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  1. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Only thing I'm not sure is does his Agh's only heal in daytime? Or does it still do damage? Also, Ogre is fucking ridiculous. 4x multicast Midas? Scythe? Dagon? Like, holy shit...
  2. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    I mean, it was literally linked.
  3. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    What the fuck? Removed Ring of Aquila from the game?
  4. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    EG looks pretty impotent today. Secret and VP are on a different level than these other teams right now.
  5. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    These have been some awesome games, but holy shit is this TB/Arc meta terrible.
  6. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Well LGD is just throwing this one. Like, 5 or so bad decisions all in 30 seconds.
  7. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Not sure if Secret wins game 2, but they're shitting all over LGD right now. Really, LGD is taking the worst engagements I've seen in a pro game. Edit: Damn, that was quite a performance. Holy shit...
  8. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Arc Warden too stronk. God damn Nisha...
  9. Gravel

    Weather

    3 of my coworkers flew into St Louis yesterday for a meeting today (generally lasts about 7 hours). They wanted me to go but I made up a fake appointment for my wife that ended up getting "cancelled." The 3 of them spent the entire meeting on a cell phone in a hotel room. Felt a little bad for...
  10. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    I feel like I've said it before, but the show is a few hits every season, but like 7-8 misses. Last season the water park and "Hero or Hate Crime?" were hilarious. The season before had "Mac and Dennis Move to the Suburbs," the trial of the century episode, and "Charlie Catches a Leprechaun."...
  11. Gravel

    Westworld

    Samurai episode would've been okay had it actually tied into the show somehow. But in the end the entire thing was 100% pointless. It was just the producers who wanted to do some samurai shit. It's similar to Kiksuya. It was probably my favorite episode of the entire show. But, it had very...
  12. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    Jesus. Sumail in this game 1 vs NiP. It's only 9 minutes in, but this is almost a perfect game by him.
  13. Gravel

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Which is ironic, because most people got drawn into Game of Thrones for the political intrigue. I mean, shit, they called the show Game of Thrones and not A Song of Ice and Fire. I think most of us, especially book readers, saw where this all went way off the rails once the magic shit got super...
  14. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    If I told you, I'd have to kill you. Filming at our location will be wrapping up this weekend, and unfortunately, I didn't get to see any of the principal actors (I may have seen some of the others, just not recognized them). My "cool story bro" for today is that Tom flew up his "coffee guy"...
  15. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    So today they had one of our SAR SH-60's flying right outside our building. They kept going straight up about 50 feet and then pulling hard, almost on its side, and then turning around to do it again. Tom Cruise was definitely in the helicopter, because my wife looked at the flight schedule and...
  16. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    Blue Angels jet still circling. Been almost an hour now. Got a few videos of it going right over the house. Edit: Video. My other ones were kind of potato looking (hard as shit to get a good video of a jet in the air, especially flying so low). Best one was only a 4 second clip.
  17. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    In today's news from...close to...the set. Yesterday afternoon they apparently did a call back to the motorcycle on the runway scene. They used the same bike from the original. Also, confirmed that Val Kilmer and Jennifer Connolly are both here (although I haven't seen them, nor Tom, myself)...
  18. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    Wow, what a fucking madhouse it's become. All the other filming days I was kind of vaguely aware of their presence, but today they're all over the place. There are 5 or 6 trailers in our parking lot (Tom Cruise is definitely here; one of my coworker's husband is currently babysitting him since...
  19. Gravel

    Military Service

    You didn't hear it from me, but same thing with the 173rd jump into Iraq. Shit was already cleared out prior to them jumping in.
  20. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    So they're actually filming in our building this week. In fact, I passed a Paramount truck on my way to lunch just now. Pretty neat, although kind of meaningless since I can't actually go watch the filming or anything. I'm actually a little pissed because I missed the meeting they had where...
  21. Gravel

    Military Service

    3 deployments and really only after the first one (2004) did I have something that I'd mildly call PTSD. I'd basically get anxiety driving around anytime I saw a piece of trash on the road and loud noises made me jumpy. But after a couple months it faded. Deployments 2 (2005-2006) and 3...
  22. Gravel

    Military Service

    Similar for me. I was a slacker in high school, but had signed up for community college. A few months before I was going to start I decided to go to the recruiter. Was probably for the best. I'm not sure how much effort I would've put into community college. When I went back for my bachelors...
  23. Gravel

    (G)rape Vanning

    Super behind on what I've been up to. Wife helped me put in some vinyl flooring. Our original thought was laminate, but vinyl is pretty waterproof so we did that instead. Framed up the lower half so that I could build the bed, as I wanted the walls to be finished there so I wouldn't be trying to...
  24. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pretty sure I've mentioned it before on these forums, but we did a month long exercise at Fort Knox back around 2005. We had 2 LMTV's filled with MK19 ammo for just our company (maybe 100 people?). We shot the fuckers from dawn until after sunset. It was absolutely miserable. We'd be sitting in...
  25. Gravel

    Red Dead Redemption 2

    Sounds like the controls are the only complaint. Can't wait to play on PC in 4 years.
  26. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Home Alone is one of my favorite movies, and I love Sunny, but that was just horrific. Looks like this season will have only one funny episode. Disappointing. Edit: Maybe two, if the gay pride parade one is good. I can't imagine the conclusion of this Super Bowl thing will be worth a shit.
  27. Gravel

    You just won $1.6 billion!

    You can sometimes set up a trust and have the trust sign the ticket (this is the reason you shouldn't sign the ticket). But several states won't allow blind trusts to claim the prize.
  28. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Left can't meme strikes again, you disingenuous fucks.
  29. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  30. Gravel

    Survivor

    The crazy part is right after that conversation, he's like, "Well, that bitch is a lost cause." She's fucking insane. He's sitting there telling her she has no self awareness and she just throws it back in his face, proving him right.
  31. Gravel

    (G)rape Vanning

    So far not much. The insulation weighs almost nothing. Probably less than 10 lbs for all of it. The wood we'll be using 1/4" plywood when we can (probably on walls and ceiling, if I can find it). Most of the cabinets will be 1x3's and 1/2" plywood. Floor was 1/2" plywood. Battery we're going...
  32. Gravel

    (G)rape Vanning

    Holy fucking shit, I cut a giant hole in the van today (well, 14"x14"). Talk about a moment that will make you second guess yourself over and over and over and over. Anyway, that means the fan is in! It actually went pretty well outside of the fact that I have a Ryobi jigsaw and despite the...
  33. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Okay, episode 4 was fucking hilarious. I think the best part is that there's a lot of truth in the Dennis speech about ugliness (attractive people can get away with harassment). The whole 2nd half just crushed it. The ending especially; Mac stands up and says, "Wow, I think we should clap for...
  34. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    Nah. In fact, if not for the rumor mill, you'd never even know they were filming. The only reason I do is because I work out near the flight line and there were mystery signs that went up on this part of the base Monday (most people on the base don't have flight line access).
  35. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    Alright, that was fucking cool. I'm assuming they were just shooting from the ground because there wasn't a chase plane, but they just had a jet flying straight up with afterburners and then diving. It's about 7pm so just at dusk. Never seen afterburners at night like that, but it was awesome...
  36. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Tyler played a near perfect game outside of voting out Brett and not Kaycee. It was obvious she hadn't stepped on any toes and was a competition beast.
  37. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    This season sucks. The last few seasons weren't great either, with the exception being last season. Last season fucking killed it. Water Park and Hero or Hate Crime were some of the best episodes of the entire show.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I just don't see where the money goes if the stock market crashes. Bonds were in a 30-40 year bubble and it came crashing down with the great recession. The returns on bonds are so shit right now that no smart investor would move their money from stocks to bonds. So where does it go?
  39. Gravel

    Top Gun (1986)

    Not too long ago Half in the Bag was talking about Mission Impossible and how it's essentially just become home videos of a rich guy (Tom Cruise) doing cool shit that we get to pay to watch. Tom was doing some Super Hornet flying around today. Not sure how much more filming they've got, but I...