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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Really thought we'd see some profit taking today. Surely on Friday, right?
  2. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    36 years old. Hasn't really had any success in acting. The one role they cite him for he's like the 20th listed actor on the Wiki page, and it was cancelled 3 years ago. Cries about how he's going to lose health insurance and he's not even actively working, and that he "only" got $7500 for two...
  3. Gravel

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    It's just like the run up to the 2020 election. They get these people so worked up into a fervor and of course they start acting in ways that seem justified. "It's not felony election interference if I'm preventing Hitler from taking power." It's just a movie, and these people are fucking Qtard...
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That seems weird. IWM is up 13.5% on the year. Why are the large caps outside of tech struggling so hard when the rest of the market is ripping?
  5. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Wonder if they changed the Garmoth script. That's the part that sucks, 2/3 of the fight is just waiting around for animations to finish. I'd imagine at least partially since the Kagtums were removed.
  6. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    We really seem to be stretching the "celebrity" portion of the thread title.
  7. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    When we sold our last house, I went through fixing all sorts of shit and when I was done I was sitting there like, "why the fuck didn't I do this earlier so we could actually enjoy it and not just do it for someone else?" Yeah, it helped sell the house, but it was kind of kicking myself in the...
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Someone posted it the other day (probably in the homes thread), but the interest rate hikes are also limiting supply massively. People don't want to sell because they're going to take a massive hit going from a 3% rate to 7%. Supply that can't meet demand is outpacing people who can qualify for...
  9. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Do you not have like a stack of 30 horse skill coupons at this point? I only came back earlier this year and I had tons. Enough to do two T8 coursers, and have done two T9s to ensure max skills. And I think I have like 13 or 14 still.
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Stuff like that makes me feel a lot more like a "have" than a "have not." Shit, even just owning a house makes me feel like I'm rich suddenly. Despite being retired for almost two years now and not turning 40 til next year, we still live a very modest lifestyle. Psychology around money is weird.
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, everyone else is excited for the free horses and I'm sitting here like, fuck that, I liked when not everyone had one. Then again, I got my first dream horse I think over 3 years ago. So it probably wasn't that special at this point anyway. Especially when 10b isn't what it used to be...
  12. Gravel

    Black Desert

    T9 Peggy's weren't actually that bad to find if you just had an alert set on the horse trainer discord. Since most people don't want to do that, it makes it work pretty well. And with all the skill coupons they give out, getting max skills is super easy too (at least on dream horses). Also...
  13. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Rapidly approaching the high from March of 2022, and that's the last stop until a new ATH. Definitely didn't expect it to just be a straight run up like it has been.
  14. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Yeah, just like in every other field, right? When you go to work, you get a cut of the product you helped produce, right? The company continues making money on something you helped develop, so it's only fair you get a piece!
  15. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Ruffulo sounds like every other socialist. "C'mon man, we'll share all the profits. It'll be a new utopian system!" Meanwhile whoever they put in charge of it just ends up as a new studio exec while everyone gets fucked again eventually.
  16. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The problem with bartering is you start min-maxing it. I'd rather do Margoria barters because you take a tier 4 and get double what a normal tier 5 would give (currently 10m vs 5m). But you can't really afk barter Margoria (you'll miss the node, or end up dying to a fucking ghost ship). And then...
  17. Gravel

    Black Desert

    If you're going for actual usefulness, get them all to c4, then c9, then get em to c10 and upgrade.
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Didn't China just hit zero interest rates? They're looking at a deflationary spiral.
  19. Gravel

    The Bear

    Agreed. That's why I said I liked the Richie and Marcus episodes the most. They were pure character development. And actually, my wife started watching season one the other day after I said how much I enjoy the show, and I didn't remember how big an asshole Tina was at the start. She's...
  20. Gravel

    Black Desert

    For sure. But I've also used the Garmoth one, I think for FG, and hit it like 80 times in a row before I got it to go. Kind of like the actual game.
  21. Gravel

    The Official Conspiracy Thread

    I didn't want to shit up the Astronomy thread, but I found it interesting the newfound fascination with getting to the moon. Suddenly China, India, and the US are all attempting it. There's a theory that I saw a long time ago that says that most inventions are inevitable; if one inventor...
  22. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I did the math and Godr came out about 15b cheaper to go from TRI to PEN than a BS from TET to PEN. That's between crons and the double increased cost of repairs. Now, that's also assuming average attempts (which was something like 18 and 24 for the Godr and 22 or 23 for the Blackstar). And...
  23. Gravel

    The Bear

    My question wasn't necessarily the Michelin star part, but the upscale dining part. I get that there are places that aren't black tie that have stars. But yeah, I guess @Khane's reasoning makes sense. Maybe The Bear is a bigger restaurant than it looks and devoting a bunch of kitchen space to...
  24. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not sure what you mean by that. It cost me crons I already had, a few scorched shards, and a few mem frags. I'm not one of those people that assigns some magical value to failstacks as if I can somehow cash those in for actual silver. As for awakening lahn, I know she has lots of sustain. No...
  25. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I know everyone says not to enhance Godr, but fuck that. Two tapped my DUO to TRI the other day. Used 2 hammers and didn't get it, but did another 7 taps today and got it to TET. Also went ahead and finally bought some Urugon's which bumped me up another tier on DP (at 364 now). Was using...
  26. Gravel

    The Bear

    Oh, something I meant to post a while ago but forgot, that I just can't figure out, is why a restaurant that's attempting to do fine dining for a Michelin star would have a drive up window where they're still serving Italian beef sandwiches? Is this some weird city thing I just don't...
  27. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Had to buy a loyalty VP, but that Flame of Hongbik was an easy 2b silver. Figure I can get one every 5-6 weeks and there's no way the price stays that high. And since I'm currently at TET R4 Bheg's and C5 Giath Helm, I'm nowhere close to needing it. I'll probably get 4 more flames before...
  28. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Like I said, you can hate all of them. You don't have to pick sides. Fuck the execs, fuck the studios, fuck the actors, fuck the writers. They all suck.
  29. Gravel

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    We have two that we used extensively for years. I don't think we've touched them but once or twice in the last two years. It's got uses (my wife used to make a gallon of Greek yogurt at a time, once a week), but it's definitely not needed.
  30. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Yeah, sadly, this show is going to join ones like It's Always Sunny and Rick and Morty where I just have to walk away. We're not quite there, but it's coming. That stupid vampire nightclub plotline I think was the beginning of the end. Laszlo is still great, but I feel like Colin is on the way...
  31. Gravel

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Since I now have to question everything, it makes me wonder if that whole idea that "it's typically someone they know" wasn't just a bullshit lie they've been using with two goals: To help foster suspicion within families and further destroy the family unit. Throw cover on the fact that maybe...
  32. Gravel

    Black Desert

    TET Blackstars going way up in price. Think they're up from about 15b to 17.5b in the past 10 days. I think I bought mine around April or May for like 13.5b (looks like they've been sitting at 13.5-14b prior to mid-June).
  33. Gravel

    Snow White (2024)

    Progressivism is communism. Just read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We're destroying our four olds.
  34. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Elvis dies on the shitter, Lisa Marie dies cause she can't shit. Can't make this stuff up.
  35. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    You can say fuck them all. Don't have to side with the lesser of two (or three) evils. They're all shitheads.
  36. Gravel

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Yep. This seemed very formulaic and not particularly good. I finished it, but it was kind of a slog at 2 and a half hours. The high point was the music, but even that seemed very jarring sometimes. Almost like they felt like they needed to insert good music "here" because the first one set the...
  37. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Gamble play. Enough people cross and suddenly the guild is worthless as they're the ones blacklisted.
  38. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I said fuck it and used the J Hammers on my Godr. Was able to 2 tap it to TRI on a 180 stack. Failed both hammers to TET with a 245 though. Sitting at 285k/355 now.
  39. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That sounds like a nightmare. I'm salty about all the single family homes going up, and considering leaving the area. But maybe @Daidraco has the right idea. Use it to your advantage and buy up the property, while moving far, far away.
  40. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The fuck? Got a Karanda Heart from that Lara FESTA thing. Cept I've already got 2 Garmoth's. And you can't sell the Karanda one. Lame.