Rookwood

joined 6 months ago
[–] Rookwood 26 points 1 week ago

Haha, no mother. It's just the Northern Lights.

[–] Rookwood 16 points 2 weeks ago

Not gaming related.

[–] Rookwood 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was straight like you once. Then I took a dick to the ass.

[–] Rookwood 72 points 2 weeks ago

It's definitely satire. The status is the clue. Also a lot of what he says makes him sound like an idiot in a business context.

[–] Rookwood 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right. The way you know modern economics is for the most part a sham is its complete silence on allowing dragon's to hoard mountains of wealth and the damage this does to an economy.

[–] Rookwood 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

omg he admit it

[–] Rookwood 9 points 3 weeks ago

Incorrect use of the word "couple" is a huge pet peeve of mine apparently.

[–] Rookwood 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an elaborate money laundering scheme, but I'll allow it.

[–] Rookwood 1 points 3 weeks ago

I am not surprised. These offers are literally at every checkout for anything over $100 if you're buying online.

[–] Rookwood 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My credit card offers 0% interest on terms 3-12 months with any purchase over $75. You also often get offers like this at checkout for most online purchases these days. I would hope that's where most of this is coming from.

They're a "good deal."

The catch is budgeting for this. It's very easy to have these little purchases snowball on you if you do it for literally everything like is being pushed by creditors. If you don't take the full amount of the purchases out of your budget, and then spend that extra cash, then all of a sudden next month when you've got a $200 payment due on groceries and your Amazon purchase, you're short. Then you can't pay your credit card in full, and have to roll over the balance and start paying interest. That's the game they're playing here.

Do this over several months and the payments can really add up quickly. If you don't have an actual budget process, you can get yourself in a bind really quickly.

[–] Rookwood 34 points 3 weeks ago

While this is neat, the person who cares about this is going to keep their car longer than 5 years.

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