LadyCrimson

This again? Wasn't there one or more topics on this before, in the last year? Is it dead? imo, no. Is it different than it was 15 years ago? Yes. Do I care if PC gaming ends up being a category where most of them aren't "AAA" with all the graphic bells and whistles, marketing budget, or whatever, and don't sell 1,000,000 units? No.

Steel wool to clean a shower? Must be hard tile? Don't think I'd use that on white porcelain. Do you have hard water? Limeaway works well. About to eat some lunch then lie down and watch the rest of Netflix's House of Cards series. I started it a while back and never actually quite finished it. Had to read some episode recaps to remember the gist, now I'm ready.

There's always the Foundry.

Cillian Murphy.

60, I believe. And yeah, leveling is fast, at least if you do all the quests.

My main has gained two levels (35 to 37) from Leadership alone this week. Haha!

I've thought about Star Trek online, but from the look and sound of it, it's not really what I'd want a ST game to be. Plus I really, really don't need to get caught up into another of Perfect World's cluster of "F2P" games. One at a time, one at a time. ...and I'd be playing NWO if they weren't doing daily maintenance. They're supposed to do that at 6am, not midnight. I protest! *giggle* Maybe I'll fire up Planet Explorers and do some cavern tunneling while I'm waiting.

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.