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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Inertia maybe? Lots of money has been sitting on the sidelines, and with things running up, no one wants to miss the boat. Also see my post a week or two ago about all the boomers who probably sold over the last 1-2 years. They're probably seeing now as a good time to get back in (despite the...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'd argue we already had the recession, just none of the government's cooked metrics reflected it. Heck, the textbook one of GDP they decided deserved a new definition and made it no longer a recession. That said, I honestly expected us to dip much lower than we did earlier in the year. But I...
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Dang, markets broke higher pretty strong today. Will definitely make my quarterly account balance look good if there's no profit taking later today.
  4. Gravel

    Pets

    So we kept that dog for a few weeks, but he really never adjusted. We had the breeder over to visit a couple times and his attitude was just a complete 180 when she was around. We offered to do short term fostering of him to work on socializing and training him until he got adopted, but she...
  5. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    No, Fran Drescher was raped. My guess is watching it happen probably fucked him up and he lost the taste for pussy out of guilt. "I can't do that to a woman!"
  6. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Sounds like the rape was in the 80's. And it also sounds like that trauma made him gay. No journalist will ever make that connection though.
  7. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Good. Cut their own throats. Media is on the downtrend, and now they're going to make sure it gets beaten to a pulp.
  8. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    11 in two weeks, 7 of those at Panama City. It's definitely a bad year for rips. Although I basically avoid the beach from May through August.
  9. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    He drowned in Destin today.
  10. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/37924883/former-arkansas-nfl-qb-ryan-mallett-dies-35
  11. Gravel

    Military Thread

    Holy shit, what an asshole. And what a fucking joke the military has become. I saw less overreaction to people being shit faced in a warzone (ignoring the celebration).
  12. Gravel

    Silo

    The entire Silo is hunting you down and trying to kill you, but you take the time to watch the entire love video your dead boyfriend sent you, completely oblivious to everything else (twice!). And the other files that, you know, they're trying to kill you for and would give you answers? Well...
  13. Gravel

    The Bear

    I know I like to shit on Hollywood for not coming up with anything worthwhile, but this is definitely a standout show. Only watched the first episode, but it seems to be about the same quality. It's setting up with the obvious conflict being the money thing...again. Not sure if I want to burn...
  14. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The weight is the big one to me. Like I bought a bunch of weight on a zerker that I probably have no intentions of playing. Although, I honestly don't know what I'd put it on instead. But I'm sure there's someone out there that changed their main and wants to dump all that stuff on it.
  15. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Combat/skill and inventory/weight expire July 26. The weapons and health/breath/strength don't have an expiration.
  16. Gravel

    Black Desert

    If you've been wanting to change your main, like, legit change it, now is the time. 14 days of guild buffs which include weapon exchange coupons, health/breath/strength exchange, combat/skill exp exchange, and most of all, an inventory/weight exchange coupon.
  17. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    I'm not a huge fan of it. It's just a fucking retarded amount of books you need. Feel like my entire playthrough is just trying to find books. That said, all the rest of it is good shit. Although I did go into a city today while it was raining and my FPS went into the shitter. I liked back in...
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm always amazed at how over leveraged people are on cars. And most of all like you said, where they trade in their car for a fraction of its value to go in for an even more unaffordable car. Even at our highest incomes, I can't imagine having a $500+ monthly car loan. Talk about pissing money...
  19. Gravel

    From

    I'm assuming that whatever the music box monster is is more powerful than the slow walkers and they're scared of it. And cicadas are somehow tied in. But yeah, this show didn't need to add any additional mysteries.
  20. Gravel

    Weather

    It's that weird ass jetstream. It's fucking up the weather everywhere.
  21. Gravel

    From

    Really expected more to happen with only one left. Feels like the only thing we got was that maybe the dead people's nightmares were what lives in the forest, and that's conjecture. I've hated the junkie girlfriend storyline, so I hope she dies. But since she didn't yet, I'm sure they'll save...
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's the problem of market consolidation at the top. They drive the major indexes, but they're not the economy.
  23. Gravel

    Weather

    I guess there's some weird fucking jetstream thing going on, but it's giving us hellish thunderstorms every day here in Florida. Hope this shit moves off soon.
  24. Gravel

    Black Desert

    And the boss blitz rewards are officially disappointing. May as well just call it Dark Rift v2. This is with a 6th place, two 13th, a 19th, and I want to say 20-something.
  25. Gravel

    From

    Almost caught up, but yeah. I hate nitpicking, but this is ridiculous. "Hey, I've got these weird worms in my arm." "Wow, Boyd's lost it, what a lunatic." Yeah, because all the other shit in this town makes sense, right? My biggest nitpick though is that they butchered the hot doctor's hair and...
  26. Gravel

    Peacock Streaming Service On Sale

    Yeah, we're a few episodes into it and it's decently funny. It's obviously not even trying to be realistic with how off the wall it is.
  27. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So this expansion is ass. It's got the same problem I was talking about with Lost Ark, where you've got this decent new content, but you lock it behind a weekly timer. If you've done the story and journals, and you've hit your 5 weeklies, there's literally zero reason to be on the new...
  28. Gravel

    Elemental (2023)

    Have you seen any of the last few? I only saw Luca out of the bunch but it was pretty bad. Sounds like the others were even worse.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I haven't been in a while, but I know that I had no data at all available prior to the changeover. Basically like I started a brand new account with whatever my old balance was starting that month (whatever year that was). I was pretty annoyed by it. I've thought about transferring it all out...
  30. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I've tried other classes and yeah, I can't give up the movement of Lahn. It's just so damn handy. It's basically the reason Arduanatt is vastly superior to the other dream horses, but in class form. Especially with Land of Morning Light, having Lahn and Arduanatt was like cheat mode. Saw one of...
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Really thought today would be much more red. Seems like everyone was saving it for power hour, but I doubt we see much more than 1% pullback. And considering how high we've gone the last month, that's not much.
  32. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Just got my 2nd Garmoth Heart drop. 3 months after the first. That's some bizarre luck.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Don't forget the lessons of the 2008 Recession. Tons of people sold at the bottom and didn't buy back in until 2012, 2013, or later. There's probably a fuck load of money sitting on the sidelines still and they'll buy at exorbitant prices. We may be seeing some FOMO buying as people hope they...
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, this is getting a bit out of hand. Markets up almost 8% in just the last month?
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    We're also still about 10% off the all time high, which was a year and a half ago. Now, that was also a bit of a bubble, so maybe it doesn't mean anything. But it probably helps with the algo's.
  36. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Finally finished the story. It was buggy as hell. Probably had to force close the game a dozen times. Not super excited about just doing these bosses 5 times a week. Such a bizarre decision to make that the only thing there outside of lifeskills. Edit: Nice, and they just did an announcement...
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The fuck? What industry do you work in that that'd be a thing?
  38. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Whoever decided to make hours upon hours of unskippable cutscenes is a colossal asshole.
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Once again, that's not how inflation works. Positive number = higher prices. Unless we get deflation, prices don't come down. This is just what shit costs now. A smaller positive number just means the pace of increases is slowing, not that they're reversing.
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Ah, guess I was thinking about July then. Let's see how far this bull can run before that happens!