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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    What a weird thing to call out when it's closed below 2673 tons of times this year.
  2. Gravel

    Retirement Planning Thread

    Vanguard and Fidelity are currently the two lowest on fees by quite a large margin. Assuming you want to keep everything with one company, I don't see any issue with it. The reason I prefer Vanguard over Fidelity is that Vanguard is owned by the shareholders (*Edit for clarification, it's owned...
  3. Gravel

    Westworld

    Still pretty sure William (Man in Black) is either the head of the board or someone high ranking in the hierarchy. We even got somewhat confirmation of that when he's wandering back into civilization and the dude in a tuxedo is yelling at him about how fucked up things are, then gets shot in...
  4. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    You mentioning 5 kills reminds me that I had a game this past weekend (squads) where I took out an entire team and I felt like I had streamer aim. They were running perpendicular to us, about 200m out, and I fucking nailed almost every single shot. Felt really awesome to just track someone's...
  5. Gravel

    Westworld

    Keep in mind that Abernathy was one of two hosts I believe (the other being milk guy's sidekick) who were decommissioned after the reverie update in the first episode of season one. Afterwards they "rolled back" the update. So it's possible Abernathy is the only host that still has that update...
  6. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    A few years ago I had the same issue. I think I was 31 or 32 at the time. I had been super tired (still am) and the doctor said we should do bloodwork. I said we should add testosterone to it, and the doctor was reluctant to add it. I think I made up some shit about having low libido too just...
  7. Gravel

    Retirement Planning Thread

    I recommend reading the Stock Series by JLCollins. He's part of the FIRE community (financial independence/retire early), but that doesn't necessarily mean you have to retire early. The advice about what to invest in is good. It'll probably take a few hours to read through it all, but it's...
  8. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    About 163 as of this morning. I agree it sounds out there. But I'm giving it a shot as opposed to 1-2 months of smaller deficits.
  9. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    What's stupid about it? Shit, aren't you a huge Lyle McDonald fanboy?
  10. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Starting PSMF tomorrow. Thinking I'll try for about 10 days. At about 14% bodyfat to start, hoping to get to a legit 11%. Also going to do it as an intermittent fast, since the last time I did IF it seemed to work out well; and with how little I'll be eating it will hopefully help. Looking at...
  11. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    I mean, that's what PUBG has been doing. We're getting another new set of boxes already. Meanwhile shit is still broken. In fact, the trend of them releasing a patch that has nothing to do with stability that breaks stability continues.
  12. Gravel

    Downsizing (2017)

    Had issues finding a good copy of this. Finally did and wish I hadn't. First 30-45 minutes were really cool. Super awesome idea, and then they just abandoned it. They literally forgot they were talking about tiny people and just went off on some stupid bullshit about...I'm not even sure. I...
  13. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    Sorry, was hoping to find some kind of official trailer type video, and didn't even think to do the others.
  14. Gravel

    Ring of Elysium

    New Battle Royale game by Tencent. Figured I'd start a new thread for this instead of cluttering up the PUBG one. Looks to be a pretty good clone of PUBG but with better netcode, dynamic weather/daylight, and more quality of life features (Q marking of terrain for teammates, auto attachments...
  15. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Since it appears we're posting Ring of Elysium videos here now, I'll post the one I mentioned below. Although we might need a different thread at this point I'm hoping that it's still got some optimization to do, because PUBG seems more "realistic" to me in a lot of areas. There's just...
  16. Gravel

    Radical Heights

    Watched summit play this one last weekend and it looked fucking terrible. Not sure why anyone would give it the time of day. What does it offer that you can't get from F2P Fortnite or PUBG?
  17. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    That's not magic, he's just really strong. Maybe if you spent more time lifting and less time shooting people in the face, you could throw grenades 100m through walls too.
  18. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Serves him right. Not sure how that's even enjoyable.
  19. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah, I said in one of my posts the other day that they're really pushing the direction of this game based on esports and streamers. Which is great, and streamers are definitely why the game did as well as it has. But for longevity it's going to kill them, and it's sad they can't recognize it...
  20. Gravel

    RIP R. Lee Ermey

    Recently we had our annual security briefing and the guy showed some video with him in it talking about OPSEC. Looked recent, so I guess maybe he was doing military gigs at least.
  21. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Damn dude, strong. Was it strict?
  22. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    War Zone is definitely good for practice gun play. My only complaint is the randomness of your starting gun. I generally don't want an SKS when I'm landing 5 feet from someone else.
  23. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Whatever dude. I'm tired of arguing with you about this. You want more of a shooter game than most of us. That's fine, but that's not what drew me to PUBG.
  24. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I read slippery's post, and honestly it sounds like you want a different game. Why bother even having 2/3 of the map that are on the outskirts? Seriously, what the fuck are the buildings even there for if not for someone to potentially land? Shit, the devs even added a ton of buildings on the...
  25. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah, I think people seem to be confused between battle royale and deathmatch styles of game. Luckily war mode should satisfy those people. I actually don't think those people are dictating it as much as streamers. Seriously, they can't fucking get over the fact that their game is shit for...
  26. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I guess on top of that is everyone seemed to think that circles 4+ were perfect. So for them to revert everything is strange.
  27. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah, I'm a bit confused about why you'd make a drastic change like that and only have it live for a day...and then completely roll it back. Why not do it incrementally? Maybe do something in the middle? And holy shit, use your fucking test server you goobers.
  28. Gravel

    NHL 2017-2018 Season: Penguins already sucking dick

    I wasn't impressed with the Caps at all last night. They essentially got spotted 2 goals with that major. I don't think it bodes well for the Caps finally breaking through the second round.
  29. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    That was pretty much my concern with hearing the new circles. If you're nowhere near the first circle, even if you wanted to fight you probably don't have time. Especially if you have no luck finding a vehicle. Like I said, from reading reactions to the patch, people that don't drop center of...
  30. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I'm just telling you what I've read. I still haven't played a round of the new circle.
  31. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    So reading reviews of the changes, people like it if they were solo players who like fighting, or people that already dropped hot in the middle of the map. Basically any other play types are saying it's shit. Even if you do some early fighting, you have no time to loot them before running. It's...
  32. Gravel

    Survivor

    Glad Chris is gone. He's a jackass. Kind of reminds me of Phil but super cocky and serious about it.
  33. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I like that you say no one should ever have to go that far, followed by how you went that far recently. Like I said, we probably play significantly more games than most people. It's just a higher sample.
  34. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Maybe it's just because we play a lot of matches, so it's something most people don't see. But often you get a bad first circle and can't find a vehicle. So you're huffing it across the map. You finally make it to the circle (often times this means using up all your meds to counteract the blue...
  35. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah, when Savage came out I made a post similar to that. The RNG in this game sucks. There are two where if you get bad RNG, you have almost no shot at winning. One is item spawns, especially if you drop with another group. Weapons are too sparse where you can loot 4-5 buildings and come up...
  36. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Oh, I just assumed without clothing spawns, that the loot would be like the Savage map. So, is it actually worse than previously? If so, hopefully they tune it when they realize how ridiculous that is. Their track record for testing any changes has been completely shit since the game started...
  37. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Sounds like a carryover from the shotgun event. No clue why they'd leave it in. It's a terrible feature.
  38. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Holy shit, that's awesome. Excited to try no clothing spawns. A little apprehensive about the blue zone changes though; seems like finding a vehicle early is now even more important.
  39. Gravel

    A Song of Ice and Fire - Book Spoilers Within

    Kind of funny to see this thread get bumped as I had almost completely forgot these were even books. I started reading them after the first season of the show had aired, which is right when ADwD released. That was seven fucking years ago now. Whole thing is a joke at this point.
  40. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I won't make a comment either way. I'll just congratulate you on making progress. What kind of lifting program are you doing? You seem to have put all the weight on your arms/shoulders. You may need to drop them for a while and bring your chest and traps/lats up. Edit: Also curious on your...