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  1. Gravel

    Survival games

    7 Days to Die is probably the standout one there for me. Have about 500 hours into it. A19 drops in a little over a week. This game has been in development for the better part of a decade, but it's basically released enough (each alpha just brings sweeping changes, so be prepared for once a year...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Not sure if it's from that study, but someone looked at mutual fund managers and found that their performance was somehow worse than would be expected by probability (i.e. you'd at least expect them to meet an average return, but they actually did worse than what would be expected across the...
  3. Gravel

    Watchmen

    Uh, clearly they're trying to draw attention to the Tulsa massacre. Couldn't be more obvious.
  4. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    You mean Juneteenth?
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    The Prepper Thread

    I had originally thought about buying an Airstream, but then you need a tow vehicle. Started doing more research and there are a lot of campgrounds that limit you on size (especially out west). Really between those two things I just decided against towing anything (be it fifth wheel or trailer)...
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    The Prepper Thread

    You can see the inside of one of the cabinets here. There's a 1x3 that stretches all the way across the top of the van, bolted with rivnuts every 2ish feet. Then the cabinets are bolted into that. Have gas struts on all of them to hold the doors up. Sink is 14"x16", and 8" deep (bar sink), and...
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    The Prepper Thread

    Apologies for the pic heavy post(s). Will put behind spoilers for anyone who doesn't want to scroll. Van was pretty much bare when we bought it, except for some finishing panels that I've mostly removed (the sliding door is the only one I kept up). Put in some 2x2 struts that I used some...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Except it's actually the opposite. I wish I remember where I saw the video (thought it was Shamus Young, but it's not), but it used the original Mario Bros as an example of how it doesn't tell you how to do anything and you learn through the game showing you. This is similar, but not as good.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    First game I tried was the Survivalists. Think I made it maybe 30 seconds before I closed it. Game kept interrupting me between every action (and sometimes more than once). I want to play the game, not be told how to play the game.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I should also add that large caps have actually been pretty shit the last few years, it's just FAANG that's been propping them up. I personally go with an 80% large cap, 20% small cap mix; which is basically a total market index.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Small caps have outperformed large plenty of times. You should really be diversified across asset types, because it's hard to know in any given year what the top performer will be.
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    The Prepper Thread

    Yeah, it was difficult finding one. There was a dealer in Thousand Oaks who had 4 or 5. We were actually getting ready to test drive it and someone else came in looking to buy it while they were pulling it around. I think he ended up getting one still, but it was like $1-2k more than what we...
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    The Prepper Thread

    So I like to think of it as the ultimate bugout bag at this point (and while any RV technically meets that standard, a van is a lot more portable and easy to just go). I'm just about done re-doing it; previously I had the kitchen on the passenger side. Details: It's a 2018 RAM Promaster...
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    The only one of those that seemed to do any justice to what a big quake feels like was the Alaska one. The 8.3 Chile one in the airport people looking fucking bored. I can't even imagine an 8+ earthquake. For some reason those all didn't seem to last very long, either.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I played about 15-20 minutes. It doesn't seem super fun, but maybe I'm missing the appeal? Survival games are kind of my genre, too.
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    Weather

    Glad I'm not the only one. Been noticing that for years, actually. The record is always like 5+ degrees higher than the highest station during the day. Seems fucky. It's been very mild this year. And last. Mid June and we're in the 80's today. Usually we're in the 100's by now. We had like 3...
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    Investing General Discussion

    So is this all based on the Fed's retarded ass speculation comments, or something else?
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    That's what happens when scientists become morally bankrupt and start getting political. They've expended any kind of credibility they had. Don't blame us for their fuckups.
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    Sweet, always wanted to play, but never wanted to pay for it.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Finally some good timing. tIRA contributions go in today, and 401k's tomorrow.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    Glad they solved racism. Only took two weeks!
  22. Gravel

    Bill & Ted Face the Music

    This doesn't look very good. And I grew up with this shit.
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Article about how the San Andreas is probably mostly dormant, and the real threat is Walker Lane (stretching along the eastern Sierras up to Tahoe). It was written in April 2019, 3 months before the Ridgecrest quakes started. This year the Lunar Crater Lava Field (Tonopah, NV) has been quite...
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    No Man's Sky

    Picked this up finally a couple weeks ago. Have about 60 hours invested in it. I want to say I like the game, and I guess I did for the first 30 hours or so. But I eventually hit a point where it just became...tedious? When you're trying to establish yourself, it's really fun. But eventually...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Literally every time I'm in this thread, it's people saying "Just bought some puts in on X" or "Bought some of stock Y. Gonna hold it for Z number of days." Basically ever since mid-February. Shit, lemme just look at the last page. Post about cruise lines stocks, you posted one about buying...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Haven't kept up with this thread as it's basically become the market timer/day-trader thread, but I've read a few posts every couple weeks and feel bad that most of you weren't just dollar cost averaging.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    Honestly, the classic mode felt WAY better. No money, no loadouts, no buying back in, no gulag. Just a normal BR. Unfortunately I think it was trios only. It felt more tactical like PUBG in that you don't just take fucking ridiculous risks like you do when there are 80 ways back in.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    I mean, I also fail to see how the two things are even remotely connected.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    They're getting fucking lit up for this decision.
  30. Gravel

    Terraria

    An arena. Or multiple arenas, really. You could probably use a decently long skybridge as your first arena.
  31. Gravel

    Moving Options

    This is how I view it. And even though he said all his stuff is "nice," you're essentially paying a shipping cost on every single thing you own. We moved across the country to California and got rid of most of our shit because it's just cheaper to buy it all over again. When we leave in the...
  32. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Colin shitposting was great. That's all.
  33. Gravel

    Terraria

    I never used magic storage and did okay. I'd say you definitely need recipe browser though. Otherwise you'll either be trying to wiki everything and missing half the items, or just drowning in what to do.
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    Terraria

    Yeah, that's my disappointment with master mode. More hp isn't adding challenge, just tedium. Game devs who rely on bullet sponges are lazy.
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    Terraria

    That's what I did. You really need a decent sized arena for Queen Bee on master (can just be a single platform about a screen wide, with space above and below). Once I got to Plantera I just made it about 4 times the size. You really need a massive one for Plantera master mode because phase 2...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Would've been smart to have a Spring sale while everyone is sitting at home. Been looking to buy some games, but fuck paying full price.
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    Terraria

    Looks like they got rid of the negative luck from torches. https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-journeys-end-hotfix-changelog.89153/#latest
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    Terraria

    I dunno, was doing some fishing and changed out all my normal torches for hallow torches and rare shit just started flying out. Might not have been enough data points to make a difference, but it sure seemed significant.