virus could advance, to the point of infecting the real developed residents of Sarhesen. And it wasn't a fast exaltation. The first conscious representative of the "new" race had only one purpouse, to spread Kett virus to others. The battle for Sarhesen started. You bet the Sarhesenians were trying to stop the virus from growing. They studied it and tried to understand it, while slowly putting themselves under its influence. Probably afterwards they tried to isolate the infected individuals, as humans did with people suffering from smallpox. What they did not know was that the infected did not die, they turned into an army with a single goal in life. Infect as many organisms as possible. It took a few years but sadly, the Kett have "united" whole planet under one banner.
Thanks to the technological advancement of real Sarhesenians and the increased inteligence of the Kett, they were able to alter the already existing technology for their own cause. Thanks to this technology, they were able to spread their target further. Infect subsequent units. There's no bigger picture here, through whole game Kett talks about only one thing, about making Empire bigger and creation of new Kett. Even Archon haven't noticed the possibility using Meridian to create new Kett bodies, he wanted to use it as weapon to turn already existing races. They don't want to save their species, they want to infect others.
As we can notice the Kett reproductive organs haven't changed even after exaltation of countless species, that means that whole Kett empire, is desired to fall. Through the time or thanks to other species, there's no way that Kett will rule the galaxy, as they're not species, they're just a fever.

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