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  1. Gravel

    What If...?

    This episode was fucking retarded, only because the SHIELD/Captain Marvel motivation makes absolutely no sense. "We've gotta stop this guy from partying because...fuck partying?" Seriously, I have no idea. They said they needed to nuke part of the planet as some sort of revenge for accidentally...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Looks like I'm probably not going to find a re-entry point with PLTR. Might be time to just cash out my "play" money.
  3. Gravel

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

    Yeah, Harry Potter World is fucking cool. That said, the one ride my wife got super bad motion sickness from. I thought it was awesome (I kept saying "wow" during it), but the 2nd time, I got motion sick pretty bad too. All the projections really fuck with you.
  4. Gravel

    Survivor

    Wow, really? That's sad. If it's anything like Big Brother, they'll make a blacks only alliance and vote out everyone else, and no one will claim racism because that'd be racist.
  5. Gravel

    What If...?

    I just finally watched last week's, and I couldn't even enjoy the beginning because they fucked up Killmonger's uniform so bad I was just distracted. He's supposed to be a Lieutenant in the SEALs, and this is his uniform. He's a god damn 4 star Admiral, and looks to be either a Surface Warfare...
  6. Gravel

    Survivor

    Yeah, after Big Brother, I'm done with CBS. I love Survivor, too, so it's a shame. But I'm not going to willingly watch them preach to me.
  7. Gravel

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

    Never read this thread to see what the consensus was, but my wife and I made it 13 minutes into this (thanks Plex!) before we said fuck it. I remember enjoying the first one, but there was something about this one that was apparently extremely off-putting.
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    Home buying thread

    Only went back a few pages, but what state are you buying in? Shit still seems insane here in Florida. I've been on Zillow since June just watching the market and thought it had been slowing down. Nope, what actually was happening was my maximum dollar price I had been using was too low (and I...
  9. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Looks like the majority of the quakes in PNG are off the coast, but more importantly, like 50 to 200km deep. Which makes them feel very different than a land based one 10km down. It also depends on the direction the earthquake "rips." The energy gets directed mostly in one direction (it radiates...
  10. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    It was a pretty shallow movie. Great visuals, incredibly bland story.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Haven't we been in a non stop everything rally? A 5% drop isn't really what I'd call a correction that leads to this thing taking back off.
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Speaking of Pixar content, I really enjoyed Dug Days. Helps that Dug looks a lot like our dog that passed away earlier this year. Was only 5 shorts, but they were enjoyable.
  13. Gravel

    New World

    So we're a week out and I still haven't seen a server list nor time for release. That's just from going to Reddit though. Anyone know anything?
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's not unexpected, but now that we're not putting money away anymore, it's a lot more noticeable. Today at one point we were down close to 9 months of yearly expenses. Retirement is going to be stressful. I'll probably check out of this thread for good in a month.
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Is Disclose a Euro company? Or is that 1 quadrillion?
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    My prediction was 10-20% drop in late September or October.
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, fuck adding anything right now. This is just day one of the bleed (the last week was more of a normal slow slide).
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    The Other Two

    It'd be seen as super offensive now, but I was watching a tabletop type interview from I think 2007 or 2009 from The Office cast, and Oscar Nunez was talking about when they decided his character would be gay. "I was just playing him as 'normal' so nothing changed." For some reason Hollywood...
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I want to be mad, but a rich guy owning REIT's and stocks...uh, no shit? The Fed was buying everything, that there's some overlap isn't a story.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    PLTR over $29 earlier. Fucking hell... Oh well.
  21. Gravel

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looks good so far. I was telling my wife how weird it is that the other company flights had such shit video, and this SpaceX one in cabin looks better than my fucking Zoom calls for work.
  22. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Nevermind
  23. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm actually waiting for $22 again. Been kind of annoyed that it's stayed around $26 for so long this time.
  24. Gravel

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looks like it's scheduled for 8pm EST for launch.
  25. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Found this super interesting about the housing market. It doesn't really provide any conclusions, but it's a good eye opener (at least for me) about how housing has gotten out of control. Now, it's highly localized to California (and really, San Francisco), but those tech workers are also...
  26. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Damn, that one hurts.
  27. Gravel

    New World

    The starting area is because everyone would go to Everfall or Windsward. They're centrally located and where all the good shit is. They're unequivocally better than the other ones. No one would start in another area because it just makes no sense to. It's a design flaw.
  28. Gravel

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Duel currency? Is this like a highlander scenario where eventually everyone on the planet duels until one person holds all the bitcoins?
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Dunno. Our house is about $300k, new construction. We're in the panhandle which is worse than the Tampa area for hurricanes (which is what I thought you mentioned looking at).
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm still holding onto my prediction of a 10% (or more now that it's gone up so much) correction in late September or early to mid-October.
  31. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's honestly not that bad. Most of the quotes we got from our agent and lender were between $1100-1400 a year. State Farm was like $1800.
  32. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I'm good. My exemption got approved last week. Locked in our rate last week as well (2.5%). Which is crazy to me because we had a 3.5% rate on our last house that we had to buy points to get to. But also is the reason I wanted to buy sooner since I was worried rates eventually have to go up...
  33. Gravel

    New World

    My issues with the game are pretty simple to explain. Grouping is shit. The fact that there's no way to start with friends at the beginning is going to suck. Yeah, you can spend a half hour trying to run to the same city, but that's some crappy workaround. Quests not being shared is the second...
  34. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Same here when I was in California. I loved it there (lived at the base of the Sierra Nevada's, amazing hiking). It was solidly red (Kevin McCarthy is the Rep). But, well, LA and SF basically dwarf the rest of the state population wise.
  35. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I spent ages 2-18 in Maryland (born in Florida), and I fucking hate the place. Military took me to Georgia and then Tennessee/Kentucky, and after that, every time I went back to Maryland I felt like the people were assholes, the traffic was shit, and there wasn't anything there for me anymore...
  36. Gravel

    Making Home Insurance Companies Pay for Damages

    Home insurance is a scam in my opinion. Because no matter what you claim, your premium will go up to make it cost prohibitive to not just pay out of pocket. Essentially making it only useful for catastrophic damage. We were talking with our real estate agent and apparently the thing here in...
  37. Gravel

    New World

    Yeah, I'm not sure I want to play it anymore. I may just because there's shit else, but...this beta just made me realize how shallow the game is.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Is it done yet?
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I can't remember who said it in the Home Buying thread but someone else was buying new construction and it had appreciated a significant amount before they even moved in. Same here. We're paying a good 15% more than they were selling for in April/May, and just 6 weeks after we signed our...