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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, found two packs next to each other. Hit Ferrica, wait 3 seconds for them to group, aoe down, skin, move to next pack, do the same, and by then the other respawned. I just go long stretches without getting any pities. It'll be a while before I can do it again though just because I need...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Good derail. Wasn't sure what we were earning, or if our settlement fund at Vanguard even earned anything. Pleasantly surprised that it's in VMFXX which is at 5.28% annual. Which is good since I'll be liquidating an entire year's worth of expenses in the next 3 months and it'll sit there most...
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    That seems way higher than what I've gotten. At 38 pities in 5 hours or so. Using Magic Tanning Knife (80%), Fig Pie (3%), Treat's Tear (10%), and Lara's Tea (10%), with Hedgehog pet.
  4. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I needed another 200 wind fragments for my last Krogdalo piece, so I decided I may as well do the MP pot piece while I was there. Holy shit, it's no wonder people complain about this. I don't even mind gathering that much, but this is painful. Hedgehog definitely makes it suck less, but it's...
  5. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Sometimes you get carried, sometimes you get fucked. This is my attempts at getting to DUO Fallen God (doesn't include the original 3 attempts to get from base to PRI). I also looked and misspoke. I actually got the PEN Godr in 5. Was thinking of TET which I hit in 9. Edit: And actually...
  6. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Fuuuuuuuck yes! Just tapped my TET Godr on a 245 stack. Think it was my 9th or 10th attempt. Also finished up getting my Deathblow set. Good gains today.
  7. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Brb, quitting my job so I can get unemployment. Clown world rules, bro!
  8. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Nah, Succ Lahn is super chill. F, S+F, RMB+LMB, RMB, repeat. Yeah, there's pre-buffs, but that's every class (15 second Q buff, 8? second A/D+RMB). I preferred when the attack speed buff was A/D+LMB instead of Q, which is what I think makes her feel clunkier. But it's still not much. Here are...
  9. Gravel

    Black Desert

    2 nails in an hour is pretty nice. I decided to end my Maegu experiment. Went to grind on my Lahn after untagging and was like, holy shit, did I make a massive mistake? Was doing absolute shit damage. Realized about 5 minutes in I had the wrong crystals. Whoops! I will say, after grinding for...
  10. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I'm such a waffler with this fucking game. I've been kind of disappointed with my silver/hr, so I've been bouncing around changing my main. I thought I had finally settled on Maegu. It feels really strong, with massive AOEs that just dumpster shit. I feel like I'm moving through and between...
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's even harder when you need to liquidate for actual living expenses. I mentioned last year that because the market was so bad, I was only going to do enough for about 2/3 to 3/4 of our 2023 expenses. Well, we're about at the time. I did a month back in July and timed the peak almost...
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Is this the shoeshine boy moment? At the very least for 0DTE's?
  13. Gravel

    For All Mankind

    Last season seemed really bogged down. They need more space stuff and less character drama (don't give a shit about lesbian President's or that stupid kid having a mental breakdown).
  14. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Speaking of rents, saw a house when we were driving home for rent and was curious about how much. Wife found it, and it's $2150 at 1350 sqft. Our mortgage, in a bigger house we bought two years ago, is $1300 (incl tax/insurance).
  15. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    If you had a set of dumbbells (adjustable?) and a bench, you can do pretty much a full workout. We sold our power rack when we moved from CA to FL, and I've been making due for the last couple years with dumbbells from 10 to 55, a curl bar, a regular barbell, and the plates we had. Oh, and a...
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Likely because the only reason it was even down was energy, and now energy is going back up again.
  17. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Isn't bloodwolves like 5b an hour now? Seems like an iridescent is super cheap when you're bringing in season money.
  18. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not to say you wasted your money, but The Wild is basically the go to for PVE artifacts until you can afford whatever end game one your class goes with.
  19. Gravel

    Black Desert

    You can extract the heart. And do what I did, just use Jetina to swap out a Tuvala awakening if you need to, and put it in that. It's completely free. And if you're needing a 2nd pegasus, you can sell the Dine, and use the Training discord to find you an opposite sex Pegasus. I definitely...
  20. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Pretty much identical to what happened with me a few months ago. One tapped a Dine. Sold it and traded for a Pegasus.
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Saving up for Deathblow at the moment. Needs two Blades, for 10b total. But it should boost my damage significantly (10% crit). After that I think I'll be back to grinding out money to buy Caphras.
  22. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I hope you're right (assuming I'm reading this right) that the bones are there for modders to flesh out the space stuff. It just annoys me that the price of admission doesn't include that, and you're relying on people who didn't develop the game to do it. And it doubly annoys me that a...
  23. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This is why I kept bringing up games developed 5-10 years ago that did space better than this. And that's constantly being met with "that's not this game." Yeah, no shit. But why did they release a lazy rehash of the same shit they did 20 years ago? Well, look no further than the people who...
  24. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I looked it up, and I guess they don't. Been wasting 600k silver!
  25. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, I go: Simple Cron (Exquisite Cron if I'm at the AP cap already) Church Buffs (AP/DP) Tent Buff (Adventurer's Confidence, 600k) Adventurer's Luck V* (only if it's got rare drops, cause 50m is expensive as hell) Villa Buff (Body Enhancement, 1m/hr) Frenzy Draught And then add in any EXP...
  26. Gravel

    Aquaman 2

    I tried watching it. It was pretty awful. Didn't even make it 30 minutes in before I said fuck this.
  27. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    $1500 and you get digital codes. Awesome.
  28. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Downside of mana pot is that it doesn't have incremental upgrades. With health pot, you get one piece and you can use it immediately. And with fairy, you basically have infinite no effort heals.
  29. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Kind of depends on your goals. I'd recommend doing the Jetina stuff, and then picking a pot piece and making sure to do that weekly for the extra 5 pities (you can open the Monster Zone Info window, and it'll show you the quests for the area you pick, but it's always the node manager). Also...
  30. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's hard to answer that question for the broader population, since I think so many of us have a bias towards our own upbringing/current means which is likely middle class to lower upper class. For someone with the means, home ownership is the single best hedge against inflation. I don't like...
  31. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Flower of Oblivion. The one for doing imperial horse delivery. Need 100 per attempt, too. Have 390 ferns and 28 feathers apparently.
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Just to add, when I was still working, usually we'd see lead engineer types on a DoD project making about $150/hr fully burdened. So the UAW is asking for the average autoworker to be making what an engineer with 20+ years of experience on a fighter jet is making.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm assuming that's a fully burdened labor rate? But still, I've rarely seen a burdened rate that's more than 50% of the total, so that's still $68/hr in actual pay at worst (~$130k annually). Average.
  34. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Assuming you get a courser, which should be easy with all the skill coupons they give out, you should also be able to easily get a dream horse with the ridiculous amount of awakening materials they give out. You can probably get two, in fact. They've really cheapened the prestige of dream horses...
  35. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Have you not been reading? It's the buggy nature of the game that makes it "quirky." And the fact that modders have to fix the game. That's what makes a Bethesda game "fun." Personally, I didn't like any of the Bethesda Fallout games. Give me Fallout 2 over that garbage.
  36. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That would be fucking amazing. The entire thing should be a flat fee, but then no one would want to do it.
  37. Gravel

    Gen V

    Oh good, more superhero shit.
  38. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Half a million for a fucking manufactured home. I'd chalk those up to land prices, but none of those seem like very desirable areas or large lots.
  39. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Yeah, this is definitely a case of both being true. It's been the case for at least the last decade that people expect to live in a house as large and as nice as their parents did, while still in their 20s. Basically skipping all the starter homes. At the same time, over the last few years...