LadyCrimson

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.

So I watched the first episode (Pilot part 1) of Legends of Tomorrow series via Netflix. I liked that first episode. It was predictable and cheesy but that sorta tasty cheese type of entertaining. Then I watched the 2nd episode (Pilot part 2) and for some reason it lost all charm for me. I mean it still had moments but the cheese stopped being entertaining and just became ... moldy cheese. I guess it's done well enough for CW to make it to a 4th season, I may give it a few more episodes to see which type of cheese it settles into.

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.