LadyCrimson

Yeah, the repetition gets wearisome after a couple characters. The characters may have different skills but there's not too much room for major variation, with only 1 paragon tree and, imo, often feeling forced to used Hero points on things you don't care about just to get to the 20 etc. you need for next skill tier. More importantly tho, the quests/areas are too same-y. With the areas being so small it's even worse. So the game is going official on the 20th? Is that a new announcement? A couple days ago no one had a clue as to a live date, still. The "big" patch will peak my curiosity...this is the long list of changes they're planning on: http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=907501 I'll be eager to see just how much extra dmg. is done by companions, because that's definitely weak. Super weak ... especially the melee attacks.

If one ever needs help in that area, there's a new underarm-cream drug for that! Modern world marvels ... testosterone boost in a jar! Just don't let your wife mistake it for her nightly face cream. ....out to look for some better shoes and stuff, then dinner, then some more bad movies on Netflix.

...finally bothered to look at making an item with a socket in it (just a blue one) ... and you do need high level tool assets to actually get the socket and the stats shown. If all you have are "white" asset tools, no socket and lower stats - misleading. So basically millions of diamonds - saved or $$/zen-exchanged - to buy off the AH, or $$/zen for a random chance to get one in a prof. pack (and you need more than one to get the assumed required 100% quality rating). Ah well, still having fun leveling up the professions. 3 at lvl14 now ... the creation of new workers is still endless. But I think you'd need about 15 low level alts, with 3 open slots, all dedicated to making only workers, to feel seriously "efficient."

Warm Bodies - heh, I liked it. Didn't love it, but it was cute, with some dry humor bits, especially between "R" and "M". The romance aspect wasn't overdone too much so I found it tolerable. There were a few slow spots and the ending was a little weak but oh well. Now going to vegetate on "A Cabin in the Woods" - The manly Thor in a suspense/horror movie? Gotta see.

Hehe...that pic makes kittah's head look huge. So much fur!

Grats. Now you just need to dye it all fancy colors and stuff. Makes me think of WoW (again) ... had a friend who went "first it's all greens, then blues, then purples!"

Hubs has had root canals and cracked molars....I've had nothing like that. Cavities occasionally. But I am prone to gum disease towards the back, it seems, regardless of how much I floss and brush and rinse (which I do like mad). Had the gums flayed open once and never bothering with that again, since it didn't seem to do anything. My smile looks ok so I just figure one day those back teeth will fall out from being too loose and I'll get bridges or something. As long as I can grind up my beef jerky into a fine powder in a food processor and gum on that for the flavor, I'm cool.

100 Million B.C. - one of those cheapie knock-off movies from The Aslyum studio. I don't typically watch such fare but it had Michael Gross (Family Ties dad, Tremors) in it and I was hoping he'd give some amusement. Alas, his role was more "serious," so I was left having to giggle at the poor acting, hilariously bad CGI effects, and suddenly realizing that one of the long-haired fellows was Christopher Atkins of Blue Lagoon fame. Bwahaha.......

So unmotivated today. Guess I woke up in my sloth suit.

I've posted the pic of my very young self dressed up as Princess Leia a couple times before, with the hair done up in side-buns - as well as one of me dressed as a tulip....I think this time I shall refrain.

I don't remember it being that huge. The chr. bit on the bottom left could have been smaller, yes, but at least it wasn't some giant bar traveling across the whole bottom of the screen. I thought the mini-map was toggable, too, because I have screenies without it, but it's been a long time so not 100% sure on that.

Games should always have a "don't show the helmet" option.

The most recent Die Hard movie. I wasn't expecting much, but I figured at least it'd have that Die Hard fun action. Instead it felt like rather random explosions and chases, wrapped around a poorly written plot and seasoned with dull dialogue bits. Bruce Willis felt like he was just "phoning it in." Not much life there. The actor playing his son wasn't too bad, with the thin material he was given. Looking him up, I guess he's pretty new to the US acting scene. Maybe he'll go somewhere.

I've been watching episodes of Ssn1 "Emergency!" - I loved this show as a kid so it's hilarious seeing some of it again, now and then. Pretty influential series of the 70's. My Netflix instant-queue is way too big....

"Vertical slice" ... it's such a sexy sounding phrase, and I came in expecting some goodness. I was not disappointed. Kudos to Polina, indeed. Very nice concept. Have fun at E3!

The forum has some size/space restrictions to member uploads, last I knew. Like melk said, easier to upload to your own host/server/whatever and embed the links. I also tend to consider it more polite, vs. using the forum hosts disk space, unless it's very rare that one posts even a tiny pic.

Haha....superman footies. Haha.... In black marker, write out a large "No sales" sign, then underneath that, in scraggly purple crayon, add "Beware of Barney" and tape it with a large piece of visible, jagged duct tape to a window near the door.

Wil Wheaton may never be a very good actor, but he sure can be an awesome geek blogger.

*groans*

It is somewhat aesthetically pleasing because of the lesser amount of right angles. And if one is gazing at a still picture and wants such a framework around something, that's cool. But the big portraits with the huge arcing "line" of little and big gold circles etc. would distract me to no end in-game. My eyes would always be drawn to it, driving me crazy. Thus I'd have to say for gameplay, I wouldn't like it at all. But then, I don't like photos/art framed in those gaudy, frilly, gold-painted or whatever art/photo frames either - I've never seen the point in those, since they seem to take attention away from the art image itself - and I apply that same perspective to game UI's. Which is not to say the original mockup Obsidian gave is as minimal as I'd personally like it, either, but it's a bit more so than some of the user mockups in the thread. I definitely prefer function over form for UI's, since it's not, to me, so much a matter of having to look at it as much as having to use it dozens of times or more per hour ...

Laugh it up, fuzzball. ...glad you and your kitchen are ok, but ...

I read on the forum that you may need the purple "tools" in order to get the socket or something like that (t3) of a lot of that end profession gear. I'm not sure how true that is, since the task shows the reward item as having a socket. But maybe what they meant is you need them to put a socket in the higher end task rewards that don't have a socket by default, or to get an extra socket (the pinkish one as well as a regular one?). Dunno. Also, the comprehensive console command list, for anyone interested in it. http://pastebin.com/C8hFrZY4 I was most interested in the FOV, which I'd read you could alter. Supposedly it's this one: /gfxsetdefaultfov (value 55 default, higher is more zoomed out) Haven't tried it ingame yet, and I don't know if you have to retype it every time you login.

I don't see any real similarity between Diablo2 and DS3 either. If anything, the original DS games were more like Diablo2, in a way. I enjoyed DS3, with it's larger emphasis on dialogue/story, but it did have a funky combat UI and I didn't find it all that replayable. That said, I can understand why some who liked the first two games don't like the changes in DS3. It was definitely a different type of game. Also ... moving thread.

Made some tasty sliced teriyaki beef sandwiches for dinner. Currently watching reality crime TV via Netflix ("I (Almost) Got Away With It"). The best way to watch such programs.

Thanks to fast leveling + Leadership, I now have two chrs. at 30+, my main at 45, others at clvl's 18, 22, 12, 16. But... I must admit, I'm becoming a little weary of leveling professions. Sometimes by the time I roll over all the tasks on all 7 via the website, the first one is ready to change some tasks again. So I've started giving up time-efficiency a bit for more AFK time, so to speak. But...but...I must get at least one of each of the 6 professions to 20, darnit!