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  1. Gravel

    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    Yeah, I've been playing him almost exclusively and I've decided the Q is actually a harmful ability for me if I use it. It obscures my own vision a bunch with shit that already happened. That's not useful.
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    I sent two invites to friends yesterday and they don't seem to be able to figure out how to play. Anyone else having issues or got a resolution?
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    What amount would you need to be "done" with a regular job

    We're looking at pulling the plug in 3-4 years with $800k in investments (401k, IRA, taxable). On top of that we'll have $30k in "cash" (CD's, savings accounts), and anywhere between $50-80k from our house equity since we'll move as soon as we quit. Going for a 5% SWR, which is slightly...
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    Yeah, the beta was fine. I'm just annoyed at the size of the download. Like Apex Legends was 12Gb for a full game. Why the fuck was this over 3 times as big? If it's the full game, why did I have to download it all when only like 1/50th of the content was available?
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    So 42Gb was a massive fucking download for the 2 or so hours it took me to do the content of this beta. Granted, I didn't do the "endgame" shit, because that seems like it'd spoil the experience.
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    Apex Legends new free to play battle royale game from Respawn

    Yeah, I'm fucking atrocious at this game. Kind of not the most fun right now. PUBG my squad would get consistent top 10's. In this one the TTK is so long that I'm basically just shit. Haven't been able to find a way to track a target for the 30 seconds it takes to finish them. And even when I...
  7. Gravel

    Mid '90s

    So I think this movie is super niche. Like, if you were under the age of 10 or over 17 in the mid-90's AND you weren't a skater, it's probably not going to resonate. I think his being unable to skate was actually super accurate. I'd say most of the time when you'd be out skating, less than a...
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    Mid '90s

    So I take it back. The first 5 minutes of this one I was rolling my eyes. It suffered from the same thing season 2 of Stranger Things did; throwing as much 90's nostalgia bullshit into my face as fast as possible. SNES controller, Street Fighter 2 shirt, boatloads of CD's (where the fuck did...
  9. Gravel

    Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

    Finally got around to watching this. Agreed that the pacing was...off. Overall, the movie was "good." Not bad, but certainly not great. And it should have been great. Queen was a larger than life band, almost on par with fucking Led Zeppelin. And the movie just kind of seemed boring. It makes...
  10. Gravel

    Death and... Taxes.

    Yeah, so fuck this new tax form. I heard someone a while back say that while yes, the 1040 itself is shorter, they really just moved everything to schedules. Which means overall, it's actually more shit to fill out.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Just logged in to Uplay and got a message about claiming Assassin's Creed China. Looks like it's for the next couple days. Free Game Now Available On Ubisoft Store, Grab It Now
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    The Documentary Thread

    I watched the Hulu one. It seems to imply that the FuckJerry social media company made the Netflix one? Makes me tempted to watch it too. I only vaguely remember the Fyre festival shit when it happened, but wow was that whole ordeal a fucking mess. I lost it when after all the ridiculousness...
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    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    If you watch the Death of a Game of Archeage, I feel like 1/4 of his footage is of someone teleporting around. Heck, in that first month you should've seen all the hackers who were stealing up all the land claims or whatever. It's what ruined the game for a lot of people. We were sold on being...
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    Tom Clancy's The Division

    So did he like it or not? I can't stand 20 minute videos. Just give me a fucking 3 minute summary.
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    DOTA 2

    Whelp, looks like that Liquid/Pango series will be a classic. God damn!
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    DOTA 2

    Yeah, I wished they'd done more actual gameplay, but otherwise that was good.
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    Which games did you enjoy/disliked most in 2018?

    After you beat it, take a little time off and then try out the Calamity mod. It's got some fucking brutally punishing bosses added. The post-Moon Lord ones are pretty ridiculous (but fun; I really like the Devourer of Gods fight).
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    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    Made about $2k from Everquest back when I was in high school. Bought my first car with it. I'll be honest, I don't even remember how I made it. Edit: Reading through the thread and I do remember now. At some point one my corpses duped (not on purpose). I was in a top raiding guild, and I also...
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    Computer Issues

    So just this afternoon, in Chrome, whenever I middle mouse click a link (any link) it gets a pop-up blocked in the search bar. What the fuck? How do I get rid of this? Edit: Turns out it was Ghostery. God damnit. I guess I need to find a new popup blocker that's not retarded
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    Bird Box (2018)

    Came to post this. Didn't even watch the movie, but it annoys me. God damn Russian bots making everyone wear blindfolds!
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    You're the Worst

    I'm still struggling through season 4. Finally got them all downloaded but the show seems to have lost its mojo. The two leads have always been unlikeable, but in an endearing way. Now Gretchen is just insufferable. And Lindsay and Edgar as more than just Flanderized sidekicks aren't interesting.
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    Industrial? (Ministry, CombiChrist?)

    Weird, because I've been on an 80's and early 90's music kick the last month or so. I had Ministry on my workout playlist and it got me thinking. My mom (really through her boyfriend) listened to a lot of industrial, and I ended up looking for this earlier this week.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Super Dave/Funkhouser died today (Bob Einstein).
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I was looking back at this year too, and I'm amazed that I'm currently stronger than I've ever been. I started lifting 10 years ago. I've also been paying almost no attention to my diet, and am lighter than I've been in probably 7 years. I'll be 35 here next month and I've gotta say I'm pretty...
  25. Gravel

    First Man (2018)

    Finally watched a rip of this. I was kind of ready for disappointment based on the controversy in this thread, but overall it was good. The family shit was kind of a drag, the shaky cam overboard, and the sound, music especially, overrode a lot of the dialogue (the last one may just be my sound...
  26. Gravel

    Packages and the delivery of them/stolen etc

    I've been getting those for the last two months on every delivery. I'm wondering what the liability on that ends up being when it says "handed off directly" and you claim you never got it. In fact, just this week I panicked a bit. Was getting a new Roku stick and it said handed off. There was...
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    Investing General Discussion

    My guess is we bottom out at about 20-25% from the top (so in the 2200-2350 S&P 500 range), followed by a mild recession (Q4 2018 and Q1 2019). 2019 will end up being a 15%+ market year by December 2019. Granted, that's from the lows we're at right now.
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    Survivor

    Season got off to a kind of slow start, looked like one of the best seasons ever in the middle, and then fizzled out as the shitty, uninteresting contestants made it to the end. Ironically, I bitched about Angelina a ton, but she was the only thing that made the finale tolerable. She's fucking...
  29. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Culkin reviewing Home Alone 4 was pretty good. A little self deprecating humor goes a long way. Plus, he really owns his past.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Guess he's just a regular now, because he did a Re:View for Hackers like a month ago. That's 3 (or more?) episodes in a month. He was not only surprisingly normal, but actually entertaining. I probably don't watch as much RLM as I should.
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    Survivor

    I cannot figure out those votes. Seems like everything we were shown was just thrown out the window and the voting blocs we got were completely random. Kara, Nick, and Angelina? What? Anyway, Angelina has now secured her spot in the final. She's one of the best goats we've had in a while...
  32. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    For some reason I decided to find lists of the top rock albums of all time tonight, and Led Zeppelin's IV was one of the highest rated ones ever. It's been forever since I listened to Zeppelin, but I always really liked Houses of the Holy better than IV. When I think of Houses of the Holy...
  33. Gravel

    True Detective

    Not even a little excited. Will end up waiting for the season to conclude and see if it's worth a shit. While I appreciate the theorycrafting of watching week to week, this just doesn't look that good. And I've been burned already.
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    Searching (2018)

    Saw this one trending and decided to give it a go. Was a unique style with everything being via computer in some capacity (webcams, facetime, instant messaging, news website streams, etc). Story held up really well, too.
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    Searching (2018)

    Title: Searching (2018) Tagline: No one is lost without a trace Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery Director: Aneesh Chaganty Cast: John Cho, Michelle La, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Sara Sohn, Briana McLean, Thomas Barbusca, Erica Jenkins, Connor McRaith, Dominic Hoffman, Ric Sarabia...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Wow, yeah, Subnautica is a pretty awesome survival/crafting game. It's good for at least 20 hours, if not significantly more.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Steer clear of American funds. They're one of the absolute worst for fees in the entire industry. And yeah, bonds fucking suck. Bonds were in a 30 year or so bubble that ended with the recession. They're going to be a major drag on your portfolio. Their only value at this point is a hedge...
  38. Gravel

    Survivor

    That was pretty baller by Christian. Basically recognizing that his closest ally and alliance turned on him. That said, it would've been a lot better had it been him and one other who cast their votes for Gabby. As is, they just kinda lucked out that Angelina and Michael voted her out.
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    Survivor

    I'm still thinking the biggest fuck up the Goliaths have had is not getting rid of Angelina. She's already proven to have no loyalty and she's fucking batshit insane. I really just wanted to smack her this week with her whole, "Oh yeah, so when I was getting my MBA...you know, at Yale...we took...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    People always forget about dividends when talking about stock. Even in shitty markets, companies still pay out dividends. They may be less if the company brings in significantly less revenue due to a depressed economy, but more than likely you'll be getting a couple percent return on your...