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  1. Burns

    The Last of Us

    Self contained mobile Nuclear reactors are now in prototype phase. If they go into full production, they would be ideal for the end of the world! In regards to the show/game, they would need to have found some in storage, and not active, as they are shooting for a 20 year lifespan.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    Sound on, context at the beginning:
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    First impressions of the very beginning of beta, from many people, was D:OS3 with BG/DnD skin and dice rolls. Then they progressively started changing things and opinions seemed to shift more toward a DnD/BG game, but still in the D:OS engine, so it's always going to have it's similarities. I...
  4. Burns

    Star Trek: Picard

    So is it now NuTrek uggo Ork Warf, or still Next Gen Klingon Worf?
  5. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Anyone know what the "reputable" 3rd party gold seller sites are? Was curious how much Diablo 4 would cost if you bought the gold from them, bought tokens with gold, then converted that to bliz bucks.
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    The Video Thread

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    The Expanse: A Telltale Series

    Went looking for a Steam store page, and only found it on Epic Games Store. Hopefully it's not epic exclusive, but there is no info confirming it one way or the other. In other news, they got 8 million from a VC firm...
  8. Burns

    The Mandalorian

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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    The Video Thread

    How to impress your friends and shoot someone's eye out:
  11. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I bought a heat gun from Harbor Freight for $10 on sale and it worked great for the few electrical shrink wrap things I needed it for. If it's light use, just grab a cheap one, store it wrapped up, back in the box, and it should last a long time. They change what's on sale monthly (?), so maybe...
  12. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Before the Wuhanic Plague and recent car market shenanigans the winter months were the lowest prices of the year (from what I had seen when I had Manheim access). The sportier the car, the larger the fluctuation between winter and summer. Now days, there probably isn't enough data for anyone to...
  13. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Bad news for anyone looking to buy a car, used car prices are back on the upswing: Source (Manheim): https://publish.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle-value-index.html
  14. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True, I may be underestimating the numbers. I was trying to think back to Legion/BFA raids, and how much our worst 2 players, in a raid of ~15 were costing us, but I doubt it was more than 30% more wipes, due to them failing mechanics on the harder bosses (usually the last 2 or 3). As for...
  15. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sure, everyone is fine and dandy when things are going well, but when your 100 wipes deep on a mythic raid boss, half the raid becomes real salty at every mistake and the dickishness starts (or so I hear from friend's modern mythic raiding experience). In heroic raiding, making people sit, so...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I guess yall are some impatient people, or just played with some really bad players. There is a limit to how bad a player I can stand, but its defiantly expanded over the years. I don't mind 10% to 20% more wipes on the last boss or two so we can get there with the team that we have, that I...
  17. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's the case with this xpac, in that M+ gear made the heroic raid trivial and half the raid that liked pushing high keys just out geared it in short order. I remember spending 3 or 4 weeks on various end bosses in Legion and BFA. This time it was maybe a week and a half of serious tries...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At this point, asking people to sit so you can try-hard in the mythic raid is silly, breaks up guilds, and makes it so friends cant play together. Then in turn no one wants to raid mythic because they cant find the people when the slower people are asked to sit, and just stop showing up...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mythic raids are turrable due to all the design decisions made for the 5 guilds that get "paid" to play the race to world first. Heroic raiding allows you to play with friends with a more varying level of skill and still get the feeling of progressing at a fast enough pace to not be frustrated...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    There are theories that exotic forms of life may be possible (low chance) in the twilight area's of a tidally locked planet, as long as it has the other protections needed for life to exist (magnetosphere, liquid water, atmosphere, etc.).
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have about 50 dungeon runs with guild groups before I am sick of that shit and it feels like a unfun grind for +1 of the same item. No thanks. I would imagine full PuG runs would make that number less than 20. Raids with a decent/good guild group are much more enjoyable, as you go boss to...
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    So many people falling for the fake in that thread...
  23. Burns

    Star Wars: The Bad Batch

    It looks like they are using their newer tools to make everything but the character models for the series. The intro of them flying down into the planet really made me wish they would just commit 100% into using the updated software that they used for Tails of the Jedi. Also, the last 4...
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    The Astronomy Thread

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    Investing General Discussion

    My parents watch a lot of live TV, including sports, through HULU (the cheapest service that had CBS for a long time). The Roku stick is the only OS that doesn't constantly fuck up for them (using Fiber internet on a non-smart TV). I had them buy Amazon sticks at first and, numerous times a...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Same thing here, mechanically, the classes I played were more fun than the previous two xpacs and maybe even legion, but they were never going to get me to care about their shit lore again. I have a couple weeks left, and I wont be renewing, but my expectation were always that the xpac would...
  27. Burns

    Clarkson's Farm

    Slowly watched season 2 over the last week. It's as good as season one; this time, with cows. I'm starting to understand about half of what Gerald is saying, but they often make it harder by cutting up half of it in editing. So it's difficult to get context for a lot of local lingo. I assume...
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    Investing General Discussion

    If only Carl Icahn would have thought about that on his Herbalife play he might have successfully taken down the whole company! What's a $7 mil commercial when you stand to make over a billion. Didn't Elon get away with numerous stock price manipulations? So I guess turn about is fair play.
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    The Netflix Thread

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    The Netflix Thread

    Non CNN link: https://ottawa.citynews.ca/national-business/netflix-canada-begins-password-sharing-crackdown-additional-members-cost-799-6510371
  31. Burns

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    Best Buy with a steep discount with in store pricing only (or a computer glitch): Online Price: In store price (can have them ring it up at customer service and ship it to you):
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Wowhead paid top players to write guilds at the start and occasionally update it (maybe), so they should be fairly accurate. They say Troll too. Disclaimer: I dont play a mage. https://www.wowhead.com/guide/classes/mage/arcane/overview-pve-dps
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Well, you obviously need to point her in this old EQ boards direction and she can decide for herself if the tits are worth it. GiS: "tits are worth it" Google knows what's up...
  34. Burns

    Hogwarts Legacy

    2023 Guardian: That would not be Virtuous, Avatar.
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    Star Trek: Picard

    Yea, I don't care how good season 3 is, if it requires watching season 1 and 2, after reading this thread about them, I ain't watchin any of it. Forcing my way though 1.5 seasons of Discovery made me hate NuTrek enough that I have a very low tolerance for any of it.
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    Hogwarts Legacy

    Hard power cycle on PC is telling the computer to shut down and physically turn off, which for a console is probably unplugging it, since most electronics never truly power off anymore.
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    Hogwarts Legacy

    GMG is the only legit key seller that I have seen have consistent discounts on games.
  38. Burns

    Headphones & Audio Devices

    Can the small speakers in a headset even make low sound waves? I thought a speaker needed a minimum amount of throw to get anything in a subwoofer range (below 200HZ) to sound good (or even in the low woofer range). Disclaimer: I have never really used large duel headsets until somewhat...
  39. Burns

    Hogwarts Legacy

    Damn it, I had little interest in this game, but then the blue hairs started making a fuss, and then (more importantly) the game play videos actually looked good. I still have two games I want to get done before this...MUST. WAIT. FOR. SALE.