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  1. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Wut?! Only silver? What a n00b, doesn't he know gold will be the currency of the future? When the banks can no longer manipulate it, it will go to the mooooon! P.S. Margin Call was a decent movie (just not as entertaining as The Big Short).
  2. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Nostalgia memberry peps all went to play Classic servers, and 90% of those who were left in retail would have had at least 1 character at 50, or close to it, with the level crunch. So the whole thing is set up to be new person friendly and the BFA leveling experience was actually pretty good...
  3. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My experience was that early 2000s is when pron access took off. Late 90s still needed to go to the back room at the video store to find most porn. Certainly, the vast majority of high schoolers in 97, 98, and 99 did not have access or know how to acquire softcore porn (let alone hardcore) that...
  4. Burns

    Home buying thread

    Naples up to Ft. Myers should have some good deals on property at the moment. The Naples area is the only place in Florida I have been that I would think about a return visit to. Outside of the normal Florida plague of bugs, it was nice, and far enough from Miami, Tampa, and Orlando to keep the...
  5. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At the end of this post is a Wowhead guide on Chromie time. It looks like you need one character at 50 to be able to start it at level 10, otherwise the world will scale kinda like it did in BFA (?) (SS below). Exiles Reach is the new 1- 10 zone and forced for your fist character to 50. I am...
  6. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Every parent is doing what they can and hoping for the best, but I don't think there is a fool proof way to prevent your children from seeing fucked up shit on the internet now. Best bet is probably home school and only let them socialize with other like minded families. Even then, it could...
  7. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You can jump around in the Cromie time thing but I am not sure how much exp is in those 3 WotLK zones. I remember Icecrown having a shit ton of quests though. Also, Storm Peaks may have an involved lead in quest line. Maybe look up some walk throughs for those zones and see if any of the main...
  8. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They had some promo when they announced the release date of DF, where Shadowlands was free, to try to drum up subs early. They may do that again on prepatch release, but I don't think they usually roll the old xpac into the base game until a week or more after the new xpac is released. As for...
  9. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Already did that, on to new things to bitch about. Gotta feed the beast!
  10. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was a bit annoyed that Legiondries were disabled after 5 new levels, since they were actually fun. I think the Legion tier sets were only disabled when you hit max level, but I forgot that they disabled the Legion weapons on the prepatch. Loosing the weapon, right off the bat, and then the...
  11. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I just looked at DK, rogue, & druid tier sets and all of them except Ass rogues have those abilities available in the new talent tree. So, from the outside it looks like they could have left them active and with minimal work, replaced the couple talents that were being renamed/reworked with the...
  12. Burns

    Investing General Discussion

    Insider trading flags. https://www.wsj.com/articles/atlanta-fed-president-discloses-violations-of-financial-transaction-policies-11665774059 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/atlanta-fed-president-reveals-five-years-trading-violations-claims-he-didnt-understand
  13. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My Burning Crusade time was a long time ago, so I don't remember how much the Nax gear made. Plus the first 8 hours were in a full Nax geared group with a druid, so we were the ones getting the tags. I don't remember doing the same amount of prep as I did in later xpacs, but I didn't play alts...
  14. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It was defiantly noticeable when having a high item level and being prepped. Legion was the last time I cared about being ahead of the hump, and I timed my first 4 or 5 characters to max level. Legion also had a spurg play 100s of hours in beta to make a leveling addon that saved hours in level...
  15. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    A lot of people don't like leveling, and will use the end of the xpac to get their characters as strong as possible, in order to spend the least amount of time leveling. From what I have read, there are multiple ways to get set items, so it's easier than running alt raids in mythic or heroic...
  16. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Not anymore, bro! The writers are totally better than that! The new lore is that Saurobrand helped Celebrimbor make two rings for the elves, so they can stay in middle earth and be a threat to him later. This is all because Saurobrand is in love with Gladdy and wants her as his queen. When she...
  17. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hey hey people, did you spend a bunch of time getting tier sets, on your main and alts, so you could use them while leveling in Dragonflight? Well guess what, we changed all the classes so much that we will have to disable those sets when the pre-patch hits...oops.
  18. Burns

    Car ?'s

    No one told you that it is your duty as an American to run at least 1 bicyclist off the road, per year? You better get busy before INS comes a knockin and takes away your citizenship. Some cities have built or are building bike lanes, and it makes me wonder where they get the money for that...
  19. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Gas tax in Michigan is used for roads, just like most everywhere else. I would guess that taxing gas was probably the first tax implemented expressly for road maintenance, but increasing the gas tax is deeply unpopular, so of course politicians found a way to raise funds, w/o raising gas prices...
  20. Burns

    Car ?'s

    You plan on dying in the next 10 or 15 years, eh? Cali wants all new cars to be electric by 2025 or some ludicrous shit, so I am sure New York will follow suit soon after. Its all about tax funding, so even Florida and Texas may not be safe, if they see their tax revenue fall too far.
  21. Burns

    Car ?'s

    A per gallon gas tax is probably the best way to tax a vehicle's use of the road that those taxes pay for. The problems with funding roads actually started 15+ years ago, when vehicle MPG started to climb progressively higher. Politicians didn't want to be responsible for raising gas prices...
  22. Burns

    Car ?'s

    Yarp, it is inevitable. Gas tax is how governments fund a large portion of the road work. So, there has been discussions about how to fund roads, outside of gas tax, for some time now. DFW's solution is to sell the roads to Chinese companies to run a toll network. Currently, EVs are using...
  23. Burns

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The current current state is Shadowlands is cut short and everyone is waiting on the new xpac to drop. Pre-patch is less than a month away (probably), so it's best just to wait until then, if anyone is thinking of playing this month... As for the beta: It is hard to guess how bad things will be...
  24. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    It would be great if Musk started taking on independent astronomy missions like developing and building advanced telescopes, but I don't see that happening with SpaceX, as a potential profitable venture. It would probably need to be a separate not for profit type company that he could use as a...
  25. Burns

    The Astronomy Thread

    One future telescope project that will be able to see the surface of exoplanets using the Sun's gravitational lensing (maybe launchable within the next 20 years (w/ 30 year travel time:emoji_nose::
  26. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    Movie Elrond, sure, but this Elrond doesn't have the rights to the Silmarillion so he is currently just a mediocre politician. They actually set it all up for Hildbrand since he made that one sword that all the Numenoreans smiths were in awe of and Gladdy said something about.
  27. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    I play on core on my first play through, but on replays I cant help myself to min/max everything, so I crank it up to unfair. I'm currently playing melee lich and relying on way too many buffs, so I know I will hit a brick wall with Baphomet and his mass dispel. I recently tried to kill the...
  28. Burns

    Rings of Power: Tolkien's Shambling Skinsuit

    It would be almost perfect if he says "You know, I'm something of a smith myself" when this scene happens. That single line could make this whole season worth it.
  29. Burns

    The Boys

    I would assume this is her fault, but still, her whole plastic surgery team should get a beating for agreeing to do this.
  30. Burns

    Andor

    Mouse will make it too.
  31. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Sure, it would have been nice (if it's a better ruleset but not so dumbed down as D&D 5e), but internally, they would have started work on Wrath before or right around that time. Plus they already had the 1e rules all set up in Kingmaker, so all they had to work on was adding content, instead of...
  32. Burns

    Rick and Morty

    It was AMC with The Walking Dead. I remember the episode even, because it was the Don't Dead Open Inside meme, and the last episode of that show I ever saw. Now that Better Call Saul is done, I will not watch a single thing they make until at least a few years after it aired.
  33. Burns

    Rick and Morty

    Calling season 2 of The Wire shitty tells me your tastes have nothing in common with mine. This season is inconsistent, but other than maybe season 1 R&M, that's been the case throughout. They can't all be zingers.
  34. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Only pure casters are good for 20 levels in the same class in Pathfinder. Even a ranged, non mounted, bow user dips into other classes. DD is great for a sorc melee build, but only for 4 levels, then it's better to go somewhere else. I have not seen a high BABS melee builds, like Paladin...
  35. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    It may be one of the reasons Owlcat decided it's next game would be 40k universe. To give time for the 2e to settle and everyone to get a proper handle on the rule changes.
  36. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    In the character creation screens, on the class selection page, there is a box that lists weather you can turn on an auto build feature for that class. It is in the read out for that class/subclass, where the class description is, what stat is the main stat, whether it is a caster or melee, etc...
  37. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Negative, Kingmaker only had the core races plus Aasimar and Thieflings. You would have needed mods to get anything else. They did have the Serpent bloodline, so some classes could be kinda sorta Yaun Ti like. There seems to be a lot of mount builds now that they fixed mounts. Pets were always...
  38. Burns

    Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

    Not sure I understand, I don't think they cut any races or sub-classes from Kingmaker going into Wrath. If you mean dialog options then yea, that's mostly reserved for Mythic paths; not that they cut them all, there are still some race and class specific dialog flavor options out there. If you...
  39. Burns

    Home buying thread

    Seen people use that before, but I always end up forgetting about it. I have been using a chrome extension that does it on the fly, but yea, cant just link de-paywalled stuff using the extension. Extension: GitHub - iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome: Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for...
  40. Burns

    Home buying thread