LadyCrimson

Who the heck at Mozilla thought that putting more than a double-space of empty space between bookmark text lines was a good idea? *finds a css script to change it back* ...Viki is the only site I use that tends to rapidly tell me I need to upgrade my browser version to use it. So I mostly use it via the tablet instead. Decided to update Firefox today to use Viki for some movies on the TV. Blargh, the visual and UI design choices "app" makers - even for desktops - make now. *grump* Edit: I also hate the word "app" being applied to everything, now

I generally don't like mint. Or coffee, or tea. I do love watermelon/melons but for myself who has to avoid carbs it's too much vs spoilage. Although sometimes you can buy cut sections vs. a whole one, or those small tubs of precut cubes or something. I remember when I got out of the hospital,and immediately on release we went to the store to buy diet-appropriate stuff. My still-addled brain was full of nurse talk of "fresh fruit and veggies" and the store had whole watermelons outside. I go "fresh fruit!" and grabbed two and hubby was all like "wut? u sure?" Yeah, I learned quickly anything but very small amounts of most fruit did not help blood sugar levels, at least in my case.

Ah, ok, I think I mostly understand. The orders sound a little bit like the Caesar's orders in that series, kinda. Simple enough. Hm. In theory I might like it...would then just depend on whether I like the city building mechanics/designing and concepts etc.

I am happy that Kim Woo-Bin (Uncontrollably Fond, Heirs, Master, Twenty) has seemingly beaten his nasopharynx (throat/nasal areas) cancer after a few years and is back to filming. I already watched Alienoid (movie) - he was good, the film had a decent premise but was "eh." Now it's this series. Sadly the trailer, for me, doesn't build any hype. It looks like a cross between The Postman, Death Stranding, and k-drama dystopian conglomerate espionage. The overdone dramatic/grim music in the trailer isn't helping. Maybe it'll be decent. I'm just glad he's still around to keep taking new projects.

Not what I'm eating but what I'm trying to drink. Water+ a slice of lemon - eh, I don't like lemon water. Water+ some kind of orange related fruit - better but still not my thing Water+a small piece of watermelon - oddly palatable but I'd never use up a whole melon b4 it went bad ...maybe I'll try a small slice of cantaloupe and honeydew next. Yes I find plain water boring to drink all day, except when one is overheated/dying of thirst. Everything else has a gazillion grams of sugar/carbs tho. I wonder what a drop of vanilla in water would be like.

Postscript: thinking about it, I probably would have developed a much higher attraction to purposeful physical activity if it was winter all year round. I would rather hike in a cold rainy forest then in 80F/26C sunny meadows. As soon as late Spring hits here I'm all about just sitting in the shade. Although a redwood or other heavily forested/fern-ed terrain at 6k+ feet is nice to walk around in. Many lower elevation pine forests, the trees are too sparse/no canopy and it's still way too hot/dusty. Don't like those. As I've probably said before, if hubby wants to retire/live in a hot area, it's fine with me, but he will never then get me outdoors beyond sitting on the patio now and then.

My husband would be sitting in his recliner with a robe and electric blanket. ...I like that temp or lower for sleeping, much higher and I can't sleep for (censored). But 10C is about my limit for indoor temps. I don't want to wear more than a light nightgown and socks. ...maybe you should get a house with an ice rink as the floor, keep it artificially frozen in summer, toss rugs over it.

You play the same map 100 times? Or is that full campaign so lost on 2 maps out of 100? I played Caesar 3's full campaigns (Peace and War) maybe 5-7 times but after that I would find myself repeating strategies too often. I did C4's campaign only 1.5 times, the klunky 3d graphics annoyed me a bit. Never finished Pharaoh campaign because the monument building took way too freaking long and wasn't my interest.

I don't mind if they have random stats that people can stare at, or maybe decides what AI jobs their random constantly born kids end up doing, but I don't want to take care of or command individuals in any fashion. If I wanted that I'd play The Sims. What I did miss with Banished was no map goals (Prosperity, Culture etc) to give you something to shoot for per map besides mega population numbers. Especially when almost all of these games end up with performance issues once you reach 500-2000 or whatever population sizes so you get blocked in that sense anyway, often long before a map is completely "filled". I think one of those games on my wishlist actually (currently) has a 2000 hard cap. I should just play Caesar3 or 4 again I suppose.

I looked at Against the Storm. I was a little interested until one user review mentioned the mission structure vs. more open city build map scenarios with a time type of pressure (a "Queen" gets mad/you lose, or something). I don't mind a progressive, escalating map goal difficulty campaign ala Caesar 3/Pharaoh that lets you take all the time you want and the only reason you might "lose" is because your city design wasn't well thought out enough (learning curve). but I don't want Age of Empires beat constant waves with peasants and hoes until you can research/insta create army units, either. Which would Against the Storm more resemble?

I've pretty much decided if it's Early Access (starting in an early Alpha phase), 4-5 years might be average. Assuming it doesn't end up in perpetual E-A for a decadeplus etc (stares at 7 Days). Sure, some finish in 3 years or less, but... If any of those city builder games end up released on GoG, I'll actually purchase them from there, since 1: I don't expect to use a controller and 2: at least I'd have a copy of the original version I might end up liking best, on disk. >.> I still feel that way about Banished. I liked one of the earlier initial releases better than the later patches and install that one. Edit: looks like at least some of them are E-A over on GoG, so I'd assume would also release there.

I enjoyed the first one for its combo of sorta-serious and cheese. Mostly the cheese. Looks like they've embraced the cheese now. So, yes, please.

Often the list is simply a finger-string reminder for anything I was even slightly intrigued by, during 3am browsing sessions. Every 3-6 months I relook and then delete most of those. I haven't researched all of them re: how "pure" sandbox-y they can potentially be (sandbox-y ala Banished, if you want zero combat aspects etc) Ostriv (gridless) Land of the Vikings (gridless, combat seems to be off-screen raiding, optional I think, not sure) Timberborn Foundation Kingdoms Reborn (some kind of card system for some advancement?, off screen raid, no active combat) (more city builder+RTS style) Going Medieval (Standard, Peaceful, Survival modes) Manor Lords (more conquering focus but has a no/low combat Prosperity mode)

When you have 23 items in your Steam Wishlist and 8 of them are Early Access city-builder/RTS type games, 2 are E-A farming/adventure games and 2 are not released yet (the rest are one that are waiting for sales/not sure about, like Ghostwire Tokyo). I used to not mind doing early access now and then, or at least if it'd been in E-A a couple years, but at this point I can't make myself hit the buy button anymore. I'd rather just wait and "judge" a final form. Like Farthest Frontiers, despite having food spoilage mechanic I wouldn't like, its dev is Crate Ent. so eventually I'd think it would be good. But also, it's Crate, that took 6+ years to finish Grim Dawn (8+ if you include the later DLC's). Nothing wrong with that, mind, but I have no desire to buy in super early this time. But I am happy there are so many city-builder/sim type "indie" games being worked on. In 3-6 years I'll have lots to choose from.

the problem I have with stuff like that is they're getting up in arms over a 2 minute trailer and because (i'd guess) in it some woman also declares - paraphrasing - "never mind what school says, she was black". Point being, they haven't even seen a single full episode. I saw nothing in that trailer that looked wildly "Afrocentric" (in terms of say costumes, sets) culturally, only that the actress ... is black. At least wait and watch it, to see if it badly disrespects actual culture/historical events.

Hubby and I are reaching either our 30th or 31st wedding anniversary. So 50 years married = 2042/2043. Hm. *ponders our poor habits* We might make it.

I agree with this and I think it's often so in many of these cases. Maybe not all of them, but a lot.

When some notes are stuck in your head and you try to remember what they're from, then finally do. Also, this uploader's videos are great (US) top hits memory lane trips (some decades he made two vids). The approx. percent of ones I recognize: --1950's, 40% (1955+ is where it became more common for me) --1960's, 85% --1970's, 90% --1980's, 99.9%

We could all just perm-dye ourselves the same, singular color at birth, then maybe people could stop having fits over color casting. ...as long as they're not doing stuff akin to actual blackface or adhesive taping eye corners to give actors slanting eyes etc, I don't really care. ...especially since, while I assume there will be the usual solemn narration of historical stuff, it's also a docu-drama. I would suspect there may be a lot of "artistic" interpretation re: much more than the uproar in question, if other similar series I've tried to watch (initially thinking they were actual documentaries, not docu-dramas) are any indication. eg, mostly an exercise in visual fantasy as an effort to cater to modern audience retention.

Yevadu (2014) via Netflix. Tollywood, action, vengeance, lots o' cheese I only watched this because of Ram Charan from RRR. The first bit of the film his chr. is a different actor, then there's an incident and he gets lots of plastic surgery and turns into Mr. Charan. The film is cheesetastic, with otp villains/dialogue, action, overly dramatic close ups/slo mo camera pans and music, some dance numbers because that's what they do, all of that. Even the occasional moment of slappy kung fu like fight noises. I wouldn't say I "loved it" and it might kill some brain cells, but I found it hilariously entertaining. Edit: actually I watched it a while ago but recently rewatched it and couldn't remember if I mentioned it before.

Dunno how tall you are, but my brother is around 197cm and in his 20's he had something like this: ...watching him fold himself into it was hilarious.

I'm of the opinion that eventually most people will be driving things like this: ...because everything else on a vehicle will be by subscription/extra fee only. If it's raining, and you didn't pay for a roof, there will be a mount between the seats for a giant umbrella. Official brand umbrella $300 extra.

I have decided that all streaming platforms need a "never show me this title ever again, no I really mean it" tag option. I noticed a "Love is Blind: Japan" on Netflix. I remember watching two episodes of the US version and was idly curious about differences. It's pretty much the same format wise, except there is a cultural difference in terms of the men/women's reactions and convo's. It felt a tad more down to earth in that regard. Still not worth watching. On Prime, I tried watching (on air, not completed) k-rom-dramedy True to Love (alternate title: Bo ra! Deborah). Dramabeans recap comments give me the impression k-drama watcher's overall like it, but I was largely bored. I do love the lead actress, Yoo In-na (Goblin, Touch Your Heart), and the two male leads have been in some decent rom-drama's. But the first three episodes felt way too protracted. Or maybe for once the silly comedy aspects don't make me chortle. Anyway, it's all right as far as all the tropes go but I probably won't continue.

Just my unnecessarily large and largely empty home complex. ...I've played enough to notice a few bugs/glitches in the demo. Hopefully those are fixed in full release. Still a chill, relaxing game perfect for my brain right now. ...it's still not May 25th.

Just thought I'd mention that after switching power outlet strips, my PC (and the PS4 console) hasn't randomly rebooted itself overnight etc. Can't say for certain it'll never, but so far so good. Sometimes it really is as weirdly simple as that. Could've saved some hours of troubleshooting if it had occurred to me earlier. >.>