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Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
LadyCrimson replied to ShadySands's topic in Way Off-Topic
*listens to Anthony Vincent sing Your Idol in the style of Sleep Token* --- "Who is Sleep Token?" --- *google* Heard a few of what I assume are their more popular singles. For some reason some of their slower songs and musical passages made me think of Tangerine Dream. Something about the mood/tone of those Sleep Token passages, not the singing/genre aspect. This led me to look up some TD music again. I was listening to Betrayal (never saw the movie), and kept thinking the beginning reminded me of something. Then I got it: from Terminator. Maybe TD was an influence for Mr. Fiedel. I think they were for many back then. Ah, synth soundtracks. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
LadyCrimson replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
I think I'm something like halfway through the 7th episode of that Genie, Make a Wish k-drama. I'm not sure I'll finish, even if there's only 4.5 episodes left I think. It's still fitfully charming/amusing but I'm not connecting emotionally with anything, so the "I don't really care what's happening/why" syndrome applies. I end up turning it off mid-episode to do something else. Even for comedy kdrama (mixed with a little pathos), not my thing. A shame - really wanted another great vehicle for this actor pair. Just me tho. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
LadyCrimson replied to PK htiw klaw eriF's topic in Way Off-Topic
For me, this was a great trailer that really made me want to see the movie. Sadly, probably won't reach Prime or whoever until next year. -
Manor Lords - finally a giant beta test version dropped. I guess it isn't abandoned after all (ha). Didn't sign up for access, I'd rather wait for full public version with beta-resultt patches added, but from reading up, sounds like a lot of changes (plus some new maps). Old saves will not be compatible with it. No Man's Sky - still making silly ships, still flying around exploring planets, still occasionally see stuff I've never seen before - and still have restart-itis re: Abandoned Mode new starts. I never went much past the intro of Little Kitty, Big City, since the one time I tried was when I had the PSU reboot issues, and I just never went back to it. They keep patching/adding to the game, including cute outfits (heh). Hoping to motivate to look at it again this weekend. I could use some "cute."
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The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
LadyCrimson replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
Watched 2.5 more episodes of the Genie kdrama. It did get better and I was enjoying it more/finding it more amusing (or I was just better prepared for the silliness), but it started drifting into the too many chrs/beats to follow with a lot of fast cutting scenes between them - among other things. Pacing/editing. So it goes on the maybe watch a couple episodes a week list - not a "just one more episode/binge" show. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
LadyCrimson replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
Genie, Make A Wish (kdrama, Netflix) First two episodes: well that was not quite what I was expecting (dark fantasy). Very OTP - beyond the usual kdrama silly bits that are typically in such series, I mean. Where I felt like almost every chr. was an extra exaggerated persona. Which isn't always a bad thing imo (the original Strong Girl Bong Soon was rather like that), but here I'm not yet sold on it. That said, I love the two leads, there were cute/amusing moments and a few more "serious" moments that were intriguing. I've heard it gets better by episode three so I'll give it another two episodes. If nothing else, I get to stare at Woo-bin, I guess. And Kim Mi-kyung (grandma) is always a fine supporting actress. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
LadyCrimson replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
Finally watched some Matlock on Paramount. Which is the reason I subbed to Paramount. Then I waited for all episodes, but didn't notice until now. Anyway, we mostly liked the first four episodes. It's still, so far, a show where the #1 reason is to enjoy Kathy Bate's performance. Everything else feels like "average network show". Other chrs might grow on me a bit more as the plot thickens and they get more air time. The weekly-case type stuff isn't that interesting so far etc. Beau Bridges is also someone I enjoy watching, but his screen time is very small here (so far). -
Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
LadyCrimson replied to Frak_the_2nd's topic in Computer and Console
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-reportedly-testing-free-xbox-cloud-gaming-supported-by-ads-with-monthly-play-limits-announcement-and-launch-coming-soon I'm calling it - after the next "generation", there won't be any more xbox game console. At least not as we think of it. It'll just be another streaming service device. Or it'll shut down entirely. One hour play time limit? Five hours a month that are "free?" For games? What a laugh. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
LadyCrimson replied to LadyCrimson's topic in Way Off-Topic
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. -
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.
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The All Things Political Topic - SNAFU edition
LadyCrimson replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
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? -
Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
LadyCrimson replied to Frak_the_2nd's topic in Computer and Console
*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. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
LadyCrimson replied to PK htiw klaw eriF's topic in Way Off-Topic
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. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
LadyCrimson replied to PK htiw klaw eriF's topic in Way Off-Topic
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Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
LadyCrimson replied to Frak_the_2nd's topic in Computer and Console
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. -
Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
LadyCrimson replied to Frak_the_2nd's topic in Computer and Console
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. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
LadyCrimson replied to PK htiw klaw eriF's topic in Way Off-Topic
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.
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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.
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Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
LadyCrimson replied to Frak_the_2nd's topic in Computer and Console
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. -
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.