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  1. Gravel

    Erenshor

    This is probably just like the Amazon store with "AI," and all these people you think are AI bots are actually Indians.
  2. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Man, how many centuries ago did Catholicism lose the plot? Ask yourself how any of that idolatry and displays of wealth have fuckall to do with Christ's teachings.
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Assuming you're already maxing things like a 401k and IRA (and HSA if it's available and that's a thing you want to do), I'd say it's worthwhile. My usual problem with them is you're basically going with a "putting your eggs in one basket" strategy by doing so. If your income is tied to the...
  4. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    The builder here, who probably cleared out a good 150+ lots, and has electric and plumbing ran to them, has basically all but stopped doing anything. It's pretty bizarre. They had been putting up houses super fast, but basically about when Trump got into office it was a hard stop. I chalked it...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Lemme guess without checking, it tanked 5% after.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Oof, so much for those "no recession coming." There's no way this quarter is going to be better than Q1.
  7. Gravel

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    Pretty sure this is why I never got into Oblivion outside of screwing around a bit. It actively punishes you for playing the game like an RPG. If I have to change the way I play to gimp myself so the game doesn't get fucky, that's not fun.
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think his stance ever changed. This is just people making shit up and it's enough to move markets 1-2%. Like @Sanrith Descartes said, the SEC should destroy these people. It's malicious.
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Right, but he's insinuating volatility way worse than this, and for much longer. In that scenario I see money going overseas.
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I hope not. If the market is more volatile like this, and it's a long term trend, money will probably move out of stocks and that'd be real, real bad. For everyone and everything.
  11. Gravel

    Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

    Honestly, they're just fun to watch for the creative death scenes.
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Except earnings aren't forward looking. We won't see earning hit by tariffs until next quarter. Stocks are forward looking, but it's why I said this correction seems kind of retarded to me as the tariffs are applied and then the next day rescinded. I mean, we probably needed a correction after...
  13. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Man, went and listened to a bunch of their shit. I really dig it too. Hope this grunge type stuff makes a comeback.
  14. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's probably like 4 or 5 feet deep. It's basically a giant barrel in the ground with a pump that takes your sewage out to the main line in the road. My thing is it'd be installed by a plumber, and they'd know that dropping a fucking vape pen would be a ticking time bomb of destroying the pump...
  15. Gravel

    The White Lotus

    I honestly barely remember any of the other seasons. I just know this one was very slow and really nothing happened. The brothers storyline could've had some character development, but they decided to throw the incest shit in there which basically killed it.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    But how much of that is just the Trump administration piling more bad tariffs news anytime the market starts moving up, and then the Fed who has impeccable timing with tanking it as well?
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, the market generally goes up. I suppose it's notable that 100% of the time it's positive within a year, but maybe not unexpected when you just had a massively volatile event. Plus, that thing is entirely 2008 and 2020.
  18. Gravel

    HDTVs

    So are smart TVs basically the only option anymore? We've been using a Sony TV we got probably a dozen or more years ago. Works great, and we use a Roku on it. We've had a few different TVs in the bedrooms though, and they all come with some bullshit interface from Amazon or Google or whoever...
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    The White Lotus

    It's funny you say this about stuff being cut, cause we just watched the last episode and my wife said "how long do you think these episodes would be if they cut out all these extended transition scenes?" I didn't pay all that much attention to them, but they had so many of them. They weren't...
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Remember when that Chinese AI came out and everyone was speculating on how China got ahold of export controlled chips? Not sure how many months ago that was, but now apparently they're not only acknowledging it but it's a massive portion of their revenue?
  21. Gravel

    The Life of Chuck (2025)

    So basically Benjamin Button, but with a normal person? It seems like it could be decent, but Stephen King and Mark Hamill make me very hesitant.
  22. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Wait til he finds the horse shampoo.
  23. Gravel

    The Pitt

    Also probably helps that we started Southland (me for the 2nd time) a couple months ago, so I was more aware of the actor.
  24. 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.
  25. Gravel

    Your Friends & Neighbors

    Seems decent so far. Hamm really does well with TV.
  26. 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.
  27. 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...
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

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

    Investing General Discussion

    Even reading the responses, I have no fucking clue what this means. Market about to drop off a fucking cliff?
  30. 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.
  31. 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?
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Haven't played this game in many months, but yeah, giants is way better in just about every way.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    This. Most banks will automatically go towards principal. But I've heard of some doing the above.
  38. 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.
  39. 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...
  40. 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...