With Bethnicz also leaving Fireside after the conclusion of Fireside LAN, antlers and I both contributed to this farewell post to the man himself.

Thank You, Bethnicz

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15 days left to book the hotels at the discounted rates. Free breakfast buffet included.

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exactly. I'm working at a college right now so there's a lot of rumors around the vine.

penn state is shutting down its satellite campuses due to waning enrollment, and because of that workers at those satellites are being laid off. everyone in my department including me is at risk of layoffs atm. my friend, who had been with the college for 8 years, just got told he's being laid off two weeks ago. and he's an accountant! the finance department was already a skeleton crew and it's gonna be worse.

i believe we're losing one of our program of studies in the near future because the college can no longer justify the program due to federal cuts on department of higher ed. we're completely getting fucked in the ass right now in higher education. i've been looking at our enrollment reports (i handle data analysis and report building at our college) and it is not looking good. we were just finally hitting an upward trend but all of that work we did to recover just got completely gutted

Japan market indexes NIKKEI and TOPIX just hit circuit breakers (basically halting trading to prevent further losses in a short timeframe), opened down 9%. I have never witnessed circuit breakers used during future trading, only during market sessions. truly unprecedented times and a lot of people are at risk of not only a replay to black monday, but think of the future outlook

it’s not just the stock market being affected. we’re looking at companies provide bad quarterly guidance on earning reports which would not only lead to layoffs, but reduced spending in multiple industries. actually insane to watch everything unfold in real time. and the only reason they’re providing bad guidance is because we haven’t even seen the tariffs be implemented yet and affect the prices of consumer goods. thats just further evidence that companies are guiding on uncertainty because they dont even know how they’ll handle the soon to be implemented tariffs (for the common person: see nintendo’s announcement about nintendo switch 2 release in usa).

the job market is about to get a lot harder and it worries me. a lot of people are going to see layoffs in the short term

Market futures already opened 5% down again

https://www.investing.com/indices/indices-futures

can potentially be the first time in history the market has closed -5% in back to back to back days (the only time it has closed 5% back to back was april 3 and 4, 2025 lol)

ex better not be class switching #tryhard

i exited about 75% of my position after today though. i didnt expect the drop to be this fast so now i’m slightly worried. i was able to 5x my initial investment and im letting the rest ride for now

today was a rollercoaster

IMO South America is seeing a resurgence, the return of a league operator, FBTF, lead to an exciting season of 6s in recent history with the return of players like powah, frz, etc.

yea, best move atm is probably to move from money market to bonds atm. but for the next few weeks, i’ll wait on making that move. i’m going to wait and see just how much the market dips further at the moment because i’m looking to see just how far we’re going to drill. i’m also starting to ramp up my contributions to my 403b & 457b in preparation of the following months. looking at the buy orders today was all retail. didn’t see any institutional buying.

tomorrow’s unemployment report won’t fully capture the true extent of the tariffs/short term economic impact that is yet to come, so i’m expecting much more red and am loading up on powder and hedging with long term puts to maximize profits

the tariffs seem to be calculated based on trade deficit--which makes it even more appalling as it doesn't really consider the buying power of countries that were listed like cambodia/vietnam. the market still has yet to factor in retaliatory tariffs from what seems to be a united front between japan/south korea/japan (wow who would have thought those three countries would get together). then you still have the rest of the world announcing preparation of retaliatory tariffs unless the ones in place are rescinded. hate to be a doom and gloom guy but with small cap now entering a bear market i can see SPY/DOW going down a lot more than today

did anyone trade in anticipation of today? i bought mine a bit too early prior to market close yesterday, but i had $10k worth of 1DTE $QQQ puts. made it out with a good amount of profit

probably going to move my investment into long puts on $TSLQ or $SPY in anticipation of retaliatory tariffs

i also moved my retirement into money market--albeit a bit too late but just in time prior to today

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