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  1. 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.
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Yeah, they set a price floor and outside of holiday sales, they'll never be able to lower it. Shame.
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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.
  11. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Where do you look up what's dropping right now?
  12. 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?
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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/
  17. 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...
  18. 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.
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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...
  24. Gravel

    30 Rock

    Try to separate the actors from the show. Otherwise you'll just be miserable. I mentioned this in some other thread, but you'd basically have to stop watching any tv or movies and stop listening to almost all music. It's infected everything. Those bands you love from the 70s through 90s? Yeah...
  25. Gravel

    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    Maybe late to this one as there's a couple pages since this post, but horror movies are like the one, single profitable movie genre without a doubt. They absolutely crush it.
  26. Gravel

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Shit, I played Shadows of Yserbius long before EQ came out, and then NWN on AOL. I'd been doing MMOs for years. I was blown away by EQ. That and Quake 3 were game changers for me.
  27. Gravel

    The Penguin

    I for one am excited for the 18th cinematic retelling of the Batman origin story.
  28. Gravel

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    The frustrating part being that Winds won't be concluding the story or anything. There's literally zero chance he ever writes the final book.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That rebalancing will also force massive price hikes on Nvidia, and potentially crush Apple? I mean, the many, many indexes won't all rebalance at once, but they all will eventually.
  30. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    We're all bigots. Except the faggots like Zweishneid who suck as much DEI cock as they'll shovel down his throat.
  31. Gravel

    Furiosa (2024)

    Just giving consumers even less reason to go to the movies. People remember stuff like this.
  32. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    It's defending wokeism by downplaying it. It's actually good, you're just a bigot.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Are you fucking kidding me that the markets are closed today? I know this isn't the thread for it, but that's ridiculous. When the only holidays it used to be closed for were like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial, and Labor Day, this just sounds insane to me.
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm curious about relying on things like the 200 day, and how they fared in years we've had 20-35% gains. Especially, like I mentioned before, periods like the 80s, late 90s, and post great recession. Seems like it likely didn't matter then and the markets sustained rallies over several years.
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Unless you're selling, you're not taking a loss. Index funds work best if you just ignore them. Also, that's something conventional wisdom ignores for even regular retirees. It's not like you liquidate everything when you turn 65. If you expect to live another 20-30 years, you probably need to...
  36. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    Honestly, if you wanted to really tank this show, it seems like you could really lean into the whole thing and call it out for only using "women" and lesbians, and that it's 2024 and that's very narrow minded when there are 900 genders and just as many sexualities. That they're so non-inclusive...
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Market has blown past my end of year prediction. That's not to say it can't or won't drop back down. Wondering if we get another late 1990s run. That'd be pretty sweet.
  38. Gravel

    30 Rock

    I've been watching/rewatching lots of these shows over the last several years. The Office, Parks & Rec, Everybody Loves Raymond, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, Seinfeld, etc. And yeah, haven't watched this one in a long, long time. Might be next up. And I'm at the point where I don't care about...
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm old school. I use an excel spreadsheet. We've changed to quarterly, but we basically just log into the accounts and check. We did monthly from 2018 until we retired. Annually before that from the time we started aggressively saving for early retirement.
  40. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    I don't watch Star Wars shows. Or actually, I guess Star Wars anything. But this showed up on my recommended because it's Drinker. Didn't even realize this thread was a Star Wars thread, but holy shit. This sounds hilariously bad. I can't believe anyone watches this drivel.