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  1. Burns

    Home buying thread

    Depends on how close to the amenities you want to be. More amenities (golf courses) will be more population dense. One of my favorite areas in Texas is Horseshoe Bay and Marble Falls area of hill country (here). It's close enough to the Lake Travis (nice/conservative) side of Austin, where you...
  2. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Well the bed certainly moves, as you can tell where it has changed positions in regards to those stainless tool containers he is accessing. Whether it tilts too is the question, to which one could observe that the end of the bed is beveled, as to lay flat against a road when tilted down.
  3. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Do the beds on those trucks extend out and tilt down like the regular tow truck flat beds? In the video, it looks like that bed has moved from one shot to the other.
  4. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Yar, we have plenty of the flat beds like that and the type I would call if I needed it, but never seen a large crane and flatbed combo around here. I would guess that if a car was in a bayou in the US, it would be considered a total loss anyway (even a supercar, maybe) and yanked out of the...
  5. Burns

    Shōgun

    I always need to look them up to make sure. Between NBCUniversal, Comcast, Spectrum, Disney, Fox, Sky News UK, Sky News AU, ESPN, and Fox Sports I can never keep who owns what straight. Since it doesn't really effect me, I have no incentive to try to remember any of it either.
  6. Burns

    Shōgun

    Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoc, not Disney, and I don't care to keep track of what was sold off over the years.
  7. Burns

    Shōgun

    Didn't think about who owned FX but just looked it up, yep Disney. Luckily it isn't a Hulu exclusive, but I was hoping there was some place FX shows might be commercial free. Unfortunately, since it is all Disney owned, it won't be anywhere else. Frankly, I am a little surprised it isn't a...
  8. Burns

    Shōgun

    Is there a way to watch this legit without commercials or is it just Hulu bullshit?
  9. Burns

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    I'm pretty sure going from a 970 or a 1080 to a 4070 would make Diablo 4 at least 70% better!
  10. Burns

    NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

    Well shit, a 70% increase... I wonder if my GTX 970 will last until this card is lower than $500!
  11. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    That's quite the tow truck.
  12. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Oops! Although that ditch looks like it was made for that McLaren.
  13. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    So you never planed on watching Shrek? Do you often look up the actors in movies that you haven't seen and never plan on seeing and when did you start this process of randomly looking up movies to see who the actors are?
  14. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Weird choosing Shrek, being that it is the opposite of the point you are trying to make, since a huge part of the original buzz and marketing for it was on who was doing the voice work.
  15. Burns

    Genetic Testing & Family Tree Search Engines

    My grandparent told me where they grew up in the midwest, the European nation your family came from mattered and it mostly revolved around the Protestant churches. The English/Scotts had one church/cliché, the Poles had a separate one, and the Germans another. Even the Catholics had multiple...
  16. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Sorry, I was talking about the whole country of Australia... and Chris.
  17. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    It's a very low bar for them to pass when your listing a bunch of pop trash that is little better than the pop "country" music that is popular today.
  18. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Rick Beato recently did a talk with a record industry friend of his about that very topic, in relation to rock music. I'm pretty sure this is this one: Also, I'm shocked that Ossie and Chris were listening to better music than Chuk, in the 2000s, shocked I tell you!
  19. Burns

    Poor Things (2023)

    Without better explaining how fast her brain is "aging" in this bizarro steampunk fantasy land, it felt like this was a course on how to have a pedo movie without having a pedo movie. When she learned to masturbate, it still seemed like Stone was trying to play a toddler or maybe a preschooler...
  20. 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.
  21. 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...
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
  24. 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!
  25. 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...
  26. 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...
  27. 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.
  28. 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...
  29. 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...
  30. 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).
  31. 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...
  32. 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...
  33. 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!
  34. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Sweet, another bloatware app I won't use and just keep updating manually!
  35. 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.
  36. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  37. 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...
  38. 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...
  39. Burns

    X-Men '97

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

    X-Men '97

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