u/QuantumWonderland

I've noticed a shift on the internet that has really surprised me about QTE's. It seems a lot of people have shifted to being annoyed and finding them too hard.

I originally played RE4 when it finally released for the PS2 (never had a gamecube). Before that, I had already picked up God of War as I watched review for re4, excited to finally play it. Both GoW and RE4 did very well and EVERYBODY I talked to, including me LOVED the QTE's.

They gave a depth to that game that make things more realistic. You had to actually be "quick on your feet" just like Leon. You had the pitfall of instant death if you fail, just like Leon. You had to really mash the button to hold off Krauser from running a knife through your chest...just as Leon had to do as he muscled his way out of it.

It literally made the game be as memorable as it was even though now people don't seem to see it that way. I'm not saying it was EVERYTHING that made it that way, but it carried more weight than people seem to give credit for it now.

My personal opinion, people have become too soft and everybody wants easy access and anything that seems too difficult/annoying for them is instantly a bad thing.

If so, did it help correct your posture and help with upper back tension/pain?

I get really bad upper-back tension that causes other issues which I'm sure comes from bad posture habits. I try to stay straight and when I'm active like jogging/running or anything else I'm usually much more aware of it and its fine but often when I'm relaxed I find I begin slouching.

Just curious on peoples experiences.

I'm seeing euphoric posts abound as we got a spike on that reversal of decision, but I think people forgot we were in a sell off prior to this and those reasons didn't change because of this. Everything is exactly as it was. It just didn't get worse. We rose to new highs with no clear end on war escalations in sight so there was no fear in the market for these possibilities. We began selling off for various other reasons, but war escalation wasn't one.

Today, the market barely reacted to his original truth post this morning and mostly went sideways and then, on the cancellation, we run up. Those sells didn't come from anything escalation related yet the non-event was bought. There is no confirmation that any deal has been accepted so far and we've been down this road before, so even that prospect is currently questionable.

Thoughts?

So, I've been trading since 2020 (if you'd call the degen options gambling I did 'trading'). I made some gains in the original push from NVDA and the like into the point of "we've gone too far for this to be healthy". P/E ratios through the roof. And of course now we know, that rally just kept going and going.

And through it all I never once bought anything to hold. I bought a 200 strike AMD contract about half a month before it hit 200 and then that was it. I have basically sat out any long term stock holdings/options and have only played the futures as the day comes. I do not trust any of this rally enough to put much weight into any position long term, but I also have no intention of shorting it greatly.

Of course, I do have some regrets. Who wouldn't want to make all that extra money from riding this? And sometimes I wonder if I made the right choice just trading the intraday moves in the futures. Doing futures takes its own direct focus/toll that you have to lock into and it can be easy to just stay on that path but trading at ATHs can be difficult and when you see how easy just HODLing any tech stock just prints money it makes you kind of...upset.

Just curious of others mental on this atm.

Never opened, mint condition. It has sat in a cool, dark closet since release and hardly even handled. Asking for around $300 and +$15-$30 for shipping.

This seems to be something I still struggle with. I usually err on the side of caution and protect my gains. But, I can't lie. It hurts to see set ups I would otherwise get into happen as I expected. It's probably the one thing that either is preventing me from making more money or saving me and I don't know which it is. I battle with it everytime it happens.

Say you make a solid profit for the day. One you would be very pleased with as I did today. Then, you see a setup forming that you if you DIDN'T make much profit, you would enter. Do you protect your gains and walk away for the day or do you go for the trade, perhaps less leveraged?