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  1. Gravel

    Monsters at Work

    Title: Monsters at Work Genre: Family, Comedy, Animation Creator: Roberts Gannaway Cast: Ben Feldman, Mindy Kaling, Henry Winkler, Lucas Neff, Alanna Ubach, Billy Crystal, John Goodman First aired: 2021-07-07 Overview: Ever since he was a kid, Tylor Tuskmon has dreamed of becoming...
  2. Gravel

    New World: Survey & Info

    Is there a list of what servers they'll have at launch yet? And also, is there some kind of list of where the streamers are playing, so I can avoid those ones?
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    Investing General Discussion

    Fuck you, man. Stop trying to make me work! I'm retiring so I don't have to anymore. I'm going to surf and paint and bike during the day and poopsock New World at night.
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    New World

    Ran into my first crash. Game locked up and then crashed. Now every time I load the character it crashes, effectively meaning I'm completely locked out from playing it anymore.
  5. Gravel

    Jungle Cruise (2020)

    Haven't watched it yet, but that's essentially what the ride is. It's literally just bad puns and dad jokes. It's not really even a ride. That's why it depends so heavily on the Disney employee who's driving the boat. If they suck, the ride sucks. If they're good, the ride is hilarious.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Oh, we're not going to go crazy with spending. Believe me, I've thought of everything. I'm way too risk averse to just be jumping into this haphazardly. We're already in Florida. Renting right now, but our offer for new construction was accepted Thursday. House isn't finished yet, so that's why...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yes, healthcare is basically the bane of early retirement. And it essentially becomes the biggest hurdle and expense. If we were in some socialized, single payer country, we probably could've retired years ago. It's the one reason I regret not sticking it out with the military. Healthcare for...
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    Investing General Discussion

    That's definitely true. And 2020 made it look even more ridiculous. I was actually telling that to my wife the other day. Our net worth from September 2019 - January 2020 was around half what it is now. It was on a fucking rocket ship by November 2020 (went up about 40%), and then from November...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Since we're getting super close to the end here, we finally shut off the automatic deposits to our IRA's. I stopped 401k contributions when I changed jobs. It feels incredibly weird to switch from saving so much (we were in the 60-70% savings rate range) to not putting a single cent away. It's...
  10. Gravel

    New World

    The big thing for me is the faction quests are so much more palatable than the town board, and seem to offer similar xp. But town quests have me tracking down all kinds of wazoo shit like animals in zones I've never been, an insane amount of a resource, or crafting some shit that's either super...
  11. Gravel

    New World

    Maybe my shit is bugged then. Level 18, and the next set of faction gear unlocks at 20. Or starts to.
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    New World

    No, I mean faction gear doesn't seem to effect the overall gear score for your drops. Like, I'm in full faction gear, at 280 gear score. My drops are around 220-230. So it doesn't seem like it's counting the faction gear.
  13. Gravel

    Black Widow (2020)

    I've been in the contracts business for the last decade. Plenty is people get screwed in contracting. I'm sorry I just can't seem to muster any give a shits for anyone in Hollywood. Their whole industry is full of assholes, and so seeing millionaires bitch at billionaires for fucking them...
  14. Gravel

    New World

    I'm guessing faction gear doesn't count? Because my world drops are way worse than the faction stuff.
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    Black Widow (2020)

    That's not what I said. I just don't care. Is it fucked? Yeah. Is it worse than what normal people go through? Absolutely not. Sitting here arguing about how unfair it is a multi-millionaire is getting screwed out of a couple extra million dollars while most people here are making a fraction...
  16. Gravel

    The Ascent

    Speaking of that, the tutorial area I had two of the first boss spawn. Was watching a streamer play and it was just one boss. I'm like...wtf?
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    Black Widow (2020)

    I just have a hard time giving a shit about these two women who play pretend for a living and get paid more than most people in their entire lifetimes, complaining that they got screwed. Yeah, maybe it is a contract violation, but I don't fucking care. They can go cry about it to the media who...
  18. Gravel

    New World

    It wasn't random pugs, it was a bunch of other streamers. If you wanna see the whole thing, it was his broadcast from Monday (a little over an hour in). Edit: Deleted video because it keeps autoplaying.
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    The Ascent

    Co-op is a shit show too. Lots of people saying characters being wiped. But even getting it setup is a nightmare. I've had the "can't quit the game" bug probably 95% of the time. I'd say it only actually worked like twice. We did eventually get co-op working, but at some point I guess we both...
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    New World

    It's really that healing is too good. But fixing that would be a massive rebalance. In my limited use, I got swarmed by about 7 equal levels mobs. Almost survived, but the cast of the ground heal can be interrupted, and they can knock you out of it. With some playing around with it though, I...
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Fucking red end of the month making my spreadsheet look like shit (update it at the end of each month).
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    New World

    That's pretty much what I'd been doing in beta, although mostly half assed because I'm trying to not really play. Did heavy armor light staff plus axe. Will probably do hatchet instead. Don't see any reason to go even further defensive with sword/shield.
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    The Ascent

    Well shit, just happened to check and their recommended settings for 1080p on high is a god damn 2080. What the fuck? This game doesn't look that great. Why the hell does it need a fucking 2080? It's basically a step up from Diablo.
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    The Ascent

    I guess I should say I slowly lowered every setting from ultra down to low. Nothing seemed to help.
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    The Ascent

    Nope, was on DX11. Set everything to low and it still ran like shit. Seems like everyone is having the same issue (at least with Game Pass). Even people with 30x0 cards. Hopefully they patch it.
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    The Ascent

    This optimization seems terrible. Like, I know my PC isn't new, but it's a 1060 running 1080p. I turned almost everything to low and I still get FPS stutters constantly (like every time anything blows up, I use an ability, stuff spawns, boss ability, etc).
  27. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Honestly, I feel like having a house that old has to be somewhat comforting. It means it's likely to stand as long as you do even basic maintenance. Like those houses in Europe that are 500+ years old. If it's lasted that long, it's probably good to go. It's why one of my concerns with new...
  28. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I think just like equities, at worst we'll see a 10% overall correction. Some certain cities (or sectors in equities) may see a 20% or more drawdown, but on the whole, there isn't going to be a huge discount. And if interest rates ever rise again, all that gets wiped out anyway, so if you're...
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    The only part that stings is, once again, we bought our house in California for $240k in 2015. At 2100 sqft. Sold it for $315k in April ($156/sqft). We're getting about 1500 sqft with this one for $292k ($198/sqft). We had a real hard time with a mental block of not paying $240k. Period. After...
  30. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    We got it at asking price! Our additional escalation didn't even come into play. There's a small part that wonders if we could've offered lower, but with the comps, the price was justified. So I kind of don't give a shit. We've seen a bunch of re-sales at the $190-220/sqft range, same general...
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Black Widow (2020)

    I don't think anyone missed the point except maybe the people who made it. See the RLM review for a good synopsis. I think most people actually enjoyed the story portion of the movie. All the stuff with the family and dialogue and shit? It was good stuff! Red Guardian was great! It all fell...
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    Investing General Discussion

    So...possibly good news for the economy, but kind of shit news for equities, since the firehose is getting turned off (or lowered, more likely)?
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    Home buying thread

    That's a great point. Look at Europe where most people just can't afford to buy. If you didn't inherit it, good luck!
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    Investing General Discussion

    I understood the repo thing, but it sounds like it's in conflict with the taper definition? Taper seemed like it's saying "end QE," but the repo thing sounded like they were preparing to buy more treasuries? Am I just reading it wrong?
  36. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Today has been the most stressful day I've had in a long time. Offers (highest/best) were due yesterday at 6pm. Been waiting all day. I feel like the longer it drags on, the less likely we got it.
  37. Gravel

    New World

    This seems a bit of a weird solution. Essentially having the PvP players awarded with a function that disables PvP (for their own players), thereby protecting their PvE players and discouraging their own faction from engaging in it?
  38. Gravel

    Black Widow (2020)

    Dude, I expected it in like 2013. I remember as I was prepping to be a pilot that they were in the initial stages, and that was 2010. I figured I'd get my wings at around the time the movie premiered. Seems like this movie got off the ground about as well as my aviation career. Crazy that...
  39. Gravel

    New World

    Ironically I was reading Reddit and they were saying the PVP really feels half assed like they threw it on top. So if the PVE is pretty crap according to FoH, and the PVP is half assed...what the fuck do you do at end game? Their complaints were a lot about how wars are limited in time and...
  40. Gravel

    New World

    So all this talk about how this is a 90% PVP game does make me a bit concerned. If the gear is mostly normalized, what's the goal? It doesn't sound like there's PVP gear. Is it just PVP for PVP sake? Try to take over territory for...what exactly?