LadyCrimson

So what happens if you react to a post with sad face? Does it still register as a thumbs up "reaction" increase? Or does only the Like reaction increase that number? If you use Sad, does Reaction number decrease? Is that like a dislike? Inquiring minds want to know.

"That information doesn't match our records" - I'd changed my password a month or two ago, this update didn't remember it. Confused me for a bit. Old password worked, then reset password again. The "whoops" something is wrong .gif, "sign in" and "create account" etc. pages has no link back to the Obsidian main forum page (can only use back button or bookmark), don't know if this is intentional. Normally I'd never notice but since I kept getting rejected login attempts for a while... The emoticons list/style/function make me think of Discord/Twitch. On older PC's that ginormous emoticon list is a bit laggy to load. It looks ok, but kinda makes me think "app" in some places and feels clunky (just like Discord/Twitch). I'll probably get used to it (again).

So browsing Steam again yesterday afternoon, I saw this Early Access game called Edge of Eternity (about $15 this week). I've largely "sworn off" EA games and this one is turn-based to boot, which isn't at all my thing. But then looking through its store page, it showed this: Well, you know what happened then. ...so I played it for a few hours. The start is very annoying because it's this constant "fight 2-3 enemies, see a battle-reward screen animation EVERY FIGHT, the two chrs. have cutscene dialogue frequently, repeat 100 times." The VA (when there is VA) is ok but sounds a bit stiff, the graphics have this grey haze over everything (even with bloom etc. off) and are nowhere near as good looking at this point as the store page might lead you to believe. That said, once you're in the more free-roam areas it improves somewhat. It's fairly ambitious for a small dev. team I guess. There's only two "chapters" currently available. I have no idea how many chapters are planned. While the combat system isn't my thing at all, I can see where some might like it and it's simple enough. There's a crystal/gem system for upgrading abilities/stats and the free-roam areas are all right. Items you can gather for crafting respawn, enemies respawn, etc. I doubt it'll hold my interest enough to care about if/when they finish it tho. I just wanted to get that cat and romp around (you can keep playing after you finish the available quests). Yes, I spend money like that. Pffft. edit - oh, the music is pretty nice. They do have a decent/known composer apparently. That reward animation tho. You can see it here. It's not really long but after EVERY fight it's quickly annoying. https://youtu.be/AgdPtqZ_4pM?t=148 I'd advise to wait until it's finished or maybe if it's like, $6. Oh and it's single-player.

So, summer. Warm ambient room temps commence. Play game. New PC starts sounding louder and louder and louder. Apparently the Hydro unit fans don't like a warm room, even if the cpu temp itself isn't super high (50-60C). Download Corsair software to control fans. install. Doesn't detect the Hydro. Read that under device manager there's supposed to be a USB entry for the thing. It's not there. Talk to hubby. "Oh, there was that USB wire I didn't use because I thought it was just to control the RGB lighting which you don't care about." All better now. I had to change it from "Quiet" (which isn't very ... quiet) to "Zero RPM" profile. Edit - all these management softwares we need these days, simply because default setting on so much of the stuff is always an overly paranoid "rev up rpm's really loud for no reason" one.

Makes me want to go back to AZ/the desert. Except in a luxury automobile equipped with mini-reactor powered A/C.

It's the internet. Everyone is some kind of tech/business/political expert, because they read wikipedia and watched some videos, don't ya know.

Up. Putter around, hung out with hubby, was a nice weather-day. Made some beef soft tacos for dinner. Yummy. Maybe time to turn on FFXV for a few hours. Started a new save file again for a lower level run on PC which I never truly got around to. Still more than two months before DQ:Builders 2 I think. At least that one won't be an Epic exclusive. Pfft.

I'll take it that you're not a huge fan of boogey-men movies then either. ...the time travel stuff I've liked wasn't really because of the time travel, more for the morality/personal choice questions they often pose perhaps. Or just because it was silly fun (eg Back to the Future, ST Voyage Home).

I think you could say that about just about every single time-travel story ever. Some do a lot better at techo-babbling and faking it, some just go with humor winkwink, but the whole paradox thing always gets in the way at some point. "You realize of course if we give him the formula, we may be altering the future." "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" You can't really look for logic in time travel plots, you just have to go with it and enjoy (or not...) on a visceral what-if level or something.

@ melkathi - does it come in florescent blue?

I watched that documentary about Fred Rogers, Won't You Be My Neighbor the other day. I liked it a lot, not only for learning a bit more about the man but the occasional social commentary re: his hopes for tv as a medium for helping/teaching children vs what the environment of how popular children's entertainment often ended up becoming.

I do think DS9 was likely, on average, the most intelligent show. Still boring. These days the only series I tend to remember or find somewhat rewatchable are ones that either make me laugh a lot or ones that give me tons of feels - or are visually astounding/affecting in some way. I think what I want out of entertainment has changed a lot. And while I loved Breaking Bad when it was airing, I have a feeling I wouldn't care to watch it over. Some shows are only awesome the first time.

@ Raithe - lol, hubby's been using a very similar boat for some tests this week.

Asian-"Pop" (usually more like Pop-Rap seems like) is so weird for me. Most of those groups will have a song or two that I like a lot just as rowdy/pop background/workout noise, if that makes sense, but then if I bother to check further, I won't like any other song at all. But those lone singles I like keep me looking for others because I can never have enough background noise music (from all genres/for all moods).

Likely the worst TNG episode ever and it was the 7th season.

Jonathan Frakes is nowhere near as adorable. I'm pretty sure I've had brief discussions re: ds9 etc. here, before. Not saying I thought Enterprise was an uber awesome series or anything, only that I found it more watchable than the others. I mean truth be told, if I go back and watch even ST:TNG now, I'd probably find about half the episodes, all seasons, not just the first one or two, hard to watch now. Picard pontificating and going "conference room, now" in the middle of some battle. Still have fave episodes, but in general... After ST:TOS it was mostly about chrs. I liked that made the new Treks watchable, not so much their content. Like, if it wasn't a mostly "Data" or "Picard" or "Q" episode I'd be "meh."

DS9 was boring. I did like a couple chrs. initially but overall it was boring. Voyager was even more boring outside of the holographic doc. Nathan Fillion sure is cute tho.

I liked Enterprise more than DS9.

When I was younger, 6-7 hours most days, sometimes 8-10 hours on weekends. I felt fine/wide awake all the time. Could pull the occasional 36+ hour benders if I wanted etc. By the time I hit mid-40's, usually 7-8 hours. Still felt fine. Currently - well, it varies quite wildly and I have a tendency to be unable to sleep for more than 3-4 hours at a time so I find myself nodding off a few times a day but I'd say it's 7-9 hours per day that makes me feel "ok' in long term, whether it's all in one shot or piecemeal. Trying to survive on something like 5 every 24 hours, after a week I'd be zombie brained or something. Like others have stated, I've always had falling asleep issues even when I was a few years old (according to mom), am a night person, joke I'm still on Korean time, have a very difficult time turning off my brain if I get interested in anything, am a total unmoving log when I am asleep, and typically my brain immediately jumps to "fully awake, leap out of bed almost automatically" when I wake up whether it's been 2 hrs or 8 hours asleep. There's no going back to sleep until I just nod off naturally again. Edit: oh, and I also think there just some unconscious psychological issues re: having a hard time falling asleep. Sometimes even if I'm dog tired I resist going to bed/sleep for hours, without any rational, work/project reason. I decided once it's probable it's from being abandoned (then later adopted), where I fear something will be changed when I wake up.

So I realized that I can now watch all those fancy 8k YouTube videos in actual "8k" quality. My old rig could barely play them in 4k, it'd be half slide-show. They sure are gorgeous when you can play them like that on a bigger screen. I'm posting this here because I liked the mellow music in it enough to keep it looping for an hour. Edit: oh, even better. *loop*

@Malcador - always rough, especially when it's so sudden like that. Sorry to hear.

My brother visited last night. I see him so rarely these days that every time I do I "forget" how tall he is. He makes my 6' 1" hubby look short. Which makes me think how odd it is that 4 inches makes such an impression on the eye when it's between human beings, but if you look at two pieces of, oh, say, metal pipe leaning against a wall, where one is 4 inches taller/longer, it's no big deal. Look at 4" on a tape measure. Doesn't seem very much does it. Yet. Bro looks more and more like my father all the time, too. Same overall features and hair receding pattern. I think I have more grey hair than he does and he's 10 years older. Pfft.

Yeah, I saw that part and lol'd, I'm afraid. I'm sure the new consoles will be a large leap up but they still have to cram it all into a small box and price-point. I guess like a decent gaming laptop? edit: which sort of begs the question, what would console users think if the prices leaped by a couple hundred? A few hundred? Like $400 could be for a "lesser" base entry version but then there'd be the $600ish version with "everything." I guess that would still be cheaper than high end gaming laptops but eventually I wonder if the "has everything" consoles are going to become expensive enough it would become an issue for many. Because greed.