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  1. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Damn, had a huge crush on her growing up after seeing her in Twins. Feels strange.
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    Far Cry 5

    Never played 5, and Primal just kind of wasn't super fun so I never got that far. But Michael Mando as Vas was absolutely amazing. I imagine he had something to do with convincing Giancarlo to do this. I have high expectations.
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    New World

    This is vaporware. Change my mind.
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    Weather

    "Rare." Except every year has at least one week in the 110's. Death Valley gets into the 120's every few years.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    Damn, what a night! 3 wins. Had a 32 kill game as a squad (quads), and one game one of our guys had 17. Also had one where for some reason a bunch of the kills didn't count. Was kind of weird. We had 9 get tallied, but I'd guess 1/3 of the rest weren't doing counting (I ended up with 1, but I...
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    Also, SBMM is fucking crazy. We just ran stimulus trios for the first time, and absolutely shit on everyone. 26 kills, all 3 of us up at the end. Meanwhile in quads we get fucking dumped on all the time after about 2-3 games into the season.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    Does melee with weapon do more than fists? I lost one the other day where he two shot me with it after I had punched him 4 times. Not sure if that's legit, or if it was just hit registration being bad on my end.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    I'm tired of fucking snipers in gulag. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired from the team.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    3 hours? For that shit skin? Geez.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    It sucks. New season started and we dropped 30-something kills in the first game. Ever since it's try-hards and fucking sucks. We're always in games with pros. Considering we're all a bunch of middle aged men, it's kind of bullshit.
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    7 Days to Die

    That got toned down big time. But they really fucked with the AI. Apparently the devs really disliked base building and so now horde nights are just shit shows of always trying to exploit the AI because the devs keep making hordes super intelligent. A19 looks really good graphics wise though...
  12. Gravel

    Happy White Male Nationalism Day! (4th of July)

    Hope you all had an American 4th.
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    Keyboards & Mice

    Too lazy to read a bunch of replies. I've been using a Logitech G400s for what feels like forever. It's been getting an inadvertent double click. Looking for something similar since they don't make these anymore. Wired. Seems fucking impossible to find anything worth a damn. Don't want to...
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    Happy White Male Nationalism Day! (4th of July)

    Spare ribs, so I threw the skirt and tips in there. A little over 2 hours, apple wood. Only thing on it is rub (salt, pepper, chili powder, paprika, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, white sugar, dark brown sugar). God damn it was delicious. I fucking can't wait for the ribs now.
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    Happy White Male Nationalism Day! (4th of July)

    Going to smoke some ribs today. This time of year has sucked lately though. Last year we had the earthquake, and this year my father-in-law was just diagnosed with leukemia.
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    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019

    I don't even notice the grau being any worse. Whatever their changes were, they weren't nearly enough.
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    No Man's Sky

    The freighter thing I was instantly soured on when I found out you have to repair your frigates every mission they run. And that means physically landing on it, running around, and repairing every god damn thing...with the added bonus of trying not to fall off. Fuck that. What a dumb shit...
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    DOTA 2

    My point being a lot of people watch it for the pro scene. With all this shit, no one's going to want to watch DOTA anymore. And that will spell the death of the game. Pointing out the battle pass for this year when the news is 2 days old is disingenuous. Let's see how the next few majors go.
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    DOTA 2

    Bet the game dies off in the next couples years.
  20. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    That sucks. He's about the only entertaining caster there is.
  21. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Huh, somehow neither my wife nor I felt that 6.0 in Lone Pine. Weird because apparently everyone else in California did. Although...we were both working out, so maybe that's why?
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    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Haven't found any videos of this earthquake that do a 7+ justice. I was going to say I'm not sure how that happens, but even with it lasting a good 45 seconds I didn't think to record any of the one last year. Just wasn't even remotely on my mind. This is kind of crazy looking though. Edit...
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    Watchmen

    Can't tell if you finished it? The son with telekinetic abilities is explained by the end of season one.
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    Survival games

    I have significantly more hours in NSM than Subnautica. But NMS has literally almost no elements of danger. Basically after the first hour or two, things are just annoying versus deadly.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Reminds me of one of the Zeihan talks he did where he compared how different countries count arrears. The US I think was 30 days. Places like Greece and Italy were like 180 or 270 before being considered late.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I'm really torn. We're getting prepped to move so I want to get rid of shit, but I don't know when. I'd love to get rid of the gym shit super easily and at a premium. But at the same time I don't want to be without a gym for months.
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    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    Yep, same here. Didn't get signed out, just all games that weren't installed are gone. This might be the death of Epic.
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    Survival games

    7 Days to Die is probably the standout one there for me. Have about 500 hours into it. A19 drops in a little over a week. This game has been in development for the better part of a decade, but it's basically released enough (each alpha just brings sweeping changes, so be prepared for once a year...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Not sure if it's from that study, but someone looked at mutual fund managers and found that their performance was somehow worse than would be expected by probability (i.e. you'd at least expect them to meet an average return, but they actually did worse than what would be expected across the...
  30. Gravel

    Watchmen

    Uh, clearly they're trying to draw attention to the Tulsa massacre. Couldn't be more obvious.
  31. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    You mean Juneteenth?
  32. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    I had originally thought about buying an Airstream, but then you need a tow vehicle. Started doing more research and there are a lot of campgrounds that limit you on size (especially out west). Really between those two things I just decided against towing anything (be it fifth wheel or trailer)...
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    The Prepper Thread

    You can see the inside of one of the cabinets here. There's a 1x3 that stretches all the way across the top of the van, bolted with rivnuts every 2ish feet. Then the cabinets are bolted into that. Have gas struts on all of them to hold the doors up. Sink is 14"x16", and 8" deep (bar sink), and...
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    The Prepper Thread

    Apologies for the pic heavy post(s). Will put behind spoilers for anyone who doesn't want to scroll. Van was pretty much bare when we bought it, except for some finishing panels that I've mostly removed (the sliding door is the only one I kept up). Put in some 2x2 struts that I used some...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Except it's actually the opposite. I wish I remember where I saw the video (thought it was Shamus Young, but it's not), but it used the original Mario Bros as an example of how it doesn't tell you how to do anything and you learn through the game showing you. This is similar, but not as good.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    First game I tried was the Survivalists. Think I made it maybe 30 seconds before I closed it. Game kept interrupting me between every action (and sometimes more than once). I want to play the game, not be told how to play the game.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I should also add that large caps have actually been pretty shit the last few years, it's just FAANG that's been propping them up. I personally go with an 80% large cap, 20% small cap mix; which is basically a total market index.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Small caps have outperformed large plenty of times. You should really be diversified across asset types, because it's hard to know in any given year what the top performer will be.
  39. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    Yeah, it was difficult finding one. There was a dealer in Thousand Oaks who had 4 or 5. We were actually getting ready to test drive it and someone else came in looking to buy it while they were pulling it around. I think he ended up getting one still, but it was like $1-2k more than what we...
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    The Prepper Thread

    So I like to think of it as the ultimate bugout bag at this point (and while any RV technically meets that standard, a van is a lot more portable and easy to just go). I'm just about done re-doing it; previously I had the kitchen on the passenger side. Details: It's a 2018 RAM Promaster...