LadyCrimson

That was an interesting video, a nice peek in, thanks for that. I was also amused/encouraged that even with all our current hi-tech, you still can't often beat a simple pen and a pad of paper.

Release date! 49er's! What is that...thing? Oh, a pipboy! *hubby calling me* Shh! I'm busy! *goes back to watching video*

Beef/bell pepper strips over rice. Yummy. I love bell peppers. As long as they aren't over-cooked. Well, the one time over-cooked bell's are ok is when they're stuffed and oven baked, but that's a different thing entirely. ...I don't like over-cooked vegies. So hard to get them just right. That not raw anymore but still crispyish to bite for that nice texture in a meal, stage. Since I'm not Chef Ramsey, I usually cook/saute them a bit in a pan first, set aside, then toss them in at the very end.

I am surfing the net via laptop while "exercising" my knees via pedaling on my pedal thingie while also watching a film called The 100 Foot Journey while thinking about a possible fortress design for the 7DtD game. Nope, I don't have attention span issues. Not at all. Why do you ask?

The cover pic isn't mine, but I do still have the magazine, along with some others.

I'm always a little surprised by the intense division re: Bioware/DA games et al. Maybe I shouldn't be. I mean I know what it's like to want to have faith and have the faith trampled on, but eventually it's time to move on and get over it. I haven't been interested in a Bioware game in quite some time and don't have much vested there, but I still get a little sad when I think about Peter Molyneux...it took me forever to realize he's never going to go back to being what I personally used to "see" in him. Maybe some of it's because these things go back to the time when we had "gaming gods." You don't see that much any more. Not that there aren't still some awesome/great companies/individuals in the industry, mind. I just mean...well, the business has changed and it's a more jaded/cynical era than before, perhaps.

Neighbor in back building a partial 2nd story addition in an area with almost no 2-stories. At least there's big trees between us and them. Woke up gasping with the bedroom smelling like tomcat pee. Not just a little, but skunk-strength levels. No, not my cat, he doesn't have the gear for it. Hosed off the whole area outside, opened windows, burned candles ... still stinks, but not so bad. Hopefully it won't happen again (near bedroom at least) until next year.

Ah, Hulkbuster armor. The more sunken-in head/helmet is a good idea, then. Harder to punch in/down/off what's already tucked away. Hehe, that's amusing. Not that I don't get why they'd want a contingency plan. I am looking forward to seeing what they do in the sequel...just haven't been impressed with many trailers lately.

Neo Scavenger is also on GoG, in case that interests anyone. I've looked at it a few times and it looks interesting, might try it one day.

That's a big sunshade on the silver/black one.

I'm not super impressed, but then I'm not really a good judge of such things anymore. Does it look good to you? And is that beefy Iron Man looking thing supposed to Iron Man, or just an evil imitator?

The Long Dark - finally fired this up again after some time away. First thing I noticed is that in sandbox mode they now have 3 different play options - one where wolves won't attack you, one where they supposedly are less severe about attacking/dmg/something, and a more difficult. So that's nice. I tried the peaceful one, it works, but of course it gets dull after a while, since if you survive initial spawn and cold, you largely just fish, cook fish, melt snow, eat fish/drink water, sleep, repeat. I'll have to check out the wolves/story mode tomorrow...although I have a feeling wolves will still annoy me. Gave up on "Salt" demo. All I could craft was a simple raft and a pickaxe, sailed to a couple islands ok, killed some pirates, then managed to somehow get stuck on a beach where for the life of me I couldn't steer the raft so it would actually leave the island instead of just repeatedly beaching back on. So I quit in a mini-rage after a while. Simple control interface yet very frustrating at times. Or maybe it was a bug.

True enough. I just find it distressing when it's such a powerful one with seeming political ties that is supposedly serving the interests of the "common people."

@Gromnir - but I like hyperbole! It's so much fun! .... I get enough logic/rationality from my spouse. Someone's gotta be the silly one, sometimes.

Yeah, I haven't played the specific game you're talking about or anything....it was just a general comment. There's a lot of survival games (especially in Early Access) and most of them seem focused on server-online play, which is why I don't purchase them. Most online-server games I have played, however, that allow one to play MPsolo vs. not designed for that at all, don't really get any harder just because other people are running around in the same world as you...outside of maybe it taking you a bit longer to kill something because of hit point totals vs. the speed a group can do, but that's just math. Other news: I tried the Steam-demo of an early access exploration game called Salt. It seems kind of interesting, although the graphical style is not really my thing perhaps. The exploration is cool, but not sure I like running around picking up logs or whacking special "nodes" vs. the ability to chop down a tree for a log or pickaxe a cliff for stone. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense and feels a bit too rudimentary/simple. Actually, the node thing takes me back to WoW....I do like sailing your raft/boat from island to island, tho.

... I think you're really picking nits, Gromnir. I already said cleanliness/organization can/does contribute to safety. But I do not think super-duper doses of that are necessarily the be-all end-all of safety or that one has to have super-duper amounts of that in order to never/very rarely have an accident. One can be just as careless in a spotless environment as not. Heck you could have a totally empty room and still trip over your own feet and end up with a bad concussion. Certainly, the fact one's powersaw is tidily put away somewhere vs. lying on the floor for one to trip and fall onto with one's face is a point in safety's favor and I wouldn't argue something like that at all. Hubby does not do any mechanical stuff as a career, no, but he did take the workshops, studied, worked in a lumber yard, has pulled out, taken apart/rebuilt whole engines, worked with and built small lasers, constructed furniture/home repair projects, rewired houses, rebuilt kitchens, roofs, pathways, yards etc. for real-estate projects and the like. At any rate, I've said what I think and meant what I said and have no wish to engage in lengthy minutiae debate. I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure you (and many others here) could run rings around me in that regard until my head spun and I forgot what point I was even trying to make. I'm just the sort who observes stuff and sometimes forms opinions on that stuff.

The first time I had whole milk (after growing up non-fat) I felt like I was drinking butter. It is tasty...but I still prefer no more than 2% when I do get a little milk. Ricotta cheese is the one I like, I prefer the smoother texture. I'd eat it out of the tub with a spoon. Strangely, I don't like it in lasagna.

Is it just me, or is this TWD trailer from AMC actually really terrible? Usually I like their show trailers. This one feels ... cheesy. Although I do like the brief shot of Carol. She's become the new badass, since Daryl has sort of opted out of that role lately. And I just realized how well bearded-Rick would fit into a US Civil War mini-series.

My husband hasn't had a truly organized or super clean work area (garages) in forever. He tries, but ... yeah. He hasn't killed himself yet. I would agree that cleanliness and good organization certainly can help prevent accidents, whether in home or workshop, but more often it's a lack of training, common safety sense, overconfidence (this will just take a sec, I don't need safety goggles!), impatience and being in a hurry that cause them, imo. Also...I used to a drink a lot of milk, growing up. Non-fat milk was kind of what I drank when I didn't want water, since it was so thin and water-like. It's pretty rare now. I stopped liking it for some reason.

Outside of area design, fighting groups of mages that had their bubbles of immunity or whatever they were is one of the few things I kind of vaguely remember about BG2 (I didn't play it much/for long, mind). Stepping out of some inn, being confronted be a police force of mages or something, deciding to say "haha screw you" and suddenly being in a fight for my life that seemed to last forever. Good times. Sort of.

I'm in one of those "chatty" moods, where I end up posting nonsense on forums for a few hours instead of doing anything more productive. Did you know that racoons sometimes like to drag cat-waste bags from the garbage can to the backyard patio, where they rip them open and shake them about? It's really fun. For them, apparently, at least.

My husband used to cut his hands a lot while working on mechanical things. His excuse was that his hands are too large to fit into tiny spaces very well...which is true enough. But he's also often in a hurry, which makes him clumsy. ...balance and flexibility is one reason I've avoided a lot of bodily injuries. Who'd have thought those childhood gymnastic and ballet classes would pay off like that. Too bad arthritic knees have partially taken that away from me. Oh well.

No one can slay time's effects forever...but that doesn't stop us all from trying. Course, not all of us try equally hard. And just like everyone poo's, everyone dies. But if you try, you can leave a pretty good looking corpse. Sci-fi often likes to propose eternal non-material/non-physical lifeforms that spend their entire existences thinking. I like thinking, but if that's all there was available to do, I'd probably get pretty bored. So immortal or not, no thanks.

I just wish more games would go back to/have simple LAN capability, vs. having to be on an online server. Some games are definitely more fun with friends, but we don't all want to play random MP's or always be online, or have to create/rent a server, or whatever. Sigh. Being MP doesn't really make a game harder per se in a lot of these survival games...being PvP does. Unfortunately, PvP also means a bunch of chuckleheads who like to kill naked newbies for the lol's, which is really annoying and a main reason I don't like random-server MP.