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  1. Gravel

    Roguelite Enemy Hell/Bullet Heaven/Survivor catch-all

    Went and bought one of those bundle things with Brotato and Death Must Die. My first impressions were that Brotato is way more fun, but I keep coming back to Death Must Die. It seems to have much better replayability with the talents and Diablo-esque gearing. About 8 hours in and I just beat...
  2. Gravel

    Where are all the MMORPG games? lol

    It's going to take 15 years of development and most players will quit within 2 months.
  3. Gravel

    Factorio

    I went with delivery cannons. Rockets just became too annoying. I processed everything into ingots (or vulcanite blocks) on the outpost and sent them with delivery cannons. Think I had like 7 receivers/cannons for vulcanite blocks.
  4. Gravel

    Hades (Supergiant Games)

    Meanwhile everyone in this thread is like "yeah, but I'll still play it." You all keep giving your money to companies pushing stuff you say you hate, and you keep getting more of it. It's a real mystery what's happening here.
  5. Gravel

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Stephen's dad probably molested him, and the cycled continued with him molesting his own son. Tale as old as time.
  6. Gravel

    Factorio

    Oh, and I'm only on 10 planets. Nauvis nOrbit Outposts for holmium, cryonite, iridite/vulcanite, beryl, vitamelange, the asteroid belt, star orbit, and naquitite.
  7. Gravel

    Factorio

    I also started with 1-4 trains. Switched everything to 1-1 a little bit before unlocking the space elevator. For me it was because trying to figure out city blocks with massive input resources accommodating 1-4 trains was stupid. For instance, I've got multiple blocks that have 7-9 inputs into...
  8. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    That's the sad part. This whole thing shouldn't even be a story, but they've mishandled it so poorly that they've screwed themselves.
  9. Gravel

    Factorio

    Like with everything Factorio, once you get further you'll start getting fuckloads of scrap and it'll pump out a pretty significant amount of resources. You've gotta do something with it all or it will pile up massively.
  10. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    This is how you crater a company. This will be the last successful release for Arrowhead.
  11. Gravel

    Factorio

    You should definitely setup one on Nauvis for testing packs. But you'll pump out so much scrap in orbit it'd be stupid to ship it back down, reprocess it, and then ship it back up. Especially when you start considering contaminated scrap. If you process it on Nauvis, now you've also got to...
  12. Gravel

    Factorio

    It's all good. You've got a good supply to turn into material testing packs for those material sciences. I've basically burnt out on this playthrough. Naquium is stupid. All the processing and amounts required are already stupid, but then to make them only stack to 10? C'mon man.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Are you saying he didn't watch the show? Because the show is how it ends. There will be no book ending. We joked a decade ago about how he was too old to finish at the pace he was going. Well he's accomplished jack shit since then. No one even wants to read this next book because it's been 15...
  14. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    Hadn't played in like a month and a half. Was going to log in to see if I'd even done that. Game won't even fucking launch anymore. This might be the worst game I've played as far as performance going downhill each time I play.
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Hell yeah. Buddy and I found a huge stash of Playboys. He took most of them because they were near his house and I wasn't about to lug a shit load of magazines home. But that May 1994 edition is burned into my brain. Shae Marks was the playmate and Elle Mcpherson on the cover with a spread on...
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    The ironic part is, at least from what I can tell, the only thing actually helping tame inflation was QT. But it's stalled out due to government spending (at least I think, see that post from MMM forums I posted in Politics). I mean, it makes logical sense that inflation caused by massive money...
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    And the market spiked higher?
  18. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Feels like the Fed just doesn't really have any ideas. Seems like they're just going to wait for the economy to do something and then make a reactive decision based on that, instead of being proactive in either direction. Is it that they're all risk averse?
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    I started trying to play Sultans of Swing a couple weeks ago. It's probably one of my favorite songs to drum at the moment. There's something about that snare/kick hit on the 3rd bar of the verse that really just feels fucking good to play. Like it's an unexpected note that just drives the song...
  20. Gravel

    Factorio

    Holy shit man. Less than 3 weeks ago you had half that playtime. You're apparently putting in like 9-10 hour days every day.
  21. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, crushing it is kind of relative. If by "crushing it," you mean back where it was 2 months ago (when it was on a downtrend), sure, it's crushing it.
  22. Gravel

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Looked it up. 2.9 (8.5km deep). No one felt that. if they said they did, they're full of shit.
  23. Gravel

    Factorio

    Wait, your entire ship runs on just the steam from that one tank?
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Currency exchange rates are always weird to me. So is the Yen at a low just against the dollar and euro? Or did it fall against every single currency?
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Bruh...that dude totally nailed the Korn sound. Holy shit. For some reason I get this guy popping up on my recommended a lot. There are some crazy talented fuckers out there. Anyway, back to the spirit of the thread.
  26. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Not tongue in cheek at all. It's the concept behind financial independence. The first time your portfolio moves more than your salary (be it in a day, week, or month) is pretty crazy. Once it starts approaching yearly, well, work becomes optional.
  27. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Maybe in two years they'll admit that they were wrong like with transitory inflation.
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Now expand this concept to your own expenses.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    When you've destroyed everything else in the economy but there's one asset class that's alluding you, this is what you do. If anything we need to abolish taxes since government spending is completely detached from revenue. So the government collects an extra $300b...who cares? They spend that...
  30. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Depends on how comfortable working with electricity you are. The fact that you're asking means you probably need one.
  31. Gravel

    Factorio

    This is what my intersections look like. I still occasionally get a jam when I get 3 or 4 trains all going to the same station right next to the intersection at the same time (almost always revolving around shipping water to space, on both Nauvis and nOrbit). City blocks took forever to retool...
  32. Gravel

    Factorio

    Pretty much this. The only caveat being if there's not enough room for a full train, use a chain signal. I'm almost 250 hours into SE now and I'm kind of burning out. Shit just takes so many resources it's kind of beating me down. The items at the end of the chain for outpost materials like...
  33. Gravel

    Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

    Rage inducing...
  34. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    I think that was closer to like 11 or 12. But yeah, that shit sucked.
  35. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    I've got 778 hours into it. It's a good game.
  36. Gravel

    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    Didn't even realize this was coming out until I saw this thread a week or two ago. I never got into Dune growing up. The books were around but they were so thick I didn't bother. Never saw the original movie, either. Anyway, thought Part Two was great. Kind of makes me want to go back and watch...
  37. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

    Holy crap, they're finally doing it. 12 years and it's finally releasing. https://7daystodie.com/alpha-exodus-leaving-early-access/
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So we're just going to keep dancing around the same talking point over and over again I see. I don't give a shit that the data behind it is good. The issue is them publishing bad numbers.
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    You're basically just admitting that the federal numbers (the only ones anyone actually sees) are bullshit. Like I said, the "data behind it" is sound. So why do they keep putting out the same bullshit numbers?
  40. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    My favorite part is the "it can be explained by seasonal adjustment making them all the same." So...how is that any different than just fake numbers exactly? "Well the actual data behind it does fluctuate." So why would they publish the bullshit numbers? It'd be great if people weren't so...