u/BagofBabbish

You ever notice how in Spider-Man No Way Home, it’s mostly small groups of characters on an otherwise empty set or in a small empty room, because it was the middle of COVID? That’s been The Boys the past two seasons, but it’s gotten to be egregious in Season 5.

It’s like they were able to get The Seven together to film in the empty Vought board room for one day, and The Boys to film in that one room at Teenage Kicks and the Camp for a couple days, and that’s it.

Other than that, even at The Boys hideout after episode 2, it’s usually two characters, maybe 3 in a shot, and there’s a contrived reason to break up the groups.

Homelander fucks off with Soliderboy, usually to a remote location in the woods that was probably all shot at once, or to an empty set.

Hell even Crawford is only ever seen in that recording booth with Noir, in the Boardroom, or by himself somewhere.

There have also been several episodes where Homelander interacts with The Boys but he’s only ever shown on screen with one of them at a time past episode 1. It’s like “okay we can only get Antony here today so let’s film him alone with Urban”.

I feel like that’s why this season has been a mix of…

1. Vought Rising promo because they’re locked into a new contract and cheap

2. Random celebrity cameos

3. Random duo-based fetch quests that conveniently recycle similar looking locations

4. An entire episode where members of the Seven go off on their own and are shot primarily with extras or guest stars

I get people apologize for this constantly saying “this is why most shows don’t make it this long” but if you’re seriously trying to launch a shared universe, you can’t cheap out to the point it hurts the shows quality this much.

My guess is they never imagined it would be this big of a hit or that Antony, Karl, and even Jack Quaid would end up negotiating as hard as they did after S3

I think everyone would benefit from clarity. The community deserves a statement from Fundrise to clarify where things stand. It’s very possible there’s an exception that’s applied here but management owes it to the community to provide this clarity.

I don’t mean to sound alarmist, but Anthropic just posted a shocking update on their website about “investment scams”. It specifically prohibits and voids any shares promised by “retail vehicles” and prohibits ownership from SPVs.

I shared the link to the article directly from anthropic above, but go to the VCX offering docs and the footer specifically notes Anthropic is held in this via a SPV…

“SPVs and retail investment funds

We do not permit special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to acquire Anthropic stock and any transfer of shares to an SPV are void under our transfer restrictions. Offers to invest in Anthropic’s past or future financing rounds through an SPV are prohibited.

We are also aware of investment funds that claim to offer indirect access to Anthropic stock. These funds often market themselves by saying something like: "You can't invest in Anthropic directly, but invest with us and we'll get access for you." These funds are most likely relying on mechanisms that attempt to circumvent our transfer restrictions. Any third party claiming to sell Anthropic shares to the general public—whether through direct sales, "forward contracts," tokenized securities, or other mechanisms—is likely either engaged in fraud or offering an investment that may have no value due to our transfer restrictions.

Invest at your own risk: if someone offers you a way to participate, even on an indirect basis, in an investment in Anthropic, assume that it is invalid.”

This is the exact blurb and it seems to be directly referencing DXYZ and VCX…

You’re paid within a salary band. You are eligible for a fixed bonus. You aren’t a strategic advisor being paid on retainer or upselling any services. You work with another internal team. You don’t have any “clients”. Please stop making all of us look fucking stupid and stop kissing ass and calling your operating partners “clients”.

There are tons of accountants that don’t seem to understand most actual finance professionals aren’t accountants. That it is in fact very common and possible to be able to build a three statement model, a DCF model, and an LBO model, and to analyze and forecast financial statements without being able to build a T-Table, create a trial balance for month-end close, or do a bunch of debits and credits via MJEs.

It’s something I’ve grown incredibly frustrated with because these people, from my experience, tend to be overly rigid with forecasting and variance commentary, to the point it’s basically worthless, while also welcoming controllership activities where they truly excel, to the point it becomes the only value add of the function.

Before you come at me with some bullshit like “accounting is the language of business”(I mean sure, however non-GAAP measures exist for a reason and aebitda often matches up closely with cash flow for a for a reason), if that’s what you passionately believe then why not focus on accounting? Also if that were true, then why do 9/10 investors dislike accounting focused CFOs and prefer strategic CFOs supplemented by a senior accountant to a corporate controller?

I feel like far fewer operational leaders would think of us as an area for productive savings or to experiment with ai automation, if we weren’t “fun accounting” and remained strategic planning.

I’m sure I’m gong to get a bunch of ex accountants that passionately disagree or tell me some bullshit like it’s a benefit to their forecasting, but I know I’m not alone in remembering when it wasn’t an uphill battle to explain MJEs and executional close doesn’t live with us.

Edit: getting the reaction I more or less anticipated. you can get as mad as you want but why do you think so many companies have frozen hiring in our field?