LadyCrimson

This too shall pass. Maybe. Someday. Probably before I'm dead at any rate.

...you'd probably get a neck cramp trying to look down at the top of my head. If we ever meet in real life, do I have permission to ask you how's the weather up there? Most of the time I feel like they recommend the entire video collection of a single author because 3 minutes ago I watched one of their videos.

When it's too big to get a good, full screenshot. This is not a zombie-horde defense home, btw. Those would be more spartan and combat functional. Building a couple of those a few game-chunks away from this thing. Just sayin'. See that hill that I'm building the planter boxes on? I'm going to cover the entire thing with those and porches and the like, then build another "house" at the top, which will have a height-walkway from one to the other. The farm-plot squares are at least not all-concrete and look better with the plants in them. Maybe that'll work for zombie spawn prevention. I'll think of something...

Oh? They don't seem that large to me. Edit: unless you mean the originals, if you edited those posted. At any rate, y'all know I'm just ribbing GD.

Dear Guard Dog: not that I personally care about multi-posting at all, but you can post more than one pic in a post, y'know. Looks like a lovely spot for a walk/whatever, tho! In other "news" - my PC hasn't spontaneously rebooted since I changed the cooler, confirming in my mind that was the problem. Also, I really like that Noctua cooler. I assume I didn't get the most uber version possible (D15S, it's all black!) which is fine since I don't manually OC (CPU just does that varied volt/oc on its own) but no game has gone over 55C, even cpu-intensive unity games . BL3 sits around 43C. If the fan starts to wear/get noisy in some years years I'll just buy a new one. I wonder how well the less tall ones would fare.

It's March. Days are a little longer, the weather is starting to get a tad more pleasant - although we could still have some "winter weather" days - so soon I can start getting my long evening walks again. I know, I could technically do those any time, but I like near-dusk to dusk walking, and I like dusk to not be at "rush hour" periods so it's quiet-ish. Late spring to late fall, best walkin' time. This felt like a slow/dreary winter. Stuck in ruts. But it's not a great time for any pleasure/change of pace travelin' either, outside of packing into the woods maybe.

Well that's too bad. I did spend a while placing a bunch to test it out (no spawning on while doing so, then turned spawning on). The random wilderness ones definitely were spawning. They're the ones I wish would go away or were spaced out a lot farther. I feel like in single-player one should be able to have 3 active bedrolls at once maybe, and you could click to set one to be the current respawn point, something like that. And yeah, the replace every block with a player-block is what we all did in the past, but I read a lot of posts saying that doesn't apply/work at all anymore, or isn't reliable/maybe is bugged, and if you build on a quest spot without realizing it and trigger the quest it'll respawn that whole chunk wholesale down to bedrock and stuff like that. Plus I don't want a giant city of nothing but concrete, even if you can "paint" blocks now, and it's a ton of work to do that. >.> I used to alter all the entity stats and group spawning .xml's to personal taste and individual z-type chance rates but it's way too much work now. I typically don't like other's mods because they never fit what I truly want. Oh well, back to just plain "all off" or at least blood moon's off, most of the time, then.

Still 7 Days/A19. I have discovered ... how to enable the use of multiple land claim blocks. LCB's are what you can use to define a smallish (relative to world size anyway) area where zombies cannot directly spawn (from sky to bedrock, square shaped), so you can have at least one base without z's popping into existence right in the middle of it, right. But you can only have one active at a time (place another one, first one "breaks"). There's also the portable bedroll, but same applies (so you could have two "base spaces" per map) but bedroll is also for designated - vs. random - respawn point so you'd rather the bedroll be for temporary placement. This severely limits "castle size" for us builders since you don't want z's spawning inside your workshop or a wall, say. Anyway, you can change number of active LCB's in the registry entries for the game. So now I can build ... 32! Ok, now I can REALLY make a fortress. Turn a whole town into one! I wonder if there's a limit even with registry. Could I have 10,000? Claim the entire map except for allowing small pockets of zombie hunting zones? BWHAHAHA.

So I ran this game for the 1st time in a while to test some hardware, and the first time looking at resource monitors while doing so in a long time. Even with moderate ray tracing on, I noticed it was only using about 50-60% of CPU (on most cores, no core/thread was anywhere near maxed out) and maybe 30-40% gpu utilization. Is it that low for anyone else? I can't remember if it was always like that. The fps playing is about the same tho, maybe a tad more stable. Just seems like GPU utilization should be higher considering the game? No big deal, just felt weird.

Ok got one of those Noctura or howyaspellit coolers - this is why I still like walk-in stores. Sometimes ya want something NOW. Seems to be nice and quiet (when new anyway) and effective (at least the fan speed didn't increase loudly with a game on). Not actually 100% sure that was the reason for rebooting but it would make sense right. If it was leaking it was itty bitty, couldn't really see anything obvious on the little waterblock/tubing itself, gpu seems fine outside of the dark stain. Could've been doing a micro-droplet every hour for weeks till it became enough that every 24 hours or so something went poof. Who knows. We'll see if it keeps self-rebooting now. Cross fingers. I need a CPU temp monitor now. Most of the ones people always say to use for some reason never work on my PC. By that I mean, they install/open but do not detect/display any information.

pc rebooted itself again while I was sleeping. Hubby looked at event viewer for me, no conclusions beyond usual general maybes. Then I looked in case and noticed a darker spot on top of gpu near an edge. I think the cpu cooler thingie is leaking. Took 2 years. >.> so looking for a coil heat sink now. pffffffffffft. Knew I shoulve stuck to one of those in the first place. Hopefully thats it.

I care little about either that game series or EA, but still find this good.

9:40 - Guy gives Rob Roy's fight a 10/10, so he's instantly the best expert of his field in the world, imo. He, the "ditches and more ditches" guy, and the "medieval weapons" guy this Insider channel has showcased, should make a whole series of them sitting on a couch reacting to/discussing stuff, together.

All the crazy weather everywhere these recent years. All we have is a possible big earthquake - that's not very likely to affect you personally much anyway - once every 50-100 years, and lately, oddball for here bits of light mid-summer rain. Seems pretty low stress to me in comparison. Haha. In other news, I woke up today, took off all my hand braces and was doing stuff for a while and suddenly realized my hand/thumb was working properly. Probably won't last all day but hey, I was able to eat a meal and wash my hair without pain! A good day.

That's part of "troubleshooting." Also, I've looked at that thing before, I can make no heads or tails of any of it and google requires you to understand the results. I'm no longer good with techno babble.

I have mixed feelings re: Evil Genius 2. The only reason I picked up the original was because it was described as being similar to Dungeon Keeper. I didn't really find it to feel all that much like DK but it was kind of fun. Never finished it tho. I largely only remember a bug I discovered with the treasure/gold stockpile room/tiles, where if I kept deleting and rebuilding/enlarging them the gold stacks would multiply. Don't remember exactly, it was something like that. So eventually I had massive sized treasure rooms and was rich. Anyway, I definitely want to try the sequel out of curiosity but I wasn't a giant superfan.

I'll wait for the remaster.

Was playing 7 Days for a few hours when my PC suddenly rebooted all on its own. Just, bam, everything goes black and reboots. Luckily the game is the type with no manual saving but autosaves (like it's "online") every few seconds or something. But now I'm paranoid. I've played it for 5ish hours in a row several times recently, nothing happened. Wasn't over-heating/no symptoms beforehand. I can only guess I hit some random game bug? Or because I hadn't rebooted the PC in a few weeks? Or... *scratches head* ... well I don't feel like troubleshooting. If it doesn't happen again I won't worry about it. First time the PC has done something like that since I built it, tho.

So long, Fry's Electronics. We haven't used you in a long time, really, but in the 90's and early 2000's you were practically a 2nd home. I wouldn't call them the best, but they were huge and handy, for TV's, PC's, DVD's, all of that. I still miss Tower Records too. The Good Guys, Circuit City, original Ace Hardware/Orchard, Mervyns, and others. Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy - none of it's the same. I wonder if Microsoft/Google/Amazon will still be dominant in another 50 years.

Still mucking about in 7 Days. You can build a gyrocopter now ... which looks cool but is about as fly-controllable as the cars in Cyberpunk. Well, worse, actually, but...that 4x4 jeep/truck is the best thing in the game now, outside of walking, which as always I still generally prefer to do. I guess at this point, overall I'd say A19 is close to my fave version of the game. It used to be the one I started with years ago (A10) but now it's A19. At least for my admittedly not-normal, idiosyncratic use of the game. A10 to maybe A12 is still the times where I liked the zombie/combat action tho. Digging zombies turning my carefully cultivated yards and buildings into random swiss cheese is too aggravating and sleeper zombies are stupid. If you have the 7 Day horde on, ya gotta have two bases - your main "pretty" one, and the zombie-fightin' one.

The only game that will never "need" a remaster is Majesty, because it is already perfect.

^ "time vortex", I like that phrase. That's what's missing from most games for me, these days. Again, it's not that games suck or are bad. I might even find them fun for a brief moment. But ... whether it's a virtual novel, slots, or the most complex rpg in the world, a game must cause that time vortex to happen or it has no sticking power for me. I must be sucked in to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. Most games I've tried recently I'm still watching the clock while playing. Pfft.

I think it's less "no original ideas" and more the "fear that having no name recognition will mean low sales/publicity/not worth investing in" syndrome.

When you're 16, summer can't come fast enough and lasts forever! When you're 30, summer boils down to a couple weeks of vacation that's fun but over in an eyeblink. When you're 50, by the time you notice it was summer, it's already winter.

...I don't know why, but for some reason I thought you were a little older. Who's the oldest on these forums, these days? Pffft, never mind, I don't want to know.