Fat's a rocket scientist now

[Cumiace]

Weiner VonBrat

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

 

[guest]

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Not to hijack the thread but this is a really great movie. If anyone hasn't seen it, it's worth a watch.

 

[Udders]

This movie is so great, I watch the meeting clips on YouTube all the time.

 

[guest]

This movie is so great, I watch the meeting clips on YouTube all the time.

I worked in that industry during that period and it's pretty accurate too.

 

[FurBurger]

Flapjack parsons

Max Fagot

 

[FurBurger]

A reminder that two of the "cutting edge propulsion technologies" he's talking about have been known about and demonstrated for over a century.

It's like giving a lecture on the cutting-edge technology of the horseless carriage.

 

[JoeCumiaDotCom]

He doesn't actually know shit. He just regurgitates whatever he copied off of Wikipedia.

 

[BudDickman]

I worked in that industry during that period and it's pretty accurate too.

I just watched it. It was pretty good, but the parts where they're looking at the numbers and being like "woah... does this say what I think it says" is pretty cliche and unrealistic. I'm guessing the realization of how exposed they were to risk from MBSs would have taken longer to sink in and been much more boring and filled with jargon.

The parts about the traders destroying their relationships with other traders by dumping their shit off was more interesting and seemed more realistic.

 

[guest]

I just watched it. It was pretty good, but the parts where they're looking at the numbers and being like "woah... does this say what I think it says" is pretty cliche and unrealistic. I'm guessing the realization of how exposed they were to risk from MBSs would have taken longer to sink in and been much more boring and filled with jargon.

The parts about the traders destroying their relationships with other traders by dumping their shit off was more interesting and seemed more realistic.

I don't know. The fundamentals of a lot of those securities were total horseshit and were hieroglyphs to most management types and even traders. The quants like gay Spock's character were more likely to see what was coming.

Absolutely to the second part. The (unnamed) firm in the movie must've been based on Goldman.

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

If you ever want to listen to a fat man rephrase the first paragraphs of a few simplified wikipedia articles, boy have I got a convention for you.

He has a costanza level willingness to lie and misrepresent himself for self promotion

 

[BudDickman]

I don't know. The fundamentals of a lot of those securities were total horseshit and were hieroglyphs to most management types and even traders. The quants like gay Spock's character were more likely to see what was coming.

Absolutely to the second part. The (unnamed) firm in the movie must've been based on Goldman.

Yeah, I just don't buy that a math geek that none of the decision-makers knew the name of would be able to single-handedly convince them to liquidate a ton of assets at a huge loss. It would have made more sense if the Stanley Tucci character was still with the firm and the one to raise the alarm.

 

[guest]

Yeah, I just don't buy that a math geek that none of the decision-makers knew the name of would be able to single-handedly convince them to liquidate a ton of assets at a huge loss. It would have made more sense if the Stanley Tucci character was still with the firm and the one to raise the alarm.

Sure but it's a movie and they needed to make it more dramatic. And obviously Tucci's character did the legwork and needed to "disappear" for the subplot with Bettany's character.

 

[guest]

Yeah, I just don't buy that a math geek that none of the decision-makers knew the name of would be able to single-handedly convince them to liquidate a ton of assets at a huge loss. It would have made more sense if the Stanley Tucci character was still with the firm and the one to raise the alarm.

It might've been more realistic if Stanley Tucci wasn't fired and he had gay Spock and Gossip Girl dude come into his office to look at a spreadsheet. Tucci: "I've been trying to tell the British Marvel Avenger guy about this shit for months, but he hates wops. Can one of you Jews go talk to him?"

 

[OpieRadio]

He sells fawkin insurance for fawks sake. Period!

 

[Stent]

Pat has plans for a revolutionary new space propulsion engine. All the plans are in his head and he didn't think he'd have to print them out, just believe him and give him the top job at NASA.

 

[JoeCumiaDotCom]

Does anyone know of a subreddit where they could actually critique his starship design?

 

[EraGodless]

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Does anyone know of a subreddit where they could actually critique his starship design?

You mean dildo? I have yet to see a real cock shaped spaceship-- closest I have seen to it are the UFO's that are kind of shaped like cigars.

 

[Cumiace]

One landed a spaceship backwards like something out of a 50's sci-fi movie and the other dumpstered a Star Trek model he spent 2 years on after messing up the paint job. Which one is "full of shit"

 

[FurBurger]

You mean dildo? I have yet to see a real cock shaped spaceship-- closest I have seen to it are the UFO's that are kind of shaped like cigars.

Then you need to keep an eye on Jeff Bezo's company, because he's produced a fuckin' doozy.