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  1. Burns

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    As someone who does not watch racing on TV but thoroughly enjoyed both of those movies, I can't recommend the documentary Senna enough. If you want another racing movie to watch, that is.
  2. Burns

    The Zone of Interest (2023)

    Meh, this was certainly not my style. I'm biased to like historical show, and while I don't need action in movies, I like to have something interesting happening at least. The long ass black screen at the start screamed that this was a "I smell my own farts" artsy movie and it didn't really...
  3. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Your posse can't fit in a Ferrari! Also, I don't see any exotics under $200k. The only other option for rappers is Rolls Royce, and I don't see them under $345k+. It's not really a new phenomenon, when I was looking for a car around 2010, I found a few used BMWs edit: Merc CL55 AMGs that were...
  4. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    It's Bezos's pet project and he probably has a gaggle of sycophants that surround him to tell him his shit smells like roses.
  5. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    After a single season of a successful TV show using his story, he is now a big time Hollywood writer slumming it in the video game industry!
  6. Burns

    The Video Thread

    There was a somewhat old book, that got sorta popular when I was a semi-gymrat, that put forth the proposition that putting your body into ketosis for at least a few days, then doing a clean carb load would spike testosterone. I did 6 days of high protein low carbs with a Sunday clean carb...
  7. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Part of critical thinking is questioning authority, which nether the political nor religious leaders (back when they had more power) would want, so it has never been taught in K-12 in the US. It was left to the colleges to teach and, more so now (probably, depending on the institution), but even...
  8. Burns

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    For anyone that likes watching things weekly, it seems the season started at the beginning of the February. I'm not sure when I'll get around to watching, might just wait until the season is over to watch at my own pace, over the course of a few days.
  9. Burns

    Shōgun

    Here is a video of the history that this historical fiction is based on. Tokugawa Ieyasu is whom the original writer used to model the character of Toranaga after. The book starts shortly before this battle: (There is a built ~ 1 min add after the intro, he has it timestamped to 2:00 for when...
  10. Burns

    Home Improvement

    Taking the stairs apart and trying to use the same wood as you ripped up sounds rather difficult. In the video from the guy in England, I would assume that the 1 coat of primer on the risers was enough to stop the stain overpaint from causing an issue, but you could put a second coat of primer...
  11. Burns

    Home Improvement

    Aren't there are specialty finishes for floors (high traffic) that cost more monies? I think Rubio monocoat (matte) was originally a floor finish, and as such, has a high price tag (it's also very popular on YouTube, so that probably adds to the price too).
  12. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Gunn wanted a new Superman, so he was not signed on for anymore Superman work until the Rock came along and said he wanted Cavill in Black Adam. Black Adam bombed and easily gave Gunn the greenlight to go with a new Superman for his universe. Cavill is a Witcher geek/nerd and was always pushing...
  13. Burns

    Home Improvement

    This sounds like what you are describing. This guy does some high end woodworking in England and a few of his videos have hit over 1 mil. I bookmarked the channel due to a couple veneer videos. To get the gloss/stain right, you should be able to either buy locally or order online a few small...
  14. Burns

    Borderlands

    Welp, another win for indie gaming! It will be a long time before they rape enough gaming IPs to get to one I care about! Oh, they are making a Rimworld movie and not butchering their enemies to feed to their prisoners?!? What a fucking insult to the IP!
  15. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Sweet, another bloatware app I won't use and just keep updating manually!
  16. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Ahh, as I haven't played since the first month, people made it sound like you only have 1 mode to get the higher difficulty, so that's good that they have that option now.
  17. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  18. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Going back and forth to camp to respec or even sub in a party member, in the middle of a conversation, is a tedium I would rather not do. I dislike the whole one save bullshit or hardcore prema-death game modes. I just wanted higher difficulty fights, where a full party wipe was possible, in...
  19. Burns

    The Video Thread

    While I do not want/need body armor, I was still curious of the price. So looked up that level 3 Spartan Armor plate and it is anywhere from $385 to $685, depending on the materials. Which made me look up how much Kevlar was needed to stop a 5.56, had he used it. So here is a video from a soft...
  20. Burns

    X-Men '97

    To try to stop Franco from taking over the country and installing himself as king.
  21. Burns

    X-Men '97

    The soon to be dictator Francisco Franco of the Bando nacional.
  22. Burns

    Genetic Testing & Family Tree Search Engines

    I would only take a DNA test for medical purposes, but they are much more expensive I think. I'm generally indifferent to the family tree stuff as they promote learning about history but also seem kinda gimmicky: "You are 99.99% peasant but look at the single person of royal blood that lived...
  23. Burns

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    We are hopefully within 5 years of the adoption of factories being able to buy their own self contained mini-reactors. It will be interesting to see how things play out once those are a proven technology and available to a wide swath of corpo interests, not just the domain of a handful of power...
  24. Burns

    Home Improvement

    This. We stayed in a small AirBnB prefab house a few years ago. It was less than a year old at the time and they have come a long way since the "trailer park" days that come to mind when I hear prebuilt house. The biggest issue is probably going to be insulation, where it will burn more energy...
  25. Burns

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Back 5+ years ago, I had one running for a few years, but it seemed to get less and less effective over time. Plus I had to keep whitelisting sites, like various shopping and social media websites, that other people wanted to use. I've read that it can still work fairly well for various tablet...
  26. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    No idea what the industry standard/average contract is for licensing. Larian has never released official numbers, so anything on how much money the game made are just educated guesses.
  27. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    $90 mil just for licensing: https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-has-made-90-million-for-hasbro
  28. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    As someone who hasn't really watched the original since it aired when I was a kid, I thought Cyclops and Rogue mostly sounded as I remember them. Storm wasn't terrible either.
  29. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    The underlying message in that WSB post is that "insider trading" is so pervasive that by the time you, a retail investor, hear of a "tip" it is already "priced in." The prevalence of HFTs and the skill of the people that continually develop them also feed into the "insider trading is...
  30. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    If you don't want to take my word on it, it's the best MCU show according to @Aldarion, a few pages back!
  31. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    You will have to watch She-Hulk to learn the answer to that question.
  32. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Don't think I have ever seen an Aston I didn't like or want, but alas, a fleet of Astons is a bit outa my price range. Edit: Then I actually go look at the new Aston and "...look how they massacred my boy." Are the competing with BMW for who can eventually turn the whole front end into one big...
  33. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    If there is actually a choice between the two (and putting aside "the CCP's heavy hand is bad, so TikTok is bad") YouTube is usually a better format to watch on a PC. In that regard, YouTube shorts are just as "shitty" as TikTok.
  34. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Corvettes have the best performance to price ratio and drive nothing like heavy Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers, or even Jags. It not only beats them all in the quarter, it will leave them in the dust on the corners. Only Porsche and cars that cost over $100k can really out perform it in both...
  35. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Use NoScript to disable TikTok from loading altogether:
  36. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Lies! Hawkeye was the best thing in the MCU since Endgame, by far; Loki was mediocre. It's not bad, but I'll will never watch it again and it would be totally forgettable, if they let that whole plotline die with Jonathan Major's career.
  37. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  38. Burns

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    My interest in the movie fell into the gutter after seeing the TVA in the trailer, but it slowly worked it's way back up a little bit by then end. It's still less than it was, but I'll probably see it as soon as it comes out on a streaming platform.
  39. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery

    Cathedral is a large step up in difficulty over Armory, whereas Armory has most issues for groups, on bosses, Cathedral had shitty trash too; packs, pats, and runners would all get people in trouble fast. It's been a while, but I think it was the monks that would just chew through anyone they...