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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I mean, they're poorly designed bosses. "Instant wipe" mechanics are almost always just lazy. And in this type of game they're just retarded.
  2. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I've done the first three levels of all but Imoogi, and 4 on a couple. But I stopped caring and now I'm just running easy ones. The reality is the rng is too shit for me to spend time smashing my head against the wall with those bosses for negligible rewards.
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Nice. Not entirely sure how big those changes are, but I've always felt Lahn was a decent grinder (although without much comparison). Pretty excited for the currents to be gone. Going to be able to shit stomp crocs now. Maybe I'll finally get off my ass and get my blue volante cannons. Been...
  4. Gravel

    Weather

    Luckily it's an El Nino year and the wind shear destroys hurricanes.
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Market still isn't to where it was when I retired, and that was almost 2 years ago.
  6. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Could say that about a lot of people. Ted Kaczynski comes to mind.
  7. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The amount of raging about these PVP changes is hilarious. I hope they all fucking quit.
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    And how much was it down last year? You realize the price it's at right now is the same as February 2021? In July of 2019 it was at 8330. That's up 71% in 4 years, or 17.8% a year. The CAGR of the Nasdaq over the last 15 years is 16%. Seems perfectly in line with expectations to me.
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What makes you say that? Trendline added by me and not really a measure of anything. Just an eyeball of "this doesn't look out of whack to me."
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I bought one and was like, nope, this is bullshit. Oh well.
  12. Gravel

    Hawaii

    I'd say hiking the nod goes to Kauai too. Although I haven't been to Maui. But Kauai was some of the best hiking I've ever done in my life, and I can't imagine Maui compares. We also did an open air helo ride which they don't do in the US anymore after those people died in New York I think (it...
  13. Gravel

    Black Desert

    It's bizarre too, because even the people that like pvp are always complaining because DP and evasion builds both mean jack shit because everyone gets one or two shot. So "open world pvp" doesn't even exist in the game anymore. It's literally whoever gets the drop first immediately kills the...
  14. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I figured best case scenario would be we may get 5 hours a week of Marni. And that's if they changed it at all. That's pretty crazy.
  15. Gravel

    Barbie (2023)

    I guess it's a binary thing then? Can only pick one movie a month to focus your energy on!
  16. Gravel

    Barbie (2023)

    This is why the left has won the culture war. "This isn't worth the time" is loser talk. Edit: In fact, there's a perfect example right this very moment with Sound of Freedom. Which isn't even a right/left issue, and yet, the media went on a spree with articles about how it was MAGA conspiracy...
  17. Gravel

    Weather

    Uh yeah, that's not from the outside temperature unless it's pushing 200 degrees in Arizona. I don't think plastic or acrylic is going to melt at 115 degrees.
  18. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's not just the land though, or they'd only tax you on the land value. I get the point you're trying to make though. Also, who's depreciating their personal home? The only time I've ever heard of buildings (capital) being depreciated is businesses.
  19. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Or, property tax is bullshit. Of all the taxes we pay, I think building is sitting there is just about one of the most ridiculous.
  20. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    I'm confused, are people really having issues with the performance? Is it only for people running on ultra maybe? The guys I play with have top of the line PCs and haven't said anything. My PC is old as fuck (Ryzen 5 1600, 2070 Super, 16gb RAM) and it runs amazing on medium at a constant 60...
  21. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    Use that skull thing in your inventory to force death, and you should end up back at your last checkpoint. Then teleport from there. This is assuming there's no holes to jump in to suicide. If you roll an adventure mode with Yaesh or whatever the fuck it's called, go find the root boss guy and...
  22. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    Only thing I don't love is that your power level is determined by your highest weapon. It seems like this time they've kind of gone with a "you can make a single character and do everything on it" style, but if I play without my regular group, I'll overlevel my weapons.
  23. Gravel

    Barbie (2023)

    Him shitting on lots of movies probably speaks more to the quality of the garbage they're putting out than him as a person.
  24. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    We're actually up to 11. Pretty wild. Think the YouTube types are behind.
  25. Gravel

    Barbie (2023)

    Funny enough, Drinker recently did an interview with Russell Brand and he even mentioned that sometimes he expects something to be complete shit and it turns out he was wrong (think the example was maybe something Marvel?).
  26. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    Did some quick testing and apparently having a sub-class splits your exp. So if you're looking to level something fast, best to unequip the second one.
  27. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

  28. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    Did the Nightweaver boss last night. Holy shit was that hard. It probably took us at least an hour of wipes to clear (playing on veteran). There are definitely some fun and interesting boss fights in this.
  29. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    I did, but honestly don't remember much about it. One of the guys in our group seems to remember a lot, and there's a lot of similar settings and items. It's definitely fun. We opened up adventure mode after maybe 5 hours, and now after about 7 or so hours got a key to do more biomes. My best...
  30. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    Enjoying it pretty well so far. Looks great, runs great even on my potato PC. Little bit confusing with all the systems.
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Theoretically, the goal would be to hold something that doesn't fluctuate with the rest of the market for diversification. Unfortunately, you're probably doing so at the expense of your portfolio returns. There are much better products to invest in that might actually appreciate.
  32. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    So a normal video game reviewer in 2023?
  33. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Remaking The Color Purple with the fish girl? Boy, what ever would we do without these people striking?
  34. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Meanwhile we'll get a bunch of posts in this thread about how "I knew this would probably suck, but I just got back from the theater and..." And then complain about how trash like this keeps getting made without putting the pieces together. Shit, look at the Diablo thread for more examples...
  35. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Can get all of the fruits and also another bag with all the traces. Third one is miner's sack and mostly worthless as who the fuck wants those random ores?
  36. Gravel

    Remnant 2

    "C'mon man, that's just what games cost now!" That's what everyone keeps saying, anyway.
  37. Gravel

    Hijack

    I dunno, just watched episode four, and I laughed several times at how fucking retarded this is. Like when the stewardess sees the jets fly off and is all "open the blinds!" What? They literally just shot some chick in the head, told everyone if they didn't stay in their seats they'd do it...
  38. Gravel

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Drove past a local karate place today and their sign outside said, "Sound of Freedom If you love your kids See this movie" Glad I don't live somewhere liberal.
  39. Gravel

    Hoss' where is Donald Trump's criminal indictments thread - or HWIDTCIT for short

    "Election interference" is what they're all about. Because it's such a nebulous concept that doesn't really mean anything.
  40. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    And you're a responsible adult. So you'd do the math and say, wow, maybe this isn't actually a realistic career and I should find something else to do. Much easier to complain it's not fair though and you deserve more. $7500 for two weeks of work isn't enough to live on for the year, so they...