LadyCrimson

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.

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.