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  1. Gravel

    Call of Duty 2020: Black Ops Cold War

    Just like pubg, they finally start addressing the cheaters when I'm done with their bullshit game.
  2. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    This is even worse than just not showing support. This is outright saying "you play by our rules or else." It's basically gotten to the point where living your life and not acknowledging their bullshit is seen as openly hostile. We've gone from "what goes on in the bedroom is your own business"...
  3. Gravel

    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    I got Ultimate for like $1/month. Seems worth it to me, even if they were all shitty games.
  4. Gravel

    Marvel's Avengers

    Dunno, I've watched a TON of his videos and he's pretty impartial.
  5. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  6. Gravel

    Marvel's Avengers

    It's weird, you read some of the comments here and everything sounds great. But that Worth a Buy video I posted shits all over it; buggy, boring enemies, grindy, equipment is meaningless, etc. Not sure what to make of that.
  7. Gravel

    Crusader Kings 3

    Went ahead and grabbed this off Game Pass based on this thread. I just did the tutorial, and holy shit that's the most complex tutorial I've ever played. This game may be way too much for me to even comprehend.
  8. Gravel

    Weather

    So the one thing California had going for it, nature, is basically out of the question now. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/creek-fire-sierra-national-forest-national-guard-airlift-trapped-campers/ We weren't able to camp at all this spring/summer because of covid. Spring because the campgrounds...
  9. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I'm watching old episodes, and on Thor: Ragnarok at the moment (from 2017). It's interesting because Mike basically says movie theaters need to die. For the money concessions cost, you can buy a giant TV and the movie companies can charge you $20-30 for a movie. Keep small art house cinemas...
  10. Gravel

    Marvel's Avengers

  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm confused, because those numbers don't seem to be big enough to move the entire market. I only skimmed though; were they leveraging? A few billion dollars sounds like a lot, but Apple for instance has a market cap of $2T. Throwing a couple billion at it wouldn't be that big a deal.
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Cool larp and all, but where's the evidence any of that happened? Where are the massive amount of companies missing earnings? Wouldn't we have had a massive market loss prior to this, and not a giant runup in August?
  13. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nice, 3% drop right before my auto-401k contribution tomorrow. Good times.
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain insolvent. Keep that in mind. If you're nervous, it likely means your asset allocation is not correct for your risk tolerance. If you're too heavily invested in equities and nervous, it may mean you need to be less invested in equities.
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Geez, market took a while to break through the February level barrier, but once it hit it, it's just a damn rocket ship again.
  16. Gravel

    Marvel's Avengers

    From what I can tell, you just beat up random nameless robots over and over and over and over. And for some reason despite being say, a god, the robots are bullet sponges.
  17. Gravel

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Looks like it weighs 30 pounds. 3090 - $1499 3080 - $699 3070 - $499
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Eh, I mean, it's not like we're doing poorly. We're actually $9k off my original early retirement target this month, which a few years ago I figured we'd hit sometime around 2023 or 2024. Our taxable account is definitely not where it needs to be for us to start a Roth conversion ladder though...
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Absolute insanity. Wish I owned more than .4% or whatever the fuck the index is. Edit: Just called my mom. Sounds like they started buying at about $200 and have been buying continuously ever since. From the sounds of it, they've got about $1.5M just in Tesla. Wish I had that same kind of faith...
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think the election will impact much (probably a slide if Biden wins), but I think sometime around the end of the year we're going to get a major correction when this shutdown finally comes to roost. We're on borrowed time I think before the economy takes a major hit.
  21. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Oh good, more preaching to me. Thanks, CBS! Seriously, maybe don't show your players talking about George Floyd if you want to keep your viewership? Fucking retards. I was talking to my wife about how last year I said I'd stop watching because of all the bullshit that went on there (I was super...
  22. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    Yep.
  23. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    I honestly don't remember. We're talking almost 30 years ago. I just remember playing the shit out of Yserbius (and eventually Twinion and Cawdor), Red Baron, and that booger game.
  24. Gravel

    Marvel's Avengers

    This is on top of a $60 box cost. You're why gaming is the way it is now.
  25. Gravel

    Bill & Ted Face the Music

    I grew up on them, and this was kind of meh. I mean, it was nice to see Bill and Ted again, but maybe I'm just too old for this shit? It wasn't bad, just not really good either. I watched the first within the last year and enjoyed it. My wife slept through most of it and after I told her it...
  26. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    Ahh, Sierra. I still consider this to be the first true MMO. I racked up a $250 phone bill playing it. My mom was pissed.
  27. Gravel

    Weather

    Not unusual. I remember seeing caravans of them driving through Kentucky every couple years over a decade ago. They come from all over the country.
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Are you invested in only DJIA companies? The rest of the market blasted past those February levels a couple weeks ago.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Weird. Apparently VTI and VTSMX hold Tesla, but VTSAX does not. Unless for some reason they just don't differentiate between VTSMX and VTSAX. https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip/site/advisor/analysistools/holdingssearch?searchinfo=TSLA&isin=&orgCode=&selectedFunds=
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, they have separate finances and a few years ago I had a sit down with my mom about planning for retirement. She's close, if not already, a millionaire on her own.
  31. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Happens all the time on Survivor too, although predominately with the women and not men (seeing how there are actually black male winners).
  32. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Bummed about tonight's eviction. Didn't care for her at first, but she was starting to grow on me. Wife and I started watching BB14 (we started on 15 or 16 I think), and I'm enjoying her and Britney there. And wow, reading Reddit (since they watch live feeds), David is fucking terrible...
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, was talking to my mom a couple months ago and her boyfriend is now a millionaire, and she had mentioned he had a significant amount of Tesla stock. He's in his mid-50's though, so I'm hoping he decides to divest a bit of it elsewhere. But considering how long ago that was, I'm kind of...
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Seems like big business still doesn't understand kids. By the time this shit went through, they will have long since moved on. Any value in TikTok is dead already.
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Except we're not Japan. You talk about the Boomers, but there is a Millennial generation just as large that is now in the consumption phase. Japan didn't have that.
  36. Gravel

    Palm Springs (2020)

    I enjoy time loop movies. That this was kind of a "this dude's been living it forever" where you see Bill Murray probably years or decades into it made it a little more interesting. I'd really like to see them do a movie based on Replay. It's a book about a guy who has a heart attack in middle...
  37. Gravel

    Call of Duty 2020: Black Ops Cold War

    I swear I saw Robert Redford in that trailer too. Sitting to the left of Reagan. It's probably some CoD character I'm not familiar with, having never played the series til now.
  38. Gravel

    Weather

    That's my thinking. The stuff I see to "hurricane proof" a house, materials wise, seems pretty cheap and easy. But water? Not a whole lot to do about that. And storm surge on the coast seems to be the biggest issue anyway. So build a house on stilts out of modern materials, and it seems like...
  39. Gravel

    Weather

    Whole thing is just making me more adamant that I buy/build a house on stilts when we move to Florida. The wind I don't feel like is a huge deal. As long as I can deal with storm surge, I think a house will survive.
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Posted that in the Politics thread yesterday and no one seemed to comment. I honestly can't make sense of what it is, although the statement obviously hasn't come yet. But it sounds like they want...more inflation? Than what was already coming, no less?