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  1. Gravel

    vampire survivors

    Played about 30 minutes and almost refunded it (yeah, even for $3). Then I played a bit more and it was fun...except I "beat" it (lasted 30 minutes) after a bit over 2 hours total playtime. Can't really convince myself it play anymore. In fact, if you can make it to 20 minutes, you're...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Feel like someone posted that a year or two ago. Could've been somewhere not FoH though.
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    I think CGI heavy actually works in favor of quicker post production. It was brought up during Black Widow that essentially all the CGI had been done beforehand, which is why you can just plug in same rando director who's never done anything, because the movie is basically already made and you...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Jesus, so you're trading your entire net worth? Not just that, but your family's too?
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    Investing General Discussion

    Are they doing it with their entire portfolio though, or just play money? From what everyone has said, they're mostly invested for the long haul in index funds, and this is all just for fun with maybe 5-10% at the most in trading.
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    Investing General Discussion

    And those people probably won't buy back in until we reach a new ATH. If I hadn't seen it happen so many times, I'd be shocked by it.
  7. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    For as much bear talk as I do, keep in mind my wife and I are all in on total market funds and despite it all, we still hold for the long term. I'd love it if this is the biggest pullback we see, because at some point this year we need to pull out some money for 2023's living expenses. But I...
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Well that's definitely a good sign. I wonder what the delta between that and the ones that closed is.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I think we need to reflect on where our economy actually is though. Nothing is good right now. I don't have numbers, but how many businesses closed in 2020? We never really felt the pain of that. The rest of the market has been dipping, but it's been obfuscated by a handful of companies (mostly...
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    Investing General Discussion

    "Experts" That's a meaningless word in 2022.
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    Investing General Discussion

    It's a long march down. We'll probably get a few green days, but I doubt this is over. I still think we see a 25-35% fall from the top (S&P in the low 3000's) before we start recovering. If the Fed decides to bail again, we may see a smaller decline but eventually this shit needs to course...
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    We're finally in correction territory. 8% more and we're officially in a bear.
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    Investing General Discussion

    That's always funny to me. What other item do people purchase that when the price falls, they say "woah, maybe I should stop buying this." Much better to buy when it's at the highest price it's ever been! Now, retirees asset balancing out of stocks, sure, because you're not contributing...
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is definitely one of the steepest drops in the market over such a short time span. Probably not a good sign that we pull out of it.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Where? Because unless you're talking a specific index, this isn't true.
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    2022 Official Stonks Contest

    I'm amazed that everyone has the market being positive for the year. We just had a 27%, 18%, and 29% span of years. Unless everyone collectively believes the new CAGR of the market is like 15-20%, we're due for a negative year.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    ...right as the Fed floats the idea of their own cryptocurrency. Not that this hasn't been expected (and talked about in this thread) for several years.
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    Peacemaker

    She's topless in one of the American Pie movies. I can't tell if they're real or not. If they are, they're pretty amazing.
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    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    You're not planning on watching Jay's pervert movie about a carfucker?
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    Investing General Discussion

    I feel bad, when I talked to my mom around Thanksgiving she mentioned she had some money in ARKK. I wanted to tell her to dump it, but I didn't really want to go telling her that I think Cathie is a fraud. I don't think it was a significant amount, because she still mentioned retiring soon the...
  21. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Rate locks are only good for generally 30-60 days. I think ours was 45. We ended up closing 1 or 2 days after and they charged us to keep the rate, which I was pretty pissed about.
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    First, I'm shocked he was only 68. Second, who would've guessed cancer and not a heart attack or diabetes?
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    Investing General Discussion

    I think it's basically the big boys finally heading down to where the rest of the market has been. Everything has been in the shitter except for the top few companies, but because of their weighting, they've been making it look like everything in the market is great. The question will be, will...
  24. Gravel

    1883

    Maybe that's why I couldn't get into Yellowstone. The setting was gorgeous, but the dialogue just left me bored. Although I do intend to try again at some point.
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    What feature(s) or circumstance would persuade you to install a brain implant?

    I like that smart phones were brought up, because I've been considering for a long time getting rid of mine. In fact, getting rid of a cell phone altogether. I probably never will just because of convenience, but I think my decade or so in IT left me pretty negative on most technologies. I'm...
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    Investing General Discussion

    So it's gained back 1 day of massive losses? It's down 30% in the last 2 months. What a dog.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Making my prediction now that we eventually fall to about 3100 - 3200 on the S&P, and it recovers to my 4150 mark made in the Stonks contest by the end of the year. Makes it a -13.5% year.
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    Investing General Discussion

    What you're talking about though is perfect market timing, just in a negative way. How many people bought the absolute top, and that was the only time they bought? And how many of those people held for a decade? People enter and exit the market at all kinds of points, and so this hypothetical...
  29. Gravel

    1883

    I actually think it's the philosophical elements. For instance, the scene where Faith Hill is saying she never would've imagined her life turning out the way it was (heavily implying that it would've been a nightmare to her younger self), but that she wouldn't trade it. Or the one in this...
  30. Gravel

    1883

    Gotta say, this might be one of my favorite shows in a long while. There's just something about it that's clicking for me. I have almost no complaints.
  31. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    That seems incredibly unlikely she'd be able to hear it from 2000 miles away.
  32. Gravel

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I don't understand why they'd be going with a bunch of comedic actors (outside of Chase Stokes). That makes me think this will be trash.
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    1883

    Oh, well, maybe read my post. It was the Brazos River which is only about 50 miles from Fort Worth. Which I'm fine with taking time (they probably only move a couple miles a day), but they've had a ton of people die. Also, the Yellowstone area would come before Oregon. It's not the Oregon...
  34. Gravel

    Station Eleven

    My wife read it too and after I think maybe only 3 episodes told me I could delete the rest and stop downloading them.
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    1883

    How does that answer my question about how many episodes they're planning on making of this?
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    1883

    This episode was a bit of a miss for me. Still decent, but things like the daughter knowing how to play piano (I imagine only the wealthy or musicians would in the 19th century) and knowing the entire song without sheet music took me out of it a bit. Not being familiar with Texas, the Brazos...
  37. Gravel

    Smokers / Grills

    I didn't fill the hopper all the way, and then didn't realize how quickly it'd chew through them. It's my fault, but at the same time, I probably used a good 15 pounds of pellets. Even with my cheap bag from Sam's, that's still like $5-6 in pellets for a single pork butt.
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    Smokers / Grills

    It was probably about 40. I thought the same thing. And once the sun went down, it also dropped into the mid 40's fast. Florida going through a bit of a cold spell right now.
  39. Gravel

    Smokers / Grills

    Got the smoker Tuesday and did the burn off that evening. Smoked a pork butt yesterday. It definitely burns through a LOT of pellets. Seems like a very expensive way to smoke compared to the electric one. I actually ran out and didn't realize, which set my cook back by at least an hour I'd guess...
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    Investing General Discussion

    In fairness, you probably need a log graph. It still doesn't look great, but it's not as bad.