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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Probably a bathroom attached/within the bedroom vs spread out. Fairly common in some areas. On-suite, as the shows like to say these days. Is there a "main fuse" concept in houses anymore? I mean everything is either room specific (living room, bedrooms etc) or appliance specific (washer/dryer, fridge + overall kitchen) seems like. Something could blow all of them at once ofc (doesn't sound like Shady's situation) but ...well, I'm no electrician. That would be hubby's territory, as usual. -
Plays during a certain segment of Borderlands 3. If haven't played game, DO NOT GOOGLE this song or read YT comments etc. unless you want a massive chr. spoiler. Anyway, replaying a section a few times for the PC version of the game, every time I'm always "what is this song? I love this song." Really makes a great specific game moment. Light headbanging all the way. Overall I think I like BL1 and 2's songs and score more, but BL3 still has some good tunes.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Fiber 'net installed. Hubby speedtests at around avg 800Mbps on a quick testing but I seem to be bottlenecked somewhere in the LAN pipeline to 100Mbps. Which is still way faster than before, tho. Instead of 4MB on Steam it's almost 12MB. And screenshot threads load instantly vs. taking some seconds to load all images. Yay. At some point hubby will fix the LAN bottleneck (he has other stuff to work on too like installing a better firewall he needs 'cause work security, vs. the basic stuff ATT's router thingie uses). I'll be curious re: Steam then. I mean, game D/L's (or wanting 10 Twitch streams on at once) are the only major net speed issue for me typically. Anyhoo, I feel "with it" for (1st world) 'net speed again. Edit: well, hubby just changed the lan router cable and changed a port and now I have full speed. It's always the cable, right. So I tried a Steam game update. It got up to 71MB but the download finished too fast to see it go higher. -
What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
I don't really have a favorite manufacturer in BL3. Just favorite specific weapons. I look at dps, basically. Like, there's this shotgun The Lob. Fires a giant ball that is super slow moving. Normally you'd toss it thinking "useless." But lvl 57 ones do around 11k+ elemental damage. So I put it on and charge into enemies faces and fire so they can't dodge. Boom, often a critical and they're dead - thus I like the weapon even if initially it seems like it "sucks". I love high elemental and splash damage. Especially in Mayhem 3+. I am a charge into the middle of a fight type, no stealth, I (mostly) gave up on snipers and any subtlety since BL2 (sniping was the bomb in BL1 tho). Hubby's still the more subtle type, using cover and trying for precise shots and the like (he takes 3x as long to do/clear anything, I swear, heh) but eh, not my style anymore. So I choose gear accordingly. Edit: My current favorite weapons are Hellshock pistol and Yellowcake. I typically need nothing else, really. I can blow through storymode/normal through all of Eden6 using a lvl 14 Hellshock. >.> Lydia sniper can be awesome too. Note: power wise, almost anything works on Mayhem 1, don't have to be picky there and you still get plenty of Legendaries in M1. Hubby sticks to that. -
What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
Still BL3. I did the current online Event and ended up with this new event specific unique launcher called Yellowcake. It is vastly overpowered vs. anything else and you can use it to easily down most things all the way up to Mayhem 5 or 6 (most weapons at that stage feel like literal pea-shooters where you go through all your ammo to kill a small number of enemies...). Thus I expect them to nerf it at some point and am taking full advantage of it's uberness to farm all the bosses and areas. It still annoys me that you have to be Steam-"Online" to have a good (or ridiculously good) unique drop rate (vs. early console droprates). When you play offline without all the constant "hotfixes" applied, you can barely get good purples much of the time. They nerfed that hard for Offline, imo. So you feel like almost nothing good after hours and hours, even the special chests, except from maybe a few bosses, then you go Online and uniques just fall from the sky and even trashpiles are popping them out at a steady rate. Absurd. -
The only reason I liked Into Darkness was because of Benedict. He's also the only reason I watched Dr. Strange. At this point however I may have to skip any future superhero or absurd Hollywood blockbusters he does. Not even he can save such movies for me anymore. Into Darkness was ok for the most part, to me, as mindless action entertainment, and alt. timeline gobblygook until the moment when Spock does that certain something and my brain just shut down/couldn't take it at that point. TMP's first half is so snore inducing, but the actual idea behind it was kind of interesting. Couldn't save it tho. You could sorta say that about ST V, too.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Finally got around to ordering ATT's 1GB fiber net plan, installing Monday. Hubby was able to get the multiple separate IP's he needs and there's no bandwidth limits and the upload speed is same as D/L speed - the price could go up in a year or two, who knows, but it's all right. I don't even care if for some reason we only end up with half of that speed most of the time. It would still be blazin' faster than what we have now. Maybe I can be not "afraid" of the increasing nutter size of video game downloads now ... for a few years. Does Steam cap their user download speed? -
Me? Borderlands 3.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Lately I've done a whole lot of nothing, meaning a lot more nothing than my usual nothing, which equals a cosmic level of nothing that could make even the number zero shake its head (if it had one) at the level of nothingness. Mostly I'm just "blah." :D it is nice weather these days tho! Sitting by a river under a tree (fishing pole or not) sounds pretty good right now. Just not much of that sort of thing anywhere close nearby, for me, sadly. Weeks like this I miss having a small swimming pool in the backyard. Maybe I should get a large kiddie pool and make like Al Bundy. -
What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
BL3 - best changes from the early console versions: --"town stash" is now upgradeable to 400 (vs 50 or 100 I think?). Scrolling through it is a nightmare tho. But I'll only need 3-4 mules instead of 8-12! (to hold stuff I almost never use but still want to hold onto in case I feel like experimenting) --ability to skip the first part of the game with new chrs to start in the main town hub immediately, at lvl13. Not sure I like the way post-game Mayhem modes work now - by that I mean the attributes of the difficulty. Can take forever to reroll a combo you like and there's not as many different attributes to mix/match to boot. Normal feels like it was nerfed slightly (difficulty and loot drops). Mayhem 1 now feels like how the "normal" game should be/was (loot drops, difficulty could be a tad higher). Mayhem 2 ramps up, Mayhem 3 I'm gonna need a lot better loadout. Goes all the way up to M10 now. I tried M5 with not-optimized gear - some spots I could manage but other areas - wow that's a crazy jump. And of course, if you don't play "online" you can miss out on a lot of stuff over time. Although I think you can access some past Events via someone in the town. Haven't tested that tho. At least they didn't mess with my favorite grenade. It still rules. I've tried them all, and some can do a lot more single-target damage (if it actually hits anything....), but the one I like is still the best overall. HOMING, BOUNCY, MIRV, MONEY, baby! -
What it looks like when you try to jump onto something and get stuck in a wall. Big head Mayhem mode. lulz Boss fighting.
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What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
Couldn't stay entirely away from Death Stranding, so I keep hopping in for an hour or two occasionally. There's a total of 500 Premium orders you can do. I'm up to 385 or so. I suppose if I keep on this way I might actually "Platinum" the game. Not that I care about the trophy. But some of those orders are really annoying or tough to fullfill, I might only get to 450 or so. Between that and running through BL3 again (hubby's the Siren, I'm Flak again because Flak is Best) I have enough game per week to keep me busy. BL3 seems to have issues re: two different resolution monitors, which drove me batty. It has a setting to choose which monitor you want to play the game on, but even tho it would open/play on the 4k TV and you'd set it to 4k resolution setting, it was still registering as 1440 (screenshots/vids, for example). Some weird scaling being done maybe. Had to do the make TV "main monitor" thing instead. Useless (the in-game setting). FFXV still the only game I have that dealt with 2 different/extended resolutions properly. -
Agreed. I stopped after 3. I actually watched Season 2 first thus (I suppose) it's my favorite season. Except for the puma scene. in fairness, the puma was still cute. Jack's daughter Kim was not my favorite character is all. Also, not a series I can really re-watch. Great fun the first time tho.
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The Fink? Not a movie title he was in - a character nickname? At any rate, RIP. Loved him in the 80's. Silverado especially but also Best Seller and F/X (those weren't the best movies, but still entertaining).
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Eww? Trouble? Nah, cake and pie.
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It also doesn't help with the long talk-info scenes ("Give me Vault Key, now going to talk mission stuff for 3 minutes"). But at least I can finally get cool shots of Meat-Puppet. Worth it.
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At least you can skip cutscenes now. if you spam a button.
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What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
Hubby kept looking a wee hopeful then sad every time BL3-PC came up and I'd say "Have you seen the price for the package option that will have all DLC included? I'd like to wait for a sale, since we already played it" etc. Finally I said "You're a big boy, just buy it yourself if you can't wait." So he did. He has a 1050ti in his machine (only thing that would fit in his case). It runs /looks/fine on Low/1080. He should get a bigger case and a 1660ti, pfft. But checking it out I noticed it actually has offline/LAN capability. Last I thought I heard it wasn't going to have that. Which means I then had to buy it too. 4k/Ultra = the usual 60ish fps. Turn some things down, 80-90ish. Put resolution scaling at 150%, 40ish. Hah! I swear, hubby is going to pull out BL1, 2, and 3 once a year and play thru each once, until we die. He'll never play anything else. Sigh. Edit: pc version does have a nice qol feature for controllers - being able to switch icon styles. So if Steam wants to put the xbox icons up (which it does half the time) you can in-game make them ps4 icons. -
Hmm ... this photo mode is very close/almost the same as Death Stranding's (and another one or two games I've seen I think). Altho DS has some more options. Wonder what base software package it's from. Not that it matters since I don't make games. Becoming the average "type/style" default for photo mode I guess.
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What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
I've watched a lot of Twitch time and gameplay looks ok. Some nice story moments/areas. Combat looks a bit chaotic at times, and most aren't using the Classic option so I don't know what that's l like. It's hard for me to decide if it'd be something I want to really play myself or just watch others having fun with it. -
Quick! Everyone get married, stat! And close all McD's/Taco Bells just in case (we don't need those anyway).
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
if my life was (a lot) more interesting I probably wouldn't be on forums. Case in point: I'm bored again. A couple weeks ago I was re-reading some fave books and I could really use some new ones but I still don't really want to buy e-books, and even places like Barnes N Nobles seem pretty lackluster for browsing shelves when you have zero clue/idea what you're looking for anymore. Maybe I should be looking in non-fiction now instead. -
What Are You Playing Now: The Other, Other Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Computer and Console
I was almost interested in the FF7 remake just in an action kind of way, but then heard while it has an ending, the actual ff7 full story is still going to be split between two (or more) games. So ... pfft. Supposedly it'll be on PC eventually too. I'll wait, then. I was mostly intrigued because I read that the Hard mode means you can't use any items in combat, or at all, or something. That could be an interesting mode. They should have done that with FFXV, honestly. -
(warning: lots of language) This is why I'm not playing Nioh2: ....why did I not discover this guy before now? His crazy/purposely silly vids are usually hilarious.
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What you've done today, tomorrow and yesterday
LadyCrimson replied to Amentep's topic in Way Off-Topic
Occasionally hubby calls me by my name and I don't respond. Because it isn't LC.