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  1. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Well...obviously.
  2. Burns

    Age of Wonders 4

    Yea, it is a bit of a handicap to capture cities as a good leader instead of the ebil convert them to your own. There is a building in the order tree that offsets it a little bit, but it may be best to just start your own cities and get tributes from vassals. Alternatively, the other races can...
  3. Burns

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Humn, didn't know you can't edit posts after a certain amount of time; was going to update the fist post, but it's not that important. Release Window is now Summer 2023. I don't give a fuck about collector edition bullshit but they did confirm that they will be trying to get it out the door by...
  4. Burns

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    I've used the 1 ear version of the set that Brahma linked for ~10 years (10 - 15 hours a week, roughly) before needing to replace it. I'm on my second pair, and I dont even remeber what part failed. The in line volume controls are always a weak spot for these things, so prolly that. Amazon...
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    Age of Wonders 4

    Game optimization(?): I tried to play a map (4th campaign) as underground dwarves and that led to me spending a lot of time with my screen on the subterranean; which, in turn, about lit my CPU on fire. Shit was beepin at me because it must have been close to thermal shutdown at 85C+. Also, the...
  6. Burns

    Age of Wonders 4

    I am also working through the story maps. I played the first map around 4 or 5 times because I thought hard would be fine, but nope, AI raped me over and over (cheatin bastards!). They had 4 full stacks, with a few tier 3s and 4s, and were very aggressive, when I was barley able to get 1 stack...
  7. Burns

    Andor

    Don't all projects have a bunch of rewrites as they get into filming? So it could still cause some issues if they are only half way through filming, no?
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    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Yarp, not having any exposure to the systems yet probably makes it sound more complicated than it is. Getting levels in warrior is the natural progression in the game as that is the class you start as. It can take some time before you find the Wizard class trainer, unless you look it up...
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    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Below is the recommendations I used, from Steam, for stats in PS:T for maximum dialog. It's mild spoilers, but just about a few pieces of "gear" and two level up bonuses. The two level up bonuses: Of course, since most of the game is reading, more dialog will make the game longer. No point...
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    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Proper group positioning, scouting/prepping a room, and friendly fire is part of the difficulty curve of playing a caster. Fireball, Cloudkill, and Abi-Dalzim’s Horrid Wilting are extremely powerful spells that can just start deleting mobs. Even if you are using it, primarily, to nuke a caster +...
  11. Burns

    Reacher

    Yarp, it seems my memory was a bit faulty. Hypertrophy looks to be the sweet spot for bodybuilders. So, I guess I never looked at gaining strength as a primary focus, and always figured it would come naturally with mass. Thus making "high reps" mean doing 15 or more reps, to me, and low reps was...
  12. Burns

    Reacher

    15 reps was just the cutoff number picked. Arnold's book for his roid workout was like 3 to 5 sets of 10, but something like 10+ different lifts per body part. Due to the enhanced healing of the roids, he was able to work every body part, every other day. When I quit the gym rat life, the...
  13. Burns

    Reacher

    Jay Cutler is one of the premier body builders of his day. He would have been pushing for mass, but yea, he may have been talking about his opinion on what natural body builders can get away with/need, not his own roid workouts. It's been a while now, but Arnold's encyclopedia and every body...
  14. Burns

    England

    All the scones I have had are sweet, akin to a doughnuts or dessert, but the people talking about it online say that the UK has cheese scones, which are the closest scone type to a buttermilk biscuit, but the biscuit is still saltier, fluffier, and flakier (the scone is more dense and crumbly)...
  15. Burns

    England

    Gravy looks the same, if you want to go through the bother of making it. Since it's just adding a bunch of calories to the pot roast, we usually skip it and use the juice more like Au Jus for the potatoes when mashed into the plate with the fork. That's only our family though, as I am sure there...
  16. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    Because she or her agent are terrible at picking movies and/or they paid stupid amounts of money to get her in the movies? Maybe she needs a great director to get her to perform, as I guess there only a few handful of directors even close to the same league as Scorsese.
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    England

    Ah, those are popular options here as well, outside of the curries. Indian food is becoming more popular though. I would guess Americanized Mexican (tacos/burritos) holds the same spot that UK curries do. I also love a good Chuck/shoulder roasts with vegetables (taters, carrots, & onions) and...
  18. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    I have only watched the Spiderman movie in this phase, which seemed to have mostly jived with Loki. Couldn't they also say that Loki was a show about the aberrations to the average Loki. Implying that 90% of Loki are Hiddleston Loki, but even 10% of "infinity" makes enough to cover all they need...
  19. Burns

    England

    When it comes to "home cooked meals," but leaning more to the special occasions side, what are some good dishes that you/your family members (Gran/Mother/Wife) cook for family gatherings in the isles, that you like/look forward to?
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    A well acted part in a Scorsese movie made her a bankable name for getting hired in Hollywood, not some shitty DC movies (the first Suicide Squad was so bad I certainly wasn't going to waste time on any of the others). If she is given a good script and a competent director, she has already shown...
  21. Burns

    Are there any decent web-based turn-based RPGs out there right now?

    Why not go with the tried and true: remote access to your home PC? Programs like Gotomypc can open your computer's desktop through a browser or, a more complicated route: set up your home router to have your very own VPN to dial into, which will give you remote access to your local network. Then...
  22. Burns

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    ToEE really needs at least a couple mods, Circle of 8 being the most important. From what I remember, it was the best implementation of DnD rules until Pathfinder came out. I probably wouldn't rate it as highly, now that I have played both the Pathfinder games. A couple weeks ago, I started a...
  23. Burns

    Barry

    Still enjoying the show, even though it is much more serious this season. Hank is still funny, most episodes he gets a laugh at least. Didn't even recognize Richter (Ironsides) there. Took his voice dropping the accent a little to even know who it was.
  24. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    A white male going around killing/replacing a black male would be too on the nose and asians are white adjacent, so its still funny, obviously! Also, there is no way they would replace a black with a white, and it can't be a woman, because women can't be the ultimate badie with no redeeming...
  25. Burns

    Severance

    Two or three good shows/movies a year from Apple, Prime, Disney, HBO, and Netflix, combined, is a golden age? 15+ years ago HBO used to produce that many all on its own.
  26. Burns

    Marvel Universe stuff

    They already established, in Loki, that not every person is the same sex or race throughout the multiverse. So, wasn't there a scene at the end of one of the movies with 1000 Kangs standing around, doing nothing in particular? They should find a similar size asian guy and CGI him into that, and...
  27. Burns

    Wartales

    Oh, I see. So I could level up a second cook to master, then switch them to bard and be a master bard. Harsher death penalty than the other way, but still better than needing to find mining nodes or travel the whole map looking for wood to cut at 13xp a pop on a new character.
  28. Burns

    Wartales

    Can't recall many issues. I think I have had 1 or 2 crash to desktops and 1 lock up when the game was trying to spawn a new enemy, in one of the arena battles, on the same killing blow that I won the arena with. The only actual bug I have seen is a bugged side location would not let me in, even...
  29. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Honestly, for a while now, I have been wondering why we use/need two threads anymore; mostly because reposting is the biggest sin, so you have to scan both threads to try to reduce them. Gifs are a bit antiquated and their replacements, that often have sound (like mp4), blur the line between...
  30. Burns

    Wartales

    Ah, nice, I didn't know that about trade skill transfers. I have been wondering how you replace people that die, when a bunch of the trade skills take forever to level up or look to have a limited number of places to get skill ups (like mining/scholar). The 15 willpower cheat death ability saved...
  31. Burns

    Babylon 5

    Londo, G'Kar, and Bester are defiantly the best in the show and it will be very difficult for other actors to measure up. I can't say I disliked any character though and would have probably been fine with Sinclair making it through the whole show because I liked the character itself, more, even...
  32. Burns

    Jerry Springer dies aged 79

    That's giving Springer too much credit, or letting Tiktok off lightly. Tiktok is far worse for the collective psyche of the US population. Springer seems more akin to Kardashians in terms of impact. Trashy entertainment for trashy people that encouraged trashy behavior in society as being...
  33. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Videos, in my GIF thread?! WTF! At this point why do we even have two threads?!
  34. Burns

    Babylon 5

    Until something more gets released, I choose to believe that they are going to go back to their original script, where they didn't have to write around 1 dude going crazy and 1 woman deciding to leave because she could no longer work with her soon to be ex-husband, after they had spent one and a...
  35. Burns

    Wartales

    Been playing this off and on for that few weeks and am up to an average level of 6, with half the providences done. It's pretty good for a low fantasy setting; almost no magical beings other than zombies and ghost animals. On normal difficulty all the classes work (so far), although I favored...
  36. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Funny video about a veteran Korean pitcher that came over to play in the majors (some background on him and then his amazing play). He had never made a professional plate appearance (at bat) in the ~10 years of Korean/Japanese professional play, before the Mets required him to bat per NL rules...
  37. Burns

    STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ (PS5, XSX, Steam, Epic) - early 2023

    Didn't you lose guns when you died or did story missions? I don't remember needing to go pick up anything as the story provided what you needed. I only played each of the GTA/RDR games once, didn't do any of the tedious side missions, and it's been a while now, so memory is a bit foggy.
  38. Burns

    Home Improvement

    Friend that owns a yard business always said you need to run your system once a week, for enough time to where you start to see flooding water run off (usually 20+ min per zone, but it depends on the grass/sod). This means that the ground is saturated and the roots are getting plenty of water...
  39. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Wut?! That's some funny stuff. Are you a Simp or something?
  40. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Bro, that's a Animated Gif Bro. Here is the HD video. Do you even lift (in the proper thread)?: