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  1. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    By me not playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2? I may have thought the first one was mediocre, but it was the gays! I personally don't care, as long as the game is good, but saying everything is woke now is not true when there are so many indie games on the market. AAA+ gaming in general is trash...
  2. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Lies. Soulash 2 isn't woke and probably better than anything EA has produced in 20 years. The dev got in "trouble" for not bending the knee and putting in same sex relationships when the whole point of relationships in the game was to make babies.
  3. Burns

    The Last of Us

    People download shit still?!? There are a plethora of pirate streaming sites:
  4. Burns

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    For the hobby/small farm size: This guy tested a few different fly traps and found fly paper wrapped around drums/bins to still be best and cheapest. He even made a cheap movable cart so he can keep it close to the where the cattle are:
  5. Burns

    The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

    CLR/DRU/ENC is probably still the best buffbot, even though Enc buffs aren't nearly as important with the server buffs for mana regen and haste. Damage shield is great for leveling from 1 to 15 very quickly, by running through Crushbone w/o stopping, twice (non-respawning, then respawning), but...
  6. Burns

    All I can say about the balance in my game ... 😏

    I woke up in a Soho doorway... a policeman knew my name...
  7. Burns

    The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

    I was running two toons at the same time though Time for a week or so, even though I couldn't kill Quarm on one. Switching back and forth as the 15m cooldowns were on cooldown after phase 3. Some bosses I would do w/o cooldowns and could have probably got more efficient usage on switching back...
  8. Burns

    The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

    Sk/RoG/Wiz can get close to those numbers too while still in ~50% or so Luclin BiS. Here are some of the old Quarm kills and the last fail w/o curing a single slow: Rallos was low DPS, due to needing to hold cooldowns until add phases, hard cast taps and use a shield, but Inny and CT are...
  9. Burns

    The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

    I thought about it yeah, but little interest in leveling items up anymore, so I haven't played in a week or two. Having my SK/RoG/Wiz go from killing Quarm fairly easily to getting obliterated by him over and over before 90%, on two different Quarms, killed the rest of my motivation to do...
  10. Burns

    The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

    Splitting the councle in PoEarth B sucks for a chance at 1 item. I just used the Timeless Tier BPs instead. SK for tank/DPS and Cleric or Pal for Support pet bags. Plus, the class gear comes lego, so it can stay tradeable, and no need to level shit up. Shielding is king for tanking: Of...
  11. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    They produced the 2600 from 1977 to 1992, so most of the board could have technically played it new, even if they were toddlers mashing button. I remember seeing the woodie version and paddle controllers at some relatives house, but only remember playing the black and silver plastic version with...
  12. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    As dull as the article on the archeological site is, it's still about a site at Gaza, which seems rather difficult to make up with that much detail. From what I found on him, you may be thinking of his claim that modern Egyptians are almost all descendent from ancient Egyptians. That upset a...
  13. Burns

    Spartacus

    Having a hard time finding how long the Starz CEO, Jeffrey Hirsch, has been the CEO. Is he the guy that canceled a bunch of shows in 2019, Counterpart being one of them, in order to better appeal to "premium women" with some new shows they were going to develop (along with more seasons of...
  14. Burns

    Geology, Earthquakes and Volcanos

    Youtube version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_explosion
  15. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Right, you have made it clear. You are making up your own shit so you can feel smart/superior in your "knowledge" to people who dedicate their life to studying this stuff. Just like all the other conspiracy nuters. Sorry for not lumping you in with them previous to this, I shall proceed...
  16. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    So the Undersecretary of the State for the Giza Monuments, Dr. Zahi Hawass is wrong? None of this stuff exists and is all made up? https://www.guardians.net/hawass/buildtomb.htm This article from 2011 is wrong (can't use modern stuff because it's all woke, right?)...
  17. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    So, when estimates say if it took 10,000 - 30,000 people to build the pyramids, none of them were slaves?
  18. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    The hell he didn't. The people working on the project are the ones that build it. If 80% of the workers were cement mixer truck drivers, then cement mixer truck drivers built it. What percent of the workforce would you say were slaves?
  19. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Obtuse my ass, in just this statement you make it sound like you are saying slaves did all the unskilled labor. Which is moving all the stones around and even rough cutting the huge stone blocks at the quarry for transport. That's 80% of the work of building the pyramids and if slaves did 80%+...
  20. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    "We signed publishing agreements with companies, so IGN still wants to collect those checks." Hope those indie devs have some way to get out of the contracts...
  21. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    According to this it is "just" layoffs:
  22. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Here is Humble Games: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/HumbleGames Slay the Spire looks to be a different company:
  23. Burns

    Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

    Using AI voice work to fix the trailer:
  24. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Well you were certainly as clear as mud, as I thought you were saying that the vast majority of workers on the pyramids were slaves. Especially since you took such umbrage with me saying there were 10s of thousands of workers that could be working on any part of the carvings and stone smoothing...
  25. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    There doesn't seem to be any evidence that they pushed very far into Nubia; most of the deep desert is impenetrable to militaries and the terrain becomes very rough as you cross into that part of the Nile. I doubt border skirmishes would produce enough slaves for them to make the ones they...
  26. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Slaves were not that expendable, they would have provided them shelter and the certainly had to feed them (which means a huge logistical support network). Egypt didn't have places to just go capture large amounts of replacement slaves. They had deserts to the east, deserts to the west, water to...
  27. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    So you are saying they went through the trouble of paving a large area to then put the lowest rung of their society on (slaves), then every so often they would come by and clear them out instead of building more permanent structures over 30 or more years? Also, that the paved area was large...
  28. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Huts, cooking fires, eating plates/bowls, and other logistical support still leave archeological evidence. Large numbers of slaves are going to also need guards and ways to keep them from running away. They don't need to be stone and mud walled building, and I doubt most were.
  29. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    They still had to be housed somewhere, do you propose they all slept on boats, to die in the yearly floods, or something?
  30. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    People use a wide definition of slavery, so of course you can call a yearly debt of work, by the peasants, to the Pharaoh, slavery. Just like people today call working for "the man" wage slavery. There are certainly different types of slavery. For example, some slavery has the ability for the...
  31. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Victor Conte is a sports coach who designed doping programs with world-class athletes. Through his platform, the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, or BALCO, he supplied an untraceable designer steroid among other drugs to competitors who dominated the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.
  32. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Day laborers are dudes you pick up at Home Depot, these were just laborers that worked with stone day in and day out for decades. It's not like the bosses weren't sure they needed them to move and cut stone tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day, etc. In a 50+ year monumental project, it...
  33. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    There is supposedly archaeological evidence of huge camps around the Pyramid constructions sites that could house 10s of thousands of people with layouts and sites that correspond to payed laborers, not slaves. If that is the case, then it would not be a stretch for 100s or 1000s of them to be...
  34. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    That video shows they can get very close to the final shape with stone tools alone. Carving stone just takes time, the tools dictate how long; rubbing 100s of bronze picks across a stone for a 1000 hours will leave a grove. There are theories the Egyptians (not the Inca/Maya) used sand between...
  35. Burns

    Ancient Civilizations

    Watching this video on carving limestone, using stone (from a channel @Bandwagon found in the Video thread) made me think of the Chucks following post. It seems to relate to other posts I've seen here too (whenever I parachute in): So, of course, it made me do a quick search on this too...
  36. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Don't know anything about the DLCs, but what about the 10,000 summons strat? Load up all your casters on as many summons as they can muster, then resummon as they die. Give non-casters summon wands too. Give your melee some ranged weps, or have them able to disengage from combat so summons soak...
  37. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/
  38. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2024-us-vehicle-dependability-study-vds