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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I wasn't blaming you. Anyway, my thought process with the crystals was that I was WAY overgeared (although I forgot that my awakening weapon is just a TET Dande) and I wasn't at risk of dying. And I wasn't. Until I got fucking warped into the terrain. It does sound like this is a Striker issue...
  2. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So I decided to try to level up some alts with this 1 Marni fuel thing. Went with striker first, and did Biraghi since you keep mentioning it. At one point I jumped into a fucking tree or those barricades, got stuck, and couldn't escape because the mobs were constantly attacking. Lost a...
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Bummer about the timepiece. Manually leveling all my alts is a bummer. As far as trash, I basically never use maids. Just park the horse nearby and stack it. Even at Orcs running an agris coin and burning actual agris on top, it's usually only every 15 min or so. Although in fairness I think I...
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Doesn't that make the IWM drop that @Jysin posted seem a bit more concerning then? Yeah, the tech companies are driving the big indexes, but IWM is what actually matters and if it's going to fall off a cliff, well, the market is fucked.
  5. Gravel

    Weather

    Lots of hurricanes this season, but they're almost all ocean ones. Which, I think I mentioned a while back (maybe in another thread), but they'll talk about how climate change is making us have more hurricanes while ignoring that these types are ones we wouldn't have even known about not that...
  6. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Don't worry guys, the developers went into this knowing their game was half-assed, but the modders will fix it all.
  7. Gravel

    No Man's Sky

    I don't know why I have to keep saying it, but if I were going to make a fucking space game, maybe I'd take the best features of No Man's Sky? You know, all the stuff that they added to fix the game well before now? But I guess when all the gamers will just use the excuse that you shouldn't...
  8. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Just an FYI, but go with the most desired fairy skill first, because they get more expensive. So always start with Cheer V, and then work your way down the list.
  9. Gravel

    No Man's Sky

    Thought about posting in the Starfield thread, but I don't want to deal with the grief I get.
  10. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    So with that finale, hopefully subsequent seasons have a lot less Guillermo. Whole season was pretty disappointing.
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Sounds like Marni changes coming next week.
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    You should read A Random Walk Down Wall Street and then abandon all hopes of day trading.
  13. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The monster AP should make it a pretty big upgrade on its own. I mean, yeah, sure sheet AP it won't be, but that's why you do the Godr like @Kirun said.
  14. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Imagine you're the studios and that's who you're negotiating against. Someone who's so fragile that they cry because they might hurt someone's feelings.
  15. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    It's not the money. The reason you keep getting these shit AAA games is because you all will continually not only buy them, but pay for early access, and then excuse the dog shit they put out.
  16. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Really makes you wonder if these are unintended consequences of doing something like student loan forgiveness. Even if the administration had the best intentions in continuing it, in the end they were fucking the very people being "helped" by it as now those people are going to be super fucked...
  17. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I almost went IHOP. I don't know shit about Jersey.
  18. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    RIP @Chukzombi finger banged some goth chick with huge hair in the back of his Oldsmobile outside a Waffle House in South Jersey in 1979 to that song. We're all going to have a hard time recovering from this one.
  19. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's likely just market conditions. A new buyer who's looking to rent out will have to set rent to cover their higher costs. Therefore, all rents in the area rise because they're going to match it.
  20. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Not trying to convince anyone. This is also the same shit that happened in the Diablo IV thread. If you don't share in the constant praise, you're just trolling. Last I checked, this is a forum for discussion.
  21. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I'm just saying, I saw the same praise for Diablo IV by all the people who paid extra to play it, that I'm seeing now. And all the same types of concerns (lazy developers who are skating on the legacy of a company long since dead). It took a really long time for people to finally acknowledge...
  22. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Was watching the RLM video on Oppenheimer, and they mentioned that the 60's was rife with overbudget, gigantic epic movies. It led to a collapse in the studios which brought about the low budget film renaissance of the 70's like Dog Day Afternoon, Rocky, Alien, and The Exorcist. Maybe an enema...
  23. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    People who lived in super HCOL areas (California, New York, etc), sold their homes because their states suck dick, and now have a ton of equity to outbid locals. Foreigners, too, obviously. And then the investment firms trying to control the market.
  24. Gravel

    Energy Drink Thread

    Cellucor used to make a C4 Pink Starburst flavor (not branded) preworkout that was awesome, but I haven't been able to find it in about 2-3 years. Kind of interesting that now it's a Starburst collaboration, but still can't find the preworkout.
  25. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    jUsT pLaY cYbErPuNk ThEn!!1!1! If we're going to take the No Man's Sky Route. I'm glad so many are having fun, but this game sounds so lazy.
  26. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Think I'm at 365 DP. Got quite a lot of grinding to do to get Dhan's and Labreska. Probably a good 30 billion silver.
  27. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, so if you're tagged and create an Imperial Crate in Heidel, it apparently won't let you bank it in Heidel. And I meant that I went to Tshira to get down the muscle memory and feel of the class, then Orcs to actually try the combos themselves. You're probably right that Elvia is shit for...
  28. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The decision I made a long time ago to do everything on one character has come back to bite me (Lahn is main and also lifeskiller). I knew about the trade goods thing from a while back when I tried Zerker, but didn't realize that imperial turn ins would also count. Can do the turn ins still...
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    We got rid of almost everything in our move from CA to FL. Which in retrospect was kind of a mistake due to the everything shortage. But we managed. Decided to start building stuff like a bed frame and headboard. Instead of paying $100 for a particle board piece of shit, now I have something...
  30. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    So a continuation of the drought we've already had of good movies and TV?
  31. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    How has no one made this guy yet?
  32. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I just don't give enough shits, so I run at max rank 3 ones. I think I did up to 5 on almost all of them for the journals, but then I realized the loot was shit no matter what so I just put in enough time to get a 2nd Hongik (sold my first) and hope for enough Girin's to make the third tier of that.
  33. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yeah, you can just sell it. Most of that stuff pre-dates seasons and is just trash at this point. Tuvala, boss gear, then blackstar/slumbering origin (fallen god, labreska, dhan). For accessories, just keep whatever is best. You can use Capotia for a long time.
  34. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Right, but 7 years after No Man's Sky, why can't it incorporate at least a little bit of it? Why is everyone fine settling for mediocrity? Space seems like an afterthought in this game. It's just a backdrop for a reskinned experience you had over a decade ago. I wanted a new epic game...
  35. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not sure what changed, or if I'm just getting significantly more efficient at it, but I was just slightly overclearing at Orcs today (Marni, so no options to add to it). It's one of those things that's kind of nice because it means I'm getting better, but it's kind of shit because it also means...
  36. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    The one in Perdido Key? Seemed like a normal Publix to me. Best grocery stores I've ever been to were a Publix in Sarasota, an Albertson's somewhere near Jackson Hole, and there was one in San Diego I can't remember which chain, but it was immaculate. And Amber and Boston Rob were both on...
  37. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    We almost rented a house on the end of that peninsula to the west (think it was North Shore Dr). Absolutely gorgeous home with a view of the bay. Someone else snaked it before us though. Also saw Amber Mariano (Survivor winner and wife of Boston Rob) at the Publix right there.
  38. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    I was expecting some kind of innovation from twenty years of developing the same game, yes. Like I said, why can No Man's Sky do seamless procedural generated worlds that you can fly around seven years ago, but then with this you get planets that are basically a handful of segregated zones with...
  39. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    This...sounds disappointing. A newer Outer Worlds sounds like something I don't even want to play. And I think all the No Man's Sky comparisons are warranted. It's been almost a fucking decade. I know people will say "it's a different type of game," but seriously, in a decade, we can't get...