LadyCrimson

Kinda like in FNV, eh, Sorophx?

BL2 - Hubs and I must have died 5 or 6 times in order to finish the last quest bit before going to Hero's Pass. First time ever, had to drop down off the overpass with 3-4 Super Bad*** Loaders (arm launchers, homing rockets) + angelic guards, those ION-shield bots, flamebots, etc. chasing after us in a conga line...and snipe the constructor from below, because every time you tried to get remotely closer it would almost insta-spawn 5 or 6 more BA bots. I'm pretty sure enemies move faster now, bulky robots can catch up to you in no time ... must have sped them up a bit. That whole bit was crazy. It's nutty how much more the game sometimes throws at you with just one extra person. If I'd been soloing, there wouldn't have been nearly that many BA's in that short quest run. Crazy, and yet ... it's like ... "Let's do it again!"

Green Mile, because it was on, and because I like (almost) everything with Tom Hanks in it. I didn't know Michael Clarke Duncan (actor who played Coffey) had died not too long ago, tho.

Not even lvl3 or 4 enchants as a temp until you get all the 7's? I have a mix of lvl5, 6, and a couple 7's in mine, with the shirt still empty. And yeah...I unslotted lvl 5 and lvl6's a few times...that was expensive. Including for the pets.

That's definitely interesting. I never finished Outcast (a frequent syndrome with me....) but it was an intriguing attempt at doing something different and I did like what I played. So I'd be curious what they come up with...altho if they don't make a pc version I likely won't ever play it. :/

lol, I remember doing that in that game...all of them trying to climb the ladder. Definitely amusing.

Good point. Just hope they don't outsource too much of the work, because that doesn't seem to do well for them. I hear that the Tiny Tina was not outsourced (the other BL2 dlc's were) and imo it's the best one. So basically...stop outsourcing, Gearbox.

... "Solllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllld!" (more for solo than for playing w/hubs but still...and from a vendor machine to boot)

That is one bold red dress against the backdrop of white snow that the woman in the 1st pic is wearing. Which means I like it. As a photo. And as a dress. Altho ... the make-up job, not so much. But I'm not into make-up at all in general...on myself or others.

I was considering gathering together and posting some of the pics of myself I've taken/posted over the years (ages 15 thru early 40's) as a "wow time sure has passed" collage, but then I remembered I'd have to plug in the scanner and stuff and got lazy. So here's a boring picture of a common moth instead.

Dang, I missed the Papi blowup...Lucky for me I have mlb.tv so I can go back and watch the inning. ...I need to get back to watching the games more often again. I've gotten used to not setting aside 3 hours per day almost every day at almost the same time every day to watch them, and just reading some of the news blurbs now and then (the latter is what I did before mlb.tv was available, since I live in CA and not many Red Sox games are broadcast here....). Watching almost every reg. season game is such a time-commitment tho.

I wish I still had the "gaming stamina" of 5-10 years ago. Few times a year I might get quite hooked for a few days, a week or maybe a month but just feels like no game is ever going to capture me for months on end again, if you know what I mean. Maybe playing w/hubs so often over the past couple years has spoiled me now? No fun without him, no fun without all the giggles (goodness but hubs can make me lol....) and discussions after a long session? ...I sure hope they make a Borderlands 3 someday...

I have slotted purple shirt and non-slotted purple pants ... can't remember why I chose that route ... probably the price difference vs. the type of slot they come with (offense vs. defense). I was using the War Prophet set for a while because it's full set bonus was kinda handy, then decided I needed more critical hit so now I'm wearing two War Prophet (Recovery bonus) and 2 Grand Templar pieces (Crit. Strike bonus). Seems to work well for solo. Don't have all Rank 7 enchants (none in the shirt yet either) or an armor enhancement rune so my score's at 10600 or so. Only 2000 more xp until I have a lvl 20 Leadership! ...

I don't use rocket launchers much (rarely even carry one - hubs is the launcher fan) so while I may have tried to heal him with one once or twice I just don't remember. The wiki, however, says that splash damage will heal enemies as well as your intended ally if both are caught in the same "blast", so if that's true, that would be a reason not to use one for healing, at least in-combat. Also, I have a ton more SMG ammo (over 2400) than launcher ammo (30ish?)...so even tho it takes more shots, it's still more ammo-efficient...especially since I don't have launchers equipped most of the time/would have to go in-menu to switch gear.

The Warrior? His movements and timing are predictable, for one thing. Plenty of cover (I used to stand on top of one of the stone towers and duck behind a statue). The only difficulty is when he does the tail slam that flings you into the air. Just have to be in a center spot to make sure you don't land in the lava, or manage to be out of the line-of-sight so it doesn't catapult you. And if all else fails, there's the cheesy-he-can't-hit-you spot where you can stand and shoot him with impunity.

The main potential benefit to a company, imo (and this would be a long long term benefit, that doesn't always occur) would be that since modding tends to keep a game in the public eye, so to speak, it may help if/when one day the company wants to make a sequel or homage to the game ... so a publisher may go "yeah, still a lot of interest there, ok, go for it" or crowd-funding is wildly successful due to rep and hopes. I rate it as something akin to when cancelled Star Trek reruns and enough rabid fans, in part, helped the series be chosen for a possible movie franchise many years later. Again, doesn't happen often, but when it does, can certainly be seen as profitable/good for the creators/company/whoever. That all said ... I'm not sure modding alone is a marker of true longevity of a game. It can help, and certainly doesn't hurt, but I don't see it as the biggest factor.

Hubs has over 160k hit points now, I think, so it takes half to a full clip at this point if he's almost empty. And if he stands still. Darn hard to heal in mid-combat, too, when he's dancing around like MJ doing a fast moonwalk.

Ultimate mode in BL2 - the only time I get to hear my husband repeatedly holler "Shoot me, hon, just shoot me!"** **Siren's heal via shooting other players...an ability I almost never had to use, until now.

Good luck GD! Happiness is a fuzzy kitty giving wet nose kisses. Marriage is ... all things rolled into one. Depends on the day.

The consistency is good/nice, but it looks a little on the red side to me. On my monitor. TV-colors ... always too red, too green, or occasionally, too blue. Especially fleshtones. Some day I'll have to buy the whole series on Blu-Ray ... but my Ssn 5-7 DVD's are still fine. The older seasons I haven't bothered to buy yet...well, unless you count my VHS tapes.

Parents should have an ability to "block" individual websites from being accessible on their own computers, if they wish, so I'm not sure I'd mind if it was mandated that ISP's had to offer such a blocking type service as an option as you're going through the ISP purchase/subscription process (vs. parents having to go buy some 3rd party software) - but putting default to "on" and that this seems poised to potentially be some kind of general blanket "sex/violence/rock n roll" censorship route vs. a site by site basis doesn't seem good. :/

That's terrible. I can completely understand wanting to try to help/save a favored pet, especially when so young. Dunno about "most" Americans but I do consider $1000 a lot to spend on a pet (at once) and I've only done it twice. Most of the time, it's spay/neuter/shots and I'd pay to set a broken leg, but no heroic or extensive measures if the odds are low or answers aren't likely forthcoming. But a couple I went a bit further, trying to save them because they weren't that old. Worked once, didn't work the other. Around here, if they needed intensive care it'd probably cost more than it would if *I* went to the emergency room...since I'm definitely not paying for any dubious "pet vet insurance".

Yeah, I did take him to the vet to make sure there was nothing super obvious, like a throat tumor or mouth ulcers or something (had a cat with a face tumor, once...), but nothing initially. If he had little/no appetite, that would be disease-worrying but doesn't seem to be the issue. Just finicky. Maybe his sense of smell is going... Ah well.

Hubs and I just finished the Bunker/Angel bit in Ultimate mode, in BL2. Jeez the Bunker took forever (lvl55), even with me slagging almost all the time. I think it took us over 30 minutes, and we had to jump down and refill our ammo from the machine below, once. Apparently increased enemy hitpoints 4x + health regen, so you pretty much have to use slag (they upped slag effectiveness). Most of the time it's not so much that it's super-harder, but it sure does take longer (might be more enemies too). Some of the AI seems a bit different too. And if you don't use slag you feel like you're doing hardly any damage even with purple gear. Hubs said when I slag it basically triples his dmg. now. So I have a slag Tediore SMG, slag Valdolf pistol, slag sniper, and a poison pistol. I do the slagging, hubs focuses on elemental + his slagging turret. I'm glad we're a duo...having to slag then swap weapons all the time would drive me batty. Also...in the new Ultimate mode you can "reset" the whole questline or something, so when you're done you can do them all again. Which is kinda cool. Endless replay of the game (quests and all) even at max clvl.

I think I have about 6 Eggs from lockboxes, when I was opening those. I didn't get any from the Giftboxes ... but I only farmed about 25-30 of those before I got bored (one of the instance quests I never completed, the Menzo run w/drow, dropped a lot of them in there). Did you get any of the blue "special armor" to find out what those were? At this point the only thing I seem to like to do is treat this game like a professions/fantasy stockmarket mini-game...that and collecting pets of course. ... mostly because I don't feel like spending too much time with the game actually running.