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  1. Gravel

    Band of Brothers

    When and where did you go? Benning school for boys in 2002 was a kick in the dick.
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    Weapons (2025)

    Been avoiding this thread in case of spoilers. Anyway, went to look at what the VOD release on this is, and it's apparently on the 9th? That's a month and 1 day from the theatrical release. RLM talked about this a while back, but why would I even bother going to the theater anymore? That's insane.
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    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    I thought you were going to say you went to Gone With the Wind in the theater. First run. You know, cause you're old.
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    Wayward

    Man, Toni Collette is looking rough. Thought that was a tranny based on the thumbnail.
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    Young Guns III

    Nothing is safe. They're going to rape everything you remember.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'd imagine just the devaluing of the dollar by over printing it. If the money supply was more stable, I'd like to think its value relative to other currencies would also be more stable. Basically you're seeing the purchasing power loss of a dollar that normally gets hidden because everything...
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    Peacemaker

    "Very graphic despite the flaccidity."
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    Peacemaker

    I'm so hopeful he didn't check this thread again before watching it and we get the reaction post.
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    Peacemaker

    I can't imagine a teen watching this episode with their parents. Holy shit...
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    F1 (2025)

    Just watched this. Enjoyed it well enough on the home screen. I was never bored, and after the first 10 minutes the diversity stuff didn't bother me. The biggest surprise, also pretty early on, was when I noticed that they got all the actual F1 people in the movie. But then, I saw Lewis...
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    Peacemaker

    After absolutely skullfucking half a dozen guys at least twice her size. But sure, it's okay because eventually the entire bar was able to overpower the 110 pound blonde.
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    Peacemaker

    So apparently DC decided they wanted to do multiverses and girl bosses too? Cool.
  13. Gravel

    Ashes of Creation

    Sounds like a lot of empty space where no one will ever be. I don't know what MMO developer's fascination with giant empty spaces is.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Back to "celebrities" who are just normal people.
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    Abiotic Factor

    Honestly I think the best part of the game is how they mapped it out and made shortcuts all over the place. It gives a real sense of accomplishment. Like, it takes you 5-10 minutes to clear out a place, and you see a door at some point you unlock and suddenly it's a path that now lets you skip...
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    Abiotic Factor

    We just wrapped this one up, apparently in 51 hours (3 of us). It felt like way more. And we certainly missed a ton of things. It's probably the funnest crafting survival game we've played, although unlike a lot of them, I'm not sure I have a desire to replay this one anytime soon. Which is...
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    Investing General Discussion

    They and all the other big players for the most part also predicted something like 4-5% annually for this decade. So far unless the market craters to finish out the next 5 years, they're already wrong.
  18. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Ultra sus and cringe.
  19. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    They keep saying that this is going to be the biggest wealth transfer in history as the Boomers die off, but the oldest are about to hit 80 next year, and it doesn't seem like it's happening.
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    Home buying thread

    Hopefully AI is what can finally put the nail in the coffin of residential real estate agents.
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Home buying thread

    I was going to guess Federal Reserve in 1913, and loosened lending requirements during Clinton (remember, the Great Recession started back in the 90s with that). Also, we bought in 2021, at just under $200/sqft. Think our house in 2015 was closer to $110.
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    Abiotic Factor

    That's probably my biggest complaint about the game. That first little area ends up being the best area for a base. In fact, you're worse off for not making a base there and staying, unless you just do a massive amount of portals/workbenches.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Mousewheel confirmed carebear. If you're not using a 486 on a 14.4k you're a faggot pussy and you should just go play WoW.
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    Home buying thread

    Yeah, we still want to build too, but it's not something I'm particularly looking forward to. It's currently a lot owned by my mother-in-law, with a trailer from the late 70s on it that's falling apart. Since we're also retired, it adds another wrinkle, since getting a mortgage is more...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    These are some bizarre talking points. Third person is now carebear? It's no wonder they can shove all kinds of retarded shit into games. And I'm not even talking about this one. Gamers are fucking idiots.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Fake news. I was told people were farming all those places and it's just my imagination that everyone congregated in a handful of zones while the rest of EQ was deserted.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Tell me you haven't played this game without telling me you haven't played this game. Your "maxed skill" means exactly jack shit and squat in MnM. Enjoy fizzling your lvl 4 gate spell 5 times in a row.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    This is the crux of it. If this community isn't the exact audience for the game, I don't know who is. And if this community keeps calling out massive issues, I'm not sure they're smart to just ignore them. And I've said many times, there's a great game somewhere in there with this. But man do...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Probably. My father-in-law died of leukemia a few years ago. About a year before, they gave both my wife and her brother about $40k each for downpayments on houses (we both moved at the same time). Neither of us needed it, but it was something where we'd end up with it eventually anyway, so may...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Really? Superman came out in 78. He looked like an old man already by that point.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I only pointed out the boat thing because it stuck out to me. But that said, I'm almost positive the response to it will be "make friends with a wizard or druid who can port you and avoid the boat." So what was the point of the boat ride in the first place then if the intention is you do...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Except most places in EQ were dead. No one was ever grinding in OOT until they put the ring of the ancients there. Everyone was in fucking lower guk, or sebilis. Because players will flock to the path of least resistance. I'm glad you found a game to flex on your ability to poop sock though...
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    Home buying thread

    It's insane how much prices have inflated. It wasn't even a decade ago that $100/sqft was basically middle of the road and $150/sqft was getting into fancy territory. $200 would be fully custom home high end shit. Now that's apparently about $750/sqft, and entry level is $200.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Reminds me of a comment on Shawn's latest stream, where he was talking about how long a boat ride took and he proudly proclaimed the world was so large, that it'd take 4 days in game to complete. I believe the day/night cycle is about 1 hour in real time, so you're looking at 4 hours on a boat...
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Speaking of strange decisions that they only did because of retarded EQ coding, this game has included hell levels for...reasons? I can't figure out what it adds to the game outside of additional frustration?
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    Abiotic Factor

    Yeah, I'm super impressed. And the game is massive. No idea how many hours in we are but it's a lot. We're on the last reactor and it sounds like we still have a long way to go.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Well shit, I could've sworn Roth's had an RMD, but you're right. I've converted my entire tIRA balance to Roth already, and started working on my wife's last year. Within the next year or two I need to transfer either my TSP or wife's 401k to Vanguard to start working their balances down. Those...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    It's too complicated to give advice on, in my opinion. One, you risk having too much in Roth and start getting hit with RMD, which sucks big time. My mother-in-law got hit with them last year. But two, the big one is it just depends so much on how much income you have, and how much savings you...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    You mistrust an institution, but fail to understand what a stock is. All you're doing is buying ownership in a company. Do you think the concept of buying ownership in a company is bad? Then sure, don't buy stocks. Ignoring the trading aspect of a stock, the reason stocks go up is because the...