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  1. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I mentioned it a while back, but there was an approximately 1600 sqft trailer in Orange Beach close to my mother-in-law's place that was renting for $2400 like 3 years ago. I get it though, which is why we want to build there. It's got a 28 mile bike/backcountry trail system, tons of beach...
  2. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    That reminds me of one of my favorite bases, which was built on bedrock where I'd dig all the way, make a 3x3 hole, and the bottom would open up. Zombies would fall and either die, or be close to death. You'd make an arena and just pick them off from the upper deck.
  3. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    Keep in mind you can remove mods at will. Like, if you get an axe mod, you only need the one for the entire playthrough (unless this got changed recently). I'm not sure if it's still available, but in steam you also used to be able to change the version to experimental builds and go all the way...
  4. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    Yeah, at a certain point, the game had skill up on use, and zombies were basically dumb and base building was at its peak because you could experiment with all sorts of fun shit. The devs didn't like that and had some kind of gameplay experience in mind which was the complete opposite of 90% of...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It was all driven by the tariffs. Of which, we still don't know how they'll impact any companies. That data won't likely come out until Q3 (figure tariffs aren't really hitting until maybe now-ish, and then lag another quarter for the data). It's why the market dropping 20% made absolutely fuck...
  6. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Uh, so much for what I said, I guess?
  7. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    On the flip side, this seems like a horrible time to be selling. Between interest rates that won't go down and sky high prices, houses just aren't selling. Just last night we were walking the dogs and I mentioned to my wife, after passing another house that just put up a sale sign, that they...
  8. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    I wouldn't recommend Undead Legacy until you've played the base game...a lot. That shit is brutal. Incredibly fun, but brutal.
  9. Gravel

    The Bear

    Man, I don't think we ever made it past the 2nd episode of this last season. Edit: Went back and read the last page and apparently I've brought up how we couldn't get past the first two episode 3 times now. My bad, folks.
  10. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That shouldn't have been a surprise from February though?
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's because if you're at the point where gold is currency again, well, everything has collapsed enough that rule of law is now gone and anyone with more guns than you can physically take your gold by force. So at that point, what's the point of holding gold and not guns?
  12. Gravel

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Proceeds to post weeb shit. Jerking off to cartoon women with big tits is niche, sorry to break it to you.
  13. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So hard to tell anymore. Could say it's bad economic news, so market goes down. Alternatively, bad economy means Fed more likely to reduce rates, so market goes up.
  14. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    I just remember trying to fit in implants and it was a giant puzzle of swapping shit and getting buffs, but if you figured it out, you'd become a god. It also had the one class, fixer I think, which made Spirit of Wolf look like a joke as you just zoomed around the map. Plus that matrix-style...
  15. Gravel

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    I guess not. I went and looked at the JRPG category in Steam, and the only ones that I've played were Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and those were a good 25 years ago. That kind of weeb shit just doesn't appeal to me, and I would 100% call it niche.
  16. Gravel

    Dune Awakening

    That's a strange take, because Funcom games are fucking fun as shit. The problem with them is always the jank they start with, that sometimes takes years to fix. But Anarchy Online? Secret World? Conan? They were all fantastic games and etched into my mind as some of the best I've ever played...
  17. Gravel

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    Yeah, I've been trying to figure it out too. I don't know if maybe this is a story game or something? I've never really been into those though. I can't really figure out what the appeal is. I don't think it looks bad though. There's been tons of games where it's seemed obvious to me, like...
  18. Gravel

    Erenshor

    This is probably just like the Amazon store with "AI," and all these people you think are AI bots are actually Indians.
  19. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Man, how many centuries ago did Catholicism lose the plot? Ask yourself how any of that idolatry and displays of wealth have fuckall to do with Christ's teachings.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Assuming you're already maxing things like a 401k and IRA (and HSA if it's available and that's a thing you want to do), I'd say it's worthwhile. My usual problem with them is you're basically going with a "putting your eggs in one basket" strategy by doing so. If your income is tied to the...
  21. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    The builder here, who probably cleared out a good 150+ lots, and has electric and plumbing ran to them, has basically all but stopped doing anything. It's pretty bizarre. They had been putting up houses super fast, but basically about when Trump got into office it was a hard stop. I chalked it...
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Lemme guess without checking, it tanked 5% after.
  23. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Oof, so much for those "no recession coming." There's no way this quarter is going to be better than Q1.
  24. Gravel

    Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

    Pretty sure this is why I never got into Oblivion outside of screwing around a bit. It actively punishes you for playing the game like an RPG. If I have to change the way I play to gimp myself so the game doesn't get fucky, that's not fun.
  25. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I don't think his stance ever changed. This is just people making shit up and it's enough to move markets 1-2%. Like @Sanrith Descartes said, the SEC should destroy these people. It's malicious.
  26. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Right, but he's insinuating volatility way worse than this, and for much longer. In that scenario I see money going overseas.
  27. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I hope not. If the market is more volatile like this, and it's a long term trend, money will probably move out of stocks and that'd be real, real bad. For everyone and everything.
  28. Gravel

    Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

    Honestly, they're just fun to watch for the creative death scenes.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Except earnings aren't forward looking. We won't see earning hit by tariffs until next quarter. Stocks are forward looking, but it's why I said this correction seems kind of retarded to me as the tariffs are applied and then the next day rescinded. I mean, we probably needed a correction after...
  30. Gravel

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Man, went and listened to a bunch of their shit. I really dig it too. Hope this grunge type stuff makes a comeback.
  31. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's probably like 4 or 5 feet deep. It's basically a giant barrel in the ground with a pump that takes your sewage out to the main line in the road. My thing is it'd be installed by a plumber, and they'd know that dropping a fucking vape pen would be a ticking time bomb of destroying the pump...
  32. Gravel

    The White Lotus

    I honestly barely remember any of the other seasons. I just know this one was very slow and really nothing happened. The brothers storyline could've had some character development, but they decided to throw the incest shit in there which basically killed it.
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    But how much of that is just the Trump administration piling more bad tariffs news anytime the market starts moving up, and then the Fed who has impeccable timing with tanking it as well?
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, the market generally goes up. I suppose it's notable that 100% of the time it's positive within a year, but maybe not unexpected when you just had a massively volatile event. Plus, that thing is entirely 2008 and 2020.
  35. Gravel

    HDTVs

    So are smart TVs basically the only option anymore? We've been using a Sony TV we got probably a dozen or more years ago. Works great, and we use a Roku on it. We've had a few different TVs in the bedrooms though, and they all come with some bullshit interface from Amazon or Google or whoever...
  36. Gravel

    The White Lotus

    It's funny you say this about stuff being cut, cause we just watched the last episode and my wife said "how long do you think these episodes would be if they cut out all these extended transition scenes?" I didn't pay all that much attention to them, but they had so many of them. They weren't...
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Remember when that Chinese AI came out and everyone was speculating on how China got ahold of export controlled chips? Not sure how many months ago that was, but now apparently they're not only acknowledging it but it's a massive portion of their revenue?
  38. Gravel

    The Life of Chuck (2025)

    So basically Benjamin Button, but with a normal person? It seems like it could be decent, but Stephen King and Mark Hamill make me very hesitant.
  39. Gravel

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Wait til he finds the horse shampoo.
  40. Gravel

    The Pitt

    Also probably helps that we started Southland (me for the 2nd time) a couple months ago, so I was more aware of the actor.