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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    And if it doesn't dip? And you sat out while the market runs up? You're just talking about market timing and trying to fancy it up with "buy the dip." I'm telling you time in the market beats timing the market.
  2. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    What's crazy to me is that the people who grocery shop daily are still in a much better position than the people that, apparently, go to restaurants for every single meal they eat.
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What I always tell people is... It doesn't matter. Let's say you're buying something at $100 a share right now, and you're waiting for a "buy the dip" moment when it drops to $90. Let's also say you're around 20 years from retirement, and the market doubles every 7 years. By the time you...
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, making thousands of dollars every day passively is so boring. So much more fun when you lose tens of thousands.
  5. Gravel

    Candle Box - Far Behind - How Does a One Hit Wonder Become So Good

    I listened to those Orbit Culture songs posted above. I think I've really narrowed down why they sound so shit, and it's 100% the vocalist. At first I wanted to blame the entire band and say that it was just guitar distortion and blast beats, but it's really the vocals. There's absolutely no...
  6. Gravel

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    What server is everyone playing on? I haven't played this one in like a year. Since it's apparently carrying characters over, I figured I might play for the next day or so.
  7. Gravel

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    My question is, does something unlock later in the game that ever negates it? You shouldn't be out there slaying dragons but also so feeble that you can't see 2 feet in front of you in the dark. Where's the power fantasy in that?
  8. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Worms are only around in the open desert portions (basically the sandy portions). But yeah, that shit 100% draws worms. Especially in deep desert, you've got to turn your shield off and not use your flying belt things or worms will be on your ass fast.
  9. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Think I might be about done, at 113 hours. Playing as a solo it's just become way too grindy. At this point, I'm working on the advanced stations and in order to make them, it's spending a ton of time gathering corpses, making more aluminum/duraluminum so I can add more power, make a full load...
  10. Gravel

    Hacks

    We've been really slow in watching this season because it's been...not great. I decided after the 5th episode that I'd give it one more episode to be funny. Well, I'm writing this mid-episode. I don't know what the fuck happened, but it appears the writers on this show forgot it was a fucking...
  11. Gravel

    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    I more mean, their inaction is an implicit condoning of the emulators. It's not like they don't know about them or didn't have the ability to sue them for the last two decades.
  12. Gravel

    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    I do wonder how the fact that they've let emulators exist for almost 2 decades will play into that.
  13. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    My midgame base was here. If you're looking for a good spot, it's amazing. Aluminum spawns directly north, iron south (small desert crossing), crystals are a bit of a drive to the east and then NE to the basin, a ton of carbon directly east, a small bandit camp that spawns 1 or 2 (for blood or...
  14. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    It's funny, there's a post on Reddit this morning talking about how they went to the one lab in DD that's in the PVE area and it was challenging, randoms joined up, and it was a fucking blast. It's got tons of replies saying "that happened to me too!" Well, it happened to me, as well. I rolled...
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Market averages 10% per year. We're at about 4% right now. It's very possible we just continue chugging upwards the rest of the year.
  16. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Honestly, and @Cybsled has mentioned it a few times, you'll get a good 80-100 hours out of it before hitting the PVP part. It's very much worth buying. Hell, even then, my server is pretty friendly. I rarely see other people in the Deep Desert, and when I do, I almost instantly hear over voice...
  17. Gravel

    The Bear

    Might just delete season 3 off the server and never finish it. It has been almost exactly a year since we quit trying. Probably not going to happen. I think this one started off with a great idea for a first season and then could never figure out what the next arc would be after "opening a...
  18. Gravel

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Mentioned it a bit ago to someone who made the exact same post you just did. Just...go to Lumiere and finish the game, you've got like 1-2 hours left. Act 3 is super short outside of the side-stuff.
  19. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Was watching Clarkson's Farm and the closing song in the first season was this, and I'm like holy shit, what is that song? I honestly don't know why exactly I know this one. I mean, it's not obscure or anything, but still. Anyway, here's a Glen Campbell version instead of Mason Williams.
  20. Gravel

    Murderbot

    I'm hoping this isn't just one of those "the script adapters butchered the source material" and the actual thing wasn't quite this stupid.
  21. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Two guys I've been playing with haven't been on since Saturday. One hasn't even built an ornithopter yet, and the other is towards the end of aluminum phase and probably would be starting duraluminum the next time they get on. Neither have finished the Fremen main quest to unlock deathstills...
  22. Gravel

    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    This is the reason I've never touched a TLP. I'm not paying fucking $15 a month to play a game over a quarter century old. Seriously...just fuck right off with that nonsense. Even ignoring that emulators exist and I can play a better product for free, there are multitudes of games out there for...
  23. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    That was my thought as well. You've basically made it so the griefers only have to look in 5 rows instead of 8. Worse though, it seems like there's fuckall for resources anymore. I flew the entire length of I and H and found zero spice. In fact, the only spice I've found this morning was two...
  24. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    That was fast. I was getting ready to finally build my DD base, guess I'll plan on having it way out in the D row.
  25. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Sounds like you're agreeing with me? Also, regarding your point above, Cyb, it almost seems like they could just remove rows B through D. There's basically nothing there anyway, why make me fly all the way out there instead of just moving the resources to row A? It also makes your zone smaller...
  26. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    I keep seeing PVP people saying "you only need tier 6 for PVP" but this is ...not even remotely true? PVP is just scout ornicopters shooting at each other. I guess you could argue that you need MK6 copter parts, but that means all the other shit is useless. The way DD is currently implemented...
  27. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    That's another failure of this end game system they've built. "We want people engaging in the guild content" and yet, no way to search for guilds in game. Cool.
  28. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    I asked the same the other day about Landsraad. Nothing explains the system whatsoever. I think it's limited to guilds maybe?
  29. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Finally went to the actual Deep Desert (not just the wrecks and labs in row A). I've got to say, all my gnashing about PVP is misguided. The real problem with the Deep Desert is it's boring as fuck. Like, holy shit, I'd read about people flying a lot, but I wasn't really appreciating it. I just...
  30. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Everyone is dicksucking Funcom for these changes, but I'm still pretty hesitant to see how they implement it. They really want the PVP to be a thing, but the game loop isn't there, and they're still not talking about it. If you're a PVE player, there needs to be some kind of reason to engage in...
  31. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Our first base was next to the Anvil outpost. Then I moved to a much larger base at the border between Eastern Shield Wall, Mysa Tarill, Western Vermullius Gap, and Jabal (basically right next to the 7th trial cave). This is basically the very NW corner of your map. Recently built what should...
  32. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    The biggest issue with PVP in this game, as far as I can tell, is it's objectiveless. What do you get from engaging in PVP? There are no PVP rewards. That means the only purpose it can have is griefing. They implemented a PVP as endgame system, but to what end? They mention Landsraad in there...
  33. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Probably because PVP in these types of games is always fucking terrible. And in this one the only thing it amounts to is griefers attempting to get PVE'ers eaten by the worm so they lose everything. I mean, on the one hand there's really no danger in the deep desert, so it does add some actual...
  34. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Climbing stamina over compactor gains?
  35. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Probably not super significant, but does anyone know where the fuck the access band is in the Hicetas shipwreck in A1? I ran all over the place and couldn't find it. I imagine it's probably got to be like that one in A3 that you cutteray some random shit to find it. I did both the access panels...
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What can I say, markets can be irrational. They never should've dropped 20% from the tariffs either, but they did. Futures also generally mean fuckall in my opinion, but usually foreign markets are a decent indication.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Seems like no one gives a shit about this Iran thing. Futures are basically flat, Japan is basically flat, China is basically flat. Hong Kong is slightly green. I'll be glad to be wrong about this one. Although I guess we can wait and see if there's any reaction from Iran.
  38. Gravel

    From

    I mentioned in another thread I rewatched Band of Brothers a couple weeks ago. There's a guy that looks a ton like Paul Rudd in it, and it wouldn't be a shocker because even Jimmy Fallon was in that series. Turns out it's Elon Bailey, Jim in this show. I also happened to catch the tail end of...
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm baffled by people that pay for financial advice. If anyone knew what was going on, they'd be so incredibly rich it'd be ridiculous. It's why I laughed at Brosar's "just buy winners" approach. Like shit, I've been holding stocks that go down in value like a sucker. I can't believe no one's...
  40. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    Ah, that must've been it, cause I was definitely standing in the green shit. DD doesn't sound worth it. I mean, good for stories, but that seems pointless.