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  1. Burns

    Home Theater/Game Room Thread

    You can build $1000 comparable speakers, for 1/2 to 1/3 the price by following plans from various audiophile designers (autists who do this as a hobby). There are a few different places to get parts, and even pre-cut (with CNC machine) MDF kits (I'll list some below). Soldering your own...
  2. Burns

    Sweet Tooth

    Half boy, half deer, half dog...BoyDeerDog, on Netflix, NOW! ...and his gruff protector, AL GORE!
  3. Burns

    Sweet Tooth

    In regards to Y: I don't read comics, so don't know how originally works, but the synopses on IMDB states that everyone outside the lead character with a Y chromosome, died. So, I would imagine any other "males" you see in the show are going to be female to male sex change. Expect to see a lot...
  4. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Amazing, no one was killed. One worker had his arm lacerated, and the two workers that were up in the box on the collapsing crane, rode it down w/o injury. They used a mast-type jib crane to fish them out of the wreckage. A short clip from someone on the ground. It's loud: Four more pictures...
  5. Burns

    The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

    Christina Ricci has been in a ton of stuff, but I have only seen her in four other movies outside of Addams Family. They were decent enough (all of them are probably better than this Matrix abomination is going to be (actors cant save a shit movie, Cats also had a "star-studded cast":emoji_nose:. Black...
  6. Burns

    Amazon will be sharing your bandwidth if you have one of their devices.

    Haha, funny you think they care about catching someone robbing you. They are selling cheap cameras to uneducated buyers. It has a very small data cap; only enough to send compressed files (think kb text files, not gb video files (it has a 80 kb transfer cap, with 500 mb monthly total cap:emoji_nose:. It...
  7. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  8. Burns

    Car ?'s

    What kind of incline does your drive way have and do you have a level sidewalk running through it? If you just want to get it in the air to do a wiggle test, buy some wheel chocks for the fronts and use the level sidewalk to jack the rear from. I don't know if I would get too far under it...
  9. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I imagine that there are laws in every state for external lights on vehicles, while it's in operation on a public roadway. The under effect lights that project light under the car took off in the late nighties and early aughts; to which many states amended the laws to reflect this new fad. It...
  10. Burns

    Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

    Exactly, people think Roids are some easy quick fix, when they mostly just allow you to heal faster. The simplistic overarching rule with steroids is that they cut your muscle healing time in half (a more complex picture would need to go into the different types of steroids, which each help...
  11. Burns

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    While the auto opt-in is some bullshit, at least it's easy enough to disable (I guess they figure anyone that uses Alexia, doesn't care about privacy, anyway). The best way to opt-out is to disable Alexia which will disable this wifi sharing, as well. Furthermore, disable all tracking options...
  12. Burns

    Car ?'s

    These posts would be better suited for the other car thread in SS. IMO, this thread is more for serious questions about car stuff (being in the grown up section, and all).
  13. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Best clip I have seen so far, with the second part showing the third base line. Pretty amazing trifecta of head-up-ass errors, two of which should be on the 1st baseman. Obligatory video (the last clip (from 1988) is a Yankee pitcher (Tommy John) racking up 3 errors, all by himself):
  14. Burns

    Please help find who murdered my friends family member

    Did you read the case? They didn't murder some random stranger and they sent a ransom note (added unneeded contact so they could make the papers). Franks (the 14 y.o. victim) was Loeb's second cousin, an across-the-street neighbor, and had played tennis at the Loeb residence several times...
  15. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Some people just have that Baby Face. riRU8rM
  16. Burns

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Hair dye, make up, and weight all make a hell of a difference in how old someone looks. Keeping a healthy and active life throughout the years also makes a huge difference. You can see the age under Rudd's eyes and on his neck, where it's harder to apply the smoothing make up. There is now 40+...
  17. Burns

    Disco Elysium

    I couldn't imagine trying to play this game from the couch, on a console. It looks like it was designed for PC primarily and the crisper text you get on a monitor. Not only that, your 60 inch TV at 6 foot is probably a decent chunk smaller, in your field of vision, than my 28 inch monitor is at...
  18. Burns

    Stellaris

    I mostly meant how the ships are loaded out, like if you use hangers, in your fleets, as well. Outside of fighting the Grey Host with PD, I just switched between Laser and Kinetic, depending on tech levels, and always ignored hangers. As for star bases, I assumed that they weren't counted (or...
  19. Burns

    Stellaris

    I thought Hangers were a one and done, or had a really slow replenishment rate. So when the strike craft got killed, you were basically SoL. How do you build your fleets then, and what traits do you fish for on Admirals?
  20. Burns

    Stellaris

    The great Khan is a bitch if he comes at you too early, I think most people end up submitting and becoming a Vassal until that Khan dies and throws everything into turmoil. The players that play un-modded vanilla on the hardest two difficulties may have better advice, but my border defense...
  21. Burns

    Wheel of Time

    While seasons 1 to 4 of GoT stand far above all the rest (even if they are practically ruined by season 8), I liked both Legend of the Seeker (2008) and Merlin (2008 from BBC). Honorable mention: Camelot (Eva Green's glorious tits (NSFW, obviously) add some bonus points)
  22. Burns

    The Green Knight (2020)

    As an aside, you know Cosa Nostra was Sicilian, right? In the case of Andy Garcia, there were probably only a handful of Sicilian looking actors with a sufficient resume to be considered for one of the most popular movie franchise ever made. I didn't much like him in the role, but mostly...
  23. Burns

    The Animated GIF Thread

  24. Burns

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    That's exactly how I found them. After building some high quality speakers for my computer, I wanted to try some lossless streaming music, and gave Tidal a trial (after procrastinating a few years on it).
  25. Burns

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo School of Music

    For me, this is as much about age, as anything else. New bands are still making music that you would probably like, it is just incredibly difficult to find them. All the mainstream pop is what pop has always been, mostly shit with a few catchy but shallow tunes. As I grow older, I'm just not...
  26. Burns

    The Green Knight (2020)

    I have seen 90% of The Duke's movies made from 1945 onward, but only 3 or so, from his catalog, previous to that. I remember bits and pieces of The Conqueror, so I probably caught it on AMC or TCM as a kid, when they would do tribute marathons to various actors. It didn't make much of an impression.
  27. Burns

    Stellaris

    I guess if you are keeping your ships up to date, it wouldn't be a loss (or a small one, if it was). It probably only felt like a huge cost, because of how I play. My early game usually tends to fall into aggressively exploring then expanding into choke points, and maximize star bases at those...
  28. Burns

    Stellaris

    Doesn't the grey scourge have 100% shield penetration on all their nanobot weapons, along with a bunch of motherships with gobs of "fighters"? Last game I went for opening an L-gate, I rebalance my fleets to armor, hull, and a decent amount of point defense/faster tracking weapons, right before...
  29. Burns

    The Video Thread

    2009: 2021 (with bonus cold shock penalty, if they had failed):
  30. Burns

    Tenet (2020)

    She was in a great mini series called The Night Manager, if you are looking for more, from her.
  31. Burns

    Car ?'s

    I would assume that LLR doesn't want to pay for the amount of data it would use, by hosting video files on this website. Therefor you would need to upload the video to a host, and then hotlink it here. You could even make it into a "gif" by using sites like Giphy or Imgur, instead of...
  32. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Masterful engineering this: Tesla's car battery went dead, so he had to spend an hour, just to access it, and get it on a trickle charger.
  33. Burns

    Total War: Warhammer

    New (Tower) Defense Tactical Map mode (8 min video): Short developer commentary Promo (6:45 min video):
  34. Burns

    New World

    They have a rested system that builds up, the longer you stay offline. I think it caps at 1 full level of XP and it works similar to WoW, in that quests may not get bonus XP (I did not pay close attention to what rested affects).
  35. Burns

    Castlevania

    Season 4 is available now. The first episode starts with a recap, and is then picked up following Trevor and Sypha. The quality was consistent with the previous seasons, in regard to their story line.
  36. Burns

    New World

    That's not what people usually mean when they use the word classes, in accordance with MMOs. A class based system is like EQ or WoW, where you pick a class, and all your skills and ability options are set according to that class. A skill based system is like Ultima Online or Elder Scrolls, where...
  37. Burns

    Best movie of the past 20 years?

    1. LOTR: The Two Towers 2. The Departed 3. No Country for Old Men 4. Gangs of New York The Martian was alright, but I never had the urge to rewatch it. Mad Max is great, but it will never approach the rewatchablity of a whole host of other movies, for me.
  38. Burns

    Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

    IMO the best way to replay them is with the Baulders Gate :EE Trilogy. It imports everything into one long game in the BG2 engine. There are two options: Option 1 (an installer that does most of the work for you): Last time I played I think I used this tool to add a few more mods, like a more...
  39. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Making historically accurate rope for antique sailing ships.
  40. Burns

    Justice League (2017)

    The Atlanta TV show is actually pretty good. I haven't seen much black comedy like it; it may be on par with the first Friday movie (but not so 90s). It does a decent job at poking fun at black culture and everyone trying to make it as a rapper. Season 1 was the best season, so if you don't like...