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  1. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Think matchmaking is completely broken at the moment. Whatever patch they did to fix matchmaking broke it. You can see 0 Helldivers in most menus.
  2. Gravel

    Skull and Bones - Feb 16th 2024 Release Date

    It's because people keep buying this shit and supporting lazy developers.
  3. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Think something definitely went wonky with their offline calculations. I think we played for 4 hours last night, but at least an hour of that I think was trying to connect. Went from level 12 to 17, had 119 medals, maxed out credits (50k), and had like 430 green samples. There's absolutely no...
  4. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    So if you relog (and are able to get back in), you get the rewards. Not sure if it's all, but definitely exp and a few other things.
  5. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Don't worry, @Mist has assured us this is all a giant waste of time. He's really doubling down on this. It's going to be like Robert Reich and his "internet is just a passing fad" quote.
  6. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Whatever good will this game had is going to go out the window if they don't figure out the server issues. Game is completely fucked right now. We were in, but no rewards at the end at all. Now the servers are at capacity and no one can play.
  7. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    The opening sequence of the game was so insanely Starship Troopers. It was pretty awesome.
  8. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Seems like those personal missions are bugged, too. Have my own and the main one, and neither ever seems to update.
  9. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Maybe you're right. But even in that case, it looks like this: Not just a one off where everything plateaus and stays there forever. But AI is also different. What about when it surpasses human capabilities?
  10. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I just wanted to bump this thread because this video was in my recommended. Not that this video is special in particular, but he does give good examples of where AI has come in a year. Despite working in tech, we have people like Mist who just for some reason can't comprehend exponential...
  11. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Makes me wonder what next month's surprise hit will be. No one really saw Palworld or this having this type of success.
  12. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Maybe I'll turn AA back on and leave that off and see if I'm still locking up, cause some things look like shit without AA on. Been pretty good since I turned both off though.
  13. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Screen-space global illumination
  14. Gravel

    Snack Shack

    This seems like a good callback to the fun types of comedies I grew up on in the 80's/90's. None of the super ridiculous shit they try to throw into "teen comedies" the last 2 decades.
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Agreed. I think we're all a little worried about being doxxed, but I'm honestly not sure why. Since someone brought up passive investing, and that's all I ever did; outside of that $1k foray into AMC during the GMC mania, that I promptly turned into $500, and then rode on PLTR going from $500...
  16. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Robots seem about half a difficulty harder than bugs (so medium robots is halfway between medium and challenging bugs). We had one map where there was a giant fucking robot turret laser thing that would snipe us from 500m out. We couldn't figure out how to disable it so we just ran away in zig...
  17. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Honestly, there aren't really many bugs that I've seen. I turned off AA and one other thing and it solved my crashing problem. Otherwise the only "bug" is with matchmaking, and if you just spam it a few times you can get in. The most I had to do was 9 or 10 tries, and that takes about 30...
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think any of us are Cad level wealthy, so don't worry about it.
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Space: Fox
  20. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Musk?
  21. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Difficulty is weird, too. We do a group of 3 (although @Sludig joined us randomly at some point last night) and just absolutely steamroll medium difficulty. We tried challenging and it was literally just running for our lives and barely making it out. The medium sized armored guys take about...
  22. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Butterscotch Krumpets were the shit. Sadly I tried them again maybe a decade ago and they didn't really hold up to my childhood memories.
  23. Gravel

    Madame Web (2024)

    That was pretty good. The Weekend Update thing where that white guy and black guy wrote each other's lines was good too.
  24. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Had my first kick from group as we were extracting. That's pretty obnoxious. Probably won't use quick matching anymore. Also, I don't see any new patch?
  25. Gravel

    Apple TV+ thread

    I was confused what this had to do with Apple until I scrolled up. Think I found a new song to rotate into my drum practice. Really liked the opening on that song and it has some really fun sounding fills. Pretty insane those guys are all about 60 now.
  26. Gravel

    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    Yeah, I rarely revisit one of these after the initial release. There's been a handful like 7 Days to Die which is in it's 11th year of alpha I believe, but they're pretty rare.
  27. Gravel

    Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

    I literally just have 1 lettuce, 1 tomato, 1 berry, and 1 wheat, with a bee, cow, and chicken, and it's enough to make salads for all my pals and make enough cake that it'll cook before every breed. I supposed if I started running multiple breeding pens I might need more, but as of now I have...
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Womp womp, CPI higher than expected, inflation actually not under control, soft landing a pipe dream. Stocks in the toilet.
  29. Gravel

    Skull and Bones - Feb 16th 2024 Release Date

    Sid Meier's Pirates and AC 4: Black Flag are basically the only two pirate games worth a shit ever made.
  30. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Game seems super fun, but I keep locking up.
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Any particular reason why? Or just your "feelings?" Presidential election years are usually really good for the stock market. And when they're not they're really, really bad. Considering where we sit at the moment, it seems like we'd keep trending up. This is also why people usually lose money...
  32. Gravel

    Skull and Bones - Feb 16th 2024 Release Date

    I feel like I said the same thing in the Diablo thread before it came out and angry nerds yelled at me about how "that's how much games should cost now."
  33. Gravel

    Infinite Craft

    Few new ones today.
  34. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    So they absorb it and then what? You gather em all up and bury them somewhere else?
  35. Gravel

    Infinite Craft

    I had sort of a similar experience earlier today.
  36. Gravel

    Infinite Craft

    I really wish I could figure out instruments. The whole music genre seems to allude me. It's also becoming completely unwieldly with how much I've done. Was able to make headway into Ninja Turtles, the DC universe, a bunch of Disney properties, a whole bunch of marijuana stuff (inadvertent in...
  37. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    See that Rick Beato video about the Telecommunications Act...of 1996. It killed the music industry. So it makes sense that it all started going wrong after that.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, we're already up almost 6% YTD and it's not even 6 weeks into the year. I'd be shocked if we didn't pull back a bit at some point in the next two weeks.
  39. Gravel

    Infinite Craft

    Just another example I had with a new discovery, and where shit gets weird: Squid + Comedy = Squidward Squidward + Laughter = Spongebob Spongebob + Comedian = Spongebob Squarepants Spongebob Squarepants + Jabba the Hutt = Jabba The Sponge Jabba The Sponge + Squidward = Jabba The Squid Jabba The...
  40. Gravel

    Infinite Craft

    This will probably get posted eventually. It has no business being this addictive. Hell, I'm not even entirely sure why I play it. But for some reason once I start I'm just clicking away for an hour. I recommend the browser version over the phone though just because it gets a bit difficult to...