LadyCrimson

I like solitary sorts, altho this doesn't mean they have to be belligerent or actual idiots when it comes to social conventions. They just prefer not to partake of them when possible. I like tragic characters, whether complex or simple. Probably because they're the stereotype to make me give a hoot about what happens to them. eg, I'm a sucker for such. It's nice if they also have a sarcastic sense of humor to go along with it. Most other stereotyped personalities don't affect me emotionally, hence I treat them like red-shirts. Especially if they're too happy-go-lucky. I usually want to strangle those chr. types.

It was nice that the Red Sox beat the Yankees a couple times, but today's game was a stinker. Not the least of which was Lackey seeming to injure his arm. Never been a Lackey fan, but that wasn't nice to watch. Poor guy. He just got back from that Tommy John surgery and was pitching well today. Hope it's not serious.

If you ignore the S and I in #7's name, it's ROCKY. *cue movie theme music*

Puny animals.

Good taste in authors. Maybe at some point we could use another community photo thread or something. I kinda miss those. And right now, giving up on the baseball game and I'm about to make some lunch for myself and my cats, then play video games for a few hours. Hubs should be home by then...maybe we can see a movie.

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Getting long in the tooth, time for a new one...

I like companions. Must...reach....800k..... Despite the tax month loose-funds crunch, I might yet find a little more spare change in my pocket for this one, before the end of its run.

@Rosbjerg - I like the moody and striped shadows from the blinds. And your vest. You get more handsome all the time. Sadly, the pic is too small/far away for me to spy on what you have on your bookshelves.

Still bouncing back and forth between Planet Explorers alpha and Path of Exile public beta for an hour or two here or there when I can stay awake, haha. I still, for some reason, find PoE's combat mechanics kind of awkward. I'm starting to think it's just me and my klutzy fingers.

Wow cannot stay awake. Fell asleep at 9 last night, woke up at 5am, now I'm already snoring in my chair. Must be hormones. Or not enough diet Mt. Dew. Either way, think I'll go back to bed - got a few hours+ before the Red Sox game.

To be fair, I doubt they were expecting very many players to be playing at 4000-5000 resolution. Yeah, yeah...if you can/like to play at such resolutions, it feels lazy for companies not to design for it, but...oh well. I still have to play Dungeon Keeper at 640x480 or whatever, so boohoo. ...and that game looks nice in huge-size HD, regardless.

Watching a lot of Siskel & Ebert reviews from "At the Movies" via YouTube, which is a great memory trip. From the blurry, scratchy vids, I deduce they were from people's home VHS collections. Why is this show not for sale on DVD yet? At least, I haven't been able to find it. I'd buy them all, at least until Siskel's last episode.

Yeah, that's the one. I guess they're still around, then, in some areas, just not most of the ones I grew up with, except for the one in Menlo Park. I didn't realize that one was still there, I might have to check it out sometime. Oddly, that one isn't the one I used to frequent a lot, even tho I grew up in MP, heh. They could vary between locations, like you mentioned with DQ. Not all of them would have the fried artichokes, for example. Dang....now I want a burger and soft cone. And the trans fat issue...I think that is part of the flavor change. Don't know if it's the fat itself or because the base product used to make no trans fat oil are different, imparting a different taste to the oil. I'd guess more the latter.

Planet Explorer's 5th update details their plans for how a player can build settlements. It's fairly interesting, imo. After more time spent with their current alpha, I think it's a mistake to dismiss or call this game a "Minecraft with better graphics." The thing is, the focus really isn't on the digging. Interacting with/altering the environment (flattening terrain to build farms or settlements, gathering resources) is a part of it, sure, but you don't have to actually do tons of "digging" if you don't want to, outside of minimum resources to build whatever you need/want. Or, you can spend all your time digging to the exclusion of all else. Freedom. I don't know....it's really hard to explain the appeal of this game, even in it's rough stage. And of course it won't appeal to everyone. Plus it's still rough, especially the story aspect and NPC's (you can hire companions, btw). Still, I absolutely love it. If it wasn't US tax time I'd bump up my pledge to almost as high as I did for P.E. P.S. even if one doesn't want to pledge, maybe one could go to Steam and Greenlight it? :D P.P.S they're hoping to get a Mac version of the current alpha out before the KS is over.

*watches video/s* This game seems more and more awesome all the time. Love the sheepie too, nice work LordCrash/all.

Every once in a while (a very great while) I get a hankering for a little KFC chicken. The last few times I went, it became steadily worse. There was actually a time (back in the late 70's) when KFC's fried chicken wasn't terrible. Not saying it was great or like homemade, but it wasn't bad. It's truly bad now. Whatever they use to fry it in these days tastes terrible...stale almost. And the pieces are so small compared to what they used to be. What are they using, some kind of mini-chicken? Same thing with the A&W fast food joints. They used be relatively good and my family would go there on Sundays to get burgers and jugs of root beer. Then they went downhill and disappeared from my area altogether. And I miss Foster's ... they had some good burgers...and fried artichoke hearts. Yum. All gone now....Dairy Queen is not the same, bleh.

WHAT? I knew he's been staying in the hospital for a while, something about a fracture (others have been writing the reviews), but I didn't realize it was that serious. *looks at his journal site* ... ah hadn't read that entry. Fracture turned out to be cancer. Man that sucks. And he sounded so hopeful/planning for the future, still, in that entry. May he and Siskel be thumb wrestling together, somewhere.

Once, in Borderlands 2, one of those loot-chest-on-the-back goons appeared inside a tiny building as I entered. I backed up and ended up killing him so his corpse fell in front of the door. The problem was, the quest required me to grab something from inside that building and now I had a corpse blocking the small doorway. I couldn't go around. I couldn't jump over. I couldn't crouch and go under. I had to either leave the area (marching all the way back to the point on the map where I could do so), or exit the game/restart, or stand around picking my nose waiting for the corpse to disappear on its own (maybe 15 minutes). Now, BL2 doesn't have "realistic" corpse physics or anything, but regardless, that was really really annoying and I do not want. If you are to have "realistic physics" with corpses, the game must not create such scenarios/must account for all possible playstyles/actions/terrain to prevent such things from occurring. Is it silly to be able to walk through corpses? Yes. Is it weird if corpses disappear after 60 seconds or the instant you loot them or something? Yes. Is it nice to have more realism re: corpses or anything else where possible? Yes. Is it fun if those mechanics interfere with you being able to do a quest or making you wait? No. In short, I agree with Lephy's.

I think another reason is that their KS isn't so much to propose/create the game, but to expand/enlarge the game they're already making. The game is already largely in process/made, right? The KS is to raise funds to improve and expand it. I've tended to observe that such KS don't tend to raise the "millions" because folks are less willing to give millions to expand something that could/will be released regardless. Not saying it doesn't/couldn't happen, just it makes it less likely, imo. So I'll be quite happy if they just reach a couple hundred thousand above their official goal.

Well, at least with Steam, if you uninstall something like that, Steam will just install it again for you. Anyway, I did install the SP1/newer versions, and they did install as separate items vs. the old, so it does seem that they don't supersede each other. Which is good to know. ... didn't help my game issue, however. Ah well. I'll just play in a lower resolution/windowed till they optimize the game better.

I haven't played enough since a lot of major changes to really know much about it. Classes seem mostly about the passive attribute tree and what you decide to focus on there, which is huge and oft. confusing. Currently each class starts at a different point in the "tree," making reaching/increasing certain things easier or harder. eg, making a melee mage is still possible, but more difficult than it used to be. (there's also the gem-skill system, which is flexible) So each class does have a starting focus (Witch=mage etc), but it doesn't mean you can't veer away from it if you really want. Item requirements are based on the primary attributes ... so if you want to be able to wield a giant 2H mace, you're probably going to need to focus a lot on STR, so a Witch wouldn't be a good one for that goal. That sort of thing. I think the Ranger is the general bow, but the Duelist could do that as well since he can easily get a lot of DEX. Witch and Duelist were my two faces early on.

Hm. Interesting point. Maybe the issue with the game is that I don't have a 64 one. They aren't clear whether that's necessary, altho they do say the O/S should be 64 to run the alpha, at the moment. edit: the alpha explanation seems to be this: "OpenCL runs on the GPU which makes it not the same as other games. OpenCL is an enhanced version of C extended with attributes to permit parallel processing, which is something CPU are very bad at but GPU are very good at. The task at hand does not have to be gfx, it just needs to be vectorized kernel." So heavy GPU load expected, just not quite this much.

Sad for the job losses, but otherwise doesn't really affect me much. And yeah...not very surprising.

Oh, no....none of the things you can buy with the "points" have anything to do with gameplay itself. They're completely optional, and most of the things so far (imo) are pretty stupid, really. I'd have no desire to have them. Non-combat pets, character dance animation moves, alternate graphic spell effects (your fireball would look more snazzy or whatever), that sort of thing. What I would call vanity/show-off options. The town stash space is about the only thing I'd say one might want to enjoy the game, and $30 (or maybe it was $35) would get you those 16 pages I ended up with. Of course, if one really likes "vanity" options in games, that might be an issue...but not needed to play/enjoy the game itself. You're not missing anything. That's been their intention/plan all along...it's not about buying better gear or anything like that.