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  1. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    The mining in my opinion isn't the worst part, it's the smelting. That part is awful. Bronze sucks in that respect because you have a 3 to 1 ratio versus everything else.
  2. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    It's been a year and a half since our big earthquakes, and the last 6 months my phantom quakes have been getting so much worse. I really hope my job prospect pays off soon because I really need to get the fuck out of California.
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, Robinhood is being sued right now for the suicide of a guy back in June who showed a negative $800k balance that wasn't real. Although in that case, his attempts to reach out to RH failed.
  4. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Yeah, I thought it was good. From what the purpose of the new review series is, it sounds like they don't want to spoil anything, but it definitely does. Nothing major, but all of the jokes in the first 30 minutes were essentially covered. And I pirated it, so uh, if that's not your thing then...
  5. Gravel

    WandaVision

    And here I just thought it was fruit snacks.
  6. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    So I watched The Kid Detective based on that review, but I recommend not watching that review before the movie. Movie was good. Mostly comedy, but got a bit dark too. I honestly didn't get Mike's comment about the ending though. The review ruined a good amount of the comedic aspects though.
  7. Gravel

    Get a free Kyle Rittenhouse at Culver's

    Jesus, they actually had a motion to publicly release his address? I thought that was just a side effect of the other stuff. These people are outright evil.
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The problem is knowing when "early" actually is. You don't actually know if you're getting in early until after it's over.
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Man, I almost bought some this morning. But I'm like, I already missed the massive gains by the time I woke up. Apparently I was wrong.
  10. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, same here. Silver is an absolute bitch to find. Assuming you find a decent sized swamp biome, you can find 3 or 4 crypts within a small walking distance. And each one can hold up to maybe 70 iron scrap.
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nailed it. I started a post saying similar, and with the meme stocks I put in $1k. Had it doubled or tripled, it literally would have made zero difference in my net worth. I think when I put it in, I even said if I had put $10k in it likely wouldn't make a massive difference. It'd be nice, but...
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    For sure. People want to get the fuck out of the house. Even though I still think movie theaters are a dying business, I think there's enough demand for anything that gets people out. AMC is definitely worth more than $5, but fuck if I'm about to buy into it.
  13. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I know the meme hysteria has died down, but I still check them every day. GME just fell below $50, and AMC is just above $5. I'm sure that squeeze is right around the corner though.
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I should also point out that people focus way too much on the penalty for early withdrawal. Like, yes, it sucks writing a check to the government, but the penalty is just 10%. If it means working an extra 5 years because you're afraid of the penalty, you're essentially sacrificing years of your...
  15. Gravel

    Weather

    You all are fucking crazy. I'm moving from California to Florida. Screw the cold. I don't miss snow, and I really don't miss ice.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is our situation. But you can do a Roth conversion ladder to kind of "fix" it. It requires that your expenses aren't too high though, because you only have about $95k as a married filing jointly in income you can draw (which means actual expenses plus the conversion, which should also be an...
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    At his income he's way past the traditional phase out ($76k if you have a retirement plan). He's making more than my wife and I as a married filing jointly and we're already in the phase out.
  18. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, that's my complaint with this. Seen people compare it to Terraria, but there seems to be a progression gap. Basically after the first boss you can do bronze, but then you do the 2nd boss and there's nothing. The swamp doesn't seem to drop anything for the next "tier" to make shit easier...
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Their poor CFO is probably stressed out of his brains trying to figure out what went wrong, when it was just a bunch of internet autists looking for a quick buck. Fundamentals don't matter anymore.
  20. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    It's pretty fun but needs some work. Grinding for bronze stuff is awful. You just need so many damn resources for it. I imagine iron is going to suck even worse.
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I just don't understand why they wouldn't get that the hedge that's shorting wouldn't also buy and sell on the way up/down to cover their shorts. If retards on Reddit can get rich, why couldn't the hedges use that same concept to cut their losses? And better, short on the way down from $400 and...
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yikes, GME down in the $60's. Honestly WSB just feels sad right now. People doubling and tripling down.
  23. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nothing about "fraudsters closing brokerages to trading" on there. Shame.
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Looks like I've cost myself $100 by selling yesterday. Feel like this stupid meme stock is going to haunt me forever.
  25. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I guess the upside is leverage. You can lever yourself until you get a "property empire" of a certain number of properties and eventually get a positive cash flow. Just seems too much of a crap shoot for me.
  26. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Oh, for sure. I've posted about it before, but I'm hoping the timing on my CA to FL move works out. Hopefully selling our house in CA in the next 2 months before things fall to shit, and buying in FL in 6-12 months after shit has crashed. It may be that FL stays pretty even though as they...
  27. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I strongly considered it as the returns on it seemed to be really strong over the last decade. I was always a bit hesitant though as I heard horror stories about bad tenants (and the answer was always to vet them strongly!). I don't have to fuck around with that with equities. My laziness...
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It was like $2 before the pump and dump. They also diluted their shares massively by adding 44 million (or will, not sure if it's gone through). Despite news that theaters are opening again...who the fuck wants to go to a theater anymore?
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, I hate each of the FAANG companies for everything they stand for, but I also love money.
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I always point people to JLCollins for index investing. You could buy the book he wrote instead, but it's identical information. It's very short "articles" that explain why you should index. Read as much or as little as you want. Can probably get through the whole thing in a couple hours...
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Once again, I want to point out the...hypocrisy? Or I guess just unevenness in my feelings about these companies. My portfolio is over 6% Amazon and Google (thanks to their massive market share). I'm up several times more than I lost on AMC in just the last 15 minutes, but it doesn't feel like...
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Holy crap.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So he's already down 5% in like 10 minutes?
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    How'd you know? Edit: Oh, I guess it was expected that it'd crash land?
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This guy with the next level thinking. The bots are the ones telling you to buy, buy, buy, so Wall Street can slowly bleed them dry.
  36. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    "Anything I don't like is an attack." Or, it's your WSB bros "paper handing" you so they're not stuck holding the bag. Edit: Also, anyone who's not all in on "diamond hands" is a bot.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I will say it's satisfying getting out near a high today ($8.34). I missed the bump an hour earlier hoping it'd at least hit $9. It's been even worse the rest of the day so far.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Also, at this point, I think most of the people who are still in the green have likely sold off. The only ones left are the ones that got in at $200+ and are begging people to hold in the hopes they don't lose their ass.
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I just got greedy. My original "exit" was getting a 100% return. Then Thursday happened and I was like, well maybe AMC hits $20 again. It didn't, so I had a limit sell for just above my break even point. I should've seen the writing on the wall yesterday and got out with a 5-10% loss. Then...