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  1. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Whelp, looks like that Liquid/Pango series will be a classic. God damn!
  2. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Yeah, I wished they'd done more actual gameplay, but otherwise that was good.
  3. Gravel

    Which games did you enjoy/disliked most in 2018?

    After you beat it, take a little time off and then try out the Calamity mod. It's got some fucking brutally punishing bosses added. The post-Moon Lord ones are pretty ridiculous (but fun; I really like the Devourer of Gods fight).
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    How much real money have MMOs made you?

    Made about $2k from Everquest back when I was in high school. Bought my first car with it. I'll be honest, I don't even remember how I made it. Edit: Reading through the thread and I do remember now. At some point one my corpses duped (not on purpose). I was in a top raiding guild, and I also...
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    Computer Issues

    So just this afternoon, in Chrome, whenever I middle mouse click a link (any link) it gets a pop-up blocked in the search bar. What the fuck? How do I get rid of this? Edit: Turns out it was Ghostery. God damnit. I guess I need to find a new popup blocker that's not retarded
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    Bird Box (2018)

    Came to post this. Didn't even watch the movie, but it annoys me. God damn Russian bots making everyone wear blindfolds!
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    You're the Worst

    I'm still struggling through season 4. Finally got them all downloaded but the show seems to have lost its mojo. The two leads have always been unlikeable, but in an endearing way. Now Gretchen is just insufferable. And Lindsay and Edgar as more than just Flanderized sidekicks aren't interesting.
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    Industrial? (Ministry, CombiChrist?)

    Weird, because I've been on an 80's and early 90's music kick the last month or so. I had Ministry on my workout playlist and it got me thinking. My mom (really through her boyfriend) listened to a lot of industrial, and I ended up looking for this earlier this week.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Super Dave/Funkhouser died today (Bob Einstein).
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I was looking back at this year too, and I'm amazed that I'm currently stronger than I've ever been. I started lifting 10 years ago. I've also been paying almost no attention to my diet, and am lighter than I've been in probably 7 years. I'll be 35 here next month and I've gotta say I'm pretty...
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    First Man (2018)

    Finally watched a rip of this. I was kind of ready for disappointment based on the controversy in this thread, but overall it was good. The family shit was kind of a drag, the shaky cam overboard, and the sound, music especially, overrode a lot of the dialogue (the last one may just be my sound...
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    Packages and the delivery of them/stolen etc

    I've been getting those for the last two months on every delivery. I'm wondering what the liability on that ends up being when it says "handed off directly" and you claim you never got it. In fact, just this week I panicked a bit. Was getting a new Roku stick and it said handed off. There was...
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    Investing General Discussion

    My guess is we bottom out at about 20-25% from the top (so in the 2200-2350 S&P 500 range), followed by a mild recession (Q4 2018 and Q1 2019). 2019 will end up being a 15%+ market year by December 2019. Granted, that's from the lows we're at right now.
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    Survivor

    Season got off to a kind of slow start, looked like one of the best seasons ever in the middle, and then fizzled out as the shitty, uninteresting contestants made it to the end. Ironically, I bitched about Angelina a ton, but she was the only thing that made the finale tolerable. She's fucking...
  15. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Culkin reviewing Home Alone 4 was pretty good. A little self deprecating humor goes a long way. Plus, he really owns his past.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Guess he's just a regular now, because he did a Re:View for Hackers like a month ago. That's 3 (or more?) episodes in a month. He was not only surprisingly normal, but actually entertaining. I probably don't watch as much RLM as I should.
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    Survivor

    I cannot figure out those votes. Seems like everything we were shown was just thrown out the window and the voting blocs we got were completely random. Kara, Nick, and Angelina? What? Anyway, Angelina has now secured her spot in the final. She's one of the best goats we've had in a while...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    For some reason I decided to find lists of the top rock albums of all time tonight, and Led Zeppelin's IV was one of the highest rated ones ever. It's been forever since I listened to Zeppelin, but I always really liked Houses of the Holy better than IV. When I think of Houses of the Holy...
  19. Gravel

    True Detective

    Not even a little excited. Will end up waiting for the season to conclude and see if it's worth a shit. While I appreciate the theorycrafting of watching week to week, this just doesn't look that good. And I've been burned already.
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    Searching (2018)

    Saw this one trending and decided to give it a go. Was a unique style with everything being via computer in some capacity (webcams, facetime, instant messaging, news website streams, etc). Story held up really well, too.
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    Searching (2018)

    Title: Searching (2018) Tagline: No one is lost without a trace Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery Director: Aneesh Chaganty Cast: John Cho, Michelle La, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Sara Sohn, Briana McLean, Thomas Barbusca, Erica Jenkins, Connor McRaith, Dominic Hoffman, Ric Sarabia...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Wow, yeah, Subnautica is a pretty awesome survival/crafting game. It's good for at least 20 hours, if not significantly more.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Steer clear of American funds. They're one of the absolute worst for fees in the entire industry. And yeah, bonds fucking suck. Bonds were in a 30 year or so bubble that ended with the recession. They're going to be a major drag on your portfolio. Their only value at this point is a hedge...
  24. Gravel

    Survivor

    That was pretty baller by Christian. Basically recognizing that his closest ally and alliance turned on him. That said, it would've been a lot better had it been him and one other who cast their votes for Gabby. As is, they just kinda lucked out that Angelina and Michael voted her out.
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    Survivor

    I'm still thinking the biggest fuck up the Goliaths have had is not getting rid of Angelina. She's already proven to have no loyalty and she's fucking batshit insane. I really just wanted to smack her this week with her whole, "Oh yeah, so when I was getting my MBA...you know, at Yale...we took...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    People always forget about dividends when talking about stock. Even in shitty markets, companies still pay out dividends. They may be less if the company brings in significantly less revenue due to a depressed economy, but more than likely you'll be getting a couple percent return on your...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I was saying it last year when everyone was buying it, but "crypto" as a speculative asset is a fools game. Sure, you may make some money on it, but it defeats the entire purpose of a means of exchange. Until people stop trying to make money with it, it's doomed to failure. Harp on all you want...
  28. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Worthless game, but man Alliance hit the best combo I've ever seen. Liquid in Rosh, Dark Seer vacuum's them all, Magnus blinks in to RP, and then skewers them up the high ground where Enigma is waiting to black hole. Will try to find a clip when it's posted (didn't clip it at the time).
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    Black Friday 2018

    We spent a significant amount on a new spring mattress about 3 years ago when we bought our house. And it sucked (sucks?). At the time, I feel like about 3/4 of the beds in the mattress stores we went to were memory foam. For the van build we had to get a memory foam because we need to be able...
  30. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    That makes it so much worse.
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    Remakes you wouldn't mind

    I'm pretty sure these are all technically sequels. They take place in the same universe, just in the future. When I think remakes, I think something like Point Break, Ghostbusters, Willy Wonka or The Magnificent Seven. Not entirely sure about something like Oceans 8 where they tried to tie it...
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    Survivor

    It's probably one of the best Survivor seasons in many years. The casting didn't have too many misses (except old black lady, not sure wtf they were thinking there). This last tribal was pretty amazing, only because when Karl got his Exile Island power I was like, "That's seriously the...
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    I think I stumbled on them a few months ago because of Star Wars? Or maybe their review of Ready Player One. Either way, I'm a fan. They seem to have pretty similar preferences to myself, outside of the fact that I don't particularly like horror.
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    7 Days to Die

    I was watching a stream this weekend of a guy who said he normally play perma-death and with A17 on default he was struggling. So I guess it depends on how far the difficulty has swung with the update. I will say the game looks a lot better.
  35. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    He doesn't have the old ult at all anymore. It's just the new wisp spell. Looks like the agh's just makes it heal. Which is still powerful, but overall having to channel really sucks for him. Means it'll be much harder to safely farm late game. The wisp ult is kind of ridiculous though. Edit...