LadyCrimson

Since 4090 and 4080 were 1600 and 1200 at launch (I think), I'd guess $1999 and $1499 this time. Yeah...can't even give the 5080 20gb vram. I suppose they'll give that to the 5080ti or 5080ti super or whatever they're planning on squeezing inbetween as usual. That's what I mean by gimping everything but the xx90's, but not making the xx90's twice the price. Thus driving people to buy the xx90 "for a little more." I figure at some point Nvidia will only put out xx90's for $4k for the elites and everyone else will buy mid tier Intel or AMD for $800-$1200. Pfft.

We watched Trap via Prime rental. Josh Hartnett was great, I liked his performance re: constant expression changes. There is no M. Night twist ending, although one aspect is something one might not predict. But it's not a twist. The movie overall lacks any real sense of suspense/thrill re: the "trap" situation. And the second half of the film becomes more of standard crime-thriller sort. I was vaguely reminded - pacing/story-beat wise - of the old film Red Eye, except Red Eye had Cillian Murphy and was a lot better.

I will be 56 soon. Meaning hubby will be 59 next year. I suppose I might look "50ish" to most people these days. But at least I still have almost zero wrinkles. No anti-wrinkle creams needed here. So there. The other day: Hubby: "It's going to suck if/when one of us wakes up to find the other dead in bed/couch/floor." Me: " ...... um,. yes?" (not sure what you say to that, heh) Hubby's the far less pessimist/cynic in the relationship but his back is still getting him down/he kind of refuses to accept the situation in a way, yet. He's trying chiropractor again for pain management but I don't think it's doing a thing.

^ I should note that the whole reason I went to higher end gpu's was because of longevity re: higher game settings. If you buy high end nvidia it's typical that a couple generation series later, the "lower end" ends up being kinda like what used to be higher end 2-3 gens ago. But I really don't want to give nvida 2k+ for a stupid gpu. $1400 for the 2080ti 5 years ago was bad enough, even tho I've liked that gpu/it's served me very well (I've only played 4k since I bought it). tripleEdit: it's not at all about affordability for me. It's consumer principle at this point + less gaming interest. I just want to play on a giant 4k screen. >.>

^ Guys, I'm not interested in 99% of "AAA" (or "AAAA", or probably even most "AA") games. I'm also not interested in anything above 60fps. Or ray tracing. Or most of the other graphic bells and whistles touted as must have features these days when it comes to game high/ultra "presets" that get tested by all the youtube channels. Turn all that stuff off and my rig is likely to still get 50-60fps/4k in many of them. Some of them I do need DLSS/quality on that to not dip below 50 tho. YT guru benchmarks on games are nice and all, but they aren't for people who tweak their settings to death. The only two "AAA" games that I might be interested in at the moment that I'm guessing would require an upgrade (to stay at least close to 4k/60 with at least high textures and draw distances) would be Death Stranding 2 and Borderlands 4. And that's maybe. At any rate, thing is even smaller dev's games are getting more demanding/less optimized - or at least, feels like they give you less control over what options you can tweak in menus, because apparently giving users built-in options is hard or too much work or something. Edit: the 4070ti seemed like it would be an overall jump in fps vs. my card - not a huge leap, but more - which would likely be good enough. 12GB video ram is also definitely still "enough" if you're not going for RT/all ultra etc - most games I play/have tried in the past couple years (mostly smaller devs) don't even use up the 11 in the 2080ti. I think that Res. Evil 4 remake would take up more if you upped a couple specificsettings a lot but that was about it. Although yes, if I'm patient enough to wait and see what the 5070 or something is like, that could end up being better. The main "fear" is if you wait too long then the 4070series is largely gone/unavailable and now you're stuck with the 50xx at possibly even more inflated pricing.

No comments re: AMD's decision to exit the high-end gpu market? Does nvidia have a total monopoly re: super high end now? I don't know if I'd want to spend the likely near/over 2k for a 5090 even if it lasted me 8+ years. Maybe I should just get a 4070ti and be done with it. That might last me 5+ more (4k) years w/my gaming habits and I'd save $1k or more. Pffft. I might not even have to cpu upgrade yet ... although I suspect my current mobo might not work....or the case.....and ofc it'd bottleneck a little even at 4k I'm sure, but still. Sigh. I feel like the consumer gaming rig business is really in bad place, from a consumer perspective. Edit: not just the high end prices but there's the intel chip stuff, and power consumption/energy and ... just feels kinda doom and gloomy I guess.

Spot the zombie. Non-zombie animals don't like zombies. You'll see them duking it out here and there. When in stealth/crouched, you get to see where zombies spawn in to prep for dropping down on your head. Stealth foils that. Hah. Funny clipping. They spawned that way (they are "alive"/would stand up if I'm detected - but looks like the bricks fell on their heads.

Officer Black Belt - a "netflix" S. Korea film I guess? Crime/action. I saw "starring Kim Woo Bin" so I clicked. He was fun/great but like his other recent stuff since he's come back from his nasopharyngeal cancer, it was nothing special. Not enough mentor/student bromance either. I'm not sure what it is, but outside of Train to Busan and The Man From Nowhere, most S. Korean films for me end up being just neutral. To the point I rarely even try anymore. Something about their story beat timings or editing perhaps often feels sporadic/erratic and ruins the flow/connection, for me. They tend to do better with series, any genre, even if they're short series. Although i still haven't watched Parasite. Still waiting for 2nd season of Hellbound. Hoping it will be decent.

I see cat, I click. I was disappointed that this wasn't a trailer for a video game. I don't know if it's going to be a short film or feature length or anything else. But that trailer is great. Edit: I wonder if this is a zero dialogue film.

This generation of would be political assassins are apparently of low caliber. I am picturing Trump running around in (showy, bulky) full body armor/helmet and using that as some kind of a statement-platform. Maybe he'll start throwing hot dogs into the audience (a The Dead Zone book reference...). This election is simply a joke. Although I have hope that Kamala Harris can win/maybe bring some sanity, if nothing else, back.

Never mind the (cute, sorta amusing) meme "song" - it's what happens at 1:46 that made me snort water out of my nose.

For anyone who hasn't seen it before. The sync is great. I would like one as a pet. Best top comment (imo): As a hobby electrical engineer, I can say that this is the exact reason why most chips are usually soldered in.

No Man's Sky - I went to a shoreline. I put some bait on a hook and cast out a fishing line. I got a nibble and pulled the reel/pole. Got nothing. Repeat 20 times. Still nothing. Emulates real life pretty well. >.> 7 Days to Die - I finally have it tweaked to my liking. --biome/outside zombies won't respawn (but I increased their original numbers somewhat) --POI/dungeon zombies won't respawn for 900 days --the above two is so that I could theoretically "clear the map" if I played long enough. Plus I'm just sick of the constant (and ever faster) respawns. They should stay down/gone. --made workstations, wallTorches, cooking produce no "heatmap" Screamer zombie attractant --lowered the "heatmap" numbers for most sounds. I would like to fire a gun more than a few times or mine more than 10 iron ore blocks before a Screamer spawns out of thin air. (Screamers are annoying - they're basically Z-summoners and dev's made them trigger far far more) --lowered the amount that using a headlamp/flashlight/torch will reduce stealth/sneak, I don't care about realism --removed most of the stupid remnant/useless/wastes-space, mostly deco POI's Thus for the first time in some years, I have stuck to one map for a very long time vs. just liking the early game. Closer to the more chill/nomad sandbox feeling the early versions could gave me, vs. the dev's seeming desire to turn the game into an enforced jump-scare poorly coded dungeon looter shooter.

I was just thinking about James Earl Jones the other day re: Field of Dreams. RIP

Wait, what? FFS. The first comment under the video: "Control Panel was a loophole that allowed users to find settings they actually needed." I hate that Settings interface/thingie.

Performance is a bit more demanding I think, but it's not that bad. I don't know what rig you have but if I was playing at 1080 or 1440 I'd get 100/120+FPS with almost everything on Ultra. Although there are maybe currently more of those intermitment 1second lag spikes then before, like approaching/being auto-dragged into a space station, or taking off/turning in your ship. Doesn't always happen, but it does happen. Game has DLSS and .. uh, the other one, FSR? as well. Mostly all High/some Ultra at 4k I can still get "mostly" 60fps - if I turn DLSS/Quality on it's almost stable 60, except for those occasional 1 second spikes. Edit: before Worlds update at 4k I was on all Ultra, minus motion blur etc. So I did have to drop it down a bit for Native vs. DLSS since then. Draw distance was reduced or has a bug tho - mostly noticeable with grass while turning/shifting viewpoint, last I tried. Like it would undraw behind you so when you turned you could see it drawing in again. Kind of annoying, that.

I tried the free demo for We Harvest Shadows via Steam. It's a 1st person "farming horror allegory". It has a day to day chores/mission form, although one can take as long as you want I think to finish the daily chores (finishing such chores advances the story/missions). You're out on a farm in self-isolation, and maybe you're a little (or a lot) mentally unstable. Or maybe it's actually haunted. Or maybe ... I farmed a few tomatoes/chopped logs for money. Built a chicken coop to sell eggs for more money. Bought blueprints, and axe, planted more tomatoes. Took in a stray cat, feed it every day. Explored an old barn and was chased by wolves. Didn't go to bed early enough because I was trying to finish the daily "chores" assigned, and the farm/house began to make creepy noises, whispers and shadows until it became too creepy so I scuttled back to the room to get my sleep.....I like the concept and the artstyle was ok. And the cat was cute. It's probably going to be early access ofc. But I wishlisted it. We'll see.

Fishing? Well it's cool and all, and gives one more to "achieve." I often like fishing. But one can't deny at this point that essentially, Hello Games seems to now just be testing mechanics/tech re: Light No Fire using No Man's Sky. Maybe to gauge what players think of such. Which isn't a complaint, just an observation. Makes sense really. And perhaps in the end they'll add so much I won't feel like I "have" to play a MP-focus LNF.

The last couple minutes or so, was basically how my 14y.o self+friends sounded during end of landline phone convos. Except a much more polite, calm, and robotic version.

7 Days to Die - version 1.0 is probably the version I've done the most .xml editing/learning ever. I'm not sure this is a good thing or not - since it means I'm more dissatisfied with vanilla than ever - but I guess at least .... I can. Plus it's been rather interesting of itself, testing/figuring stuff out. Single player games should always be gameplay moddable. Not necessarily giant mod-kits/overhauling is easy like frying an egg kind of moddable, but some easy-ish, no special tools required tweaking allowances. Like, if you're not going to give players three pages of gameplay options to checkbox, let them do it with file tweaking. I don't know why every game in this era doesn't allow it. Edit: "Easy/Normal/Hard" does not cut it anymore.

The more I see of Avowed, the less interested I become. Of the shown gameplay: ---if they don't allow massive shrinking UI scaling or turning elements on/off, dear lord, whyyyyyyyyy. UI's where I feel like I'm peering through a fence are not UI's I am going to play. ---that blue companion guy talks way too much. ---why do npc's always tell the chr. to pull a lever etc when either they could do it themselves or maybe that minion that's standing RIGHT NEXT TO THE LEVER could do it? ---the graphics are fine

Splitting off a political thing now and then - 2024 US Election - if/as it becomes a prominent subject for weeks/months ... nothing wrong with that imo.

Full stealth/Assassin's outfit with 100%, check. Infra-vision googles, check. High level Stealth perk bonuses while crouched, check. Can't see me! Verrrry close even when facing you. If they're facing away from you, can kill them without them ever reacting. The other in the room doesn't even react when you kill the first one. I wonder if that outfit bonus will get nerfed back down to 99%. Even if not a Tier6 level, it's still fairly OP'd. But it's going to take most a long while to get there+high stealth Perk, plus it's slower clearing, plus it's not as invulnerable outside/en-masse, so. Seems fair to me. Makes stealth build my favorite thing tho.

Borderlands 4 teaser trailer. Teaser is not gameplay and tells/shows nothing of value except "2025". Eh, maybe. I will at least pray for it to be somewhere between BL2 and BL3 - eg, not worse than BL3. So I can stand being "forced" to play it when hubby wants to buy it. If it looks worse than BL3 - hubby may have to play alone. ======================== Also: Manor Lords update news: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1363080/discussions/0/4434443557916093138/

Figured out how to make myself a sort of pan-chocolate cake/brownie - so it's semi low carb (120 net carbs or so for a 9x9 pan). Greek yogurt/cottage cheese, egg, a little actual flour, a little almond flour, a little sugar, butter, dark cocoa powder. It comes out sort of extra spongy but it tastes decent (I don't need super-sweet), and I have probably made it too often the past week (from trying to figure out a variation I liked). >.> I tried that "cottage cheese/egg flatbread" notion too - I didn't like that as much. I mean, it's fine, and cut into squares would work to put your sausage/cheese between, but it tastes like ... well, quiche, or something. There is zero about it that makes me think "bread." Since I'm not zero-carb, I'd rather just eat a slice of bread a few times a week.