LadyCrimson

Hubby: *holding an angle ruler thingie* "Hmm. Well, so far, my reworked plane seems to be making the surface flat but not quite enough square." Me: *zeroes in on workbench and starts finger-shuffling through curly wood squiggles* "NEAT-o, the shavings from your test pine board are like fine curly birch bark! You could write secret notes and attach them to a pigeon!" Hubby: "....you're hopeless." Me: "Squirrel!" 🐿️ 🏃‍♀️💃 ...believe it or not, we're a well matched couple. No, really. ...in other 'news', it rained for like 5 minutes this afternoon. Shortest April shower ever.

Oh? Not even for games? Games are the main reason I use Windows. Most other uses, I suspect I'd think any ol' O/S would likely work, since I don't do anything all that techie if you know what I mean.

Microsoft actually rolled it back? interesting. I'm sure I'll update (some) things on Win10 eventually. Maybe. I never did get SP3 on XP....I still wonder if MS is really going to stick with updating/altering Win10 forever or if 10 years from now they'll finally go "Well, here's Win20 now!"

I became the same way with fantasy/sci-fi books, except that took me more like 30 years ... because I started when I was maybe eight and couldn't afford to buy very many at a time until much later. 😛 Games are becoming the same - although in that case it's that my game tastes re: styles and gameplay haven't changed all that much, but dev./marketing trends have. Edit: also, I think I *am* very picky. Otherwise I wouldn't grow bored so fast regardless.

Wait ... there's a One Punch Man ssn2? It's not on Netflix, darnit. How does one see it? Also, to clarify a tad, it's not that I don't understand that even the most action-y show needs some characterization bits, backstory/lore, dialogues, human interest, confrontations to broaden relationships, or whatever you want to call them. I mean at minimum, that's why I love the Kirk/Spock/McCoy dynamic trio, right. I just prefer them to be brief/intense and not the fundamental or only draw of a show. Breaking Bad over Shameless, for example. Remember you're talking to a spoiled woman-child who can binge-watch/play/read stuff 24/7 almost whenever they feel like it, for the past 15-20 years. It's easy/fast for me to become bored of media/fiction styles, very quickly I've largely stopped watching most k-drama's (except crime or suspense) after only 5-6 years (?) because I've seen so many I can count the plot/chr beats and practically know what's going to come out of their mouths.

Not necessarily about that game in the video at all, but sometimes I wonder how often at least things like stuttering, crashes, general performance issues have to do with Windows version (updates). :P Like a recent one was doing/did, and past ones. eg, I'm so glad I'm not a programmer. Drivers, configs, hardware, updates every month or three that changes stuff, what a headache. https://www.windowscentral.com/latest-windows-10-update-causing-nightmare-gamers I often feel like I don't have most game issues people report on forums but then I remember I haven't updated Windows in like 1.5 years or whatever. :P

Those are the parts where if they're longer than 30 seconds or simply too frequent for what I'm expecting from a genre, I often start FFWD'ing, in anything. Not that I don't like some dedicated slice of life films/series if done well, but more typically my reaction is like what I have for long cutscenes in video games. *skip*. Edit: I was more patient/liked such more when I was younger tho, I think. It's just all too predictable now and I go for vicarious thrills. 😄 Anyway, saw a review for the movie version of something called Demon Slayer, which the reviewer said one wouldn't get as much out of said film if you haven't seen the series. The series is on Netflix, so I checked it out. First episode started well enough. Then two episodes of training prep type stuff, which wasn't done in a way that interested me much (repetitive, cliche, boring). Then it started moving again. I can't decide if I like it. The animation style of faces/expression puts me off for some reason (rather flat even for anime), and the "camera" style often feels like playing a game at a FOV of, oh, say, 40 instead of 70-90. It's distracting/restrictive feeling. I'll give it a few more episodes (there's 26 I think) of where the chr. is actually doing "missions"/demon slaying more often. I do like the overall story arc concept and the dynamic of the sister-turned-demon w/brother dedicated to finding a cure, is nicely sympathetic.

If the vaccine becomes something like the "regular flu" vaccine where people need to get a booster every year or even every six months or something like that, I wonder how well the vaccination rate will be over several years. People tend to become more ... lax ... when something becomes an annual thingie, vs. thinking they can do it just once in their lifetime or maybe once every 5-10 years.

Me: "What cha doing?" Hubby: "My plane is starting to look clean and like a plane should!" Me: "...that's not a plane. Where's the fuselage? Vertical stabilizer? There's no wings?..." Hubby: *rolls eyes* *smacks me on the top of the head* It's an old Millers Falls hand plane he bought used last year, kinda like the one above. He's sanding the rust off/sharpening it etc. This is why we hardly ever went anywhere even when young and I had to entertain myself with things like jigsaw puzzles and computer games.

That's called friends with benefits, right?

In fairness to Sailor Moon, I barely have the attention span these days to finish 10 one hour episode seasons, let alone maybe 80-100 hours (?) of episodes. I might've liked it ok if I'd watched it directly after Slayers - but typically I like higher action/thriller (Noblesse style, early Bleach, OnePunch) or somewhat supernatural/human drama (Hikaru no Go, Mushishi, can't think of a more recent example at the moment).

Is that all it is, now? I would've expected to be even higher, after all these years, actually. Must've gone downhill and is now a peasant U.

Based only on clips on YouTube, I'm not sure I could get all that into Sailor Moon at this point. Especially the highschool (?) setting. With Slayers, I kept watching the first season mainly because Lina was so hilariously violent tempered/mercenary, and Gourry so hilariously stupid (but loyal!) - and the fights were frequent and fun - but I didn't get super into it until 2nd season and Xellos involvement. 2nd season was best season.

"You have claimed a portal!" "One of your minions cannot reach the treasure room." <---imp stuck in a wall "A trap has been manufactured." "A new spell has been researched." "Your library is too small." "Your creatures are fighting among themselves!" "The enemy has broken through your walls!" "The enemy is destroying your rooms!" "Your creatures are under attack!" "Ahh! Ayee! Wheeeee! Whoahhh! Wahhhh! Eeeeee!" <----sound of you and AI dropping lots of minions on a tile "Your creatures are attacking the enemy!" "Your creatures are falling in battle." "Your minions are winning a battle." "Food is scarce; enlarge your hatchery." <---too many bile demons "A new room has been researched." "Beware, the Lord of the Land approaches!" "Your dungeon heart is being attacked!" "Your minions are winning a battle." "You have conquered this land!" "It is payday." ....still the most funzies game ever.

Yeah, it's The Thing. ...Cash. I've never seen/cared to see that movie. Guess that's why it didn't make my brain go "ding."

*runs into the room* "Lina Inverse and Xellos 4ever!!!!" *runs out of the room*

The names Plissken, O'Neil and MacCready jump out at me, but that's it. I'm not good with number references tho, if any of those are anything. I still love that movie. Can't say why, outside of Kurt being in it. I mean I don't think it's 10/10 uber classic, but as one would say in the days of non-streaming TV - if it's on/I surf to it, I'd stop to watch it.

Cambell's condensed mushroom soup - like many of their condensed soups - goop-plopped into a bowl with water and just heated up as soup .... is disgusting. Which is why most people use them as marinades/sauce mixers, not soups. I've had restaurant mushroom soups (not just creamy ones) that are good - assuming one likes mushroom flavors - but that's a whole different thing.

Oh and to be more on the original topic: I think in the US, women definitely are more likely to seek out mental health counseling of some kind, possibly asking a doctor for a psychologist recommendation, where said psychologist may then tell them they seem to have a mental health issue. But just going for an annual health checkup, psychology checking does not typically factor into that. They just do physical stuff, they don't bring out the ink blots. When people feel blue, if they can afford it, they find a psychologist or counselor on their own, either to talk or to try to get drugs. If for no other reason then to try to keep it under wraps more. I'm not sure how it works these days, but some level of mental health is often covered in medical plans. Not sure how much on average. I'd guess some medical would cover initial/emergency mental health care and some visits with a psychologist but not really extended treatment. I'm probably out of date on that end tho, I haven't bothered to check up on such in years.

80% coverage of something (example, pulling #'s out of my hat again) sounds decent until the bill gets so high into the stratosphere that the remaining not covered is still far more than most people are going to have liquid/available to them. 😕 Although tbh, unless it's 100% all the time/all conditions/time-period lengths, I'm not sure how one gets around that even if you did some reforming of the current system. At some point there could be this bill for hundreds of thousands and even 5% of that could bankrupt most/average people. Medical costs just go up and will keep going up. Re: dental in the US ... it's separate from medical here, as well. Usually less expensive (the plans I mean) then medical insurance, but also usually even less comprehensive. The more common things that tend to crop up - root canals, cavities, etc. while not cheap, are likely going to be "only" hundreds, or under a few thousand, vs. hundreds of thousands for extended hospital stays/surgery or whatnot.

Figured out why the gog version of Dungeon Keeper 1 felt laggy when using the alt+r higher res. option. Running the higher res means you have to adjust the dosbox cycles. So hitting ctrl+F12 4 or 6 times does it. Now it's nice and smooth like I remember. Yay! Maybe I can play the tunneler levels now without fear of being mouse-lagged to my doom.

Cambell's Cream of Mushroom - that classic staple of most mothers from a certain generation or three. My mother always seemed to have at least four or five cans of it in the pantry at all times.

^ It's a system for the rich, basically. >.>

Monthly upkeep of any medicines can also be a huge factor for uninsured in some cases, relative to income. I think the insulin I'm taking would be around $150-$200 per month retail which for many would be a not unsizable annual burden. And that's not some uber expensive or rare drug. And those blood test strips can be $1 a strip, and considering one is "supposed" to use one at least once a day, maybe thrice - altho at this point I mostly just check it once or twice a week. We currently have an insurance plan that pretty much covers everything - we weren't billed a dime for my multiple-day hospital stay last year and all the tests/scans they ran on me, or when they want to rerun the standard checkup tests, for example. But we also don't get any true personalized care. It's the typical US hospital factory. And we didn't always have such a policy. Most people don't. Most employers can't afford the really pricey/comprehensive plans and even if they did, it also means more taken out of your paycheck if you accept it. Still, better health insurance is definitely one factor that can motivate people to switch jobs.

I'm telling y'all, I'm going to buy some raw land somewhere in the boonies and dig myself an underground, concrete, hobbit-hole and that's what I'll die in. My tomb. No one will even know my corpse is there unless a tax man comes calling.