LadyCrimson

^ Hahaha. ...after taking a bit to experience the race and the monsters on the ice contests, then doing the stuff to craft a purple fishing pole, I wore out my finger pressing 'F' every 5-10 seconds to get fish to turn in for the Lights. I want that healer Fawn, darnit. More than one. Almost 1000 Lights so far...20 days ... should be no problem. Could use a F key mash macro tho.... Epic pole+bait =fastest way to get the Lights. Especially if you win the fishing contests. Which seemed entirely too easy for me to do. I started losing a few just to let others win sometimes. Race got boring before too long. Fighting the monsters on the slippery ice is a pain in the butt (tho funny), especially for melee I hear. But it's hilarious watching your companions slide around or waddle super-fast!

Twin Peaks was great the first season. Kinda fell flat after that. Watched that Fright Night remake. I didn't think I was going to like it, but the first 1/3 was actually pretty popcorn entertaining. Started to drag a bit in the middle, then when David Tennant (Dr Who) came in it became popcorn fun again. I wouldn't say I liked it more than the original film, but it was a lot better than I expected.

Nah, it's simple stuff - just run the course basically. Can do on foot or on mount. Ice makes you slide uncontrollably sometimes so it's tough to hit the markers. Really funny to see someone do it on a pig mount.

Hubs: "Ethernet router is acting flaky, probably need a new one." Me: "Is that what I think it is?" Hubs: "It's what connects all our PC's together." Me: "That's what I thought. I'd be offline. The horror! Go fetch!" Hubs: "Yes dear."

Racing on "ice" is slippery fun!

I'd like it to be tomorrow already, so I can start whatever pointless grind it is to get my pointless Winter Mimic companion and Winter Sled riding mount and other goodies, whilst chatting with other collector obsessives who are doing the same thing.

Yeah, I'd still like a wood smoker unit for the backyard or something, but knowing me, after the first few months it would sit there 90% of the time unused, rusting away. So I haven't. I was out and about and noticed my wrist watch had stopped, so I guess I need a new battery, or a new watch. Which made me wonder ... in this era of cellphones and gadgets how many people still use wrist watches? I suppose not too many, except for certain occasions. I don't actually wear mine too often but I definitely still like having one. I still remember the huge cheap-Swatch fad. Every kid and their mother seemed to have one.

Has anyone tried the Dungeon-Keeper like War for the Overworld alpha stuff via Steam early access (or KS backer access), yet?

@Kaine - Hm. Could be, like I said it was a long time ago. I remember some friends finishing the game without ever having encountered him. But they could have just missed seeing him in his "spot." I also remember rushing down there to grab him as early as possible...could you get him without having that quest? Bah...one day I'll replay the game fully again.

I like that there's at least somewhat of an option for both styles, even if it's not ideal in either direction perhaps. One of the reasons I liked Xan in BG1 was because he was easily missed by players. I found him by accident exploring or something. I think there was a quest that sent you in his direction but it wasn't mandatory. Ages ago tho, maybe my memory is faulty on that. Anyway, I like finding the companions and having a story to go with them in the process. But I've also liked games where you create parties from the start, with the control that goes with it (like in Might and Magic rpg's). The latter feels less personal and less world/story involving to me, however, and my preference for story-rpgy's tends to be for companions who have personality/story relevance vs. just chess pieces I pick at the start.

Been trying to save up all my diamonds for the Festival period, knowing I'm likely to want to buy multiples of anything that's not BoP from other players (vs. me grinding 8 hrs a day every day for 2 weeks...). So I found myself a bit dismayed when I somehow accidentally upgrade a healing companion on a hardly-played alt, whilst meaning to upgrade a runestone she was wearing. 300k, poof. There was no confirmation message, just suddenly "congrats, you've upgraded your companion!" I was all WHAAAA?? Guess my finger slipped, or I was asleep. Oh well. Not a huge deal for me, but still annoying. I've tried to give the new refining system a chance, but it still feels needlessly complicated, and more importantly, a lot more time consuming per stone unless you spend lots of diamonds to rush it.

I mostly mean the oft more stageplay-like style of filming and acting back then is hard for me to settle into. If I've never seen the movie before, it usually takes me 15-20 minutes before I can concentrate on it enough to really get "into" it and/or I'll occasionally rewind because I feel like I was watching the screen yet not watching, if that makes sense. Restless mind I suppose. Gets worse as the years go by. Happens with modern films occasionally too, if they have deliberate slow pacing, but a lot more frequently with 40's/50's films.

@Woldan - love the frosted pics! I don't want to live in a snow area (brr!), but I sure do appreciate the beauty of frost and white in nature. @Raithe - Haha....that's something I might do. Altho I did consider buying a very small xmas tree just so I could watch my cat get all excited. But nah. Kitty will have to be happy with some new catnip toys.

It was time for a huge beef jerky order, so I can be in a dried, salted beef coma all weekend.

Jingle bells, vacation farewells**, nog and rum in egg! The office space is a quiet place, whilst the artists are away! Hope you all have a great holiday! **note to self: not a whole lot rhymes with 'bells...'

Haven't backed very many, really. None have been released. Only played a couple alphas. They've been kinda fun, but neither have super-excited me as the alphas continue to evolve (my feelings go up and down) but I wasn't expecting the sun and the stars either, so it's all good. While I hope for the best and expect at least a playable/fun for a playthru or two game, I don't usually have high expectations. Not on most of the budgets. Pillars of Eternity (I still read that as "pillows"...) is the only KS I have fairly high expectations for - at least within reason of the budget. If they disappoint me I might have to ... to ... uh, I don't know. I suppose I'll do what I usually do - mope in my room in grumpy silence. But that won't happen. Nope, nope it won't.

After catching some of "The Yearling" on TV the other day, I've been on a Gregory Peck kick, like The Guns of Navarone - a classic, imo. Next I'm going to watch The Purple Plain, which I don't think I've seen before. Films of the 40's-early 60's are sometimes a little hard to sit through these days, but after a diet of constant action over dialogue/green-screen films of recent years where I often feel like the actors don't really matter much, it's nice to go back to a time when actors ... acted.

Outside of the occasional burst of humorous irritation at hearing such lines repeated over and over by NPC's in games, I still don't get the "funny." (or why it's a "meme")

I won't play MMO's that have griefing/PvP capability as a default that one can't get away from, unless such has a very meaningful gameplay reason for existing. Even then I probably wouldn't play such a game. I'd respect it, wouldn't play it. People like to feel they "all" have a similar chance and time-line for advancing characters in MMO's, if one puts in the same amount of work. People also like to feel the game isn't only catered to hard-core, 4-hour a day every day types of players in terms of having a chance at gear/anything "fun" or being able to run dungeons. Not that there can't be super hardcore MMO's, but I bet they generally won't be the mega-million player base types, so whether they could be a long-term success or not depends on their cost vs. how much/how long people will pay and all that jazz. So basically ... sounds like you want a non-casual MMO. Could happen. Probably not often tho.

I'm assuming the dude is drunk, hence the "hic" in the middle. Drunk slurring works in a movie when the guy at the bar is acting slushy but not so much (imo) in text. And I don't really mind the meme either. Actually I don't even get/know the joke of that meme - I just know it is a meme because I see people use it with "lol" or whatever attached.

After having barely played the other two KS alpha's I backed in their various versions and then sorta losing motivation partially because of all the changes they kept making, I think I'll wait for the released version of the game. I've discovered I prefer playing games that are at least pretty close to finished vs. playing a drastically updated game over and over. That said, the game looks pretty promising/nice screenies, and I'd love to get opinions from anyone who does play the alphas.

Well the ground and floor tiles look pretty nice. ...even if one isn't expecting supreme writing from this one, I hope the overall writing/dialogue is better than those 2 jokey snippets. Even minus the meme, it's pretty rough to read. But then I personally don't generally like it when writers do stuff like "RUH(hic)anger." That's pretty awkward.

My impression is a lot of the most popular, constant-uploaders "Let's Player's" are really comedians/entertainers. Or at least outlandish in their commentary (think MST2K). The few I've watched and liked were in that vein, like ... TobyGames I think it was? I remember some of his FO:NV videos had me crying tears of laughter. Most of the time I'm in your camp, however. I'll pick a video and skip around in it really fast to get an idea of gameplay mechanics or something and then turn it off. Or I'm looking for something really specific from a game, certain scene, quest, info. There's a reason why there's zillions of Let's Play videos but not really that many "big name" ones with all the views. Most of us aren't very entertaining talkers.

Google.

Firestarter is on as I eat lunch. Drew Barrymore is/was so wee! ...I loved that book back when. The movie is another matter.