LadyCrimson

Been some great photos over the past year and a half or so. But finally time for a new version.

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Y'all talk too much. New thread time.

Anyone who's freezing is welcome to visit our house, where it's a sunny and balmy 53F during the day and 39F at night. We can have an evening volleyball beach party via torchlight! I know I'm a moderate wimp in either temp direction myself (all 72F, all the time is my dream) ... but I keep staring at my cat lounging in front of the heater, wondering why HE thinks he's cold, with that fur coat on and everything.

Maybe....it would be better, anyway. Perhaps a little more modern of a setting tho, not King's and castles.

I didn't say an rpg about a character who spends all day in their living and bathroom, trying to solve the mystery of a mysterious mold growing in their kitchen. Just...not "fantastical." I guess I'm burnt out on such from all the trends via movies and games and books. There was a time when something didn't have to be "fantastical" in order to still be entertaining.

I'd like a rpg that still has forests and lakes and mountains but no magic. And also not set in space or spaceships or aliens in every port or mega apocalyptic futures with mutated creatures etc. Basically I want something more down to earth and maybe even rather mundane in terms of setting/world....not fantastical in any way. The bad guys are just bad/ill tempered/immoral people, like in Westerns or old mysteries. Maybe I'm weird.

Loved original Tombraider, can't stand the new ones. But this doesn't mean I think all games today are worse than the ones of the past, or vice versa. I just take them all one at a time...or try to. I tend to have pretty narrowed tastes, tho, even from the beginning, so it's just difficult to find games that fit them. (in terms of finding games I'll play for ages, vs. fun but quick one-offs)

Today I felt like something more than yogurt and fruit etc. so I had some wonton soup with a small bowl o' fried rice and pork chow mien. I now feel like I have a bowling ball in my stomach. But it was tasty, and the soup is always nice on a chilly day. Time to find a movie to rent and settle on the couch a while.

True enough, but those grunts and few words felt right for the chr./made me like the chr. and were full of feeling! ...and in both cases, I didn't realize it was him until much later. Maybe they alter the voice in post-production a bit. I think it's often less the voice itself and more the immobile face that often goes with it.

It's funny because I think he does really well in his voice-over animated work. But his live-action stuff, I could often do without him opening his mouth. True of many action-dudes, really, outside of the occasional one-liners.

I don't think the image is making a judgement about what's good or bad...only about how times/attitudes change. Which is hilariously true...

This is true if you never go online. But as soon as you go online, Steam detects a patch is needed and even if you don't download it/have updates for the game disabled, will tend to disable the ability to launch the game again until you do update it (you get a "this game needs an update" type message). It might not do that for every single game, but in my experience it's been most games. Not that I own Steam's whole catalog or anything like that. Yes. When there's a patch/newer version you can download it when you want, often as a different file, so you can easily revert back whenever you want, if you want.

LOL....not just true of Skyrim, either. "I can carry 50 stone bricks and guns and canons etc. but not this one extra pair of socks..."

Just a few hours, I'd imagine.

I don't know what you mean. We have the internet at our fingertips...thus we're all medical experts. That's interesting. Doesn't apply to my spouse (he's a skinny chap for height - outside of his little beer belly in recent years) but in combo with other stuff, I could see it. I don't think sleep apnea is entirely understood, sometimes. There's a lot of different causes/combo of causes.

A little too much warring all around, not enough topic discussion. Thread pruned...we'll try it again for a while. Try to play nice in the sandbox this time?

The best in 2014? It was a cat video, of course.

Maybe last time you lifted those giant weight thingies, your neck muscles worked so mightily it strained a throat muscle. ....I kid. I got nothing. Could be anything.

Yup, that's right, still 7DtD. I was playing it the other day, carving out my own grandiose Mines of Moria, when the thought occurred to me that what the game really needs are some friendly zombie imps to do the digging for me, so my chr. could just sit on top of a 3 story tower, sipping tea. Then it would be the perfect game.

If you think it's been like that a long time and you just never knew it before, might want to check for sleep apnea. Hubby has that and wakes himself up all the time, among other things. I can hear him snoring sometimes, through 2 walls. I occasionally sleep in another room. He recently tried to get a line on the newer cPap's that are supposedly quieter/more comfy and don't require doctor-supervisied adjustment (the one he got years ago didn't do much for him at all), but he hasn't followed up on it yet.

It's fun when the power goes out late evening, meaning you have no internet for half a day. No idea why, either...wasn't rainy/stormy. Also, it's fun when the streetlight on your block is out, so you know all your neighbors are without power too, but when you look over the rooftops, 5 blocks away people/business seem to have power over there. We're on a tiny grid or something. I'm California-cold, mostly because I'm sitting in a non-heated room, blanket wrapped and likely soon going to bed where it's warm.

Gotten rather off-topic, perhaps. Thread closed per request. Side note: major piracy pro/con debates usually belong in the Computer and Console forum.

I haven't even made it through the 3 LoTR extended in one long session. Two at once, but not all three.

Our heater control is flaky (have to jiggle it on the wall at times), meaning sometimes I wake up and it hasn't kicked on at all at night, so the house is freezing. Well, not freezing, but I still find it cold to wake up to. So far today I've stood in front of the wall gas heat unit (like a super-hot heatpad for all over!), TV remote in hand, while Mr. Black sleeps on my feet. Occasionally hubby jostles with me for the standing room only position. He's drinking coffee, I'm drinking the Diet Dew, and we're both frightfully off-duty frumpy. Life is grand.