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  1. Gravel

    Movies You Can't Remember

    Pssh, next you'll be telling me it's not actually Berenstein Bears, but Berenstain Bears.
  2. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I do like the change to reviving when you were zoomed. But otherwise who cares? That said, the last patch where the improved the reload time is still amazing to me every time. Before it'd stay on that black splash screen forever. Now it's like immediate load back to lobby.
  3. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I've got a couple hundred hours into it. It's got an interesting learning curve. I think my first impression was that the graphics are terrible, but eventually you get used to the voxels. Once you get the gist of how the game works, I think it's an awesome crafting/survival game (although...
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    They say 401k to company match because it's an automatic 50-100% return (depending on how they match). But realistically, you should just max it if you can. I'm not a huge fan of the Roth IRA, unless you're poor. Like, under the 10% tax bracket poor. And if that's the case, you're not doing a 401k.
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Eh? Are you trying to day trade with your Roth IRA? That's...not how that works. You're going to destroy your entire IRA with short term capital gains and penalties.
  6. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I haven't played much since the last patch, but I gotta say this new circle shit is nice. SO much better than it had been. First match of the night we had a 3 of us, but forgot to uncheck the auto-matching. We ended up winning. Was kind of a mind fuck because the entire match I wasn't sure if...
  7. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So how do these boss scrolls work? I didn't realize they had a timer on them, so now my Bheg's scroll has 6 days left. But it sounds like people end up with several? Are they just collecting them for weeks before combining (and then where are they storing all the pieces; I think Bheg's was 5 to...
  8. Gravel

    Big Brother

    Cody won't last long. Dude is playing his own fucking game. Plus he's got some weird love triangle thing of his own making.
  9. Gravel

    Destiny 2 - Clan Link 1st Post

    Nice, PC beta in August?
  10. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Dark Knight. I think I've decided against upgrading gear myself (currently have a +13 Krea weapon, and +10 blue Grunil set that I did myself). Fail stacking system seems fucking stupid. I'd rather just farm and buy what I want. The Jarette's gear I have (2x rings and earrings) kind of seem...
  11. Gravel

    Black Desert

    That's pretty much what I was referring to. The blue/red coral shit. It's recommended by every guide, but so far out of my price range. Maybe I just haven't figured out a decent way to make money yet.
  12. Gravel

    Black Desert

    So my only complaint about the game right now is that shit is insanely overpriced. Like, a lot of guides will say "Buy this item for 50-56." The problem is, the economy is so out of whack, that I'd never be able to afford it. What used to be $1-2M silver is now $20-25M. As such, I'm 53 with...
  13. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Ha! Yeah, I've basically told my wife not to stream with Amazon because it'll crush our data cap in a single day. Netflix has a bandwidth option to lower the quality.
  14. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    Yeah. We had one a while ago where it was final circle, and after about 5 minutes it just randomed people to die.
  15. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    But...your map you just posted says villa. WTF? And actually, I think I remember it actually being that tiny little town NW of Polyana. There's only like 6 or 7 buildings there and I found 3 scopes.
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    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    The other night, I can't remember where on the map, but I ended up with 3 4x scopes for my squad. I want to say it was the tiny little shit houses near Villa (north of crater, dunno if that's what everyone else calls it).
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    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Sort of related, but Stafford is one lucky motherfucker. Getting in on the back end of those #1 overall pick rookie contracts really set him for life. I mean, he would've been fine with the current setup too, but damn did he clean up.
  18. Gravel

    Desktop Computers

    That comparison was shit anyway. "We compared an overclocked Intel to the base 1700...because reasons!" Yeah, okay then...
  19. Gravel

    Desktop Computers

    Oh, holy fuck. Hadn't seen just how bad the mining thing had jacked up costs. My 1060 SSC was like $250, minus a $10 rebate. Disregard then. Fucking hell.
  20. Gravel

    Desktop Computers

    It's a little late on the response, but I bought an EVGA 1060 SSC and I've got nothing but good things to say. It's slightly more than the ones linked, however. I kind of wanted a 1070, but that would've been at least $100 more. And I currently only game at 1080p anyway, with no plans to...
  21. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Yesterday while I was at work I set an auto run with trade pack, and came home to find myself stuck in a corner having made almost no progress. Did another one overnight, and woke up to a "Disconnected from server message." Kind of getting annoyed that I can't afk train something that is...
  22. Gravel

    Weather

    Dirty secret of cleaner energy is that shit takes forever to pay off. There are massive solar and wind farms in California, but my electric rates are obscene (14-24+ cents per kWh, in tiers). Yeah, it's cool and all that it's renewable, but the fixed cost on that shit means I pay out the ass.
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yeah, I plan on grabbing The Long Dark before this is over. Maybe The Forest and Stranded Deep as well. I kind of have a hard on for those survival games.
  24. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I agreed with this a few years ago, but if you do a little research into the game it should be evidenced how polished it is. For instance, 7 Days to Die I've put in almost 200 hours into, and it may never get released. But it's pretty darn polished. The EA thing is that it's just getting tons of...
  25. Gravel

    Black Desert

    I love the combat. It's definitely grindy, but in a fun way. I can grind out a level in 30 minutes (just hit 40 myself). I may change my mind 50+, we'll see. It's not like sitting in a camp grinding mobs a la EQ though. It's basically smash the shit out of everything you see. I also noticed...
  26. Gravel

    Weather

    Geez, it's almost like these things run in fucking cycles. Who knew?
  27. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I'd never played Harvest Moon, but I had a blast with Stardew Valley.
  28. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I bought one back around Black Friday. Haven't used it once.
  29. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Good deal. For $8 I see no reason not to pick it up then. Edit: Went ahead and bought it. Downloading now, we'll see how long that takes. Will probably bumblefuck my way through this weekend. Thinking Dark Knight, but I really know next to nothing about this game.
  30. Gravel

    Fargo

    We didn't get a scene of Emmett picking up his license/registration and busted up phone. Seems like that would've pinned him to the scene of a double homicide. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that he did it and it wasn't shown, but it seems like it they could have done a quick shot of...
  31. Gravel

    Black Desert

    Wondering if this game is worthwhile solo? I know that kind of defeats the purpose of an MMO, but I doubt I convince anyone to play. Plus I'm kind of non-committal to forced playtime.
  32. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Not sure if I want Darkest Dungeon after seeing some of the comments in that thread recently. Only other games that I've had in my wishlist are Starbound, Stranded Deep, and The Forest. Kind of meh.
  33. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I actually got suspended for a week in middle school because someone said "Mrs. X is on top of things" and I responded "I bet she likes it on top." The teacher didn't actually hear me say it either, it was just some shit she heard later on and apparently took so much offense to decided I needed...
  34. Gravel

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Steam sales suck ever since that winter one...which holy shit, was 2011. That one was epic though.
  35. Gravel

    Ray Donovan

    This thread is great. I had put off watching last season for a while, and watched the first two episodes recently. Read through the thread and confirmed my suspicions that this show sucks now. Deleted the remaining episodes and scratched it from Sonarr completely. It had a good run.
  36. Gravel

    PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

    I don't know if there are hackers, but I ragequit on Saturday night because of dying to what seemed like bullshit. It's frustrating when you lose a game without seeing another person and shooting back. It's infuriating when you have 5 matches in a row like that. I don't necessarily want to...