LadyCrimson

Finished Season 7 of Dexter, started Season 8. All I gotta say at this point is .... poor Deb. I couldn't stand her character for most of the show's run, but now ... just ... poor Deb.

"Is it here yet? Is it here yet?" (repeat all afternoon until a box shows up on the doorstep) ... "Yesssss!" ...time to eat jerky and watch the baseball game.

Khan was originally written as being of Nordic descent in early drafts (before he was called Khan, actually)...and I think the creators of Into Darkness didn't want to "demonize" anyone of color/Eastern descent this time around (this is probably a post-911 US reaction). But I do know what you mean. Once Montalbán iconized Khan, it's pretty hard to see Khan as being anything but. Still, I think Benedict was fine in the role as they made it. He's not the same power-hungry but charismatic/gentlemanly, studious, curious about the future ST:OS Khan that Kirk unfroze and dealt with..he's a Khan embittered by being forced under duress, for months, to do stuff he didn't want and hence hates the Federation from the get-go. Me, my main beef is still the new, rage-y, outwardly emotional Spock. Zachary is fine as the actor, but talk about changing the character 180 degrees. And I don't mean appearance. I really really have to ignore the fact that's supposed to be Spock every time he starts shooting angry sparks from his eyes. I just pretend he's a different Vulcan, maybe with Romulan blood mixed in.

Yup. Small plastic pet container I put 'em in while cleaning their main cage bins.

Hubs: Are you hungry? Me: Not really, stuffed my face a few hours ago, still rather full. Did you want something? Hubs: Thinking about pizza. Me: Get one if you want. Don't know if I'll eat any, but pizza you always can eat later. *30 minutes* Hubs: I'm back. Me: *sniffsniffsniff* Dang that looks good. Maybe just one slice...

I need to get another dwarf ham, so I can get new pictures.

I feel like immersing myself in some graphic-shiny exploration game ... but I don't think one of those exists. It's all MMO or shooter/action or rpg with less emphasis on graphic shiny. Something with the crafting/items of rpg's but otherwise mostly an exploration sim. ...tired of combat, I guess, probably why I can't seem to get into much. l-click, r-click, 1, 2, WASD, l-click, shootshootshoot, swingswingswing, castcastcast, 100xp-ding.

Ah. Makes sense. Has the Legendary drop rate truly improved significantly on the PC version since release? I know they say it has, but in action how noticeable is it? I had all kinds of toons (most up to at least lvl 40) way back then and I farmed/grinded with a 60 a fair bit and only had maybe 6-8 drop over 2-3 months and all those chrs.

Still just muddling about in NW:Online (mostly the Festival, collecting petals/shirts, making squash soup...). Once the Festival is over I'll probably largely lose interest again. I have 3 lvl 60's now, but still use my first, main DC for 99% of anything combat/play related. I did go a little further into the Feywild stuff ... mostly to get the first two "boons", which are a nice stat addition and easy to get. After that ... yeah, it's just a whole lot of dailies done over and over to acquire tokens and such to be able to enter another new area/dungeon etc. Major major grind. I'm not sure I'd call it new content, just a few new dungeons with a convoluted, aggravating process of gaining access.

The question is, are they good legendaries? By plans, do you mean the crafting? I didn't know they had legendary for that. Last I played I think they were yellow/rare colored. Are you sure they were Legendaries, or did you mean Rares? ...but yeah, I'd kinda doubt the PC version would go that high for the gold Uniques. If that sort of console drop rate is average (vs. you just being really really lucky), that's a lot higher than even D2 ever was.

Lava lamps, man, lava lamps! ....don't know if there's a singular search term for such things. It's like trying to 'net-shop for "pillow" without having a name brand/particular named pillow you're looking for.

It's that time again - beef jerky order sent. Also, my Sherlock Season1 comes with the original 60 minute pilot (vs. the resultant 90 min 1st episode). Think I'll watch it while eating lunch. Apparently it's quite different in locale settings and pacing/plotting, altho also very much the same. Why didn't they tell you? That's rather messed up, imo. It wasn't by her request or something, was it?

The mic may be bad, but at least you don't talk incessantly every second, which I appreciate.

The Sessions - uncomfortable topic (at least I'd guess to most people), tastefully done. But rather slow. Helen Hunt and the male lead (sorry, don't feel like looking up his name) were very good in their scenes together. And if you ever wanted to see Hunt full frontal, well there you go. Altho tbh, I was looking more at her face, because there's something a little off about it these days. Not enough flesh on the cheekbones, too much makeup, too much botox, no idea.

Yeah, that was my problem with it too - well, outside of the original insane difficulty, which I hear they've totally gimped now. And the loot, which has at least improved at this point. But mostly that there was no appeal to creating new characters/starting over like in the previous games. Seemed made to have one of each character and when done with that, just sit around waiting for new content. Like an MMO. Edit: Can't really blame them for that tho - it's sorta how a lot arpg's go now. eg, BL2 is kinda the same way.

Bought season 2, 3, and 4 of Breaking Bad (had the 1st ssn already). It's on Netflix, but one day it won't be. Also, Star Trek Into Darkness is out, so I snapped that up. Because of Benedict, of course. *dreamy sigh* Now to finish watching Season 7 of Dexter. At the very very end of Season 6, hubby's reaction was a big fat grin combined with an "OOOPS!" I hear Season 8 will be the last of Dexter show? I wonder how they'll end it.

My brain is greasy fried from too many late nights. Serve it on a plate for dinner. Which means it's totally time to drive downtown to shop and lunch with some buddies right now.

Definitely would be up for adjustable font/text size, as my eyes are also older than they used to be. But I still don't like too much space between lines. I find it distracting if I feel like every sentence (in a long sequence of such) is a lone island separated by oodles of ocean. eg, too much "white space" is annoying.

I don't tend to read very many. I'll often read the first few to get an idea/see how they're being presented, but after that I'm likely to ignore them, unless something in particular grabs me (like I'll often read "monster lore/legend" ones, but find "city history" boring). The exception would be if there's some kind of mini-game challenge to finding them/reading them all. Or if the books are inventory items vs. only log text, sometimes I get a hankering on my own to collect them all, piling them up in a room or barrel somewhere. A collecting compulsion. I have no problem with them being in the game - sometimes they're interesting, and even when I don't find them so, it's not like it interferes with any of my gaming preferences if they're there. The one caveat - I prefer them to be in sensible locations. Dusty books in abandoned dungeons/castles or in libraries, or in someone's house on a shelf/table. Not just constant random things you find in the forest or in every bandits treasure bag, if you know what i mean.

I'm still 16, only with grey hair.

My main method of dealing with grief goes something like this: Cry non-stop for a week Sleep non-stop for a week I don't actually talk much...altho I did used to write a lot, but I don't do that anymore either. Eventually I stop crying and sleeping and life goes on again. I think for many it's less a fear of death itself and more a fear of being alone/left behind. Watching my mother after my father died ... the being alone part was the hardest thing for her, despite being surrounded by family and friends. Still is.

I knew the episode was going to end that way. Dang it! What happens, what happens!

We've been watching a lot of Dexter. Had only seen the first 2 seasons + the 4th, so we're catching up now. Half an hour until Breaking Bad time, for me. It's the TV highlight of the week, one of the few shows over the past several years that I actually sit down to watch every episode when it's broadcast (vs. watching later, or "someday"). Booyow.

Don't really have any advice, but I'm sorry for your loss, Alan.