LadyCrimson

Noticed Resident Evil 2 remake on Steam is around 20 bucks. Seems a good sale price and another spiffy action game to utilize the 4k goodness with (I built this machine I'm going to get use out of it, darnit) But what's the combat like? Is it really hard or convoluted mechanics-wise? Is there an easy mode? Since, y'know, I'm lazy as **** now.

Driver and Ridley have been getting praise for their acting in these films as is - and I thought they had some chemistry as yin and yang foils or whatever - which just makes one wish they'd had something more substantial to work/showcase their abilities with.

Happy Fur Holidays or something.

DMC5 (PC) - didn't finish (but it was pretty and sorta combat fun, I could understand why many may have liked it a lot) Dragon Quest Builders 2 (PS)- didn't finish but it's fun and an improvement on the 1st game. Borderlands 3 (PS) - finished. It's ok, not as replayable as the first two(at least in its pre-game of the year/no dlc's yet, state). I think everything else wasn't technically 2019 or more casual short indie PC and mobile games. Note: not finishing a game, for me these days, isn't always a reflection on game quality but more a reflection on my increasingly shortened game sessions and lack of patience/committed motivation.

When a wool cap just won't do. Edit: Ahhh, I guess I have to allow the googletagmanager script for it to embed... EditEdit: also, this one.

I saw some of those SW leak articles/videos but refrained from reading/watching. I still think the last two SW movies were at least entertaining, since I stopped caring about anything making sense. Not saying they're good movies, just fitfully entertaining. I do think it would have been much more interesting to have Rey and Kylo pair up. I don't mean romantically. Just the notion of a force-team that's not black or white ultragood or ultraevil but somewhere in the middle, with each having influence on the other as they try to build a whole new system. A balance of the force, so to speak. I kind of liked the whole "time to toss all that old stuff away" Kylo kept preaching. I feel like that should be Disney's mantra with the movies, because honestly there's just nowhere for the "Jedi/Sith" and "Resistance" lines to go, at least not in the way they're doing it. It's just utter repetition at this point and if they want to continue it as a film franchise, they need to change it up. That all said I'm curious enough about the last one that I think I'm going to see it in the theater. I haven't done theater in a long long time. I may walk out thinking it's the worst movie evah but for some reason I want to see it on the big screen.

Don't have a pic but the one re: pet/vet collars struck a chord. I used to just make ones for my cats out of heavy construction paper or flexible plastic sheets and duct tape.

Congrats, TN. And thanks, Azdeus ... I'm not googling the baby poop terms. That's the type of stuff that is a need-to-know thing, and I don't need to know. Unrelated: Sleepiness, laziness, blue-funk+boredom moods, access to online munchie buying. I think I gained 4 pounds over a month. Usually in winter the video game diet has me losing weight in winter but no video game obsession this year. I need to tie my hands behind my back or something.

I could not at all get into any Adam Sandler comedy (it would vary from "eh" to "omg, no") but that Uncut Gems has me curious/interested. Sometimes an actor/actress can be someone I think nothing of, until they suddenly do a genre/style switch up. Perhaps Sandler (for my tastes anyway) should've have been in more dramatic roles the entire time.

Another 80's flashback. This was fun too (ffwd to about 1:20 for actual song/singing) Never paid much attention to Sean Lennon but I liked this video I found.

Rented It part2. I'm beginning to think the 2nd half of that book is just impossible to film. To be fair, it was (imo) the weaker aspect of the novel - the kid stuff was always more interesting. But this film version had the same issue the old mini-series version had, namely some pretty over the top acting. I read reviews saying the Chinese dinner scenes were awesome but I thought it was terrible, maybe even worse than the mini-series. Also, film is too long. That said, there were decent moments and the ending monster/scene was much better than the old mini-series. Well, maybe except for the deflated clown aspect.

Been playing the "looking for a new title I think I might like enough to buy and failing every time," game.

My "solution" was to build a new Win10 rig for modern things/games that require it but keep the Win7 rig for anything that doesn't, including old games and email. After deleting bloatware and going through all the option checkmarks, I haven't had issue with constant Win10 messages/popups either. So far I delay updates as long as it allows (which is pretty long, I haven't done any updates for 4 months) and deal with such only once or twice a year that way. The only O/S reaction to delaying updates that I've had is the small icon in the tray with a red ! on it. :P

Watches "Free Guy" trailer. ...well, at least it should be better than Pixels.

Lost in Space season 2. Watched the two trailers via YouTube (I'd link but they never embed for me) Trailer 1 - meditative, reflective - my reaction, "ok, this might be good." Trailer 2 - slam bang action - my reaction, "Michael Bay in Space?" I mostly want to see robot's arc and to find out if they were able to turn Ms. Smith into an actually interesting chr. with a bit of depth vs. over the top annoyance. It's still funny how the 1st season, I wanted to turn it off for 30 minutes but then it became pretty fun.

^ Oh yeah, having to wait a week always sucks, but as I said, at least these days for streaming first-run shows you can (usually) just wait a month or three and watch them all at once, vs. those old days (or current ad-networks/non-streaming shows) where if you missed it, you missed it until it was in syndication, if it got syndicated at all.

Cooked bratwursts in the oven for dinner. Nicely browned and perfect. Ate with sauerkraut and mustard. I could feel my arteries clogging but they were tasty. Comfort food always seems to taste better in winter. Having one of those months where I'm always sleepy/want to be bundled up and fall asleep w/the TV on half the time. Exercise falling off which I'm sure makes it worse. Need to get back on that.

I'd agree. Netflix is already utilizing/showing the S. Korea evening drama format of two episodes a week (vs. waiting to put them up all at once). As well as separating a single season into 2 "seasons" sometimes (making you wait 3-6 months for the final half). I don't mind the 2 episodes a week concept in this case tho because otherwise I'd have to wait maybe a year before I could see it at all and it's nice to be able to not have to avoid spoilers for so long. But those are 50-55min. episodes. And you can still wait until they're all up before watching, if you wish.

I remember Rene best from Benson. I thought he was the funniest thing ever in that show, at the time, the way he straight-man bounced off Robert Guillaume. His DS9 chr. was one of the things I liked about that show.

I could see twice a week at minimum. Once a week isn't something I'd want to do in this day and age if you want to convince ppl to spend money vs. free streaming tv. Also, I was expecting it to have 40-42ish minutes at least, like an AMC series after cutting out a zillion ads. 20-25min is comedy sitcom level. I haven't seen it yet, maybe it plays like a sitcom?

These days all you have to do is look at the trophies listings of console or PC games. The ones that you tend to get just from going through the game/doing main quests, not the super hard optional ones. Like "reached chapt. 6" or "killed so and so boss." The farther into the questline you get, the more percentage completed drops, and drops, and drops. But yeah, I used to finish (or at least get 90% or so) most games I bought, but I don't buy many per year usually. Now I'm lucky if I get 25% in.

My order of a 190 individual piece jar of Bit O' Honey's came this morning. So I've had a handful in my robe pocket all afternoon, occasionally eating one. Finally some childhood nostalgia satisfied (it's rare to find the candy at local stores here, anymore). My mouth is happy.