LadyCrimson

I'm still good at most of the old games - at least the ones I occasionally fire up again. But this is mostly because I played them so much back when that they're forever burned into the brain, like the memory of one's first love.

A lot of shows do that at least occasionally. Star Trek:TNG did it semi-frequently, IIRC, and the original ST did it a few times. I've really only noticed minor inconsistencies when it happens...rarely anything major plot or chr. building wise. eg, it only seems weird or misplaced once you know it's weird and misplaced.

*reads thread* I'm beginning to feel like an old fart for still having my games installed to the main C: directory....although since Win7 I haven't used the actual Program Files directory in ages. Win7 kinda ticked me off with that...

LOL at Skyrim....

Gazing at the (awesome) character sheet, for a second I thought to myself "MIG? What stat is that?" ... then I realized it was Might and rolled my eyes at myself. Graphically I like the game more and more as we get more visuals. Subtle sometimes, yet also very grand. And I love the rocks/walls/stone floor textures in the arena-like first screenshot.

Today I've sneezed about 4 dozen times so far, so my eyes feel a bit swollen shut and my nose is on fire. I know I have allergies all the time but I don't usually sneeze that much in one morning. Don't know what it is. Maybe some mold somewhere. Although it hasn't been rainy/damp in a while... My ears, at least, are fine. That sounds bloody annoying, Enoch. I remember the intense itching sensation from having chicken pox, I can't imagine having something like that feeling inside ones ear.

Sherlock Ssn3 Eps3 - That was more like it. I'd give that episode an 8.5 and the first two 7.5 But the last 5 minutes of eps. 3? A 10. Bwahaha, perfect.

I don't mind a few loot tiers, but in games like Eternity, this shouldn't mean low lvl items that explodes from a group of monsters by the dozen...god I'm so tired of that syndrome, even in games where that's the expectation (Diablo's, Borderlands, Torchlight etc). So so tired of it. It's stupid. I'd rather see very few items drop per fight, and almost everything that does drop is useful in the sense that it's likely you *must* use it, for a while at least, because you can't afford anything else. To me it'd be more like in BG1, where you have all those plain arrows, which dropped like gangbusters from certain enemies - but they're still very effective/desirable/used all the time because magical enchanted arrows are 1-expensive to buy in huge job lots and 2-rare to find. At least through the first half of the game, or even further if one isn't hoarding cash/cash is rare. Obviously if you don't use bow slingers in your party, you'd find such "useless", but then there'd be enemies that are likely to drop a fair number of swords and armors or magical scrolls instead. Or whatever. But did you use only "white" items? I'd guess after the first 10 levels or so, probably not. Sure, Diablo's can be played with "self-found" items only. But who the heck uses the white items past the very early stages of the game? Those types of games drop so much "junk" that they then even create game mechanics to use it up (salvaging). Why not just make drops less ridiculously numerous, but better when they do finally drop? How much of a carrot do we really need?

If it's something they're working on - eg, it's an Obsidian game - I'll be at least interested to know more. If it's something they're collaborating on - eg, it's not an "Obsidian" game - I'll be a lot less interested, unless it happens to be a game genre/setting that I like to begin with, perhaps. Depends. If it's an MMO collaboration and they're doing the writing, I'd find that intriguing. Don't know if I'd want to play it, but intriguing nonetheless.

Ok, thanks, I'll assume it'll be fine, then. ..the Steam update thingie doesn't work, however. As soon as you get online, even if it doesn't download an update, when Steam detects a game has an update available, the game goes into an "Update Required" mode, meaning you can't play it until you update it.

Went "online" for the 1st time in months, noticed that you can now set individual games to "not download/update" - I'll try it and see if it actually works, or if it'll still "forget" my settings when I go offline and try to download everything when I go back online. If it does work, that'd finally fix one of the major dislikes I've always had with Steam. Question: if hubby DL'd TL2 on his Steam account during the free weekend, and I then buy it on my account and gift it to him, would he have to download it again/lose any save games?

Sauerkraut is something I don't like to eat by itself (unlike some dill pickles or cabbage kim chi) but it is something I love to have on certain foods. Like a hot pastrami sandwich, or on a hotdog with mustard. Basically, it goes well with mustard and salty meats. It has limited uses (for me)...but those few uses are mighty tasty.

Speaking of adds, maybe it's my imagination, but I've been feeling like one of the solo mini-dungeon quest bosses in the Dread Ring must be based on your gearscore. That is, the higher my GS has become, the more adds there are/faster they show, making it tougher when alone. The other two feel more static, but the one with ... Jawbone? ... keeps getting tougher because of more and more adds, making it difficult (hard to focus on the big-bad because if you don't kill the adds they overwhelm you etc). I started Dread Ring with maybe 11900 GS and Jawbone felt easy/never used a pot or Daily. I now have 14500 and I take a ton of damage, use a couple pots and a Daily and it keeps getting tougher. The other two solo thingies are more static. Also ... are there any armor enchants that don't have a super fugly glow effect? I tried one once, hated the glow, took it off. Most of the glows I've seen around in Enclave are fugly too - most don't even seem to bother with one. They really need to make that visual optional.

If by overall game scope you mean length, breadth, content etc ... it's probably mostly that for me. Not in the sense that I want total length to be short - more a matter that the bigger the learning curve/more stuff I have to keep track of, the more I have to time-obsess in long sessions in order to stay motivated/immersed. Especially if there's a potentially emotion-engaging story arc involved. It's like novels. Some people are fine reading a book a chapter at a time over weeks, but I typically am driven to marathon read novels in one or three days. Now that I have less energy for marathoning anything, more complex games (for me) are more difficult to finish, because a lot of the time such games don't "play" well in short time-chunks. eg, where 1-2 hour sessions gives me, personally, little sense of progress and I lose motivation over time. Whereas games like Diablo you can fire up and randomly play for a couple hours very easily even if you haven't played it in months. Anyway, I still want complex and involving games/rpgs...it's not a fault of the games, just the way I am now. Makes me a sad kittah...

Me when I was 12: "Daaaaad, Moooommmm, you say that (story, phrase, opinion) every single time. I hate it when you constantly repeat stuff, so annoying!" Me when I'm 45: constantly repeats stuff ...had fun with the hubster playing some Torchlight2, which he seemed to like ok, even tho he ended up using a KB/mouse mostly. Currently debating whether to play more solo and stay up until dawn, or just go to bed.

Depends on the woman, just like with all ethnicities.

Downloaded pet skin mod for TL2, discovered that running with the mods active means I can't use/have no access to previous game chrs. Screw that for now. Hubs dl'd the game to try it. As usual he's trying it with a gamepad hack, tho he has the wireless KB/mouse with him as well. His insistence on gamepad limits our potential game choices a lot. Tho in this case I'll doubt he'll like the game enough for us to care much. He played D1/D2 with me a little bit, but was never really into them. Edit: Hubs just came in the room to ask me: "Do you run out of bullets in this game?" lawlz.

Lazy morning. Shower, dishes, cooking a meal, then a lazy evening. I take my PC outside twice a year, take off/clean the case grills and use a large rubber squeeze bulb to poof-blow dust out. Seems to work pretty well and it stays pretty clean. Unlike some of my ancient early PC's, where I never cleaned them and they'd end up with a layer of dust so thick you could build dust-snowmen in there. The old hardware seemed more tolerant of such, tho.

Some old horror movie from 1977 called "Rituals" (or at one point, known as The Creeper). Shades of Deliverance (backwoods vacation guys, hunted by a disfigured, crazy nut), except it's more straight-up horror vs. just horrifying, if that makes sense. It actually wasn't too bad, with enough characterization to make it interesting. The ending was silly tho. But mostly, I was impressed with Hal Holbrook. Considering the type of movie, he did nicely as the type who refuses to let his humanity be compromised even if it might save his life. Also watched Blackfish. I remember when that trainer was killed, it was all over the web news-wise. As a kid I recall seeing some killer whale shows at Marine World (when Marine World was still MW and not Six Flags) so I understand the viewer-appeal of such. But as an adult - yeah, so not happening.

Baconator! ...changed my main armor for stats, which was ugly, so then transmuted to something else, which is slightly better. I've been sticking to whitish/red/blck trim scheme, couldn't make it acceptably whitish with what I had and ended up with the below. But then I started to feel too much like Spiderwoman or something, so I scrounged a dye from an alt to make it all silvery, then black on top of that...now I can't decide where to have the red. I must have a bit of the red, it goes with my hair! These things are important, you know! If I can't make this work, I have to start all over again. I'm leaning towards the middle one...

Hubs: "Torchlight 2 is free this weekend I hear." Me: "Oh yeah, I haven't played that in ages, never finished." *turns Steam/TL2 on, loads lvl38 chr.* Holy pistols, I barely remember how to play this game. I don't mean the "whack things until dead" part. I mean what/how to's of all the skills, spells, items, the gems, hotkeys, what the heck was I doing with 100 gold fish in my stash (up to no good I imagine!)...and I have mule characters. How did I mule? Oh yes, shared stash. Wait, how did I stand still while fighting? Shift isn't working. Wut? Oh yeah, I mapped it to E. Fishing hole? Oh yeah, fishing! *Man I should start a new game at least temporarily to remember stuff* Hey! New pet options, that wasn't there before. Must be some patch Steam D/L'd ages ago and I never looked. And you can mod. Must...get...pet mods... ...forget hubby, I'm playing this game again, with or without him.

Is the dentist related to the car accident?

I tend to prefer my Main to be a class that isn't available as a (scripted) companion, at least the first time, so I can check out as many classes at once. And since we're still not sure how many companions there will be in the final game .... I haven't really decided, and probably won't until I can actually view the chr. selection options. In rpg's I typically enjoy ranged classes and/or monk's (or fighter/mage types - not Paladins - when available). We'll see.

I still think anyone who truly believes NWO is P2W doesn't know what P2W really means. ...due to selling off some stuff, I was able to get a lot more blue and purple Leadership workers (they're really cheap right now) which makes tasks fly by .. and I still have 10 million AD. Now what. Turn it all into Zen and just let it sit there until they have some cool new stuff? Or I could just leave it alone...but such a habit to at least do Gateway, for the past 8+ months, hard to totally stop that, even when I don't need any AD. lol. Too bad you can't take Zen out of a game server to another of their game servers. If you could, I'd try one or two of PW's other MMO's just for the lark.

I tried to watch some of Avatar when it was on Netflix (don't know if it still is, haven't looked) during a period when I was trying out older animes. It looked ok but I didn't watch enough to get pulled in. That said, I definitely do like and still enjoy some "children's" programming, along with great fondness for the things I personally grew up seeing (Warner Bros, Tom/Jerry, Scooby-Doo, Underdog, Flintstones etc). I tend to not be as interested in the stuff they make today, but I think that's mostly because I often don't "get" the references/humor or (what I see) as distractingly odd visual presentations. I liked Tangled a fair bit but most Disney films (not including Pixar) since Beauty and the Beast haven't entranced me overmuch and were just "ok". As awesome as CGI animation can be, I still find it somewhat ... cold ... for lack of a better word. At least in many cases.