LadyCrimson

Was looking up the voice actor for BL2's Axton and discovered he's one of the player chr's in Orcs Must Die 2. Looked it up...sounds exactly like Axton ... (and Lilith too?) I may have to get this game.

That's a nice place to be in during August.

I was in the mood to see a stupid movie. So I watched Stranded. Starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, and directed by Roger Christian. Yes I paid $7 for it via VoD. As soon as the opening scene came up, with the so-obviously-models of a station on the moon being supposedly hit by meteors, I knew I'd gotten what I wanted. It was amusing to watch the trainwreck for a while (wooden acting, no development, terrible dialogue, no originality), but then it just became kinda boring. It wasn't the worst, tho. Just very not good.

Not inherently. Certain skills (which can be passive or you have to do stuff to regen or get a health boost for a short period) and/or wear certain class mods give a small percentage of it. Course, that means giving up stuff in favor of it. And it's mostly useful for between battles - regen isn't fast enough to help in combat, unless you have time to hide behind a boulder for 5-10 minutes. There are no potions/insta-healing thingies to carry. Transfusion grenades (sends small amounts of health via "health orbs" back to you when they dmg. enemies, tho the orbs can miss you) are useful.

Note to self: when paying the bills today, remember to change the house loan number to the new one this time. ...brain cells...you too will lose more than you'd like, someday.

Finally... only took, what, 2.6 months? Now to finish that Platesmithing for the 3-professions extra slot.

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.