LadyCrimson

Why? Because I can, of course. (parked and sitting on the roof, chillin') - (want to deco it even more, actually)

I have no idea who BamBam or TIMETHAI are, but this popped up in my random feed and all morning I've been listening to it while doing my daily exercise bits (hubby's probably annoyed by now, ha). Just a nice mellow dance song that works well for "busy" arm flailing walking. Good thing I do it in the backyard. Edit: also, none of my SO/s dates liked to dance, so I definitely danced by myself. Also, more Stray Kids. After 1st hearing their Victory song 5-6 years ago or something, occasionally liked their big singles etc. I have now bought all those older singles as MP3's and bought the Karma "mp3 album" off Amazon. YouTube on repeat isn't good enough anymore. I .... may have finally become a "Stay." But I am NOT going to buy plushies/pens/headwear, or cardboard stand cutouts or an ebay auction of a sweat-stained bandana. Just saying. But I guess I'm fully on the "I like all their music and will pay for it" bandwagon, now.

Oh thank goodness, I'm not the only one. I feel like I wake up from a long sleep with enough eye crusties to make a crumble cake. I have a bottle of saline solution by the bed and rinse/moisten eyes out when I wake up, and am rubbing bits of crusties away for ages. And all day new ones keep slowly forming in the corner of my eyes (both sides). I suppose that's not very visually noticeable to other people but I can feel them/rub them out and it drives me nuts. >.>

^ well my 9900k is better than i7-9700, but not by oodles or anything. Confirms my thinking new gen of games will = my CPU is going to be a limiting factor right quick. I'm still confident I'd get BL4 to run at 45-60fps fake-4k/DLSS Performance Med/Low or something, but would I want to. Probably not. Forums are already full of angry performance-ranters, although as is often the case these days, some of that is re: ppl who want a lot more than 60fps. I'd say Steam reviews are so far around 40+% negative. Anyway - they didn't go full separation hog on the DLC but they did break it up into two major packs (for ones that aren't cosmetic-only): --Vault Hunter Pack: 2 future new main story areas, 2 new Vault Hunters, other misc $50 (US $) --Bounty Pack: 4 future "unique areas" (could just be a battle arena or small side quest/mini mission or something of that nature, not described), 4 new vehicles, other misc $40 <---personally I'd skip this one --Base game: $70 So $160 separately (or $130 for 'super deluxe' edition). Maybe in 4-5 years it'll have a "gold-like" bundle for 50% off. That seems about what it's worth. And I might have a new PC by then. Maybe. Seriously - even for (some of) those of us with decent higher income factors, it all seems so not worth it anymore (outside of smaller scale/indies/old games etc). And even some "indie" games have serious performance issues re: older/less elite systems because engines or tech or lack of dev experience/skill.

--Watched a short video of a small fishing driving a small tank across the floor for food pellet rewards. Maybe in 20+ years I can have one chauffeur me around when I'm too old to drive. --have been really tired. Where I lay down, and it's super comfy and I feel like I'm going to melt into the couch/bed and pass out/sleep any second, but then I don't, and I may get up again after 10 minutes. But yeah, these bouts of bone/nerve/brain tired. Like I haven't slept for 40 hrs. Even after 8 hrs of sleep. --my vision seems to be getting worse. Hard to read monitors/screens or subtitles at the moment, with or without glasses. They're also super dry/gummy feeling all the time. I guess I gotta see an eye doc. --I feel worn out is all. Bought a reading lamp for my bed because I hate having the full-ceiling room light fixture on, plus I thought I'd try reading books again (vs. screen glare). The lamp works great, but every time I try to read a book, it's a little blurry and after some minutes of holding the book and squinting, I become bone tired and fall asleep.

#1, It's a risk one takes being a public figure of any kind. Can't say I'm all that surprised in today's US/political climate. #2. I have definitely felt like the US is teetering on some kind of guerrilla/terrorist-civil war, more localized conflicts vs all states involved at once etc. Not saying it WILL happen, but it sure gives me those vibes. #3. While I'm not all that ancient yet, I've apparently still lived too long (tech/own nothing, politics (not just US either) etc. Humanity does like to repeat itself re: civilization cycles - if not in exact detail, in themes. I feel like the higher our tech, the faster those cycles are rotating even within current civilization era. Wonder what documentaries on us will be like. "The Rise, Fall and Demise of the 800 Year Global Tech and AI Empire?"

^ I'm sure I've said it before, but the only reason I still have Netflix at this point is 1-hubby and 2-S. korea content. But even the k-dramas that Netflix tends to highlight or at the ones plastered with the "Netflix originals" (or at least "only on Netflix") have a pattern to what they are. Which is why I've been going back to Viki a lot more, again. And half the time I can't even buy such on dvd's anymore in terms of willing to wait to see in that way. Especially for non-US stuff and series (vs. films).

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/28/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films I would think it's not just Netflix anymore. But I suppose we can blame them for starting it. Now they all do it. Sad state of affairs, and yet not surprising, both re: commercialism/profit, and humanity's constant thirst for ear and eyeball-induced tickles. "Are you not entertained?" Well, most of the time, no, not really. But hey, sometimes it is all better than watching the ceiling.

I just noticed that Dust Bunny trailer. If it has Mads, I'm watchin'. Also, looks good in general/my type of genre, at least.

Tainted Grail's "giant patch" finally came out today. And it's definitely huge - although ofc a lot of things are balance, bug, and small dungeon/loot/other type things. Still, it's massive. I'll probably wait for a little longer to see if there are any quick patches for the patch, but looks like time for a new playthru - or at least loading a save in early Act 1 perhaps. Also, transmog (at least in some crafting form) and NG+. So one can finally replay to get different loot re: such choices, all on one chr. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1466060/view/541115924558645329 But most importantly - will Cohh finally get back to his playthrough "soon"? That was his most entertaining/he seemed like he was having a grand ol' time playthru VoD's in years, for me (I don't watch twitch anymore but I check Cohh a bit more, recently, since he started dual-streaming to YT/leaving the Live VoD's up, vs only Twitch). I was sad when he put it on hold, wanted to see him finish.

--Freaky Tales is on HBO/Max and rentable via Prime already. I have it watchlisted. Like with everything I watchlist, I may get around to it "someday." --Casablanca - I tried to watch that once years ago. I was bored, didn't finish. I've seen all the famous clips and quips of course. High Sierra and Treasure of the Sierra Madre was more my speed re: Bogart/time period. I think they were the only two of his films I finished. Most films before mid-late-50's I won't get half way through them, with the cinematic styles of the period and stage like acting/direction just not doing it for me. There are notable exceptions, of course. High Noon, 12 Angry Men, Grapes of Wrath, early Hitch**** films, Singing in the Rain, early sci-fi. etc. But I remember this film I saw on TV once, I loved it back then. Called ... (google fu) ... Topper, 1937 (in b&w, never saw colorized versions, don't want to). Maybe one of 2 or 3 Cary Grant films I've seen in full. It was comedic/funny and Roland Young as the older Topper was great. Now I want to find/see it again. Don't think I saw the sequels. Edit: I probably liked light comedies/musicals of those eras more than other genres.

That's the point. It woke you up by annoying you. And if you put them on the other side of the room, it also got you physically out of the bed. Maybe to just smash it with a hammer, but still, now you were standing up. And on the old non-electric ones, no snooze alarm. Gradual non-stressful waking is for the weak! Granted some family/home situations could make it a bother/too disruptive. And not like I personally have needed to wake at a constant schedule most of the time for years, so who am I to chatter. Heh.

Still having fun revisiting No Man's Sky, designing Corvette ships/finding parts etc. Had to figure out where I'd left off my chrs, as always, heh. But this update = a whole lot more than the usual update-bugs. Where even my oblivious self has noticed/run into quite a few of such. Fortunately, they're good at patching them out fairly quickly. I'm reaching that point tho where I wish they'd stop fiddling with the game as their Light No Fire testbed. It's become slightly annoying feeling like NMS is simply an ad/an attempt to increase interest for LNF, now. That said, game looks better than ever. Cleaner/sharper and better lit then I remember from a few+ months ago. Although the rather overdone fog/storm obscuring effects are still in place. EDIT: oh, it's become a serious VRAM hog. Not sure if actual memory leak issues or not (or if it's just a badly set vram % allowance) but it goes up to 10, then 10.1, then 10.2 until 10.5/11gb of my vram pretty quickly and stays there. I can still play many consecutive hours without that affecting performance or bleeding into pagefile (for me) but some have issues.

New Stray Kids single. Their actual music vids just get wilder and moah money. First listen: (this happens to me a lot with a new track even from familiar artists) Listen to it 3-4 times : On repeat for a while: *headbopping* "KarmaKarmaKarma! Hiphip!" Not my fave of theirs but still fun. Plus this one: seems a bit of a diss track re: their "noisy" detractors+negativity. (subtitles needed). Their overall control over their music (vs. typical kpop groups) is one of their strengths. They do what they want. Which is great, whether one likes their music or not.

Ok, this is the one I'm going to recreate in my Abandoned Mode saves when I manually find the parts needed. More compact than the other one, 4 wall slots. I could play w/it some more but I'm burnt out for now. This is good enough - at least I don't cringe when I walk by it.

Functionally it's useless - vs simply sticking to a normal ship (no living area so no "storage/workstation" space) - but hey, it's small. Haha. It's taking advantage of overlapping, separate creation/edit stations - a sort of unintended simple glitch I suppose - you can't do this and save the design/edit, normally.

At last, I made something that isn't huge and doesn't look terrible, that I could live with as regular "main" use. And it still has 8 interior "workstation" ability if I want, plus good maneuverability and huge warp distance stats (the two I care about). So, yay? Maybe I'm getting the hang of how to use all these stupid parts. Course I'm still gonna obsessively fiddle with new/other designs for a while, before I get bored.

I can view all my attachments via profile link, but I don't see any checkboxes or way to choose ones to delete, anymore. Maybe I'm blind? Not that I have tons of them but there's several ancient ones I could remove and I recall I used to be able to with the old forum software.

Note: you can make fancier/smaller ships but if you want certain extra stat bonuses, you need moah bits. Using those bits, I have yet to figure out something I like enough to perm. keep around. So ofc it goes: "I am going to make as small a ship as possible today!" then 1-2 hours I just repeat my usual pattern. >.> Edit: oh, forum uploaded attachments don't link to a full size. Makes sense I guess. Oh well, too lazy, good enough.

No Man's Sky - Voyagers update --basic can-purchase Corvette ship parts are limited. --to get access to more you run around in the world and a few kinds of containers/poi's etc. will get you random parts. Salvage containers are what I use because it feels the fastest - guaranteed parts each one (still random) so I had a backpack full of parts before too long to fiddle with. --BUT the whole system is definitely test-bed buggy in many ways. One may not notice if creating a very simple low part Corvette and then done. The more you (over) design and constantly edit the same ship, the glitcher it seems, especially re: ship stats and the things you can place in interiors. I placed a chair, sat, and immediately sank through ship to the ground. When you edit design, tech modules shift all over the place, accidentally get duped sometimes, resources/parts disappear, various other things. --It's very fun to try to build something "cool" however - it's the main appeal probably. I've spent quite some hours trying already. Some ppl have good visual imagination for that, even using all the clunky pre-fab parts. Apparently I don't. Or at least, I keep wanting certain parts in the design, meaning my four efforts have all ended up as weirdly decorated flying fridges. --You could easily make a flying Borg cube. Which is funny. ---Corvettes would be helpful if you are an extreme minimalist, and ofc small friend groups, but honestly outside of design-fun I'm not sure I have much use for one. They are a little too awkward to use with certain quirks/limitations (edit: example, it's often hard to find open space to *land* in the Corvette- you have to teleport out of it and teleport back into it, often disappears on save reload). I'd probably just end up summoning/using my regular tiny ships most of the time anyway.

Non-GPU griping news: You can apparently now build an entire ship in No Man's Sky, walk around in it, use it as a mini-flying base (I guess?), and leap into space out of it. I've downloaded the update but haven't turned it on yet. If one can build a decent mini-base sized ship that doesn't fly/handle/land like the Titanic, it'd be my dream. No need for a freighter then. It'd be nice if they put the build-station in Abandoned Mode too, but probably not. Hasn't happened yet, but by the time Light No Fire releases, NMS may/is gonna need a new PC to run it well/max. It's not really that deep a dive but if one wants to hear him talk about it a little.

I'd still rather be able to have mostly High, a few Med settings (highest textures and draw distance is my main "must") and not use DLSS at all, even with enforced RT lighting (not full path tracing) but it has advanced enough that Quality-DLSS is acceptable in most cases. Balanced degrades noticeably to my eyes and anything below that is still UghNope-Killitwithfire (on the 55"). I might accept 18-Vram if that became a thing and the price was right, but I definitely want more than 16 re: a new gpu.

Far as I'm concerned, it's very intentional. And yes I know re: bus size, ddr capacity etc. being limiting factors. Hence, "design better." 6070-6080 should be 16gb vram minimum. I suppose the xx60 could remain at 12. If 60xx generation has any 8gb cards I'll roll my eyes pretty hard. Just me tho. edit: I personally want 24gb min, which is why I keep looking at the xx90's.

Yeah I'm in kind of the same boat. I could build around a 5070ti for now but it doesn't seem worth it. I mean I still ran the Indy game "fine" even if at fake-4k/DLSS and it looked fine on the 55". I always build with a lot of longevity in mind (it's fun having a topend for a year or two but I mean since I don't mind turning down settings over the years) and with all these devs/game busy upping the ante, I don't have a sense of "uber longevity" from the 50xx series. If I'm going to spend 2k-3k on a topend GPU (because I'm a fool) it better last me at least 8 years. I suppose I keep hoping the companies will get their stuff together better for the next series, too. I'd like an equivalent of something like a 6080ti (whatever they call it) with 24 vram. I'm so sick of low VRAM on new gpu's. Design better, gpu makers. Not just gpu but cpu too. I'm disgruntled w/pc gaming overall. Heh. the other main factor for me tho is pure laziness. Buying parts/putting a pc together isn't so bad, but setting up O/S, transferring oodles of data etc = 2-3 weeks of hell. Never in a hurry to do that.

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.