LadyCrimson

I can't eat potatoes/stuffing anymore. Well, maybe a bite... Makes me miss Boston Market. We used to go to one for Thanksgiving. They've mostly disappeared here tho. I used to cook (small) turkeys just for us but became fed up with the frozen store things that took 20000000000 hours to thaw out. Plus our current gas oven sucks. Anyway ... when I was a kid at the family dinners my mother did this thing where everyone would get a card and we'd write down a few things we were thankful for that year, and then she'd read them all before dinner. So ... ---I'm alive, fairly healthy, not quite wealthy and ... wise. Well, 2.5 out of four ain't bad... --the camaraderie of this forum that makes it a place I like to hang out is always appreciated, too. Cheers all. *raises glass*

^ I don't like xbox design/the way the joysticks aren't on the same "line" - makes me hold it not evenly, plus they're fatter. Small hands/short fingers + thumb/forefinger grip arthritis. Xbox makes the arthritis hurt a lot more. The way they changed the PS5 controller to be fatter and look more like xbox in a way, didn't make me happy. The Speedlink looks more my speed, it's $35 on Amazon I think. Hm. I'm guessing some of the center touchpad functions of the ps4 one wouldn't work with it but would work for most games. Might try it, thanks. Edit: actually seller prices vary from $8-$45. I can't tell the difference. EditEdit: Is this the one? https://www.amazon.com/Speedlink-Strike-Ergonomic-Gamepad-Black/dp/B01N9HJO8I

Health insurance is a big reason hubby keeps working, he worries about it a lot. That and he has this cushy job where they luv him to death and where he can work remotely even if there was no covid. And hubby's the sort who is afraid he'll drop dead if he's too idle. We're not old enough for Medicare etc, and now I'm "sick" and need semi-regular stuff, too. Pffft. Speaking of which, I spent all week taking only one insulin shot per day (in the morning), to see what would happen. Morning blood sugar stays the same or sometimes a bit higher but still "fine." So I think I'm going to do that most of the time, as long as that remains so. If I over indulge food one day I can always take a shot for that one evening just in case. Even varying the shot location, my belly sometimes feels like a bruised pincushion - it likes not being punctured twice a day. Edit: also, late evening is when I'm most likely to forget a shot anyway...

Sounds like a convenient controller, wish I had one.

I'd probably like that one because of no frame line/image separation. It's not big enough, tho.

Does GoG Galaxy have "native" controller support with games or do you still often need 3rd party to get them to work? Because it sure didn't work with Outer Worlds when not using Galaxy.

You could get a bunch of those and sit in the middle! Put up an avi wallpaper of some beautiful environment and spin in your chair with arms flung wide like an actor in a movie. Like this, only with curved's. Of course, for me who loves huge screens - I need one of these!

Are these massive and long-lasting shortages all around due to demand or to covid and manufacturing issues? Or combo? And I think most people realize that the 3090 isn't worth it to a gamer/average user at that price. In fact sometimes I wonder why nvidia keeps up with that tier - do the few people who buy it for non-gaming use make it profitable, or is it more a 'look at us" marketing thing - and if the latter, I feel like it doesn't work very well anymore.

If I had 2 curved I'd probably want them on top of each other to maintain a single curve aspect. Also ... blue is the best RGB/backlight color.

Pretty soon, at the rate they're going, Netflix is going to cost me more than HBO+Starz ($24 thru Prime) combined. I know they offer more variety than a "movie channel" but If they start getting towards $50 five or so years from now, I may finally draw a line in the sand. I do use them the most however, and I like the 4k/multiple user plan. Edit: also, Netflix's player is still the best, imo. Prime video's player still rather sucks.

^ Mads!!!

I watched episode 5 and I'm starting to change my mind a little. There's still aspects/parts I like but they're shorter and shorter as the fairly nonsensical romance aspects kick in. It's nonsensical because so far they haven't bothered to explain at all why the male lead (he's a "god" basically) loves/wants to protect the female lead so much in the first place (she has amnesia - arrgh - due to an evil spirit and is living as a human) so I really couldn't care about any love triangles. Anyhoo, I'm guessing later episodes the action/plot will come back but in the meantime, I think I FFWD'd thru 70% of the last episode.

Short-form: was playing Kotor2 and lurking the forums a while. Eventually registered and started posting. Been here off and on ever since. Edit: I was on the very old BG1 boards (with the threaded style posts) but I didn't really follow all the moves from there, outside of lurking occasionally, and I used another nickname anyway etc... It was busy and fast-paced, and felt more casually social in some ways, in those early days (the WoT shenanigans back then...). There were days I felt like I practically lived here. I was a mod off and on a couple different times until I finally deduced I'd much rather be an ordinary forum peon instead - I was also absent for long periods two or three times. These days sometimes I only lurk, sometimes I post a lot, sometimes I'm not very involved at all, but I always check in at some point. As to why I'm still hanging around - some of the very long-timers may be gone but there are still some around, as well as plenty of "newer old-timers" that have become part of the community that I find fun and interesting and it's always nice to hear from/see now and then. I tend to get most of my gaming news from here (and a couple other forums). I like that some people at least vaguely "know my name." I'm also old, and places like Steam forums etc. don't fit me very well, so I don't tend to travel very far outside of here and a few other places. So basically ... it's comfortable, like your favorite t-shirt. Or like hanging out in the backyard while talking over the fence with familiar neighbors.

Cyberpunk PC won't have AMD ray tracing on release or for quite some time. If anyone cares about that. I'd guess there will be other games with this situation as well as they all shuffle to "work with AMD." https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-wont-support-raytracing-on-amd-cards-at-launch/ That's potentially interesting. Wonder what it brings to the table that's new/different, to make old farts like me want to buy it vs. just playing ... Caesar and Pharaoh. Edit: I have HD/resolution mods for the old stuff, so that's not a reason.

Having another huge lucky streak in that baseball slot. Still no "Homerun" tho. Other than that, a quiet Sunday. And our neighbors have returned! They're aliiiiivvve! They're busy cleaning up their home/yard - some of their huge tropical leaf things were getting as tall as the house, heh. I hope they didn't like where ever they were so much they're going to move/sell or anything. They're some of the better neighbors we've had.

it's all automated. People simply drive on a road the game thinks you contributed to building, you get auto-Likes. After a certain amount of those however, they stop (not sure what the limit is). People use a structure you built that appeared within their own play session, you get auto-Likes just because they used it (seemed to be a set number). No one has to manually Like anything, those are just small bonuses. This is why people place bridges in the middle of land/weird places sometimes, trying to get those auto-likes. Structures you build are stored/saved on their server and have a chance to appear in other people's games that are all designated as being on the same server as you, but there is no controlling that. If you "connect" to a player, you may see their stuff more often but still random. This is why you'll never see anyone's entire "zip line network" for example and it may seem like some things that pop-in make no sense (without the rest of what that player built to go with it). Also, if you keep deleting structures over and over, game will just replace with something else similar in that spot - but it might be something more useful to you. Random and not worth bothering to do tho. Edit: outside of the road-building help, which can be substantial, imo it's better to play the game "Offline" - especially if you want more challenge (and less clutter). Just me tho.

I watched someone play a lot of it on Twitch before I bought it, so I knew what it was about and what to expect. I would just watch some YouTube or browse forums when they were on and on replays I just skipped. Most of it is in the beginning and towards the end so I knew it was mostly "freeplay" so to speak, in the middle. I'm not against story, per se, or "ooh and ahh" cinematic here and there. I simply don't like the way a lot of games often present, frame and edit such scenes now, vs. older days/games. I feel too trapped into watching some 5-15 minute thing (vs. 30-60 seconds) every 500 steps vs being engaged as an active participant. Occasionally I'm in a patient mood, or curious, or it's eye-candy, or half-way through a game I'm invested enough into chrs. by then to care but...

I don't feel like listening/watching to tons of "hey we're cinema" cutscenes and hours of talking heads if I don't have to. When I tried the game ages ago (I do own it already, btw), so much went on and on and on, people talking for long minutes at times, that I just didn't care to listen after a while. I just wanted to explore, as usual.

Can anyone tell me how much you can "ignore" the main story in The Witcher 3? That is, how much do you have to do in order to access all the main open areas/crafting etc? That kind of thing. Example: in Morrowind I largely just ran around doing "stuff" and raising skills/exploring, fighting/collecting and building houses (mods). I never even joined a faction. :P

I'm playing baseball .... slots. Been on auto-spin while doing other things for a couple hours, 250M a spin. I've been on a (mostly) crazy unending lucky streak but ... ...I'm coming out way ahead, so why the exasperated faces? Because I'm greedy and it's not this one: I'm telling ya, the Home Run is a lie! Pffft. Happy Friday/weekend everyone, hope it's a relaxing one.

@Azdeus I honestly don't even remember why I didn't play NOLF. I remember thinking it looked cool but I was probably still obsessed with some other game or three and never got around to it. Unless it was one of those I couldn't get running. That happened a bit more often back then. I'm pretty sure I at least started the game and ran around a bit or something.

No One Lives Forever - oh, that one. I bought it but never played it beyond the intro or something. Cyberpunk dev's made TW3? I suppose that makes some sense then in terms of anticipating a similar quality of game then, seeing how popular TW3 seems to be. That's yet another game I rapidly lost interest in/didn't get far with, myself. Haha.

I told hubby what day it was. He gave a little exasperated snort and went back to staring at his monitor. Not exactly the celebratory type. Edit: I gave him an affectionate pat on the head, tho. His reaction was another grunt.

I'm not sure what a NOLF is, but Keyrock gets major points for using a Dean .gif Also, is there some place that explains why Cyberpunk is so super-hotly anticipated? I watch the released gameplay/trailers and it just looks like the typical car/rpg/action game. What's so extra-exciting about it, something about gameplay design/tech? The company making it? Big promises of some kind?