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  1. Burns

    Dune: Prophecy

    Expectations were low, so I guess it's not like it could get much worse. Here is the "veteran" TV producer/writer sole showrunner:
  2. Burns

    Fallout

    Todd Howard is the most honest man in entertainment and all your dreams are going to come true!
  3. Burns

    The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)

    They keep trying to make new ones, and always fail to top the 1973 version; but it's not their fault, as who can compete with this cast:
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    These are manuals, not guides. The digital copies you have should have them in pdf format. If not, you should be able to find scans of them around the internets. Edit: for example, here is that Throne of Bhaal manual: https://www.mocagh.org/bioware/baldur2-bhaal-manual.pdf
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Expectations were defiantly a part of it. They marketed it as a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, and tried to ride the nostalgia train of one of the most lauded RPGs of all time. Then that shit backfired on them in a huge way and it was their fault for trying to hype their game in...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I wouldn't recommend Tides to anyone. All the other games on your list I found enjoyable, but Tides was a boring mess and waste of time. If you play all of the other games, and still have time to fill, I would recommend one of the Pathfinder games, over Tides, even if you have already paid for...
  7. Burns

    Age of Wonders 4

    Genre(s): 4X Developer: Triumph Studios Publisher: Paradox Interactive Release Date: May 2, 2023 Best gameplay I could find, somewhat annoying to have the picture in picture set up they chose to go with: Store Page:
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    The Mandalorian

    Allowing fighters to have hyperdrive, in the lore, was probably a mistake, but it's safe to assume that anyone using them for long trips is stocked up on adult diapers.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    If what you listed is what you have, then yea: BG1 (if you have the GoG originals, you can bring it into BG2 engine for quality of life improvements using a different mod, made for the original) BG2 Planescape: Torment Icewind Dale Evaluate where you are, time wise. If you feel you are...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I have played BG1 and BG2 vanilla once each, then both in BG2 engine through BG:TUTU (before the EE were made), then BG:EET, a few years ago. BG:EET was really simple, and if you wanted to add more mods, it looked easy enough, but I don't recall adding anything else. The BG:EET mod says you can...
  12. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Just using the BG2 UI for BG1 makes combining them worth it, as it is super simple to do with the Enhanced Editions. Here is what their stated goal for the mod is, though:
  13. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I only see NWN2 on GoG atm. I thought it was on Steam at one time too. I haven't been keeping up with Beamdog; maybe they made an agreement with the rightholders to remove all the old games from Steam, and only sell thier new EE editions.
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    These games are an acquired taste and take a bit to get into. It is probably best to work backwards with blobbers. Say start with Grimrock and Might and Magic X, then jump back to Wizardry 8 and World of Xeen, then jump to the gold box games. Also, I think he was wanting BG type games, or...
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I would put Pillars 1 & 2 somewhere far at the end as they have no relation to BG (storywise), other than having some of the main devs making both games. Similarly, Tides of Numenera has 0 relation to Planescape, other than many of the same devs. I also think combining BG1 into the BG2 engine...
  16. Burns

    Your Honor

    Watched season 1 and it wasn't bad. The IMDB rating is about right at 7/10. The two actors I recognized were both playing similar rolls to big TV shows that they were previously in. With Cranston playing a "good guy" not doing the right thing, and Stuhlbarg playing a gangster, like he did in...
  17. Burns

    The Last of Us

    Edit: Nm, he wasn't playing the part I thought he was, in Homeland.
  18. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Funny, don't remember ever hearing this song before, but the chorus (at 0:56) sounded familiar...from Lonely Island:
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    The Last of Us

    Remember kids, knowing about Dunning-Kruger does not make you immune from Dunning-Kruger.
  21. Burns

    The Last of Us

    Self contained mobile Nuclear reactors are now in prototype phase. If they go into full production, they would be ideal for the end of the world! In regards to the show/game, they would need to have found some in storage, and not active, as they are shooting for a 20 year lifespan.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

    Sound on, context at the beginning:
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    First impressions of the very beginning of beta, from many people, was D:OS3 with BG/DnD skin and dice rolls. Then they progressively started changing things and opinions seemed to shift more toward a DnD/BG game, but still in the D:OS engine, so it's always going to have it's similarities. I...
  24. Burns

    Star Trek: Picard

    So is it now NuTrek uggo Ork Warf, or still Next Gen Klingon Worf?
  25. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Anyone know what the "reputable" 3rd party gold seller sites are? Was curious how much Diablo 4 would cost if you bought the gold from them, bought tokens with gold, then converted that to bliz bucks.
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    The Video Thread

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    The Expanse: A Telltale Series

    Went looking for a Steam store page, and only found it on Epic Games Store. Hopefully it's not epic exclusive, but there is no info confirming it one way or the other. In other news, they got 8 million from a VC firm...
  28. Burns

    The Mandalorian

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    The Animated GIF Thread

  30. Burns

    The Video Thread

    How to impress your friends and shoot someone's eye out:
  31. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I bought a heat gun from Harbor Freight for $10 on sale and it worked great for the few electrical shrink wrap things I needed it for. If it's light use, just grab a cheap one, store it wrapped up, back in the box, and it should last a long time. They change what's on sale monthly (?), so maybe...
  32. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Before the Wuhanic Plague and recent car market shenanigans the winter months were the lowest prices of the year (from what I had seen when I had Manheim access). The sportier the car, the larger the fluctuation between winter and summer. Now days, there probably isn't enough data for anyone to...
  33. Burns

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Bad news for anyone looking to buy a car, used car prices are back on the upswing: Source (Manheim): https://publish.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle-value-index.html
  34. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    True, I may be underestimating the numbers. I was trying to think back to Legion/BFA raids, and how much our worst 2 players, in a raid of ~15 were costing us, but I doubt it was more than 30% more wipes, due to them failing mechanics on the harder bosses (usually the last 2 or 3). As for...
  35. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Sure, everyone is fine and dandy when things are going well, but when your 100 wipes deep on a mythic raid boss, half the raid becomes real salty at every mistake and the dickishness starts (or so I hear from friend's modern mythic raiding experience). In heroic raiding, making people sit, so...
  36. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I guess yall are some impatient people, or just played with some really bad players. There is a limit to how bad a player I can stand, but its defiantly expanded over the years. I don't mind 10% to 20% more wipes on the last boss or two so we can get there with the team that we have, that I...
  37. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That's the case with this xpac, in that M+ gear made the heroic raid trivial and half the raid that liked pushing high keys just out geared it in short order. I remember spending 3 or 4 weeks on various end bosses in Legion and BFA. This time it was maybe a week and a half of serious tries...
  38. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At this point, asking people to sit so you can try-hard in the mythic raid is silly, breaks up guilds, and makes it so friends cant play together. Then in turn no one wants to raid mythic because they cant find the people when the slower people are asked to sit, and just stop showing up...
  39. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Mythic raids are turrable due to all the design decisions made for the 5 guilds that get "paid" to play the race to world first. Heroic raiding allows you to play with friends with a more varying level of skill and still get the feeling of progressing at a fast enough pace to not be frustrated...