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  1. Gravel

    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    Yeah, I was annoyed because I wanted the Spotify deal. I hate these deals for "new customers." How about customer retention?
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    Gemini Man (2019)

    I wish I could find the article again, but many years ago I read one about why Last Action Hero ended up like it did. It was pretty fascinating at the time, but I remember literally zero of what it contained now.
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Wife and I started slowly going through them all after Endgame (we hadn't watched all of the movies). We're at Age of Ultron now. I'll be honest, I don't think any of them are bad. Even ones that are the "worst" like Hulk were still good movies. Especially compared to the other BS Hollywood...
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Yeah, started watching it yesterday. It really holds up well still (despite the old computer shit). It was one of those ones I used to watch over and over as a kid.
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    Jungle Cruise (2020)

    I've been having this conversation often with my wife, but I just want to be fucking entertained. I don't need to be preached to. I keep getting examples of shows where they insert this stuff and it's not necessary (first that come to mind are Survivor last night with #metoo, Big Brother with...
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    Survivor

    If they keep this shit up, I'm out. Forever. The do-rag episode was rough. But 2 hours of #metoo? Fuck off, CBS. Especially after they dicked up Big Brother with that "racist" shit so badly.
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Yeah, I'm confused. I browsed through it and I feel like it's loaded with shit to watch.
  8. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    I couldn't get Plex to work on our FireTV.
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Yeah, good news is that they came to an agreement yesterday. Fire will have Disney+ at launch.
  10. Gravel

    Weather

    Fucking global warming again?!
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I had seen that video a couple days ago. Dude was like $10k in the hole. That doesn't just disappear. He took on more leverage than his ass could handle, bet wrong, and now owes money. Could he have bet right and struck it rich? Maybe. But this isn't really much different than gambling.
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    I can't figure out if it's just me, but it seems that way. I'm reading reviews of season 14 and they're all raving about it. I made it halfway through the zoo episode and just couldn't do it. Deleted the show from my Sonarr and I think I'm finally done. This entire season has been horrific...
  13. Gravel

    Military Service

    What a bunch of fucking whiny bitches. Try eating MRE"s every day for 6 months you faggots. Or my deployment where we had Iraqi cooks and it was goat every single day. Had the shits for months.
  14. Gravel

    The Outer Worlds

    I haven't played in a few days, and likely won't, because of this. I just can't stand having to sort through an inventory of useless shit items. I'll never use a buff item that gives me +1 mind skills for a minute. What the fuck is even the point of that? Worse is that you have a weight limit...
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    The Outer Worlds

    So I'm a few hours in and started on normal, and I kind of regret it. Steamroll most encounters. But I don't want to re-do it all on hard.
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    Are you smarter than a 4th grader?

    I think this is the crux of it. Let's be honest here, most people are fucking retarded. Getting them to understand why the math works, when they're children, is an exercise in futility. If you're a future engineer and have an aptitude for it, over complicating math so they can "understand the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Technically, yes, having 10-20% in bonds allows you to rebalance and smooths out some of the volatility. And it's a small enough amount that it doesn't destroy your returns. That said, the math behind it is heavily biased because we just came out of, what appears to be, a multi-decade bond...
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    Are you smarter than a 4th grader?

    Yep. Work with engineers, software developers, and financial people for the bulk of my interactions and almost everyone is just shit at math. Heck, my wife has an applied math degree and she's horrendous at math.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Man, Europe's financial situation is absolutely screwed. Seems like it's just one recession away from total collapse.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Whole post was good. But this really nails it. If you're someone "working to make a living," it's almost always a bad idea to actively trade. The reason is that your regular income should always dwarf the amount you could make trading, as long as you're not being overly risky. You could be...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Glad I'm not the only one (outside of OpenWRT which I've never heard of). Haven't worked in IT in many years though.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    Life is really going to punch her in the twat when 20 years from now she realizes she still doesn't know what to do with her life, nor do most other adults. Oblig:
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    I was wondering how many people claim the games and actually play them.
  24. Gravel

    Survivor

    That sequence with Noura may have been one of the funniest Survivor moments ever. Boston Rob saying how terrible she'd be if she was the "caller," then her colossally fucktarded story she told her tribe, and then at the challenge her tribe with zero hesitation to "who's sitting out the...
  25. Gravel

    Red Dead Redemption 2

    150GB? Honestly, that's big enough where I might just pass.
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    Twitch.tv

    Hi, I'm Sasha Grey. I'm a musician/deejay, writer, photographer, and author. My novel 'The Juliette Society' was published in 25 countries. I am currently in Los Angeles, but travel around the world to deejay. I'm new to twitch! Lately, I've been into Resident Evil 2 and Assassins Creed...
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Hate to hear that. Haven't even sat down to watch any of the first 3, but last season was mostly miss.
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    Survivor

    Wow, week 2 and the only mildly attractive woman is gone. This season is going to be a slog. I'm definitely rooting for Putin though (Tom Laidlaw). I've gotten worn down by these shows, especially Survivor, when players start playing final 3 from the start. It's just bad gameplay to vote out...
  29. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    And here I got all the MCU movies for free off Usenet. Except the first Spider-Man, god damnit. For some reason all of those were nuked and never reuploaded. Makes me tempted to go back to Torrents.
  30. Gravel

    Superstore

    I really hope next week they move on from this ICE shit. This premiere was just straight propaganda.
  31. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Jesus, what a shitty way to end the season. Michie was completely blindsided and just looked like shit, despite winning. I guess if you want to be called a racist on TV with no context, apply for Big Brother now!
  32. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Savage. Chessie with "real TI winners" against OG.
  33. Gravel

    The Division 2

    The fucked up part, and I've said it before in this thread, is that up to WT4 the system was perfect. And that period before WT5 got introduced I was hooked. Why they decided to do something completely different is beyond me.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Big Brother

    I agree. They were dumb not to send Holly home. My problem with them is that afterwards, they did just like Christie did. Basically saying, "You're coming after us now, killing the alliance." No, motherfucker. You killed it and he was just reacting. Michie has been completely loyal this game...
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    Big Brother

    Ugh. Going into top 5 I said it was the first time where I'd be happy with anyone winning. But now, fuck that. Cliff is a retard, and Nicole is a hyprocrite. The fucked up part is that now Holly and Jackson have been screwed twice in the same way, and each time the offending party tries to...
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    The Division 2

    Yeah, uninstalled a long ass time ago because they obviously weren't going to fix it. And just like D1, by the time they "fixed" the game, I don't give a shit anymore.