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  1. Burns

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    Wonder how different the tech is for each company. The Denon auto volume leveler and positional set up still does terrible with Hulu live. Some channels seem to have huge dB changes, that Denon cant take the peak off. Hulu may still have the problem of broadcasting in stereo on some shows, and...
  2. Burns

    Car ?'s

    If you wanted to go the extra mile, you could do some research on if there are any tricks to help your friend save on taxes by listing a sale price or not. Maybe it will uncover some other tricks, but yea, other than that, you sign the title over and your done (usually after getting the money of...
  3. Burns

    Lamplighters League (1930's Xcom) by HBS, devs of Battletech and Shadowrun

    Stayin alive, for now: https://www.pcgamer.com/harebrained-schemes-is-independent-again-paradox-parts-ways-with-the-studio-less-than-a-week-after-confirming-major-layoffs-earlier-this-year/
  4. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Do you own the vehicle outright? Then you just sign a line on the back of the title and give it to your friend. They will then need to go to the DMV register it, pay tax, and submit change of title paperwork. AFAIK, you can write a number it was sold for, somewhere, but they will take the book...
  5. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Also, there are multiple AI (difficulty) mods out now, and I am sure more will be developed/refined. I am using one that gives NPCs more unique powers, in effect expanding the "classes" available to them. I just started a new game, since my DUrge saves broke with updating mods, so don't have...
  6. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Mod fixes it back to 5e rules: https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/1115
  7. Burns

    The Video Thread

  8. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Historically, Larian hasn't done DLC, so we may only get their final polished "enhanced" edition with cut content, in a year or so. Which I am fine with, as I dislike the DLC model bullshit, and would rather have a full blown xpac. A related story for levels 13 - 20 would be great, but I wont...
  9. Burns

    The Expanse

    Why bother? The team working on The Expanse had a track record of faithfully converting the books, which is extremely rare. That alone is a huge plus over spending money on another IP, with different writers/producers. I thought the problems with season 5 & 6 had mostly to do with the books...
  10. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Yes, because when distilled down it still falls within the spending and acquiring of action points/resources (player and npc). Caliane is looking at it from a game designer/DM standpoint of encounter design. I can see why trying to play optimally in a PnP game is generally frowned upon, because...
  11. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    This is like asking if giving you a horse to ride at 150% move speed changes the fetch quest. Yes, it changes the fetch quest, but it's still a fetch quest and fits in the definition of fetch quests. Action economy is the concept of acquiring and spending actions, which 5e generally balanced...
  12. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Neither of the people you quoted contradicted each other, within the confines of 5e. As Phazael said, it is about the quantity of acquiring more actions per round and it's also as Sean said, in that it maters how a class chooses to spend those actions; hence, an action economy.
  13. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Wat? Economy is the acquiring and use of resources. In the case of 5e, those resources are actions. Party lethality does not always mean the spending and acquiring of resources. OP items and spells can boost a classes/parties lethality but not change the action economy. They are different...
  14. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    The hardest difficulty isn't really that hard, and I turned them off immediately, since it seemed like having them on would make the game easier. With them on, I could see it punishing the meta of everyone gets medium or heavy armor though. Even wizards and sorcs seem to dip 1 into cleric for...
  15. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Because there is a pecking order to shitty AAA game studios and Microsoft is at least 4th or 5th down the list after EA, Activsion, and Ubisoft. Hasn't Microsoft changed their approach in the last 10 years to be less shitty after seeing the Halo IP get run into the gutter? I don't generally...
  16. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    NASA Eclipse tracker for today and the one early next year. Can click various cities to see times too: https://eclipse-explorer.smce.nasa.gov
  17. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Zerohedge said they independently verified the translation, and no where did it talk about Natty gas: https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/viral-clip-emir-qatar-threatening-cut-gas-supply-world-fake-news
  18. Burns

    Lamplighters League (1930's Xcom) by HBS, devs of Battletech and Shadowrun

    Did you try Jagged Alliance 3? It's about as close to Xcom 2 gameplay out of anything that has come out recently, but different enough to be it's own thing/system. I also like some of the lesser graphics games like Xenonauts, but it certainly lacks the polish of Xcom 1/2.
  19. Burns

    Woodworking

    That looks neat for chisels, but for knives the discs set up on a dedicated bench grinder are still probably better and just as fast, once you learn how to use them. At least it's the set up I have seen the most in knife stores & gun show that offer sharping services.
  20. Burns

    Star Trek: Infinite

    Have yall played the Star Trek: New Horizons mod for Stellaris? There has been a huge amount of time put into developing it. It's a static galaxy with all 4 quadrants, with anything that was known about the Trek universe is in the game. They also put a whole bunch of events into the game that...
  21. Burns

    Will Smith n Oscar Town

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-will-and-jada-pinkett-smiths-scientology-school https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/why-will-and-jada-are-the-worst-scientology-kids-school-more/
  22. Burns

    Ahsoka

    You carried a tracking device around, to see what you watched?!? Sure sure, they didn't do ANYTHING with the data on people's internet habits... so your saying Nelson knows about us... shit
  23. Burns

    Age of Wonders 4

    New DLC: I haven't played this since release but a quick scan of the workshop makes it look like there is a decent modding scene too.
  24. Burns

    Star Trek: Infinite

    It's using the same engine as Stellaris and looks pretty damned close to the huge Star Trek mod that was made for it. It's close to 10 years in development for the mod, that is still getting updates: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=688086068
  25. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    Opps, was too busy looking up the names of the Forsaken, and how to spell them, to notice I was getting other names messed up.
  26. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Not sure why you want it, but just scrolled by a dude claiming to be this dude, with links to more of the dude, on Imgur: LINK
  27. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I hate dealers and can never see myself using one, unless they were offering some insane deal on something new (seen it once, many years ago, so could happen again). If anyone has not seen the movie Suckers, it is the recommended movie by the car sales guys I used to know, as the most accurate...
  28. Burns

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    According to Dev stream, xp goal is for season 2 players to reach 100 40% faster.
  29. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Right, sorry, was getting you confused with the guy who moved back to the US from Japan. I'm not even sure how legal the plate look up sites are for the US. I wouldn't be surprised if you have to sign an e-document, to send in with your $20, claiming you are a bounty hunter or some such.
  30. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Reminder that your license plate links your real name to your internet presence, which is easily looked up for a few bucks; doxxing yourself.
  31. Burns

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Gotta get up that /played metric for the quarterly report to Microsoft! Daddy Todd promises that $7.5 billion price tag was worth it!
  32. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Funny, both Kieran and Macaulay Culkin are in that skit.
  33. Burns

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Same experience with Combat. My plan was to only use console commands to get skill points for non-combat skills, which I did...because I never needed any combat skills, even at level 50 something, on the hardest setting. Although I did get swarmed to death a few times on the early pirate Ice...
  34. Burns

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Meh, why go through all that bullshit just to grind levels. The fastest way to get levels is player.setlevel [#]. Leveling in this game is terrible, you still have to do the checklist shit so you can upgrade the skill.
  35. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    Sure, but season 1 WoT had more faggot shit in it than Dancing with the Stars and you have to get through season 1, to get much out of season 2. Ashoka not only has much less faggot shit, but a bit less girl power too.
  36. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I can't see needing 4wd in Austin, unless you like to risk a ticket and portage over the side of the highway (make your own exit) when stuck in heavy traffic. Austin's bridges freeze over once every 10 years or so (?), and when things freeze in Texas, everything shuts down anyway. Four wheel...
  37. Burns

    Ahsoka

    My impression has always been that the officers in the Empire were portrayed as mostly disliking force users. In Clone Wars they specifically show Tarken's distain for the Jedi, but don't remember if they had Thrawn say anything one way or the other about the Inquisitors in Rebels. I would...
  38. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    Ashoka was certainly better, if you had already invested time in the IP by watching Clone Wars and Rebels. Whereas this seems to be much MUCH worse if you already invested any amount of time in the IP. Also, up until Andor, Star Wars did not try to be a serious IP, outside of a few game, none...
  39. Burns

    Ahsoka

    I am not sure they are all Night Sister corpses. There was a quick line in there, by Ezra, about Thrawn finding the Night Sister's citadel and awaking the 3 Night Sisters we see. So I am guessing they are actually all in suspended animation to hide, and now escape, whatever they were running...
  40. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    Edit: Opps, Lan is not Rand.