have some vcards!

@redpillschool I just woke up, and so many questions. Maybe I should have asked some before it was over, but whatever.

1) what determined whether a user's profile had stocks available for purchase? I originally assumed how recently they had posted, but @bambinosupremo had stocks available, whereas @whisper and @spooky did not despite both being active more recently than bambi.

2) what happened to the 100 million stocks in spooky I originally managed to get for free? I was experimenting with various profiles that weren't prominently displayed on the ticker, and his had the purchase option but no price. I tried buying a few, and they were free. I maxed out. They were still there when I checked his profile multiple times. When I @-ed him later to see if he was ever going to plug his movie night, I checked back at his profile again, and they were all gone. I figured that if he ever did plug his movie night, I'd just buy whatever i could afford at the IPO and ride the wave. But I am really curious where all the free stocks I originally had went, and why his profile didn't even have the option to purchase any anymore at that point, despite activity far more recent than Bambi.

3) what the hell actually determined value increase or decrease? Every time I thought I had it figured out, I ended up thwarted. Vermy and I even put our heads together at the end and figured that engagement usually meant a boost, but there seemed to be no real rhyme or reason to it (hey, just like the real stock market).

4) not a question, but just rambling and ranting now as I try to get my coffee to kick in. I regret playing it so safe for the first several days. When @Chantfire posted that he had 500 Chad coins, I truly didn't believe him until he shared that screenshot. Vermy had already topped him into the billions. I had been playing it safe, and was still in the low-mid 100s despite having started the week at 99-point-something. I'm realizing that I played it way too safe IRL too. Fuck.