LadyCrimson

Made a post in the Obsidian General forum. If someone would care to "like" it?

This is a short post to test a board feature. ***This is additional text I edited in later. ... so I'd say for me at least, the Like function doesn't affect my ability to edit.

I don't think it would apply to me, since I'm a moderator with editing powah. Maybe in one of the sections where I'm not a mod.

Re: big cats - there's always the famous case of Christian the lion. (I've seen the whole documentary...it's awesome). Think cats can't/don't remember bonds? Yea....no. I've had similar things with housecats too. Gave one away to someone else when I had too many. When I went to visit that person/cat over a year later, the cat instantly recognized me and ran over/head butted me.

MMO....so....no, not me. Altho if there was ever an organized, Obsidian forum MMO-party-day for some game, I might - emphasis on might - join in for a session. Always thought that would be funny.

Really? Has it always been like that I wonder? ...went to bed early and pretty much slept for 10 hours. Today I still feel physically terrible. Gotta keep moving tho, because lying still for too long is just as bad as bending or lifting things can be. Blargh.

Fishing is great for relaxation. It was a nice day, warm but not too warm. Cute cat outside, cute cat inside, I had my bases covered. Now going to finish watching that Defiance episode from SyFy. Maybe. My back and left wrist joint have been killing me the past 2 days, might nap more first.

Assuming he survives his injuries. But yeah....and good luck finding an "impartial" jury. More importantly, hopefully they'll be able to get more info, if there is any - eg did they act alone or what was going on. Anyway, glad it's over and no more loss of life occurred capturing him.

Yeah, this whole incident has me thinking about those kinds of things a lot. On the one hand, social media/connectivity can be used/be useful, on the other hand, more often than not, it just gets in the way and spreads misinformation/panic/hate etc. Not to mention, in some ways, it starts to feel a bit like the world is now a single, mass lynchmob that moves from one sensational thing to another. It was bad enough before social media ... makes me a bit uncomfy. But such is life.

Ah, ok. Guess the "comedians" on Twitter will have to stop making those Slurpee jokes. I've only been checking in now and then, but I'm probably still paying more attention than I might normally. A lot of Red Sox twitter peeps from Boston area in my timeline, freaking out. Just wish it was over.

Just to answer your question .... yes, it is. The timeline supposedly goes something like this: --assumption that suspects went into a panic after FBI released photos of them --they rob a 7-11 near MIT --they encounter MIT police officer and during encounter shoot him --they carjack a Mercedes SUV and later released the driver (or driver managed to escape) --Police search for/follow SUV to Watertown --gunfight in Watertown with 1 suspect wounded, other manages to flee.

"The Evil Within" ....so is this just another action-y mutant zombie game, then? Not survival/horror rpg? Kinda looks that way. Ah well. Not for me.

They've put out their official requests for social media people to stop doing it, actually. Respect it. I realize they probably do have other means of communication but seriously....it's just irresponsible when you don't know the situation. The guy might be able to view twitter but not load the scanner stuff/have a police scanner himself. Point is we don't know. At least don't relate such for 20 minutes or something. PS I think CNN's been doing a lot of delay (a short delay) showing on their video or something, so they can omit potential images etc.

I'm finding that irritating. Not that people are listening (I've been doing that myself off and on) but that they're then blabbing it all over the internet. It's what the law forces use to communicate with each other, reporting their movements/situations. Don't frakking announce/repeat their movements all over the internet in real time for ***** sake. The suspect may still have internet/twitter etc. access too y'know. Same with media news people. Don't endanger any lives please. Sheesh. That all said ... essentially shutting down all of Boston now and I think I heard it's also become a no-fly zone? That's pretty much unheard of (for a manhunt)? I tried to go to sleep but it's so nuts I got back up to listen in again.

If I did that, I'd seriously, really need a much bigger desk arrangement...

It would, so far, appear that the MIT/Watertown chaos would be a chase for the "Boston bombers." Stuff like Boston Police twitter post posting a new pic of one of them. And it's still going on. 1 suspect shot/died later in custody, the other still at large. Complete public transportation shutdown in and out of Watertown. Sounds nuts. Well, hope they get him without any further deaths and such. Boston.com Live blog.

Some huge police/fed firefight at MIT campus a bit earlier. Conflicting reports on police scanners/news about whether it's connected to the Marathon bombings or unrelated. Either way...sheesh. Poor Boston. Not a good week. edit: Guess the chase for one suspect still going on actually.

I tried watching the 1st episode of the game-inspired SyFy show "Defiance." Thought it was an hour but Comcast on-demand has been mislabeling a lot of show lengths recently....by the end of the first hour I was "meh" - maybe I'll try to watch the rest tomorrow. It was starting to get a little better into the 2nd hour but outside of having a lead male actor who knows how to deliver lines with good timing, not impressed. That said, it is marginally better than your typical SyFy original fare.

I think we all know where you'd stand on that, Bok. ...I'm sure I'd like higher res, at least in some ways, I'm just not sure it's worth twice or more as much. I could practically build a whole new (excellent) gaming rig for $900 (if you don't go nuts on the GPU). Not sure why monitors are priced so high relative to what they'll be attached to.

Anyone seeing early screenings of Oblivion? Reviews are pretty mixed, from terrible to so-so to "fairly decent." Hubs seems interested in it (via theater I mean), so I may get dragged to it sometime in the next few weeks. I guess that's fair, since I'll likely "drag" him to Star Trek... I thought he did well in the role too, altho he wasn't particularly charismatic on-screen. And I remember how I thought "Kevin Spacey as Luthor! Perfect!" .... sadly, neither of them could save the film. I still like C. Reeve best, at least in the first and second films, even if they're obviously era-reflective dated at this point. I like to pretend the others don't exist.

That's from the official FBI YouTube, btw. Footage of two guys that they're interested in now I guess. Boston.com article regarding Also: FBI website page with stills and the same video.

Musing: I do really like the size of the 27", and I do like the larger size of stuff on screen because it's 1080 instead of 1440. Assuming a sharp photo to begin with, photography editing doesn't seem to be very affected by 27" @ 1080, just the low quality photos on some websites, which I don't care about. Movies I don't watch while 2 feet away, so don't care there either. At the same time I'm still curious about whether I'd like or even prefer the higher resolution. Argh. But hubby still rolls his eyes whenever he mentions my 590 (he'd never spend more than $150 on a GPU, lol), so I hesitate to run out to spend $700-$900 on a monitor just to check it out. They really don't tend to carry many of the 1440's on the shelf in stores around here, either. I am definitely not mail-ordering to "check out" the bigger resolution if I might just send it back.

The only TV serials I've been watching regularly are The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, The Voice, and recently, The Americans. And BBC Sherlock...but they don't make episodes often. Used to watch House but that's done now, and CSI:Vegas post-Grissom just doesn't quite work for me. I try other shows as they come and go, but not much captures my attention these days for more than 1-3 episodes anymore.

I tend towards the muscular build/it's really easy for me to build muscle, and was into cycling and gymnastics. But I also liked ballroom dancing and a bit of ballet and frankly, even tho I could do the dancing well enough in form, I was too "heavy" (combined with short) to look Grace Kelly graceful while doing it, which annoyed me on a personal level. And my long-distance for anything was always lacking in comparison to shorter or sprinting-sorts of things. I figured it was more a lack of the long-distance training in my case but yeah...I'd imagine the physique has the effect too.

The game I wanted, Planet Explorers, just became Greenlighted, so I am happy. Knock Knock looks like an interesting game tho.