LadyCrimson

There's this feature on another forum where if you highlight a certain part of a posts text then hit Quote, it only quotes that part of the post. I like that feature. As a general statement since I started playing a bit on consoles, the only thing I miss re: KB/mouse is aiming precision if it's an action game. That and inventory menus that were designed for KB/mouse vs. controller, but it feels like most games are designed with consoles eventually in mind these days so even in PC games those aren't always what I prefer anyway, anymore. PC game controls are becoming so convoluted that I often dislike it - 10 commands of Alt+F6 and Cntrl+9+a round of hokey pokey just to do what seem like simple things. I always liked the ability to reconfigure KB/mouse controls to almost whatever you wanted, to better fit your hand preferences but it's becoming rather ridiculous in the few games I've seen/tried lately - I prefer most things to be doable with single key presses or just the mouse even. I see 4 pages of KB/mouse "commands" in a game and my eyes glaze over.

Chris Evans with only a 'stache and that haircut and furrowed brow is kind of scary. Also..this is why you close the bathroom door.

Oh that's right, I remember now. Boredom and lack of other hobbies these days. Sigh. Gardened (rain is supposedly coming but it's still nice today) - the fava beans hubby planted are growing exponentially. Yes, that's right, fava beans. Never had any before, guess I get to now. Hubby grew them cause they're supposedly good for the soil, not because he really wanted fava beans. Or so he says. Perhaps I should be worried? Hubby is 3D printing something while he's away today and it's been going and going for hours. It's not a very big thing, but it sure is taking a long time. Cooked/ate some lunch, surfed the web. Now I'm twiddling my thumbs again. With nothing better to do...time to fill up the HDD with more screenshots.

LOL I stopped watching/keeping up with Supernatural around season 11 (saw some episodes of 12 but not all), so hadn't heard of this. Saw your post and looked up some clips on YouTube. Funny stuff. I don't think I could take a full hour of it, but in clip form, quite amusing.

At the rate I'm going I'm going to fill up the internal storage HDD with hi-res FFXV screenshots in about a month. ... I really need to stop obsessing over seemingly cataloguing every single frame of the game. Why do I always do this.

Must be nice. I'm still stuck around 35, although ATT decided they needed access to our yard to install their fiber recently (power type poles are in backyards instead of the front, in this area) so maybe it'll finally be time to switch soon. I try to keep images around 2MB or less but when you post a lot at once I still feel weird about it. I could just post links to Imgur albums but that's no fun. lol. Pitching is great even in fantasy games.

There's a Rosanne series reboot? Hm. I watched another 3 episodes of that Sword Gai anime. It's still a series where I sit down intending to watch just one but end up watching more. The middle of the series seems to be taken up with a lot of introducing the other "living swords" of evil and their owners/Busoma or Chrysalis or about-to-be-owners. Which is a little distracting in the sense you want it to focus more on the supposed main characters .... you can feel the series revving up for some kind of huge confrontation, of course (whether that's in the first season or not I dunno yet). That said the small animated tragi-fables of their creation that go along with each "living sword" are quite enjoyable. And the new main Chrysalis chr/mentor is entertaining.

It's getting to a point where I feel like I should be making my own FFXV-pic thread that most could ignore instead of spamming the general thread. Especially when I now like to post big pics. Oh well whatever.

Is it May/June yet? I really want those FFXV official mod tools now. I'd just be happy with being able to create/reskin the clothes at this point, darnit. I don't care about repurposing questlines/Hunts or adding new monsters, vehicles, or complex new content mods - I need clothes! How can a rpg full of obvious fashion-horse dudes have hardly any CLOTHES. And chocobo colors! I need more chocobo colors! *** ***1st world gamer complaints

Started watching another Netflix anime called Sword Gai while eating a late dinner. Next thing I knew I was on Episode 5, before turning it off to to other things. I saw swords and magic and demons which is always a combo I like in anime (note: this is not of the dungeons and dragons types of swords and magic). Then came the action, the of course uber-handsome good team and bad team (why do I ALWAYS like anime chrs. with glasses...), and the "who cares what the reasons are" plot framework for the action and combat clashes. Easily digestible action anime. Although I hear it ends on a cliffhanger and who knows about a 2nd season. Still...another one I'll finish.

I like games with a lot of organizational and collection "busy work" and memorable characters/party members + fun combat (note: fun doesn't always mean difficult). I like singleplayer/offline option. For "story" rpg's I vastly prefer a "full party" vs. a lone protagonist. I gravitate towards more combat-heavy titles plus at least partially or pseudo open-world party-rpg's (eg. exploration is a biggie for me), as well as city-builder/RTS element types and survival-build-sandbox. I used to like Diablo/clones but I think I'm pretty tired of that subgenre, can't seem to get into them for long anymore. Dungeon Keeper 1, Caesar 3 and other old Impressions titles, Baldurs Gate 1, Might and Magic series, KOTOR2, Fallout:NV, Borderlands series, 7 Days to Die and recently FF-XV would be primary examples. Many newer titles have little to no appeal to me at all these days, for whatever reasons. If I find one I do like I play it for months/years and have no idea what's going on in gaming news outside of that, except for whatever news tidbits I read on forums like this one.

Good arch support can really help keep hips and back in alignment when standing. My ankles tend to "roll in" (flat feet, alas) which is bad for the ankles, hips and knees. Asic's is a brand I've always liked but depends on which shoe. Most of the time I just don't wear shoes, around the house, tho. I stand on my tiptoes instead.

Why do clowns look creepy even in pixelated art form? While I spend plenty of time getting shots of the "boys" I spend just as much time trying to get combat shots. This hunt is good for Sagefire. Still trying to get a good one of Mark and Recoil. Linkstrikes have been near impossible to get good screens of since they're unpredictable and very brief animations but darnit I'm going to get them...

Spent the day unpacking the voice files (and some other files) of FFXV. Sadly I don't have a tool that can batch convert them into playable .mp3's or something yet, only one at a time. Slow going, just trying to find certain ones, which is tough with a zillion directories and mysterious (to ppl who didn't make the directories) file names. I wonder tho, why do games always break up long conversations into tiny tiny pieces? I don't mean battle cries or other short things, but something that plays in-game as, say, several uninterrupted sentences said at once by one character is still broken up into like one short bit after another. I guess just in case they change their minds and want to break it up? Anyway...not smart enough to do a lot with unpacked files and no official tools but still always interesting.

Camp scenes with Ansel. Every time you trigger/exit Ansel they move just a bit inbetween etc. I seriously cannot get anywhere in the main story on PC because for every 10 minutes of playing I spend like 40 minutes using Ansel. 2.5 weeks and I'm still in Chapt. 4! I may have to disable it for a while. Can someone make an ulgy-mod for Ignis please? God save me, I can't stop. He's always reminded me a bit of my (youthful) husband (physically and personality wise, even down to the coffee obsession) so I've always like Iggy best of the 4 bro's, but Ansel makes it 100x worse. You can make fun of me now.

Finished "B:The Beginning." I feel like character story/background/motivation in the series remains a bit confuddled (or at times, overly simplistic, like the "bad guys" aren't typically well developed) but still, it's entertaining in the back half. I'd give it a B.

While I haven't been keeping up with it much lately, baseball is never "just a game." It's still one of the few sports where if I actually sit down to watch a game, I most likely will keep it on/watch it until the end - I mean I may be web surfing at the same time, but you know what I mean.

Pizza is life. That is all.

No, it's not a death star.

Snow is nice to visit, but I definitely don't want to live in it. Hubby ran off with my car again and won't be home until late. Guess I shall garden a bit (it stopped raining) then videogame. Either that or try to watch Netflix. There's actually a lot of S. Korean films there now that I'd like to catch up on. Just difficult when you've unintentionally trained yourself to fall asleep to the TV...

Watched 5 episodes of "B: The Beginning" on Netflix. Anime series. First couple episodes I was kind of confused about what was going on, who these slightly bizarro-joker chrs. were that kept fighting each other, and the cop-chick chr. was kind of annoying. But by the fifth episode I'm becoming more hooked. The mystery deepens but starts to make more sense, the cop-chick and the genius-grumpy-cop with a past start to have some good/funny scenes. I wouldn't say it's awesome but it's enough to keep you watching.

Thanks, modder's. Now I can use Ansel whenever I bloody want (in diners, certain combat animations, cutscenes) instead of seeing that stupid "Ansel cannot be activated right now" message. Because a screenshot of Ignis drinking coffee is mandatory, man, mandatory.

Is that all? That's a bargain, man, a bargain. ...but yeah, I know what you mean. We rented a house for around 15 years. Only reason we could buy what we bought was because we'd saved up some + the start of recession hit and lowered the prices and increased our options a bit. And even then it was tight. Bay Area/any similar type of area is nuts.

I need another game that supports nvidia's Ansel. But none of these seem interesting. I guess it's too new. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/games/#ansel One of my favorite things about photography was always composing a shot, taking that long time to actually figure out what you want in the frame, scooting closer or farther, squatting or leaning over, zoom or not zoom, getting a neckache from holding a position for too long trying to frame/angle for a shot....which is why I suppose I like Ansel/taking screenshots so much. Sounds silly maybe but ah well. Reached the main open world area of FFXV on PC, which took its toll on the 4k performance meter, mostly in frame pacing/smoothness. Had to turn Lighting to Low instead of Average (Lighting in XV seems to be largely about reflections, like on water and rain soaked objects). Although I think it did reduce some of the slight bloom-y look as well ... which bothers me not at all. Feels stable again but if I have to I can always drop it to 1440, still looks pretty good on the 4k screen that way and w/Ansel you can make shots any size you want regardless, anyway.

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