LadyCrimson

...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.

I was talking to someone on Twitch (he's in Texas) and he was saying he originally thought pics he saw must've been photoshopped but nope. I suppose some pics might be slightly saturation or contrast enhanced but not by much. It really is surreal at times, night or day, imo. The moon was so orange the other night it looked like the sun, haha. This fuzzy pic represents the color-glow coming thru the garage door's opaque window pane. This was the sky over our yard at 9:30 this morning. It was a bit more orange and darker, stupid phone camera. Not my picture: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-09/amazing-photos-of-deep-orange-skies-snowing-ash-as-fire-smoke-swamps-bay-area

If the Avatar sequels do well, they might (if he had a sudden desire to, ofc, ha) let James Cameron try. Of course then you'd still have to wait 10+ years for him to edit the movies or something and he might die before then.

...in truth I don't have negative or positive expectations from the new Dune. At the least, it looks like it'll be visually pleasant and possibly a good time passer, but I generally consider the novel to be not-filmable (eg I'd rather read the book another 20 times than watch another movie of it - that TV series wasn't terrible tho) hence remain rather neutral about any attempts. At least, until someone pulls a Peter Jackson and manages to make a good-as-you'll-ever-get made-all-at-once film trilogy out of it or something.

From insomnia to soda to vampires and joke tunes. Never change, forum.

Well at least that's better than 500GB...

^ The 5 seconds of combat training scene they showed looked really cheesy with all that blur. Rest looks passable to fairly decent, visuals-wise. Although, maybe it's my age, but the actor playing Paul isn't working for me. It's nice they picked someone who doesn't look 30 (when Paul is supposed to be a teenager), but he has too much of a posh runway fashion-model look to him, or something. Also, stilsuits always look cooler/better in my mind then they do on-screen...

I've been rewatching the first seasons of Bleach anime. That Soul Society rescue-Rukia arc (season 2?) is the best period of that series, imo. Well, if you like action and all the sword/combat mythology of it, anyway. Even most of the silly humor works. Although the over-garrulous, talking-antagonist syndrome is wearying, if still a bit amusing. They decided that a long time ago. And even if it dies down/stops a while, it'd likely that after ten to fifteen years, they'll dust it off and try yet again.

Woke up this morning and from the darkness of the room thought it was something like 6 in the morning. Looked at clock - it was 9:30 in the morning. It's not just California on fire, now. The skies above our house were fairly cleared up the past several days as the fires closest to the Bay Area were largely contained but winds must've changed and it's completely dark/orange glow smoked again from the ones farther away. Seriously looks like a movie with a dark orange filter over everything in our yard, and we're far away. Poor W. Coast. Edit: anyone close to those areas, stay safe.

Considering size of many AAA (or even some not AAA) titles, and how they're likely to only get bigger over the next few/several years, only 500GB is a bit disappointing. Although I understand it for price point reasons. Is the Series X going to have 1TB? Or maybe later updated versions of either/both for more $. PS5 better have a 1TB version somewhere....

He's still cute.

I'd have to get up at 4am/be back home before 6am for something like that to work for me, heat days/exercise wise. Not happening.

@BruceVC - that looks like my type of restaurant, all casual environment and such. Nice view, too. ....yesterday was blistering hot. Over 100F in many spots. Some cities broke 50y.o temp records, including our little city. Today it's a little better but...I don't know how Hurl can stand to ride his bike/do any serious level of outdoor exercise in this kind of weather.

Um...all I remember is extremely cheap sets/effects, especially some of the ship/space ones - although I suppose for super low budget late 80's the practical effects were occasionally ok - and kind of slow moving/predictable. Might've seemed a little scary to 8 year olds back in the day but even for a B movie with low expectations it's pretty bad. Bruce played it more straight with a lot less camp then usual, although of course he's always simply kind of amusing in his b-cheese way. And Koenig/Chekov was never leading man material...

In my circles, very. But I'm a horror/sci-fi/internet geek so I'm not sure if that means much. Evil Dead 2 is one of the (several) films my old friend made me watch, bringing over her VHS copy of it. I laughed like a loon. Then we saw Evil Dead1. Then Maniac Cop and Mindwarp even Moontrap. Pretty much everything else from the 80's/90's we could see/rent (she also became a huge Raimi fan). I watched some episodes of Burn Notice because Bruce was in it. Like Hurlshot, I also have the Chins book and I even watched "My Name Is Bruce."

Forgot I'd bought Dragon Quest Builders 2 on Steam. So I installed it and started playing through the early bits. Got to the 2nd island, started doing the (more) tutorial quests there then quit. Thought I'd check my PS4 save to remind myself what might be coming up next and ... what do you know, I pretty much stopped in the same place on console too. HA. ...I do like the game (especially that melee AI buddy). It's just a short attention span. Maybe this time I'll get farther. :P Per usual, it looks great playing on 4k - not that the graphics really require it, it's just nice on a big screen etc. I still dislike how long it takes before you feel like you have more freedom to play/be more sand-boxy. The first game was like that too, although I think it was a bit more engaging in the early maps than this sequel feels. Wish it had a completely separate freeplay mode/map you could play at any time etc.

I'd like to be clear/add that I do think people in the heath worker employment fields it should be mandatory in order to keep working in that field. It's one thing for a lazy arse like me who literally almost never leaves the house even when there is no pandemic, to go "eh, I'll wait a bit first" and another for those who are constantly extra-risk-exposed/dealing with a contagion. imo, of course. I'm also someone who tends to have at least mild (what doctors often call "unusual/unexpected") but uncomfy reactions to a lot of drugs, vaccines, anesthesia, heck even Novocaine, making me rather paranoid about any drugs/medicine if I absolutely don't require them. I don't even like taking stuff for a headache. So that's a just-me pysch. issue.

Time for that unobtainium powered CPU yet?

^ Yeah, I'm much the same regarding the games I like to play or how frequently I care about playing some uber graphics game, which is why I expected the 2080ti would last me at least 5 years, maybe longer. There's the added aspect that many graphic settings that eat FPS, I don't give a rip about or even actively dislike and hence never have them on. Like any kind of blur/depth of field/bloom, having Af at 16x, shadows can be medium, screen space reflections, Nvidia-special effects or what have you. I've tried all of them and find they make little to zero difference in my enjoyment of playing a game so who needs them (not me, at least). All I care about is image clarity/sharpness/view distance and 60fps, not special effects. Death Stranding and BL3 is about as graphic intensive as I've done recently. Hubby had to run BL3 on DX12 because it runs a bit better on a 1660 gpu/and an ok but older AMD CPU (DX11 he's on all Low at 1080/75% scaling and it stutters, DX12 is low-medium with almost no stutter). He needs to give up and build another Borderlands playing rig especially when we get a new TV.