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  1. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yep. They're fleshed out, music and all, but nothing in them.
  2. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    I haven't watched Netflix in years, but my wife started to watch "I Care So Much" and I figured I'd watch with her. If this is indicative of the writing Netflix has been pumping out, I'm actually embarrassed for them. I watch a decent amount of random YouTube channels (and RLM) that sometimes...
  3. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Episodes 4-6 were pretty good. You know, when they actually moved the plot forward. This one just didn't work. At all. It's trying too hard sometimes. I mean shit, the actual title of the episode was "Breaking the Fourth Wall." Like their entire goal was just to be meta. Another example is...
  4. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Kat Dennings is now in it and she was fucking terrible. Probably part of the reason this episode seemed so bad. Modern Family is also an atrocious show and the spoof (or whatever you want to call it) was poorly done. There wasn't anything comedic and even Olsen's acting seemed bad. In fact...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's interesting, because last week I made a comment about technicals, and I actually knew that I'd get a response about how they work if enough people believe in it. Also last week, I saw an article about how the trailing 52 week return for the market would go nuts in a month or two...
  6. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Oh, also, fuck them for doing an after credits sequence. Only reason I knew was this thread, because they've had 15 minutes of credits at the end to piss me off, and now after conditioning me to just give up, add one in? These people are assholes.
  7. Gravel

    WandaVision

    Well that was fucking terrible. Not sure if I hated it worse than the first two, but that was some atrocious acting. I was kind of expecting to make this post with an "until it turned into a horror movie," but that part wasn't really good either. It was pretty "smash you over the head" with the...
  8. Gravel

    New World

    I just don't understand how you can be a member of these forums, much less a gamer at all, and pretend you've never heard of the Elder Scrolls.
  9. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, I definitely see us beating this one in the next week or so, and then never touching it again. They may "finish" it at some point, but we'll have likely moved on.
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    PLTR up almost 18% today. What the fuck?
  11. Gravel

    Terraria

    Said it several times in this thread, but once you beat the base game, I highly, highly recommend installing the Calamity mod and playing that. It's honestly amazing how developed it is compared to the base game. It's what the final release of Terraria should have been: new items, new...
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's not even much of a down day, 1%? No one sneezes at a 1% green day, why should the other direction elicit a reaction?
  13. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    I actually like Conan's build system better, but the not being punished for taking a wall down is probably the biggest difference. In Conan, you could spend days building something and if you fuck up, sucks for you. In this, you get everything back unless it's bugged out.
  14. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    I think the raids (forest is stirring) are based on which bosses have been defeated in the world. It wasn't until we killed the 3rd boss that we started getting Draugr's in them. And it was likely the 1st or 2nd boss before trolls appeared.
  15. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If they decided to raise taxes that much, it'd obliterate not just the equity markets, but also the entire economy. While politicians occasionally float these ridiculous plans, I have to imagine the lobbyists wouldn't let them do it. Regarding inflation, unless we have 70's style stagflation...
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    In this case, it was because I expected PLTR to beat earnings. And they did. Seems that doesn't matter (and I'm the asshat who said it'd drop anyways). I find technicals to be mostly bullshit. The AMC thing was just FOMO. I really think them shutting down the brokerages is what fucked me there...
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I should start posting my individual stock buys so you all can avoid them. Bought in PLTR at $32.90 and it just continued to skid down. Bought some more at $29 this morning, and well, I'm negative on that now too. Add that to my -50% AMC play, and I'm fucking terrible at this.
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I still can't even rationalize the crypto thing. If the entire purpose of them is as a store of value and trade (like a currency), then investing in it for "massive gains" makes no sense. If it's not currency and as an investment, what the hell gives it any value to keep increasing? It's...
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If it follows everything from the last 2 weeks, they'll report massive earnings and see a 15% drop.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    "And yep, all those folks on griddy were paying 9$ per KWh earlier today and continue to get lubelessly pounded" motherofgod.gif So much for all those people laughing at rolling power outages in California. Looks like our entire country is third world now!
  21. Gravel

    Weather

    I keep seeing these and they're incredibly disingenuous. They're apparently screenshotting it while it's like 7am on the west coast. It's going to be 70 here in CA today.
  22. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    The mining in my opinion isn't the worst part, it's the smelting. That part is awful. Bronze sucks in that respect because you have a 3 to 1 ratio versus everything else.
  23. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    It's been a year and a half since our big earthquakes, and the last 6 months my phantom quakes have been getting so much worse. I really hope my job prospect pays off soon because I really need to get the fuck out of California.
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, Robinhood is being sued right now for the suicide of a guy back in June who showed a negative $800k balance that wasn't real. Although in that case, his attempts to reach out to RH failed.
  25. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    Yeah, I thought it was good. From what the purpose of the new review series is, it sounds like they don't want to spoil anything, but it definitely does. Nothing major, but all of the jokes in the first 30 minutes were essentially covered. And I pirated it, so uh, if that's not your thing then...
  26. Gravel

    WandaVision

    And here I just thought it was fruit snacks.
  27. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    So I watched The Kid Detective based on that review, but I recommend not watching that review before the movie. Movie was good. Mostly comedy, but got a bit dark too. I honestly didn't get Mike's comment about the ending though. The review ruined a good amount of the comedic aspects though.
  28. Gravel

    Get a free Kyle Rittenhouse at Culver's

    Jesus, they actually had a motion to publicly release his address? I thought that was just a side effect of the other stuff. These people are outright evil.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The problem is knowing when "early" actually is. You don't actually know if you're getting in early until after it's over.
  30. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Man, I almost bought some this morning. But I'm like, I already missed the massive gains by the time I woke up. Apparently I was wrong.
  31. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, same here. Silver is an absolute bitch to find. Assuming you find a decent sized swamp biome, you can find 3 or 4 crypts within a small walking distance. And each one can hold up to maybe 70 iron scrap.
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Nailed it. I started a post saying similar, and with the meme stocks I put in $1k. Had it doubled or tripled, it literally would have made zero difference in my net worth. I think when I put it in, I even said if I had put $10k in it likely wouldn't make a massive difference. It'd be nice, but...
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    For sure. People want to get the fuck out of the house. Even though I still think movie theaters are a dying business, I think there's enough demand for anything that gets people out. AMC is definitely worth more than $5, but fuck if I'm about to buy into it.
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I know the meme hysteria has died down, but I still check them every day. GME just fell below $50, and AMC is just above $5. I'm sure that squeeze is right around the corner though.
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I should also point out that people focus way too much on the penalty for early withdrawal. Like, yes, it sucks writing a check to the government, but the penalty is just 10%. If it means working an extra 5 years because you're afraid of the penalty, you're essentially sacrificing years of your...
  36. Gravel

    Weather

    You all are fucking crazy. I'm moving from California to Florida. Screw the cold. I don't miss snow, and I really don't miss ice.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is our situation. But you can do a Roth conversion ladder to kind of "fix" it. It requires that your expenses aren't too high though, because you only have about $95k as a married filing jointly in income you can draw (which means actual expenses plus the conversion, which should also be an...
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    At his income he's way past the traditional phase out ($76k if you have a retirement plan). He's making more than my wife and I as a married filing jointly and we're already in the phase out.
  39. Gravel

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yeah, that's my complaint with this. Seen people compare it to Terraria, but there seems to be a progression gap. Basically after the first boss you can do bronze, but then you do the 2nd boss and there's nothing. The swamp doesn't seem to drop anything for the next "tier" to make shit easier...