LadyCrimson

My view on IPS vs. VA/TV's: IPS - where you can get blacks to feel fairly black but still have good shadow detail, but you have to turn brightness down, down, down, and some may think overall everything else is "too dark" (like exploring a cave in a game for example) VA/TV's - where you can get blacks to be SUPER black but as a result often lose shadow/room/clothing detail, where you may start tuning brightness/contrast or tweaking other settings/profiles and switching back and forth show to show to compensate but then now the overall is too grey/washed out. eg, neither is perfect and you can't win. Disclaimer: have yet to buy a new fancy OLED TV or anything like that, but from what I've seen in the stores it's still, in my eyeballs anyway, an issue. Maybe not as bad, but still there.

My new rig is basically utterly silent, even when running games. I do have the evga fan software on "silent" fan profile mode, and it's still never topped 55C or so (that's with 3 gpu fans, not sure how much difference that really makes if any...). Only time I've heard the CPU fan ramp up is when video rendering since that still hogs "100%" cpu and makes the temp go up to 70C despite the liquid cooler on top of it. The old rig is a bit noisier (I have to turn it off to be able to "hear" how quiet the new rig is) but I think 70% of that is from the 10 year old case fans, which I should really replace but am too lazy to do so. Also, this thread is always a blast from the past, in terms of years/tech and some of the various folk who've posted in it during all those years. :D

I went outside. Got bit by something, not sure what, and now I have a big itchy welt on my leg. Sneezed about 58 times ( the pollen count is nightmarish ). I went back inside.

That's not Bingo, that's Scrabble. ....*scurries away again*

I'm not huge on architectural history, but it's always a shame when something like that goes up in flames.

Sorry, Hugh, but Josh outclasses you in every way.

That's not my cat/kitten, btw. Just some random 'net pic. I'd still like a new cat of course but I still miss Mr. Black too much, he was too unique personality wise and none would compare. Plus hubby's put up with my cats for 30+ years so I guess he can have a longer break. Maybe in another year or two. Maybe.

There's no statue of limitations of discussion topic. I'm not a huge anime person but after I enjoyed Slayers so much (via Netflix some years ago) I checked out a few more, and at this point I'll occasionally take a peek at some new ones if they seem like a topic/genre I'd like. Most of them I have no interest in but occasionally I like the light/humorous fantasy/dramas or more swords-y action. Not into mechs, macho fighting contest type animes or 99% of the typical "highschool kids ensemble" type shows. Basically, if I wouldn't like it in live-action, there's no reason I'd like it just because anime.

Black Summer, via Netflix The Good: if you think the best part of zombie shows is the beginnings of an outbreak, with emphasis on random survival and "who do you trust" moments vs. lots of story/chr-drama to get in the way, this could be the show for you. It looks good, acting is overall decent/consistent, lots of zombie action. The zombies are the type that turn to zombie in like 3 seconds after death. Not super-fast, just normal human running speed and seemingly able to learn a tiny bit if given time to figure something out etc. The Middling: episodes do not have a consistent length. Sometimes this works well, sometimes it just feels odd. The focus on each episode (or segments within an episode) is a single chr (or later, a small group) and other segments may show other chrs perspective and then collision with previous segments. I put that as middling because not everyone likes that sort of thing. Again, some episodes it worked well as a device, other times it felt a bit contrived. The Bad: the problem with almost zero "story"/chr arcs is that after a few episodes I largely stopped caring about any chr. at all, which makes a lot of the long "suspense" sequences feel over drawn out or not-suspenseful and fast-forwarding commenced. Overall: For it's genre, could be a lot worse, with some good moments/episodes to go with mediocre ones. Still bingeable even if you FFwd some. Won't change your mind about zombie stuff if you don't care at all about zombie stuff.

Have learned that the way to get better looking 1080 videos on YouTube is to upload in 1440. It's not simply compression, bitrate etc. YT uses a different processing codec if you have higher average views (eg, you're popular) - or if you upload in 1440+. Which is irritating since that = larger file size and lesser recording performance if you're using cpu-heavy Fraps. I did try OBS again for recording on the new pc, but for me, I still think it sucks as a stable recording program - the quality is at least "ok" and ofc performance is better with the smaller files created. It just isn't reliably stable/acts glitchy for me. Also, for a free video editor, Shotcut seems a decent one. Only one I've liked so far because it doesn't feel bloated and still has most basic filters one might want but nothing super fancy to complicate it, and (most importantly) it can open/handle my giant Fraps .avi's. Whereas the other popular freebie, DaVinci Resolve - as well as many others - would not. Edit: it's sorta fun when you build a new rig and get to test or re-test lots o' software, trying to find the things you like/will use "from now on." Except it makes me feel like I'm cluttering up the O/S install so once I have it all figured out I may reinstall Win10 again. Ha.

I apologize in advance.

They don't really go into detail about it. Brief bits of people/news theorizing ancient small creatures that were trapped underground long ago and evolved bat-like existence, then released accidentally by exploratory humans. The usual. In the series they flock/attack in large swarms and are about the size of large birds of prey so danger is largely from vast numbers. Of which I'm dubious they'd have those numbers (from living in underground caves for ages) to be able to so rapidly cause a near-extinction level event or altered existence for humanity or even just the USA, as a whole. They certainly didn't look like diggers, for example. Must've been some really vast, entire planet-crust encompassing cave system the researchers stumbled onto.

It was at least better than the rocks in ST:OS. Where Nimoy valiantly makes the effort to try and appear to be pinned down. https://youtu.be/PyN_6BeJ8KA?t=186

Looper was pretty good. I don't think I was quite as enamored of it as some, but it's not like Star Trek save the whales type time travel or anything. I watched The Great Battle yesterday. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6931414/ Do not expect historical accuracy or intelligence, this is primarily an action movie with several long battle sequences. Actual dialogue is very limited/brief, with "story" moments that feel more like a few seconds of character snapshots here and there, so if you dislike reading subtitles, there aren't that many to read. Seriously. It also injects a bit of light humor here and there. If you like sword, spear, arrows, storming-the-castle and violent action, this is pretty decent for that. Kind of like a cross between Braveheart and the big combats in LotR in that sense. Occasionally the CGI help sticks out but considering it was made for I think 20 million, it's fun. Could have been 15 minutes shorter however.

So I accidentally discovered something. And it's repeatable. I might've woken up hubby with my laughing. Hey Ignis, you might need to make more. ....this has so much potential. Although my fps did drop to about 30ish. I might have to drop the game to 1080 to make more than a few hundred...

You know, I sort of like the actress playing Rey. She has a great stoic/determined expression. But that alone doesn't make a movie and yeah, that trailer is a snooze. I don't even find it bad-it's-funny, just uninspiring and static. Is it wrong that I'd sorta like to see Rey and Kylo Ren get together, discover there's a middle-ground to be had, make lots of little Grey-Side babies and rule the universe? *runs away*

The Silence - outside of Stanley, not worth watching. That is all.

Trying to watch The Silence - which is the new Quiet Place/Bird Box like movie from Netflix. Only reason I clicked it was because, Stanley Tucci. Not really expecting much from film itself. I'm only 15 minutes in and I had to log in here to say - if you're sensitive to anykind of tinnitus-type whine noise, don't watch this movie. Main chr. teenage girl is deaf and often they do her PoV with a loud tinnitus like sound. MOST ANNOYING thing ever. Movies that do that once or twice I can deal with it but...many times... I'm hoping as the show goes on they'll stop doing it but even at low volume, GARGH my ears.

Islanders. $5, why not. It's simplistic and more along the line of a puzzle scoring game than a city builder, but it's quaint, relaxing, and fine to play while eating lunch or waiting for videos to render. eg, it's a nice distraction. Also, I liked their honesty and humor in the store page/video (not trying to pump it up to be more than it is). https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046030/ISLANDERS/

I'm more in the mood for "cute."

I like having hair that can tuck behind my ears. Motion habit from youth. I keep the sides fairly short these days but I still do that motion with what little hair can tuck (even tho it mostly just falls right back again).

^ And that there is one reason I was interested in that game. It's so beautiful. The combat tho, I just can't.

Well, I like to edit things I quote a lot of the time to save space. And about 3/4 of the time if I highlight something within a quote in the editor and press delete, the quote coding freaks out and disappears. Thus I have to hit the BBCode button up there and do quote editing that way, then go back the wysiwig editor to finish (sometimes, not always necessary). Also, whenever I embed large images, hitting Enter afterwords deletes the image I just embedded instead of creating a new paragraph/spacing underneath it, so again I have to hit the BBCode button, hit Enter a few times, go back to wysiwig to embed another image link, repeat. It's annoying. Maybe it's just me but it's been like that for ages and through many many versions of Firefox. I don't remember when it was, but they did some forum change/updating long ago that initially really fubared quotes IIRC ... it's gotten better since then but it's still sorta broken imo. I suppose I could always use the code editor and never the wysiwig, but its weird formatting is a little hard to read/work with when creating a post.

As long as the reply editor and quote functions don't get any worse I'll be fine with any other small changes. I think.

I don't care too much about having such a weapon in a game (not that it wouldn't be weirdly cool), but I had to drop in and say thanks a lot for posting a video link that ended up with me wasting spending all evening watching that guy's videos.