LadyCrimson

I liked the first Hangover well enough, but wasn't in seeing more. Hubs did watch the 2nd, and didn't like it very much. it's one of those film formula's that I think doesn't bear many repeats. Kinda like Wayne's World.

I have pretty mixed feelings watching Francona playing "against" the Red Sox. ....still haven't been in the mood to watch too much baseball this year, but when I look at the daily team scores, sometimes these early months in the season are the most interesting, as the league standings bounce around.

My neighbors are having a long, loud screaming match in their front yard. Being a private type of person, I'll never understand people who do that. Sometimes you yell and it might be muffled-hearable outside the walls, but running into the yard and screaming at each other for 15 minutes like deranged folk ...definitely not my style. In other news ... made an appt. to have my knees/joints looked at. Just to be safe/make sure there isn't anything extra serious going on that I don't know about. Hubby's cousin got RA in her late 20's and had her knees replaced in her late 30's ... so for once I'd like to hear the docs say "yup, just regular ol' arthritis, go home."

I understand all that, and SSD at its price point in either of my current PC's as an upgrade wouldn't give me much return for dollar, just like how most of the time, upgrading my GPU with the newer version of GPU would be a waste of funds even if the newer card is faster. I think the difference in way of thinking (regarding my preferences) is thus: ---if a computer is outdated enough that newly bought software I wish to run on that specific PC isn't running like I want it to or won't run at all, I build a new computer and delegate the old one into the "non-main rig" category, which = no longer bother to update it, period. And except for games, I don't buy new software very often. Hardly ever. ---I like having one large O/S/program software install drive and a couple of nothing-but-file-storage drives. I do not like doing all that junction, multiple O/S install/disc splitting, RAID configuration, etc. type of stuff that people do. I find the former much less confusing and easier to deal with/navigate, as well as less headache to troubleshoot. It's just how my simple brain works and it means I don't have to holler for my spouse and drive him nuts every time something bloops. As I get older, I want to fiddle with PC's less and less, so the less complex/the less stuff I have to remember about an install/configuration, the better. eg, I got old.

*pokes her belly* Down 7 pounds, 8-10 more to go. I'd like to thank the lucky genetics that make it fairly easy for me to lose weight, when those middle-age fluctuations get a bit ahead of me. Which is more often than I'd like the past 5 years. I could blame all my various ailments (upper spine, leg joints, finger arthritis), but mostly, I just became too lazy to work hard enough to stay in fighting trim. I still know how to rumba tho. And polka. There is nothing like dashing around the room doing a basic polka. At least as the female. It's like I'm flyin'. Not that I'm doing any polka at the moment...

I guess that was my main curiosity ... does she survive long enough in a fight to still be useful, or does she go down so fast that much of the time she's dead weight in a fight. That would apply to all companions really (I hear most go down easily in 60 dungeons and static-effect non-attacking companions might be better then) ... just seems like if they're only lvl-15 it'd be that much worse.

To me the speed increase isn't yet enough to be worth the extra cost. There's a point where the benefit isn't really necessary or practically all that useful (it's not likely to even save me an hour a day), and one is just going for the number crunching or emotional relief from impatience (and that's fine, if that's your desire). But to me, while a Porsche can go from 0-60 a lot faster than my Subaru Legacy, I don't find that ability worth any extra money, since it has little practical value. Therefore, price per speed or whatever is a useless number and all I'm interested in practical considerations like space, not having to have stacks of multiple discs, and so on.

The Last Stand - oh Arnie.

I'm finding the NWO Gateway even more useful since I can't sit at a desk for hours at the moment (knees). And the more characters you have, the more of a pain it is to repeatedly login to all characters via the actual game to keep up with all finished tasks/assign new ones etc. Why they don't allow you to just switch characters from a list in-game without having to actually account-logout/login each time is beyond me. Altho, the Gateway seems to have a bug where you don't always get the rough diamonds if you "finish" the task via the Gateway, so I've stopped doing those type of tasks on the web.

My viewpoint is that I don't need a "smart" anything.

I do something vaguely similar (without weights) but it's more of a stretching thing...to hit the calf muscles, which used to get tight a lot when I danced a lot. It's funny because at the moment I can do high leg kicks in all directions or a side to side dance sway motion, say, but I can barely slowly squat to clean the litter box. So I'm sitting around thinking maybe I could create a dance routine based on The Ministry of Silly Walks.

Forgot ... You've mentioned CO a few times I think, and I have looked it up a bit. But I don't think I'm at all interested in a superhero/comic world based MMO. I wouldn't even be interested in a Superman single player game, and I'm one of the few who still love Superman.

Sometimes I think it might be better for me if I didn't think chocolate/all that food tasted so awesome. But it'd suck, for sure. Hopefully a doc might have some clues for you. Maybe the upper sinus cavities have become swollen/blocked or developed sinus polyps, even if the nasal passages themselves aren't clogged (eg you're not noticeably sniffling/don't feel "stuffed up"). And today I'm alternating between stretching/toning the legs and sitting around with a heating pad on my knees, whist catching up on bad TV series. It's getting pretty boring tho, and I'm not sure it's helping much. Think I'll find a flat park to take a slow stroll around in.

I don't roleplay (my chr) so I see the differences defined more by combat mechanics (are there environment/skill setup tactics possible or is it all just dash forward and clickclick-spamspecialattack-clickclick), environment exploration/freedom, and dialogue/freedom/world effect (non-linearity). eg, more choices, more story/plot, more affect on the gameworld = moving farther and farther from something like Diablo/pure dungeon crawlers. So action-RPG/adventure is to story-RPG, like pre-packaged brownie mix is to a multi-layered, 3 foot high, elaborately decorated cake creation. Sometimes I don't want to do the extra work and want to quickly make and get to stuffing my face with some EZ brownies. Sometimes I feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen doing all that sifting, beating, layering, etc. to get something more elaborate and have the satisfaction of the complex/more interesting result as my reward.

Yeah, it's a bit pricey initially, but I look at as ... 3 hrs a day for likely 3 months (more or less) = maybe $1.4 an hour. If I played longer, even cheaper. Still nowhere as cheap as a single-player game etc. but eh... Seeing Into Darkness in the theater on Tues? $4.38 an hour. (8.75 for non-3D, afternoon-discount pricing). Is it any wonder people want to stay at home/wait for DVD these days for most films.

Are you still using the Cleric companion? How does she fare when you're over 50, since she stays at lvl15? Aggravating that companions are always lvl1 when you get them ... can't take them back and level them in lower areas. Makes it harder to get them up to even 15 if you want to change them much later.

Season ender of Grimm - there have been a couple of episodes this season where I feel like I'm watching the teen-horror flick of "don't go outside!" method. eg, in Grimm, situations that could easily have been avoided if a character was wearing ... a face mask. Or really big sunglasses/safety goggles. But do the chrs do so, even after knowing what they know? Of course not. And yet...I still kinda like the show overall.

Is there any true Epic Loot in this game? I'll be interested to hear what you find running lvl60 dungeons. Some actual unique items that's more than a purple armor w/a pink socket would be awesome.

I had chicken pox when I was 17, so that wasn't it. Plus it didn't itch/blister/scab. But yeah...strange but non-threatening maladies tend to plague me from time to time. Research doctors/interns always like me. Off to make some dinner, than watch the feedzombiesbrains-tube.

Das Boat is one of my all time faves. I have the director's cut with all that extra time, but it's not bluray. :/ ...has it really been that long? Gah. Not that I saw it at release, more like 5-8 years later, but still.

"It's a virus." I felt poorly for a couple days but didn't realize I had a fever for a while. When I said my fever was 105+ and I noticed the rash on my legs, hubby dragged me to the emergency room where they seemed very interested in my symptoms, took pictures of my legs, ran off to show the pictures/consult with other docs or something, and came back saying "sometimes you just pick up random viruses, you're not dying, don't worry about it." I went home. The (non-itchy) rash ultimately got a few dots up on my arms but by then fever was dying down and then went away. But I was weak/tired for a few weeks after. Just to gross people out ... my feet/ankles are definitely not that fat/swollen normally.

I'm not sure I like the implication that just because I don't yet think SSD's are quite worth it (they may be, even for me, someday), it means I care nothing about speed/my time or whatever it is you're implying. You seem kinda defensive about someone not thinking they're worth it yet, when, again, I was never trying to discourage anyone else from considering SSD's, only stating why I don't use them yet myself. I tried to state that nothing *I* do on the PC feels slow at all. The O/S (which I boot up only once a day, leaving the PC on until I go to bed) loads up in 90 seconds or less and no, I'm not so impatient that I must have it load in 25 seconds instead. I rarely have more than 8 tabs or so open at once in a browser and so far, even with 12 tabs open, speed issues there have been non existent. 1.5 seconds instead of 3 seconds or something is negligible to me. I do get that browser complaint tho, since hubby talks about it a lot (he'll have dozens and dozens open at a time). If I think I'm going to do some multiple projects/multi-tasking I turn on both PC's at the same time and keep them on all day and use a switchbox for the KB/mouse which equals pressing one key and bam I'm on the other desktop, press it again and bam, I'm back to the other one. There are plenty of intensive tasks that would definitely be speedier, I have never disagreed with that. But I don't do large paid-work/deadline projects, work on many multiple projects at once (most of the time), or anything of that sort. I don't care if PaintShopPro opens in 3 seconds. Offline games I personally play load plenty fast (so fast I don't have time to read all those hint pages) already. And so on. If video processing is going to take 30 minutes, or an hour, or two hours, I go clean the tub or catch up on a TV show, I don't sit and stare at the computer screen. Except for a defective HDD recently, all my HDD's have lasted for years with constant abuse. eg, they're still going 4-5 years later when I want to build an entirely new PC and sometimes I toss them into the 2nd computer where they keep on going still. And to some of us, price per GB *DOES* matter. I don't expect SSD's to be as cheap as HDD, but I do want them to be cheaper than they are. I like getting my dollar's worth, and all I can say is obviously what is worth that dollar for me is different than it is for you. I even do things like consider dollar per hour in terms of whether I think buying a game is worthwhile.

Btw, after figuring I'm likely to play this game off and on for months, with multiple chrs (even if some days it's mostly through the Gateway), I lost my battle with temptation. Really not that much more than I spent on WoW ($60+monthly) for such a period/hours played. ....besides the panther, which every chr. can claim/use, the starter weapon you get for every chr. made is powerful enough to last you until lvl 17+ .. maybe even to 20 depending on chr. Makes starting new chrs less of a chore/very easy. So I now have 5 chrs. And you can use the panther as soon as you get to the Enclave, don't have to wait until you're 16. The spider mount has to wait until lvl20 tho. The diamonds ... meh. I have little use for those outside of occasional ID scrolls. They're just sitting in the promo menu, waiting to be claimed. Nothing wrong with the panther, btw. It attacks fine, with highish dmg, it's just that the early pounce attack it does takes a few seconds before actual attack (guess it's doing the butt-wiggle thing....), so you may have killed something before it leaps. Hah.

Sorry to hear that, Astiaks. My mother isn't specifically ill but she's getting up there, with more frequent emergency trips and such. I have/had a much better relationship with her than with my father so when she passes it'll be rough. Yeah, they're ok for me if straight so general walking isn't a problem but bending even a little is aggravating. It's not second to second sharply painful, more like a vague ache (like arthritis) as well as the unstable balance feeling. If lying on my side I can't do a full fetal knee bend and at the moment I have a table under my desk to keep legs straight while in the chair. That virus I had = super high fever, strange rash that started at the feet and moved slowly to the upper torso, making feet/leg joints swell up like balloons. Who knows what that did to the joints, heh. Just takes more strength-specific exercise every year to keep up with it I guess.

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