LadyCrimson

Above Snakes put out a pretty decent looking content update, months after release. I'm sure it's nothing hugely extensive, some new quest/bounty hunter tasks/items, biome tiles etc, but it's still nice/surprising for such a small game. I'll have to check it out later tonight. Liked the game a lot as a casual/some sandbox elements adventure at the time, but its replay value was a bit low. Gives me a new reason to replay it again.

I have no idea why, but I found this hilarious. YMMV.

Sweet Home is one of those in my watchlist for ages. I think I watched one episode and it didn't grab me immediately then never went back. ...there's several newer k-dramas (mostly of the romantic dramedy variety w/actors I'm familiar with) in my list but many of them still have episodes not aired. I don't watch until they're all available. (haven't watched any of 2nd season of Invincible for same reason) ...most of the time I don't finish anything now tho, so also most of the time I rarely begin. ...speaking of slow - I totally forgot about the "physics doesn't exist?" C-drama. I think it's going to be on Netflix before too long, easier to deal with then Viki...I might try it again if it does.

Yeah, hubby finally got someone to mention air suspension (whatever that is/why it's different, I wouldn't know, hah), and said BMW/Mercedes were more likely to have that, or something. Also something about specific vehicle car seat design, maybe also related to air, or er ... I forget. Said hubby's van actually had an option for such seats back when, and one might be able to find one at a junkyard and just install it. *shrug* We weren't planning on buying a new luxury car, just to say. He just wanted to drive newer cars/check if they would be any better than what we have, and/or buy something used if he could find anything, or figure out whether he's just stuck so to speak. When he has to go back down south to original office he's renting cars, to try some that way, too. It's all an adjustment. I can picture eventually I'll be running around town picking up hobby parts, snacks and beer for him.

Finally tried to watch Meg 2. It is not worth watching. The "evil miners" arc shouldn't even have existed and it took up way too much screen time. Felt like they lost most of the self-awareness nods the first movie had - eg, took out all the fun. So what you have left is a boring/dull wanna be more serious, underwater The Abyss and giant sea monsters overly talky action movie. I think the giant sharks where in it, sometimes.

Yu Yu Hakusho, live-action, Netflix, 5 episode series I guess this is based on a manga, then anime, unseen by me as usual, so from that perspective: Since it's only about 5 hours, it was easy to breeze through. Characters and any plot arc felt super condensed, no depth there - the first episode was probably the best in that area, then it goes for largely action. It's filmed all right, and the main actors do fine with what they're given. Although there was one side chr. that was really annoying, fortunately he was onscreen very little. The main reason I kept watching was the action/fight sequences. A decent combo of CGI and practical stunt/wire work or whatever, they were (mostly) entertaining to watch, with a couple standouts (purple-suit chr's solo fight was one). Definitely anime-ish, over the top, including that the fights sometimes go on a little too long. Lead chrs fashion sense a little questionable, haha. I liked it oodles better than that more recent Mortal Kombat movie. A better effort/result than most live adaptions, although again, I'd guess huge fans of the manga/anime will think it's awful, or at least a wish that it wasn't only 5 episodes (8 might've worked better). Edit: fight sequences: 7/10. Everything else: 3.5/10 Late Edit: oh, forgot, while I could see more seasons, there is no cliffhanger nonsense - it feels "complete" in plot arc sense, which is good if Netflix doesn't make more, as is their rep these days.

Hubby test drove a few Lexus'. They weren't any better re: his back being unable to handle even average freeway road jitter w/out pain. I guess $80k cars have no better suspensions (or tires, perhaps). He was a little annoyed with the sales reps because he told them what/why he was looking for and they all gave him blank stares as if they didn't understand what "smooth/soft ride" and a bad back meant. One told him to try the 4x4 versions ... Personally I think what he needs is a custom car cushion type thing, maybe even one with side supports/straps. I find no matter how great car suspensions are, or how fancy the leather covering is, most car *seats* are quite lacking on any actual padding. Although specific tires can make a big difference too sometimes. Maybe those car dealers all have performance tires that aren't very "soft riding."

Jason Statham as "The Beekeeper." Another trailer for action "The Painter." (no one super famous) Now Aaron Eckhart as action "The Bricklayer." Hm. The possibilities are endless. "The IT Guy". "The Delivery Man." "The Wheat Farmer." "The Poledancer." ...The "Beekeeper, Bricklayer and Nobody go to Town"

Man, even 10 years ago this would have excited me a fair bit. Now it's just "meh." Especially ... well, Netflix movie? But it is definitely fantastic to see Axel, Rosewood and Taggart on the screen together again (very end of trailer). That trio was gold.

Sure, it's all perspective in that sense. Ppl are free to do with their hard earned money whatever they want. It's tiresome re: game marketing at this point is all. Not simply the greed aspect but also for potential game design/creativity re: such games, when the main purpose is to create a game that funnels/motivates ppl right towards the cash shop. Bah. I'm too old and inflexible now maybe.

Flashlight (turns on/off with your chr's) and laser accessories. Not all fauna can wear two pieces. I've never had pets out during combat, no clue if they use the laser. Probably need an "aggressive" pet and even if they do, I'm sure it's not very effective. I found a - hyena? dog? - animal which had six legs and unicorn horn. Hadn't seen that before. Had to have it. The one on the right - don't you want a flying Dumbo tadpole, too? Red misty mountains, or something.

I'm "afraid" any Borderlands 4 will go the same direction. I remember they wanted to do more MT/online stuff with BL3 and the audience rebelled so they pulled back - but a BL4 may not. Of course, I've lost most interest in that series to begin with, but that's not the point. At any rate, glad I didn't buy D4. You could see that writing on the Activision wall a long time ago. If I ever want more ARPG pewpew at some point I'll probably go for POE2. They look like they've made their own version of D2's Demon Hunter but dialed up to 50 - or, "how can we get guns into the game, but it isn't a gun?" - looks like silly fun.

^ Speaking only for myself, but DLC that costs $100/as much or more as the base game is not DLC. If that's not a large multiple dlc/season-pass type of thing and it's only for a bit of end game map content like a couple boss runs/collectables/1 new skill + stacks of game currency+some costume type package "DLC" or some crap like that, I rofl at them.

I watched that OD trailer again and it dawned on me the names were given in it. Doh. They didn't register as actor names in my brain, just as part of the weird trailer or something. Par for the cognizance/memory course these days. The other day I shuffled up and down the hallway five times because every time I couldn't recall what I'd walked the hall for and would walk back, then remember, then repeat, until hubby finally asked me what I was doing. lol.

That Dune trailer looks like it'll be about as interesting to me as the first one, which is to say not very - at least the '80's one, one could have fun giggling. Not saying it was bad, I just found it dull. But I will say that I did/do like the costume design. No. Jurgen Prochnow is great, thought he was (for the times) almost perfect casting. Re: the novel, the Duke is the chr. that stood out to me most, not the son. I recall with the novel I generally liked the supporting or early characters (Halleck, Hawat, Idaho, even Dr Yueh), a ton more than the main or later characters (son, lover, mother, daughter). Although by novel's end I did like/appreciate the son more and wanted more of his chr. But the 2nd novel disappointed me. No actor could've turned that older films interpretation/vision of the Baron into something palatable.

This apparently popular video popped up in my feed. I like bass singers, so why not. I was only half-paying attention, glancing at video but mostly just listening, and it went like this: "Oh, there's four of them? ... they sound pretty good ... nice costumes ... are they a family of brothers or cousins or something? ... " Took me half the video to realize it was just one guy doing the video/sound mixing stuff. I lol'd at myself. Guy's got great range tho.

Short answer: It's wearing a backpack, but sadly no it doesn't have inventory. There are different accessories for them, altho most are deco I think. There's flashlight maybe. I think you can "point" in a direction and depending on dominant personality traits they may or may not go over and may or may not bring you some resources or a sellable treasure. But it all seems about as useful as telling a cat to fetch the morning paper. I mostly collect them (temporarily or not) for uniqueness/ funsies/lol's, just like the ships.

The biggest animal I've "adopted" so far. My chr. is in there somewhere, lower left. Probably won't keep it, but yeah, it's big. When it walks next to me, all I see is a bit o' legs. Keep meaning to do another collage of pets but ... lazy...

Thanks. I knew that I knew his face but I didn't know his name to look him up. Bears a bit of resemblance to older Armand Assante. Blade ... that's probably what I was thinking of. Not sure if I've seen any of his other bigger roles, although I'm sure I've seen him in other small roles here and there.

Oh, also, if you haven't seen this before, it's one of the bestest. A very "talented" cat - at least for hand cues.

Me trying to force myself to exercise in winter.

NMS - update time, and they're repeating "Expeditions" all month so ppl can repeat them, or if you missed them, do them for the 1st time. I have never done one at all, so I tried the first one. You have to start a new game/chr and there are different mechanics/rules/objectives to follow etc. Loaded in and ... "You cannot craft anything outside of a claimed base territory, not a metal plate, battery, anything" ... I tried for a while, and it's not that bad, just annoying. I can understand why people like the extra goals/challenges ... but yeah ... the rewards are only base/costume deco and a Fighter ship I will never care about/use and I like my own goals better, so exit, stage left. And just to say, I *still* see things in the game I've never seen before. Just little things. Not things most would care about but I like it. Currently on a quest to portal-address record all "blob" pet companion varieties I (randomly, all rng) find/come across. The odder ones are kinda rare.

Re: that Kojima teaser - I did see one comment that said the sentences they are repeating comes from an ophthalmologist (vision) test of some kind. I have no idea what such a test is testing for, but that was interesting. The reflections in the eyeballs are probably hints too. Not that any of it gives any clue to the actual gameplay. Gotta hand it to him tho - it is on the one hand an utterly terrible teaser/trailer for a game. But on the other hand it is memorable/makes you (well, me) go "wha?" where I'd at least like to see a longer trailer. Heh.

I heard there was a new Kojima game upcoming. Some kind of horror where “It is a game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s at the same time a movie and at the same time a new form of media.” "..."

Someone else's (game nerd math) speculation: ...I'm a little dubious that LNF's "Earth" will truly be of that size ratio, but if that's the scale they're trying for, or even close to it, 80x the largest NMS planet would definitely be .... huge. Heck even 25x NMS largest....the problem, on those scales, is trying to fill it all with something interesting or somehow intriguing. Those super simple POI copy pasta would not cut it.