LadyCrimson

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.

Stuff like this is why I still won't allow HTML/whatever-based emails (if I can't read it in the old text-only or message-source modes, I'm not reading it). Not that this totally relates, I'm just saying I'm super paranoid/careful. Making all files/ext. visible is the very first thing I do in Windows.

Where I am (California), Community Colleges are largely regarded as the "stepping stone" to the University ... usually for cost reasons, as mentioned, or sometimes because the student isn't quite sure what they want to focus on yet, and spending time at a Community College first can help them with that, without costing an arm and a leg/wasting their funds as they dabble around, so to speak. I think almost all of my family started at Community Colleges (many at DeAnza, the one Hurl mentioned, actually), moved on to state U's, and are now all very well employed. My mother used one to pad out her U. degree with more "modernized" education when she had to go back to work (eg, her degree was gained in the 50's and she wanted a job in the 80's). Worked very well for her. Whether they are sub-par in "quality" or not really depends on individual school. And of course a 2-year Associate degree may not be enough for jobs that require/insist on 4+ year degrees, but that should be obvious. I would not call them completely useless, however...it just depends on what the student's goal's are.

I'm waiting for the Early Access awards. If they don't have them already. Speaking of such, I find myself more interested in open world building games, but so far none of the ones on EA Steam are quite far enough along for me to dive in. I think one needs a bit more than the ability to dig holes in dirt and kill an animal (can't use it yet, mind, just kill it) before I'll spend any cash on Steam. If I was into MP server environments, Grav or Life is Feudal look somewhat interesting. Maybe in a year or so.

I rewatched "This Film Has Not Yet Been Rated," a 2006 doc. about the movie rating process/people who do it. I find what's presented in the doc. itself rather disheartening. Not surprising, mind, but certainly disheartening. Not about whether there should or should not be ratings or inconsistency of ratings ... it's their secrecy and such that bothers me. I don't think that should be allowed. Why be so secret vs. transparent? Just makes one think they have something to hide. I had actually forgotten about Greico.

@Rosbjerg - very scary. I'm so glad you recovered and are on the mend.

HGTV - the "house hunters" type shows are always so fun to watch (in short bursts), so you can mock the buyers with all their complaints about how they can't buy this house because oh no, it doesn't come with a dishwasher, or gee they'd have to paint the walls a different color, or the bathroom sink isn't a pedestal, or something else equally as asinine.

I remember being surprised that I liked the first film as much as I did. Not that it was awesome, but it was sorta cute in places and a bit less of that certain humor style I dislike than I thought it have. I never really watched the show (maybe saw a few episodes), but I remember when it was a thing ... all the ads, all the Depp swooning. But the first one was enough. Not interested in a 2nd movie.

The only mechanics which bother me are the ones I don't like. ...of which there are likely many, but most of the time I can't remember specifics very well, if I wanted to put them in a list, since I usually don't play (or think about) games that have them, for very long. So I just end up with "I didn't like that game." Yeah...I'm that simple.

The third time may sometimes be the charm, but I get the feeling it may not be in this case. Since you stated no replies are needed this time around, this need not remain open...please do not repost this same topic yet again.

Yeah...it's just a curse of my super-finickiness. One day I may have the energy to actually move to Linux. One day.