LadyCrimson

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.

Power problem. Forgot to order the switchbox. Need 3rd set of cheap speakers. USB mice. etc Gosh darn it, it's unending. At least I don't need any monitors.

Hm. Dawn of Man. Looks a whole lot like Banished but with some focus on combat and missions perhaps. I'm tempted. (it's on GoG too). Maybe I should wait for 30% off tho. https://store.steampowered.com/app/858810/Dawn_of_Man/ ...I still haven't done the Terra Wars or the FFXIV, FFXV collab. missions. I've started each one but they felt dull + I have no personal association with those games so...never finished. And it's not like I need another op'd weapon in FFXV. Wasn't impressed with the Ardyn anime prologue but eh...maybe I'll find him amusing in his own DLC. Hopefully he'll remain largely snarky. A weepy/sad/soap opera Ardyn would make me go urgh.

Me: "I need a USB KB/mouse to go with the switchbox (my old KB is still a round plug...)" Hubby: "I have this one in my car someone at work insisted buying, then they quit and left it and I've never used it." ...it's blue backlit, which is nice, although the optional moving pattern is a bit much. What's the use for that? ...it's a Velocifire VMO1, not sure which model version (not expensive). Mechanical? ...Don't like the very angled wrist rest bottom. It's a bit smaller profile than my old so fingers have to relearn auto-reaching distances. I like the extra weight. Not sure I like the typing feel. It's not much quieter than my old one but the sound is different. Point being, while in a sense a KB is a KB, it's funny how picky we can be about such. -------------------------------------------- Edit: also: Amazon: "Your order of CPU will ship much earlier than expected!" ... awesome, maybe I can build it this weekend... Amazon: "Your order of mobo+GPU has been delayed. We're sorry." .... drat. Not this weekend then. Bank: "We've noticed higher than usual CC activity and suspended transactions, is it really you?" ... yes, I'm me, now and then I may actually spend money, that's what the CC is for, amazing isn't it, knock it off will ya.

Nvidia's drivers aren't as "great" as they used to be I think (although I rarely have a problem with them myself sometimes they make game performance for a game worse until a next version) but Experience is something separate. :/ I've always gone to their website to download drivers - I like having them all saved to disk in case I want to revert to an older one temporarily if a particular game doesn't like the most recent one I installed. I install only the drivers and PhysX, I uncheck everything else far as I remember offhand. But I don't care about always having the latest driver right away so it's not much of a hassle. I just update if games/something seems like it might benefit from updating or a long time has passed. So once every 4-8 months maybe. I know some who love Experience but I don't know how they can stand it.

I don't have a 1080ti so don't know if it's different than 980ti but ... did you install Experience? I tried it once to try Shadowplay. Hated the overlays. Hated the forced "profile" installing/installed game checking without asking. Hated everything about it even after tweaking tons of settings . Uninstalled it. Much better.

I'm spending too much time on the internet again. Partly restless mind, partly don't want to get too wrapped up into things and forget to check for packages every hour or so. Our neighborhood isn't bad or anything, but homes are close together and I don't trust leaving packages on the doorstep for too long when they can be easily seen from the street. One day I should do something about that (front porch area fencing or something), >.> I may go visit my cousin next week. Haven't seen her in a long time, it'll be nice to catch up with her.

As long as I don't have to run to the shop every 30 minutes or spend a long time stuck in some animated blacksmith sequence over and over to repair, I'm cool with that.

I don't mind a camping/rest system as a heal overnight method or various food/stimpacks/poison nullfiers whatever for lots of different in-combat try-not-to-die healing item options, that's what I would consider normal. But I don't want the game to be an actual survival game where the more often I swing a stick the hungrier I become and I have to think about hunger meters, constantly eating 12 charred pig-on-a-sticks and 15 coconuts a day. How are chrs. not super fat in most "survival" games. It's fine to have more of a survival aspect be a separate "hard mode" toggable option tho, like in FO:NV. I might even play around with such on a 2nd playthru. I just mean I don't want it to be the default system of the game.

Best anime evah! Crunchyroll, episode every week or so I think. Episode format so far has been human PoV first half (more or less, varies a bit) than it shows cat's PoV for some of the same human scenes. It's not just comedic/about the cat per se, it's a nice slice of life with cat and human slowly affecting each others lives. I love it.

My new case may only be 20ish pounds instead of 30ish, but I'm old and tiny and it's huge/awkward for me to carry, how am I going to lug the filled thing all the way outside to dust it out every four months or so? Where's my servant boy? ...do you guys just blow the dust into the room? My allergies ... maybe I can mostly cover it in a giant plastic bag while blowing it out.

It's not the only thing I base game purchases on. But it doesn't hurt to watch someone play the first hour or two. I usually do that to judge whether I think the combat system/UI is something I'd like (or at least not dislike). I can't tell that based on review descriptions at all, outside of "1st person/3rd, turnbased or not" basics. I'll be paying full price for the game, I'm just not sure I'll be in a hurry to play it on day 1 and I don't buy until I'm going to play. Depends what I'm doing at the time.

Sitting by the door waiting for a lot of packages. Not just PC stuff, a lot of other little stuff. Sadly the actual CPU was sold out so I have to wait a week or so for that. Is it weird that I'm not very excited yet? I think it's because I know I'm going to toss fits re: the whole install and tweak tons of software (and find new software that will work with Win10, in some cases) for days before it'll finally feel like I have a useful new toy. So tiresome. But when it's finally all done, hopefully I'll get excited then!

Between those two pokeman trailers, I no longer have to see the movie. I have all the cute stuff right there in the trailers! ...Ryan Reynold's voice works for me, at least in terms of the films. If only a stuffed doll of pikachu actually looked like the cgi. I'd so buy one to sit on top of my PC.

Ignis is so vogue.

--*eats a small salad and small bowl of soup* --"I'm still hungry." --Jog to the scale. "126lbs." Jog back to kitchen. --*eats a hot dog (no bun), yogurt, pasty danish and some pistachios* --"I feel better now." ...what happens when you go through one of those long periods of not caring much about eating/food, and then that ends.

I stopped watching. I may pick it up again later but my inability to focus this week did me in. It is very cliche in many ways, I was also enjoying the visuals and for me I liked some of the chrs. I know someone else who hated every chr. tho, lol. Hubby has continued to watch it - I don't think he loves it that much but he just calls it "different than the usual" - ofc he's not someone who watches a ton of series tv or superhero or the like so he's not as overly familiar with tropes. He wouldn't have seen even a single Marvel movie or TWD or tons of other stuff, if I wasn't around, in other words.

This one won't be a pre-order for me. It's likely I'll watch someone stream it a bit first and then buy it a few days or a week or two later - it mostly depends largely on when I think I'm actually going to truly play it. I dunno tho. I haven't been following the development outside of watching a few gameplay/interview vids, so I'm not super-excited/pumped. I'm only aware that this is a game I'm going to buy (at full price) and try at some point.

*looks at past few pages, doesn't see it posted yet so..* GoG lays off a dozen ... officially is a restructuring with more hiring in the future, but an unnamed employee says they were told it was financial/they're close to being in the red etc: https://kotaku.com/facing-financial-pressures-gog-quietly-lays-off-at-lea-1832879826 So either it all balances out somehow and it's nothing or the employee is just badmouthing or this could be the very early beginnings of a GoG downspiral? It's interesting, anyway. One does wonder how things like Epic and any others etc may affect GoG.