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I've gotten better at saying please and thank you often, I guess

League was the reason I stalled so long, too, but honestly, Riot is just as bad as Microsoft. Vanguard is unacceptable and we should make our voices heard by not playing their games anymore. There are so many great games running just fine on Linux, nowadays I don't even feel like I'm restricted at all

Got another player to join my weekly One Ring 2e table. We had paused for a while because 2 players left (one for scheduling issues, the other for not liking the game), but with someone new we can start again next week
Not so much a hobby, but I finished the second season of The Wire (first watch). To me it was way better than the first, the story with Frank just hits home so hard. Fucking Ziggy

I I would replace the real life king, I'd choose Holy Roman Emperor during Saint Louis' time at the french throne. We could make so much happen together without all the infighting stirred by Frederick II
If not, I'd probably choose to be a French king of the capetian dynasty

Sucks with game nights, though. I have had to reschedule after having bought snacks, prepared the table, etc

Keychron is great as a gateway to mechanical keybs, they work great out of the box and have wireless and such from the get go

What does this accomplish?

Gotta up my junk food consumption then

The knife wouldn't have stopped the bear, though hahahaha

Traditionally, financial engineers are people who create financial instruments, like contracts. Say you want to get a mortgage but instead of just paying interest you want to make it spicier somehow, something like "if the value of a home in this part of town is so and so, I'll pay this, if not then that", or something to that effect. A bank would come in with pricing, risk analysis, etc. for such a contract, done by people with knowledge in financial engineering. Nowadays the degree is chased mostly by people who want to get into investing, though, and they get an advantage in that due to the heavy quantitative focus of the program.
Econometrics is an area of statistics that is concerned with studying causality, particularly in economical and financial data. Say you think tariffs cause inflation (very topical lol), you would not only want to have theoretical basis for that, but an empirical foundation too, which is established by an econometric study.
I'm targetting financial engineering because it's harder to get into, thus salaries are better, but would settle for econometrics because I can get similar opportunities if I play my cards right

Not only turning down a douche but proceeding to kick his ass is crazy, nice work

Financial Engineering, but I would settle for Econometrics or even Applied Statistics