LadyCrimson

I still haven't decided on a memorial slogan. Of course, that could be partly because I haven't spent a ton of time thinking about it after the initial day. Serious or silly...that's what I can't decide. If I had been able to create an NPC I'd probably have created a talking cat, to ensure there would be at least one cat in the game, which Obsidian would then have likely laughed at and written to politely ask me to make a real NPC.

Yeah, Shadowmantle seems a better designed module, although I find if the instance is busy, it's more of a personal annoyance to me than in Sharandar. And I don't like the AD cost for running solo dungeons on their non-daily available day. Side note: It's been a long time since I've had any trouble/fear of death while killing things w/my main DC, but DC's aren't exactly major dps classes. But since since I've been using the Rust Monster companion, I've noticed the speed things go down has increased and the damage I take has gone down. Don't even need to self-heal in combat most of the time anymore. That active bonus they have (procs often) + their combat skill I assume. Altho I guess the DC's armor penetration finally works too - but I don't have too much of that. I'm becoming a big believer in deflect, as well. And I love those Artifacts.

I figured it was the generalized t-shirt sizing for the generalized male population from some generalized t-shirt slogan company. eg, I'm not sure Obsidian has immediate knowledge of what behind-the-scenes manufacturing company provides the t-shirt/slogan maker with their blank-slate shirts. Course, I could be wrong.

*login to bank site* Get forced-view page - "Go Green! Turn off paper statements! Yes/No?" *Press No* (repeat once or twice every month for a year or more) *login to bank site* "Congrats! We've switched you to paperless statements! Click here to view them!" *find the tiny print link to "change back" and do that* (repeat once a year or so) Dear Bank: I appreciate that if my house burns down you'll still have many records of my financial habits for me to refer to (unlike the old days). But I still want paper, too. So all those times I press "NO?" Should give you a clue. Stop changing my preferences without my explicit permission. If you want to save stamp-money for your bottom line, stop sending me junk mail offers instead. Thanks.

Oh is that out now? I won't see it in the theater but I suppose my usual "I saw the first one" means I'll see it when it's on PPV. I didn't like the first one much tho. It wasn't bad, exactly - just boring. Sometimes magic can't be done twice.

I sound like I have a foghorn up my nose (allergies). It's very sexy, I tell you.

Spring Festival? I can hope. :D

If on Firefox - AdblockPlus, r-click on offending images, pick block image, click/use settings you want. Gone. If not on Firefox - er, dunno. A similar sort of browser addon or program.

3rd episode of 'Almost Human' - plot pretty mundane/predictable, but the bits where Urban's chr. was "MyGyvering" Ealy's android chr. made me laugh. Yup, it's official - I'll watch this show...because of Ealy (and the humor chemistry he has with Urban).

I have no idea what's actually going on, but visually to my eye, those two ladies seem to be celebrating a little out of proportion for gaining 3 exp. points.

My first car was a tiny mid-70's blue 4 door Toyota Corolla sedan my parents bought for me for $600. The paint was still ok and it got good gas mileage. We had a lot of fun cruising to the beach and in the hills with the little thing. ...until some idiot crashed into the driver's side while making a left turn across 3 lanes of traffic, six months later.

I like it and I don't think it clashes with the painted backgrounds at all. I'd agree that perhaps they could reduce the number of ripples just a tad.

YESSSS!! Mimic companion! Winter Festival ... BRING IT!

I'm very much an advocate for creator's rights over their content, whether they want to hold it close to their vest or let everyone have it for free. That said, copyright laws are outdated/haven't kept up with the technological changes to modern lifestyle and need some changes. The notion that reviewers on YouTube, for example, can't even use bits of a game that contain the game music or show the ending (after a game's been released, at least) or whatever, during their review, is a bit ridiculous. Although my impression is much of the time it's less that such use is not ever allowed and more that YouTube's auto-flagging software is over-zealous and can't differentiate between such uses and actual "pirating" use (by the copyright holder definitions that YT has to enforce). Which causes reviewers/Let's Players etc. grief in form of delays and processing hassle. I haven't liked the direction YouTube has been going in for years, personally, way before any of this stuff. Much of it user-privacy and option related. But a lot of those aspects isn't specific to YouTube, really. It's the whole internet. Also, I agree with Enoch. Especially the part I bolded.

If it's a game within a genre/topic that I'm personally interested in, I'd be all in. Not like there are any other games of late that I have any interest in/spend money on. With over a year since P.E.'s Kickstarter, I can justify tossing more cash towards my fave game company. Maybe not quite as much as I did for P.E., but some. Obviously if it's a game that would interest me not at all, like a platformer viewpoint adventure game, then ... probably not.

Sarah was definitely a "meh" character most of the time. I didn't hate her but she and Gil had zero screen-chemistry together. Heather was interesting but I preferred Gil sticking to his bugs/sleuthing and studies. To me that was what was interesting about him. Not who he romanced. Yeah I'm not much of a romantic for crime shows.

True, and especially after the first or second season (Miami and NY were utterly terrible in that regard from the get go) ... but Gil Grissom is still the man.

Had some pizza, watched some TV. Then hubs went to bed and I went into my computer room, put on some headphones, and am currently trying really hard not to repeatedly sing along to "Puff the Magic Dragon" - at least not too loudly - but with limited success. Headphones are great for making your loud music not bother anyone else, but they don't do anything to help against one's out of tune singing.

I had forgotten I wanted to check out "Almost Human" - or more accurately, I had forgotten it was going to exist - so I watched the first couple episodes tonight. The pilot was ok overall, the 2nd episode a little better. A bit klunky in parts but it has promise. The dialogue for the type of show -sci-fi buddy-cop procedural, really - seems a bit above current norm, and Karl Urban is always at least likable. That said, Urban (and almost everyone else) are, imo, utterly and completely eclipsed every time Michael Ealy is on screen. His humor, occasional pathos and developing character are the awesome. Then again, I tend to like artificial lifeform chrs. (books, film, TV), so maybe I just have a pleasant bias. The only redeeming factor of CSI Miami is getting to giggle at Mr. Red. He's like a modern-day William Shatner with a gun instead of a phaser. And sunglasses. CSI: Vegas was great to good for 5-6 seasons then slowly fell...and fell...CSI:NY's first season was decent/ok, but it went bad fast after that.

Not that I don't understand anyone not noticing them - because they're on-screen for all of about 1 second in a quick camera pan - but they are in the teaser trailer.

I believe logging into the backer site and doing its thing gives folk the option to pledge more/get some of those things as "add-ons."

I'm glad the K doesn't have a circle around it, because then I'd constantly be thinking about Circle-K convenience stores and wanting jerky and a slushie or something.

I was hoping for late Fall 2014, but I guess winter-ish works too. Something to do when it's cold and icky outside. I'd find Spring 2015 acceptable, if not exactly ideal, as well. Just so long as it doesn't become Blizzard's version of "when it's done." I'm not sure I could wait 5 years or some such - well, I could, but it wouldn't make me happy...altho, on the bright side, if that were to occur, it might come right about when I'd need a serious pick me up for reaching the big 5-0! Would still rather have it much (much) sooner, however.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges .... I wonder why the gold ones don't say VIP. The KS page said "gold VIP badge" and the silver ones have the VIP. Instead it says "gold," which isn't as cool sounding. I've been gypped, gypped I say. I may have to sue.

I like music that builds to a crescendo and has ups and downs in pacing over the course of the song (I also like choir bits). Thus *I* liked the trailer music and thought it was good. It fits the "game coming! get excited!" push of a trailer and seemed appropriate to me. Does this mean I want soundtracks to have nothing but similar tunes/or all bombastic pacing? Of course not. And I don't expect P.E./Justin is going to do that. More typically, there will be some pieces in the game/by any composer that one will love, some pieces one will like and some that one can take or leave. Judging someone's capability to make music one may personally like from a single song or two seems rather ... premature. There's also the factor that (for me at least) many of my favorite songs became my favorite songs because of the memory I associate with them - what I was doing/experiencing at the time I heard them. A great movie scene. A fun combat moment in a game etc. If I had just heard them on the radio while driving to the store it wouldn't have stuck in my head to any degree, if you know what I mean. Some of my faves are songs I actually disliked at first until I listened to them over and over again. I try to stay open minded and not lock myself too much into a narrow list of "must-haves" when it comes to music. Except country. I still haven't been able to make myself like more than a handful or two of country songs. Anyway, from the earlier examples and now the trailer, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what Justin comes up with in the final soundtrack - even if I end up not liking every single track.