LadyCrimson

What? You mean you don't want your giant Orc warrior romping around on a white Unicorn? What's wrong with you, man? That would be awesome! ...yeah, I think they're over-doing it on the elven races a tad, especially when all the elves look the same just with a new face tattoo option. Just a name change mostly. Speaking of lazy art departments ....

I guess the people who didn't like that Cheerio's commercial wouldn't like my husband and I. It's always been odd, as the adopted-by-mid-class-whites Asian kid, to feel/notice race assumptions from both sides of the fence. Not always racism per se, but the expectations, initial assumptions, and reactions about who I am and who I am not.

I feel more like that all the time, but I usually figure it's because I've become that grumpy old fart that I made fun of as a kid.

Oh, you, you ... meow.

Latest "Under the Dome" episode ... cliffhanger, what's that councilman dad going to do now? Dun,da,dundundunnnn....also, the fallen preacher has now become the repentant-and-shoutcrazy-nut preacher. Also...Alaska sustenance/survival living reality show "Below Zero" should forget about the other people and focus entirely on the young man "Wiseman," because he's cool.

The whole DLC is a sort of parody on D&D gaming (and general fantasy stuff) most of the time. A lot of the enemies/names are supposed to look familiar. Plus all the jokes. Even has dice to "roll" to open the new loot chests. And Claptrap in a Wizard Hat.

Since I'm a Borderlands nerd....what I thought of when I saw the above pic:

Another all-in-one "pack" with unique items for sale ... only $60 this time. Unicorn mount. Another elven type race. Fairy/pixie (?) companion. An outfit. Strangely, even tho all I do anymore is level professions, I still want all the new shiny stuff, particularly when it comes to cool looking mounts or companions/pets. Which isn't to say I'm going to get it. But I still want it. *shakes fist* Only a bit over a month for the new Fey game-content, too. Might get me back to combat-playing, for a bit.

I still have yet to play Saints Row 2 (barely started) or 3, and now there's a 4 coming. ... I'll get to the series someday. Unless I croak first, of course. Borderlands 2 Ultra or Ultimate or whatever mode is pretty tough, at least initially. I like being able to level up more, tho.

Well, I suppose if Jesus (or any other religion icon figure) were to show up again, today, I figure after a while they'd realize they need to try and "relate" to modern times and popular references, and would, likely, get it all wrong on how to go about it, at first. Seriously tho...in today's cynical times, it would be difficult to convince very many. The loaves and fishes thing wouldn't be enough. Burning bushes? Special effects. You'd have to pull the moon out of its orbit with a wave of the hand or something along that scale (while simultaneously having that not cause disaster). Even then, someone is going go think James Cameron was behind it all, somehow.

Yes, exactly.

I said that over six days ago when Leadership was 18.5, and it's still not lvl 19. Getting fairly close, but ... The rest of my alts mix it up between Leader and this pattern: "Gather high quality ore" x 3, repeat repeat repeat repeat "Create mass rings/scales" x 3 "Create pants/shirt" x 3, repeat repeat repeat ...sigh. They really need a "Mass gather ore" so you're not stuck in the Gateway every 15 minutes. I'd buy ore off the AH but most of the time there's not much of the middle-level material for sale. Oodles of mithral ore, but not much of the other two. Maybe I should give up on getting that extra crafting slot for having 3 Lvl20's.

It only took me 2 years to learn how to raise the dead. But I was a prodigy. My teachers were very sad when I decided that raising the dead was boring and unfullfilling and left the order to get married and raise cats, instead.

On the faces? I don't remember them being smudgy or blurry. Just weirdly shadowed and, of course, not very attractive facially. Tho I blame that more on the engine, which just seems to be poor with faces throughout its game-use history. (edit: I guess the darker shadowing that occurs at times could be seen as smudgy...) I don't think I've seen any mods that succeeded at making the faces much better, however. Usually they're either focused on hi-res female bodies (hur), different hairstyles, or they just alter the shape of the face via the editor ... so Veronica has a different face than her default, or whatever.

It's not so much that I demand high quality graphics as it is the inconsistency, like the sharp textures on a blurry table. My eyes notice things like that too much...probably the photographer in me. I think I'm one of the few who didn't care about the graphics in NV. I did eventually run with a mod that upped the color and some textures a bit (nothing hi-res at all). But since the graphics were largely consistent, didn't bother me. Altho, the odd/ugly face shading in certain lighting/angles would occasionally jump out at you.

And more money, too, perhaps? And CNN used to seem like a credible news source, years and years ago, but in the US, all TV news tends to have gone the short-attention-span, sensational-presentation style route to varying degrees ... live disaster event 24/7 coverage not included (well, at least for the first couple days).

All right, so I made myself watch Sharknado. Or I tried to. It has a somewhat promising cheese beginning (on the boat) but then it just gets worse and worse. 30 minutes in, I started fast-fowarding a little here and there. 45 minutes in, I fast fowarded a lot. A bit later, I turned it off. It does have some so bad it's lol absurd moments but they're too few compared to the plain ol' "this is boring/stupid" moments. Sorry, I don't see the appeal. And Escape From NY beats it by 100 miles.

Zoot suit pants are only cool-looking when also worn with at least the vest and/or jacket. Otherwise you just look like you're wearing clown pants.

Mind, I didn't get very far into Skyrim, but what I saw I liked. But then, I like grey, overcast, washed out seeming weather and neutral tones....and I like snow in games. There were other graphical things that bugged me in Skyrim tho, like how even with settings maxed, the fact the game didn't draw in high detail land in the distance was glaringly obvious in some cases. Ugly. Here's what I mean. And blurry table with sharp texture objects ... also pretty glaring. ...probably a mod for that, by now.

Borderlands, the dungeon crawler!

When Mr. Clean wasn't a smilin' dude - but apparently still made the ladies smile.

I can understand limiting it in PT1, say, but yeah...after that I don't see any reason to not allow a very high number of backpack upgrades. Just make them really expensive to get to 50+ slots or something. I rarely mind a limit per se, but loot-based action games (whole point is tons of loot droppage) that try to limit you to fanny-pack size inventory space to make it harder to accrue gold/carry too many optional weapons seems a bit silly. Never works anyway - everyone still ends up with more cash then they can spend etc.

Aww, it's not endless. Only get one extra ammo upgrade each (50 purple), 2 backpack (50/100). Not sure about the town stash as I haven't spent on that yet. I'd assume same as ammo (one) since it's on the same list/side. So much for my dream of having a 50 slot backpack.

I don't have any issues/the main forum link works fine for me. I'm going to take a wild guess it's something restricted to babaganoosh's computer.

We finished the Tiny Tina DLC. Took us maybe 9-10 hours total. The last boss fight wasn't too hard, but as usual we were kinda pokey actually doing the defeating. Something like 20 minutes. Fun stuff tho. And the ending bit/joke was hilarious. So...now officially my favorite Borderlands DLC. Not a single vehicle at all, the riffs on D&D campaigning and the area designs, all awesome. Still have all the side quests to do that show up after...and I wonder if there's any limit to Crazy Earl selling new ammo and stash space etc. First one is 50, next 100 ... time to ez-farm PT1 dragon-boss for tons of purple!