LadyCrimson

Rented SW Last Jedi. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but most of the humor bits struck the right chord with me and I chuckled a fair bit. It was silly stuff ofc, but still made me laugh. The red-haired evil fleet commander was more comical than menacing to me as well, I kept snorting in amusement every time he was on-screen - was that on purpose? The plot stuff just felt like more recycling, although it worked better than in the movie before this one. Still, it's kind of like watching the (older, and maybe reboots too) Star Trek movies at this point, where it's always the same plotline, contrivances, threats. Instead of time-travel, "only ship in the quadrant," etc. you have the evil empire constantly just about to "stamp out those pesky Rebels", Force "balance," "there's good in him I know it!" "I failed as a teacher" and so on. So...yawn. (edit - the side-filler journey to find the "codebreaker" was kinda awful, for many reasons) But it was better executed than prequels or Force Awakens so more enjoyable as light entertainment. Too many characters tho, meaning not enough focus on what should be main interest leads. And I can't take it seriously anymore like when I was 9-14, so it's just this humorous space-fantasy yarn. And in that capacity, it was pretty much all right. Certainly beats those prequels by 100 miles anyway. 2nd Edit: ^ I should mention that while I enjoyed it on a light level, this did not prevent me from checking the 'net on my phone a few times while watching, however.

Around 65 games on Steam. Most bought between 2010-2014. Only reason I have that many is I impulse bought some during a couple sales, didn't install/play most of them and never did that again. The ones still/currently installed are: Bought FF-XV start of Dec. 2016 on PS4 and haven't played anything else, really, since (and now I have it on PC too). Almost everything else I haven't touched for 3+ years. Last three Steam games I bought (besides FF-XV): Fallout 4 (release day, played some hours but never finished) (oh wait, did Pillars come out after FO4? then that one instead. I can't remember well these days. ) Planet Coaster (late 2016, tried it a few hours) Firewatch (April 2017, barely started) From GoG - I'm not sure, maybe 30ish bought, most never installed (I just wanted digital versions of them). Maybe 5-6 faves are installed.

I finished Chapt. 10 in my PC playthru of FFXV. Next two are quick quick, then the long Chapt. 13. Getting close tho, finally. I keep trying to look into the unofficial modding tools/stuff for the game, but seems like every time I manage to find a tool that works for it, that tool needs another tool, and so on. I feel like folks are really stingy about sharing such things. Takes a lot of "googling" and the right search terms to even find the little I have. Bah. Oh well. Just curiosity. I don't want to get too wrapped up in such until/unless the official tools can't do what I want. If the official tools will do what I want, why spend hours fussing with/learning all the other stuff. Still...I at least want to know what's available/keep track of it all in case I need it later. PITA.

A week plus has gone by without any FFXV pics from me (the short video doesn't count, I say!). I shall remedy that. Ok, I give in, for the Ignis DLC "fully down" hair, and only for that hair, I will use CheatEngine. For now at least, only occasionally for screenshots and when not playing story (the CE table overrides a certain something in the main story....immersion y'know). Once the skinning tools are out (maybe end of month?) hopefully I can do it with that instead. Prompto, still the best sad-puppy face in all the land! I just like it. Plus this is often what happens to Noct (me) when I'm too busy taking pics to combat properly. Safe zone, can't cross the line. Neener neener.

Woke up early this morning, started to putter around, my brain/muscles just went "nope" and before long I flopped back into bed and slept hard for 2 more hours, then my eyes popped open. I felt slightly better tho, did some housework, file organizing, daily stuff, nothing strenuous. Now I'm ready to flop again and it's not even 10pm. And I'll probably wake up in 3 hours. I may have to try the exercise until you drop routine and see if that breaks this cycle. I don't know why I get these wakeup-insomnia bouts these days. Used to never happen. A few days of it is ok, a couple weeks tears me down.

Gave that new Rosanne a try since I did enjoy the original series for a few seasons. First new episode I think I half-chuckled once. Felt like half of them were reading lines off cuecards. I don't know, their line delivery timing felt way off. Darlene was the best performer. It's nice to see John Goodman in anything but other than that...eh. It's not that it's bad, but I didn't find it funny.

*reads post/skims thread* ...my mind was not blown.

Just keep expectations in the more ARPG category vs. a choice-filled RPG, with simple quests and fast paced button-mashing combat (vs. strategic) and you'll likely be fine. ...although imo the story in the latter half does have some very strong aspects. It just has some glaring narrative pacing issues. It really is all about the bro's and their camaraderie (plus villain). Don't expect much from any other chr. If you haven't already, I'd recommend watching the free official anime Brotherhood (YouTube), it helps the sense of connection with the bro's with some background characterization of how they became friends/worked together in the past (it's not spoilery) and is easy to watch. The Kingsglaive movie is a loud and noisy mess that doesn't add much to the game itself - one could watch it after if one wants more lore knowledge tho.

Using Ansel pauses the game, right? Well, apparently it doesn't pause Hairworks. The Hair keeps on moving, in a fashion. I don't know if it's intended or some kind of Ansel glitch but it's creepy/cool at times. I haven't found Hairworks to be anything exciting outside of that (in FFXV anyway) and it isn't even used that much. But in Ansel it becomes interesting. Haha. (22 seconds)

Sliced sourdough is all I buy, the good stuff that's dense and chewy, not the soft stuff that's like white bread with a slight sour smell. Mostly for toast as a between meal snack occasionally. Hubby's the sandwich person, I almost never use bread (I'm a rice person) anymore. Although that cibatta style bread makes even better toast than "San Francisco" sourdough. The only other bread I tend to like is bread I bake myself and that happens almost never. Today....I have no idea what I want to do. I'd like to get further ahead in FFXV's storyline but I'm sleepy all the time from having "waking insomnia" again (always wake up after 3-4 hours). So just sort of hanging out at the desk listening to music and fighting the urge to nap and then nap some more.

No comments about Avengers? No one's rushed out and seen it yet? I know someone who saw it already, they thought it was awesome. He's a pretty big Marvel film fan tho. I'm still superhero fatigued, I might catch it on video.

Radius (2017, via Netflix) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6097798/ Low-key, more talk than action sci-fi thriller. Great premise that starts off pretty well, has a slowish middle section with some tension-build moments, a big reveal and an abrupt ending that actually surprised me. I mean, I guessed/realized what was going to happen about 5-10 seconds before it did, but it surprised me in that it went that direction. Acting is serviceable but nothing stellar and the sci-element isn't interested in science or explanations so don't expect that, it's just a framework for other ... morality? what-ifs? ... issues to ponder, Stephen King or Twilight Zone style perhaps. So...interesting little film that despite feeling a bit lackluster, still leaves an impression. I might give it 6.5/10. Worth a try if you're bored. I'd avoid watching trailer first tho.

Yup. The Bestiary says it weighs over 4000 tons, so I suppose anything helps. Maybe they're enchanted.

When I saw the thread title I wondered if a "skimpy PC" was a new term for a barebones rig or something. I don't really care about skimpy clothing (mostly such makes me chuckle at the absurdity). It really depends on the context, world, environment, type of game. I mean, if you're making a game and trumpeting its "reality" aspect (historical, combat, weaponry) or just want me to take chrs. seriously, don't dress them up in g-strings. If it's a fantasy MMO or caveman period game and they're running around in loincloths, why not. Most of the time I prefer a moderate level of clothing myself (like in FFXV, I always put a shirt on Gladio, I really don't care about seeing his pixel-abs all the time, plus a tank-top is better stats ), so as long as there are varied options to choose from and bikini's and shirtless loincloths aren't the only option (only one clothing choice is boring, it's the modern era, yo) it's cool. But I've also spent plenty of games with female chrs. where I ran around for long periods in their undies or exotic nighties or something, because I found it funny. (Edit - I've done the same with male chrs too, but by and large if given a choice I tend to make female chr.s most of the time) What I tend to get annoyed with more than anything else are unrealistic proportions, both male and female, where their bodies actually look weirdly distorted. Like legs that are twice the length of torsos or crazy wasp waists with shoulder-pad width shoulders. I just find that visually disturbing/too weirdly distracting unless they're very purposely cartoonish styled to begin with.

Zu.

Don't really have a singular "fave movie" (closest I'd get to is a Top 50 list maybe). Most of my fave film scenes would likely be action/combat or dance/musical related, and not always in actual fave movies ofc. One could search YT and post some of them all day long. Choreography, effects (whether non-CGI or CGI), battle "atmosphere" and emotions, general motion (human motion is one reason I like sports as well), I just love that kind of stuff. Because I remember sitting in the theater and just going "FYEAH!" when the moment arrived. Plus at the time I didn't know what the 2nd terminator was about and the reveal was "wtf, awesome." (it was a lot easier to avoid spoiling oneself before seeing the movie, back then) Technically a movie, although the mini-series version is what I watch. Overall the film/series is overlong/long-winded with an overwrought soundtrack etc - but Jeff Daniels was awesome as Joshua Chamberlain (Sam Elliot was great too). Probably not very moving/interesting without context/seeing the whole section tho.

Yup, there's some of that these days. And aging eyes (bifocal age, bah). Which is why controller + bigger TV to sit farther away has more appeal to me now, whether it's PC attached to TV or actual console. Recliners or lounging on a bed surrounded by pillows, baby. And not being very interested in the direction/style of most "modern" gaming and/or reaching the point where most games feel too familiar (genre fatigue).

This. I can become temporarily obsessed with an individual game for varying periods of time but I don't play games just because I need to be playing something. Sometimes I don't feel like playing games at all so I do something else for days or months instead. But I'm definitely short-term obsessive in nature (binge watch TV, reorganize closets at 2am, taking forever just to farking trim hedges in the yard like I think I'm creating sculpture , read a novel in a day) and games fall into that category of being useful if I'm in a mood where I want to get lost in something a while.

Well it does become milder towards the end. I can understand using that as a setup for showing growing solidarity later but it went on far too long, imo. Finished skimming through the series. Robot was still the best thing. Of the Robinson's the one I liked the best was the older daughter. Ms. Smith stayed boring and one-note, although if there's a 2nd season maybe they'll develop/turn her a little bit. Maybe. Don is ok but feels more like comic relief guy so far. At any rate, nothing special overall, and in the end the whole series (story wise) feels like it was a pilot script stretched to series-length.

Watched (well, kind of) three episodes this evening. I had the same reaction of the first 10-15 minutes, where I was thinking about turning it off. I ended up skimming through another 15 minutes or so. They spend way too much time yakyak with family issues and I never like the constant "flashback" intercuts method of showing the events that led up to where the show opens. But once Will finds the robot I perked up. It's the best thing on the show. I don't like what they did with Dr. Smith, and not because she's a she. She feels (in 3 episodes) like a straight up "bad" character, she's not sympathetic-bad at all. I can understand not wanting comic-relief or slapstick like in original series but being so unsympathetic makes her uninteresting, is all. She's boring. The actress is ok, the chr. is one-note and dull even with obvious attempts to humanize her a little. The rest of the cast is adequate but nothing stands out about of the chrs. They're serviceable, not memorable. All the family drama (parents are estranged, struggle for who's in charge of decisions re: kids and work) bits are a snooze. I kept FF for 30 seconds or so then watching 5 minutes, FF 30 seconds, etc. Robot is the best thing tho and I kept watching for its scenes, wondering what the background for it is going to end up being. If I watch more however, I'm going to be skimming a lot just to see Robot mostly. I don't think I could take 7 more episodes of modern-style-dysfunctional Family Robinson.

Sometimes randomly surfing YouTube, you find little gems you personally like. Not my fave music style perhaps but he's adorable + I like his independent messages. And he can dance. I'd go see him in a local concert if I lived in Los Angeles. I wish him luck. More conventional music video/song (no it's not a Psy cover): Gangsta (re: don't have to be a certain way to "be a man") (those shoes tho...lol) Edit: forgot about the 2 embed per post limit. The 3rd is actually my fave video of the 3 ("don't you want a white picket fence/stop asking me"). Oh well. Never Been In Love

And cute guys. Don't forget the cute guys. Preferably ones with accents and glasses. Er...what was the topic again... Some years ago I probably would have had a moderate list of specific things I liked/must haves in RPG's (and other genres). But like all my other hobbies where I eventually became so saturated with the styles, tropes, environments, patterns, trends etc. I don't really view things that way anymore. That said, I do tend to prefer party games when I can get them (at least three) over lone heroes, real-time combat, a lot of non-combat "busy work", a large exploration factor and individual character/s that I can personally relate/get into. Or that I at least find amusing. Lack of characters I care about are why Betheda's RPG's generally don't keep my interest for long, for example. But mostly - endorphins. it's all about the endorphins and I find what makes those show up to the party increasingly tends to be unpredictable and surprises me more often than not, these days.

The bro's taking a break and playing Kings Knight. When the path crumbles and YOU could make the jump to other side before falling, but darnit, no one else can. Oh well, needed something from down there anyway (pretty scripted anyhow I think) Guess what this is? An "inside" view of a cactuar's annoying 1000 needles attack or whatever.

Night Court was one of my favorites, and his character was the best. RIP.