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  1. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I was saying it last year when everyone was buying it, but "crypto" as a speculative asset is a fools game. Sure, you may make some money on it, but it defeats the entire purpose of a means of exchange. Until people stop trying to make money with it, it's doomed to failure. Harp on all you want...
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    DOTA 2

    Worthless game, but man Alliance hit the best combo I've ever seen. Liquid in Rosh, Dark Seer vacuum's them all, Magnus blinks in to RP, and then skewers them up the high ground where Enigma is waiting to black hole. Will try to find a clip when it's posted (didn't clip it at the time).
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    Black Friday 2018

    We spent a significant amount on a new spring mattress about 3 years ago when we bought our house. And it sucked (sucks?). At the time, I feel like about 3/4 of the beds in the mattress stores we went to were memory foam. For the van build we had to get a memory foam because we need to be able...
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    That makes it so much worse.
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    Remakes you wouldn't mind

    I'm pretty sure these are all technically sequels. They take place in the same universe, just in the future. When I think remakes, I think something like Point Break, Ghostbusters, Willy Wonka or The Magnificent Seven. Not entirely sure about something like Oceans 8 where they tried to tie it...
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    Survivor

    It's probably one of the best Survivor seasons in many years. The casting didn't have too many misses (except old black lady, not sure wtf they were thinking there). This last tribal was pretty amazing, only because when Karl got his Exile Island power I was like, "That's seriously the...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I think I stumbled on them a few months ago because of Star Wars? Or maybe their review of Ready Player One. Either way, I'm a fan. They seem to have pretty similar preferences to myself, outside of the fact that I don't particularly like horror.
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    7 Days to Die

    I was watching a stream this weekend of a guy who said he normally play perma-death and with A17 on default he was struggling. So I guess it depends on how far the difficulty has swung with the update. I will say the game looks a lot better.
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    DOTA 2

    He doesn't have the old ult at all anymore. It's just the new wisp spell. Looks like the agh's just makes it heal. Which is still powerful, but overall having to channel really sucks for him. Means it'll be much harder to safely farm late game. The wisp ult is kind of ridiculous though. Edit...
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    DOTA 2

    Only thing I'm not sure is does his Agh's only heal in daytime? Or does it still do damage? Also, Ogre is fucking ridiculous. 4x multicast Midas? Scythe? Dagon? Like, holy shit...
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    DOTA 2

    I mean, it was literally linked.
  12. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    What the fuck? Removed Ring of Aquila from the game?
  13. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    EG looks pretty impotent today. Secret and VP are on a different level than these other teams right now.
  14. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    These have been some awesome games, but holy shit is this TB/Arc meta terrible.
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    DOTA 2

    Well LGD is just throwing this one. Like, 5 or so bad decisions all in 30 seconds.
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    DOTA 2

    Not sure if Secret wins game 2, but they're shitting all over LGD right now. Really, LGD is taking the worst engagements I've seen in a pro game. Edit: Damn, that was quite a performance. Holy shit...
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    DOTA 2

    Arc Warden too stronk. God damn Nisha...
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    Weather

    3 of my coworkers flew into St Louis yesterday for a meeting today (generally lasts about 7 hours). They wanted me to go but I made up a fake appointment for my wife that ended up getting "cancelled." The 3 of them spent the entire meeting on a cell phone in a hotel room. Felt a little bad for...
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    I feel like I've said it before, but the show is a few hits every season, but like 7-8 misses. Last season the water park and "Hero or Hate Crime?" were hilarious. The season before had "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs," the trial of the century episode, and "Charlie Catches a Leprechaun."...
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    Westworld

    Samurai episode would've been okay had it actually tied into the show somehow. But in the end the entire thing was 100% pointless. It was just the producers who wanted to do some samurai shit. It's similar to Kiksuya. It was probably my favorite episode of the entire show. But, it had very...
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    DOTA 2

    Jesus. Sumail in this game 1 vs NiP. It's only 9 minutes in, but this is almost a perfect game by him.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Which is ironic, because most people got drawn into Game of Thrones for the political intrigue. I mean, shit, they called the show Game of Thrones and not A Song of Ice and Fire. I think most of us, especially book readers, saw where this all went way off the rails once the magic shit got super...
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    Top Gun (1986)

    If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Filming at our location will be wrapping up this weekend, and unfortunately, I didn't get to see any of the principal actors (I may have seen some of the others, just not recognized them). My "cool story bro" for today is that Tom flew up his "coffee guy"...
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    Top Gun (1986)

    So today they had one of our SAR SH-60's flying right outside our building. They kept going straight up about 50 feet and then pulling hard, almost on its side, and then turning around to do it again. Tom Cruise was definitely in the helicopter, because my wife looked at the flight schedule and...
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    Top Gun (1986)

    Blue Angels jet still circling. Been almost an hour now. Got a few videos of it going right over the house. Edit: Video. My other ones were kind of potato looking (hard as shit to get a good video of a jet in the air, especially flying so low). Best one was only a 4 second clip.
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    Top Gun (1986)

    In today's news from...close to...the set. Yesterday afternoon they apparently did a call back to the motorcycle on the runway scene. They used the same bike from the original. Also, confirmed that Val Kilmer and Jennifer Connolly are both here (although I haven't seen them, nor Tom, myself)...
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    Top Gun (1986)

    Wow, what a fucking madhouse it's become. All the other filming days I was kind of vaguely aware of their presence, but today they're all over the place. There are 5 or 6 trailers in our parking lot (Tom Cruise is definitely here; one of my coworker's husband is currently babysitting him since...
  28. Gravel

    Military Service

    You didn't hear it from me, but same thing with the 173rd jump into Iraq. Shit was already cleared out prior to them jumping in.
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    Top Gun (1986)

    So they're actually filming in our building this week. In fact, I passed a Paramount truck on my way to lunch just now. Pretty neat, although kind of meaningless since I can't actually go watch the filming or anything. I'm actually a little pissed because I missed the meeting they had where...
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    Military Service

    3 deployments and really only after the first one (2004) did I have something that I'd mildly call PTSD. I'd basically get anxiety driving around anytime I saw a piece of trash on the road and loud noises made me jumpy. But after a couple months it faded. Deployments 2 (2005-2006) and 3...
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    Military Service

    Similar for me. I was a slacker in high school, but had signed up for community college. A few months before I was going to start I decided to go to the recruiter. Was probably for the best. I'm not sure how much effort I would've put into community college. When I went back for my bachelors...
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    (G)rape Vanning

    Super behind on what I've been up to. Wife helped me put in some vinyl flooring. Our original thought was laminate, but vinyl is pretty waterproof so we did that instead. Framed up the lower half so that I could build the bed, as I wanted the walls to be finished there so I wouldn't be trying to...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pretty sure I've mentioned it before on these forums, but we did a month long exercise at Fort Knox back around 2005. We had 2 LMTV's filled with MK19 ammo for just our company (maybe 100 people?). We shot the fuckers from dawn until after sunset. It was absolutely miserable. We'd be sitting in...
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    Red Dead Redemption 2

    Sounds like the controls are the only complaint. Can't wait to play on PC in 4 years.
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    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Home Alone is one of my favorite movies, and I love Sunny, but that was just horrific. Looks like this season will have only one funny episode. Disappointing. Edit: Maybe two, if the gay pride parade one is good. I can't imagine the conclusion of this Super Bowl thing will be worth a shit.
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    You just won $1.6 billion!

    You can sometimes set up a trust and have the trust sign the ticket (this is the reason you shouldn't sign the ticket). But several states won't allow blind trusts to claim the prize.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Left can't meme strikes again, you disingenuous fucks.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Survivor

    The crazy part is right after that conversation, he's like, "Well, that bitch is a lost cause." She's fucking insane. He's sitting there telling her she has no self awareness and she just throws it back in his face, proving him right.