LadyCrimson

They look awesome on the mobile phone screen, tho!

Steam webpage, enter search term, "cat". Spend a couple hours sifting. And thus I am playing: Free visual novel released a couple days ago: Stardew Valley like, sim game, but with cats? I'm so there.

Because, lots o' cats (the MC is human). I rather enjoy the artstyle too.

Shinichiro Miki, Kōsuke Toriumi, and Kenjirō Tsuda - if one could marry just a voice, it'd be one of those three. There's some in-chr. audio-CD's of the three I found on YT that I listen to in the background while doing paperwork. Especially Shinichiro Miki - his general voice is great but when he starts screaming/shouting or laughing it's even better. I need to find this Amagi Brilliant Park show just to skim through for the angry screaming shark, lol. Currently skimming through Reideen, a mediocre giant-mech anime I could only find on YouTube. Short-term obsessions are fun time-wasters, sometimes.

MS, or anyone else, has not yet acquired Obsidian as of this post as far as I know. It may happen in the future though. It's currently at the stage where a rumor has become a rumor that the original rumor is definitely happening.

Hmm...pretty soon every game and entertainment co. etc. will be "Taco Bell." If I'm lucky, I'll die before it truly happens. ...well, whatever. Even if it doesn't happen this time, it may next time. Such is life, as they say. I'll hope for (what I think of as) the best, but prepare mentally for the worst.

wtf - I try to go to Dramafever site and it just has this big announcement page of "being shutdown immediately." Stuff happens, things go kaput, I get that, but what I'm peeved about is no announcement to subscribers? The site loaded up fine last night, btw. No email, no "go here to deal w/your account" link on the website, nothing. Will they auto-cancel the CC sub for me? What's going on? Thanks, Warner Brother's. Not. https://www.dramafever.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarherman/2018/10/16/warner-bros-asian-drama-hub-dramafever-to-shut-down-immediately/

One Punch Man (anime) is leaving Netflix soon so I finally got around to checking it out a bit. I'm not sure I'd call it a good anime but I did laugh like a loon during the first few episodes that I watched. It pokes fun at a lot of action anime tropes, especially power scaling, and oh man I was in stitches from many scenes.

Bout 70 degrees Fahrenheit. California, baby. It's like that all the time. Or warmer. Like today it was closer to 80F. Day time temps usually don't get much cooler until late Nov/early Dec. here.

Have a list made out of what I'd need for a new pc rig. Was going to still go with the i7-8700k but now I'm staring at the i9-9900k. I'm not one to preorder so it wouldn't surprise me if I'd have a hard time getting my hands on it first thing, but I'd rather wait for reviews on it anyway. Which means maybe .... Xmas? New Years? New PC will likely be in the realm of $3000+ (since I'll be buying a new GPU to go in it instead of tossing/using my current one in). When it's finally on my desk, I better be able to play FFXV at "4k" with 45-60fps/maxed including most nvidia-works (vs. 30-40fps at around average w/no nividaworks) or I'll toss a fit.

*reads back through thread* Oh, I didn't really expect many replies to my bad-endings post. Thanks for all the suggestions. I don't tend to find horror games/films bad-endings to be what I look for - occasionally towards the very end of such but it's rare. Not that I don't like horror bad endings, but I rarely find them emotionally involving, perhaps because I don't scare/frighten easily, or perhaps because feeling horrified by something isn't really what I seek. I suppose there's certain themes/tropes that I almost always like/fall for and I find it to be fairly rare in video games. Not sure I could explain it, outside of sacrifice and tragedy which are both pretty generic terms. But a lot of the games mentioned I either have never/barely heard of or haven't tried so I'll check those out.

I think the only things I've seen Henry Cavill in are Immortals and the Superman stuff. At least that's all I remember. Immortals was ludicrously awful yet for some reason I rather liked it in an over-the-top visual way, and it made me think Cavill would an ok Superman at least physically . But while Cavill has looks I don't get much on-screen charisma presence from him. I feel nothing when he's on-screen. There's nothing in his eyes. Just me tho.

@Gfted - we caught a lake catfish once, that was large enough to "fill" a large-size ice cooler. I don't know what that translates into inches. Not as big as yours, maybe only 20-24". But we left it alive in the cooler for the trip home (several hours by car). The guys killed it in the kitchen (that was...a big mess). I didn't think it made for the best meal. Too old, maybe. Heh. ================ Decided I'd try Crunchyroll. After some days of watching/trying a fair bit of anime series, I can't really remember most of it. They sort of all end up feeling the same and most don't fit my personal tastes. Too ... youthful. Nothing against anime, mind. When I do like a series, I really like it ... it's just rare I like one that much. Oh well. Gintama looked goofy-action entertaining/amusing but after watching the first couple, I realized there were over 350 episodes (plus it's still ongoing?) and my fear of lengthy commitment had me running away posthaste. (edit - btw, I gave up on Bleach largely for the same reason - even skipping a few seasons, it was too much).

(Kind of music, kind of funny) Since I'm currently starting the Netflix series The Good Cop: Josh is one of those famous people where I find him hilarious/interesting in interviews and such but his official music bores me to tears most of the time. But he (and Ellen) is very charming.

I need more games with non-happy endings. I don't mean "game over" screens or you hit the wrong button/wrong choice and the world explodes/game over/reload. ...50 years (well, ok, 45 years) of happy/heroic endings in most entertainment and I'm tired of them. I need more character tragedy, pathos, ambiguous and bittersweet that builds and escalates throughout the whole game. Anything come to mind?

Fraps doesn't work with Win10, I hear. Or at least, it can be really difficult to get it to work, if at all. Win10 it seems many use Shadowplay (nvidia) or OBS (also used to Twitch-stream) as freebie options. Shadowplay requires you to install/use nvidia's Experience, however, which I find to be bloatware and useless. I'm kind of in the same boat because I use Fraps with Win7 but when I build a Win10 rig I'm going to need something else. The main thing I liked about fraps is it's high quality format that works smoothly while editing vs. high on-the-fly compression into mp4 format or whatever that feels chunky and awkward in editors.

I've realized that some male voices speaking in Japanese or Korean (calm vocalizations, that is) make great "white noise" recordings for bedtime. The vocal tones are soothing/hypnotic when you don't understand the meaning being the verbalized noises so aren't distracted by that. I've tried ocean waves, rain, thunderstorms, etc and most of the time the tones in things like that vary too much into pitch ranges my ears don't like. Rain comes the closest, as long as it's only rain and not thunder and wind. Having a fan on high works too, except I don't usually want air motion to go with white noise (especially since I have a spouse). ...and yes I've had trouble sleeping again. The past four days I think I've slept about 8 hours.

I'm late to be aware of the news, but apparently F/X is going to do a limited series (10 episode) of Shogun? I'm not sure how I feel about that, if it ends up completed. On the one hand, I'd love a new mini-series based on that novel, with modern tech and actors and costumes. And 10 episodes could allow it to be something fairly epic. F/X has been doing all right with some of their series lately, too. On the other hand, my pessimism always runs rampant and I can think of a zillion ways for them to totally mess it up. I'll be interested to see a cast list, when it forms. The original 80's 5 episode mini-series of Shogun (not the truncated movie versions of it...) is still one of my fave things, along with the novel. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/fx-orders-shogun-limited-series-1132074

Watched the anime series Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan (22 episodes) which is based on a visual novel which is a (Japan) historical-fantasy based on the Shinsengumi group during the final years of Edo period. First half was average to pretty good, then I basically cried through the 2nd half. And that's with me already knowing the story/route from the visual novel (which also had me sniffling in 4 chr. routes). The combat-bros, the end-of-an-era woes, THE FEELS. The VA's are mostly excellent. The female protagonist/narrator-eye is kind of annoying in that not-uncommon indecisive/in distress trope but not as annoying as many so I can overlook it. ...also, I recognized one of the game/anime chr VA's from Bleach. ...realized Attack of Titans has a 3rd season going, need to fire that up next.

Sorry to hear that. Not the same details in my life of course, but I do know that mixed/unsure feeling with family loss. For me it's always such a strange sensation. I usually eat more chocolate in response.

Bought a simple/casual game (on sale) because it looked like an easy way to pass some time today. Took over an hour to download the game (since I idiotically didn't take note of size of d/l before buying). Am now no longer in the frame of mind to fire it up and actually play it. ....such is my gaming life (and attention span) in the digital era.

Bleach was in a slow decline after the Soul Society arc and went to free fall after Aizen was From what I can tell, in terms of the anime, that doesn't occur until season 22, and there are only 26 seasons? I think it goes into decline well before that. The main issue I have is there are way too many characters being constantly introduced for long stretches and then largely disappearing only to appear again later when convenient for a fight or exposition, then disappear again. It's chr. whiplash and I don't care about any of them. By season 7 or 8 I'm only in it for the Quincy kid, Aizen/his plot, and the guy who owns the shop (in the striped clothes). Some of the others are fun as combat side chrs tho. Stop yapping, start fighting.

Binged the 1st 3 seasons of "Bleach" (subbed) via Netflix. Mostly because I saw the live-actor movie (also on Netflix), which was very corny in some spots but did make me interested in the anime again. I'd heard of the series and even watched one episode years ago but I forgot about it. Those 3 seasons were all right. After 1st season, I kept FFWDing through a lot of the slapstick, unnecessarily prolonged action sequences and side chr. diversions, mostly interested in the main story/villain arcs. Didn't like the pattern of starting a major battle then leaving it, sometimes taking 2-3 episodes to go back to/finish it after sidetracking. There's plenty to diss about the series but initially it's still worth at least skimming through. Sadly, all the other seasons are on Hulu, which I don't like to watch/use much. All I want is to hop-skip through rest of the Aizen arc but I'm not sure I'll have the patience to FFWD through 20+ seasons for it. Season 4 and 5 were apparently not even manga based, so I completely skipped those. Anyway ... first 3 seasons were 65% fun and 35% boring. I liked Slayers much better overall (including its slapstick) but Bleach does have some good action and a few character/arc standouts. A lot of it is rather "meh" tho.

Tried to watch "Kidding" on Showtime. I should say first that I'm not a huge fan of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (it was ok, but I wasn't in love with it). The premise of the show - Mr Rogers-like has a bleak mid-life crisis or some such - could be interesting/funny, but Kidding is so bleak and the chrs. rather unlikable/non-sympathetic (acting is fine) that it's kind of hard to get into the show. I like dark and tragi-comic/satire but it's another show where I hardly even chuckled. It's not just that it's not funny - it's not even interesting. Two episodes in, I turned it off. I guess I don't have the patience anymore for shows that don't at least give me a feeling of "I want to know more" within an hour or two.

Telltale - I tried Walking Dead Season 1 and didn't get very far. I could sorta see why it would appeal to some but at the time it wasn't for me. I think they likely tried to expand too fast, too far once they got some fame and then didn't expand their style enough to keep interest up. Happens.