LadyCrimson

Yup...History Channel. Haha.

Best western novel I've ever read. Thanks, RIP.

I don't even care if they can fight, provide food, or help you in any way. Just be a deco companion that follows me around and be cute as a button. Or if useful at all - tiger/panther mounts, like in that Neverwinter mmo. Yeah, I remember those. WoW, too. All fantasy-ish open-worlds should have panther riding mounts. F* horses.

I finally found the perfect spot for a plateau/cliffside castle. Now the problem is trying to think of design. What's there is a few initial supports (supports go all the way down to bedrock) and testing. Need to figure out the blocks for building better towers and such. Gosh I love building (and the freedom about it) in this game. They have yet to let us raise/farm the chickens and rabbits, let alone the mt. lions, in 7 Days. All we can do is chase/kill them. If they add pet cats in your game, I'll rely on you to let me know. ... half the reason I kept playing Path of Exile was all their deco cat pets....

I read a review then saw the trailer for "Nobody" - now I desperately want to see it but it probably won't be streaming until late April. Bob Odenkirk getting mad and kickin' butt, must watch. I expect the movie itself to be simply serviceable but predictable - but he in that kind of role - totally my thing.

Uh, no, no it wasn't. Probably got dumped in a neighbor's garage mail slot instead. It's not really worth debating over tho ... I'll probably just try to order it again if neighbors don't bring it by in another day or two or something.. In other daily news, one of hubby's workers has Covid. He was one of the few that was actually in the office a fair bit this month (the place is largely empty most of the time). So hubby can't go in the office himself (IT/network server ppl need to do that sometimes) until it's been cleared or something. The guy's in his early 30's and has diabetes issues. Hubby hasn't seen him in person for a couple weeks or been in the office this week so probably no worry there. Hope the guy ends up ok. He was extra careful because of his condition but can't be careful enough these days I guess.

Let's see ... the highest you can place a block is at 254M. If I build a single block column starting at 65M (typical not-mountain height is 55-65M), it takes 189 blocks to reach the limit. So seemingly, one block = 1M. My character is definitely taller than one block, so "M" is unlikely to stand for "Mile" ... thus I'll assume it's for "Meter" ... which means the max building height from 65M would be approx ... 620 feet? That doesn't seem very high, considering tallest in real world are 1800+ feet. Oh sure I could dig to bedrock and add maybe another 150 feet, but that section would be "underground" - unless I feel like digging up the entire world down to bedrock - and it's not the same. So much for my plan to build a version of 432 Park Avenue or similar. I am disappoint! Oh well, probably for the best, since often grand plans, not always enough patience.... Also: to place blocks without cheat-flying, one hits the jump key and quickly places a block under the 'feet', re-landing on the newly placed block, over and over. Then at the top, you just skydive off, die, and respawn on your bedroll. Repeat until you have your main vertical supports up, then start trying to create/connect all the floors/walls/whatever, using ladders (where's my elevators!) and makeshift scaffolding, of a sort, while now trying to not purposefully skydive.

Sorry, I missed this before - I can understand that pov. The main reason the video sorta made me want the game is so I could try "breaking" it too. I mean let's face it, overall there's only so many ways you can do a crafting/survival+action game. There's going to be one (maybe) or two that fits a personal playstyle/game mechanics preference. I feel like Valheim has too much focus on boss fighting which isn't really my thing anymore, if it ever was. I'd probably play it (because it has a different aesthetic vs. 7 Days) if I could remove most of that and just creatively build mountain castles/towers that most players would never have the patience to make legitly. Ages ago, before all this 3D pc gaming, I used to want a copy of AutoCad or similar so I could design floor plans because I'm weird like that. I still haven't gotten far in No Man's Sky. I like its exploration feel and the theoretical possibilities, but something about it did not inspire the "one more hour" type of feeling for me.

You can "mod" a lot of things in 7 Days very easily, it's just a matter of changing or deleting etc. lines in the .xml sheets. Not a big deal outside of the time it takes to hunt and peck for the right lines (alter or remove the "wrong" lines and you'll get all kinds of errors, haha). Although these days you can create/dump them into a Mods folder so updates don't constantly revert all the tiny line changes you made, back again. Or for more extensive mods some make that include more scripting or graphic reworks.

Saw some YT video that reminded me I saw this movie in the theater back when - had a teenage bf who loved such movies. Anyway, I remember thinking it was entertaining even then, and nostalgia has me wanting me to say it was one of those "most 80's 80's" type of movies. So much cheese and Bruce Lee homages. The slow mo arm waving - one of those Bruce Lee homages - at around 3:25 is gold (warning, end fight spoiler, if anyone cares). Sho Nuff! Also, that song was awesome.

I have now modded 7 Days where max chr. level is 5 (normally 300) but I get a lot of skill points each level. This is an experiment in game stage workings. I still don't really understand game stage, except that days survived + character level + many deaths vs. no deaths somehow dictates when and how often/many the harder crazy zombies start spawning all the time. I found a readable "skill book" that gave me more damage ... against humans. There are no humans in the game. I know there are going to be bandits later but what is the point of putting that in the game now? Maybe if you want to PvP (most people don't/it's not highly supported). Whatever. They updated to version 19.4 but I didn't feel like updating for tiny changes/fixes. I'll just wait for A20 instead and continue farting around with 19.3.

I was all about Data, just like I was all about Spock. Not that I didn't love Q and Picard too. Almost everyone else just sort of faded into the background. Beverly had one or three good episodes, one really horrible episode and otherwise was just there. One of the better Troi episodes (imo) was Face of the Enemy. I think the actress was more effective/better ability showcased during such moments vs. the bland and neutral therapy/empathy role she was usually scripted into. Plus how interesting can you make a variation of "What are you sensing?" "I'm not sure." all the time? It was almost her version of "Hailing frequencies open".

Won't be long before I'll figure why bother buying on original release - wait 2-3 years and you'll get the new and improved, extra features, no bugs, remaster version. Y'all developers/publishers aren't tricking me into double-buying again! Nope, nosiree, neveragainever! What? No that isn't a bridge in my pocket.

...I've had some "Chinese jalapeno chicken" that definitely had too much "pepper." I'm very tolerant of jalapeno's and some hot sauces but even I was picking half of these out so my insides wouldn't be burning holes re: the amount ingested. Black pepper ... generally on a steak or something tho you can crust the whole thing with black pepper or whatever and it's fine. Red pepper "flakes", jalapeno's are usually what I use - I like them best w/stir frying and soy sauce based sauces, mostly. Habanero's and the like can just stay out of my kitchen outside of a dash of some sauce maybe. All this talk of pepper - I now want some "street tacos."

I'm so sick of the unyielding metal finger splints, where you can't feel anything, it's like wearing metal gloves... so I tried wrapping the velcro strips around my knuckles instead. Seems to work to keep the joints from auto-curling/sticking into bent "trigger" position, no popsicle stick required. Good enough for day use anyway, just wear metal splints at night. I might even be able to use a game controller (clumsily). Not that I should... Apparently "trigger thumb/finger" tends to be more common with diabetic people, RA, and older women. And pc users/some jobs, I'm sure. Sigh. *grumpy deformed claw, cat*

Depends on the pepper.

4:3 is because of IMAX. If an IMAX release is planned they shoot for that, where the screen ratio is almost square (eg, tall) and thus closest to 4:3. Then for the regular release they have to edit/crop it for the not-tall/square typical theater ratio. Thus you are getting the director's original scene framing in those cases, which they may actually prefer. Maybe. It's what I've heard anyway. ...edit: I haven't seen the movie, either the original or this Snyder cut thing (or the wonder woman movie, or....batman vs. superman was the only one I saw I think). I'm mildly curious so perhaps one day but 4 hrs is a bit beyond my TV patience recently.

Was rewatching season 1 of HBO's Rome. Still holds up - although the scenes of the scheming of the women characters isn't all that repeat watchable imo. I think it's time for another series about Rome or something. Not "HBO's Rome, rebooted" - just another good fictional production of that period. Especially if they had better/more battle sequences. But I'm biased because I tend to like those historical figures/conflicts in fictionalized form. And battles.

...note: you can have too much salt, fat, sugar, pepper, etc, but imo, there is no such thing as too much garlic.

Signs of passing winter: aka where's my housemaid. Could use a personal home decorator too. Also ... why I like dark rooms. Darnit, can't unsee, now I have to clean my KB.

No clue. I think I left Defender as something that can update itself, it's one of the few Win10 services I don't mind having run - I only disabled o/s (all those "packages") and all drivers (I hate Windows updating any hardware drivers, I'll do such manually thanks). That said, I can't even remember the last time I got some Windows "notification" for anything. Hubby does all the firewall stuff (physical hardware firewall, all his work and remote desktoping needs more than avg. precautions) and I'm just an extension of his network so in some terms I don't really think about such. I don't have Windows Firewall or any other software firewall enabled tho, never have on any Windows. I did a ton of Win10 tweaking initially, including some powershell command stuff, to the extent I had to write down everything I did so if I ever have to reformat/reinstall I can hopefully do it all again, because by then (well, already, now, actually) I won't remember jack.

I just turned UAC slider all the way down and haven't had any issues since. But I probably don't do anything that triggers anything, since I know that technically doesn't turn UAC completely completely off. I also haven't updated Win10 in a year or more, turning them completely off in Group Policy. Only time I update an o/s istuff s when a game I want to play refuses to run if I don't, since I hardly ever install new software that might complain. Burying user control options under layers and layers or registry tweaks is definitely an irritation tho.

Minari? Looks like one of those critically lauded, well-acted but slow paced human dramas. One which I'm actually interested in, but not $20 Amazon rental level interested in. Otherwise, yeah, old school. Some old classic you think others haven't seen or something.

Phone cameras: there's that certain distance and lighting where they do fairly well. And then there is ... ...nope, that doesn't work for me.