LadyCrimson

Has this become the "Games You Are Uninstalling" thread? I have to decide what games I'm going to leave installed on the Win7 rig and what I'm going to reinstall on the new one, still. I still want a large HDD purely for the storage space since I like to flood them with GB's of nothing but pictures and videos that don't need mega speed just to view, but I am loving the 1TB NVMe SSD ... *stupid FFXV and its 152GB install size...* ...and I'm still playing Quest Hunter. Fairly quickly I'd lose health so rapidly to dungeon enemies that I wondered how I was supposed to progress. Then I realized I was having so much fun whacking stuff with my frying pan that I'd totally forgotten about the stat/skill point stuff. And quests to get a blacksmith. Now I can freeze enemies, do more damage, and all is well again. Ditching the fry pan made me sad tho.

^ Don't know if you're lactose intolerant but I find yogurt does well with mild stomach issues at least. Although it takes a while and you have to find the one that works well for you - they're not all equal re: those bacteria. I've had too many rounds of antibiotics and I feel like if I don't eat a small bit of "my" yogurt once every couple days I end up with all kinds of digestion ailments.

Fava beans grew like gangbusters, get huge, and taste really good and are good for the soil supposedly. Hubby has had the worst luck with tomatoes since we moved back to the Peninsula. They often end up with a rot issue around the stem or the point at the bottom. He's tried everything = removing soil/replacing soil, other plants good for soil/pests around them, fertilizer, different watering cycles, growing from seedlings, sprouting from seeds, etc etc.

I know...I wasn't taking you guys the wrong way or anything - I just often find myself amused at myself, wondering why I keep taking more screenshots when I have practically documented most of the game frame by frame already.

I have often felt like (even before the MCU existed) that comic/superhero (and most epic/action-y fantasy or alternate universes really) movies have this tendency to start strong/entertaining and end poorly. There's exceptions and it varies in degree but overall I mean. Even Ironman, which is my MCU favorite still, the ending falls apart. It's like when you have such stakes and people with superpowers, it's hard to find a way to end conflicts without becoming too absurd or over the top or maybe the writers just write themselves into corners. I don't know.

I need a fancy, performance harsh game to play on the new rig and I'm not finding one (that I'm even remotely interested in). Last time I did this I bought the original Metro 2033. Hardly played the thing but it sure did look good at the time. I'd buy the new Metro but that means signing up to Epic/their client. Pfft. *back to Quest Hunter and its 1000000000fps*

LadyCrimson spamming the PoyG thread with FFXV screenshots is the new melkathi spamming the thread with Mordheim screenshots. Me: "I have no idea what you're talking abo..." PC: "You have 380+GB of 70k+ image/video files in a zillion FFXV directories. Duplicated on external HDD's." Me: "Hush." ...Ansel screenshotting is just a serious addiction now. It speaks to the camera shutterbug in me or something and is a mini-game itself. it's hard to play other games for long because I keep wanting to hit the Ansel button all the time and feel disappointed when I can only take a "regular" screenshot. I almost bought DMC5 just for its screenshot taking feature which looks their own Ansel-imitation. But I don't think it'd be a game I'd play for more than a few hours. When I saw your screenshot, my first thought was "I bet that little guy there is the smart alek high IQ type." Hee. I'm not typically all that into playing non-human chrs (unless they're cats, haha), but it's kinda adorable - probably the first one I'd try out, lol.

Quest Hunter, a cute little indie arpg. Has one of those overworld maps and going from map spot to map spot can have a small random encounters. Hack n slash, fetch quest, occasional things to move or carry to solve small problems/quests. Use shovel to dig for secrets. Small skill tree. Nothing difficult. But rather insta-casual fun. Plus, pot-helmet and pan-weapon. What's not to love?

Finally all done (except Win10 fiddling which is never truly done, right) and I can now think about something else again. Or not think at all, which is far more likely. Time for some grub! Made a small roast last night, going to eat the leftovers then maybe finish Umbrella Acad.

Well, at least it's finally done. Did finally get the stupid KVM switchbox to work but it seems finicky with KB/mouse. I'll have to use it a week or so and see if it remains stable. Speaking of wire management, the case was fairly good with that but the amount of wires in and out of the switchbox all over the desk etc. is a hellish nightmare and that's only a 2-port. I may not be all that picky about such but I'll have to figure out something to at least make it a bit more manageable. I still really dislike RGB/neon so I'm glad any of that forced on me is barely visible from my deskchair. The Gigabyte BIOS menus really aren't that bad, just different/have to learn them.

I like the new rig. It is super fast, and 5 second load times in FFXV is dreamy. I don't like Win10 (no surprise) but I'll be using old Win7 for non-gaming anyway. The 2 port DisplayPort KVM switch I bought rather sucks however and I'm currently using one of hubby's 1440 monitors (they're HP, not Dell, oops) and separate KB/mouse on one corner of my desk which is annoying to say the least. Works for while I'm sussing out Win10 poop tho. That's always a bit rough. I've given up a couple cats when I had too many already and one was hard to part with. But at the time my cat-inn was totally full. Still, at least giving them a good new home makes me feel better.

Install Win10 Me: "I need to set up net/lan access cause I want Firefox etc" Hubby: (looks) "You probably need a driver for the mobo off the CD." Me: "I don't have a CD" Hubby: "It's in the mobo box." Me: "I don't have a CD player in the new rig we didn't buy one." Hubby: "...." (he fixed it grabbing it on his pc's/usb stick but, lol at us....)

My monitor has color, saturation, contrast, brightness, hue, red/green/blue etc. settings. Nvidia control panel allows you to make some changes. My TV has all of that plus several "modes" that alter look. Surely one can at least tone down the saturation aspect somewhat, one way or another, if one doesn't like it?

I became that way with those type of RPG's. I'd end up just wandering the world and doing whatever and ignoring decisions and talking to NPC's, until I grew bored and quit. It's not that I don't enjoy or respect such RPG's ... my brain just doesn't want to deal with such anymore and too much of such makes me want to take a nap.

I have no idea how ppl make these type of videos, but doesn't your TV have a large play in how it looks, too? I mean I saw it via Netflix and it looked a lot better than in that video. Certainly wasn't washed out and bland. I don't have the blu-ray tho and never will. Edit: also the "after" section, it's not just over-saturation but over-contrast and other things. I wouldn't like either version. On my monitor/TV's anyway.

I was expecting the new gpu to be a little bigger of course, but it's frakking HUGE vs. my 980ti. Must weigh like 6 pounds. Not sure if we'll get it all put together tonight, but we're working on it.

This is why I don't often watch videos to get actual information or even tutorials, unless said video is 2-3 minutes or less. People talk a lot slower than I can read and thus videos just waste my time. Not to mention all the extra non-info prattling or "humor" some like to toss into it. Some people are very verbally or visually oriented or don't like to read, however.

Watched more Umbrella Academy, I think I'm up to the 8th episode. At that point my chr. affection switched over to the hitmen, particularly Hazel (the guy). Doing my usual lookup, he had an important role in the series Mindhunter - which overall was a better series than TUA. I think he may have at least a nice "chr. role" career ahead of him if he wants it. Anyway, even tho I enjoy the hitmen on their own, in terms of the series I'm not quite sure why so much attention is placed on them. It feels like filler. The visuals are still fun and I like the music but the further the series goes the less appealing it is overall. Even if you like some chrs. it all feels kind of disconnected so far.

I'll let you guess where I stand in that regard. ...the visible wires aren't PC related tho (there's about 2 feet open behind desk for those) - they're things like laptop, phone charger, external HDD's etc. As long as there isn't a trip hazard and wires aren't all over any work area in front of monitors, I'm cool. What I loathe is dust/dirt.

Btw, anyone want a Dell 1440 27" monitor? Nothing special, but they work well enough. Hubby in a nutshell. People want to toss stuff that works (or he can repair), he grabs it. He uses three of them on his desk, too. Maybe, if he can spare one, I might grab one soon.

Unless I have to sign for something, which is very rare, I have no need to talk to the delivery people. I mean, these days they don't even knock on the door most of the time, just walk up, drop and run. So all I'd need is a camera to see when the packages have arrived vs. opening the door to check all the time. Also, we don't have a doorbell. Well, we do, but it's always disconnected because we can't stand it.

Such is why I try to enjoy the present more and more vs. thinking about some far flung future. You just never know.

You mean so I can look outside on a screen? I have considered one of those security cameras where you check the video online or something. We bought one of those for that other house since it was so far away. Something like that so I could have it open on a desktop to view the front porch while doing other geeky pc things might be nice. We have a door peephole but I'm too short to use it without dragging a stepstool over. So annoying. I think a bit of porch fencing would be simpler.

GW2 makes for some nice screenshots. I still haven't tried it, outside of a beta or something a long time ago.

LOL ... I was always too lazy to check that box too.