Recent content by Gravel

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    Behemoth! (2026)

    I'll only watch it if he's playing a super talented straight white guy who gets replaced as first chair by a DEI hire.
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    Investing General Discussion

    42. Roth ladder. You roll over tIRA to Roth and pay as if it's earned income. After 5 years, it becomes Roth principal and can be pulled out tax free. The trick is that it's basically our only "income" during the year, so we get the standard section at 0% and then even after that it's super...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Also speaking of 5 years since retirement, I just liquidated the last of our taxable account which was the bridge to start using our Roth ladder which takes 5 years to "season." Pretty crazy it lasted exactly the 5 years we needed it to.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Were? Did they die? One of the crazy things was I expected everyone to be at work when I first retired. While there are definitely places less crowded (grocery store), there are a shocking number of people who don't have a 9 to 5.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm coming up on 5 years retired at the end of this week. It's gotten to the point where I forget that most people even have jobs, and I can't even picture myself working anymore (where before I could begrudgingly imagine it). The downside however is that my age peers won't retire for another...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I really didn't expect the new game shine to dull on this one for you all so quickly. Almost like all the criticism we gave during alpha was legitimate or something.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Same, at least, my last job before retirement. Literally a go-between for engineers and business people.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

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    Dark Matter

    This show is so bizarre. That's two episodes now where the entire thing episode revolves around something they introduced in the previous episode and doesn't move the story forward at all (the first being him doing sign language at the bar, so we get an entire episode of alternate Jason taking...
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    VisionQuest

    Almost like casting white men as your main characters is good for show success? Not that I've watched this yet, but it's the one thing that sticks out from all the other Marvel trash.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    This is a good point. It's not 1999 anymore. Grabbit's probably got a backlog of 100 games to play. Like Kirun pointed out, they're developing this like it's 27 years ago, not realizing that the entire gaming market has changed dramatically. They're going to be their own undoing. They could've...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Imagine making people pay to test your game, and when something completely inconsequential is broken, you ban someone who's paying for your dicked up coding. I'm glad I stayed far away from this shit show.
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    Weather

    We threw in the towel. I guess this week is basically record highs every single day, and every day they push our power restoration estimate back another day. So we drove to my mother-in-law's place in Orange Beach. Which honestly we should've done days ago. I kept trying to save all our food...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    This is such a bizarre take. You think it's immersive to write "/look" as opposed to actually...using your own eyes to look at things? Instead of using your own senses, you think typing out a command is somehow more rewarding. And you say you're not the autist here.
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    Weather

    So we talked to a bunch of neighbors and most of them said this was significantly worse than any of the other hurricanes they'd been through. Guess we had a peak gust of 116. We actually didn't think it was too bad. It sounded terrible, but I feel like better than the earthquake. We lost like...