LadyCrimson

Gladio thinks he's such hot ****. I'd like to tell him he's not, but he might swat me. No Palicos, but maybe this counts? I don't think they like being petted, tho. Sometimes I tell ignis to drive this really really long route and leave the game on like a screen saver while I do other tasks.

I had that. Lost 10kg. I would have none of that and started eating like a madman. Only gained 5kg. Reverted back to not eating much. I'm eating 3 small portions per day. On the plus side, while I did already lose a fair bit of weight over a year ago, I haven't been this weight since I was 25. Sadly not being hungry doesn't also include motivation to do huge amounts of toning/muscle exercise, so I still won't be wearing a bikini like I did back then. Dealing with mother's will stuff. I mean, not officially, I'm not the main Trustee, but still legal stuff to deal with. Which I'm sort of avoiding/procrastinating. Don't care about wills. But guess I have to still "do something" regardless. Maybe I can sign something to the effect of "I don't want anything, just leave me alone." Enjoying the rain this weekend. Went to the store this afternoon and found myself skipping through the puddles. It was a good mood-lift.

Ever go through one of those phases where eating is just too much bother and you're never hungry to boot? That's me the past few weeks. I eat a piece of toast or small bowl of soup now and then. Got on the scale this morning and I guess I've lost 6 pounds. Pffft. Still not hungry.

I was always neutral/"he's ok" but using Ansel I've gained a new appreciation for Ardyn as a villain. Not sure why. Stopping every few seconds and floating the camera, you tend to notice all the subtle expressions and movements artists worked on that you never notice in real-time and it adds something. He's become my 2nd favorite screen subject.

4k @ 150% scaling is to die for. Too bad I only get 18-20fps that way. But ... it's playable enough to run around and use Ansel. Which apparently is the only important thing to me, anymore. I mean, native 4k is great just to play in. But the screens ... they come out even better with more scaling and ... MUST BE EVER MORE HI-RES SCREENS, MORE. I think my computer is crying.

Tried taking a large "SuperResolution" screenshot. Taking it was no problem. Editing it was - PaintShopPro kept saying "out of memory" and I could only select/copy/paste a tiny piece the size of one of their heads. I think I won't try the max 61k x 34k and 28GB size. Ansel's inability to cope with FFXV's water 9 times out of 10 does not amuse me. This, however, does amuse me. A lot.

Managed to get FFXV stable at 4k but only at 30fps. So I can't take videos while playing that way. Screenshots/Ansel are still fair game. It looks really good on the 4k TV/native 4k w/high textures/LoD. 1080 with 150% scaling produces crisp screens and videos with less aliasing issues but doesn't look as good on the 4k TV. I'm glad I bought more system RAM tho - it's gone up as high as 11GB while playing for a while. I've had very few performance issues but there are more tiny bugs/glitches than before - with some of them also present on the console version. For me only minor irritants, nothing major. Still, annoying they're in both versions.

Ever wonder what those smoke trails that surround your character at times look like from the "outside?" Bullet shaped cone, apparently.

There's been quite a few posts in fora going "Bug! Can't level up!", people reply "Take off the Nix Band" and then "Oh..." I was rather dubious about having all those things (most of which were paid dlc in some form or another) just dumped into the game from the getgo like that for new players, and it's been rather amusing to watch the ruckus. "Why/What are these cheat items in my inventory?! Can I remove them?" "I put on the Ragnarok and lulz this game is so easy" and "AP too easy to get? (while wearing AP boosting bonus accessories)" and "Fishing is too easy (while using the dlc fishing gear)" and ... The choice of having them there is fine, but many don't seem to understand or even read item descriptions, it's like they just put them on because they are there. lulz.

omg, this thread, you guys. If a game gives me a choice I usually end up making my characters female, sorta Asian and loosely (very loosely) like me. Identity or laziness (I don't have to imagine a new face), I'm not sure which, maybe both. But it doesn't bother me to have no choice either. Sometimes I even prefer such these days because I don't have to think about fiddling with 5 pages of slider bars in an editor. Just depends.

Full release of FFXV - performs about the same as the demo. Looks great. I still take too many screenshots and videos to make any plot progress. PS4 controller works fine with it via DS4Windows+ScpToolkit. On the Pro, tried to start the new Chapt. 14 content. It seems like it'd be fun (there's several new quests+the boss fights) but somehow not feeling it. Maybe because there's no Ansel feature. I wonder if six months from now I will have stopped playing it on console ...

I has crowbar. I refuse to wear the HEV suit.

HAHA 30 minutes left and Steam servers go offline/no connection. HAHA. Edit: Phew. Back up and it resumed properly. I forgot it was Tues. Steam maintenance I suppose.

Oh and ... The game is becoming more and more like a RPG with MMO elements as time goes on. It's still single-player but you can feel the "games as service" footprint more heavily now then when I first started playing. At this point I don't care since I mostly play it to goof off and see it more as an action-rpg anyway, so it's fine but it did annoy me greatly initially, back when.

They're not on horses, but I guess they could qualify as smexy men. Ignis has apparently discovered how to make invisible coffee mugs, as well. Ppl been asking for black chocobo's for ages, so they put them in ... the Comrades DLC. Pfffft. Getting the outfits of chrs. from main game in Comrades is expensive. But worth it! Still have to get the bro's tho.

Woke up, at 9am FF-XV unpacked and installed in about 1.5 hours for me. But then I had to grab the 4K texture pack and it's another 63GB so here I am, still waiting for that to download. 1.5 hours to go. But fishing on the new boat (console) is pretty cool. I mean y'know, it's just more fishing - but ... I'm on a boat! But sadly no smexy man on a horse. The new Comrades additions are also decent, but leveling up the chocobo's is annoying. I probably won't do too much with that. About to check out the new Insomnia I guess. I feel oddly unmotivated to do that on console...maybe I'll just eat and nap instead.

Started my FFXV pre-load at midnight. 4 hours left. And in the morning, guess what ... another 2.5-3 hours since the 4k texture pack is a separate download/added on. At least the console will likely only be 6-10GB and I can play that while I'm waiting. Tried playing the demo in 4k resolution again. 30-40fps and that's not a nice smooth 35fps. Nope, can't play like that. Some might tolerate it, I can't. Sure looks pretty in 4k on the bigger TV tho. Is it morning yet?

Well from what I've seen, the new Royal/Windows XV content is fairly minimal in terms of time added, so now I'm wondering if I should skip spending the extra $15-$20 on console and just play savefile catch up on PC. But that would mean console saves wouldn't be "complete" anymore. Decisions, decisions! The new (free) update to Comrades DLC last night was fairly substantial tho. Doesn't make me want to grind for 10+ hours to do/get everything but at least it helps make the dlc feel more solid. The mission with the 4 bro's should've been in the main game tho - covers a badly missing section near the end-game that would enhance main-game playthru a lot, but noooo, they made it part of the co-op MP dlc (it's also how you get their character-editor usable clothes/features, have to do it 4 times to get each bro's look). Marketing.

Wanted to defrag my C drive. Program told me it couldn't defrag a file so I went to see which one it was, I know sometimes little windows files don't like to be touched. But it's some 18GB sized file. WTF. Discovered it was the Windows hibernate file. I've heard of it taking up some GB of space but I don't think I've ever seen it be that huge/defraggler has never spotlighted such before. I have all the hibernate options set to off (my pc is either on or off I never hiberbate), what a stupid design and don't know why it suddenly became so ginormous. Found a command prompt to truly turn it off. I feel better now. I am so cranky this week/today etc. Everything is making me rage. Well ok, not rage, but...gah.

If that's the one from the early 2000's ... this is generally how I feel about 98% of Ben Affleck movies. He has such a bland presence, for me. Although Morgan Freeman is always nice to see.

Well, I guess only the RAM is really locked into the PC in terms of upgrading. I can always take a SSD with me to a new build if it's still kicking. We looked some more and found 24RAM that's faster than my old sticks for about $270 so just going to go with that for now (and the cpu cooler). I think I mostly just want it to be good enough to wait until the market/tech settles and/or changes again, if I can. Plus when I do build a new rig, this one goes to hubby to be one of his many (he doesn't need "gaming power") so it's not like it'll go to the trashheap even then. Thanks for the Win7 link. I'll take a peek/keep it in mind. Wish I could find something on Amazon tho - I don't like purchasing online too many places. Hubby had a story about his client trying to install Win7 on a newer mobo/chip - it installed no problem but Windows kept popping up a message every hour to remind that Win7 is no longer supported or some such pestering. He wasn't saying it would always be like that, but it was kinda funny. The client ended up giving the thing to hubby.

Square revealed today that PC-FFXV will have Denuvo and that's caused a ruckus. Won't stop me, however. Not that I like DRM. But ... Pre-loading on Steam apparently = can't play the demo anymore, so I'm not doing that. Having too much fun with the Ansel screenshot feature. I decided I'd install geforce Experience for the first time ever ("create an account" - sigh, of course) to see if their video-recording thingie was decent (still love Fraps but XV produces extraextra huge fraps raw files...). But I can't get it to work/record. The fps counter works and the screenshot works, just not video. Grrr. Side benefit - installing Experience seems to have made it so Ansel does not cause the game to lag-out/hitch. So I guess I'll leave it installed for now. The XV demo still runs pretty good - I run it at 1080 with 150% scaling + 4k textures and that makes it look super crisp. It's totally awesome.

Finally, all the screens I want, and they aren't all blurry. But they do tend to get large. I snapped a 7680x4320 "super resolution" and it was like 30MB. I think I'll stick to 1080 and 4k sizes. >.> Clipping through the ocean. 4096x2048 - 360/VR screens: Someone with a VR viewer said they loved them. Wish I could see. Most of the time they just look weird to the eyeballs, but sometimes they still look pretty cool even without that viewer.

^ Oh ... I'm hoping the GPU thing will calm down after a while and manufactures catch up with the notion or some such. But I'm glad I bought the 980ti when I did - since I'm in no hurry for 4k gaming it should work for me for quite some time still. Those 4K textures in FFXV if you set them to highest possible sucks up all your vram like mad - maxed out the 6GB on my card even at 1080, although I suspect that's in part because the game just sees what you have and takes it all whether it truly needs to or not. Had to put it back to High and not Highest. Heheh.

We were looking at my mobo specs and RAM this evening and it looked like it'd be around $80 for each 4GB stick (that was the cheaper ones, some were $140), I have 6 slots so if I filled all of them for 24GB. Ram has become a little pricey I guess. (edit - note I'm talking about replacing the entire Ram, not just adding more - the six slots are currently full with six 2Gb sticks and I don't like mixing) I have an OEM version of Win7 that would likely not appreciate being installed into an entirely new rig and I have yet to find a new packaged Win7 that seems reputable - although in that case it's partly because I'm not very trusting. A lot of the ones I see being sold have lots of comments from buyers saying the keys were used and that kind of stuff. The SSD yes, about $300-$400 depending on brand and all of that. The one hubby likes was $500 tho. He's had bad experiences with some SSD's and he's become rather picky because of that I guess.