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  1. Gravel

    The Pitt

    I thought that was obvious, but maybe it was more fresh in my mind since we had just rewatched the entire season with my mother in law just before the finale.
  2. Gravel

    Your Friends & Neighbors

    Seems decent so far. Hamm really does well with TV.
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That's fair. But it's getting to the point where not having a clear message looks incompetent. Which in turn pisses off the citizens who now have their retirements on a rollercoaster and are getting fucked. The midterm season isn't that far away.
  4. Gravel

    The Pitt

    I made my post prior to the final episode, although it apparently was pretty relevant after it, too. I definitely agree to the point about it no longer being their first day making the next season a bit...off? Also, regarding the woke shit, it wasn't all over the place, but even my wife made a...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Seems like this history making sign was really an indication that nothing remarkable was going to happen.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Even reading the responses, I have no fucking clue what this means. Market about to drop off a fucking cliff?
  7. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    And yeah, I won't know til later since my shit's in VTSAX, but I would imagine we had a > $100k swing today easily. Saw QQQ was over 11%. Insanity.
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What the fuck? Haven't read the thread. Got home from about 5 hours ago, saw the market went up almost 10% today. WHAT THE FUCK?
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm curious what a "fair deal" means on reciprocal tariffs. Seems the rest of the world really doesn't like being on equal footing.
  10. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    I like all the people just milling about like they didn't just watch a giant explosion of steam and sulphur erupt like 100 feet in front of them. The woman has the right idea and even she wasn't nearly as fast as I would've been.
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Haven't played this game in many months, but yeah, giants is way better in just about every way.
  12. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Annoying, but at the same time, running that over and over is incredibly boring. Would be nice if they'd adjust the gold requirements or drops across the board somehow. I like grindy games, but this one is kind of testing my limits.
  13. Gravel

    Apple TV+ thread

    Yeah, most of their shows have actually been decent to good. But you have to hear about them through word of mouth.
  14. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    This. Most banks will automatically go towards principal. But I've heard of some doing the above.
  15. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Glad you did the math. I'll eat my hat on this one and say it can make sense. I'm still of the mind that I'd rather take a 30 and invest the difference. But then, that's also easy when rates are sub-3% like what we got, versus 7-8% now.
  16. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Okay, so I went back with a buddy and did the Valby farm. That's retarded. Also, ignore the advice about using private. Just go public, no one is actually running that thing. It's just full of people running it for gold. And more people = more spawns. Also, knock the boss to immunity phase...
  17. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    They really probably needed to bump up the chances, maybe even double them. Even shitty stuff being a massive grind is going to turn people off, and then add on the exorbitant shop prices and it's probably a massive misstep. Had everything been more accessible, they probably would get more...
  18. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    So it's still working for you? Albeit at much lower rates than the YouTubers? Maybe the one run I tried just was shit, cause I couldn't maintain the v skill at all. Felt like nothing was spawning. Versus the kuiper mine one j mentioned where it's not even remotely an issue.
  19. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Yeah, I've never understood signing up for a 15 year mortgage when there's not really any penalty for early payment on a 30. And it protects you in the event shit hits the fan in your life and you suddenly can't make the payments on a 15. If you're the type to really min/max your finances, you...
  20. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    For some reason based on those dev notes, I just assumed they weren't going to nerf this into the ground. Rather that they were just going to pare back the rewards some. But it doesn't seem to work at all for me with the mob density being so low (not enough MP drops). Which is a shame since my...
  21. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Speaking of, is there some way to have reactors tied to a descendant? Having to manually change it (and remember) every time I switch it retarded.
  22. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Yeah, they set a price floor and outside of holiday sales, they'll never be able to lower it. Shame.
  23. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    I wish I'd ignored all the stuff about Tamer and just went with Thunder Cage. I wasted a mushroom on Tamer thinking it was better than it is. But my Thunder Cage absolutely melts. I'm way behind all the people that started the first couple days, but should have Gley, Valby, and Blair finished...
  24. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Not sure if this is directed at me? 20% chance and 9 runs has like a 86% chance of dropping. Doing the 7 runs before it was like an 75% chance or something close. Seems pretty unfortunate that I just keep ending up on the short end of it. I didn't even mention the dozen runs for a thunder cage...
  25. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Guess I need to finish my Valby soon. Been dicking around with Blair and on attempt #10 on the code. Took 7 for the spiral.
  26. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Just for a practical anecdote, I've been using actual. But it doesn't really matter. Long term capital gains are taxed at 0% for a married filing jointly to about $100k of earned income. And LTGC don't count as regular earned income. It means I have to use the qualified dividends worksheet...
  27. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    It's pretty baffling, but maybe they ran the numbers and thought it sounded good. I'd totally stop $10-20 bucks every month or two if I could get a handful of them. Like, the character slots seem pretty reasonably priced. But this other shit is just insane.
  28. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Where do you look up what's dropping right now?
  29. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Finally wrapped up the campaign (also, holy shit at the length of the campaign on this free game). There any "guides" or posts in this thread about what I should do now? Go get a new lvl 100 raw drop Tamer and look for better rolled stats?
  30. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Yes, all of those things. The problem is they just start overwhelming you towards the end here. Shit coming from all directions and in massive numbers, or with crazy modifiers. I can usually do okay, but the longer ones just eventually my luck runs out. Maybe I should've switched from Bunny for...
  31. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Is this game just ridiculously tuned if you're solo, or is it me? I'm getting to the end of the thing (Hagios), but basically everything will one shot my shield, and then the 2nd shot is insta-death. I've leveled up my hp/def modules for the descendant and go with hp/defense/shield on my...
  32. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Friends been harping on this one for a while and I finally tried it last night. Pretty dang addictive. Although I also had over 500 hours in Warframe. I'm maybe 1/3 of the way through the campaign (just did 3rd colossi), and not sure what I should be doing. Just keep grinding out the campaign...
  33. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    The fuck? How did you all miss this one? I rely on you all to be the breaking news source. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/shelley-duvall-dead-shining-actress-1235946118/
  34. Gravel

    The Bear

    She always does that shocked "well okay" look whenever literally anyone does something that's not her way. She's fucking obnoxious. We've only made it through two episodes of this season because they're just not particularly good. It's like they really leaned into the "let's make these people...
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Maybe this will get my mom off her ass to build a new home. I want to say they have something like 10,000 shares of TSLA? Maybe it was less, not sure. They've been putting it off because it fell so much.
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    For some reason this reads to me like your investing strategy is based on "besting" other investors. This is similar sentiment to the GME runup, and really what I see in all the Bitcoin (and other shitcoin) "investors." What stock ownership is though is company ownership. You're not just...
  37. Gravel

    The Bear

    We watched the first episode last night and my wife hated it. I think because it was very disjointed and hard to follow what was present versus flashback, and then when the events were happening in relation to each other. I thought it was decent but I enjoy character pieces. Which is probably...
  38. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm just still laughing at calling it Brave New World. They just can't help themselves rubbing our nose in it.
  39. Gravel

    Let's Be Cops (2014)

    I was reading the thread and for some reason my mind just turned all those 2014's into 2024's and I thought this was a new movie coming out. The Jump Street comment just went over my head as I assumed it was some new 21 Jump Street sequel I hadn't heard about.
  40. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    That sucks Darkness Falls was probably the funnest of the modded versions. Undead Legacy and Rebirth were also super good ones, although both kind of veered into nutty really fast. UL with the crazy crafting, and Rebirth with how ridiculous the class system was. Both fun if you want to grind...