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  1. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I never said there was no difference, I said nothing cooked on a gas grill tastes better than cooking it on a stovetop. QuickEdit: I should probably qualify that with "when using retail equipment," as I'm sure the pros have some special high dollar grills they use.
  2. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I've done reverse sear, butter baste sear, and sear into oven finish but usually just do the latter for ease. All of which produced a better maillard reaction crust than any steak I have ever grilled, which lend more flavor than the drippings getting burnt back onto the steak from an open flame...
  3. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I generally don't cook asian food, but I use 10" or 12" cast iron skillets to cook hamburgers, sausage, or steaks. Smoking up the house with steak smell is half the fun and the meat to cheese to vegetable to bun ratio of a smash burger type is far superior to some thick hand pressed patty...
  4. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I cooked on gas grills for most of my life. I eventually realized there is nothing that's cooked on a gas grill that tastes better than cooking it on a stovetop/griddle. So fuck spending $1000+ on some fancy built-in grill in some fancy outdoor kitchen. A smoker, on the other hand, is where...
  5. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    And of course Bristlebane is pronounced "assling faggot." Also, when there was no voice coms, it hardly matters how any of it was pronounced. I don't think I have ever said any EQ fantasy name out loud, but in my head, Luclin was defiantly pronounced loose-lin when I quick read it on the box...
  6. Burns

    The Video Thread

  7. Burns

    Xenonauts - Legit remake of the original XCom

    Xenonauts 2 was released from early access a few weeks ago. If you liked the first game, you should like this one. It's still a small indie game, which means it has some rough edges but all in all, a good Xcom-like (originals, not 2012). The main feature I would have liked is the ability to lay...
  8. Burns

    Adrullan Online (Formerly Evercraft)

    I am a bit unclear on names, but I think I explored "Blockburrow" a handful of time, if it's the Gnoll underground area fairly close to Ozgul. The groups I saw in the higher level deep parts looked like all of them had some form of CC. I think they were bards mostly, but I wasn't counting...
  9. Burns

    Adrullan Online (Formerly Evercraft)

    Was surprised chanter was lowest as well, but not sure how charm works out in this game, so maybe that's it. I started a druid this test but didn't get much time on it. I've played Shaman and Ranger to ~ level 10, but also Beast and War-Wiz to ~6; all of them felt pretty good. Melee shaman was...
  10. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    5.2 is about as bright as Uranus, which is brighter than the predicted magnitude of 8.84. Don't see how it could cause any issue for Earth: https://theskylive.com/c2025r3-info
  11. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    https://laweconcenter.org/state-dealer-laws-add-up-to-5000-to-new-car-prices-icle-study-finds/
  12. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Modern football is far worse. I'd rather watch an inning of dudes just standing around than 5 minutes of commercials, 1 minute of play, then 5 more minutes of commercials. Hell, I'd rather watch Women's soccer than commercials disguised as a sport, but most Olympic sports are also more...
  13. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-properly-cracked-in-resident-evil-requiem-bypasses-become-plug-and-play-cracked-version-runs-faster-smoother-and-uses-way-less-vram-and-ram
  14. Burns

    Pit bulls - The Breed of Peace

    Well placed censor boxes so shouldn't be any blood.
  15. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    The math would be the least of my concerns since, for these calculations al least, it's pretty much solved and has been tested by every single space mission humans have ever launched, which is a lot. Also, it's not like only two or three people are doing the calculations, but 100s. They release...
  16. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Mainly due to the fact that some changes made for PvP reasons negatively affect the PvE game. For example, why did MnM just make players that were invisible still almost translucent when See Invis is up. It looks like a change for PvP so rogues and invis classes don't just have a worthless...
  17. Burns

    The Video Thread

  18. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    https://apnews.com/article/nestle-switzerland-candy-bar-stolen-kitkat-51073cce27a0e193651aa7f31aaa506e
  19. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    If it wasn't for catching an open test weekend on Evercraft/Adrullan, which gave some nostalgia for EQ, I would have never found out about THJ until the lawsuit either. The thread for it on this forum was hidden in a sub-forum I never really visited (because there be autistic dragons) and I...
  20. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    They haven't wiped the public test servers in years. No servers should be wiped until EA is released in June and it's possible they will move all the pre-EA characters to a test server. After EA, there is not supposed to be a wipe ever, but they may open new servers during different phases.
  21. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    Lol, welp that's "a big no for me dog" but I was never going to be a paying customer, so my opinion hardly matters to them. I look forward to reading about it's inadequacies when compared to THJ and the thread shitshow though.
  22. Burns

    The Video Thread

    If people don't want to click the thread: it's most likely a water drop rolling over the lens plus "night vision" UV mode ghosting. Even the best security cameras are going to have ghosting problems at night, in UV mode. All the non - straight from China "banned" camera manufactures (like what...
  23. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    AFAIK, the top pet combo was MAG/BST/Bard. After that it was a few different combos with MAG/BST/X. Necro or enchanter was popular for extra pet/dire charm synergy that benefited from the MAG & BST pet AA/spells. Ideally the third class had a type of skip so you could drop agro and not have to...
  24. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    Depends on how close they are going to copy THJ, but on THJ there was no boxing without jumping through some VPN hoops. Their solution to boxing (outside of AH) was to detect two accounts using the same IP, both outside the bazaar, and start a timer, when the timer hit some number (probably 10...
  25. Burns

    Harry Potter

  26. Burns

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    All camera's should really be PoE (power over ethernet) from here on out, so not sure if conduit is really worth the extra cost (unless there is no attic access and/or there are a bunch of wall/floor beams in the way). If you want the electrician to run the Cat-6, then plan for female...
  27. Burns

    Everquest Legends

    Plane of Fire was better for Bard swarm kiting. Could do like 80% of the zone into one swarm, but I usually broke up the front and the back separately. It had less pathing problems than DN but so many mobs that wizard AoE would often crash my game but bard usually wouldn't (for some reason).
  28. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Only thing I really remembered about it, after spending hours reading about vehicle sound reduction, is to avoid Dynomat at all cost due to being the worst manufacturer on the market (outside of questionable china shit) that gets by on name recognition and making deals with installers!
  29. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Be aware there are different ways to attack interior noise and when it comes to the constrained layer dampener material (Dynomat type) there are various levels of coverage that people believe is optimal. Back when I researched it heavily, there were a lot of opinions on the car audio forums...
  30. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    When getting into that car:
  31. Burns

    Reacher

    Was kinda curious if I was remembering things right so plopped around google maps to look at various places I have been. Here is a 20mph from The Woodlands in Houston, just to say you have seen one! Having driven a lot, for previous jobs many years ago, 20mph was pretty rare, but 25mph is...
  32. Burns

    Reacher

    I know, but a lot of the DFW burbs are at 20 to 25mph. I can post more from Plano, to Highland Village, to Southlake, to Lake Worth if you want.
  33. Burns

    Reacher

    I've seen 25mph limits in a lot of DFW neighborhoods, but rarely/never 15mph that I can recall.
  34. Burns

    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    Ya hear that, he said literally all! ALL THE PEOPLES SAID A THING! He is super cereal! Also, I'm glad to hear THJ didn't get royally fucked and I can continue to play my characters though more xpacs; so let me go fire that puppy up...
  35. Burns

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    As I was watching the movie I was thinking similar to @Onoes above, in that he is in
  36. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Have you been taking Chukzombi's creative writing class? Pretty sure I agree with the post, but not sure I will ever recover...
  37. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    The devs asked the Alpha people not to "spoil" drops, quest, and zones; so the wiki has been bare bones and/or out of date for at least the last year. The majority of the people I seemed to talk to on the open public tests, that were doing higher level stuff, sounded like they were also in the...
  38. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Gabriel Knight had voodoo occult murders and murderous classical style Werewolves in it! Leisure Suit Larry had a bunch of sexist jokes in it. Space Quest was funny too. Police Quest: Swat had real police swat tactics in it (I think). Fuck Myst though, that game was retarded.
  39. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Haven't played it yet, but stumbled upon this game that reviews are saying is Wing Commander/Privateer like. It's in the backlog: