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  1. Gravel

    Red Dead Redemption 2

    I'll just never buy a console again. I wish they'd get around to doing a PC port of it. And ffs I could use a PC release date on this one.
  2. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Really hoping another realistic battle royale game comes along soon. I won't ever touch Fortnite because the building aspect is stupid. But I want to play one that has realistic gun play and physics, but also with decent netcode and hit registration. I don't think pubg will ever offer those...
  3. Gravel

    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Yeah, on re-reading my post that wasn't really clear what I meant. I imagine it'll come out that every team with cheerleaders probably does some incredibly dubious shit to them.
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    2018 NFL Offseason Thread -- Philadelphia Burning Edition

    Posted in the General Forum, but figured it's relevant here. Glad I decided to part ways with supporting the Redskins completely. Sounds like this came about because of complaints from some Dolphins cheerleaders. I imagine in the coming weeks the NFL is going to have another full blown crisis...
  5. Gravel

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    I'm just responding to what Talenvor said. I quit after about 3 weeks into the game. You know, where you had to use Discord. But you shouldn't have to use a 3rd party application for communication in a multiplayer game. Worse, they even banned people for using Discord for the first week or two...
  6. Gravel

    DOTA 2

    No, Grant is a terrible commentator and I wish they'd stop using him for anything. Granted (ha!), he seems to be better than he was last year, but he's still garbage.
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    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Which...entirely missed the point. A team game where you can't communicate to your team is retarded. So now you can say "Hey, let's group up to do xyz!" And then never talk again. Or never talk to your Clan, which makes those completely useful. Fucking retards.
  8. Gravel

    Westworld

    Sent him off naked, tied up, on horseback, into the unknown. Generally though I feel like if someone doesn't die on screen, they didn't die. And considering it seems like that retirement party took place after those events, I think he just became pacified.
  9. Gravel

    Arrested Development

    I figured they had done season 4 that way because of issues getting all the cast together. I feel like it was kind of a failure and really took away from the show. I'm hopeful that the recut makes the story a bit more coherent.
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    Westworld

    My first thought was that she was the only human one. I went into that scene thinking Delos Jr. was going to buy the technology and open a park, and that chick whom he seemed infatuated with, would be one of the first robots he made. So he could have "fun" with her. Instead they went with the...
  11. Gravel

    Westworld

    Seriously, this. I tried watching that Wild, Wild, Country show on Netflix yesterday. 15 minutes in my wife asks me if I'm enjoying it and I'm just like, "Fuck no, no one knows how to tell stories anymore. I'm 15 minutes in and I have no fucking clue what's going on." In fact, I finished the...
  12. Gravel

    Subnautica

    Finally got back around to reinstalling this. Think I played almost 7 hours on Sunday. Definitely seems more polished than when I played a couple years ago. The storyline definitely helps keep you pointed in the right direction. Edit: Just read the last page. Maybe I need to pay attention to...
  13. Gravel

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    I do. I'm fucking tired of walking my dog and having other dogs charge at it. Luckily the only big dog that's done it seemed more curious than anything, but it still makes me nervous. If I ever get a pitbull charging, I'm not entirely sure what I'll do. And unfortunately now my dog has become...
  14. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I never got to play them, but I could really go for at least the circle 5+ changes. Last weekend we had so many games we lost because the circle ended up spawning on the opposite side of us, forcing us to cross open terrain usually with no cover and the circle pressing behind us. Meanwhile...
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    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Fucking bizarre changes to the cities that you posted there. Especially after the blue zone changes, which seemed like Bluehole telling everyone "jump hot!" Now we get a patch that basically says, "Stop jumping hot!" Although that patch itself was bizarre because they had also added the lake...
  16. Gravel

    A Song of Ice and Fire - Book Spoilers Within

    Wait, so he cranked out a 989 page "History of the Targaryens" book? Yeah, he's never fucking finishing the series. No chance.
  17. Gravel

    Retirement Planning Thread

    The answer is it depends. My general advice is it only makes sense to do a Roth if you're in an incredibly low tax bracket right now. The biggest reason for this is that a traditional IRA lowers your entire taxable burden; every single dollar you earn is taxed at a lower rate. A Roth is taxed...
  18. Gravel

    Retirement Planning Thread

    Which seems incredibly short sighted to me. But I guess that's part of the problem with politicians is they love to deal with the problems 5 feet in front of them and ignore the implications 10 years down the line. Roth's are a pretty shitty deal for the government.
  19. Gravel

    Amazon Keyincar

    It's ironic to me that like a week ago people were having hissy fits about how Facebook sold the data that users agreed to allow them to, but there are no issues allowing Amazon access to your house and car.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What a weird thing to call out when it's closed below 2673 tons of times this year.
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    Retirement Planning Thread

    Vanguard and Fidelity are currently the two lowest on fees by quite a large margin. Assuming you want to keep everything with one company, I don't see any issue with it. The reason I prefer Vanguard over Fidelity is that Vanguard is owned by the shareholders (*Edit for clarification, it's owned...
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    Westworld

    Still pretty sure William (Man in Black) is either the head of the board or someone high ranking in the hierarchy. We even got somewhat confirmation of that when he's wandering back into civilization and the dude in a tuxedo is yelling at him about how fucked up things are, then gets shot in...
  23. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    You mentioning 5 kills reminds me that I had a game this past weekend (squads) where I took out an entire team and I felt like I had streamer aim. They were running perpendicular to us, about 200m out, and I fucking nailed almost every single shot. Felt really awesome to just track someone's...
  24. Gravel

    Westworld

    Keep in mind that Abernathy was one of two hosts I believe (the other being milk guy's sidekick) who were decommissioned after the reverie update in the first episode of season one. Afterwards they "rolled back" the update. So it's possible Abernathy is the only host that still has that update...
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    A few years ago I had the same issue. I think I was 31 or 32 at the time. I had been super tired (still am) and the doctor said we should do bloodwork. I said we should add testosterone to it, and the doctor was reluctant to add it. I think I made up some shit about having low libido too just...
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    Retirement Planning Thread

    I recommend reading the Stock Series by JLCollins. He's part of the FIRE community (financial independence/retire early), but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to retire early. The advice about what to invest in is good. It'll probably take a few hours to read through it all, but it's...
  27. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    About 163 as of this morning. I agree it sounds out there. But I'm giving it a shot as opposed to 1-2 months of smaller deficits.
  28. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    What's stupid about it? Shit, aren't you a huge Lyle McDonald fanboy?
  29. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Starting PSMF tomorrow. Thinking I'll try for about 10 days. At about 14% bodyfat to start, hoping to get to a legit 11%. Also going to do it as an intermittent fast, since the last time I did IF it seemed to work out well; and with how little I'll be eating it will hopefully help. Looking at...
  30. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    I mean, that's what PUBG has been doing. We're getting another new set of boxes already. Meanwhile shit is still broken. In fact, the trend of them releasing a patch that has nothing to do with stability that breaks stability continues.
  31. Gravel

    Downsizing (2017)

    Had issues finding a good copy of this. Finally did and wish I hadn't. First 30-45 minutes were really cool. Super awesome idea, and then they just abandoned it. They literally forgot they were talking about tiny people and just went off on some stupid bullshit about...I'm not even sure. I...
  32. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    Sorry, was hoping to find some kind of official trailer type video, and didn't even think to do the others.
  33. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    New Battle Royale game by Tencent. Figured I'd start a new thread for this instead of cluttering up the PUBG one. Looks to be a pretty good clone of PUBG but with better netcode, dynamic weather/daylight, and more quality of life features (Q marking of terrain for teammates, auto attachments...
  34. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Since it appears we're posting Ring of Elysium videos here now, I'll post the one I mentioned below. Although we might need a different thread at this point I'm hoping that it's still got some optimization to do, because PUBG seems more "realistic" to me in a lot of areas. There's just...
  35. Gravel

    Radical Heights

    Watched summit play this one last weekend and it looked fucking terrible. Not sure why anyone would give it the time of day. What does it offer that you can't get from F2P Fortnite or PUBG?
  36. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    That's not magic, he's just really strong. Maybe if you spent more time lifting and less time shooting people in the face, you could throw grenades 100m through walls too.
  37. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Serves him right. Not sure how that's even enjoyable.
  38. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah, I said in one of my posts the other day that they're really pushing the direction of this game based on esports and streamers. Which is great, and streamers are definitely why the game did as well as it has. But for longevity it's going to kill them, and it's sad they can't recognize it...
  39. Gravel

    RIP R. Lee Ermey

    Recently we had our annual security briefing and the guy showed some video with him in it talking about OPSEC. Looked recent, so I guess maybe he was doing military gigs at least.
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    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Damn dude, strong. Was it strict?