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  1. Gravel

    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.
  2. 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.
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

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

    Investing General Discussion

    Now expand this concept to your own expenses.
  5. 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...
  6. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Depends on how comfortable working with electricity you are. The fact that you're asking means you probably need one.
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. Gravel

    Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

    Rage inducing...
  10. Gravel

    7 Days to Die

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

    7 Days to Die

    I've got 778 hours into it. It's a good game.
  12. 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...
  13. 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/
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
  16. 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...
  17. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I thought you always looked at IWM?
  18. Gravel

    Weather

    Been super humid the last 2-3 days here in Florida, too. Feels like it's the end of June already. Highs are only in the 70's though. It also hasn't rained in like a week and a half, and before that it'd been a long time.
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I didn't realize there were that few Cybertrucks. Saw one a couple weeks ago outside Walmart here in Florida.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Welp, we lost 5000. Womp womp. The one thing the administration could hang their hat on as performing well is about to also go into the shitter.
  21. Gravel

    Road House

    Maybe this was all a ploy to get people to rebuy the original stuff? "Wow, this sucked...I wanna go watch the good version."
  22. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's not complicated at all. If you're 99% of people, invest in an index fund that tracks the broad market.
  23. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    So just shitty DEI projects without anything worthwhile to attract any other audiences?
  24. Gravel

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    So looks like I was kind of right (although me figuring it out that far in isn't really anything to that about). They seemed to really lean into it too, especially with Jerry coming back and the dialogue in the jail. I thought the finale was okay. I was expecting something really funny based on...
  25. Gravel

    Factorio

    I think my problem with the space elevator was that it really meant a complete redo of just about everything. Completely tear down the rocket circuitry and then setup a train station for every single resource. I had sort of already started a small train network in space, but it was really just...
  26. Gravel

    Factorio

    Man, I unlocked the space elevator finally and just completely stalled out. Basically having to retool my entire Nauvis and orbit bases. There are just so many fucking resources to manage now. I'm almost done researching wide beacons, which will likely make me redo a bunch more stuff, and after...
  27. Gravel

    Fallout - New Vegas

    Was going to say this. I played this shit out of Fallout 2. The "modern" ones were fine. New Vegas obviously being the best of em, but things like VATS just don't work on what looks like a first person shooter. I apparently only put 3.8 hours into Fallout 4, and 22 in NV (dunno about 3).
  28. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's a nickname of derision, since the Yellen/Powell years are basically all lumped together and he's a giant fucking woman.
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    People got used to near zero interest rates for so long that anything even approaching historical average seems outrageous. We've been saying it for years now that this Fed doesn't have the balls for it.
  30. Gravel

    Helldivers II

    I'm not sure you even have to have logged in. I hadn't played since mid-March and just logged in to ones completed in the last 3 and 10 days.
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    This is quite the skid downward we've had. Where are the resident technical nerds to tell us what the support levels are?
  32. Gravel

    Fallout

    Only watched the first episode and it was decent. Good enough that I'll keep watching. The tranny was definitely distracting though, and on screen for way longer than "two minutes" or whatever someone said. The girl who plays Lucy seemed super familiar, and it wasn't until a couple hours after...
  33. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Literally just watched this episode two days ago.
  34. Gravel

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    I think I only have the finale left to go. Really liked Matt Berry's cameo. He really does play the same character in everything, but damn if that one character isn't fucking hilarious. I wanted to post before watching the finale, but this really seems to be setting up for a Seinfeld redemption...
  35. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I mean, his ex wife's first husband was best friends with OJ. I can't imagine he'd get along with them very well.
  36. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Man, I forgot about that one. That one scene with Kristy Swanson, you know the one. I also forgot that Anthony Keidis and Flea were in that one as some crazed rednecks trying to knock them off the road. That movie was fucking great. Apparently Kristy is also a good one, she was in that...
  37. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Almost the entire cast of The Naked Gun dead now. Only one left is Priscilla Presley if you can imagine that.
  38. Gravel

    Factorio

    Speaking of power, although maybe you don't have an answer, is there a certain amount I should push for before space elevators? I thought I read someone say something about it being a huge power drag and it destroyed their factory once they started using it. I'm currently making about 750MW in...
  39. Gravel

    Factorio

    I mean, I posted a screenshot that looks almost identical to that a few weeks ago. I'm only now, like 100 hours later, where I have about 16 city blocks in space built with an incredibly rudimental train system (only moving cosmic water, chemical gel, thermofluid 25, and plasma). And probably...
  40. Gravel

    Factorio

    I decided to try rushing space elevator and holy shit was it a mistake. I'm like 28% of the way there and it's just slowed everything to a crawl. I don't produce nearly enough science because I'd need about 10x the resources in space to keep up. And the backend infrastructure just isn't there...