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  1. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    The molten core allows the dynamo, that causes the magnetosphere, to exist and Earth's core wont cool as long as we have the moon. I think it goes something like this: Due to the mass of our huge moon, in comparison to the earth, the center of rotation of the two celestial bodies is off center...
  2. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Cyberpunk 2077 will make all your dreams come true. I pre-ordered 5.
  3. Burns

    The Boys

    It looked like she was in charge of the facility in the last episode, and that it is her pet project. It's not much of a stretch to speculate that she had been the full time warden (or in management), for the last 50 years (or whenever she stopped being Liberty). She could have also been the...
  4. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm not saying the covenant system is good, just that, if they get 80% of the abilities tuned fairly close (to what they want), then it will be a slightly better tasting shit sandwich (when compared to the 8.0 azurite shit sandwich). Furthermore, the BFA islands fucking sucked, and they gimped...
  5. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    IMO Azerite was worse, by far. They sold it as changing your rotation, and it did nothing of the sort. From what Velk is saying, the main issue looks like it is going to be the bugs in other parts of the game (outside of the underlying problem of not being able to switch convent abilities at...
  6. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Balancing is probably close to where it usually is, right before an xpac, which is to say, it's all over the fucking place. They usually get to the point of good enough (for them) right before the first week of the mythic raid, and 4+ specs just get left out in the cold. I suspect the same thing...
  7. Burns

    The Boys

    Ripping peoples faces off and one punch knock out of Big Dick Dude (BDD for short) seems like a decent offensive ability (she has some form of super strength).
  8. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Edit: Looked up what is changing for the new leveling experience, and it seems silly that they are keeping BFA pathfinder requirement for flying, but Legion and WoD will be included in level 30 flying from the vendor. I remember reading that they will force new players to go to BFA, after the...
  9. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I just checked my Khadgar toons, where all my Horde alts are (legion garrison gold farmers). They all look fine, but I cant log them in, because I am not subbed, to check over everything. I would be most concerned with loosing the ~3 mil gold across the 10 toons that are 110 or higher. I made...
  10. Burns

    Stellaris

    Yea, the admin cap is just a malus to slow you down, but as long as your economy and homeworld population can support it, without gimping development, you can keep colonizing 80%+ hab planets in your territory. That said, my access to habitable worlds is usually limited by how I expand, so I...
  11. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    That picture isn't official. They had a vote between 4 mounts with description only. They didn't release any artwork for the 4 mount choices and just left it to fans to do it. That said, there are so many mounts now, collecting them hardly matters, unless they have a function useful to you...
  12. Burns

    Wasteland 3

    I haven't had a pet kill a civilian yet, but they get in the way of AoE so much, that I hardly used big guns, rockets, or grenades. Imo, the best pets depend on the skills of the owner. The stag gives +20% to melee damage, the wolf/bear both AoE howl demoralize (to synergies with some skills)...
  13. Burns

    Wasteland 3

    I only tried to replace the character that the disco healing robot was tied too. I shelved the Ranger, then I was unable to talk to it with anyone else, and it disappeared when I zoned. I looked it up, and there were numerous reports of it happening for the other followers/pets, so never tried...
  14. Burns

    Wasteland 3

    While what @ronne said is one solution, it has it's draw backs. Not only do you lose any skill book, removing any toon from the group, that has a follower attached, such as Maj. Tomcat or Polly, loses that follower, so I never went the remake and remove/delete route to respec. So, someone made...
  15. Burns

    The Boys

    The third episode is still early, and wouldn't it be better writing to slow roll Stormfront's racism, to pull people in, and be inline with how the show has been written so far? Such as, early on, she is pretty cool, and saying all the right stuff, and then she lets a relatively tame, and easy...
  16. Burns

    New World

    The respawn in the stress test, at the beginning of the month, was the opposite of what yall are seeing, and it was also frustrating. Trash out in the world was anywhere from 10 seconds to 1 minute and the 1 boss I found was ~3 min (the boss area was a powerlevel spot, and dropped equal to or...
  17. Burns

    New World

    This is a game made for consoles and their solution to limited buttons is this weapons swapping system, which is lackluster. When you use an ability in slot 1, whatever that abilities cooldown is, puts every other ability in slot 1 on that cooldown. For example, if I had the following set up...
  18. Burns

    Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines sequel? Remake?

    The CEO of the studio wont let people see his tweets? wat
  19. Burns

    Car ?'s

    It has been a few years since I looked at tint, but I remember reading that there are major material and quality differences. This can affect how much different the materials can bend, their color/sheen, and the color fading over time (turning purple). I think I wanted to go with the Huper Optik...
  20. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    D:OS Alpha went into early access around January 14th, 2014 and was fully released on June 30th, 2014. D:OS 2 Alpha went into early access on September 15th, 2016 and was fully released on September 14th, 2017. From the parts of the video I caught, the game is still deep in Alpha. So my off...
  21. Burns

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    I guess they changed the YouTube link from above, here is the new one. It's mostly just talking about the game and D&D, with a few gameplay clips mixed in (dialog scenes). A couple clips are from the goblin camp, that they showed before (with a bit different outcome). Edit: With it over, these...
  22. Burns

    SWTOR

    Furthermore, if you are Sorc/Sage or Sniper/GunSlinger you can use your mark and recall to port back to the start of the jump, while falling.
  23. Burns

    SWTOR

    If your building for soloing hard stuff, I would look at the set that buffs followers (Taskmaster 4pc), and then get 40-50 presence amplifiers on all your gear. The +presence is the only thing you can get on every piece, I think. So, it would make your follower a beast. I have read a few good...
  24. Burns

    SWTOR

    Sure, but you can rez all your followers that are "dead" or MIA in the story, outside of Arcan, in one of the small rooms in the Alliance base. I think its in the hall leading to the smugglers den. Arcan is kinda cool, but ultimately, replaceable, and who doesn't want Koche dead, anyways! I...
  25. Burns

    SWTOR

    You have a million cartel coins, you can boost them all!
  26. Burns

    SWTOR

    I like tradeskills in games too, and remeber the game working as you say. So, I spent entirely too many credits leveling up Cybertech, Artificer, and Synthweaving over 600, before I realized how worthless they are, if I wasn't going to invest 10s of millions into it. Space combat missions still...
  27. Burns

    SWTOR

    Only Hilts/Barrels/armoring and Amplified Champion set items have performance enhancing amplifiers. When you open your level 75 armor or weapons, you will see the armoring mod say something like Periodic Intensity / Weapon Expertise / Tech Wizardry / Force Sensitivity / etc.. When you mouse over...
  28. Burns

    SWTOR

    What I meant with point 4 was, that you run all the wealthy missions you get on toons with the appropriate trade at level 601+. I never manually gathered a lockbox on Onderon or Mek-Sha, but I guess that could work, for a more active experiences, aye. It really all depends on the drop rate of...
  29. Burns

    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Going from the 2.4 Ghz to 5.2 Ghz was a noticeable difference in coverage. Walls have a definite retardant affect on the shorter 5.2 Ghz wave length. Two hundred foot into the back yard, I can get full strength through the windows, but trying to go 50 foot, through 4 walls, to the back of the...
  30. Burns

    SWTOR

    Yea, sorry, I reread your comment, then edited my post, but you were too fast! Edit2: I didnt look through all the recipes, but I think its pretty universal, that you need purple slicing mats somewhere, in every production trade.
  31. Burns

    SWTOR

    Slicing is a gathering skill that they turned into a requirement for almost all production trades (purple recipes). I think they did this, to keep slicing relevant, when they nerfed lockboxes down to barely break even status, when using a 50 influence comp. You could try the AH for the green...
  32. Burns

    SWTOR

    Easiest way I found to make credits is: Get character to ~670+ slicing Get Companion to 40+ influence (level 50 has ~50% chance to crit mission) Run the slicing mission "Off the Radar" (Takes 9 min with level 50 comp) Get criticals on said mission (it gives a random, tradeable, special mission...
  33. Burns

    SWTOR

    For tradeskills, I dont think you can reverse engineer any of the level 75 stuff, or make 306 mods. Afaik, the only thing (in regards to player power) tradeskills are good for are consumables (dont know costs) and 286 Augments (that go in the augment slot, at the bottom of armor/main hand/off...
  34. Burns

    SWTOR

    I think you need level 10, maybe 15, to do hammer station. Once you get to somewhere in the 50s, I have read that stealth classes (with a level 50 influence companion) can quickly solo Red Reaper flashpoint as well, but I didn't try that. For group finder, the button is on your mini map, btw.
  35. Burns

    SWTOR

    So, they sent me an extra 500 cartel coins today, even though I am no longer a sub. I used one of the "recruit a friend" 7 days of premium trial code of some rando on reddit, so I guess it counted as a renewal, since I was still premium after 30 days. Another trick, for using the referral codes...
  36. Burns

    SWTOR

    I vaguely recall seeing server transfers, the previous time I played ~4 years ago, so they probably had ways to move characters from account to account. With the influx of steam people, low level PvP brackets might be fine, but if you need a pve option, spamming Hammer Station flashpoint is the...
  37. Burns

    SWTOR

    There are various conditions that disable the refunding of your boost tokens. I don't remember the specifics, but if they are done on a boosted character, they cant be refunded. You can always try to petition EAoware, and tell them you didnt read carefully enough. It took them ~5 days to answer...
  38. Burns

    SWTOR

    I dont recall having slow downloads, but then, I just let it run while I slept. As for Sniper, Virulence is rather good atm (for PvE at least), you can find 6.0 guide for most specs on Vulkk. PTW is a little tricky, everything that's on the Cartel Market (CM) can be bought on the AH. 99% of...
  39. Burns

    Lord of the Rings Online

    Are there discounts in the store that are going away at the end of August? Such as, should I forgot ridding skill purchase, with currency, for buying anything first?