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  1. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    Kind of the problem when they first introduced the whole thing in that first season of Loki. So Kang is the "villain" and he culled a bunch of the multiverse, right? It was already done, and with it we had...the world as we knew it. Which...also wasn't so bad? So they started off with a...
  2. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Yep, I've brought that up a few times. The answer I got is that it basically costs a builder a very small amount more to go from a starter house size to McMansion size. So they're incentivized to just build the bigger houses that fetch a much higher selling price. Add in that people apparently...
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The necklace is super cheap to make. After that I went ring. Next up is probably going to be an earring just because I'll update my Capotia ring instead of putting a cup on it, and belt is kind of meh.
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Crushes estimates, goes red. 2023 summed up pretty well.
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Holy shit, it was above $20 again? God damn, should've held onto it longer.
  6. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Same shit they said with gas prices. They're down 10%, celebrate (while ignoring it just doubled in price the year before)!
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    Investing General Discussion

    Ahem... See my justification. It's literally just historical data, not even any kind of complicated algorithm.
  8. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Glad someone else posted it. Love that clip. Poop marker is pretty good, too. People forget that Pratt basically did comedy to start, and he fucking killed it on Parks and Rec.
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    Investing General Discussion

    C'mon Santa rally to 4876!
  10. Gravel

    Zarna Garg: One in a Billion (2023)

    Only thing I know about Iliza Schlesinger is she has a great rack. Thanks, Fappening!
  11. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Wouldn't even surprise me. I remember when auto loans topped out at 60 months and I figured surely they'd never go higher. And sure enough there are now 84 month ones. Fucking 7 years. That's the average time people own a home now. So yeah, I expect 40 year mortgages will start becoming a...
  12. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Don't even mention that you're paying in cash until you're already in the financing office. Anytime before that and the dealership will try to fuck you. They make no money unless you finance. Once you've agreed upon a price and everything else, then let them know you're paying cash. Or...
  13. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    I said this in the strike thread, where people kept saying AI wasn't good enough. Yeah, well, human writers are also pretty shit. Can AI really not do better? I'm pretty sure it can handle making crappy reboots and sequels to 40 year old movies.
  14. Gravel

    Satisfactory

    I built some trains on my one playthrough just to fuck around, but also mostly for my own personal travel. They didn't seem super practical. But that was years ago, so maybe they're better now.
  15. Gravel

    Black Desert

    This is the weirdest game flex spaz out I've seen in a long time. Seriously, no one fucking cares.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So we're going with "he's a Lex Luthor figure trying to become a deity with AI?" The 2020's are one crazy fucking decade.
  17. Gravel

    The Official Conspiracy Thread

    That's the craziest fanfiction for Earth I think I've ever seen. That dude should write comics.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Anyone else expecting him to get hit by a car at the end? Would've been a funny video if could've had someone help him out to prank the public.
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    Investing General Discussion

    As someone who worked in government contracts for almost a decade, I'm still baffled by that. I remember when the first audit came up. All of our property was accounted for across the base. I honestly can't wrap my head around it. Everything was serialized, and/or had a government...
  20. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Lahn already getting nerfed.
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The money supply contracting doesn't mean we have deflation. The money supply takes time to multiply within the economy. And when you increase it as much as we did, it's going to take a very, very long time for that to sort out. On the flip side, there could be an argument that all that money...
  22. Gravel

    Black Desert

    PVP was never as big a draw as the PVP people think it is. The game is dying because gear doesn't matter anymore. Them capping PVE gear is where they went wrong. There's no point in upgrading your gear when it doesn't give you any additional power.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Wouldn't surprise me. Been saying it for months now that the Fed is using shit data. And they've overdone and to the point we may get deflation. Or maybe not. Who the fuck knows?
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    Investing General Discussion

    He's been wrong a lot the last several years though.
  25. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Final Four! Vote Now!

    Really wanted to vote for Folder, but Araysar vs wormie Seems predestined.
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    2023 AssHat Voting round 4!

    On my phone, so this will be lazy. Ambiturner pharmakos Kirun wormie
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Well if you faggots would stop watching every new Marvel or Disney piece of shit, maybe they wouldn't? "But I love muh Star Wars!"
  28. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I'm fine with it. Pixar is dead. If they want to fag everything up, go for it. I've already stopped watching.
  29. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    I'm curious how this baddie, who is apparently that purple dude from the first Guardians movie just gender swapped, is somehow even remotely a challenge for Captain Marvel who could almost single handedly fuck up Thanos with the infinity stones? They really fucked up with her whole power level.
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    Home buying thread

    My only thought on that would be boomers who bought a house for like $100k, had it paid off or close to it, and now it's worth $500k-1m+. So you use the equity to buy a smaller place in cash and not need a loan, and use the remainder to live off or something. But I can't imagine that's a very...
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    2023 AssHat Voting round 3

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule - Bullshit that LLR took this. But I'll go with the Ruskie. Ambiturner vs. Lanx - Fuck the po-lice. Pharmakos vs. Boozecube - I hope this is the end of the line for Booze, because I think pharmakos should win this whole thing. Tuco vs. Foler - I'm going to...
  32. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    It is a shame. Your continued support means they'll keep making this low tier trash.
  33. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Has Arteezy ever even been a good player?
  34. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard about housing. The median age of boomers is like 70. Those people aren't going to downsize. All the ones that were going to did around covid when they fucked off from expensive places like California and New York.
  35. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I'd love to see your numbers on that. I've done some rough estimates a few times and I've always come to the conclusion I'd rather just sell than rent if we ever leave this house. Granted, that's with the assumption the stock market will return 7-10% per year, which...I guess we'll see...
  36. Gravel

    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    Pssh, I won't allow you to rewrite whatever history I remember.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nah, my post explained it, but historically we should've had a very strong year to follow up the last few. Usually we get a much bigger bounce after a 20%+ down year. I blame the complete ineptitude of basically everyone in government pushing the scales and fucking up the natural market tendencies.
  38. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Agreed. But much like the Israel/Palestine thing, I hope this drags out for more pain to both sides.
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    AssHat 2023 Voting round 2!!

    The northeast bracket sucks. None of those matchups will be good. Some stronger contenders should've been moved there. That whole left side is stacked.
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    Black Desert

    I like that the Lahn buffs came like right after I decided to switch my main to Zerker. Guess I could switch back if it's as big as you're saying. Finished up my mana pot last night. Got my 2nd full piece (first was Sherekhan) at Manshaums at 54 pities. Not bad. I hadn't really planned on...