LadyCrimson

The blood sugar meter the hospital gave me, the meter device itself and the lancets can be bought almost anywhere and are retail $25 for 100. But the actual test strips that go into the meter are almost nowhere to be found that I've been able to discover and (retail) would cost $100+ per 100. Thus I am forced to depend on the hospital pharmacy/prescrip. to get the strips (they're much cheaper that way w/insurance etc. but it's just weird one aspect is widely available but the other is not). Since I'm a newbie I was testing constantly for a while. The pharmacy gave me a hard time when I wanted to refill because I'd used the 100 strips up faster than expected. I was all like "well how else am I supposed to gain knowledge of what my body does re: meals/foods and insulin dosage." I mean, I understand the needles, drug abuse and all that, but what, is there some worry about abuse of test strips by patients? I suppose I could sell them on the black market since they apparently can't be bought legitly almost anywhere. ...I'm suspicious of a deal between the company, insurance, and the hospital or something.

^ Graphically there was a time that Warhammer trailer wouldn't have seemed the worst but something feels really off about the weapon size/perspective. Sometimes it blocks tons of the screen. Plus looks klunky. No clue what they're trying to achieve tho.

If I was into "dark souls" or similar type games I'd probably be interested in that Black Myth: Wukong game. But I'm not so ... I'll just watch it on Twitch for the kewl boss graphics.

More to do with them being disappointed re: specific game performance vs. the card overall if that makes sense.

I think I acquired that confusion/assumption from the reaction of the average netizen to benchmarks (usually via disappointment in the numbers...). eg, I think a lot of lay-people mistake/think of them for actual gameplay fps barometers. Actually, I think I've seen some reviewers act like they were, too, when they talk about whether something is "worth it". >.>

Speaking of motivation ... I am unsure I can do this for the next 15-30 years (if I can't achieve "remission"). ...I know, big deal, vs. survival, right - but it's not that shooting myself up (hahaha) is difficult - but it's the remembering to do it every 12 hours. The "can't go to sleep/nap or do anything distracting until I poke myself" type of thing. I have tons of clocks and alarms and I've still fallen asleep a few times without doing it. Heck I'm the sort to forget to take pills sometimes even when the bottle is right in front of me while I eat my meal. My brain, it does not work well with long-term schedules. Pffft.

*scratches head* No, I know that's how benchmarks look/are run. BL3 does let you do that from an ingame setting actually, forgot about that (most of my games do not have such a feature, I forget more games do that now). But "flying" at rapid speed in/through the game is not playing, no one plays a game that way outside of fly-cheat codes. I guess my confusion then stems that I thought benchmarks gave a decent representation of what kind of actual real average gameplay FPS one might see/expect with given settings vs. only an identical stress test to compare % increases. Sounds like that isn't necessarily always going to be the case, at least not imo? I suppose that would explain why I look at benchmarks and wonder why my rigs (over the years) often seem to be (real playing) higher fps etc. than indicated. And here I thought I just kept such a clutter free rig or something. Running BL3's benchmark looks like 52ish, 69ish if I turn V. Fog all the way Off (the harshest game setting). I only ran them once each, dunno how much variance there is/might be if repeated a lot.

Didn't read entire thread but in terms of Minsc/original question: I never disliked Minsc, per se, but I had no use for him in my party, and while sure some of his lines are nostalgia-iconic, I didn't want to listen to him screaming, either. I think I ended up killing him at some point because he was mad at "me" or something. eg, I preferred others in terms of story/chr choices and in combat. Edit: my reference comes largely from BG1, I didn't finish BG2. I did like the picture of Boo.

Is that Diablo in FF? (haha) ...looks like FFXV style (or 7Remake perhaps) except a high fantasy setting vs. semi-"modern" setting. eg the flashy animation ARPG combat. Graphics don't look much better per se, just different style (glossier?). Not particularly interested, looks kind of meh trailer-wise but I do like flashy combat pics so if the PC version has a screenshot mode I might try it someday. Maybe. ...a few other PS5 game announcements made me curious but nothing really stood out for me that much. The whole trailers stream (includes the XV trailer above) (PS5 price reveal: $499US, $399-alldigital version)

*catches up on thread* Trump is a bottomless-well of buffoonery and that's all I have to say about that.

I have an 850wPS, I'd probably be good. Unless the 40xx series needs a 1000w. So likely there will still be a ti or something similar in the future then. Good to know. Also ... man that recent MS Flight Sim must need a future 20900k CPU or something (3080 won't even do it 4k/60).

Btw, I'm not ragging on the 3080. It's a great sounding card. If one hasn't upgraded a gpu for a bit and wants to move to 4k it's a good buy seems like. I'm just coming from the perspective of "have a good gpu for my needs already/skip generation" so I may sound more critical or nitpicky than I intend to, lol. If there's a 3080ti that'd (probably) be the one I'd want if I was buying ... unless the 3090 is the new ti? I'm not clear about that.

When I want to procrastinate/avoid I read/post on forums. Or watch short YT videos etc. Exercise is too much like work. ...that said, staring at the ceiling as avoidance doesn't seem very good, no. In a strange way that often builds more stress. Like Hurl says, there's lots of other ways to waste time and it might help distract your mind out of current, not likely to change soon ruts like that. ...and THAT said, I totally understand. There are some things/times where avoidance is my middle name.

No, I'm aware of that. You don't look at your FPS while standing around town picking your nose with your gun/sword. I go out and combat, run, jump, try a few different areas. Is there a very specific area or bossfight in BL3 that might be the worst fps spot in the game and it might drop to 50 for me? Sure. That wouldn't be "average" tho, either. That's the base 3080 early benches, ofc. I'm sure some of the aftermarket OC versions will be higher/better (for more price tho). I'll be curious what EVGA's FTW versions (or similar) of such are. Edit: I'd also be interested what you'd get with DLSS 2. DLSS1 was dogpoop but DLSS 2 is much better. Using that I can get 80fps ultra in Death Stranding. So that one I might get steady 100fps with a 3080.

^ I durped and forgot 70-ish fps was with V. Fog off, because I hate the way that looks. If I have that on Ultra it drops down a bit over 60 fps. Still more than 47 tho. ...also, for me, DX11 vs. DX12 makes almost zero difference performance-wise. Only thing DX12 did in BL3 was make me wait 15 seconds longer on startup.... Edit: but I sure wouldn't have minded the lower price of the 30xx series.

^ Oh? BL3 is their "second-most demanding game in our suite?" I mean I know it's harsh on lower end gpu's but... I guess EVGA's built-in OC on my FTW 2080ti version is why my fps at Ultra on that game is so much higher than their graph? I get more like 70 even with all-Ultra (nothing disabled), not 47. And I use the same CPU as they're testing with. At any rate, certainly looks like a nice 4k card, especially for the lowered price, although reading that the minimum can still drop a fair bit (at least on all-Ultra) is a bit pfft. Even if the average is 100 doesn't that mean if you tried to cap it at 100, you'd probably still see drops below that? One day they'll have a card (and cpu) that can maintain 120+ without ever dropping below 100, like how I can play at 60 and never have it drop. But by then game dev's will have sucked up the extra leeway and everyone will be talking about 8k/60 and not 4k/100 and ... never mind. Another never ending cycle.

Is that a lap pool in Bruce's photos? Or just a water decoration. I can't tell. I'm glad I bought those air filter things a while back with all these fires. They're selling out on Amazon like mad. I wish I'd bought a couple more but it's better than nothing. Stuck the smaller one in my PC room and have it noisily going full blast. Seems to help a little. By now the poor air is getting to me (allergies/nose, throat, etc) even sitting indoors all the time (not like our home is 100% air sealed) and it's (the air) "just" 180ish here. Can't imagine up in Oregon or any other places where it's 400-500 rated. Hope hubby's sister is ok...

Different topic: I heard about this movie called Rent-A-Pal, because Wil Wheaton is in it. I'll have to rent it. But then looking up the trailer for it on YouTube, I discovered that some years ago someone made a (satirical?) video called Rent A Friend that absolutely has to be an inspiration for the movie. So weird.

...hmm. For me it would be this one.

Borderlands 3 released the 4th DLC, which included another max clvl jump (5 more, to 65). I started to farm xp to level up and then thought about how that would mean farming new guns etc. It's likely they'll raise the cap yet again (even tho they claimed early on they weren't going to raise cap much, and I have a bridge to sell). So screw it. I'm waiting until they make up their minds what the final cap will be. Might be 70, might be 80. Maybe by next Summer. I think I've about had it with (looting) games that like to do level cap increases in frequent but tiny increments over many months as some kind of incentive.

I made a medium sized wok-full of veggies/beef with the intention of putting maybe half or a third of it in the fridge for later. Then I ate it all, instead.

Only a year and a half ago I still had an ancient i7-920 CPU (that still worked overall fine for 1080, really). 4-5 years from now 'net trolls will probably be telling me "lulz a 9900k, what a potato, gtfo." Then maybe a few years after that, for a year or so I'll be top-dog again. Then back to a potato. And round and round she goes ....

All this time and I didn't know Mordecai was actually somewhere in this room, "helping" (I use that term loosely). Want a hug?

Cars have changed too much and us along with it. Also, we have excess money now. And would rather take a nap. ...hubby still likes to do projects, but cars are sometimes like trying to troubleshoot PC's where nothing goes as expected so something that "should" take an hour or so might take all weekend, and he'd rather do other things.

From what I've seen of Discovery/Picard, some of the fan-made episodes of Trek I saw on YouTube were better. They should try hiring some fans or maybe some of the earlier Trek-novel authors as scriptwriters, maybe.