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  1. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Not Jersey Italian enough. Chuk is probably more of a Spoons type of guy:
  2. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Not exactly. The US military helps fuel our economy because it is used to support business interests around the world, but that's not the reason the Dollar is the world reserve currency. When Nixon took the US off the gold standard, he made a deal with Saudi to only accept the dollar for oil...
  3. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    It's always a bit of a surprise of how many people still think the Dollar is backed by gold or silver due to growing up knowing "Fort Knox is full of gold."
  4. Burns

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

    I am still kinda thinking of playing the season, a little. I stopped playing on eternal because I was bored of my Necro and switching specs back and forth is just dumb atm. I still wanted to try out other classes, but knew if I did that, I would be less likely to pick up the game again, until an...
  5. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Sweet, so you can just say you don't care what your pronouns are and, all of a sudden, you too can be part of a persecuted class in need of special protections!
  6. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    With how bad distracted driving is these days, you should probably just cut to the chase and get a lobotomy instead, as it's a much less painful way to get brain damage.
  7. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    You can get Mexican Coke all over Texas as any Mexican meat market sells it, and I think a bunch of grocery stores stock it in the "ethnic" isle. I tried it and don't really get that much of a difference, but I don't usually drink calories, so maybe you have to be a regular Coke drinker to be...
  8. Burns

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    It was seen as an assassination and, up until World War II, assassination was still seen as very a dishonorable way to conduct war. It stemmed from a combination of at least two main rules of conduct that developed in Western society. First was the medieval practice of taking high ranking...
  9. Burns

    The Video Thread

    My assumption is that it's mostly children spending their allowance on silly shit, like children generally do. That highest earner black chick (Pinkydoll) has a decent rack, so she she is probably big with the the teen age and college age boys as well. Then, as Pancreas said, 10,000 kids giving...
  10. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    The some of that weight is due the road noise reduction that luxury brands are know for. Very important on a bike.
  11. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    When you have watched every season of Curb and realize that really is the vehicle he has been driving:
  12. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

  13. Burns

    The Video Thread

  14. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I don't want to cause offence, but it's hard to overstate how hideous that is to my American tastes!
  15. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Asperations of making every Blizzard game an eSports game is part of what ruined them. Fuck eSports.
  16. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Second Baltimore office building to take a huge (69%) hair cut in the last 30 days: https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2023/07/18/1-east-pratt-sale-mcb-real-estate.html
  17. Burns

    Home Improvement

    As an alternative, you could try to stop the heat/energy/light from getting into the room, to begin with, by using exterior shutters. There are a plethora of options, but I like Bahama shutters and European style roll up shutters (manual and remote options). The main issue with the Euro style...
  18. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    We have no idea what "turning a profit" even means to them. When you cant directly correlate products to sales, you can just decide what numbers to count and send to Mr. Bozos, to make you look good!
  19. Burns

    Babylon 5

    They remastered and released a 4:3 1080p version on HBO Max a few years ago, and it seems that they are just going to burn those episodes to a Blu-Ray disk. The CGI is still the weakest part of the show; if they have 16:9 or 21:9 film of the rest of it, it would be awesome to get some updated...
  20. Burns

    Wolfs

  21. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    My money would be on the smaller "planet" being in the Lagrange point of the very massive planet, so the massive planet just pushes or pulls the small one around. A planet with 7 times the mass of Jupiter would hardly feel a mass the size of Earth's moon. Edit: Oh, I guess I should have read...
  22. Burns

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

    Sorry Chief, we cant do that. How are other people going to see that I bought that $100 horse armor if I cant sit in town next to the port in area!
  23. Burns

    Home Improvement

    I remember reading about websites that will help you fill out and find the proper legal documents for various situations, that might allow you to successfully represent yourself in small claims. It's probably still best to pay for a consultation with a local lawyer, that knows your local laws...
  24. Burns

    Home Improvement

    Sounds like foundation problems are in your future and it's not going to magically get better by ignoring it? Sell it now and, plead ignorance if it keeps sinking/shifting, when the new owners sue you, or be forced to fix a more expensive issue when a huge crack forms and starts messing up the...
  25. Burns

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

    Jooka said it was 40 for WT3 and 60 for WT4, yesterday. Did they nerf it even more so people would stop complaining that the capstone was too hard when your 10 levels under? LOL!
  26. Burns

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Not sure where this goes: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/25/harvard-professor-data-fraud https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12293477/Harvard-seeks-retraction-three-papers-written-dishonest-expert-fraud-allegations.html A very in depth video break down from a dude that is...
  27. Burns

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

    WAT?!? MATH in video game programing?!? Jogger please, the development tools they learned in school don't show any need for MATH! Plus, the school needed those diversity points at all levels, so *Oprah hand wave* you get an A, and you get an A, and you get an A...
  28. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I remember Tesla doing software "package" unlocks, but didn't recall any other brands that had implemented such shenanigans.
  29. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Did this get posted here last year and I have forgotten about it?
  30. Burns

    Snow White (2024)

  31. Burns

    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Is this the main point of contention with this movie that is the base of driving all the hate? That Tim Ballard is a Qtard? Imgur is infested with the far left, so hard to believe them, but don't care enough to verify his Qtardedness:
  32. Burns

    The Video Thread

    One of the largest lakes west of the Mississippi was drained in late 19th and early 20th century for irrigation purposes now refilling due to 2023 wet winter:
  33. Burns

    Home Improvement

    I've seen spray in foam for new houses, before the drywall goes up, but is it even possible to do in fully finished out houses without ripping the drywall down? It is incredibly messy and, if it can be done, installing it in an existing house sounds even more expensive than it usually is. Also...
  34. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I only played it when EA was first released, but I think they have tooltips and a codex (help) for most everything useful that would go in a manual. Of course, that can make character creation take a long time, but you should be able to see enough pertinent info to make a choice. If you want...
  35. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I live a couple hours from where Dr. Pepper was created (Waco), and I have never seen any of those flavors at Kroger or HEB. Maybe it's because, when I buy soda, I only buy 2L and don't even look at the 12 packs of cans?
  36. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Longer (5 min), more detailed version: Cliff notes:
  37. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Their core team is still Dutch and I think their humor has a lot to do with their culture, so they will never "get rid" of it. I will withhold judgment until actually playing that game, since people have said that they seriously toned it down after getting feedback for the first Early Access...
  38. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Kraken? They were even in talks to buy a bank in the US, a few years ago, to make transferring money easier. Not sure what became of it.
  39. Burns

    The Bear

    Thinking of weird Michelin Star rated restaurants, the "best Sushi in the world" comes from a 10 seat hole in the wall in a Tokyo subway station (3 star Sukiyabashi Jiro). After getting it's stars it became so well known, that they stopped taking public reservations though, causing Michelin to...