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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    2 nails in an hour is pretty nice. I decided to end my Maegu experiment. Went to grind on my Lahn after untagging and was like, holy shit, did I make a massive mistake? Was doing absolute shit damage. Realized about 5 minutes in I had the wrong crystals. Whoops! I will say, after grinding for...
  2. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I'm such a waffler with this fucking game. I've been kind of disappointed with my silver/hr, so I've been bouncing around changing my main. I thought I had finally settled on Maegu. It feels really strong, with massive AOEs that just dumpster shit. I feel like I'm moving through and between...
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's even harder when you need to liquidate for actual living expenses. I mentioned last year that because the market was so bad, I was only going to do enough for about 2/3 to 3/4 of our 2023 expenses. Well, we're about at the time. I did a month back in July and timed the peak almost...
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Is this the shoeshine boy moment? At the very least for 0DTE's?
  5. Gravel

    For All Mankind

    Last season seemed really bogged down. They need more space stuff and less character drama (don't give a shit about lesbian President's or that stupid kid having a mental breakdown).
  6. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Speaking of rents, saw a house when we were driving home for rent and was curious about how much. Wife found it, and it's $2150 at 1350 sqft. Our mortgage, in a bigger house we bought two years ago, is $1300 (incl tax/insurance).
  7. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    If you had a set of dumbbells (adjustable?) and a bench, you can do pretty much a full workout. We sold our power rack when we moved from CA to FL, and I've been making due for the last couple years with dumbbells from 10 to 55, a curl bar, a regular barbell, and the plates we had. Oh, and a...
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Likely because the only reason it was even down was energy, and now energy is going back up again.
  9. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Isn't bloodwolves like 5b an hour now? Seems like an iridescent is super cheap when you're bringing in season money.
  10. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not to say you wasted your money, but The Wild is basically the go to for PVE artifacts until you can afford whatever end game one your class goes with.
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    You can extract the heart. And do what I did, just use Jetina to swap out a Tuvala awakening if you need to, and put it in that. It's completely free. And if you're needing a 2nd pegasus, you can sell the Dine, and use the Training discord to find you an opposite sex Pegasus. I definitely...
  12. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Pretty much identical to what happened with me a few months ago. One tapped a Dine. Sold it and traded for a Pegasus.
  13. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Saving up for Deathblow at the moment. Needs two Blades, for 10b total. But it should boost my damage significantly (10% crit). After that I think I'll be back to grinding out money to buy Caphras.
  14. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I hope you're right (assuming I'm reading this right) that the bones are there for modders to flesh out the space stuff. It just annoys me that the price of admission doesn't include that, and you're relying on people who didn't develop the game to do it. And it doubly annoys me that a...
  15. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This is why I kept bringing up games developed 5-10 years ago that did space better than this. And that's constantly being met with "that's not this game." Yeah, no shit. But why did they release a lazy rehash of the same shit they did 20 years ago? Well, look no further than the people who...
  16. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I looked it up, and I guess they don't. Been wasting 600k silver!
  17. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, I go: Simple Cron (Exquisite Cron if I'm at the AP cap already) Church Buffs (AP/DP) Tent Buff (Adventurer's Confidence, 600k) Adventurer's Luck V* (only if it's got rare drops, cause 50m is expensive as hell) Villa Buff (Body Enhancement, 1m/hr) Frenzy Draught And then add in any EXP...
  18. Gravel

    Aquaman 2

    I tried watching it. It was pretty awful. Didn't even make it 30 minutes in before I said fuck this.
  19. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    $1500 and you get digital codes. Awesome.
  20. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Downside of mana pot is that it doesn't have incremental upgrades. With health pot, you get one piece and you can use it immediately. And with fairy, you basically have infinite no effort heals.
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Kind of depends on your goals. I'd recommend doing the Jetina stuff, and then picking a pot piece and making sure to do that weekly for the extra 5 pities (you can open the Monster Zone Info window, and it'll show you the quests for the area you pick, but it's always the node manager). Also...
  22. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's hard to answer that question for the broader population, since I think so many of us have a bias towards our own upbringing/current means which is likely middle class to lower upper class. For someone with the means, home ownership is the single best hedge against inflation. I don't like...
  23. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Flower of Oblivion. The one for doing imperial horse delivery. Need 100 per attempt, too. Have 390 ferns and 28 feathers apparently.
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Just to add, when I was still working, usually we'd see lead engineer types on a DoD project making about $150/hr fully burdened. So the UAW is asking for the average autoworker to be making what an engineer with 20+ years of experience on a fighter jet is making.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm assuming that's a fully burdened labor rate? But still, I've rarely seen a burdened rate that's more than 50% of the total, so that's still $68/hr in actual pay at worst (~$130k annually). Average.
  26. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Assuming you get a courser, which should be easy with all the skill coupons they give out, you should also be able to easily get a dream horse with the ridiculous amount of awakening materials they give out. You can probably get two, in fact. They've really cheapened the prestige of dream horses...
  27. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Have you not been reading? It's the buggy nature of the game that makes it "quirky." And the fact that modders have to fix the game. That's what makes a Bethesda game "fun." Personally, I didn't like any of the Bethesda Fallout games. Give me Fallout 2 over that garbage.
  28. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That would be fucking amazing. The entire thing should be a flat fee, but then no one would want to do it.
  29. Gravel

    Gen V

    Oh good, more superhero shit.
  30. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Half a million for a fucking manufactured home. I'd chalk those up to land prices, but none of those seem like very desirable areas or large lots.
  31. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Yeah, this is definitely a case of both being true. It's been the case for at least the last decade that people expect to live in a house as large and as nice as their parents did, while still in their 20s. Basically skipping all the starter homes. At the same time, over the last few years...
  32. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I wasn't blaming you. Anyway, my thought process with the crystals was that I was WAY overgeared (although I forgot that my awakening weapon is just a TET Dande) and I wasn't at risk of dying. And I wasn't. Until I got fucking warped into the terrain. It does sound like this is a Striker issue...
  33. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I decided to try to level up some alts with this 1 Marni fuel thing. Went with striker first, and did Biraghi since you keep mentioning it. At one point I jumped into a fucking tree or those barricades, got stuck, and couldn't escape because the mobs were constantly attacking. Lost a...
  34. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Bummer about the timepiece. Manually leveling all my alts is a bummer. As far as trash, I basically never use maids. Just park the horse nearby and stack it. Even at Orcs running an agris coin and burning actual agris on top, it's usually only every 15 min or so. Although in fairness I think I...
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Doesn't that make the IWM drop that @Jysin posted seem a bit more concerning then? Yeah, the tech companies are driving the big indexes, but IWM is what actually matters and if it's going to fall off a cliff, well, the market is fucked.
  36. Gravel

    Weather

    Lots of hurricanes this season, but they're almost all ocean ones. Which, I think I mentioned a while back (maybe in another thread), but they'll talk about how climate change is making us have more hurricanes while ignoring that these types are ones we wouldn't have even known about not that...
  37. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Don't worry guys, the developers went into this knowing their game was half-assed, but the modders will fix it all.
  38. Gravel

    No Man's Sky

    I don't know why I have to keep saying it, but if I were going to make a fucking space game, maybe I'd take the best features of No Man's Sky? You know, all the stuff that they added to fix the game well before now? But I guess when all the gamers will just use the excuse that you shouldn't...
  39. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Just an FYI, but go with the most desired fairy skill first, because they get more expensive. So always start with Cheer V, and then work your way down the list.