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1. Where did DFV come up with this much money? Has he been quietly KILLING IT earning tens of millions with other investments the past 3 years? How would an average guy earn that much cash in such a relatively short period of time?

-- Observation: The price of his calls & cash on hand is somewhat similar to GME's drop in cash/equivalents. -- Speculation: Is DFV being funded by Gamestop?

2. DFV continues to use the "power" icon in his memes, and everyone seems to assume it means Gamestop. The company, however, doesn't use the power icon for any current marketing or registered trademarks - you can't actually, it's an IEC recognized symbol based on binary (1, 0). IIRC it used to be loosely affiliated with the PowerUp rewards program marketing, but PowerUp rewards has been defunct for years, with the company using the unified "GS" moniker for brevity. The Gamestop website's favicon is currently the power icon, however this is the default for any Salesforce Demandware e-commerce site, and as a result many other sites share the same favicon. Question: Can anyone find a link to any Gamestop branding or marketing using the power symbol, past or present?

• Speculation: Could DFV be slyly referring to something else entirely?
• The power symbol appears in other posts, never in the "12 o'clock" orientation... Signs, Always Sunny, etc. are all askew, even when they could've been aligned properly. With the exception of...
• In his post from May 15 @ 8:45am Eastern with a scene from Ozark (season 3), the picture above the mantle is the power sign upside down, Q-like. She later defiantly turns it right side-up, returning it to the typical form of line/1 on top.
• From this scene she illegally enters her family's old home, has moments of sentimentality, then becomes mischievous - turning the current family's portrait upside down & adding food coloring to their milk.
• Why? Referring to introducing chaos for other companies in various stages of bankruptcy (...Q ticker symbols)?*

I'm just waiting for the story to unfold, but also very entertained and enjoy attempting to dissect these potential puzzles.

RC's latest photo op sent me on a knowledge quest about Argentina, considering his photo with the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei.

Just watch this - warning: it's an hour long & very information-dense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRDQO0kRyI

I've worked with Argentine expats but never bothered to ask why they'd left. Argentina's history is a DISASTER. I was hoping to walk away with economic or political knowledge framed with Argentina as an experimental subject, but instead it's a cautionary tale of human greed, power-grabs & corruption.

On to Javier Milei. Before I provide commentary & my opinion, read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/14/javier-milei-argentina-presidential-election/

Although I agree with his desire to replace Argentine currency with USD due to their disastrous currency history & inflation, I greatly disagree with many of Milei's personal opinions - but whether they impact his policies, given his desire for a "minimalist" government, remains to be seen. In a pure "libertarian" government his personal opinions shouldn't matter, but he seems to be a loose canon with an ego. I also very much disagree with his proposed policies, but I certainly see why Argentinians were curious to try something new - it couldn't get much worse.

He may lead the Argentinean experiment down a completely new path, while political & economic experts can watch from afar to validate their hypotheses. What may taint the experiment, however, is backing the USD - The US is their largest trading partner and closer ties with the US may override any policy flaws enacted by Milei, similar to flawed Reganomics taking the credit for temporary benefits.

Why did RC feel the need to post his picture with Milei? I get the impression RC is a libertarian, and Milei has marketed himself as libertarian-incarnate... just ignore his contradictory and slightly psychotic opinions. Theories:

• RC further alluding to, or pontificating, future US economic instability?
• Argentina is becoming a Crypto haven due to the population's reliance on crypto as a store of their life savings given their currency's immense devaluation. GME's Wallet & NFT marketplace were sunsetted due to alleged legal uncertainty in the US, so is this indicating RC's plans for "GMEntina" (there's no way I'm the first to use that phrase, right?)? Was RC attempting to negotiate financial investment given the prospect of favorable crypto regulation?
• Is there something significant about Argentina's securities regulations? I have no knowledge of Argentine securities law, except a cursory search showing the Argentinian Stock Exchange, BYMA, just allowed short-selling in April of 2018 with an advertised control system to "detect abusive practices and the accumulation of short open positions" -- 1) yeah right, and 2) wouldn't Milei's policies want to de-regulate the markets?
• Was this an indirect clue to someone else RC was rubbing elbows with who also met with Milei, such as Musk (smh)? I've heard he was meeting a lot of people, but unsure who. Note that Argentina posesses vast lithium reserves, which I'm sure piques Elon Musk's interest.

Unfortunately Milei seems like the kind of guy who'd be OK with the sale of kidneys to those who recently had their kidneys stolen from them, in exchange for indentured servitude of the victims & their children. Capitalism must be regulated, much like a nuclear reactor, else it will briefly burn bright, destroy itself, and cause suffering.

RC, please please choose your bed/twitter-fellows carefully.

TL;DR up top: RC may have recently emerged from a possible health crisis, with a renewed impetus to cement his legacy & seize the day, ready to commence with his plans.

Please poke holes in this theory. I hope RC hasn't had a crisis, but it may explain some things. If true, he appears to be on the mend so my stance remains optimistic & bullish regarding GME & all possible ventures of RC.

Everyone was commenting on reddit that something is off about Pulte's original pic; that RC almost looked fake, and without hands/fingers showing perhaps it was AI-generated. I agree, something is off. My first reaction: I've seen this look before. I brushed off the initial pessimism and began to assess it rationally.

• Unanimous observation that he appears thinner
• Receded hair line
• Heterochromia (right eye blue, left brown), but may be lense flare.
• This is the first image of him we've seen since November 20, 2022 when he did his GMEDD interview.
• RC pump & dump case continually delayed since July of 2023. Objectively baseless, this should've been dismissed late last year but the wheels of justice are turning inexplicably slowly.

Unfortunately I've seen the effects of chemo on one's skin. It can give faces a grey-ish "uncanny valley" wax-statue look, with darker leathery skin in the extremities. This was my first impression of RC's face - that he's recovering from chemotherapy. Let's break down the other observations:

• Thin. Granted, he's not an inherently bulky guy, but compared to his previous appearances he looks like he just returned from a Mexican ayahuasca retreat where he fasted in a sweat lodge for a few weeks. If he actually did, lets hope the experience has granted him the mental clarity and revelations he was seeking.
• Receding hair line can be accelerated by biologic stressors, but this could also be genetic factors, shorter hair accentuation, and the fact that we haven't seen him in 466 days
• Heterochromia: one of his eyes looks blue-ish. This may be due to camera lens flare, but I'm uncertain it'd have this effect on rendering the contrast of an eyeball. Perhaps photographers or those familiar with image processing can chime in. Regardless, heterochromia is a known effect of chemotherapy.
• Not that it's expected, but his hands are hidden in each picture. Is this deliberate? The effects of chemo can be very pronounced in hands, making them look dark and leathery.

This is conjecture on top of speculation, but consider these points as well:

• In the GMEDD interview, RC said he doesn't want to ever be CEO again. He gets too absorbed into the job and it destroys his work-life balance. We may be witnessing the physical toll of being the CEO of Gamestop. With his wealth he has the option of never stressing about anything, ever again. Instead, he has chosen to see the mission through & help secure our investments. For that, I am extremely grateful. If he took on that role while also undergoing treatment... I cannot fathom.
  • I'm still dismayed he took on the CEO role. My only interpretation is that it is a temporary gambit due to imminent M&A.
• The P&D class action against him has been dragging on forever. The claim is baseless and holds even less (approaching log 0?) merit considering the shares were extinguished AND he never exceeded the 10% threshold, considering options don't equate to ownership & stock buy-backs, likely fraudulent, were a contributing factor. Yet the judge continues to delay the case, month after month. Could it be the delays were at RC's request due to his health? If so, perhaps the next court date won't be delayed, finally?

Not to be dismissed as shillery, I think the leap day pictures indicate optimism - he's likely on the mend. The fact that he has hair, albeit short, and is in the presence of others in public (not in isolation) bodes well to this speculative prognosis - chemo nukes your immune system and, much like AIDS, a common cold could become life-threatening. His hair is also short; chemo doesn't always result in hair loss, but his short hair could indicate a recent re-emergence of hair follicle growth.

TL;DR up top: RC may have recently emerged from a possible health crisis, with a renewed impetus to cement his legacy & seize the day, ready to commence with his plans.

...or I may be a moron who watched too much Dr. House, MD back in the day.

There's some dk-butterfly-related excitement and speculative hype around next week which will likely be a nothing-burger, but this is the promise of GME-affecting news (for better or worse), considering Microsoft's initiative to no longer sell physical game "tokens" (that's all the discs are these days).

This reminds me of RC's tweet/reply on July 17th 2023 to Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, saying "Satya, GameStop is a large Microsoft customer. I've been trying to reach you and being ignored."

We can only hope this is good news. Perhaps the broader Xbox community's massive negative feedback regarding this revelation has forced Microsoft to either A) reverse the decision and promise continued physical game discs/tokens, or B) reveal their future plans for cryptographic game authorization tokens, IE NFTs, which might provide answers (or somehow tie into) regarding GME's cancelled NFT marketplace & Playr.

For several years I've used a Raspberry Pi Zero for sensors, camera & door motor control which opens & closes a chicken coop door. The Rpi & controller is 5v, the motor is 12v. This has been powered by around 50' of extension cord, but the elements are beginning to weather the cord & we also need to move the chickens further away from our mains. I think it is time to implement solar. I aspire to assemble a PV, battery, & converter system which:

• Uses an off-the-shelf 12v PV panel (30w or so)
• Uses LiFePO cells for heat resiliency & stability
• Provides both 12v & 5v power
• Isn't proprietary; uses standard, easily-sourced components... unless it meets specs perfectly & isn't terribly expensive.
• Minimal power draw; at most 2 amps @ 12v for 10 seconds twice daily.

Does anyone have suggestions regarding this configuration, know of a post, blog, or video which does something similar, or is willing to ID components you'd recommend for this project?

For several years both Reddit and Lego have been teasing the notion of an IPO. Meanwhile RobinHood, for example, went from kicking the IPO tires to a live ticker in a matter of months; the process doesn't need to take years.

What if today's banishment of r/thePPshow wasn't due to bad behavior, but for the sake of OPTICS for what's around the corner? Imagine you're Reddit, secretly planning to IPO but in a novel, new way. Lo and behold, some pesky morons in a fringe but growing sub stumble upon & publish information on Reddit's own platform which hits too close for comfort, possibly seen as a legal liability for their and their business partners' plans?

Now imagine you're a business wanting to create a new blockchain-based securities exchange. This platform would need more than 1 company trading on it - as was originally the case with tZero for Overstock. Ideally you'd go to market with at least a handful of well-known companies on your exchange to add immediate legitimacy to your new platform.

I'm not saying Reddit is a likely member of the theorized "keiretsu" or M&A with BuyBuyBaby or GME, etc., but Reddit & Lego may be participants in this future blockchain exchange. They'd be at least 2 household names IPO/ICO'ing on the exchange to bring the required legitimacy and volume. Remember that legally it will be next to impossible for companies who've already committed their shares to the DTC and the legacy system to recall their shares & move them to an entirely new system. The new platform needs virgin companies (which can then acquire legacy companies).

Reddit & the Lego Group aren't dumb & are likely abundantly aware of risks in the US stock market - especially Reddit, which literally hosted origin story of our individual journeys. The last press on Reddit's potential IPO was from February in which it was said the IPO was "likely in the second half of 2023". There's been no word on which exchange, and all we know is they filed an IPO "confidential draft registration statement" with the SEC in late 2021.

Yes, Fidelity is a major investor in Reddit, as is Sequoia, but they also stand to profit from this play and may even consider such investments as hedges against an idiosyncratic risk in the legacy markets. This assumes they're not significantly exposed to the blast radius of rampant securities fraud. Aside from a few misinformed customer service reps and the 2M peek-a-boo GME shares available for loan, Fidelity is by and large one of the lesser evils (known) in the brokerage realm, has presented the least friction to DRSing, and is transparently reporting data most brokerages don't (although accuracy of that data isn't regulated). Maybe this dinosaur thinks it can survive the impending comet?

/speculation