Was browsing homes and saw this. What do you think this person does?

[u/Btran2566]

[u/holiday1326]

Flock CEO.

[u/seatux → u/holiday1326]

I can imagine cities just hiring 1 or 2 people to monitor city wide CCTVs instead of the small team like in the photos.

[u/majic911 → u/seatux]

Isn't this just Minority Report?

[u/seatux → u/majic911]

Already happening with AI flagging suspicious things and the people are there to act on them.

[u/ReversedNovaMatters → u/seatux]

I was allowed into a room at a state department of transportation and they had 1 or 2 guys watching all the cams. Was like 8 monitors and each one cycled through a handful of different cameras.

Not exactly a high security situation, not sure what they even are monitoring for? Drunk drivers and speeders? Accidents?

Not the entire states cameras, but a large county. I'd guess the state had several other buildings like this with a guy watching those local cameras also.

[u/yamanamawa → u/ReversedNovaMatters]

They watch for traffic conditions. Intersection cameras collect data that they use when planning new infrastructure and updates to existing stuff. They don't use them for policing at all, that's not within their purview

[u/Hazzat → u/seatux]

Hire 0 people because AI will do it.

[u/Unable_Wind_1869 → u/holiday1326]

[u/Mount_Pessimistic → u/holiday1326]

I was gonna say professional full time gooner. But that’s prolly the same thing.

[u/Rudolf-Wirchow-2025]

He's Batman

[u/jerryeight → u/Rudolf-Wirchow-2025]

This is his penthouse setup. For when he doesn't want to use the batjet to get in the cave. 

[u/anon6_5 → u/Rudolf-Wirchow-2025]

The Architect from the Matrix

[u/Life_Is_A_Mistry → u/anon6_5]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7GySaKuIzts9q

[u/sentrosi420]

That’s the Goon lab.

[u/almostoy → u/sentrosi420]

That Masturbatorium

[u/MasterJeebus → u/almostoy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4doe1HP7LHz20

[u/CeeArthur → u/MasterJeebus]

[u/Xanthelasmapalpebara → u/CeeArthur]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BZwTA735qv3YA

[u/MigLdn → u/Xanthelasmapalpebara]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vsl46CzqVNcpW

[u/double-happiness → u/MigLdn]

[u/SeveralEconomics3814 → u/CeeArthur]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ILdOSQtOweWeIq5gzn

[u/giant_albatrocity → u/MasterJeebus]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4FATJpd4LWgeruTK

[u/HelmetHeadBlue → u/MasterJeebus]

[u/Zarchiball → u/MasterJeebus]

Your tag is all scrambled! WTFUltra80085 !

[u/Silveraindays → u/Zarchiball]

Now THATS a card

[u/Spirited-Tomorrow-84 → u/MasterJeebus]

And all this because he is just a simple

[u/Designed_To → u/MasterJeebus]

MRW I wear my batman costume to masturbate in front of my neighbors sprinkler at 3:32am every third Tuesday of the month.

[u/Regurgitator001 → u/Designed_To]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5xtDarIN81U0KvlnzKo

[u/OverallEstimate2267 → u/MasterJeebus]

[u/sleight42 → u/MasterJeebus]

Damn near woke my wife with my giggling at this one

[u/ohnofreethought → u/almostoy]

[u/Hrmerder → u/ohnofreethought]

https://giphy.com/gifs/J2xkAW1E8kvyE

[u/EndOfSouls → u/Hrmerder]

I'm half way to being a kung fu master!

[u/not-A-userr → u/almostoy]

That Fornisanctum

[u/almostoy → u/not-A-userr]

The Rubpus Room

[u/DeltaForce95 → u/not-A-userr]

Cuck Command Center

[u/almostoy → u/DeltaForce95]

Skeet Retreat

[u/AkumaLilly → u/DeltaForce95]

The Ejaculatorium.

[u/Terminator7786 → u/almostoy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ovfcQBDMss0Xn9naza

[u/Romero1993 → u/Terminator7786]

Never realize how he looks like he's struggling

[u/Terminator7786 → u/Romero1993]

I can't fully remember the scene, but I think he was. Dude wanted to bust but couldn't reach the point of no return.

[u/Kride501 → u/Terminator7786]

The only gif out of all of these where the dude is actually jorking it

[u/fjf1085 → u/almostoy]

Panoptigoon

[u/almostoy → u/fjf1085]

Jillith Faire (could be a female)

[u/WolfeCommando → u/almostoy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BdELZdIwHjU6TAbV9j

[u/Dr-meemis → u/almostoy]

The ejaculation emporium

[u/almostoy → u/Dr-meemis]

The Cumpound

[u/TANUKI_1992 → u/almostoy]

Masterbation Station

[u/cuntsmacking → u/almostoy]

The Nut Hut

[u/Secundus-Muris → u/almostoy]

[u/Liddle_Jawn → u/sentrosi420]

Hitting goon levels once considered only theoretical

[u/Dawildpep → u/Liddle_Jawn]

We have top men working around the clock on this.. and bottom men

[u/MaxxDash → u/Dawildpep]

https://giphy.com/gifs/BWjTRoBsEKnII

[u/MaxxDash → u/Liddle_Jawn]

https://giphy.com/gifs/lvlLuc2zhi39C

[u/_drjayphd_ → u/sentrosi420]

Goonopticon, probably.

[u/zushiba → u/sentrosi420]

It's for tracking spooky ghosts.

[u/Fun-Disk-8446 → u/sentrosi420]

Turn on a blacklight in that room and the walls will look like a Jackson Pollock painting under a strobe light

[u/117pepper → u/sentrosi420]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tcZSrZEOwCrLy

[u/Waka-Waka-Koko-Doko → u/sentrosi420]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ov9k1kxAm108PpdIY

[u/leicanthrope → u/Waka-Waka-Koko-Doko]

https://giphy.com/gifs/in2itCsdBKXsn2nUFj

[u/ketoaholic → u/sentrosi420]

Straight jorkin it 24/7

[u/Avalon3-2 → u/sentrosi420]

Mk ultra but for gooners type beat.

[u/MemeLord339 → u/sentrosi420]

Masturbation station

[u/psykezzz → u/sentrosi420]

Wankstation 3000

[u/Official3Sixty → u/sentrosi420]

The Masturbator Theater

[u/Aselleus → u/sentrosi420]

The light in that picture isn't from the window, it's from the glow of a blacklight

[u/crow-party-13 → u/sentrosi420]

Evidence. Always look for the evidence.

[u/IntrepidTieKnot]

A daytrader that lost everything an now has to sell his house

[u/shifty_coder → u/IntrepidTieKnot]

In other words: gambling addict who bet the farm and lost

[u/Lendari → u/IntrepidTieKnot]

Stonks was the first thing that came to mind for me too.

[u/Right_Cellist3143 → u/IntrepidTieKnot]

This

[u/CatatonicMan]

Bro probably browses r/wallstreetbets.

[u/jerryeight → u/CatatonicMan]

https://www.vancouverhomesearch.com/listing/r3166666-717-jervis-street-3103-vancouver-west-end-vw-homes-for-sale-4999900/

5m CAD asking price. Probably some sort of trading if not an ultra immersion full motion Sim setup. 

[u/Pheonix_Slayer → u/jerryeight]

Unless he has his sim equipment somewhere off screen I’m betting this is some kind of trading set up

[u/TBBT-Joel → u/Pheonix_Slayer]

Also I don't know a sim guy in the modern days who needs THAT many screens. Like that's past 180 view. I would believe like 5 screens, but not vertically stacked widescreens like that.

My money is on trader.

[u/uninspired → u/TBBT-Joel]

No "trader" needs all of those screens, either. And no one buying a 5m condo going to want their lame setup.

[u/Bloody_Insane → u/uninspired]

their lame setup

Surprised how far down I had to go before someone mentioned how bad the setup is (if that's what you mean). Like, sure, many big screens, whatever.

But then they've got this tiny ikea desk with an open topped bin, a piddly little speaker off to the side, horrible cable-management, etc.

You'll need to turn around completely to see stuff on some screens, but then turn back to use your keyboard.

Pretty much zero thought actually went into this setup.

[u/Vaping_Cobra → u/uninspired]

Plenty of traders who work forex along with options and futures at the same time would be able to fill those screens with relevant data. Heck a dedicated forex trader working live could fill them if they were tracking multiple exchanges.

When the time it takes to switch windows to review something could cost you more than the cost of all of those screens combined it is an easy choice to make.

[u/ScuttleScrub3 → u/Vaping_Cobra]

Genuine question, how can this kind of trading possibly still hold up in an age where you have quantitative finance firms trading at millisecond pace? How's an extra monitor gonna help when your competition is getting limited by the speed of light

[u/Vaping_Cobra → u/ScuttleScrub3]

Exploiting small neiches mostly. Trades that are just overlooked by algorithms because they fall slightly outside some threshold or another. At the end of the day, if a HFT algo can make money on a trade then most of the time a trader with their eyes peeled can too, they just won't make as much.

[u/ian9outof10 → u/jerryeight]

Selling because of the amazing losses they enjoy over there at WSB

[u/erichie → u/jerryeight]

Why do those pictures look so fake? 

[u/MCWizardYT → u/erichie]

Because they were shot on a really nice camera in bright lighting. Also, digital ArchVis (architecture visualization) is realistic enough that it's indistinguishable from real shots, so some of these could definitely be CGI

[u/Fabulous-Beach9027 → u/jerryeight]

real traders have all the same screens aligned the same way. this bitch a wannabe

[u/CASpider → u/CatatonicMan]

This was basically my first thought. Too much day trading.

[u/pydood]

I always imagine people with a setup like this for trading is the equivalent of an overwatch player who has ever peaked bronze thinking that the only thing holding them back is their setup so they build a $10k rig only to eventually make it to silver

[u/KatieS2255 → u/pydood]

They also own every lightweight mouse in existence and a 500hz monitor

[u/tr_9422 → u/KatieS2255]

I need the 500 hz monitor because I'm a high frequency trader duh

[u/YrnFyre → u/KatieS2255]

And the settings for their 500Hz monitor is still sitting at 60Hz and they have no clue

[u/RancidVagYogurt1776 → u/pydood]

Accurate. No successful trader I've ever met has done this gaudy shit. This is the setup of someone who thought NFTs were the future.

[u/xxcatfishjohnxx]

r/wallstreetbets top 1% commenter

[u/Ruzhyo04 → u/xxcatfishjohnxx]

Nah this guy is profitable

[u/xxcatfishjohnxx → u/Ruzhyo04]

If browsing for homes means this guy is selling maybe not

[u/thepervertedromantic → u/Ruzhyo04]

No way, he bought all that on credit after putting everything on black, he let it ride and now the house is for sale.

[u/Thewaltham]

Monitors the situation

[u/XandalorZ → u/Thewaltham]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ac7MA7r5IMYda

[u/Official-LardLad]

He jacks into the matrix, obviously

https://giphy.com/gifs/sk6yL9EGVeAcE

[u/BennettWindy → u/Official-LardLad]

He’s jackin something, alright.

[u/ItzMau5trapz → u/Official-LardLad]

I dunno, I think he jacks the Matrix.

[u/SnowStormYukikaze]

trading

[u/Ok-disaster2022 → u/SnowStormYukikaze]

Yeah, I think they're the only ones who use multi monitors like crazy and with the large screens it allows them to put a lot more data up. the stock tickers don't really require a lot of computation power to show, just a good Internet connection. 

[u/khizoa → u/Ok-disaster2022]

all those monitors just to lose your life savings on meme stocks smfh

[u/warm_winds_whisper_ → u/khizoa]

On average it costs about $100,000 to get enough experience day-trading to make a profit and the average profitable day-trader makes about the same ROI as the S&P 500 would have

[u/Jaratii → u/warm_winds_whisper_]

I wish my brother knew that before he started trading. He went into it thinking he was the smartest person and had cracked the code of the market. Long story short he lost essentially all of his money.

[u/drake22 → u/Jaratii]

They all do, and it almost always ends the same. When it doesn't go like that, 99.9% chance it's just luck.

Anywhere there's money, you have to compete with smart wealthy people, with how smart and / or wealthy they are scaling with how much money is involved.

And idk where there's more money than in the stock market. The sort of people you're up against are orders of magnitude better at it than you are, guaranteed. They'll gladly take your money.

[u/CASpider → u/drake22]

Which is why you just put your money into index funds every paycheck and leave it there for decades. Don't try to fight the professional traders, just compound those 10% average annual gains.

[u/drake22 → u/CASpider]

That does have it's problems if everyone does it. Active traders serve an important purpose. But for almost everyone almost all the time this is the way to make the best money long-term.

Also, you aren't just fighting professional traders, but people with a shitload of money, insider traders, market manipulators, dumb money causing chaos, etc.

[u/synbioskuun → u/drake22]

And the wealthy(not necessarily smart) people have the luxury of having backup wealth to absorb the losses of failed trades.

[u/CatatonicMan → u/khizoa]

With some knowledge, skill, effort, and leverage, it's quite possible to lose more than your life savings.

[u/BLT_Trade_r → u/khizoa]

But at least after you lost it you still have the monitors to goon with

[u/Euresko]

Goons HARD at their masterbation station

[u/milkymonkey8 → u/Euresko]

that's not a station, that's a whole metro system

[u/ThisGiantEnemyCrab]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VcBbPuVbzpzCxqoCik

[u/PaleGutCK → u/ThisGiantEnemyCrab]

He'd know if he had robot ears

[u/cyabits]

Day trader, i was like this 5 months ago before i lost everything.

Screen 1 Chart planning the right moment to enter
Screen 2 market scanner looking for stocks with good momentum
Screen 3 Trade and execution every second matters on day trade.
Screen 4 News incase some shit happen.
Screen 5 Time and sales table
Screen 6 My P&L
Screen 7 Market Overview

[u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko → u/cyabits]

Can I ask why day traders often bet EVERYTHING on trades? It just seems really dumb. I know it's essentially gambling so addiction kicks in for people, but still.

[u/Biscuits4u2 → u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

They're gamblers

[u/GonePh1shing → u/Biscuits4u2]

Can confirm. Warren Buffet quite famously put out a significant bet for any active traders to prove they beat the market over a 10 year period. Nobody claimed it.

Unless you're illegally trading on inside information, you're not going to beat the market consistently. You might get lucky sometimes, but the market will always win in the long run. 

[u/Morkai → u/GonePh1shing]

By that, do you mean the old "time in the market beats timing the market" quote that I've read?

[u/BugsSuck → u/Morkai]

That’s certainly one of them. There’s a few goodies.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent

Don’t fight the Fed.

Buy when there is blood in the streets, even if that blood is your own.

[u/Ravenloff → u/BugsSuck]

Come on...one more...

[u/-Bento-Oreo- → u/GonePh1shing]

This bet is famously misunderstood. It's whether active traders could beat the market AFTER their fees. Active traders frequently beat s&p, but they charge exorbitant fees that's worse in the long run. They are also undeniably better during bear markets where they hedge.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffetts-bet-hedge-funds-year-eight-brka-brkb.asp

[u/jameshardenisjacked1 → u/-Bento-Oreo-]

Active traders also doesn't mean day traders, just that some guy or firm is making decisions on what to buy/sell vs like index funds that just follow the market.

[u/Deathspiral222 → u/GonePh1shing]

rentec has beaten the market by 40% a year AFTER FEES since 1988.

They also won't let you invest with them. They need zero investment and don't want to share the profits.

[u/GNTsquid0 → u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

Gambling addiction.

[u/Big_Booty_Lesbian_ → u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

I can tell you when from when I used to do it

I started with a contract that was worth $50 that turned into $3700 out of nowhere, from one day to another, like it was literally my first trade.

That was GME/GameStop 

After that I went into a bender with SPY, BABA, Rivian, Tesla, SPX, NDX, XSP, etc etc etc Options Trading

When you do 1 contract and hit it good, it's like "oh this is nice, but it could be better"

When you out your paycheck and SPX gives you 4 of your paychecks in 4 minutes, it gets addicting.

It stops being addicting when you lose like 4 months in a row tho.

30k and 6 years later, I am at peace, learned a terrible but necessary lesson. I deactivated all my accounts and emailed the broker to ban me. Luckily I didn't lose my girl, as a matter of fact, she only caught me on ONE bad trade that wiped me out.

Other than that, she was curious how I took her to Greece and Spain back to back on a Military Salary, but after that one time and seeing her cry, telling in 15 days I would be paid again. I simply quick cold turkey.

Sometimes I see the Stock Market News and I WANT BACK IN but I know what will happen. If there was a broker that did ONLY Stocks and had a rule that you could sell Minimum 1 week. I would go in. Otherwise, it's a great rollercoaster but when it hits, it hits hard

[u/Squand → u/Big_Booty_Lesbian_]

My best trade was 80k. And I had a bunch of 30k days. It's a weird feeling.

But I lost a percentage of my Capitol and I'd set a limit for . Myself to never trade again if I lost x amount.

I went a smidge over that and was like, guess I'm a gambler. This market would be so easy to trade it kills me.

But like you I quit cold turkey and won't go back on my word to myself.

The worst thing about that job is it's fucking boring to talk about. "Did you see Nvidia went up and then it went down and then it went up again. What a crazy day."

I have a couple stories from it about getting lucky with stock manipulation. But day to day I had nothing interesting to talk about ever. I was the most boring I've ever been

[u/CloakerJosh → u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

That's not a question for a day trader - it's one for a psychologist.

"Can I ask why some people engage in high-risk/high-reward behaviour?

[u/LiveToBeFreee → u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

The smart and successful ones don't risk everything. That's reckless and will end in getting liquidated. Gamblers risk everything, but gamblers are not traders.

Ask the ones who do it for a living, they'll tell you to limit each trade to 10-15% of your total capital, and size in starting with 25% of that amount, so initial trade amount is about 2.5% of your total capital. Slow and steady growth from consistency and discipline in risk management is what makes it work, but a vast majority of people who attempt it lack the discipline it takes, and succumb to greed and FOMO and other negative emotions, so a vast majority lose everything.

Also, day trading is not gambling, it's learning to read charts and price action and using probabilities in your favor to make money consistently, and yes, a very small percentage of people are able to be successful career traders. I know this, because I know a guy...

[u/tireddesperation → u/LiveToBeFreee]

My uncle and one of my best friends are day traders. Both say essentially the same thing. Slow and steady. The uncle is mega loaded. The best friend is doing well for himself. I had two other friends and a coworker that lost everything trading and one who lost everything to crypto. Those were the gamblers.

[u/DarkPolumbo → u/LiveToBeFreee]

then you're just gambling on how accurate your chart interpretation is

[u/Vexcenot → u/cyabits]

imma be real that sounds more miserable than a giga goon cave

[u/am0x → u/Vexcenot]

Don’t worry. They don’t las long. Always go bankrupt. The market for day trading is rigged on direct connections and pretending via a faster internet than your competitors (via direct connection), and trading with algorithms before my news drops.

[u/KW5625 → u/cyabits]

How did you lose?

[u/cyabits → u/KW5625]

I didn't follow my own principles, i let my ego get to me. instead of cutting the loss and protecting my capital, i held on and it just tanked

[u/RexxVFX → u/cyabits]

So uh, you posting all of this from a cardboard box or what?

[u/dwehlen → u/RexxVFX]

Some Wendy's still have free wifi, and it occasionly reaches behind the dumpster.

[u/Biscuits4u2 → u/cyabits]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qH1jQOvi4WVEvCRvOg

[u/Zyonix_HaroN]

Playing Eve online, no doubts

[u/IKindaPlayEVE → u/Zyonix_HaroN]

I wouldn't know anything about that.

[u/Nekrial]

He plays Old School Runescape on a 500 pixel by 400 pixel box in the middle

[u/GnarPilot]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7GySaKuIzts9q

[u/beegtuna → u/GnarPilot]

Ergo… you have two choices: go outside and touch grass and live a normal life or YOLO your life’s savings on meme stock calls. The choice is inexorably yours.

[u/sheepsix]

Day trader with delusions of grandeur.

[u/mistabnanas]

[u/RedRoses711]

Goons 13 hours a day at max brightness

[u/mca1169]

makes very bad financial decisions.

[u/itsVainglorious]

They play Eve Online.

[u/Solo_Gunhea]

To be the boring obvious answer.

Stock trading.

[u/Dragoonultima → u/Solo_Gunhea]

While gooning

[u/NorCalAthlete]

Loses money on WSB

[u/YGoxen]

[u/Semanticss]

Masturbation and/or daytrading

[u/MotivationalMike → u/Semanticss]

D prolly why they has to sell the house too. Haha

[u/Belzebutt → u/Semanticss]

That giant trash can is under that desk for a reason

[u/SolaireFlair117]

Almost certainly day trading.

[u/Mental-Selection1259]

Either a day trader or the final boss of multitasking lol

[u/AthleticAndGeeky]

Jerks off… like a lot.

[u/deviltrombone → u/AthleticAndGeeky]

Dedicated wastebasket for tissues right by the desk is the giveaway

[u/DotComMoralist]

That's a goon station

[u/msh_77]

Trading guy spotted 😎

[u/MrFordization]

Conference calls with the Illuminati.

[u/DeathByPain → u/MrFordization]

Gendo in Teams meeting with SEELE

[u/Super_Bakon]

Looks at videos of graphs and pretends to day trade

[u/immattbrown]

Gotta be either trading or Minecraft.

[u/PenLegitimate4746]

This is where he Jack's into the matrix obviously.

[u/FRYETIME]

Goon to feet

[u/Beefcake52]

Reddit mod

[u/TheS3KT]

With all those calculators. He is undoubtedly a day trader.

[u/LetTheRiotsDrop]

Moderator of r/wallstreetbets

[u/KLEBESTIFT_]

Tracks down thought criminals before they commit a crime. But he doesn’t believe the minority report could be real.

[u/JumpyClassic6887]

For the looks of it, whatever the f he wants

[u/Kittrovert]

Day trading

[u/SatanVapesOn666W]

Goon-Maxxing

[u/shotxshotx]

stock trading, or similar.

[u/Dear-East568]

Either man was watching the entirety of the S&P or had a fully immersive flight sim

[u/spyder173]

Racing 

[u/Durpy15648]

They visit chiropractors.

[u/corgiperson]

No pedals or steering wheel? Gotta be day trader as the next option.

[u/quazmang]

Chief of the PreCrime Division, of course

https://giphy.com/gifs/BLVqLi1p4Pt7i

[u/jdb326]

Day trading 100% this is NOT a gaming setup lol

[u/Lancewater]

Thats called the Goon Cocoon

[u/lol_wadh]

He monitors the situation.

[u/Long-Gain-981]

Even with all those monitors the S&P 500 will beat him.

[u/chwastox]

Flight sim.

[u/drocdoc]

straight bs and too much money

[u/Falanin]

Monitor salesperson.

[u/omgvtak]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GhdvN4hYZikziWCs6R

[u/beerandabook]

Cocaine

[u/bullettrain]

Cocaine 

[u/Zealousideal-Crew434]

Masterbates

[u/Busy-feeding-worms]

They are From r/wallstreetbets . One lucky gamble bought him this to become a day trader. But now they are behind the Wendy’s dumpster. They will not pocket any of the house sale $$ as they have accumulated a lifetime of debt in 2.5 weeks.

[u/Levoso_con_v]

Either trading or simulation games

[u/I666l]

[u/makemypeepeebig]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6nVaENO2iOeprZHG

[u/tellmeagoodusernamek]

He's the Architect

[u/SnowConeMonster]

Goonmaxing.

[u/moshpitmachine]

Honestly it looks like my old basement when I ran my security company out of it. I had access to 3 client site cameras and a small server running in my basement lol

[u/dodu0815]

Monitoring