LadyCrimson

Yeah, thinking about it further, I'd probably agree. Both for story importance reasons and for the personal preference reasons. By the latter, I mean whatever our own idiosyncrasies are regarding what type of personality/archetypes etc. we tend to gravitate to almost every time.

I'm curious ... when people say "characters that they love," do they mean more the actual personality/story of a potential party-member, or their combat abilities/stats in relation to how useful/complimentary they are to one's own character. For myself, typically it's the former. I'll drag party members along an entire game, even if they're largely useless in combat, simply because I like having them around. Course, if no chr. appeals to me in that manner, then I'll just go by combat considerations alone and for that they may as well have zero personality. My experience has so far been that games that try to have too many characters end up with 2-3 deep chrs. and a whole lot of shallow chrs (eg, that turn into nothing but combat-consideration fodder). I'd rather have 5-9 chrs. with a good chance of having 1 or 2 that I really like, then having to find/check out/try 20+ chrs. only to discover I don't really care about any of them.

Sometimes, I "make" hubby watch stuff like voice talent shows or cute-kitten videos he has no real interest in. And sometimes, hubby "makes" me watch stupid movies like "The Watch," that substitute asinine idiocy for actual wit. And thus, our marriage continues around in that never ending circle that relationships know as loving tolerance.

Maron. I guess it's a semi-autobiographical half hour comedy series by Marc Maron, on cable channel IFC. Never heard of the guy (which is a joke in the show), but with all the famous guest stars, the show has some pretty fun moments. No laugh track. And he has cats. I don't find it rip-roaring hilarious (it mixes a bit of drama in here and there) but I like the angry-man yet low-key satire. I think the guest-stars overshadow Maron a bit too much however, which may not be good in the long term. But if there's a 2nd season, I'd be curious how it develops.

The next MS O/S will be ... Windows:One! ... not to be confused with Windows 1.0.

Previous thread. Last few posts: Leon campaign. Too much pining over Ada. Chris campaign. Too much obsession with Ada. Jake campaign. Oh look Ada again. Ada campaign. Agent Hunt was fun though.

The play! The play's the thing! .... oh wait, wrong genre. Post limit, new version directly up ahead and to the right.

Almost 100F today. Me no likey. Gotta recharge that auto A/C sometime soon, too. It's probably 150F in there. Ha. Edit: It's gone up 2 degrees since I posted (website numbers, not my own thermometer). Predictions are it'll last into next week. I put out extra water for outdoor kitty, in the shade of course.

Holy crow, I don't remember making that many mules. Like I'm going to remember what's on who or who's who. Hm...which chr. to play the new DLC with ... the lvl 50's, or lower ...? Gah. Maybe we should just start over.

Hm. Grim Dawn is updating. I still haven't played the beta/alpha/whatever all the way through. ...bloody heck I need to uninstall some Steam stuff. I haven't touched most of it in forever, probably never going to, gotta stop install-hoarding. Metro2033 keeps wanting to update so I've had it paused forever and I think it's up to 7.4GB it wants to download now. For what I don't know, lol.

Never did play that one. I know we tried drunken Monopoly, but somehow that was never the same. ...y'know, I love computer gaming, but I really do miss all those board games. No one (we know) plays them anymore. Not just because of electronic gaming, of course. Time and lack of enough players at once plays a part. I think when hubby gets home I'm going to bring out the cribbage board.

I see. Well, sadly I don't know any definitive answers but having used GoG's game versions for a while now, I'd say it's probably what they say it is ... just changes for compatibility reasons. They may not want to give out exactly what changes are made because they don't want their method of compatibility fixes to be emulated by others for some reason, perhaps even legal clause reasons. The changes made likely have nothing to do with the mod making aspect. In terms of support services ... I'm with you there. I rarely bother, simply because my experiences with such have rarely had a good outcome.

RISK parties with booze present. "My Indonesia! What did it ever do to you? Nooooo, you bleepbleepbleepitybleepbeep! It's so on! Kamchatka you bleepitybleep! Roll, you heathen, roll!" *violent hand shaking dice rattles, dice skipping out of bounds and landing on the floor half the time, curses to wake the dead, giggles, etc* We were party animals, I tell you, party animals.

While I can understand wanting to know what changes were made, I'm not sure I'm seeing the "fiasco" here. What exactly are you worried about? That GoG is spying on you with secret changes to the exe files? Does GoG's version of the game have trouble with some mods that you want to use/create?

That's assuming the game allows you to name the save files vs. generic "save0001" type format. Not that I see any reason why P.E. wouldn't allow you to name saves, I'm just saying. At any rate ... I'm the type who does often ends up working on multiple chrs, along with not liking to perm-delete chrs, or maybe wanting to re-load an old specific save to check/test out something specific at that point in the game without having to play over to that point, or whatever, so my vote goes towards the OP's suggestion, as well. It's just more....organized.

My Steam is always in offline mode until I decide there's a need/reason to go online to download something I want.

Muting the game often ? Heheh, no doubt! Thankfully, I'll be wearing an intercom headset to chat with him thru the rooms, so I won't be able to hear game sounds too well anyway ...

Not that level of cardio at the moment, no ... legs aren't up to it yet. But that's nothing to do with sleep issues, in my case. I've been like this since...well, since I can remember (eg, under 8 years old), before any caffeine, and all through decades when I was in good shape/quite active. I could barely get through school, let alone work weeks, because I couldn't sleep, then couldn't get up in time when I did sleep. It's probably a combo of toddler-trauma psych issues and "wrong" biological clock issues, which at this point leads to lifelong habitual patterns that feel impossible to break.

Oh ... is Tiny Tina DLC actually available for DL now? ... I know what hubby and I are doing this weekend.

I don't drink coffee but did drink too much diet Dew, I'm not asleep yet and probably won't be for a while, last thing I ate was about 7 hours ago so after contemplating a bit about whether I should ask Ros not only what he has done but he will do and deciding "nah", I think I'm headed to the kitchen to make myself a boring sandwich. And possibly drink another diet Dew.

I'm still quite content with my "lowly" 1080 resolution 27" IPS. Maybe it's because I largely watch Netflix and such on the PC, so it's not like that's going to be the uber regardless. I occasionally notice the extra grain a tiny bit under some circumstances, but it's nothing for me to be in a snit over so far. I have a feeling I wouldn't have liked it if it hadn't been the IPS tho. But the IPS is so nice and clean/crisp/colorful that it's fine....for now. A few years and I might splurge on better. I still refuse to mail-order a monitor, tho. I live in a big metro area, I shouldn't have to, darnit.

I'm a bit skittish about mines and caves at this age. They are cool, tho. I've been in/walked around a few in my life, and the things to see in some of them are pretty awesome, like the rock formations. The Fern Grotto in Hawaii was my favorite, although to my flimsy memory that wasn't a "serious" cave. I was sad to hear it was so damaged during a hurricane.

I guess I'm not comfortable with my "masculinity" then, because I still don't like pink/pastels. ...more seriously, for me I think it's more about how color affects mood. There's a lot of early studies re: that aspect of color. Of course it's probably largely cultural/personal experience related (stop signs, fire trucks, red emergency lights = red being "exciting, lively, adrenaline evoking, etc), but it's also likely why some people have color aversions. Some people find yellow to be a happy color, for instance, but I don't. Bright yellow (in terms of paint/art/clothes, not the natural sun) makes my nerves scream. If I was locked in a room with yellow walls, I'd go insane before long. Yet I don't mind yellow on a small bouquet of flowers. Far as I know, I was never locked in a yellow room when I was child, so I have no idea why I have that reaction, but yeah...it's a mood thing. Staring at neutral/natural seeming colors for hours while playing a game doesn't make me grumpy, angry, tense, nervous or irritated, thus I prefer them.

I like shades of purple for lighting/object/spell effects (like in that P.E. dungeon pic). That's fine, even atmospheric if it's all glowy in the dark, maybe in combo with other colors like greenish or whatever. It's being used as a spot-color mood contrast, and it works, imo. I'm not particularly fond of purple on clothing, but as long as it's kinda mellow or only a part of the color scheme (purple striping on black, say), that can be fine, or even look cool. And I don't care if that witch in the Diablo3 pic is wearing purple, because hey, who am I to tell her what colors she can wear. However, I strongly dislike pink in general, altho it's fine for some stuff/in some situations. Like Lephys avatar creature is cute, but I don't want an RPG dungeon cram-filled with pink unicorns or purple and turquoise dirt/brick walls or something. Unless it's an obvious parody/humor attempt, like the rainbow unicorn level in Diablo3. Most of the time, I prefer colors to be more neutral or "natural" feeling for a setting. Very bright, near fluorescent or pastel solids (not just pink/purple, but also greens, yellows, sky blues etc) are good for punctuation here and there, but if used as a dominant theme it's definitely not my preference (Torchlight comes to mind). Bottom line: for me bright colors are all fine in moderation/bits and pieces, but if it's too dominant ... or too far towards the pastel palette...not so much.

Except for the giant, oddly placed hip-pauldrons (or whatever), I kinda like that one. Maybe because it's blue. Even cooler if it was black instead. I remember getting a set of "free" dye, when you make a chr, and the random factor gave me 3 pinks. I was all "pink?!, nooooo." They still sit unused in my bank stash.