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  1. Burns

    The Odyssey (2026)

    More that your religious bias seemed to be showing a bit and that reminded me of the one true church argument (obviously it's the Mormons, who get to own planets).
  2. Burns

    The Odyssey (2026)

    We do not use the word culture in the same way then. When looking at a group of people over a long timeline, I would consider that "culture heritage" instead of just "culture." To put it another way, "culture heritage" is the chain, while "culture" is the links going through time. I'll stick to...
  3. Burns

    The Odyssey (2026)

    The traditional definition of Culture: the beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular social group, place, or time a particular society that has its own characteristic features of everyday existence (as pastimes or a way of life) Just because people still speak the same language doesn't mean...
  4. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    It would take another 45min or so to get to it from the Austin area, but Eagle Canyon could be an option too. They started renovations on it in 2017. Taking 35W through Ft. Worth isn't that bad either. If you have a group of people interested in keeping multiple cars in the area, you could even...
  5. Burns

    The Odyssey (2026)

    What evidence is there that the Eastern Roman Empire thought themselves Greek and not, say, Roman? They didn't use the name Byzantine; that was a later creation. At the peak of the Roman Empire, the Greek language would have still been the most common or second most common language in the...
  6. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Ah, yeah. After looking around for when the color was introduced, it looks like the Firehawk didn't come in DSOM. DSOM is Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic, which was introduced in 2001. They ran a bunch of ads with a DSOM Trans Am that year. Dodge also made a similar color and put it on the...
  7. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Is it a DSOM Firehawk? Since that is the best vehicle color ever produced, I might have to go with it, but I'm also a bit biased toward F-Bodies, as I have owned a few in the past as well. It's now a classic car with classic car prices so I guess the $28k shouldn't be surprising. While I haven't...
  8. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/supernova-remnant-video-from-nasas-chandra-is-decades-in-making/
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    The Video Thread

  10. Burns

    The Video Thread

    You're still cached maybe? This is what I see:
  11. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Didn't even last 20min after you posted. From the comments it was a 2021 - 2026 (8th gen, mid engine) corvette on fire. One comment said the C8 has a "recall" for retards that like to top off their fuel tank and spill gas all over the fucking place when they overfill the tank, some of that...
  12. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Robocop: Serious about Sanitation "Dead or Alive, you're shitting in the toilet"
  13. Burns

    Fallout 5 - greenlit apparently

    Post apocalyptic is the genre, other games not in the genre cant really fill that role. It's like Tyranny is kinda one of a kind, as it's a fantasy RPG where the villain already won and the PC is part of the villain's faction (with the option to kinda be the good guy). No one else I know of has...
  14. Burns

    Fallout 5 - greenlit apparently

    I want old school fallout 1/2 and I have played Wasteland 2/3, Underrail, ATOM rpg, Broken Roads, and the other old school Fallout type games that aren't still in EA. I didn't think any of those games were as good as Fallout 1/2, although Wasteland 2 probably came the closest. As long as...
  15. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Worth a try. It does form a bit of a crust and you can always use the broiler if needed for the top, but a crisp parm crust all around sounds great. As for the two Fallow recipes, yeah, the amount of butter is crazy and certainly more of a special occasion type thing as part of a large meal.
  16. Burns

    YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

    I've used this guys videos for some networking and security set up. He has a full Pi-Hole writeup along with a video: https://www.crosstalksolutions.com/the-worlds-greatest-pi-hole-and-unbound-tutorial-2023/ He links to the following Canakit Pi case. I have an older CanaKit and they are good...
  17. Burns

    Woodworking

  18. Burns

    What are you playing?

    Outside of Nintendo games in the 90s (like Zelda and Mario), I don't play Japanese games or have any nostalgia for them. Not sure if that contributed to it, but I did not really like Elden Ring either. The mage/caster gameplay sucks, as it consists of kiting shit using the same, most efficient...
  19. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Offtank? I thought Spellblade was leather, does armor not really matter that much?
  20. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    They nerfed all my precious Mithril gear and turned it into steel *sad trombone*. Looks like they decided against adding the sixth tier of metal (Cobalt, supposedly) as a final tier and bumped Mithril into that spot, which I'm not sure I like. Six tiers (w/ cobalt) makes a tier per 10 levels...
  21. Burns

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

    Oh, lol. I thought the second "xpac" hadn't been released and that was just a standard old class they let be OP. New class and super OP, that makes more sense. If they are packaging up DLCs for one price every time they release a new one, maybe I'll just wait until the third or forth DLC to...
  22. Burns

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

    Yall are making we want to reinstall this again to see how a slow-ass Pally plays. It's been long enough since playing a fast class in season 1 or 2 that it shouldn't feel like an absolute slog. What do you miss out on by not having the xpac weak and shitty DLC?
  23. Burns

    The Legend of Vox Machina

    Did you watch/listen to the Critical Roll YouTube show? I thought they toned down a bunch of the rough edges of the shittiest characters (Beau and Molly). They were both 1000% worse when listening to Marsha say "dope monk shit" for the 10,000th time or basically anytime Taliesin talked while...
  24. Burns

    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Potatoes Romanoff take twice baked potatoes to another level and I don't think it's much more work. Chef John Pierre's recipe may be the best potatoes I've ever eaten and works fine as a main dish all on it's own. Boulangère Potatoes (link) and Hassleback Potatoes (link) were good too, but...
  25. Burns

    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    I went exploring with my level 20 druid and there looked like a lot to do, but I didn't see a zone in to a dungeon yet. There are various areas where zone lines may/will exist in the future. I think the orc camps I found were fairly high level (for the zone) and I remember running into a cave of...
  26. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's fast food slop/shit and the suits wanted some way to get the retards working for them to make consistent slices. This is how (or something similar), blades can be set up however they want: :
  27. Burns

    Amadeus (1984)

    It's ironic that this is used to justify inserting racial diversity where there was none and in turn white washing the struggles that the actual minorities went through in Europe during that time. As the AI listed, they were the underclass that everyone would have shit on; none of them would...
  28. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Could be worse, at least that imitation vanilla doesn't have any coumadin (blood thinner) as it's primary ingredient like some of the imitation vanilla from tourist spots! PSA: Vanilla extract has a price floor due the cost/labor involved in growing and processing the bean. If the price is too...
  29. Burns

    Pluribus

    "They wouldn't even kill an ant" ...other than when they land an airplane or drive a car or use a train to transport food or walk around with their millions of feet, not watching the ground at all times.
  30. Burns

    The Odyssey (2026)

  31. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Maybe, I've had the nannies cause me to go off the road before. Granted I was trying to break the tail lose to fishtail around a 90 degree turn for fun... but still! At least it looks like they (car club, probably) were doing stupid shit on public roads the "correct" way, in that they had...
  32. Burns

    Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (2026)

    The US's involvement in Vietnam was a long chain of events (escalations) starting with Truman and his backing of France's imperialism instead of keeping promises of independence made during WW2, to the Vietnamese. If it wasn't for De Gaulle using the threat of the commies taking over France...
  33. Burns

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    In my first playthrough I staked/killed Asterion when he tried to bite me and it's all still available to do. You just meet the Vampire hunters as a third party and they tell you do go save the people. I also let Wyll die because I refused to help his demon master in Act 2. I don't think it...
  34. Burns

    Weather

  35. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I thought Glasspacks on trucks and Fartcans on ricers were retarded, but that's some next level shit.
  36. Burns

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I have acquaintances in aviation at different levels and I have been around or flown in various aircraft, from a small two/three seat helicopter to the Goodyear Blimp. This is how I understand it: In private aviation there isn't necessarily people checking certs, especially if your flying out...
  37. Burns

    Home buying thread

    Depending on how much time you want to spend on making it 3D, you could use a full CAD program. It will give a lot of freedom and the ability to add whatever you can think of. The most recommended free one I found is Sketch Up. Here is a full 3D setup from the internets, most/all of the...
  38. Burns

    Fallout 5 - greenlit apparently

    No no, I agree too. Anything to see Todd eat more shit and hopefully get Microsoft to fire him!
  39. Burns

    Home Improvement

    Best bet may be to look up local woodshops in your area and just start asking for quotes on what you want. If you are in a big city you could even start at the local good wood supply store and ask for referrals of their customers. Like the following shop in Dallas used to give referrals. They...
  40. Burns

    Total War: Warhammer 40,000

    Hopefully Creative Assembly keeps up with their blog releases, like they did with TW:WH 1, 2, and 3, so we don't have to bother with these twits that call themselves gaming journalists.