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  1. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Is this game just ridiculously tuned if you're solo, or is it me? I'm getting to the end of the thing (Hagios), but basically everything will one shot my shield, and then the 2nd shot is insta-death. I've leveled up my hp/def modules for the descendant and go with hp/defense/shield on my...
  2. Gravel

    The First Descendant

    Friends been harping on this one for a while and I finally tried it last night. Pretty dang addictive. Although I also had over 500 hours in Warframe. I'm maybe 1/3 of the way through the campaign (just did 3rd colossi), and not sure what I should be doing. Just keep grinding out the campaign...
  3. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    The fuck? How did you all miss this one? I rely on you all to be the breaking news source. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/shelley-duvall-dead-shining-actress-1235946118/
  4. Gravel

    The Bear

    She always does that shocked "well okay" look whenever literally anyone does something that's not her way. She's fucking obnoxious. We've only made it through two episodes of this season because they're just not particularly good. It's like they really leaned into the "let's make these people...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Maybe this will get my mom off her ass to build a new home. I want to say they have something like 10,000 shares of TSLA? Maybe it was less, not sure. They've been putting it off because it fell so much.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    For some reason this reads to me like your investing strategy is based on "besting" other investors. This is similar sentiment to the GME runup, and really what I see in all the Bitcoin (and other shitcoin) "investors." What stock ownership is though is company ownership. You're not just...
  7. Gravel

    The Bear

    We watched the first episode last night and my wife hated it. I think because it was very disjointed and hard to follow what was present versus flashback, and then when the events were happening in relation to each other. I thought it was decent but I enjoy character pieces. Which is probably...
  8. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm just still laughing at calling it Brave New World. They just can't help themselves rubbing our nose in it.
  9. Gravel

    Let's Be Cops (2014)

    I was reading the thread and for some reason my mind just turned all those 2014's into 2024's and I thought this was a new movie coming out. The Jump Street comment just went over my head as I assumed it was some new 21 Jump Street sequel I hadn't heard about.
  10. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    That sucks Darkness Falls was probably the funnest of the modded versions. Undead Legacy and Rebirth were also super good ones, although both kind of veered into nutty really fast. UL with the crazy crafting, and Rebirth with how ridiculous the class system was. Both fun if you want to grind...
  11. Gravel

    30 Rock

    Try to separate the actors from the show. Otherwise you'll just be miserable. I mentioned this in some other thread, but you'd basically have to stop watching any tv or movies and stop listening to almost all music. It's infected everything. Those bands you love from the 70s through 90s? Yeah...
  12. Gravel

    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    Maybe late to this one as there's a couple pages since this post, but horror movies are like the one, single profitable movie genre without a doubt. They absolutely crush it.
  13. Gravel

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Shit, I played Shadows of Yserbius long before EQ came out, and then NWN on AOL. I'd been doing MMOs for years. I was blown away by EQ. That and Quake 3 were game changers for me.
  14. Gravel

    The Penguin

    I for one am excited for the 18th cinematic retelling of the Batman origin story.
  15. Gravel

    A Song of Ice and Fire (Released Spoilers)

    The frustrating part being that Winds won't be concluding the story or anything. There's literally zero chance he ever writes the final book.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That rebalancing will also force massive price hikes on Nvidia, and potentially crush Apple? I mean, the many, many indexes won't all rebalance at once, but they all will eventually.
  17. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    We're all bigots. Except the faggots like Zweishneid who suck as much DEI cock as they'll shovel down his throat.
  18. Gravel

    Furiosa (2024)

    Just giving consumers even less reason to go to the movies. People remember stuff like this.
  19. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    It's defending wokeism by downplaying it. It's actually good, you're just a bigot.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Are you fucking kidding me that the markets are closed today? I know this isn't the thread for it, but that's ridiculous. When the only holidays it used to be closed for were like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial, and Labor Day, this just sounds insane to me.
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm curious about relying on things like the 200 day, and how they fared in years we've had 20-35% gains. Especially, like I mentioned before, periods like the 80s, late 90s, and post great recession. Seems like it likely didn't matter then and the markets sustained rallies over several years.
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Unless you're selling, you're not taking a loss. Index funds work best if you just ignore them. Also, that's something conventional wisdom ignores for even regular retirees. It's not like you liquidate everything when you turn 65. If you expect to live another 20-30 years, you probably need to...
  23. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    Honestly, if you wanted to really tank this show, it seems like you could really lean into the whole thing and call it out for only using "women" and lesbians, and that it's 2024 and that's very narrow minded when there are 900 genders and just as many sexualities. That they're so non-inclusive...
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Market has blown past my end of year prediction. That's not to say it can't or won't drop back down. Wondering if we get another late 1990s run. That'd be pretty sweet.
  25. Gravel

    30 Rock

    I've been watching/rewatching lots of these shows over the last several years. The Office, Parks & Rec, Everybody Loves Raymond, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, Seinfeld, etc. And yeah, haven't watched this one in a long, long time. Might be next up. And I'm at the point where I don't care about...
  26. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm old school. I use an excel spreadsheet. We've changed to quarterly, but we basically just log into the accounts and check. We did monthly from 2018 until we retired. Annually before that from the time we started aggressively saving for early retirement.
  27. Gravel

    The Acolyte

    I don't watch Star Wars shows. Or actually, I guess Star Wars anything. But this showed up on my recommended because it's Drinker. Didn't even realize this thread was a Star Wars thread, but holy shit. This sounds hilariously bad. I can't believe anyone watches this drivel.
  28. Gravel

    House of the Dragon

    Downloaded the first season of this whenever it premiered and still haven't gotten around to watching it. Guess I'll start downloading season 2 for no good reason.
  29. Gravel

    Death and... Taxes.

    Definitely not me.
  30. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Sounds like me a year ago. Installed it, logged in, closed it, and uninstalled.
  31. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Man, that Pump Up the Jams video is wild. I don't really remember it.
  32. Gravel

    Strange Darling (2024)

    Kyle Gallner? Well I know Rich and Jay will be all over this one.
  33. Gravel

    Sausage Party: Foodtopia

    Anything Seth is an automatic no from me after that Elf thing.
  34. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Clicked that and thought it was going to be this much, much better song about Girls and Boys. Or this one, which is actually the best of the 3.
  35. Gravel

    Weather

    God damn that's a lot of water for a non-tropical storm. Guess my insurance is going to go up again! (just kidding, we got a letter last month that they're dropping us completely, so we need to find a new insurance company)
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm not complaining. Our accounts are up 3 years of expenses so far YTD.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Which means tomorrow or Friday will be a 3-4% red day probably.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So they project almost no rate cuts and the market flies?
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Was going to ask why the market was up so much today. It'd be one thing to get a big swing like this when the market has been trading in a smaller band, but we're already up a ton.
  40. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    Right, but why did you need to bump this thread because you made a post about it in another?