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  1. Burns

    Car ?'s

    The battery in particular is a wild card. There are so many factors that will determine it's life that used electric car buyers will never be able to know what they are getting. New owners who like to keep their cars for a long time will also have trouble estimating replacement times. Some of...
  2. Burns

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Speculators and "investors" loosing interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum is a good thing, if the stated final goal is to have them work as a stable currency. Adoption as a currency looks to still be moving forward, just as slowly as ever.
  3. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I have one of every class at level 50 (2 at 60) and they are all Human, Orc, Elf, or Troll. Obviously, I wont be playing Evoker, but I also read that the DPS plays like shit due to it's 30 yard range and breath attack that you must strafe enemies with, so it's not like I'm even tempted.
  4. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    Looks like he got another one, boys!
  5. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That is the correct starting point. You gotta fight your way into the zone, getting a foothold and all that. If you can see other quests that are available, they were probably added later and/or not related to the main quest line of the zone (such as the Argent Tournament).
  6. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Pre-patch mail "THAT'S MA'AM" armor set uses discarded ball sacks as their glove adornment:
  7. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

    Get your fucking white supremacist shit out of here.
  8. Burns

    Black Adam (2021)

    The Rock is Black? I thought he was Samoan...and Samoans are Asians...and Asians don't count (they count too well to count).
  9. Burns

    Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

    That's what I assumed this show was going to be. Each season was a new story in the land of Cyberpunk. The best of both types of TV shows, a bit episodic, where they are writing a clear beginning, middle, and end, and a bit serial where they have a bunch of time to flesh out the characters.
  10. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Their website only lists 4 TV shows? I haven't seen Buffy before, and it's supposed to be good, but if it has commercials, I wont watch it, regardless. I will put on Netflix, Prime, or even PBS Nature/NOVA instead. Eighteen minutes of commercials per hour feels like a waste of time when I don't...
  11. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    The chances of that happening before our sun turns into a red giant are minimal.
  12. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    So your argument here is that you should go ahead and eat a dirt sandwiches because alternative options in current production are shit sandwiches? The only thing about that is you have pallets, of still good, Hostess products in the Garage. I would rather rewatch the 1000s of hours of old TV...
  13. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can usually find various builds stickied on the class discos. They are all going to keep changing, up until after the raid starts (probably), if past Blizzard balancing work is anything to go by. Some talents will probably still be buggy, all the way until release (if not longer), and the...
  14. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    I have only watched the Peter Jackson movies and still thought this was mediocre through and through. It was slightly worse than the Hobbit movies. If the Hobbit movies didn't have the Peter Jackson and WETA nostalgia going strong for it, I would probably rate them the same. The last episode...
  15. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Wut?! Only silver? What a n00b, doesn't he know gold will be the currency of the future? When the banks can no longer manipulate it, it will go to the mooooon! P.S. Margin Call was a decent movie (just not as entertaining as The Big Short).
  16. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nostalgia memberry peps all went to play Classic servers, and 90% of those who were left in retail would have had at least 1 character at 50, or close to it, with the level crunch. So the whole thing is set up to be new person friendly and the BFA leveling experience was actually pretty good...
  17. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My experience was that early 2000s is when pron access took off. Late 90s still needed to go to the back room at the video store to find most porn. Certainly, the vast majority of high schoolers in 97, 98, and 99 did not have access or know how to acquire softcore porn (let alone hardcore) that...
  18. Burns

    Home buying thread

    Naples up to Ft. Myers should have some good deals on property at the moment. The Naples area is the only place in Florida I have been that I would think about a return visit to. Outside of the normal Florida plague of bugs, it was nice, and far enough from Miami, Tampa, and Orlando to keep the...
  19. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At the end of this post is a Wowhead guide on Chromie time. It looks like you need one character at 50 to be able to start it at level 10, otherwise the world will scale kinda like it did in BFA (?) (SS below). Exiles Reach is the new 1- 10 zone and forced for your fist character to 50. I am...
  20. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Every parent is doing what they can and hoping for the best, but I don't think there is a fool proof way to prevent your children from seeing fucked up shit on the internet now. Best bet is probably home school and only let them socialize with other like minded families. Even then, it could...
  21. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can jump around in the Cromie time thing but I am not sure how much exp is in those 3 WotLK zones. I remember Icecrown having a shit ton of quests though. Also, Storm Peaks may have an involved lead in quest line. Maybe look up some walk throughs for those zones and see if any of the main...
  22. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They had some promo when they announced the release date of DF, where Shadowlands was free, to try to drum up subs early. They may do that again on prepatch release, but I don't think they usually roll the old xpac into the base game until a week or more after the new xpac is released. As for...
  23. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Already did that, on to new things to bitch about. Gotta feed the beast!
  24. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was a bit annoyed that Legiondries were disabled after 5 new levels, since they were actually fun. I think the Legion tier sets were only disabled when you hit max level, but I forgot that they disabled the Legion weapons on the prepatch. Loosing the weapon, right off the bat, and then the...
  25. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I just looked at DK, rogue, & druid tier sets and all of them except Ass rogues have those abilities available in the new talent tree. So, from the outside it looks like they could have left them active and with minimal work, replaced the couple talents that were being renamed/reworked with the...
  26. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Insider trading flags. https://www.wsj.com/articles/atlanta-fed-president-discloses-violations-of-financial-transaction-policies-11665774059 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/atlanta-fed-president-reveals-five-years-trading-violations-claims-he-didnt-understand
  27. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My Burning Crusade time was a long time ago, so I don't remember how much the Nax gear made. Plus the first 8 hours were in a full Nax geared group with a druid, so we were the ones getting the tags. I don't remember doing the same amount of prep as I did in later xpacs, but I didn't play alts...
  28. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It was defiantly noticeable when having a high item level and being prepped. Legion was the last time I cared about being ahead of the hump, and I timed my first 4 or 5 characters to max level. Legion also had a spurg play 100s of hours in beta to make a leveling addon that saved hours in level...
  29. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A lot of people don't like leveling, and will use the end of the xpac to get their characters as strong as possible, in order to spend the least amount of time leveling. From what I have read, there are multiple ways to get set items, so it's easier than running alt raids in mythic or heroic...
  30. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Not anymore, bro! The writers are totally better than that! The new lore is that Saurobrand helped Celebrimbor make two rings for the elves, so they can stay in middle earth and be a threat to him later. This is all because Saurobrand is in love with Gladdy and wants her as his queen. When she...
  31. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hey hey people, did you spend a bunch of time getting tier sets, on your main and alts, so you could use them while leveling in Dragonflight? Well guess what, we changed all the classes so much that we will have to disable those sets when the pre-patch hits...oops.
  32. Burns

    Car ?'s

    No one told you that it is your duty as an American to run at least 1 bicyclist off the road, per year? You better get busy before INS comes a knockin and takes away your citizenship. Some cities have built or are building bike lanes, and it makes me wonder where they get the money for that...
  33. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Gas tax in Michigan is used for roads, just like most everywhere else. I would guess that taxing gas was probably the first tax implemented expressly for road maintenance, but increasing the gas tax is deeply unpopular, so of course politicians found a way to raise funds, w/o raising gas prices...
  34. Burns

    Car ?'s

    You plan on dying in the next 10 or 15 years, eh? Cali wants all new cars to be electric by 2025 or some ludicrous shit, so I am sure New York will follow suit soon after. Its all about tax funding, so even Florida and Texas may not be safe, if they see their tax revenue fall too far.
  35. Burns

    Car ?'s

    A per gallon gas tax is probably the best way to tax a vehicle's use of the road that those taxes pay for. The problems with funding roads actually started 15+ years ago, when vehicle MPG started to climb progressively higher. Politicians didn't want to be responsible for raising gas prices...
  36. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Yarp, it is inevitable. Gas tax is how governments fund a large portion of the road work. So, there has been discussions about how to fund roads, outside of gas tax, for some time now. DFW's solution is to sell the roads to Chinese companies to run a toll network. Currently, EVs are using...
  37. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The current current state is Shadowlands is cut short and everyone is waiting on the new xpac to drop. Pre-patch is less than a month away (probably), so it's best just to wait until then, if anyone is thinking of playing this month... As for the beta: It is hard to guess how bad things will be...
  38. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    It would be great if Musk started taking on independent astronomy missions like developing and building advanced telescopes, but I don't see that happening with SpaceX, as a potential profitable venture. It would probably need to be a separate not for profit type company that he could use as a...
  39. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    One future telescope project that will be able to see the surface of exoplanets using the Sun's gravitational lensing (maybe launchable within the next 20 years (w/ 30 year travel time:emoji_nose::
  40. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Movie Elrond, sure, but this Elrond doesn't have the rights to the Silmarillion so he is currently just a mediocre politician. They actually set it all up for Hildbrand since he made that one sword that all the Numenoreans smiths were in awe of and Gladdy said something about.