LadyCrimson

Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader, still some of my ultimate fave soundtracks, where I didn't dislike a single track. The uploader didn't remember the track apparently (theme, the chant, and combat tracks were probably most known), but I remember watching the workers march across the castle grounds or grass to deliver goods with this playing, all the time. It was sort of the "castle idly going about its business" track maybe. Sigh. 1st time playing a game memories. Edited: oops I meant Crusader, not SH2. SH2 sucked.

I also prefer a pretty spartan life. I'm kind of like that at this point in my life as well. Not that I don't buy things, but I don't buy/collect a lot of physical things anymore, outside of household type necessities. That said, if they wanted to create/print a paper making of/guide/artbook combo of some sort, I'd pay $30-$60 for that (edit - maybe a bit more), depending how thick/fancy it was (don't care about hardcover or super fancy myself, oversized softcover is fine). Digital version is not at all the same and I don't care much about those, sorry.

$49.99

Muted isn't a bad word for how I've been feeling lately as well. I need to get out more, to be honest, but at the same time I dislike going out in any city-ent. sense and it takes too long through constant street traffic to get to true open space and back again now, so I usually just stay home/in the yard except for 20-30 min. walks around the neighborhood to stretch my legs. :/ At the moment I'm waiting on Amazon to deliver weekly order + weekend munchies. Supposed to rain a lot I think so this weekend might be mostly indoors. Unless it's really stormy, then I might go out with the raincoat and a camera. Y'know that poster pic from Unbreakable where Bruce is in the rain in his poncho? That's me. Minus the superpowers. Or the "looks kinda creepy" factor. Plus I'm not Bruce. Um...never mind.

Reading this made me suddenly miss Richard Jordan and want to binge watch his scenes from several works.... Not familiar with Pedro Pascal but searching his images ... I can see it. Duncan Idaho was probably my fave chrs. from the original novel.

I used to herd cats but these days I just garden and play video games.

Btw, I'm not dissing Michael Dorn. He did what he could and my boredom with Worf wasn't actor-related. I just didn't find TNG Klingon's interesting or entertaining. As to the female outfits - it's kind of funny how the female tight "bunny suit" chr. evolved with the different series. I still remember when Troi was promoted and wore the standard blue/black Starfleet uniform later, imo she was actually more beautiful in that then that silly purple outfit which I thought was actually unflattering on her. Of course you can go all the way back and chuckle over Uhura and the other female's super-short 60's mini-skirt uniform where their uniform-underwear was constantly on show. But at least that costume probably didn't make anyone faint.

There are exactly three Worf "moments" that I found memorably amusing (still easily recall them today) and one was more of a Data moment. "Good tea, nice house." "I'm beginning to see the appeal of this program!" (A Fistful of Datas) "This does not remind me of you." (Data to Worf as Worf is picking out a wedding gift) I found his character largely boring and I wanted his son to be shipped back to Earth post-haste. The son's mother was a cool chr. tho, I was ticked about her demise, I wanted to see her in more guest shots. Also, that blue Klingon head in that posted picture is just "what?" Even worse than the classic to TNG jump, imo.

I feel like STD could maybe use a different acronym. Then again, I find it rather amusing every time. I still haven't seen any of it because I refuse to subscribe. Since I liked Flashpoint a lot, thought I'd try this series called Durham County, one of those single-crime-story (not episodic) series which stars one of the leads from Flashpoint. 2 episodes in it's slow, rather odd, and features zero likable characters. Not in the "bad acting" way - but the slightly annoying/whiny or stupid-decisions to the ***hat you want to punch in the face way. Probably won't continue.

I've been playing on PS4 this round (last time I played PC version was at original release, didn't feel like reinstalling it/blizzard service) so the UI is different for the controller. Most things are (so I read) pretty much the same otherwise between versions (minor update differences here and there at times). Edit: I think Indira is playing PC version, from the screen Edit edit: PS4 main Seasonal chr. menu/comparison:

I had some toast, a pear, and a yogurt. I know, I know, I live on the culinary wild side, what can I say. ...I've had a hankering for some homemade lasagna however. My really fattening, sausage-laden, no ricotta-cheese (mozz, cheddar, other shredded cheeses) lasagna, that is.

I know, right? It's ridiculous/funny. With 13+ difficulties and greater rifts going past that, not surprising I suppose. ...at least you can turn the numbers off. I only run them when I get curious about numerical "progress."

(video stills, extra fuzzy) Me: routinely/very frequently do 1-3billion crits Mages: routinely do 300-500million Skellies: routinely do 100-200million So far: That plus gaining another 50 or so Paragon levels = still not quite enough to beat GR70 in time-limit (req. to have chance of Primals to drop). Some of it's rng on the dungeon and enemy types that spawns but I keep missing by 30, 60 seconds...bah. Edit: at least I'm close. Maybe another 50 P-lvls...

I believe that was kind of my point.

For the longest time my favorite remained the reddish fugly half-formed golem thingie pet which came with the ultimate/necro edition. I just liked the way it was animated when it ran around picking up gold, it was too funny. The two cows and the floating skulls are the only others I've liked much. Haven't gotten the Bumble yet - probably missing 4 or 5 pets (on non-seasonal chr). lol - that's a pretty apt description of the current version of D3.

Documentary: "Fyre" - Never heard of this guy or his island party fiasco. Might've seen the cheese sandwich picture but with no idea of what it was about/its origin. Anyway the doc. is train-wreck-fascinating and makes you scramble all over the 'net wanting to know more/look up all these people, so I guess it works. Kingdom: S. Korea's zombie series airing on Netflix now. I'm not big on zombie-genre in general but it's only 6 episodes so I took a gander. Mixes a lot of palace Royal politics and scheming (typical of period SK dramas) with zombie outbreak. Although the zombies in this case seem like a mixture of zombie and vampire, but whatever. The political stuff doesn't work (or meld) with the zombie stuff too well and it's fairly slow paced for 2-3 episodes (for zombie/horror fans who like action, I mean) but it's not too bad. The action/zombie sequences are well done visually and it doesn't shy away from violence at those times. The end was a bit ... well. Disappointing? Unexpected? Not great, not bad, but doesn't even come close Train to Busan.

Got any recommends? After really liking Hakuoki, Cinderella Phenomenon and Lake of Voices almost everything else I've tried (I've only bought from Steam) has been ... not very good. Or too much like Hakuoki and thus been there/done that. I don't mind, for example, a VN being classed as an "otome" but it has to have more story/depth of chr. than just "pick choices just so you can get in bed with the hot trope guy (or gal) of choice." I did try looking at some other non-steam sites but it's hard to tell quality tales vs Harlequin romance from descriptions/covers so I gave up. Edit: I did buy Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth but haven't tried it yet.

Inheritance is going to be a lot more than I was expecting. When it finally arrives/gets out of legal, most will go into savings etc. but contemplating splurging on something I wouldn't ordinarily splurge on. Just can't think of anything. I live a quiet life with quiet (mostly) inexpensive hobbies and ... Hm. Hubby is likely to talk about doing something like building a greenhouse all day long and never do it - maybe I'll just do it for him (eg, hire people). ...or maybe I'll build an attached fenced in cat-run/house for indoor kitties to play in the sunshine. I'd have to get more kitties tho. ...couple-hood peace is better off with the greenhouse vs. poking holes in house walls. I can grow my own jalapeno's, bok choy and romaine lettuces at least.

Tried to start/read through early Psycho-Pass VN. Couldn't figure out how to get to any options/save menu for ages and by the time I finally did I lost all interest in reading. Then tried to play Torchlight2 again (never did finish the "story") but I've forgotten all the controls etc. so it's that syndrome of having a high level chr. but feeling like you have to start over. Nah. ...Divine Divinity 1 I never even came close to finishing, but it was a lot of fun as I recall, maybe I'll give that a go next...5 bucks says I won't get far in that endeavor either. I know I'm not as into gaming overall as some days past, but I still hate being "between" games.

I didn't find the Han Solo actor to remind me of Harrison Ford in any way, not even in overt imitation sense. Outside of the costumes he just felt generic and without a lot of true charisma (I mean he was ok, like I said earlier, just nothing that stands out). Although perhaps that's because the actor's face kept distracting me by reminding me of someone else, and finally I placed it: Harry Hamlin - '81 Clash of the Titans. It's the jaw/cheekbones mostly I suppose. Edit: that said, it is a tall order indeed to fill the charismatic shoes of Harrison Ford as the iconic Han Solo, younger version or not. Edit Edit: or maybe it's because I didn't see the latter half and he becomes more imitation at that point

I sometimes think about buying a newer (and better) laptop to replace the utter crap piece of plastic I bought last time, but when I look, anything remotely like what I'd want is $2000+ (and I don't want a laptop for gaming but what I want would still be in that range). And for me, more than $1200 for a laptop is like, no. Can't be any worse than plasma, and hubby's played countless hours of Borderlands on the one we still have. No perm. burn-in yet.

Tried to watch Solo via Netflix, mostly to see what any "fuss" was about. I got about half-way through before walking off to do other things (hubby watched the rest). Not because I found it terrible, I just didn't care enough to continue. The guy playing Solo was all right, the jokes were all right (although predictable), some of the winkwink stuff to the original films (and Mr. Wookie bits) made me lightly chuckle, and the action was all right. But that was the problem. It's just "all right." There's no suspense (we know his future already) so there's little story motivation for me. Thus even tho I wasn't disliking it, half was all the time I felt like giving it. But I can some folk liking it as a by the numbers type of adventure film. Oh, there is one thing I didn't like - Woody Harrelson. I do love him as an actor most of the time, but for some reason I felt like he didn't fit into SW-verse. He sticks out too much or feels too real-world modern or something. Lesser known actor would've been better in this case perhaps.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't call it a good movie. I have a feeling some may get turned off with a "nothing is happening" feeling. It's a quiet movie. The trailer makes it look more ... active or thriller-y ... then it really is. But for some reason it kept me watching where a lot of flashier movies don't anymore.

In this age of streaming video and when I watch everything at home, sometimes I have no idea which thread to post in - movie? TV? If it's 1.5+ hours long, I always think of it as a movie, but if it was basically made for a streaming service, is it really TV? Should there be a "streaming media" thread? (not really, just joking). Anyway, I saw the Netflix trailer for Io, a post-apocalyptic drama tale with no zombies or weird mega-viruses or space aliens where the focus is on two people. Trailer is the sort to make you guess that either the film will be "deliberately"-paced but still very interesting, or "ploddingly"-paced and really boring. Turns out it's a mixture of both. Decent ideas/acting turned mediocre to average (I won't mention the "science" aspects). I did finish it, however, probably because I ended up liking the actors/characters more than anything else.