LadyCrimson

Flashlight (turns on/off with your chr's) and laser accessories. Not all fauna can wear two pieces. I've never had pets out during combat, no clue if they use the laser. Probably need an "aggressive" pet and even if they do, I'm sure it's not very effective. I found a - hyena? dog? - animal which had six legs and unicorn horn. Hadn't seen that before. Had to have it. The one on the right - don't you want a flying Dumbo tadpole, too? Red misty mountains, or something.

I'm "afraid" any Borderlands 4 will go the same direction. I remember they wanted to do more MT/online stuff with BL3 and the audience rebelled so they pulled back - but a BL4 may not. Of course, I've lost most interest in that series to begin with, but that's not the point. At any rate, glad I didn't buy D4. You could see that writing on the Activision wall a long time ago. If I ever want more ARPG pewpew at some point I'll probably go for POE2. They look like they've made their own version of D2's Demon Hunter but dialed up to 50 - or, "how can we get guns into the game, but it isn't a gun?" - looks like silly fun.

^ Speaking only for myself, but DLC that costs $100/as much or more as the base game is not DLC. If that's not a large multiple dlc/season-pass type of thing and it's only for a bit of end game map content like a couple boss runs/collectables/1 new skill + stacks of game currency+some costume type package "DLC" or some crap like that, I rofl at them.

I watched that OD trailer again and it dawned on me the names were given in it. Doh. They didn't register as actor names in my brain, just as part of the weird trailer or something. Par for the cognizance/memory course these days. The other day I shuffled up and down the hallway five times because every time I couldn't recall what I'd walked the hall for and would walk back, then remember, then repeat, until hubby finally asked me what I was doing. lol.

That Dune trailer looks like it'll be about as interesting to me as the first one, which is to say not very - at least the '80's one, one could have fun giggling. Not saying it was bad, I just found it dull. But I will say that I did/do like the costume design. No. Jurgen Prochnow is great, thought he was (for the times) almost perfect casting. Re: the novel, the Duke is the chr. that stood out to me most, not the son. I recall with the novel I generally liked the supporting or early characters (Halleck, Hawat, Idaho, even Dr Yueh), a ton more than the main or later characters (son, lover, mother, daughter). Although by novel's end I did like/appreciate the son more and wanted more of his chr. But the 2nd novel disappointed me. No actor could've turned that older films interpretation/vision of the Baron into something palatable.

This apparently popular video popped up in my feed. I like bass singers, so why not. I was only half-paying attention, glancing at video but mostly just listening, and it went like this: "Oh, there's four of them? ... they sound pretty good ... nice costumes ... are they a family of brothers or cousins or something? ... " Took me half the video to realize it was just one guy doing the video/sound mixing stuff. I lol'd at myself. Guy's got great range tho.

Short answer: It's wearing a backpack, but sadly no it doesn't have inventory. There are different accessories for them, altho most are deco I think. There's flashlight maybe. I think you can "point" in a direction and depending on dominant personality traits they may or may not go over and may or may not bring you some resources or a sellable treasure. But it all seems about as useful as telling a cat to fetch the morning paper. I mostly collect them (temporarily or not) for uniqueness/ funsies/lol's, just like the ships.

The biggest animal I've "adopted" so far. My chr. is in there somewhere, lower left. Probably won't keep it, but yeah, it's big. When it walks next to me, all I see is a bit o' legs. Keep meaning to do another collage of pets but ... lazy...

Thanks. I knew that I knew his face but I didn't know his name to look him up. Bears a bit of resemblance to older Armand Assante. Blade ... that's probably what I was thinking of. Not sure if I've seen any of his other bigger roles, although I'm sure I've seen him in other small roles here and there.

Oh, also, if you haven't seen this before, it's one of the bestest. A very "talented" cat - at least for hand cues.

Me trying to force myself to exercise in winter.

NMS - update time, and they're repeating "Expeditions" all month so ppl can repeat them, or if you missed them, do them for the 1st time. I have never done one at all, so I tried the first one. You have to start a new game/chr and there are different mechanics/rules/objectives to follow etc. Loaded in and ... "You cannot craft anything outside of a claimed base territory, not a metal plate, battery, anything" ... I tried for a while, and it's not that bad, just annoying. I can understand why people like the extra goals/challenges ... but yeah ... the rewards are only base/costume deco and a Fighter ship I will never care about/use and I like my own goals better, so exit, stage left. And just to say, I *still* see things in the game I've never seen before. Just little things. Not things most would care about but I like it. Currently on a quest to portal-address record all "blob" pet companion varieties I (randomly, all rng) find/come across. The odder ones are kinda rare.

Re: that Kojima teaser - I did see one comment that said the sentences they are repeating comes from an ophthalmologist (vision) test of some kind. I have no idea what such a test is testing for, but that was interesting. The reflections in the eyeballs are probably hints too. Not that any of it gives any clue to the actual gameplay. Gotta hand it to him tho - it is on the one hand an utterly terrible teaser/trailer for a game. But on the other hand it is memorable/makes you (well, me) go "wha?" where I'd at least like to see a longer trailer. Heh.

I heard there was a new Kojima game upcoming. Some kind of horror where “It is a game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s at the same time a movie and at the same time a new form of media.” "..."

Someone else's (game nerd math) speculation: ...I'm a little dubious that LNF's "Earth" will truly be of that size ratio, but if that's the scale they're trying for, or even close to it, 80x the largest NMS planet would definitely be .... huge. Heck even 25x NMS largest....the problem, on those scales, is trying to fill it all with something interesting or somehow intriguing. Those super simple POI copy pasta would not cut it.

Most MMO's or social environment games (well, that I know of) are set on singular planets and no one seems to mind. But the procedural generation aspect is what has me thinking it's more likely it'll be like NMS method and not MMO - you will start new games, and each start will have a different new RNG generated world map. So the MP aspect is people inviting (or having a "ppl can join my world setting") folks to their world and playing together on that one specific version until the group is bored and starts over, more like the MP in, say, 7 Days to Die. Just me speculating - or hoping - tho. Also, if it's anything like NMS, this is going to be a HUGE planet. It's not like Skyrim sizes and prebuild Cities. Like, 20-30 real days to manually run only the diameter of the planet, which isn't including really exploring, just running in a straight line the entire time. I've spent 30 hours on one planet in NMS before and I'm pretty sure I only "saw" maybe 2-5% of it. Edit: and that was with a fast jetpack speed hack. EditEdit: and with some focus on base building, and likely resources everywhere, ppl or small groups are likely to stick to smaller sections most of the time anyway. It's not cosmic joy riding endless universe this time. It wouldn't surprise me if combat was still low focus too.

I came here to say maybe a loose basis could be something like the red panda, but then I saw the more recent pic you posted (I think it's the same thing?) where I can now see that the full body looks closer to an armadillo, so...never mind.

Dear Hello Games: try not to make too many promises this time and try not to release it 5+ years too early, k? Also, what I've read is you "can play alone but they want to encourage multiplayer" - but they haven't made clear if it's the run past other players all the time MMO style, or "multiplayer" like NMS, where you can turn off MP mode/never have to see other players. I hope it's the latter, otherwise I might have zero interest. The early announcement trailer certainly looks nice tho. And it's a single planet/world focus this time, but still very sandbox? Dragonflight instead of ships? Edit: also, bunny people?

I remember seeing The Shining the first time. Jack was great being Jack, even if OTP. Found the kid and the wife acting annoying. And I became really really annoyed with what Kubrick did with the Overlook's cook (he survives Jack - barely - and helps them escape in the novel). Treated him like Freddy-dead-teen-movie fodder, when he was a pretty important character in the book. I do get why one can look at The Shining film as a classic horror film on its own merits, but it didn't capture much of the book, really, imo. I didn't like that mini-series all that much either, to be fair, but it try to stay closer to the theme/tone of the novel.

I want to make a funny Romancing the Stone reference but I can't think of one offhand. Have a great time!

I suddenly remember the Lonesome Dove mini-series, which is excellent. The novel is a bit on the dry and perhaps overlong side so I think I enjoyed the miniseries more than the novel. This was in large part due to the performances of Duvall and Jones, ofc. And even so, I don't think I'd say it's better than the novel. It's a case where they are almost equal, imo, but still very separated because of medium. Based on reactions from people who played the game (I have not), The Last of Us did a pretty good job of bridging that gap, but that was a largely linear narrative game vs. a free form open world rpg like Witcher or Fallout. The thing about novels - or games I suppose - in my opinion of course - turned into video mediums is there is never going to be a true rendering of all the lore, character depth, etc that the written word - or the sensation of playing *as* a chr, making choices, directing the path, in the case of games - can generate into people's minds. Lord of the Rings trilogy is a fantastic film trilogy, but you can't cram all the lore of Tolkein into even six hours, and some stuff wouldn't be "cinema" enough for screen. So you kind of have to judge adaptations more on their own merits/demerits re: their specific artistic medium vs. knocking them down solely for not religiously following established lore or something. I mean, you could have a series that followed lore to a T and still be terrible/not entertaining. That all said, I also think adaptions have a larger chance of working better when there's a firm end planned from the get-go. TV series sounds better on paper then film for adaptations, but ... I don't think it works out that way very often because they're too concerned with a season 2, 3, 4, 5.

Hiroyuki Sanada is excellent casting, but that's all I can say about it at this point. Edit: I wonder if they'll keep the "no subtitles" re: Japanese/Blackthorne not understanding/learning, like the old mini-series did. I hope so.

After a quickie search, apparently Todd thinks some of this show will be official lore? Chr. stuff or something? The only visual media where I thought it was either equal, even if different, to slightly better, from an original source material would be on the film side. Like Shawshank Redemption. TV series .... can't think of anything off hand. Although I think there were several more modern series that I liked a fair bit, or at least liked a first season, but these days I typically have never read/seen/heard of their source material so can't compare. I really liked the old Shogun mini-series from the 1980's, but I wouldn't at all say it's better than the book. It was very good for a mini-series tho - for its time.

^ It's been a long time but I'd agree. Although for me it was perhaps more like ... 3/4 of the way through the map back and forth and the combat became such a slog I was completely mentally exhausted trying to finish it. I don't even remember exactly what was annoying me so much, party control/mechanics, design, the length, dunno. Before that point however, I had a ton of fun with the game. ============ NMS - still haven't finished the MQ. I looked it up in a vague way and I think I'm just a few steps from the end. Outside of the ability to go to new galaxies and start an Echoes expansion quest, with the rewards of the latter being nothing I'd care about, there's no motivation. May be getting a tad "bored"/need a longish break from it. Maybe I'll finally run through Ghostwire Tokyo for kicks, soon.

A live action Fallout series? Mmm....maybe. The ghoul actor pic was kinda cool tho.