LadyCrimson

Yeah, I'm not so sure about this 1st person mode thing ... Although, it does work. But it's weird, at least in this demo and my starter weapon + you're not used to it yet. Most of the time can't see weapon itself, it just pops in and out at times. Which is good for screenshots but looks weird at times. Some linkstrikes shove you out of 1st person, some don't. Too bad you can't ride chocobo's in Chapt. 1, I hear 1st person is good with them at least. (will be fuzzy in 480, ok in 720)

Was cleaning out/organizing my drives in prep. for the PC version and these are some of the wee moments, glitches and misc. things I found amusing, from the past year. No fancy editing/slapstick, just fave moments semi-randomly put together. If you're bored (and you know the game/chrs, ofc) it might provide a couple chuckles. There are no story spoilers, it's about 7 minutes long, and your humor mileage may vary. Most importantly, my drives are all organized now. I'm ready for that Windows Edition!

Spending the past few days clearing out HDD space for all the game videos I'm anticipating myself making soon. Tempted to buy another internal HDD so I don't have to do this so often but ... nah. External drives will make do. But that next rig (that I keep claiming I'll build one day) I'm going to have a 2TB SSD and three 4TB internal HDD + a couple external backups. That might be enough. Maybe.

Congratulations! I'm afraid I don't have any advice either. Hubby and I always just went for simple silver or silver-toned type bands and for quite some time now neither of us even wear them most of the time. You keep taking them on and off when you do heavy task work then forget to put them back on and ... but I occasionally wear one when I want to display my marital status for some reason. I've considered getting us some new titanium bands but haven't done so yet. LOL ... Abyss?

it's now seeming like the demo of Chapt. 1 will have side quests disabled - likely meaning the Hunter quest chain would be unavailable. Still, that isn't a huge time aspect in Chapt. 1, so if one wanted to just fart around in the available areas you could waste a lot of time if you felt like, leveling and experimenting with Techniques and combat on the wildlife, etc. Still a decent demo.

No one knows the actual download size. He's using the stated install size/requirement as a the reference. 100GB - non-4k install, 155GB - 4k install. Although I'd suspect the download itself will still be over 70-80GB. And no, they're not good with optimizing this game in general. The way they load the world is the dumbest thing ever, but nevermind. The console version so far is around 90 GB installed. (all updates, all DLC) The demo is actually very generous - you can finish Chapt. 1 in 30-45 minutes if you really want but you can also goof off around in it for multiple hours if you really feel like it.

"With (FFXV's new) first person mode, this will be the closest thing we get to Half Life 3." --- a post on another forum

So, I heard about a FFXV PC/Steam demo and went to check the game announcements. There's a demo all right, or will be on the 26th (tutorial and Chapt 1). Which will likely be a better "can I run it" barometer then the benchmark tool was. But...ROFL, also, this: omg, hahaha - the crossover madness continues. The Half-Life Festival won't be long behind, right? Although, whacking things in the game with the crowbar may be fun.

When you're down...you've got a friend... My favorite LinkStrike - it's amazing how many there are, but most will never see very many because of the gear requirements for them to proc. This one, Noct. must use a polearm+Ignis a polearm in his 2nd slot+random chance of occurring. (7 seconds) One of my fave in-store "new recipah" moments I've had. Not being close by is no deterrent, Ignis must have his say. (14 seconds)

Remember "Evolution of Dance?" It's rather like that. Except he's doing them out in public instead of on a stage. A bit uneven and a bit too long but I lol'd several times.

I envy you (and anyone else). Not that mine hurt all the time but they don't feel "normal" either. "Pinching/grip" strength is nearly gone, some days super hard to pull off things like yogurt foil tops or hold dishes w/out dropping them. Although most games don't require a lot from those two fingers, thankfully. Thumb just sits on the spacebar for example. But damnit, I'm going to keep gaming thru it until the fingers fall off.

I get it. I had a cheap boom box and later a car tape player that liked to "eat" tapes on a regular basis.

I apologize - just one more. This has now become my exercise video. Although it's a bit hard to aerobics-dance while laughing at the same time. (I also downloaded the "MMD" animation program - maybe I'll have the energy to do something with it one day)

Tried to watch the 1st episode of "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict" - didn't make it past the 30 minute mark. I'm not sure if was cheese, the dated nature of the effects, the acting ... none of it was the worst but combined it left me yawning. I guess there's a couple of these Roddenberry post-passing series I never saw...

Interview re: modding tool possibilities for FFXV https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/20/final-fantasy-15-mod-support-essential/ ...all world npc's as cactuars is funny and all, but I need that dance mod. ...sadly initially it'll probably be mostly the usual reskins and other stuff I rarely care about. Just hope those tools will actually eventually let you do more than minor changes and level editing.

You can just click on "OK" for any of the survey parts. It won't complain if you don't enter any data. Just hit the buttons until the testing starts. Oh, ok. My first thought was some kind of mild profiling by zip code and 2nd thought was my own over-protective anal-retentive privacy concerns. :D

I got as far as "insert your zip code" and went "nah."

"We're a boy band? Ok, guys, let's go with that." :lol: HAHAHA.

Mmm, looks tasty. But not big enough. Why is it that in general I eat so little/feel full quickly but when it comes to certain foods (pizza, chinese, tacos, etc) I can, without thought/feeling full, eat like I'm prepping for an eating contest?

Today I'm lying on the couch listening to music at loud volumes. I might motivate to pick up a controller and add gaming to that mix. Might being the operative word. Sometimes you just/only want to groove.

I've always liked fast-paced action for my combat. Not usually the 1st person in yo-face bambambam shooter type, but still real-time, fast paced, chaotic. Having to make skill and attack decisions in split seconds. I don't even care if I'm not all that good at it, I just enjoy it. Too much order in combat feels unnatural to me, probably one reason I don't like turn-based in rpg's. I loved BG1 when I first played it. The real time with pause worked well for me and while that made combat easier to manage, it still felt frantic and chaotic because of giving all those commands to party members all the time. A lot of keyboarding kept the hands busy. Eventually I began playing BG1 without pausing, or at least as much as I could. I did the same with the Might and Magic action-rpg series, where instead of using the awkward pause system I ran around in real time, strafing with both melee and ranged attacks. Was mucho fun. Both it and BG1 (and the Diablo's...) taught me that I definitely like real-time over anything else. BG1 also gave me a healthy interest in knowing the backend of combat/weapon/dmg stats - the numbers and formulas, whatever they may be. As you might imagine, I'm not too much the stealthy type, although I don't mind playing that way for specific missions here and there. I don't really have a combat system/mechanics that I prefer - at least nothing I could define - only that the resulting combat feels visceral and more natural in speed and flow. That said, I *do* still like being able to pause in mid-combat, not to give commands but when my fingers or self need a breather for a second or two. My fave real-time-pause was probably Kotor2, tho. I'm not sure why. Pausing in it felt less disruptive for some reason. I don't remember. When I was playing PoE, I initially really liked the combat because it reminded me of BG1 somewhat. But by the end the constant maneuvering in extended fights wore me out and I was rather raging at the system. I don't even recall what exactly it was that wore me out about it, but it was there. :D

Yeah, that did that pretty recently - something about showing solidarity with gamespot and how between the two of them they're the biggest gaming destination or something. Whatever.

Green Room - via Amazon Prime (Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart) Small little thriller/horror film where the actor names are the primary reason I turned it on. This one's actually fairly decent. I mean, nothing new, right, but entertaining enough. Seeing Anton still makes me sad, Patrick had some jolly fun playing the cold leader/owner of a neo-Nazi clubhouse. It's not horror in the sense of boogey-men, just a group of people get trapped into a bad criminal situation and trying to escape it. Anyway ... I liked it. Maybe a B+ from me.

At least it's not like GameFaqs, where every edit you do creates a copy of your last non-edited post that people can view by clicking the post number. So if you edit it three times people can go look at every single version of the post you created via multiple edits. ...that feature is what eventually led me to not care about people knowing how often I make little edits. Which I do a lot (edits). Not just for spelling, but wanting to change wording of a sentence here and there. It's my nature to want to correct and clarify. Why try and hide it. Edit away, and be proud! EditEdit: although, it would be nice if the "Edit" byline was in a somewhat smaller font size.