LadyCrimson

Wut? ...I mean, three fans, man! Totally worth it. ...but yes, it's utterly ridiculous. And prices don't seem to go down much over time anymore, either - retail or used.

Yes. Its video compression quality over all and especially if on the fly downscaling (playing in 4k, want video to be 1080 or 1440 etc) is the pits, to me. Also less "easy" to use.

Was watching k-drama "Live Up to Your Name" on Netflix. Fairly decent time-travel hospital/romance/comedy that bounces between modern and past Korea timelines. The male lead Kim Nam Gil is one of those "1000 expressions" types where he's equally at home doing absurd/cute comedy one second but serious melodrama the next. So I looked him up and ... now I'm watching "The Fiery Priest" via Viki. Which is even better. Same dramedy style but no romance. Just a hot-tempered, ex super-agent turned Priest looking for vengeance against city corruption. It's hilarious (in spots) and occasionally bits of action are so over the top I'm in stitches. Although most of the time it's not *this* overtly silly.

I've usually had FRAPS still work in 98% of games on Win10, but sadly DX12 stops it. Happily I finally found a substitute. It's called Action! - tried their watermarked trial, liked it enough. Similar to FRAPS, you pay for an activation key. Video quality not as uber high as FRAPS but looks good. Can even do simple Twitch streaming with it supposedly. And their .avi option for videos still opens up in VirtualDub (unlike popular mp4 codecs), which is great for me. Still prefer VD for making large simple edits before other editing software. ...um...other than that, it's been an (extra) lazy last day or two.

Borderlands 3 decided to do a second "season pass", of which it sounds like there will be two DLC? The first one adds a new skill tree to each vault hunter and a new play mode where you can't use your farmed gear or something (I hear it's tough, but very short). For $15 stand alone. Pass is $30 which makes me wonder if the 2nd will also be $15, or even $20. Think I'll skip for now. ...I still haven't played the first 4 DLC, haha. ...and the only thing I've really been playing is mobile-slots again, while watching TV. 'Cause I'm a "grandma" now or something.

If there *is* a 3080ti and an EVGA version of it was "only" $1000 or so, and it seemed enough of a performance boost vs. 3080, I'd be, as usual, half-tempted, then I'd skip "40xx" series instead. Oh wait, wasn't I going to stop reading these threads...

Not really news maybe, but mod-interesting. I wish it was TR1 tho - but maybe that would likely be a lot harder to do re: texture replacing, not sure? tbh, I barely remember 3. 1 and 2 and 4 are the ones I remember most vividly.

I know someone who said a couple of his friends recently qualified to be on Jeopardy ... but now, if they get called to be on the show, there will be no Trebek... Such a TV/gameshow icon .... you will be missed. RIP.

Sunday. Hubby's cocoon-wrapped in a sleeping bag at his desk, watching some seemingly endless M365 (I think) video training courses. eg, he's busy, I'm not in a gaming mood and am thus restless. But not this restless. It's still really windy and about 55F mid-day - but at least we don't have giant hail. Still loving my super long legwarmers - don't need no sleeping bag! (eyeballs her extra-wimpy husband).

*web search* Ah. Yeah to get 64 does seem rather pricey. I was contemplating next rig (3-4 years from now) I might bump up to 64 (just because...) but we'll see how prices are then I guess. At least you don't have to replace ram often, if ever, unlike I how I feel about gpu's since advent of 4k gaming started. Edit: at least it's not like in way way way past where I swear I'd buy another gpu every year...

Is it that expensive?

I'm at least partially relieved, and I can go back to my hobbit-hole, mostly ignoring the news again for a while. I'm not as optimistic as Hurlshot tho, even if I sort of still agree with him. It's not my nature, especially re: human politics.

Basically me standing by the door of hubby's office every day.

That last 6 seconds or so...

^ I wouldn't know, I hate beer. That's hubby's territory. While these days he's more discerning re: quality than when we were poor 20 year olds, mostly I think he likes whatever has the biggest box in the store. There were weekends w/friends in the far far past where I felt he and his cousin's apt. looked basically like this (minus the cobwebs tho, ha):

They'll probably still be counting when you return. I spent time cleaning up the yard this morning. It's been really windy and those darn city street trees are doing their usual leaf dumping. You could stand out there dancing with your rake all day and never catch up. *shakes fist* It's good exercise tho I guess...

I'm hungry. Hm.

Every time I see pictures of Trump or Biden's smiles, I think about how at least they still have nice teeth for their age. Or more likely, very good veneers. Maybe I should get some too.

Don't worry, I hear 80 is the new 30.

For someone who likes to acquire in bulk whenever possible so she doesn't have to think about something for months, the way hospitals/regulations like to dribble the things you need to you in tiny increments is ... also, quantity consistency. Amounts of stuff won't match, like 100 of this but 50 of that, and you need both in the same amounts ... doesn't compute. Can I just not eat? That would keep blood sugar etc. down, right?

*Wakes up, looks at election maps* ....I had cats who could count faster than this. *Goes back to sleep*

Yeah...even if he survives the first term, I don't envision him running for a 2nd. He'd have served his purpose ... getting MrToupee out of office. Next Pres. election will also be ... interesting, I think. Maybe the next several.

Yeah, I don't know about game development techie stuff to even guess. But it's probably partly going to depend on how well/effectively and comprehensively they implement high-res. textures, draw distances, and certain types of effects (ray tracing maybe?) as well as how effectively game engines deal with such. At least for some types of games.

All day today: Do we have an official Pres. yet? ... Nope, nope, nope. (repeat, repeat, repeat) This is probably the most keenly interested I've been in a Presidential race/outcome in my lifetime and ... argh. Maybe by the weekend? Side note: I wouldn't want a vote-counter job.

If/when it's Biden, are we taking bets whether he'll survive his first term? Because rumor has it that he's, y'know, kinda old. At least his VP seems all right and didn't/doesn't set off major alarm bells for me.