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  1. Gravel

    Black Desert

    For sure. But I've also used the Garmoth one, I think for FG, and hit it like 80 times in a row before I got it to go. Kind of like the actual game.
  2. Gravel

    The Official Conspiracy Thread

    I didn't want to shit up the Astronomy thread, but I found it interesting the newfound fascination with getting to the moon. Suddenly China, India, and the US are all attempting it. There's a theory that I saw a long time ago that says that most inventions are inevitable; if one inventor...
  3. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I did the math and Godr came out about 15b cheaper to go from TRI to PEN than a BS from TET to PEN. That's between crons and the double increased cost of repairs. Now, that's also assuming average attempts (which was something like 18 and 24 for the Godr and 22 or 23 for the Blackstar). And...
  4. Gravel

    The Bear

    My question wasn't necessarily the Michelin star part, but the upscale dining part. I get that there are places that aren't black tie that have stars. But yeah, I guess @Khane's reasoning makes sense. Maybe The Bear is a bigger restaurant than it looks and devoting a bunch of kitchen space to...
  5. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Not sure what you mean by that. It cost me crons I already had, a few scorched shards, and a few mem frags. I'm not one of those people that assigns some magical value to failstacks as if I can somehow cash those in for actual silver. As for awakening lahn, I know she has lots of sustain. No...
  6. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I know everyone says not to enhance Godr, but fuck that. Two tapped my DUO to TRI the other day. Used 2 hammers and didn't get it, but did another 7 taps today and got it to TET. Also went ahead and finally bought some Urugon's which bumped me up another tier on DP (at 364 now). Was using...
  7. Gravel

    The Bear

    Oh, something I meant to post a while ago but forgot, that I just can't figure out, is why a restaurant that's attempting to do fine dining for a Michelin star would have a drive up window where they're still serving Italian beef sandwiches? Is this some weird city thing I just don't...
  8. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Had to buy a loyalty VP, but that Flame of Hongbik was an easy 2b silver. Figure I can get one every 5-6 weeks and there's no way the price stays that high. And since I'm currently at TET R4 Bheg's and C5 Giath Helm, I'm nowhere close to needing it. I'll probably get 4 more flames before...
  9. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Like I said, you can hate all of them. You don't have to pick sides. Fuck the execs, fuck the studios, fuck the actors, fuck the writers. They all suck.
  10. Gravel

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    We have two that we used extensively for years. I don't think we've touched them but once or twice in the last two years. It's got uses (my wife used to make a gallon of Greek yogurt at a time, once a week), but it's definitely not needed.
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    What We Do in the Shadows

    Yeah, sadly, this show is going to join ones like It's Always Sunny and Rick and Morty where I just have to walk away. We're not quite there, but it's coming. That stupid vampire nightclub plotline I think was the beginning of the end. Laszlo is still great, but I feel like Colin is on the way...
  12. Gravel

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Since I now have to question everything, it makes me wonder if that whole idea that "it's typically someone they know" wasn't just a bullshit lie they've been using with two goals: To help foster suspicion within families and further destroy the family unit. Throw cover on the fact that maybe...
  13. Gravel

    Black Desert

    TET Blackstars going way up in price. Think they're up from about 15b to 17.5b in the past 10 days. I think I bought mine around April or May for like 13.5b (looks like they've been sitting at 13.5-14b prior to mid-June).
  14. Gravel

    Snow White (2024)

    Progressivism is communism. Just read about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. We're destroying our four olds.
  15. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Elvis dies on the shitter, Lisa Marie dies cause she can't shit. Can't make this stuff up.
  16. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    You can say fuck them all. Don't have to side with the lesser of two (or three) evils. They're all shitheads.
  17. Gravel

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Yep. This seemed very formulaic and not particularly good. I finished it, but it was kind of a slog at 2 and a half hours. The high point was the music, but even that seemed very jarring sometimes. Almost like they felt like they needed to insert good music "here" because the first one set the...
  18. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Gamble play. Enough people cross and suddenly the guild is worthless as they're the ones blacklisted.
  19. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I said fuck it and used the J Hammers on my Godr. Was able to 2 tap it to TRI on a 180 stack. Failed both hammers to TET with a 245 though. Sitting at 285k/355 now.
  20. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    That sounds like a nightmare. I'm salty about all the single family homes going up, and considering leaving the area. But maybe @Daidraco has the right idea. Use it to your advantage and buy up the property, while moving far, far away.
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    The fuck? Got a Karanda Heart from that Lara FESTA thing. Cept I've already got 2 Garmoth's. And you can't sell the Karanda one. Lame.
  22. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Fucked up a lot of things, but man did we time the interest rates well. Got in just before they started shooting up (Oct 2021).
  23. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    He's not entirely wrong. And I'd even go further and say it's not until about $500k where you start noticing your money making money. It's just a slog getting there. But absolutely money begets more money. It's one of those things that everyone just kind of understands, that there are more...
  24. Gravel

    Factorio

    Isn't Satisfactory that?
  25. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Same, although I'm like 8b short. Haven't really been playing much in the last couple months. I'll probably say fuck it and try to tap my Godr to TRI, and then use the hammers on TET. Not ideal, but I don't play enough to min/max this shit.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yep, it's a repeat of the 70's. "Inflation is going down" so they'll ease up and start dropping rates by the end of the year. Inflation will come roaring back in another year or two even worse than it was. Repeat 3 or 4 times until you get a Volcker.
  27. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Here you go. It's all energy and used cars. Everything else is still way up. Basically, the 3% is a bullshit number so the media can report on it. Fed hasn't tackled shit yet.
  28. Gravel

    2017 Emmy Nominations and Awards

    Yeah, Last of Us is pretty forgettable in retrospect. I much more enjoyed Yellowjackets (only halfway through season two though...and also no idea why Melanie Lynsky gets all the kudos, she seems middling to me compared to Christina Ricci, and really all the younger actresses), The Bear (my...
  29. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I dunno, Magnus is pretty massive. Not for the fast travel, but that storage thing was a game changer.
  30. Gravel

    Twisted Metal

    Better question would be why now? Twenty years ago, sure, I get someone making it. Who is this for?
  31. Gravel

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I feel like people knew about the last one everywhere. But maybe that was a different time. TV and movies aren't what they were a decade ago.
  32. Gravel

    Wonka (2023)

    This. It's not quirky, it's jarring. And Timothee Chalamet seems like a miscast.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Wonder if that means that stocks 8 through ? will get a massive boost as the index money rebalances?
  34. Gravel

    The Bear

    Wrapped it up. I think the second season surpassed the first pretty successfully. I noticed in this season the soundtrack was really damn good, too. The standout there being, at least for me, The Day the World Went Away orchestral version (or whatever you'd call it). As far as episodes go, I...
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I'd never ever invest money in fake meat. Get the fuck out of here with that cancer shit.
  36. Gravel

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Because it's a QAnon MAGA propaganda something something.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That's a surprise. Seems like a good omen, too. Basically saying that it's the boomer dropping out of the workforce post-covid that's driving it.
  38. Gravel

    The Bear

    Finally got around to watching up through the Christmas episode. Still can't decide if I want to binge the rest. I kind of do. Anyway, my first thought is, I feel like Sydney is a fucking terrible chef. I'm not an amazing cook or anything, but I've never made something and it been so bad that I...
  39. Gravel

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    That seems like a retarded decision.
  40. Gravel

    Hijack

    Watching the first episode and this seems like the product of more shitty writers. It's a lot of ridiculous conveniences. Like why would he text his wife all that gibberish instead of saying the plane has been hijacked? Why wouldn't the pilots mention the guns to ATC? Why wouldn't they divert...