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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    There's a quest to get the Bartali sailboat which is okay, and that one is pretty easy. The Epheria Sailboat is the tier 2 one. You need 20 "plans" to make it though, and you can get one a day through a daily. There's a quest that's "recommended" that gives 5, but it's once per family. Well...
  2. Gravel

    Black Desert

    It's not necessarily that it's grindy, just obnoxious. Like, it's a quest because you can't sail for shit...so they make you sail back and forth to the furthest places in the game. Or like I mentioned, you have to dive deeper than you actually can, even with the two crystals you get and...
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I wish someone had told me not to bother with this Epheria Sailboat questline. What a fucking nightmare. Seriously, whoever designed this thing was an asshole. Let's start with the 45 minute boat ride just to get to the fucking place. And then you've got shit like diving deeper than you can...
  4. Gravel

    WandaVision

    My wife was just telling me that Disney+ just released something on Facebook about this show and the reactions to the show are incredibly negative ("what the fuck is this show?"). I can't see it since I don't have a Facebook account though. Also a lot of people wondering why there are like 10...
  5. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Just as an example, about 4 or 5 times during the first two episodes my wife looked over at me and said I didn't have to watch it with her, "this doesn't really seem like your kind of show." It's a motherfucking comic show! I kept telling her I was waiting for the hook, or twist, or whatever...
  6. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Yes, there have certainly been hints. But none of this "it's Wanda's projections because everyone knows she has that power" is explained in the show. That we're two episodes in and nothing has been explained is a failure. It's very easy that someone could come away from watching two episodes...
  7. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Very, very true. Basically everything in the game is centered around the idea of doing something in the thousands. Likely hundreds of thousands. It's the ultimate grind game.
  8. Gravel

    WandaVision

    So this is a whole bunch of comic book nerd shit that is your interpretation. For people like myself or my wife who basically watched the movies (and we're probably the minority having watched them all), none of that is shown in the first two episodes. That's the complaint. You can't assume...
  9. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Second episode was too. Pleasantville did this concept almost 20 years ago. Why they needed to drag this shit out is beyond me. Doing 2 episodes of "mocking 50's comedy series" is stupid. What a seriously dumb idea for your series that you probably spent an exorbitant amount of money on.
  10. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Is there any point in enhancing the Grand Prix gear? Seems like since it's only good for about another week, and the upgrade is marginal, that it's a giant waste of time. In fact, outside of getting the season reward for it, it seems pretty pointless.
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Well shit, now you all have me doubting my choice of Lahn. I didn't go experimenting with other classes, I just jumped in. I feel like it's a pretty crazy class though with good AOE clear, good gap closing, and high healing (not sure if other classes heal at all?).
  12. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    Speaking of, my wife went to the grocery store here in CA and said everything seemed out of stock. Her family in Kentucky said the same thing about a trip to Sam's. Is there some kind of supply chain disruption right now that no one is talking about?
  13. Gravel

    Bridgerton

    So it's racist to blackwash history?
  14. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I get it, I guess the question is is there a good time to buy stuff? For instance, a 200LT weight increase cost $17! That's ridiculous to me, especially since it's for a single character. Seems like this has to be one of those cases where no one actually buys stuff for the listed price and...
  15. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Really wish I had bought that deluxe package, but I was waiting and then dog died so I kind of lost gaming motivation. Now I'm feeling better though. Anything like that come up frequently enough I should be on the lookout? Otherwise it seems like stuff costs $40 for some worthless shit that's...
  16. Gravel

    I lost my pet today and I’m really sad

    The worst part is I was like you for a while. Probably from about the time she hit 9 or 10. I was preparing myself mentally for it. And then in the last year or so (around age 12) she just seems so energetic all the time and I started thinking that I guess she'd just be one of those dogs that...
  17. Gravel

    I lost my pet today and I’m really sad

    Adjusting is super hard. I really don't have any friends outside of my wife, and so losing Lola is like losing half my friends and a family member. Our whole day revolved around her. Our routine was really her routine. We'd get up and get on the couch, I'd save a piece of apple with peanut...
  18. Gravel

    I lost my pet today and I’m really sad

    I lost my Lola today, too. She had a seizure out of nowhere at about 3pm yesterday, and then another at 7pm. We decided to take her to an emergency vet about 2 hours away and she had two more seizures on the way. They held her overnight and even with anti-seizure medication they couldn't get it...
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That's not to say I don't see the appeal. I watched back in August as everyone was saying buy Tesla. I seriously considered it. But would I have the balls to dump enough in to see a worthwhile return ($100-200k)? Probably not. But had I? I'd have retired already. Similarly, my mom and her...
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Don't get dollar signs in your eyes based on the posts in this thread. I know most people are saying they only put about 10% of "play money" into the market. Buy total market, buy year round, and be totally boring and you can become rich. I started tracking our annual net worth (investable...
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Been addicted to this again. Can't remember exactly why I quit (imagine it was enhancements though). Loving this season server though. I think I started 1-2 days into the season, so about a week total?
  22. Gravel

    Soul (2020)

    Yeah, I didn't love this one. In fact, it might be my least favorite Pixar movie period. The animation felt especially lazy with probably 1/3 of it being that squiggly line afterlife shit.
  23. Gravel

    Black Desert

    What should I use these Morning Frostflowers for? Seems like the Manos Riding Crop is pretty good. Sounds like a lot of people get the weapon exchange things, but seeing how I have no intention of swapping weapons between characters, is that really that good?
  24. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not that it means much, but I went back to Helms to grind out 55-56 (for some reason the Mediah story finished me at 4% into 55) and with Tuvala gear, it felt much better. But I guess that's a given with better gear. I also want to reiterate how nutty this is. My main previously was 56 with...
  25. Gravel

    Black Desert

    You'd think so. Just did the Awakened Black Spirit boss. In the time it took me to kill it, 3 different Nova's all killed theirs. I'm doing something majorly wrong, and I have no clue what. Level 55 and full PEN Naru now. I was told Lahn was one of the best PVE classes, and I can't seem to...
  26. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I'm at level 54 and 138 AP and following the main storyline. The last several places I've gone that had me killing mobs have been painful to say the least (Helms, Rogue Den, and basically all the bosses you fight for the story). Like, I'm at the...
  27. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I guess either I didn't buy it, or it was just somehow lost. I swear I did. But it's greyed out on the maid icon, so I don't have it. I have assloads of stuff in the mail...not sure what I should claim. Or heck, I really need to clear my storage out. I'll edit a picture and maybe you can tell...
  28. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yes, at the marketplace. Not sure what locked means. I went with a Lahn on the season server. I'm liking it a lot better than the Striker I started yesterday. You're also not kidding about the speed of this. Level 33 after only about 3 or so hours, and I think I have more inventory slots than...
  29. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So uh, I can't seem to sell any of the gear I already have. It's greyed out for some reason. What am I missing here?
  30. Gravel

    Black Desert

    How much time investment will it take to do that? Any recommendations on class? How do you get those codes (BDOHAMM, etc) to give you stuff? I "redeemed" them on Steam, but I don't see them anywhere in game. One of my T8 horses has all but the S skills, guess I'll keep that one. Anything...
  31. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So it's been over three years since I've played. No clue why I reinstalled, but I logged in and (unsurprisingly) I had no fucking clue what I was doing. Like, literally nothing. I'm assuming I should just start a character from scratch, so any suggestions? Here's the gear on my main character...
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, this is a failure of the English language I guess, that sanction means penalty and also approval. What a fucking retarded word. In this context I can see how it would mean they don't have permission to be on the exchanges.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Hmm?
  34. Gravel

    Weather

    3.5 is the threshold for feeling them in my opinion. Granted, that's if you're within probably 10 miles. I suspect you've never actually felt a 4.0 - 5.0 earthquake, because there's definitely no mistaking it for quite a distance away.
  35. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Akira bike is basically the only thing worth driving.
  36. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Last night I had my first bug that was actually frustrating. Was doing the Dream On side mission with the Peralez's, and you have to use your cyborg vision or whatever. I kept hitting Tab and it would highlight stuff on the ground, but never fully come up, so I figured it was just something...
  37. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Agreed. Took this screenshot last night as another disagreement with that fake 3080 screenshot, and figured it was an appropriate response (once again GTX 1060).
  38. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    See my screenshots above. Ryzen 5 1600 16GB RAM GTX 1060 6GB Seems like all the people bitching about the graphics either haven't played the game at all and are just making shit up, or are console players. My 4 year old, mid-range at the time PC, looks better than that dog shit.
  39. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    How the fuck is that a 3080? I'm on a 1060 and this is just the first random NPC I loaded because I wanted to shit on this meme. Edit: And here's another, with Claire, who's basically a 3rd tier named NPC. (Edit 2: Putting my image in there with the meme, because this is bullshit).
  40. Gravel

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Same thing happened to me. First time through when I got out of the car it crashed. Second time I was in the driver's seat.