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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Markets are in the toilet too. Good job Fed, you're tanking everything now.
  2. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    What a bizarre request. "Don't dress up as a character for Halloween." What in the fuck does that have to do with the strike at all? Someone going to mistake them for being on set?
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    https://www.usajobs.gov/
  4. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    What am I looking at? Did Tom Cruise from Cocktail die?
  5. Gravel

    Loki

    Should probably watch something else entirely.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

  7. Gravel

    The Marvels (2023)

    I'm sure adding a lesbian love interest will do wonders for Disney's woke image.
  8. Gravel

    Snow White (2024)

    Why did they emphasize just the word BLEW?
  9. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Almost anything where a commission is percentage based on the sales cost is bullshit.
  10. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I decided to give Berserker another try farming potion pieces (just have Manshaum's left). I did Valk train for part of Tshira and it was nice and turn your brain off grinding. Whenever I tried before, Zerker just felt super clunky to me. Not sure what clicked today, but it felt really nice...
  11. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Yeah, the people they lost aren't coming back. You blew it.
  12. Gravel

    The Astronomy Thread

    Yeah, my wife's family is in Southern Illinois and we went for the 2017 one, and it's also getting the 2024 one. I'd say it should be a bucket list item for everyone, because it's fucking crazy. Gets instantly dark, the temperature falls rapidly, and it looks cool as hell. From what I've heard...
  13. Gravel

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    This is the worst thing I've ever seen in a movie theater. Holy shit.
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    All that shit is being bought on credit and deferred student loans. It's completely unsustainable.
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That's a bizarre one.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I had to basically shame my mom into retiring. I told her even without Social Security, she'd never run out of money. I do think part of it was that one day she started doing the math on what age family members died and she realized she probably has 15-20 good years left that she finally...
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Probably 4 or 5 years ago one of the guys from the Mr Money Mustache forums made a good calculator to account for that, the "Rich, Broke, or Dead" calculator. Really puts things into perspective. Just going to paste in the default one out of laziness. But it's good to play with. The grey part...
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    You're forgetting this started with "transitory inflation" in 2021. Sep '21 was 5.39% Sep '22 was 8.20% Sep '23 is 4.10% We're now in compounding territory.
  19. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Giga
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The fuck just happened?
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Moved to the Florida panhandle in 2021. But I was in Ridgecrest (worked at China Lake) for almost a decade. It's basically the northern part, on the other side of the mountains from Death Valley. Best option there was Mediacom with a data cap though.
  22. Gravel

    The Official Drum Thread

    I waffled back and forth quite a bit on that. There was an electronic Yamaha kit, also I think for around the same price, that I almost went to go see. But everything I read said you should really just go with an acoustic if you can because the feel (mostly bounce) is dramatically different...
  23. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That's why QT is really what's the big driver right now, and not the interest rate hikes. We did well pulling about a trillion out of the system, but we've started to reverse course since April. We need the pace of QT we had for another few years to erase the damage they did post-2008 with over...
  24. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I haven't had that happen yet, thankfully, but I laughed at the thought of it. Been close a few times where I'll get the cheer and pounded on, but make it out barely. I loathe enhancing too. But with stuff like the Slumbering set, Debo's, and less so, Blackstar/Godr, I feel like you're kind of...
  25. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So you're saying you think we'll slowly keep bouncing up as the 200-DMA inches higher, as the older data drops off?
  26. Gravel

    The Official Drum Thread

    I ended up buying an entry level 5 piece Pearl kit on Facebook marketplace for $300. Probably should've negotiated it down cause it has a fair bit of chrome pitting (only really saw it when I got it outside and started cleaning it up). Have a drum key coming tomorrow. But even with them being...
  27. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I'd go for AP upgrades to start. You can get by pretty well with lower DP. Personally, I'd go for the Blackstar, do two taps, and if it goes you won. If not, probably convert to Godr and tap it to DUO yourself. It may cost you an extra couple billion than it would have buying, but you get to...
  28. Gravel

    Drum and Bass: NO PUSSY SHIT

    Hey, I just doubled the amount of posts in this thread about drum and bass. So you're welcome. I'd start a drum thread, but considering we've gone this long without one, probably not.
  29. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I've got a bunch of outfit boxes they've been giving out for a while (6 sellable, 2 not), and I can't decide if I should sell them or save for crons later. This post may just be me working through the numbers to figure it out myself. My gear looks like this currently: I figure my next few...
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So they're still looking at these bullshit employment numbers as if they won't be revised by 50% in 6 months?
  31. Gravel

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Just like how jokes about men being raped are funny, but you can't do the same about a woman, right? She has no perspective. Shit, most women don't. They think everyone just hands you success if you're a man, without realizing that women literally get put on a pedestal just for existing.
  32. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    They're not doing a very good job, because who the fuck even knew Drew Barrymore had a show?
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If you're still in the accumulation phase, just keep buying. I've told people many times, if something is $100 or $150 today doesn't matter when in 40 years when you actually need it it's $1000.
  34. Gravel

    Drum and Bass: NO PUSSY SHIT

    Well considering there were only 6 posts in the thread, it's been dead for almost a decade, and one of those 6 posts also didn't give a shit about your electronic bullshit, I'm going to say I don't care. Also, I saw Prodigy live in the mid-90s, so suck my dick. No one cares about this...
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    IWM is now negative YTD. After being down 22% in 2022.
  36. Gravel

    Drum and Bass: NO PUSSY SHIT

    Going to resurrect this dead thread (and take it more in the guitar thread direction). I played guitar when I was a teenager, very casually. In retirement I thought I might pick it up again, but for some reason it just isn't something I find myself that interested in. But drums...they're...
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Hoping today is one of those days that looks like a bloodbath, and then at the last hour pulls out an even day. Which has been like half the days over the last month.
  38. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Good for you. I couldn't pull the trigger on switching. I guess it depends on how much the next bit of grinding goes. I'm getting ready to start Elvia Calpheon, and if Lahn just doesn't feel great, it'll make switching more appealing. On that note, the caphras gear grind if fucking boring...
  39. Gravel

    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    This is what I was saying a week or two ago. She's surpassed the Beatles in many categories. So yeah, I'd say she's had a few hits.
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    October sure is starting in the pooper.