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  1. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Welp, got to level 4 before needing to camp for the second time, but Asterion didn't seem to enjoy himself:
  2. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    My GTX 970 is chugging along just fine with most things on high or better. Shadows, fog, and reflections always cause a hiccup, so I lower those to medium. I didn't update my driver yesterday, and everyone's hair was bleached out. After updating it's all fine though.
  3. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Of course! If there were 4 options, I would probably go with the second hardest, but the "normal" difficulty is usually too easy. As an aside, after a 8 hour download I was greeted with a fucking launcher?! Fuck that! "bg3_dx11.exe" will launch the game directly.
  4. Burns

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I may have posted this video elsewhere, but for those that haven't seen it, here is a good run down of at least one thing current battery research is focusing on (Sulfur based batteries): University of Illinois energy department:
  5. Burns

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

    The exploit goes even deeper. The Koreans learned you can indeed play your eternal character in the season, if you stay grouped. Which allows the eternal character to get the malignant hearts. Since the hearts are only coded for seasonal gear, which must have some extra flag, the eternal...
  6. Burns

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

    What does offline mode have to do with it not being a single player game where you occasionally see other people, and tacked on, retarded unbalanced PvP? Always online bullshit is the super expensive anti-pirate protection for Blizzard, especially since empress can now crack Denvo so fast, if...
  7. Burns

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

    People getting bent out of shape about cheaters in what is basically a single player game, that doesn't even have leader boards, is almost as funny as the exploits themselves.
  8. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    9pm, here I come!
  9. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Well it's obvious that you should know what you have to do! Hire a nanny for a week or two, or invite the parents/in-laws to come "visit" their granddaughter "Ok, she is your problem now!".
  10. Burns

    Rajaah's CRPG Blog

    Does the GoG copy say that they have done anything for Win11 compatibility or adding more resolutions? Outside of that, GoG doesn't mess with the games much. Any of the popular old games should have free mods to make the CD version work and add wide screen report. As an aside, I have all those...
  11. Burns

    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Sumbitch, forgot yall said it was a music episode. I HATE music episodes. I fast forwarded through the first song, and there was some more normal parts, but then the second song started, with like 5 minutes of singing before I just shut it off. Fucking stupid shit. I just want a mostly serious...
  12. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Once you accept that history (outside of the time and the place) is the subjective retelling by human actors, it's a bit easier to move forward in learning about it. Best you can get is multiple independent accounts to verify any information. I find archology and anthropology rather boring, but...
  13. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's what I meant, so you heard that intro, while you were grabbing the changer. Making more people know that intro, than anything else about it.
  14. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The song you have probably heard, a long long time ago; you know, before you turned the channel because MTV or VH1 put on some shitty song: Obligatory pic:
  15. Burns

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Positive review after he did 100% with full overview of all the systems:
  16. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    There is no microwave option, like Nextlink? They have a 100 down package, if you have a new-ish tower in line of sight. If you are just out of range of a 5G tower, you may be able to get a booster to pull the signal in. I don't remember what it was, when looking at the internet options out...
  17. Burns

    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Tim Cain describes the internal Wildstar shitshow:
  18. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    100 megabits p/s download should be able to get 6 megabytes p/s down. $200/month for a 100 down with a 500GB cap is very expensive.
  19. Burns

    Weird games that don't deserve their own thread

    Be the greater Evil and take over the world. Just started playing this and won as the first God. It's decent little strategy game, but you need to read some guides on steam because a lot of the mechanics aren't explained very well.
  20. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    That sounds way over priced for DFW, especially considering the cap. I thought ATT and Frontier had the whole metroplex covered in Fiber by now.
  21. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    My ISP throttles Steam. If you want to spend $8 $5.50 (go go strong dollar) to test it, buy a month of VPN from Mullvad, connect to the closest city to you, then test the speeds.
  22. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    The West was in fear of a USSR invasion for the entirety of the USSR's existence. AFAIK, when the USSR fell, they could not find any serious plans on a war of aggression in Europe in the Kremlin archive. Everything was on how they would defend themselves if they were attacked. They were all in...
  23. Burns

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

    Lulz: Obviously it's a ban risk, but WoW has shown the "exploit early, exploit often" moto usually pays off.
  24. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    It means you can also play your micro transaction mobile Battlefield game on the PS5, XBOX x, XBOX1, PC, PS4, XBOX360, Steam Deck, and Nintendo whatevers.
  25. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    It was not in the EA, so no one has a definitive answer, that I have seen. In one of the interviews or from the hands on press junket, someone said that you can hire 1 merc per class, or some such, that you customize (maybe that means you get as many mercs as there are classes, but it's not...
  26. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Same. I cheesed a few fights in DoS2 with barrel spam, but that gets old fast and didn't care to do it outside of those couple times for the lulz.
  27. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Sounds about right. Nothing is going to be "cheap" for what we are used to. A deal these days is just 20-30%+ cheaper than what a dealer is selling them for. Haven't seen any updates on the used car market in a while. It was starting to trend down but will probably stay fucked for a long while...
  28. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I would think you could find some deals in OKC or DFW. People should be posting a ton of pictures now days, so it's easier to evaluate the car from a remote location, but it's hard to trust people not to jerk you around when you need to drive 3 to 5 hours to buy it and pick it up. Could maybe...
  29. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    The 4 door Honda Civic 4 banger used to get ~30+ MPG combined, and that was 20 years ago. You can probably find a cheap 2010-15 civic that will get that or better.
  30. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Whatya know, the new spec was bugged on release, but when they fix it, it becomes the best at both overall and single target. Also, Ret Paladins got a major overhaul when this raid tier opened up, glad to see that's working out for them! P.S. I'm not playing, but stop by WoWhead to read D4...
  31. Burns

    The Bear

    The thread consensus is that the show is good, with the worst thing said [w/o getting spoilery] was that one episode in season 2 may have gone a little overboard with some things. I think it has kept up the same level of quality for both seasons. You can slowly read the thread as you watch the...
  32. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    While Stalin was certainly one of the worst people in modern history, I don't think he would have started a war in Europe. He seemed rather focused on internal politics and those would always be tenuous. Plus, the mobilization of the Russian military/economy didn't really start until after...
  33. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Knowing Larian, you probably get a goat that shows up in camp, sometime later.
  34. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    US and UK were squeezing Japan because it was interrupting profffits in Asia. So war with an imperialist Japan seems inevitable. The main questions would have been, would Hitler still have declared war on the US if the math in Europe was different. Would Germany and Japan even been in a pact...
  35. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Hitler wanted to destroy the USSR over anyone else in the world. He had dreams of getting the UK to join him in his war against Stalin. If France and England didn't come to the aid of Poland, there would have not been a war with either the UK or France until at least the USSR was out of the way...
  36. Burns

    Oppenheimer (2023)

    This reminds me, it's worth mentioning again: If you want the Japanese perspective on the surrender watch Japan's Longest Day. It was made in 1967, so there were still plenty of people alive for them to draw on for movie info. It's a bit ridiculous that moves like this, Come and See...
  37. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Sure, but if he cant even get past the first game, what classes are best in the second one doesn't really matter. Wizards have that hockey stick power curve, so they can be rather boring for the first 1/3 of BG1 or longer. Is there a respec mod for BG2? You could just do melee for the first...