LadyCrimson

Saw someone trying a 7 Days run where one can only use items/resources from zombie lootbag drops - zero containers/chests of any kind, no whacking things for wood/ores or any resources etc. 500% loot bag drop rate setting. 50% workstations in the wild (since one probably won't be able to craft any). Can scrap lootbag items for certain resources, that's it. I went "oh, that sounds interesting." 1st try - punch two dozen zombies to death, but in also get hit by them and constantly debuffed into my own death (multiple deaths). Also, no loot bags dropped. 2nd try - punch a dozen zombies to death, a few lootbags, get a stone axe, some cobblestone, perk magazines etc. Whack some more zombies, but die of thirst because I can't build a campfire (no wood) nor do I have a pot (rules are can't pick one up even if one is lying in a house) or make enough coins to buy enough water. 3rd try - similar to the 1st try 4th try - punch half a dozen zombies, a starred/high stat lvl 1 shovel drops! Use that to whack zombies. Lootbags galore! Starred boneknife drops and I can bleed zombies to death! (don't ask). Still playing that attempt. Killing is now easy. But I can't build even a small base, nor repair/alter a POI (I can hide/shelter in POI's tho). I can't even build a door (no wood). Loot bag contents don't work like that. Took forever for enough pistol-parts to drop to craft a pistol. Most fun I've had in a while. I think I like this challenge run.

I'll be honest. For most of this trailer, I was thinking "absurd but for what it is, might a fun watch, at least." I mean, it felt like it might have a bit of a dark/tension edge to it maybe. Then the final several seconds of the trailer destroyed any positive impression, wholesale. But at least it was a hilarious several seconds. Heck I might even still watch it on streaming. :D (I guess it's based on some book)

Elon Musk: "one billion huge AI satellites, please!" I have no idea how true this could all be (in the video, re: causing so much light it'd lighten up nightsky and other issues), but even just the constant resources/pollution factors re: having to maintain/repair/replace 1 billion all the time seems, y'know, stupid. Seeing how I'm very slightly older than Musk, I guess I can't hope he'll die of old age "soon"/before actual world approval/in my lifestime. I suppose I'll just have to hope I die before AI Judgement Day, first. ;p

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (Netflix) - well made series, good acting and direction. My personal problem is that I already know oodles about the real plane incident it's based on, since I'm a disaster/crime nut, so that aspect holds no surprises/mystery/interest. Thus I'm left with the series chr. "drama" part. It's ok.

Project Hail Mary bluray purchased/acquired. I was pleased - since I don't have a 4k bluray player - that the quality of the plain bluray is pretty good, even on a 55" screen. The "4k" bandwidth streaming these days often beats non-4k bluray re: clarity impression (less slightly "soft focus"), on very big screens. Anyway - I doubt I will rewatch it too often, but in the days of own nothing, still nice to have a decent copy of it lying around.

How often do y'all replay a game you like? I mean, over many years, not just right away. And I mean a whole restart, not just endless end-game. I'm sadly feeling like replaying a game is going the way of rewatching fave films, for me - eg, almost never. Gone are the days I'd start a new chr. in Diablo/Diablo2 or Ceaser3 campaign or BG1 campaign or whatever over and over and over. 7 Day's easy/simplistic moddability (and now, 150 in-game settings) to at least change up minor things here and there is the main reason I revisit it. If I could mod No Man's Sky or Enshrouded as easily, I might replay them more often too. But I can't. So they're retouched a lot less often. Enshrouded "1.0" supposedly this month I think. I wonder if I'll care. Hubby continues to play Borderlands 4 occasionally (an hour or two a few times a week) and while he isn't that impressed, he's still fine with that, but I've mostly given up on it. It's not that it's bad or occasionally aggravates me like BL3 sometimes did - it's simply boring, outside of 1st discovery/several hours. :D

Titan Quest's 2 latest big update added a Spirit Mastery, which finally sounds like a more serious "summoner" tree. I haven't touched the game since I bought it on ea-release and ran it for maybe 90 minutes to make sure it would run on my PC. I'm still trying to wait for it to be finished. It's not the kind of game I'm likely to replay 30 times (maybe once or thrice) so I don't want to get bored/annoyed of it during ea. Not expecting spectacular, it'd just be nice if it was "decent."

there was this time where we had like, four plates, four bowls, and maybe four each of fork/spoon/knife. One small (ramen/soup size) pot, one large pot (spaghetti), two 13x9 pans. One large frying/wok pan, one small egg pan. Measuring cup, wood spoons, (edit: oh yeah, ofc one cheap butcher type knife). That was about it. Years later maybe it was 8 each of silverware. When we moved last time, the previous owner left tons of old/cheap silverware, most of which I tossed, but suddenly I had 12+ forks and such. This discussion makes me feel like that's too many (re: using vs. washing) and I should toss half of them. ;) Hehe.

I still wash most dishes by hand. >.> I've had/grew up with dishwashers etc, although no pricey fancy ones. But I often found myself rinsing them first (the old days where almost everyone did that), plus we mostly use specific dishes (bowls/silverware mostly) all the time and it doesn't even half fill up the entire dishwasher before we need what we use to be clean - so I'd just wash them (by hand) anyway, and any large pots/pans by hand always, and dishwasher became a rustbucket. (edit: we aren't the type to have multi-sets of dish or cook ware etc). Hubby thinks I hate them, but it's not that at all. I've noticed that he complains "why don't you like dishwashers" and yet he never puts a single dish into them/does many dishes himself. He's free to use it/run it if he wants. Just saying. EDIT: these days we both largely try to hand-wash whatever we use, as we use them vs. any piling up, whether in sink or a dishwasher anyway. Just the two of us, not a lot of dishes usually.

Hubby recovering. This wasn't a giant-incision type surgery btw - they basically made 4 large icepick holes in his back (to the bone) that I assume they then stick skinny laser and hammer/chisel (so to speak) instruments into. So deep wounds (to vertebrae) but not wide. They didn't even need stitches - they used some kind of glue sealant over them, which is weird. The original bandages didn't even have blood-spots because of that - plus he couldn't take cloth bandages off/shower for 4-5 days. Just 4 big red bruised dots on his lower back, all shiny from glue-pressure. Anyway - they used anesthesia but not fully out - more of a twilight half asleep zone - and hubby said at some point he woke up more fully and they kept him there, so it was kinda painful. They said he kept coughing (he was on his stomach) which made the fine surgery work difficult and I guess him being more awake meant less coughing. Just before surgery, waiting, hubby got some dust in his throat or something (akin to getting that 1 water droplet into your lungs, say) and I don't think it cleared up before wheeled him into OR. So right now it's still surgery-pain healing before one can judge if it did anything for the back itself. 4-8 weeks is not uncommon before one can figure the latter out. The procedure is relatively new in terms of usa "approved" (a couple years, maybe less than 10 re: study/observation/info), hence why there's very few surgeons who do it/the long wait.

I'm a nerd/geek, not a comedian. Although at least I find more things amusing than my hubby. 99.9% of the things in this thread he'd just look at and go "what? eh? so?" eg, he doesn't "get" it at all. :D

Just to say/report, I currently get the bot check one or thrice per starting a session than it stops (desktop and tablet). Which I find tolerable. Sidenote: oddly my phone freaked out trying to load this forum on an older (but not ancient) phone-chrome app. I had to update chrome app for it to work properly. The odd part is that on my tablet, which has a super duper much (much) older "chrome app" on it (haven't updated the app in years and years on tablet), this forum still works just fine. I guess something is aware the tablet is old android/chrome app versioning and allow it or something, where the phone didn't. Dunno, it was weird tho.

Drive, cheap hotel, poor sleep. Hubby in surgery. Maybe couple hours. Sitting in parking lot wondering if Im going yo nap or find a snack. Hopefully drive home tomorrow.

--Borderlands 4 - supposedly about 30 hours played. I think the first large region is the best thing - going into the other two regions the MQ sends you on are a snooze. Gunplay is even better than BL3, exploration ok, they tamed the "loot explosions" a lot (a good thing) and other positives, but it feels more repetitive for some reason (all the fight areas feel the same), loot hunting is meh. The "story" chrs are at least better than BL3 but not by much. --7 Days to Die - 3.0 is now my favorite 1.0+ version. Although the pure cheese of stealth in early 1.0 is still a fave mechanic, ha. But overall, all the options = easy to make the combat/gameplay feel more like A10-A12. More Walking Dead, less sci-fi looter-shooter/zombie-Skyrim wannabe. It was getting to the point where I turned zombies entirely off half the time, and 3.0 (after fiddling) is the first time I like having them on all the time, again, and I play a map far longer. I keep the zombie spawn level to "strongs", increase density of spawns, and none of the sci-fi/weird, bee-spitting, acid-exploding/spitting, bomb tossing or whatever else zombies are allowed to spawn. And no zombie digging. I've been playing it way more than BL4, still.

12:00 - 16-ish is the cat sleeping bag, and it's hilarious. To be fair, if the product was actually very close to like shown, I'd probably want one (but it'd probably be priced more like $500+ then).