LadyCrimson

Up. Putter around, hung out with hubby, was a nice weather-day. Made some beef soft tacos for dinner. Yummy. Maybe time to turn on FFXV for a few hours. Started a new save file again for a lower level run on PC which I never truly got around to. Still more than two months before DQ:Builders 2 I think. At least that one won't be an Epic exclusive. Pfft.

I'll take it that you're not a huge fan of boogey-men movies then either. ...the time travel stuff I've liked wasn't really because of the time travel, more for the morality/personal choice questions they often pose perhaps. Or just because it was silly fun (eg Back to the Future, ST Voyage Home).

I think you could say that about just about every single time-travel story ever. Some do a lot better at techo-babbling and faking it, some just go with humor winkwink, but the whole paradox thing always gets in the way at some point. "You realize of course if we give him the formula, we may be altering the future." "Why? How do we know he didn't invent the thing?" You can't really look for logic in time travel plots, you just have to go with it and enjoy (or not...) on a visceral what-if level or something.

@ melkathi - does it come in florescent blue?

I watched that documentary about Fred Rogers, Won't You Be My Neighbor the other day. I liked it a lot, not only for learning a bit more about the man but the occasional social commentary re: his hopes for tv as a medium for helping/teaching children vs what the environment of how popular children's entertainment often ended up becoming.

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.