LadyCrimson

Hm. Thanks. It seems intriguing, but not sure about the long-term aspect. Might just wait for open beta...I'll have to think about it for a few days.

Watching some Firefall beta vids, trying to get an idea of the game. I love the jetpack/gravity boots or whatever, and the world looks expansive. Thumpers seem like an interesting mechanic. But...seems like one of those MMO's where I wish hubby was into playing them, so I'd have a regular couch-partner.

So if you don't spend any real cash, the pets reflect that? Hahah.....funny. How's the expense of cash items and (as always) how's the solo playability? I like their claim of less linearity, the guns/shooter aspect (vs elf fantasy) and that bike mount is pretty awesome. Edit: I see currency is "Red Beans." Founder's pack gives you 960 "Red Beans" ... do those beans go very far or is it more like NWO.

NooOOOoooOOO! Tiger mounts! They had to bring those out this soon. Dangit!! Edit: the double-diamonds for even praying and crafting is nice, but does that mean we can refine twice the rough diamonds per day, too? And yeah...don't care about this Event. Sounds boring.

My cats did about 252 cute things today. That is all.

Watching "Storage 24," which is basically a sort of Alien set in a public storage unit facility or something. It's rather mediocre/average for it's type, but with some decent acting moments by a couple of the actors and a decent creature. But also some bad acting moments. Nothing special, but an ok late night Netflix watch. Snow Beast, with John Schneider, on the other hand ... not even worth the Netflix time. I got a few laughs out of the bad abominable-snowman like monster, the whiny daughter, and John's craggy face, but I couldn't watch it all. John, you'll always be Bo Duke to me (he was a decent Mr. Kent, too).

I'm never particularly fond of item durability stuff, but it doesn't sound all that severe in P.E. Likely long durability, not on every item, no bad effects until it's all gone, and items don't actually break and aren't lost if you don't pay close enough attention for a bit. eg, it doesn't seem like you'll have to place constant, ever-vigilant, check after every fight with a kobold attention towards it. Maybe just when one is at a campfire or town for the night. The money issue of repair, if one doesn't feel like going the crafting route ... can't say. Depends on the economy of the game.

Crafting like Diablo3? Skyrim? MMO? I'm not seeing it. From the description, to me it sounds more akin to what was in KOTOR2 or FNV. Not exactly the same I'm sure, but more that sort of style. Then again, I'm not always good at interpreting what is meant in descriptions. Probably why I don't read manuals.

I had to turn it off after about 35 minutes. Maybe I'll try it again at 2am. These type of movies are often a little better then. Now to watch one that I'm sure even watching in the dark won't help ... Snow Beast. But I must see John Schneider in a terrible rubber monster movie!

Ugh.

Oh...heh. I have my browser less than half desktop size and don't tend to click images to enlarge them.

My first thought was of the Star Trek:OS episode where they find all the empty crew uniforms (except tiny piles of salt). My next thought was of the game Alan Wake. My current thought has been ... doesn't anyone know how to make torches, campfires, etc, or does it have to be electric light only?

What game is that, sorophx? It has an interesting look.

Hubs had some painful dental work done, so he's lounging around the house all Mr. Grumps. Still on the bad thriller/horror film kick, again. A Hadyen Christensen one, this time. Something about power outages/vanishing on some street. 10 minutes in, I'm already chuckling. Heheh.

Knuckleball! ...of course I had to watch it. Tim Wakefield, man, Tim. I wish they'd talked a bit more about mechanics of the pitch (just a little), but I loved seeing the famed knuckleballers together on a couch, yapping about their careers.

Watching a plethora of ants all swarming my cats waterbowl, with most of them essentially drowning themselves in the process, makes me feel better about my nothing-special human IQ.

I've read there's a better chance of getting the slot/t3 result via "Finish Now" than waiting for it to finish (which seems to rarely result in what you want, even with highest chance in the task list). The claim was something about the way the game calculates something, but I don't know the details/how true that is.

I loved Evil Dead 2 but for some time I didn't bother watching the first version, since I heard it wasn't comedic. After hearing all about that tree scene, when I did finally buy/watch Evil Dead, my general feeling was "that's it? What's the big deal?" I mean, it's not a nice scene, but some made it out to be a lot worse than it is. There's a scene in Re-Animater that's worse/creepier, imo.

*sees a new Planet Explorers Kickstarter Update* *gets excited, maybe it's the new alpha build!* ...nope...not quite. A nice informative update on where they are (their game uses too much memory, hah), but looks like July 4th. ...goes back to watching Netflix and occasionally checking NWO Gateway in an effort to avoid sweating in the afternoon heat.

Since Leadership has no tasks that seem to have the % to get something better, they seem pretty useless. I've wondered if you used purple sword/armor if you'd sometimes end up with, say, more rough AD's then stated, but I rather doubt it, and it wouldn't be worth it anyway. The rare/epic workers are useful at least, considering Leadership takes so much longer to lvl up. Btw, do you have any idea if Leadership can get that last slot for "a Rank 3 result?" I read creating t3 purple items for the other professions can work, but nothing like that for Leadership, unless getting a high resource out of a purple chest counts. The only possibility seems to be creating a purple worker from 4 blue workers (which I have a ton of), but I have yet to attempt it to see if it works, because I'm still not...quite...18 in Leadership yet. All my other professions are 20 w/the alts all working on Leadership and half way through a 3rd profession yet I STILL don't have a max Leadership, even using almost all blue workers.

Random quote from a review of the non-fiction book "Sleepless in Hollywood:" (I have not read this book nor claim to agree with this book's conclusions about Hollywood) Welcome to my current movie-life. It's especially difficult for me since I'm also not all that into Oscar-bait dramas or dramatic art-house films. But I watched a couple low-budget psych thriller/horror films (eg not gore-fests) from a couple years ago (The Corridor and YellowBrickRoad). Mind you, neither were awesome, or non-derivative, or even awesomely acted, but there was still something about them that was sorta creepy and compelling. A mood. Some might find them "too slow/boring" or ambiguous but maybe that was what I liked about them. The actors were unknown to me, the characters were unknown to me (even if they were obvious archetypes), and thus I was vaugely interested to see what trouble they got into. It's not the same thing as caring about them, but it's more than I typically feel in the mega-success Hollywood stuff these days - where the most interest or emotion I feel is the "ooo" of the visual snazzery, whether sets or action. The one film reviewer that I still read with some regularity (I miss you, Ebert!!) liked that one better than White House Down. Which isn't to say he thought it stellar/awesome, just that it was a bit less mindless and did the scenario better than WHD. Which means I'll check it out when it comes to VoD. I think I'm going to skip White House Down...

As a more casual, yet still kind of control-freakish user, what I dislike about every incarnation of Windows is the seeming way they make it harder (or at least more exasperating) to find, do, and use things I commonly want to access. Bury them under a lot more menus, a lot more mouse-clicks, obscure or hidden folders with funky, unrelated/non-nonsensical and unintuitive titles that make it difficult for me to figure out where the heck they are , etc. etc. All in the name of idiot-accident-proofing, or prettification, or something. I don't know. Whatever the reason, it farking annoys the carp out of me.

Tried to watch Wreck It Ralph. It started off ok/amusing, then that annoyingly voiced girl "glitch" character came along. Really grated on my nerves and I turned it off. Jane Lynch's chr. was pretty funny tho. I think my days of really enjoying Disney animated tales are ... if not entirely gone ... at least pretty minimal. Animated films like Toy Story or Wall-E, or even more mature, not-aimed-at-family animated fare, sure. Anything else ... not so much.

Hiding from the heat then perhaps going out to dinner with some folk in the evening.

This. And they should be difficult to get to/finish encounters or something ... eg, no low-level chr. rushing to a spot to get the best stuff. There should of course be useful items in shops, that might be better than the regular stuff that one would commonly find during battles along the way, but they shouldn't be the uber things. And imo super high redonkulous prices just means one either ignores them because you figure you'll never save the gold to get them in time for them to be useful, or you'll feel "forced" to do that obsessive compulsive looting to try to acquire them in a timely manner. I can be compulsive regarding loot/shop selling, but even I won't pick up 20 items that sell for 2 copper each to try to afford something that costs 5000 gold.