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  1. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Good. We need more movies clocking in at 100 minutes or under. Somehow we have dozens, maybe even hundreds, of classics from the 70's through 90's that were short (see pretty much every John Hughes movie), but now a terrible comedy that doesn't make me laugh twice clocks in at two and a half...
  2. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Assuming you've got enough spawns, and you can basically one shot them all, grinding essentially comes down to a minigame of "keep pets at 100% work at all time." If you've got stuff on the ground, you're actually maximizing your grind (although then I guess you could argue you should go...
  3. Gravel

    Weather

    We're going to get some sick surf here from this system. 6-10 ft waves at a 14s interval. Shame I woke up this morning and my back was fucked. Not sure I'd actually be up to surf that big though.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Call the collections agency, explain the situation, and ask if it can be expunged for payment. Happened to me a few years ago when they sent the bill to the wrong address. Had no idea it was even due and they sent it to collections pretty quickly. Edit: Didn't see @Sanrith Descartes's post...
  5. Gravel

    Weather

    A week ago this storm (now Idalia) was supposed to hit pretty close to us and we were excited that it'd give us some much needed rain and cool us off a good bit. Now it's just been sitting in the same spot off the Yucatan and they keep upping it's projected strength when it hits the US. For...
  6. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I think I was probably too harsh on bartering. I think it could actually be worthwhile to make some super-afk income. Although the caveat to that, like pretty much any lifeskill, is it'd require a lot of legwork up front like having a carrack and a ton of goods saved up. But I calculated how...
  7. Gravel

    Elemental (2023)

    I'm not sure what you're talking about. First, it's fucking boring. Pixar is dead. But to pretend this is somehow about "immigrants" and not a hamfisted story about racism and "diversity is our strength" is just being purposefully obtuse. You can try to pretend that media isn't a reflection of...
  8. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not sure there's any reason to do it after you've gotten the stuff to buy. Those rng chests are shit.
  9. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    The roast was shit too, outside of Colin's Aristocrats.
  10. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    Well shit, I was going to say this was OBE because I guess my MIL had already been told that apparently they (city officials? It's Orange Beach) go around looking for that stuff to fine. But maybe that's only stuff done by contractors. Guess now I'll maybe have to look up the local codes. Also...
  11. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    So my thing is I will 100% overengineer it so it can support more weight and be sturdier than whatever regulations require. And honestly, it may even be a case where I could get it permitted easily, but I'm not sure about whether it's required by code to attach to the house. The jist of it...
  12. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Ugh, this all reminds me of the property I really wanted to buy in Perdido Key and build on when we were planning on heading to Florida. It was around $100k (which seemed cheap) I think, but I did some digging while we were in California and apparently you have to get all kinds of studies on...
  13. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    Not sure what kind of answers I'll get to this, but it was something I just thought of this morning. My in-laws have a trailer in Alabama that had a tree fall on the front porch during a hurricane a few years ago. Father-in-law died last year, and my mother-in-law really wanted a new covered...
  14. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The numbers for Orcs is from people on Reddit. There was a thread earlier this week where people were giving their numbers and they were WAY more than I've ever gotten. Speaking of numbers and Garmoth though, is everyone fucking subbed to that thing? All kinds of people throw around numbers for...
  15. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I didn't realize that the change to infinite pots in family inventory meant they could actually be used from the inventory. No wonder people were excited about. So basically just one set and you're good forever. Plus it cuts down on my weight! I decided to try Arena of Solare last night to...
  16. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, I'm at 2692 points on my main. They're just collecting now. I also apparently suck dick at this game. Used an agris coin at Orcs and got a whopping 30k trash. Apparently lots of other classes can do that with just a yellow loot scroll.
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    When people start talking about how options are impacting the overall market level, my eyes just glaze over. It's just never clicked for me.
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's sad that some are just now realizing the Fed has no fucking clue what they're doing.
  19. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    My brother in law watches the shit out of Escape to the Country. He finds it fascinating to see the things like tiny little bonus rooms and thatch roofs.
  20. Gravel

    Rebel Moon (2023)

    Yeah, what now @Ossoi?
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Map and compass don't really seem all the useful to me. Like, the amount of time required to farm them will never be made up for. At least with the potions they're valuable for the convenience with fairies. And in many cases, necessary items for farming.
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Jesus, NVDA up almost 9% in after hours.
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    Black Desert

    Well this is fucking ridiculous. Got 720m raw silver from this today. Included my last 2 grind sessions before I took a break as a comparison (which also happened to be two of my best hours). Currently 287k AP. Have 23 Agris coins saved up that I may finally use.
  24. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    First review is out! And if you can't trust some random dude smoking weed, who can you trust?
  25. Gravel

    Xbox Megathread

    I feel like I tried that years ago and you get shit points unless you're actually using an Xbox.
  26. Gravel

    Xbox Megathread

    Is there any reason to get ultimate for PC? Or is it still cheaper than the "normal" PC one?
  27. Gravel

    Immortals of Aveum

    Surprised there's no thread for this. There are a ton of streamers playing it right now. Guess no one even knew about it until today. It looks...terrible. Bland story, janky looking animations (you just hold your hand out?), and plenty of woke points as a bonus! Just reading streamer chat and...
  28. Gravel

    Black Desert

    It's possible "seasons" are done. Sounds like we'll be getting a rolling season that is up to the player for when it starts/ends. Wouldn't be the first time. I came back to the game a few years ago when seasons first rolled out and they decided after about 3 of them to stop doing them for like...
  29. Gravel

    Rebel Moon (2023)

    Yeah, but when does the 7 hour director's cut get released?
  30. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Finally went ahead and got my last 3 Macalod crystals, and man does that make a noticeable difference. Just need to save up for 2 Rebellious, and 2 Ah'krad...and obviously a Girin's, but that's going to likely be just grinding it out myself with once every 2 month drop from the weeklies. Didn't...
  31. Gravel

    Barbie (2023)

    I'm not even going to pirate any of these.
  32. Gravel

    Xbox Megathread

    So with that (on PC), do I need to buy a bunch of Xbox Live subscriptions from Amazon or something, buy a month of Ultimate, and then convert it all?
  33. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    As @Vorph said, the only reason I'm even considering this one at release is because of Game Pass. Otherwise there's no reason to bother. I'm not that excited for it. And I'm almost positive it'll be a bug ridden mess for a week or two. But for a Game Pass sub for a month? Seems like a good way...
  34. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Do mods work on Game Pass games? I know in the past it's been a convoluted mess doing anything with Game Pass. Not sure if it's improved in the last ~year.
  35. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    My favorite part is them all wearing masks in 2023.
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    Weather

    Looks like Ojai got a pretty decent earthquake today that kind of got overshadowed by the tropical storm thing. 5.1 is enough to wake you up. It's not really what I'd call a "big one," but it's decent sized. For as much talk as Californians like to do about how they get earthquakes all the...
  37. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Miraculous Cheer V Feathery Steps V Fairy's Tear IV Tear isn't the most important if you don't die a lot, but it's certainly nice to have. After that, it's kind of up to you. Continuous Care is nice, but I've never actually used it (don't grind longer than an hour because I'd rather stab my...
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, we started looking in the 180-220k range. Ended up at about 290k for a new build. Although ours is partially because we realized that Florida is fucked and insurance rapes you here. Anything older than about 10 years and you start adding a significant amount to your monthly payment in...
  39. Gravel

    Weather

    Not sure where you live, but I guarantee the high desert is going to have some epic flooding. And places like the San Gabriel's probably going to have lots of mudslides.
  40. Gravel

    Black Desert

    It's "lucky." But faeries are still super RNG, and you can get a T4 that fucking sucks.