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  1. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm fine with it. Pixar is dead. If they want to fag everything up, go for it. I've already stopped watching.
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    The Marvels (2023)

    I'm curious how this baddie, who is apparently that purple dude from the first Guardians movie just gender swapped, is somehow even remotely a challenge for Captain Marvel who could almost single handedly fuck up Thanos with the infinity stones? They really fucked up with her whole power level.
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    Home buying thread

    My only thought on that would be boomers who bought a house for like $100k, had it paid off or close to it, and now it's worth $500k-1m+. So you use the equity to buy a smaller place in cash and not need a loan, and use the remainder to live off or something. But I can't imagine that's a very...
  4. Gravel

    2023 AssHat Voting round 3

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule - Bullshit that LLR took this. But I'll go with the Ruskie. Ambiturner vs. Lanx - Fuck the po-lice. Pharmakos vs. Boozecube - I hope this is the end of the line for Booze, because I think pharmakos should win this whole thing. Tuco vs. Foler - I'm going to...
  5. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    It is a shame. Your continued support means they'll keep making this low tier trash.
  6. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Has Arteezy ever even been a good player?
  7. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard about housing. The median age of boomers is like 70. Those people aren't going to downsize. All the ones that were going to did around covid when they fucked off from expensive places like California and New York.
  8. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I'd love to see your numbers on that. I've done some rough estimates a few times and I've always come to the conclusion I'd rather just sell than rent if we ever leave this house. Granted, that's with the assumption the stock market will return 7-10% per year, which...I guess we'll see...
  9. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    Pssh, I won't allow you to rewrite whatever history I remember.
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nah, my post explained it, but historically we should've had a very strong year to follow up the last few. Usually we get a much bigger bounce after a 20%+ down year. I blame the complete ineptitude of basically everyone in government pushing the scales and fucking up the natural market tendencies.
  11. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Agreed. But much like the Israel/Palestine thing, I hope this drags out for more pain to both sides.
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    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    The northeast bracket sucks. None of those matchups will be good. Some stronger contenders should've been moved there. That whole left side is stacked.
  13. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I like that the Lahn buffs came like right after I decided to switch my main to Zerker. Guess I could switch back if it's as big as you're saying. Finished up my mana pot last night. Got my 2nd full piece (first was Sherekhan) at Manshaums at 54 pities. Not bad. I hadn't really planned on...
  14. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    Araysar vs. Dicktrickle - I could play contrarian, but why bother? Lightning Lord Rue vs. frenzied wombat - Jew deserve this. Bandwagon vs. Ambiturner - Any other year this wouldn't be the vote, but his shit got old this one. Lanx vs. Blazin - I feel like he wants this vote. Denamian vs...
  15. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Ew, no, I'm not black. I'm in the panhandle.
  16. Gravel

    Dark

    Should probably not speculate until finishing, because the rabbit hole just gets fucking crazier. Edit: To clarify, in this thread. Have fun figuring out WTF is going on on your own.
  17. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    Seriously?
  18. Gravel

    Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

    I was thinking it sounded a lot like Warm Bodies.
  19. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    God damnit, now I really don't know which @Brodhi @Bodhy is the misc one. I really though he had fucked off back to misc, but apparently not? Either way, fuck him for making me always confused with one of our actual long time members.
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    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    Lots of religious mentions in these votes. Is there some weird religious war going on under the surface of this board I'm unaware of (once again, outside of the Intifada thing)?
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    Dark

    The fuck? There was a 12 Monkeys TV show?
  22. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

    Always feel weird with these votings because I don't frequent all the sections of the board like I did a decade+ ago. Zaara vs. Dicktrickle - Like this one, neither bothers me. So eh. Ignatius vs. Lightning Lord Rule - Mods always get the first round nod. ... vs. frenzied wombat - Changing my...
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    AssHat 2023 Voting Round 1

  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Was going to respond to Sanrith the other day when he said I was making emotional decisions on when to sell, but I'm just going to quote you instead. These are the 3 points I've sold this year. Yeah, one of them was shit, but the trend was looking pretty bad.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Likely had a dodgy heart from the drug use. Combined with exercise and jumping into a hot tub. That's a recipe for heart failure.
  26. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Holy shit, I hadn't seen that. That's a massive drop. Had been at about 16b for forever. I know Khan hearts dropped a bit.
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    Home buying thread

    We moved in two years ago, and it's appreciated about $60k. But yeah, still nice. Plus we threw in almost all the equity we gained from our California house so we're a good $110-120k up if we sold. If that number gets high enough, we'll sell and build a house in Orange Beach, AL.
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    Black Desert

    WTF at these stupid Halloween boxes? Got another Kutum.
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That's insane. My house on the Florida coast less than a mile from the beach, in a tourist destination, is barely at $350k.
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nope, this is only the second year. I had considered it though, especially after last year where it just progressively got lower. At the very least, doing quarterly. Maybe that's something I try next year. I'm honestly still feeling the whole thing out. At the same time, I probably overthink...
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, it's not like it's doing great, either. Up half a percent after dropping 4% in the last month.
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    Black Desert

    Got 2 of those Halloween boss boxes from the Black Spirit's adventure, and got two Kutum Hearts. So now I have 2 Garmoth, 1 Karanda, and 2 Kutum. Honestly don't even know wtf to do with the Karanda/Kutum ones. I planned on throwing the Karanda one into the Shai awakening if I ever get around to...
  33. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Yeah the better question might be, why didn't more people refinance to sub-3%?
  34. Gravel

    Snow White (2024)

    Would it? Yeah, less midgets would be upset. But the lead actress still said "fuck Snow White" to anyone that would listen.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Yeah, I wondered if it was a relapse. Then saw it was drowning. Not sure if they're related. Kind of a bummer though.
  36. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Damn. https://nypost.com/2023/10/28/entertainment/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-age-54-of-apparent-drowning-report/
  37. Gravel

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    I wonder what this does for all the young girls who think we need to tax billionaires?
  38. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Dang, massive boost for Lahn coming. Might reconsider switching mains...again.
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, it's not my first rodeo here. How did "selling low" look last year? I waited all year for it to recover and it never did. See my posts from December where I talked about how I liquidated part of 2023 and planned on doing the rest when the market recovered. I sold in July and September at...
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Haven't done any selling for 2024 funds yet. Getting pretty nervous about the current market trajectory so I just pulled the trigger on 2 month's worth. I kept hoping we'd pull out of this rut. And we have, just in the wrong direction.