LadyCrimson

Most of the time when i wake up/am woken up, I am immediately too awake to go back to sleep. Although as I get older, it's become a little less "immediately jump out of bed, brain full-on" and more "sit up blinking for a minute then pull myself out of bed while trying not to trip/fall down." When I first met hubby, he'd wake up quick and only hit the snooze button a couple times. By the time he was early 30's, the alarm often didn't wake him up until it had been going off for 10+ minutes, until I'd hit him to turn it off, and then the snooze button cycle. Since I almost never use my "smartphone" I still barely know how to do anything with it outside of take a picture.

Do you guys use your phone as the alarm clock these days? I still find the quartz clock super loud beeping that gets faster and faster or the 'big ben" firebell alarm to be best for waking you up. Y'know, the sort that can be heard down the hallway into the living room. Music/the radio has never worked for me. Digital sounds through speakers also not great, for me. Of course, actually getting up and not flopping back onto your pillow is another matter. My husband annoyed me with one hour of blasting radio music or beepbeepbeep snooze-alarming, every single morning, for many many years. That on top of his 80-100decibel snoring (made my ears ring sometimes) eventually chased me out of sleeping in the same bed. I've slept so much deeper/better since. Pffft.

Btw, I'm not ticked re: BL4's requirements vs. my personal hardware. I'm barely interested in the game, really. I'm just tired of all these games thinking they have to up the ante (usually this means graphix-tech) when there isn't really much reason to do so for the game/series. I mean sure, if a dev wants to make a super fancy showcase, they can do that/some games are meant for that. But I see no reason for BL4 to have that min. requirement (could've been a gtx 9xx min, say). I'm guessing that min. is because of RT that maybe you can't entirely turn off - I looked it up, BL4 will "feature ray tracing." (sigh) Nvidia's BL4 "showcase" video is showing/claiming 200+ fps, meaning without DLSS4/frame generation it's likely many are going to have poor - or at least not the desired - performance, since, y'know, most people don't even have a 50xx. Edit: that said the showcase video is pure marketing bull, since they don't even tell you what gpu or original resolution they're using to get those frame-generation fps.

According to the rumor mill, Trump is deadly ill with maybe congestive heart failure and may only have 6-12 months to live! ......I can only dream. ......he doesn't seem particularly healthy recently but he might still make his term. His age, his past/present lifestyle, who bloody knows.

Watched 1st episode of Butterfly, on Prime. I thought, for some reason, that it was going to be an action k-drama, but apparently US. I think it's kind of a spy/assassin group thriller or something. That 1st episode did nothing to make me want to watch a 2nd. It's not that it's terrible, but I felt tossed into action with zero chr. notions outside of "some man wants/thinks he has to rescue his daughter from an organization, who may not need/want to be rescued from said organization since she seems to enjoy her assassination job." eg, I had no reason to care either way. I suppose the 2nd episode might explain background/history but like I said, it didn't make me care enough to find out. Also, it's mostly in English but the way they dealt with Korean speaking moments was annoying. A couple lines in Korean w/subtitles, then suddenly a couple lines in English, then back to Korean. I guess that was so ppl who don't like subtitles don't have to read as many subtitles? It was lame. The action-y stuff was ok I guess.

Other k-dramas I tried recently: ---My Dearest Nemesis, romcom (Viki) - Actor who played Sunho in Weak Hero1. Pretty silly. Not the best ever but the 10 (1 hr) episodes made it not wear out its welcome too much. ---Study Group (Viki) - Student obsessed w/studying/forming a study group. Of course, he also has uber fighting (and speed) skills. Bullies, friendship/life lessions, but much lighter/absurd tone for most of it (the typical eventual conflict and past-trauma plotting later). Not as serious as Weak Hero and adults play a role. 10 (40-45min) episodes. After trying a few others plus some C-dramas, gave up looking for new and re-watched: ---Lovely Runner (Viki) (2022) - could possibly be my fave romcom-drama-timeslip series the past couple years. There are plot holes near the end but eh, it's time-slippin'. Both funny and dramatically touching at times. Can't recall if I mentioned it before, but I've watched it three times. >.> ---20th Century Girl (Netflix) (2022 film) - coming of age romance, bittersweet, touching. Watched it because it had the same male lead as Lovely Runner. I think he's a new fave.

It's cinematic only but for a game, I like that it's a Korean Joseon era setting. Not many (AA/AAA) pc-games with that folklore/look. Sadly (for me) it's probably a "souls-like" action/adventure/SP meaning outside of being pretty, it won't be for me (unless I cheat my way through it ). But I'm kinda curious if it'll manage to distinguish itself, gameplay-wise, as something more than ending up being largely known as a Korean "Black Myth Wukong." Like more rpg elements (party members, a tad less linear, whatever, etc). Probably not, but who knows. UE5 engine. Character is inspired by a Korean novel and/or real life person turned into a legend, or something. One of those things.

Borderlands 4 "min. requirements" include Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, 16gb ram and RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, with 100GB SSD space. Recommended = 3080 gpu. And ofc probably that's for 1080/60fps. And UE5 engine. And Denuvo this time. Especially annoying (to me/some others) in this case because BL's graphic style did not need uber upgrading re: graphics/lighting/shadows. It was never going for realism etc. Don't know if they're offering RT but BL definitely doesn't need that either. No one played BL series for the uber graphics. I'm sure I can still play it at 4k/DLSS/medium or something, like I usually manage to do, but hubby's out of luck till he upgrades (if he does). A ridiculous $130 "super deluxe" pre-purchase version for what amounts to the "seasons pass" of yore. So they've doubled the price basically for the season-pass dlc/extra chr. classes/other post-release content ($60 vs $30). I wonder if post-release, the separated pack pricing will still = $60ish or it'll end up being more. Or maybe they'll price it into 20 different dlc. each new area/mission dlc, $20x4, extra chr class, $20x2, etc. Wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, sale-price for sure.

Today I visited this forum and posted a bunch of YT links, since I od'd on k-dramas for the moment and went back to random YT. Hubby got his round of back injections - the ink they used to make target dots on his back is quite persistent, hehe - but it didn't do anything for him. Now he's waiting for the appointment call re: the 2nd round/attempt. He's pretty discouraged/depressed re: life right now, etc. I've offered to sledgehammer hubby's foot or something, so then the back pain wouldn't be on his mind anymore, but he didn't seem to go for that idea

Looks kinda funny/hearwarming.

Yup.

For those that don't like Disney-ish styled pop songs, here's a "hard rock" cover of Golden. It's not bad.

Oh ,also also - this is pretty much me re: k-pop demon hunters. The movie is still only "somewhat above average" to me (CGI animation detail being it's major highlight perhaps) but a few of the songs that didn't initially impress, have grown on me to the point they've been put the "on endless repeat, sometimes" list. I suppose it's kind like my reaction to Frozen (it's entertaining but mid, but that one song grew on me) S. He's bit here is because he does the orange-haired demon in a Danny Phantom Your Idol cosplay. which isn't bad visually - it's almost 9million views and they're doing sodapop next. The fandom of this musical film and the songs is kinda nuts, lol.

Oct. 3rd. Looks to be largely set in modern times, vs. period drama, if you're wondering. Ancient genie with Suzy as his new "three wish" owner. It's been 10 years since Uncontrollably Fond ripped my heart out. Not sure I'm a fan of the genie (I think he's more like a devil - Iblis) concept but I hope it'll be good. Also, I still haven't watched all of Fallout1 series. >.> That Vegas-y trailer for 2nd season looks promising tho!

There's a reason some/many of those tribes in serious desert climes wear/wore those long loose robe type outfits. ----- Doctor for hubby today. Not the nerve surgery tho. They're insisting on trying injections of steroids first, this time several all over the lower spine/back or some such vs. only one shot in one spot. And then if that doesn't work, another round closer/into vertebrae themselves (or something, I don't know the terms) to see if THAT works (they could do that one twice a year, if it helps). Which kind of feels like a runaround to me since they did a single-shot last year - he didn't need a driver for that one - and then claimed they didn't/couldn't do more at that time, but ok. I suppose the nerve surgeon wants to double-check these options on his own orders. Well, we'll see. It all gets so frustrating tho, medical system. Ah well.