LadyCrimson

Weapons, via Prime rental: --1st 45-50minutes was slow paced/setup. It almost went on too long, but it was ok enough to keep me watching. --most of the rest of the time became steadily more interesting or "fun". Although it's not too long before you know/guess what's going on. There's no "BIG TWIST REVEAL" type thing, at least imo. --the very ending kinda ruined it for me. Various reasons, but just didn't work. All combined, no better than a 5/10 for the genre. Unless perhaps you've never seen this type of movie before/haven't seen many similar movies. Edit: I feel like I should clarify that to me, 5/10 actually represents mostly "average/middling" or maybe a little less than that, not "it totally sucks", like some seem to view anything under an 8.5 these days.

^ All the more reason to not leave the house (since I'm lucky enough to have a house) and stay under cover of the patio deck roof.

My brain went to the Minority Report "surgically change your eyeballs" stuff, but same difference. Tech grew faster than I expected for my single lifetime, but at least I'm still pretty sure I'll be dead before walking down a street/in a park = Minority Report levels of digital/commercial recognition bombardment. Right? Right.

Portland, those Hegseth/Trump speeches, the US gov. shutdown, Trump being a mentally doddering bully wanna-be despot (seriously, his Twitter posts are childish bully rants). Hey America, are we great again, yet?

*reads about some Xbox price hike, both physical goods and now GamePass, stuff* Even considering tariff's re: hardware, I wonder if Xbox/MS has decided if you can't afford them, you won't make them any money anyway. I don't think it's only the price of the Gamepass hike alone - companies really need to realize there is such a thing as subscription/constant fees exhaustion. I mean, from fridges/dishwashers to cars to game/entertainment services. Enough already. Just gimmie a product, not a "service", already.

Yeah, it was cute, just like the dog. I think one issue for me is that Gunn gave a certain flavor to Guardians of the G that worked, but some of his humor style didn't mesh well with this Superman, imo. I mean, Superman II back when definitely had a lot of silly humor bits too - I love that film but it was mostly because of Terrance Stamp, it had a lot of flaws - but I dunno. Outside of animals and occasional humor re: Supes, it felt a little try-hard. And yes I agree re: too many chrs, in single films. The "universes." It starts to feel like every movie is just an ad for the next movie. Probably a reason my fave Marvel is still Iron Man. >.> I saw that on YT yesterday. I admit I laughed. I actually thought the first film was passable disaster entertainment. Nothing to write home about but the flavor of late 90's/early 2000's disaster films maybe. But it definitely didn't merit a sequel.

ARPG/Diablo-likes: dunno if someone mentioned it already but Moonbeast Productions has some Diablo2/Blizzard North devs and they're making an ARPG. Seemingly voxel in some form, destructible/alterable world in some fashion, every game you make is a seed generation so more unique rng than usual, other stuff. More fantasy-dark than "evil grim dark." Don't expect it any time soon. Maybe 3-4 years. Rhyker has been playing a pre-pre-pre (x10) Alpha demo they gave to him and has a video on it here: (1 month old) A developer live stream (4 months ago) has more - it's an even earlier build, you can see the visual differences, but it's still interesting.

Builders/management: First time I've heard of it. Anyone tried this? Did you like it? Two of the dev's worked at Bullfrog (Theme Hospital, Fable, Black & White). Steam users seem to rate it highly over some months and say it improves on earlier, similar games from the studio. Fully released, not early-access. It looks cute, but unsure. Maybe a 30% off pickup.

Superman (2025) ---first 40 minutes = "yes, dog is still cute. The rest is meh." I did like not rehashing the origin tale again. --the first giant monster somewhere in there was horrible CGI. --Supes and Lois having a talk with a monster fight casually going in background was slightly amusing. ---Fillion as Guy Gardner was great. ---overall most of the actors were fine, including the Supes actor. The material they were given, not as much ---the usual modern day pacing issues that lead to boredom/not caring, for me. ---after that 40 minutes the FFWD button was used more and more rapidly ---it made me think even more that 70's Superman/Superman-II was a time-period fluke and generally speaking, Supes does not make a compelling/fun MOVIE universe (I've liked some of the S comics more than most of these films). Conclusion: It's an action movie I guess, and I didn't hate what I saw, but to me, it's not Superman. I didn't even like the action. No rating. It is what it is, you'd either like it, not, or don't care.

Saw this in game: which of course made me think of this (yeah, still miss old YouTube) and then it was stuck in my head again*: *the original actual double-rainbow guy's video is still up, although he died in 2020 at age 57.

Got fed up squinting at file names on the 27" 1440 etc so I replaced it with the earlier LED 40" 4k TV (and its heavy swinging-stand, argh). Since it'll only be used for program monitoring and browsing, don't care about uber clarity and put the windows app scale sizing at 125%. That+bigger screen size works better. But - OLED and this LED are both LG. Meaning the remote/s work on both at once. Which is fine when I want to turn both off for the night. But trying to adjust other settings has everything popping up on both TV's rather randomly. Or if I only want to turn off the LED to reduce monitor light (film watching). Have to hold remotes super close to TV and at an angle to prevent it. Oh well - at least I can read stuff from sitting-distance and still have more windows visible etc. Edit: also having both be 4k = less dual-display resolution/positioning issues.

Maybe in another 5-10 years I can just buy a mini-pc/mini-desktop for $1600 and be fine, since I'm guessing my caring for mega gaming will wane ever more anyway. Yeah yeah, just buy a console. But something like this is simply more interesting to me - plus at least it's a PC, not just a game and TV cube. Anyway, with some setting tweaking the fact it runs BL4 at 1080 or even 1440 with "playable" fps is kinda cool.

My new anthem for the year, I've decided. Politics/world ofc and a bit of my personal/home life. (language)

Time moves faster every day, but I woke up this morning and it's apparently still Trump (and Trump-think)-era, so it's not moving fast enough. I occasionally still watch docs re: international/S. Korea adoptees (60's-80's, culture, psychology, trauma), because it's interesting/explains a lot, at least for many of us. I mean, it doesn't mean tons to me personally at this point, but it's still extremely relatable. I still feel like an alien sometimes, in that "I don't belong anywhere", culturally, social-class/status perception, other. Anyway, hubby and I the usual, he took today off, we're going to go waste the day somewhere for a while, spend some cash, eat some good food. Then probably come home and nap.