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  1. Gravel

    New World

    Yeah, they keep introducing new game breaking bugs with every patch. Feels like they're breaking more than fixing. I only messed with the hatchet one today, and it helped me do some watermark farming. Only really got it up to like 1200 crits, my white damage was only ever like 600. Guess I...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That's an impressive percentile to be in one asset class. I wonder where that real estate is; is it primarily US/Canada/Australia, ghost cities in China, actual real estate they're living in (Chinese middle class?)? And I don't mean this to brag, but I was pretty shocked when we did our monthly...
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If I understand that correctly, it's saying we'll get a continuing bull through next May? Sounds right from what I'm seeing. But after that we'll likely see a massive fall (assuming the tapering ends soon). We should be getting interest rate increases, inflation, and bear market all at once...
  4. Gravel

    New World

    I wish they'd retune the respec cost. I'd like to try a DPS build and drop life staff for a while, but it's so painful.
  5. Gravel

    New World

    Huh? I figured it'd be something with great axe or hammer. See a ton of those.
  6. Gravel

    New World

    So what's the meta for PVP? I've just started it for the first time since release, doing the Outpost Rush (which I'm enjoying). But I'm life staff and hatchet, and it doesn't seem ideal.
  7. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    So now I wonder if we get 3 parallel storylines, a "what we did for the last year" type of compilation, or just Laszlo and Colin? Glad our inclinations were right and he wasn't dead dead.
  8. Gravel

    New World

    Is Voidbent only good because of Resilience though? Which is only good because it's broken?
  9. Gravel

    New World

    Man, is there any coding in this game that isn't just dog shit? Apparently the chat (which is already a shit design) is possibly in html (didn't verify, but the guy that posted this said it was).
  10. Gravel

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    They really nailed Netflix though. Fat bull dyke, token black guy, fat wheelchair bound woman. Really expected a joke there, but I guess 2021 Larry is too cowardly? Also one of those things that bothers me about writers is they seem to have thought covid jokes would've translated. Covid...
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    As of about 4 minutes ago, I'm officially early retired. Here's to hoping the market doesn't go completely ridiculous badly over the next few years.
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yep. Best quote about the market: "The market can remain irrational far longer than you can stay insolvent."
  13. Gravel

    New World

    It's just indicative of the state of the game right now. Actively playing has disincentives because the downsides are all so awful.
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Speaking of Tesla, a long time ago I mentioned my mom and her boyfriend were heavily into Tesla. Like, years and years ago they dumped money into it. I was worried he was way over exposed. He hit $3 million in his portfolio this week (although likely fell below it with the swings). My mom told...
  15. Gravel

    New World

    That'd be some next level retarded design. So essentially it'd be better to just forgo the entire invasion and eat a tiny repair cost.
  16. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Our realtor explained it to us that since the driveway connects to the city or county road or whatever, that they inspect it to make sure it's done right. The main portion of that is that it has a sufficient "footer" that's big enough at the junction between the two. From what I can tell, the...
  17. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    So we closed. It was a fucking rollercoaster...still/again. We had our final walkthrough at 9am. We got there and no one was there. But I noticed the drain line was severed. I'm guessing from grading the yard. Uh, shit, I don't think we're closing today. We were also missing the attic cover...
  18. Gravel

    New World

    The amber gems should be scaling damage off focus (the nature damage) in his video. They don't. They just convert a static proportion of the damage to nature.
  19. Gravel

    New World

    It'll also be super difficult doing that stupid Selfless Nature quest.
  20. Gravel

    New World

    Gems are basically worthless (unless you really just want a certain damage type). Did they test anything in this game?
  21. Gravel

    New World

    Had that happen with the elite boss in Restless Shores. Had to solo it because the first time (when people were there) I somehow didn't get credit. Ended up pushing me through the wall and outside. Somehow I was able to clip back through the wall but the boss reset. Took like 15 minutes to...
  22. Gravel

    New World

    Speaking of the harvesting skills, I spent yesterday working on getting fishing to 100 (at 96). Since they removed gold from the chests, it's literally a 100% outflow (I keep wanting to say net negative, but net implies a balance where it's tilted to negative, and there's no inflow whatsoever)...
  23. Gravel

    New World

    Don't forget, also, that data lags. People are very quick to point out the deflation as evidenced by the outcry by players. Meaning, their data shows outflows of money not being very great, but that's likely because players already decided to say fuck housing or spending money or crafting...
  24. Gravel

    New World

    Wow, what a shit answer. So it's okay that all the gold is front loaded in the first 30 levels? No wonder they don't get it. This game will be dead in a hurry with these people. Literally no incentive to do anything at end game. It's a disincentive to play the game more.
  25. Gravel

    Shitter’s Full - An RV Thread

    My coworker is leaving on a cross-country road trip today. They're doing 3 weeks, 5 people (3 kids). Yesterday he said they're going to be averaging 350 miles per day. If you're ever doing an RV trip, don't do this. It sounds horrific. He said it'd be 6 hours of driving per day, but I don't...
  26. Gravel

    New World

    Well that's super disappointing. I'm starting to find myself logging in less and less. Close to 200 hours and I doubt most people have my patience. Game is just super grindy in just about every facet. And this is coming from someone that bred my own T9 horse from scratch in BDO. There are just...
  27. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Yeah, hilarious episode. Shit ending. Was really hoping Nandor was right and he was faking. Or it was some kind of rebirth thing. Will be super sad if he's gone.
  28. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's a property management company. The owner lives in Germany actually, although he happened to be in town when we moved in so we met him. The company is actually really awesome and was super professional when we moved in. Florida is kind of weird, you have to keep paying the rent until they...
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Drove out yesterday and there was a single, old white guy, grading the yard. I'm guessing he's higher up in either the construction company or the sod company. Just as I was leaving, got a call from the builder and my realtor saying that we were going to shoot for a closing on Monday...
  30. Gravel

    New World

    So what's the consensus with FoH and Vingolf? I mentioned previously thinking about switching so I'd have people to play with and you all said wait. Interestingly, I saw a Reddit post today with someone encouraging people to my server (Krocylea) because of how balanced the factions are, and one...
  31. Gravel

    Shitter’s Full - An RV Thread

    I can't speak for the summer, but it's generally the time you need to book very early anywhere because of summer vacation. But we did half a dozen national parks in April this year just fine. I don't think we ever stayed in a park, but there are assloads of places just outside of them. We...
  32. Gravel

    New World

    There was a link in one of the comments. Apparently you send gold, log out, and both players keep it. Don't know the details on how it works though. On the plus side, gold is capped at 500k. Downside is this is surely going to make gold sellers worse. Some servers saying their markets are...
  33. Gravel

    New World

    I'm too lazy to look, but someone mentioned they had a highish jewelry skill, what'd you do? There was an infographic that said do normal gem amulets from 50-100, brilliant amulets from 100-150, and pure amulets from 150-200. But I keep looking at the experience amount on the normal ones and I...
  34. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    What do you plan on doing with all the lemons? We're in northern Florida so not quite warm enough where we can grow the good shit. But citrus is pretty high on the list of things that'd do well. I just don't know what I'd do with a bunch of lemons or limes.
  35. Gravel

    New World

    It's a weird issue. I saw someone in chat say they didn't give a shit about gear until they hit 60. I didn't wanna tell him that at 60 it doesn't matter either. I'd say even once you hit the point of 600 gear score dropping, it won't either. The grind never ends until you find the perfect gear...
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So the sideways market lasted about 6 weeks. I don't know that I've ever paid attention to a sideways market as opposed to a correction, so I don't know what to expect. It does feel nice to be back where we were at the end of August though.
  37. Gravel

    New World

    I can't remember if I posted about it earlier, but as someone who went to business school, the deflationary cycle this game is going through is fascinating. Not the least because I can see my own psychological stance change in real time. It's pretty rare to see deflation in an actual real world...
  38. Gravel

    New World

    Weird, because I went to Ebonscale for portals because Myrk just didn't have any. There are way too many level 60s now and the portals are all going to be closed almost immediately. They really have no idea what's going on with their game.
  39. Gravel

    New World

    I think Everfall stays top only because it's got so much iron close by. Anywhere else is also going to be fighting inertia with housing established, trading post centralization, and workbenches upgraded (oh, and don't forget rep! Gonna need it for all the storage and tax reduction). And like...
  40. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Weird, I didn't particularly like this one. Guillermo has always been my least favorite character, but this season I haven't particularly liked Nandor very much. So an episode that's almost entirely focused on them just didn't hit for me. But it's also why all the Laszlo/Colin scenes have made...