Search results

  1. Gravel

    Dark Alliance (Drizzt and co in Icewind Dale)

    It sounds like the AI is shit, the net code is shit, and the entire combat system is shit. I'm not sure how you fix those ever, much less in a few patches.
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, it's just going back to where it was Thursday before it dropped Friday...it's a whopping 1% fluctuation down and now back up.
  3. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I had that moment when we went to Newport, RI before I started OCS. You go tour the mansions of the gilded age era. What isn't immediately obvious until you go there is that it's essentially a bunch of neighborhoods and you tour a house among a bunch of other mansions. You then walk a couple...
  4. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    So not only are they not making any updates, the one they've got adds...onions and some furniture? Who gives a shit about that kind of nonsense? At best, it takes you an extra 2 minutes to build all the furniture they add, on something they spent months making. Talk about misguided wastes of time.
  5. Gravel

    Dave

    Huh, had never even heard of this one. Watched the first episode and that was hilarious. Thanks FoH!
  6. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Damn, didn't realize Fred Willard died last year either. That sucks. Just rewatched Best in Show a few weeks ago.
  7. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    You're assuming any of it goes to anything you'd actually consider "infrastructure." It's going to be $3T in current dollars of grift.
  8. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Didn't really want to do it so soon, as the stress is starting to wear on us (lost our dog in January, quit my job in March, sold the house in April, moved across country), but we started the home search here in Florida. Mentioned before we paid $240k in 2015 for 2100 sqft. We're looking at...
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm sure they'll just say "it only looks bad because of covid." People eat that shit up. But as I pointed out, we essentially recovered economically in the summer of 2020. Shit shouldn't look so bad YOY anymore.
  10. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I mean, the way you make money with them right now is arbitrage. That's not a new concept. The use cases for crypto are not the same as trading coins.
  11. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    This sums up my feelings about all of this pretty nicely. It's a bunch of people "investing" in a bunch of coins, but they don't actually care about the nifty shit it does, they just want more people to buy in so they get rich. If BTC or ETH ends up just being a new currency pegged to the...
  12. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    That's kind of funny. I tuned in to Lirik and he was just dicking around his Steam library, so I figured it was just a break in presentations. Decided to click the actual E3 stream and holy shit. What the fuck is going on? Someone make a list of who is participating in this so I can boycott...
  13. Gravel

    The Outer Worlds

    That's a good way to describe it. Tedious. I really didn't enjoy it. Can't remember how far I got into it either, because it was all so unmemorable.
  14. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    It wasn't until the last several years that I realized just how many damn movies he was in. He was really a staple of movies for a long time. Also didn't realize until now that Deliverance was his first movie. What a fucking strong introduction!
  15. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    Gaming industry following in the footsteps of Hollywood. Just "remake" the same shit. What kind of asshole pays for a "remastered" Life is Strange? Edit: Oh my. And the sequel is a super power of empathy? Jesus... May as well make the super power being non-binary.
  16. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    GOTG had me hoping it'd be like Spider-man. After this extended sequence, it looks like a hard "nope."
  17. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    Wish some of this shit would come out sooner. Seems like anything worthwhile isn't until October.
  18. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    It's a shame the first one was so meh.
  19. Gravel

    The E3 2021 Thread

    Unfortunately one of our friends gets sea sick playing it. Otherwise I enjoyed it a lot.
  20. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Yeah, I didn't find combat itself clunky, only the key bindings. So far I've enjoyed the game pretty well. In comparison to PSO2NG, where I basically didn't want to log in whatsoever, this one makes me want to play it.
  21. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Granted our situation is different (moved across country, CA to FL), but we bought for $240k in 2015. About 2100 sqft. Our monthly mortgage was about $1200. Sold for $315k in April, and cleared about $94k. Had a heck of a time finding a place in FL, but eventually found a 1700 sqft house for...
  22. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    You're thinking of Costa Rica.
  23. Gravel

    What are you playing?

    The Calamity mod is essentially an entirely new game layered on top of Terraria. Adds new items, new classes, new bosses, new music, new biomes. I'd definitely go through the entire vanilla Terraria experience before trying it. Crimson/Corruption are just different biomes (you can only have...
  24. Gravel

    What are you playing?

    I have 45 hours into that one apparently. Although it was a while ago so not sure if anything's changed.
  25. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is something I think everyone knows, but some people think can somehow change. As I've gotten older, I've realized that's impossible. It's like the marshmallow test. Certain people are just incapable of utilizing money to make money, and it's genetic. It's one of the few reasons I'm...
  26. Gravel

    What are you playing?

    I love Terraria. I wish I could find another game like it. Starbound just wasn't it. I've played through the Calamity mod a few times. Just finished a Thorium playthrough (well, last boss remains) and it wasn't super fun. Just seemed sloppy in comparison to Calamity.
  27. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Can't remember what thread I posted it in, but yeah, it's part of the "everything shortage." We sold almost everything in our move from CA to FL and I realized in retrospect that it was a massive mistake. Furniture was 8-16 weeks backordered. Finding a place to rent was a nightmare. Washer and...
  28. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I should point out I'm not old as shit like you. I was probably 9 or 10 when I saw the movie, so not much older when I tried to read the book.
  29. Gravel

    Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis

    So I don't know shit about this game, but my friends wanted to play. Is it me, or is the combat/targeting in this just super janky?
  30. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Fucking RLM. Now I want to go back and watch it. I remember liking it when I was young, so much so that I tried reading the book. Could never get through it though as reading letters and shit was just super boring. Plus the book was incredibly long.
  31. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I fully understand that people have their own preferences, but have you all lived in big houses before? I hated it. And our house wasn't even that big (about 2000 sqft). It's all just excessive space. Like a bathroom with lots of space to just walk around for...reasons? Seeing people talk...
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    "What's your bubble indicator?"
  33. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    What should be a "wow, what a great actor" moment has now turned into a shit show in 2021.
  34. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    3 weeks ago. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fisher-stevens-regrets-short-circut-indian-character-haunts-me
  35. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Except almost no one gives a shit about the actual crypto, they're in it for the lambos. Seems like owning the actual coins is counter intuitive to that.
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Unemployment calculations are weird. Could it be that the states ending it impacted the overall number? People who no longer qualify falling off?
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That should probably be considered bad. We've missed every single month this year. I'm guessing they threw out a low ball number in hopes it'd actually be close, and we still missed.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Why do they have to say anything?
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Didn't they issue another 40 million back in January during the first go around?
  40. Gravel

    Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

    No, like the long post by Burns, you cycle it. You have to manage your hormone levels, estrogen being a big one. If you cycle off, you allow your body to keep producing. There are probably plenty of older guys here who are on TRT though, and can talk about what that's like. I imagine once you...