LadyCrimson

I can understand wanting to type a little less letters in text, but what is the obsession with initial abbreviations overall. Always makes me think of Robin Williams line in Good Morning Vietnam making fun of such. It gets a bit ridiculous after a while. :D

Yeah, that's why I don't watch the prime-time network broadcasts anymore. Just saw the end of the biathlon on NBCSN (not SH, the cable guide has a typo I guess...). They still have annoying announcers but at least they don't do that commercial-ly editing/cutaway stuff much since they're not trying to squeeze it all into prime-time slots. At least I have a mute button.

Hahaha! Many US sports announcers are another reason I don't watch sports as much. Never shut up for a second and most of what they say is inane babble.

I still have to remind myself that here, most of the time PoE doesn't mean Path of Exile.

Used to love winter olympics. Don't like the way/style it's broadcasted anymore, typically. But I'll watch a bit now and then. NBCSH seems to have it on 24/7 with some segments supposedly live. Speed skating, ski jumping are my faves with figure skating and luge being sometimes interesting.

(Single-player) Daily Timed Hunt, Jan. 30th - worth 500QP. Most Dailies are 50-100QP so players might average 500-700QP a week. It's 850QP to buy a single Vexxos (a limit-break magic making item that also sells for 500k gil). Player wants 80 Vexxo's. Would take 2 years doing it "legit" via the Daily Hunt. Or... Player can repeatedly turn back the PS4 clock back to Jan. 30th to exploit the game and do only that one specific Hunt 3 or 4 times a day or every other day, which means it might only take 2 months instead. Guess what this Player is doing. Two years, **** that.

I'm just here for the cat pictures. ...although that FO packcow on the ladder is pretty funny, too.

I rented Dunkirk, finally. The start was a bit confusing for me, because it drops you into a few connecting situations with "no warning" and there also were small time shifts, where it took me a bit to realize they were time shifts. But outside of that, a fine film, imo. Hardly any dialogue, a great score, some really good (nearly silent, gestures and eyes) performances from the varied cast. If it has one flaw it is that, for me at least, it doesn't resonate emotionally all that much, outside of the natural empathy/horror of seeing a bad situation in front of your eyes. It's more of a visual and auditory feast, if that makes sense. It does thrill, here and there, especially the fighter sequences. Not your US type war film. Thumbs up from me. I liked it better than Nolan's Batman movies.

Well, I know nothing about any of all that. I'm just your proverbial housewife who goes into the garage, watches the hubster do stuff, asks a few questions, usually immediately forgets the answers, and teases/encourages/chuckles the spouse's hobby. I often do find his thingies interesting but only on a surface level. So I went in today and mentioned these posts a bit, which elicited some longwinded responses which I half-listened to and then I asked him: --"Are 3D scanners expensive?" ... to which he said sure, commercial ones would be, and how his client started using them recently (their use of 3D scanning apparently results in HUGE files that are hard to work with even with multiple GPU's) and then went on with: --"Which is why I've been researching how to make my own." ...that's my hubby in a nutshell. He'll take apart your gizmo to see how it's put together then go out and try to build one from scratch. And he usually succeeds - altho, it's not always the most practical success - but he can still say he "made one, that worked." Hah.

The main issue I still have with controller vs. mouse/KB is the potential difference in inventory management systems. I can't stand giant scrolling lists where I scroll and scroll to get to the one item I'm looking for (and if you exit the list and go back you have to rescroll again) and using the sticks etc. to move items from square to square to storage to square etc. is usually a much bigger chore/more time consuming than it is with a mouse, even with some one-button fast-transfer controller options. (edit - altho this is in part because I'm super-picky about inventory management...) Although the point regarding fast paced/precise aiming etc. is also still true. Ppl good with controllers can be very good utilizing them but still can't beat the mouse for such.

I don't know if I'm using the right terms, it's just what I say. I don't mean write a program per se, sorry. You need a 3D model file that tells printer what to print/how to move to create but you can make adjustments by altering parameters in the software program (of which I know nothing about, I just see hubby fiddling with numbers and text lines on the screen....), to correct or alter to a degree. Making your own model files I guess needs a 3D scanner (?) or digital photos+software help (?) or uh...I have no clue...which hubby hasn't started fiddling with yet. So he downloads other people's object-model files and tests/starts with those. He's still testing and calibrating the printer for accuracy and tech stuff... Eventually of course he'd want to make his own 3D model files "from scratch" for his specific things. If he continues being interested anyway. Judging from the varying quality/accuracy of the models people offer for download, it isn't the easiest thing to do well. Heh.

I would never do this unsolicited with strangers/random online gaming. My husband, on the other hand .... it's a thing, among many other things. And it's glorious.

After printing more legos, spindles, lettered blocks, and various other little do-dads, hubby printed a chess rook, something like this one: Nothing really exciting, but it did have me thinking that oh, I guess I could use it to print out a whole RISK set, or missing Monopoly houses, or other game items like that. Finally, something I might actually use the thing myself, for! He's mostly been using other people's object programs but he tweaks them and is trying to learn how to write his own. I'm starting to think I won't be "seeing" my husband much until summer.

The nice weather continues so I'm off for another walk. Still gets "cold-ish" late night but noon-evening feels like Spring to me. I'm glad the wife's fine, even if the car isn't.

FFXV Pocket Edition: Not playing it myself, screenshotted from someone's YT vid. The chibi drawings of the chrs. make me LOL - but in a good way. Watched the whole 1st chapt., pretty faithful to core questline, looks charming/well done. If they ever do a pc-port of it for $10 or something I'd buy it. Maybe.

So if a Steam game says it supports DualShock controllers, does that mean I can just plug in the controller into a USB port on the PC and the game should see/utilize it, or do I still need 3rd party software or a Sony dongle or some other such?

I don't have a picture (and it would just look like...soup...anyway) but my favorite thing in winter is wonton soup. Chicken broth (less salt versions), a bit of minced yellow onion, some flakes of red pepper, a fair number of small pork/cabbage wontons (sometimes I make them, sometimes I buy this one brand's frozen ones) and a couple chopped up baby bok choy bunches. Sometimes I put in extra baked chicken pieces. Boil/simmer for 5-8 minutes. Try not to burn mouth while scarfing it up. Easy, largely low calorie but filling, tastier and so much cheaper than double-ordering such soup from some restaurant all the time. The bok choy is key, for me - just won't have the right flavor without it in there. Plus it's supposedly a "super food" so I guess that's all right too. Mmm.

**doldrums, SIGH** ...that is all, carry on.

I still watch the first half of the TV "IT". I really liked that section, including most of the child actors. Although I admit I wasn't fond of the girl who played Bev. Didn't fit my image of the chr. much. The rest were mostly good tho. But they did overdo the circle-hug shot a bit. It's the 2nd half (adults) that falls apart for me. Which is a shame because some of the actors were decent TV staples back then, but the script and that ending were awful re: the adults. Tim Reid's bits were the best, imo. I never understood the high praise for Tim Curry's clown. I didn't find him scary at all and I thought he (or the direction) was a bit over the top towards satire, not horror. Never really gave me the "child's worst nightmare" feeling, he was too much of a caricature.

Square-Enix responded to the "Your FFXV benchmark tool has issues/isn't a good benchmark tool" stuff. Someone posted this on the Steam forums, I didn't discover it. The FFXV facebook page community manager is the one who posted it. https://www.facebook.com/ffxv/posts/1946290452354936 Nice of them to respond and acknowledge the LOD issue. Also, glad for the verification that there will be a lot of custom on/off options. I mean, I was expecting at least some of that sort of thing on a PC version, and would've been greatly annoyed if there was only "High/Standard/Lite" presets, just nice to have it verified, lol.

Continuing re: FFXV benchmark tool ... you can glitch it and control Noct/run around while the benchmarking is going on. It's utterly pointless, but you can. Because it is there.

For some reason this made me imagine characters pulling out balls of yarn to knit sweaters to pass the time after diving off high cliffsides. Or maybe while taking a lunch break sitting inside their mech-suits.

*watches that Stargate Origins trailer* Well, looks kinda stupid and that lead actor rubs me the wrong way, but trailers can be misleading so I might .... *looks up the series, realizes it's a web-series with 10minute long episodes* ...nah. I like my sci-fi series to be normal length, and films not to be cut up/paced into tiny pieces. Maybe when it's on Netflix and I can binge it all at once. Speaking of web-series tho, Jerry Seinfield's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" is on Netflix. I saw a couple of episodes before but never watched them as they came out or anything. They're fun to watch one or two at a time. A little uneven; some of them feel too long even if they're short, and some feel a bit too contrived, but still...a mild amusement for break-times.

Yeah, I've seen ppl posting that video everywhere. If you've seen people do that Armiger glitch to make Noct. fly out of bounds, it's been apparent the game draws in/loads a ton of stuff that the player can never see, all the time, including new assets that suddenly appear that are obviously upcoming DLC assets ... and their engine likely does a poor job of unloading such from memory at times. I'm not surprised if the PC version is doing something similar, with Hairworks and anything else. ...I don't even know if I have Gameworks, I tend to only install drivers/PhysX and the control panel, any separate install of whatever I ignore. Like I can't use nvidia's game video recording app because I never install whatever it is that gives you access to it. I mean I suppose it's there technically but I have no control panel Gameworks access menu or for Ansel or anything else.