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  1. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Edit [missed Brad's post so here is more info on that video]: Mark Rober, the NASA engineer who made the glitterbomb for porch pirates, for the last two Christmases, decided to turn the glitterbomb (and the law) on some Indian scammer's US connections. This is in partnership with two other scam...
  2. Burns

    Justice League (2017)

    Autumn, one of Synder's daughters, killed herself in the middle/start of post-production. The suits wouldn't or couldn't wait for him to grieve and get back into the saddle. So Whedon is who they could get on short order that checked all their boxes for a replacement.
  3. Burns

    Stellaris

    I was looking for the mod to help the late game pop issues but couldn't find it earlier (I should have bookmarked the reddit post about performance issues). So, I just went back and looked again at the all time popular mods. I think it was part of a compilation of performance mods called "!! 00...
  4. Burns

    Stellaris

    Haven't played in ~5 months, but I always have at least a dozen mods active (last game had 150+ mods active). I usually forget what mods I really liked (or can even tell which are which, sometimes), when I go to start a new game. So, I just surf around various up-to-date mod collections and look...
  5. Burns

    The Video Thread

    How it's made: Rice Noodles (traditional cooking) From rice grains to rice noodles with no electricity. Something different and somewhat interesting.
  6. Burns

    Stellaris

    The fortress might be part of a DLC that adds ~10 boss type events to the game. They can reward you with a unique technology, ship, or building (I think it gets sent to your capital). NPC factions can also do the event, and prevent you from getting it. Last I played, the fortress was buggy with...
  7. Burns

    Disco Elysium

    One of the main figures in the game is a man dancing from a tree.
  8. Burns

    Stellaris

    Those are generally great guards for entry points into your empire. The AI empires don't generally settle next to them or jump a bunch of systems past them, to settle. Robots will open borders to most everyone though, so enemy warships can pass through them (sometimes). The Holy Guardians can...
  9. Burns

    Stellaris

    Fallen Empires are (usually) fairly easy to placate, and nice to have as border protection. You can survey the surrounding systems but don't settle them (within 1 jump), until you know what kind of Empire they are. Quick run down of the 4 types: Spiritualists are a holy warrior fallen empire...
  10. Burns

    Stellaris

    I have never played small or medium maps. I like to play the largest map settings on all 4x games I play. I want plenty of exploration and a lot of AI players to interact with. For this game, I end up being done when the game is too slow. Mods can help a decent amount, in controlling the...
  11. Burns

    Stellaris

    PSA: (Last I played) Huge+ galaxies start to have performance issues with genetic engineering in the mid-late game. Different subspecies are treated as a different race, which each require their own computations from the AI for things like migration, happiness, reproduction, and so on. The game...
  12. Burns

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Crusader Kings 3 free "weekend," ends Sunday (21Mar2021) @ 10am PDT
  13. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    100% From what I remember, beta characters in DoS & DoS2 were not transferable to live. Saves may or may not be compatible between major beta patches, even.
  14. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Since it's the 15th, here is the best documentary on the Assassination of Julius Caesar: As a bonus, Caesar's funeral with Mark Antony shenanigans included:
  15. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Yes, you can transfer all your stuff to a fresh server by just logging back and forth with overloaded inventory if you want. The only thing that may not be transferable, is the boss trophy you hang on the stone for the buff (I never tried to remove it).
  16. Burns

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    It's easily worth a dollar, if you like 4x or strategy games at all. I think they fixed any issues the base game had at release and you might be able to play some of the huge mods, like Star Trek w/o any DLC.
  17. Burns

    Justice League (2017)

    Big surprise, Chuk doesn't know the difference between Muslims and Iranians (Persians), but I guess he isn't technically wrong. Iranians can be considered "a bunch of Muslims" by some people. @Chukzombi In case you still don't understand, saying "a bunch of Muslims" imply that they were upset...
  18. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    It may be something like the spawn chance has a small base percent, and is increased in storms and at night then. The wiki and Reddit posts, about hunting them, all recommended night or storm hunting.
  19. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    According to the interwebz, the serpents only spawn in "Ocean" biome when it is dark or storming out. From my experience, this holds true as well. When I was actively hunting one, I boated all around the ocean for a full day, didn't see one, and shortly after night hit, one spawned. I also got...
  20. Burns

    New World

    They have the other elements, plus death, as motes already in the game. I would also assume they are working on getting at least water and air done, if not death too (before release). As it is right now, the stats are really wonky in terms of weapon representation. There state are: Strength -...
  21. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Dunno what you are getting at chief. I played EQ from beta, until the release of WoW, but I have, at most, looked at 10 screenshots of Landmark.
  22. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    FTFY! Are any of those building worth a shit (outside Xmog and mounts), by the time you can get them, regardless? The portal to Orbos is nice, but all it saves is a couple loading screens over the Dalaran hearth (so, hardly worth the time investment). I wonder if anyone, outside of ActiBliz...
  23. Burns

    The Mandalorian

    This is an argument where everyone can make a case for being right. It all depends on how you want to define famous (Chuk's original post was about "before he was famous"). Arnold won his first professional bodybuilding competition in 1968 (Mr. Universe). In 1969 he won Mr. Universe again, and...
  24. Burns

    Coming 2 America (2021)

    Void sums it up nicely. Not great, but not terrible. The first movie was one of the best comedies ever made, so if you are going in with those kind of expectations, your going to have a bad time.
  25. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    One room cave in? I don't remember seeing any crypts with just 1 room. There was no sludge in the way that you could use the pick on? I also found tin was plentiful on the shores of the dark forests of my starting island, and didn't spend close the amount of time on it as I did on copper.
  26. Burns

    Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel? Remake?

    The thread on RPGCodex is getting a lot of action over the last week. Here is a gem: [IP's source material] Here is sample of the writing from White Wolf (V5 Anarchs):
  27. Burns

    Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel? Remake?

    Edit: I read Malkav's post wrong, thinking he meant Mitsota was responsible for all the wokeness. My bad. Still, those writers have a better chance of working on the game again, now, than they did if Hardsuit had found a project for them to be moved too. Lets hope the new team Paradox gives...
  28. Burns

    Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel? Remake?

    Brian Mitsoda (narrative lead) and Ka'ai Cluney (creative director) have not made any statements on why they were fired. I would assume they are under a NDA. Even the other high ranking writer (cant remember her name) that quit because those two got fired is not saying anything about it...
  29. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    You can go pretty high, right off the bat. With the right support. Below is my first longhouse, made at the start of the game using 0 mods. I was close to a bunch of trees, when I started, so it was just a lot of chopping. In the picture, the round logs in the middle were originally square...
  30. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    The game seems to be built with a group of 4 to 6 people in mind, all pooling together. Solo play is a HUGE amount of farming and travel time. Things just get more time intensive as you go, but the variety of things to collect and use also increases. For example, you will need to farm more and...
  31. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Correct, before I started digging, that area in the screenshot looked like all the other copper nodes I found (just 10 to 20 percent showing above ground). The 2 other nodes were about the same size.
  32. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    From a melee dps perspective, the need/ability for the tank to kite shit in high keys is just dumb, and a major reason I quit this xpac so early. The first M+10 I did, in the first weeks that M+ was released, was with a ~200 ilevel DK tank that had to kite or die. We barely failed it, and after...
  33. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Mining into a dirt wall naturally puts dirt under your feet, if you are deep enough. You can start in a 30 foot deep hole, and move forward after every hit, into the wall, and eventually it will make a ramp out (as long as the pick has durability) Tin is only that one little rock on the shore...
  34. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Cheat Engine is easier to use imo. Games like these hold my interest for maybe 30 hours. After that, I use cheat engine to juice a few more out of it.
  35. Burns

    Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)

    Sea Serpents spawn in the "Ocean" at night or during a storm. If you stay close to shore, you wont get serpents. Just don't get too close to "plains" or skeeter might eat ya. @Daidraco The Lox breeding is NYI (they wont reproduce), but I imagine it will be for the same reason you want pigs and...
  36. Burns

    Star Wars: The Bad Batch

    That's just what the patriarchy wants you to think. The Bad Batch moniker is due to them all identifying as women, and the show is actually about fighting the Sith Patriarchy that is trying to suppress trans rights.
  37. Burns

    Total War: Warhammer

    You can fix it with mods. There are diplomacy cheat mods that let you confederate by paying a little gold. First though, go find your save game (in c:\users\[user name here]\%AppData%\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer 2\save_games) and make a back-up, so you can restore it, if you break...
  38. Burns

    The Video Thread

    Sample example for One More Time, as well.
  39. Burns

    The Video Thread

    I don't remember if this has been linked here before but this guy is doing some good work. "Jim Browning" sends scammers his spyware, when they access his virtual machine. He usually owns their network, shortly after. Windows support scam: This is video of a $2 to $5 million a year...
  40. Burns

    Weather

    Weird, must only be Houston then. When I lived there in 98, my neighbors (and their parents, who were 50+), that have never left the Greater Houston area, were calling the ice storm, the worst snow storm they have ever seen. It was hilarious. I have lived in Austin, Houston, and DFW since then...