My Super Tycoons Facebook Game Net Worth Just Hit $60 Billion

The last time I updated you on my Super Tycoons Facebook game exploits, I was rejoicing at increasing my in-game net worth from $100 million to $14 billion between May and August.  This was after I rolled out my flour empire expansion. Ultimately, I decided instead of going for the commodity leader board, I would [...]

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It Grew Dark and Windy as the Sun Began to Set in the Distance …

As I was inside playing Tales of Vesperia, the sunset was so awe inspiring I was told to put down the controller and go outside to look.  The pictures don’t do it justice.  Then, I went to the balcony overlooking the forest and it was awesome because it was growing dark, the trees were rustling [...]

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The Reason the Video Game Industry Is Bigger Than Hollywood

Tales of Vesperia continues to rock my world.  I played for several hours again today after reading wealth reports and working on the upcoming About.com content I’ve been writing this week (I tend to publish the good stuff over there in big batches because I like for it all to work together and be cohesive).  [...]

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How to Solve the Trade Deficit – Part III

This is Part III of my special on How to Solve the Trade Deficit.  If you missed the earlier parts, you can read Part I or Part II first. How to Solve the Trade Deficit – Knowledge Workers vs. Manual Workers In many ways, your question about the trade deficit has very little to do [...]

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Note to the Internet: Your and You’re Have Different Meanings

As I read political blogs and other news sites, not a single day goes by without me seeing the contraction for “you are” (“you’re”) being incorrectly written as “your”, which denotes something you own or possess. It absolutely drives me up the wall.  The correct usage isn’t difficult to remember: You are = “You’re going [...]

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I’m In Love with the Millionaire South Korean Coffee Goddess Grandma

Whenever we have a major project, there is always a television series or movie playing in the office.  It sort of serves as a deadline (e.g., “We need to get the new pen company launched by the end of the first three seasons of Friday Night Lights“).  For us, it works amazingly well. Right now, [...]

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We’ve Taken Sides in the Johnny Weir v. Evan Lysacek War

Around the office, we discuss weighty issues – recent Supreme Court cases, appropriate regulation of derivatives, pricing of complex options trades, etc.  For the past week, however, the water cooler talk has been the somewhat quasi-feud between Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten sucked in because as I’m reading Fortune and The Wall [...]

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I Finally Understand Buffett’s Comment …

When I was a kid, I recall watching a recording of a speech Warren Buffett gave to a college group and he said it would be incredibly boring to watch him work if you had the opportunity to observe Berkshire Hathaway for a day.  When I began building my company, Aaron and I wanted a [...]

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It’s Comforting How Oddly Predictable Humans Can Be on the Small Things

A few days ago, Aaron got a message from one of our friends, Jimmy, at about 4 in the morning.  We were both still up working on a project that’s going to have some fairly large financial ramifications for us in about a year or two, so we happened to read it in near real-time.  [...]

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How to Make Money in Fable 2 – Or, How I Made My Fable 2 Character a Millionaire in a Few Days Without Cheating

It’s remarkable that the same concepts that allowed me to be effectively retired by my mid-twenties allows me to frequently become rich in video games. That’s the nature of compounding.  It is a law, exactly like gravity. This weekend, Ashly and Ian drove in from Columbus to visit – they are thinking about relocating to [...]

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Video Game Sales Fall for 5th Straight Month and Wall Street Blames … the Recession?

According to an AP Article, sales of video games have plunged 29% year-over-year and Wall Street is concerned that it is proof the video game market isn’t as recession-resistant as everyone believed.  Seriously.  That’s the crap that’s coming out of these news rooms.  News flash: Look at the game release schedules.  Last year saw a [...]

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