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--Hubby's been obsessively playing BL2 again. He wants the new cheapie dlc/max level upgrade (level upgrade isn't a free patch like I'd thought it might be....) with the new "overlevels." Sounds weird, but ok. Guess we'll be getting that sometime soon. --Used my oodles of dust-gathering diamonds in NWO to get a few dozen Keys and opened some of the new lockboxes. On the 25th lockbox I lucked out and spawned the Pseudodragon pet. It's a cutie. I also got a ton of "planar idols" so I ended up with 550k AD back. Done with that. Don't care about the CTA skirmish event... --Haven't bought the black cat in Path of Exile. The game will be "officially released" soon I think...maybe a year after that, I'll be interested in playing it some more.
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Mount, pets and other creatures
LadyCrimson replied to Grinsevent's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Stories (Spoiler Warning!)
Still want a cat familiar! ...I have yet to like mounts in this type of graphic perspective games. They never feel right, tend to be awkward to use etc. And the only game where I liked actual mounted combat was Mount and Blade. I have nothing against mounts, I just don't think they work well, mechanically, outside of specific viewpoints/graphic GUI perspectives. Yet. -
The guy on the right, in the video, looks really familiar, as is the name Stahl. I keep thinking that one of these days, I'm going to see someone I actually knew (or is related to someone I knew) in highschool, or summer camp, or something, on Kickstarter.... The game itself looks intriguing, although I'm not clear if all the action is going to be via the ship? You can wander the ship and seems to be some chr. models around but not very clear. I tend to prefer chr. avatar games vs. spaceship battle sim...a combo of both would be fine.
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Watched some of the network new series premieres. Michael J. Fox's show ... not as sitcom-y as I was expecting, which isn't good or bad, just not what I was envisioning. Fox himself is fine/great as always, but not convinced about the show itself. I did find myself shouting "Marie!" once, tho. The actress playing Fox's wife is Marie from Breaking Bad. Cool to see her do something less...tormented. Robin William's show - oh man when he adlibs stuff, he's so hilarious. But kinda like with the Fox show, the jist of the series is a bit dubious. Williams is the only reason to watch, I'd guess.
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Not playing it at the moment, but when I drifted to the Path of Exile website recently, I noticed they have a new black cat pet. If I thought I'd play the game again, I'd get it, but not going to spend cash right now. Still....y'know me. I want it. It'd be like having my own Mr. Black with me. Outside of that, I decided I needed to return to some city building, so I've been going through the Caesar3 campaign again. Probably won't finish, but it's fun laying out roads and trying to control those crazy market ladies.
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Yeah, I'd agree. And Hank was Ahab after his whale....even early on.
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I think there were points made, during the show's run, that in some sense or other, to one degree or another, almost everyone can have a "break bad" moment or three that can lead them down not the best paths.
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The Breakfast Club. Man did I love that movie when I was 17. And 20. And 25. I haven't watched it in a very long time now and it was on Netflix. And while I still liked it, I don't think I love it anymore.
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The finale of Breaking Bad felt a bit more like an epilogue episode, rather quietly wrapping up a lot of bits and such. Not too much action (appropriate, really), but the end packed a punch and made me go "yeehaw". A fitting ending, I think. Not a full redemption, maybe not any kind of redemption really, but some kind of inner peace type of thing. 7 million times better than the Dexter finale.... Idle thoughts:
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Going to make some pepperoni, mushroom and jalapeno "mini-pizza things." Which aren't exactly real pizza, but at least they're cheap and mostly satisfy the craving. Then it'll be time to watch Breaking Bad, after which I'll cry into Mr. Black's fuzzy shoulder for a bit because my fave show is over. At least for a while there will be post-season baseball. Boston and Oakland this year.
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Keyrock's Hopefully Attractive Rodent Thread
LadyCrimson replied to Keyrock's topic in Way Off-Topic
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Typically don't care about them. It's not that they can't be well done/neat-o, I just wouldn't miss them if they weren't there. They're also things that I believe should be left to act-ends or the endgame or something, eg not frequent (not every "boss" encounter, say) and doesn't interrupt general gameplay. Also, if they're in there and more than 3-6 seconds long, should be skippable via the ESC key or whatever. Always. Anyway ... stuff like narration over a nice painting between Chapt/Acts or whatnot is fine/I'd sorta expect that. But as others have said, I hope Obsidian won't waste resources trying to make shiny cinematics for this one. Not necessary.
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LOL at the Dexter/Mr. White photochop. Pretty funny.
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Drive was an ok movie and I can kinda get why some might really like it, but yeah....I'm in the "it and Gosling wasn't that awesome" camp. I think hubby said it was "ok" ... altho that tends to be his standard answer for everything. We loved that show...I have that disc as well.
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I got in a fight with another girl when I was in 7th grade. Kicking and rib-punching and rolling around on the asphalt. It hurt, I got in trouble, and I learned I didn't like fighting. And Ros, I'm glad nothing major was injured (I'm hoping), since you're here posting...hope the rest of the weekend goes better for you.
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Tried watching the pilot/first episode of Showtime's "Homeland." it has some great name actors in it, who all do very well, but I found it rather underwhelming. It probably gets more involving the more you watch, but the pace is very slow. I didn't dislike it, but neither did it make me want to watch another episode. Often I won't watch a series past the first few episodes while hubby continues to watch it. Typically there will be two to four series at a time we make time to watch together, but one by one most have had their swan songs, so not too much lately. Keep trying to find something new the past months, but not much appeals long term. Altho I have hopes for M.J. Fox's return. Breaking Bad and Walking Dead are the only two I've kept up with week to week as they actually air for a while now and I'm losing interest in WD a bit. I'll still tune in this season but not sure how much longer I'll stick with it.
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Rumination: I can sometimes find myself lost while scrubbing the bathtub. Where you start out intending to just give it a quick 10 minute once over and an hour later I'm scrubbing grout with bleach and a toothbrush and woe to anyone who tries to get me to stop before I'm ready to stop. It's not that I super enjoy scrubbing the bathtub (I never start the day going "Man I can't wait to clean that tub, it's gonna be hours of fun!"), nor do I find the over-board action significant (outside of a vague sensation of completion-ism), and it certainly doesn't involve my imagination or creativity ... unless I start mixing chemicals to try to make a new soap scum cleaner perhaps. Is that immersion? It's certainly tunnel vision. And I find that same sense of rather inexplicable and seemingly mindless obsession can apply to/add to gaming, to some degree. It's why I can spend four hours chopping wood in Skyrim to no real purpose. There needs to be more than that to the game to have a long-term impact, of course, but it's certainly part of it. I don't think I really understand it even in myself, I only know that games that don't have it, at all, tend to bore me.
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I think I like this definition. ...I don't think it's the only definition, but I definitely like it.
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I (sorta) watched a 2012 Asylum movie called "Rise of the Zombies." The fact it's an Asylum movie should tell you enough, but the reason I (sorta) watched it was because: one, it's set in San Francisco Bay+Alcatraz and I'm often curious about films set in places that are local to me, and two, it had ... LeVar Burton. Geordi. Kunta Kinte. Reading Rainbow guy. However you know him. ...it was amusing to watch him scream as he voluntarily cut out a chunk of his own arm flesh to feed to a locked up beloved-turned-into-zombie (as a zombie-study test), but...I think LeVar must have owed someone a favor, or he really needed to pay off some debt or buy a new toy or something. But the brief bit on Lombard St. was bad-funny, and the fly-by scenes of Golden Gate and Alcatraz were pretty!
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My husband and his sister tried to do the house flip thing once. Altho in their case they were trying to flip it fast. Problem was, they tried it just on the edge of when the real estate market was about to (as it turned out) totally crash. Anyway, they did most of the work themselves - I think they hired a few cheapie guys for some manual labor, they went over-budget and time a bit, and in the end they basically made back what they put into it, but not much profit. Some, but not really worth all the time and trouble (in their opinions). I think one of the keys is really knowing whether it's just the fact it doesn't have granite countertops and new appliances in the kitchen/bathroom that's keeping its price that much lower than average, or something else. Like the rooms are smaller, or the layout is different, it's a corner lot, the lot (not the house) is smaller than average, is it too close to a schoolyard, it didn't pass some inspection of some sort recently, and so on. But yeah, if it's mostly some basic minor upgrades (new toilets, new sinks, new cheapish carpets, fresh paint etc), could be a nice turn, as long as you don't go too nuts on trying to make it seem "high end" on the inside.
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Watched the first season Breaking Bad episodes that dealt with Gray Matter, to refresh my memory. I find it debatable whether Walt was motivated (at end of last week) more by anger at the Gray Matter stuff itself or the relating the news of the "blue meth" showing up again (which has a few important trigger implications for Walt). eg, I'm not sure Gray Matter will actually have anything to do with the finale. More likely it's just what's being used to trigger Walt's "Remember my name" angry-ego trip, kinda like how GM was used to push him back into meth business via him not wanting to take their sympathy-money for cancer treatment. But we'll soon find out.
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I don't think that's generally quantifiable in a way that's applicable as an "applies to almost everyone" control. That said, there are a few general points that could be seen as immersion factors that one could list off, because they tend to be somewhat universal desires. Such as plot endings that are satisfying/make sense relative to set up, combat GUI/AI that doesn't make you pull your hair out, environments/music that make you go "neat", combat that's visceral and interesting and so on. But trying to then isolate anything more specific is where it gets difficult (should the GUI have 5 buttons instead of 10 buttons, should swordplay be "realistic", should the color palette be dark and gritty or colorfully garish). What gives you tunnel vision in a game? What breaks that tunnel vision to the point it actually ruins the enjoyment/makes it hard to continue or quickly regain the tunnel vision? Is it something more universal or is it just a personal pet peeve? I don't think I could describe what gives me tunnel vision in a game too specifically. The only thing I could maybe define is task-orientation often plays a huge part. And I don't mean furthering the plot or discovering the story or ticking quests off one by one. I mean specific task-orientation. Busy-work...where I'll often stop caring about/ignoring actual game/plot progression in favor of the busy-work.
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Expressing gratitude improves one's own happiness?
LadyCrimson replied to alanschu's topic in Way Off-Topic
I don't really understand - is this new? Anything that's generally considered positive reinforcement (vs. always being focused on the negative) tends to make one feel better, at least for a short time, whether it's from being grateful that you have a friend that's there when you need them or you get a job promotion and feel recognized for your abilities or you watch a movie that triggers feel-good emotions. Positive/negative, happy/sad, it's a balance of both that makes us all human, so to speak. Sometimes we get off-balance too far into the negative for a while, but sometimes I think there's a little too much focus on constantly being "happy." Perhaps there is such a thing as too much happy, too? We need both, really. ...I'm blathering again. -
Immersion is a hard thing to define, imo, tho. It means different things to different people. No single game is going to provide it for the majority of people on the planet. I don't like Justin Bieber, but that doesn't mean I think Justin Bieber shouldn't exist or be able to do what he does, or that he should change and make music that I personally like. A lot of mental immersion is emotion based which is always difficult to pin down ... which is why a lot of the time, more easily definable technical stuff tends to get a larger focus.
