LadyCrimson

Hubby and a camera are like oil and water. He doesn't have the eye. He'd probably get a picture of the top of my head or something by mistake, too. I'll get some more pics of my cats someday ... easier in summer when there's more light in the house for longer. Gamed with hubs a bit this evening, then watched some Dual Survival episodes. Don't like the new guy Joe as much as the original dude - the chemistry between the two men isn't the same.

That Tombraider trailer is terrible. Altho, this is largely because they put real people into it. If it had been just the game footage with voice-over and dramatic music, it would have just been cheesy instead of terrible.

Cause it's hard to hold a large, heavy-ish DSLR in one hand (not my good hand, either), over your head, pointing downwards (can't look thru viewfinder) to get a reliable angled shot. And of course as soon as I tried, kitty would probably move. Tho I could just use the mini-vid cam and grab semi-fuzzy stills I suppose. ....suffering a lot of allergies today. Marching around stores and offices sniffling, itchy red eyed and blotchy faced. Blargh. *blows nose*

Well, it's certainly an improvement over seeing angles and corners in hair. But yeah...I'd like to see it in motion. It looks pretty nice tho.

It's a conspiracy!

Yeah, the film was terrible in terms of the book. At this point in my life I mostly like it for lulz. Including Patrick Stewart's tiny role. "You young pup! You young pup!" It's too bad, because at the time I remember thinking Prochnaw would be a great Leto. But even today I still can't really see how one could do a film based on the book and have it seem any good. There are too many things in the book that I don't think translate to visual medium without seeming either too confusing or too corny. eg, I didn't like the "folding space" sequence in any version.

Since I've had a computer out in the living area, black kitty likes to stand up against deskchair, putting one paw on my shoulder while propping his chin in the crook of my elbow or against upper arm to give me the cutesy big-eyed stare. He'll stand in that position for long minutes, occasionally taking paw off shoulder to try to pat my face. I wish I could get a picture, it's soooo adorable. Grey kitty loves to be petted and chases sticks but he's not cuddly or cutesy demanding. He's more the quietly sits next to you on the patio while you're meditating, sort. Which is awesome on a sunny day when I'm sitting outside. I know I probably say it too much but I love owning cats. They make me so happy.

For myself, I'd vote sleep, but that's because I already have a live-in spouse who knows it's best not to wake me out of a sound sleep for anything less than a fire, unless he likes being hit in the face with a flailing arm while being crankily cussed out. ...but if that wasn't the case, and I wasn't so tired that I might actually face-plant into a plate of food or something, I'd probably go for the company.

I like this too. Not just for the merchant aspect but also because it's one of those little things that makes night/day cycles actually mean something besides pretty graphic/lighting. There's stealth, if a game utilizes the dark for better chances or whatever, but I like more cyclic differences than that. Limited or unlimited merchant gold - depends how it's done. I do tend to like to be able to just go to a merchant, sell everything I want to sell and go back out again, but limited gold is ok if the game isn't based on finding 1000000000 items every 10 feet, or if most things don't sell for a lot to begin with so you probably aren't going to pick up a lot of items etc. Just depends. It does feel annoying, however, if item values are shown to be high but no one anywhere has enough currency to actually buy it from you...simply because it's not logical. If something is cash-valued so highly, in my mind it means someone would want to buy it. Otherwise it would have no monetary value.

Which Dune? The movie or that mini-series? The mini-series was slightly better than the film but the film had Sting in green plastic undies, so it's kind of a toss up.

Hahaha That's some kind of scraggly-growing Japanese maple. I might leave that there, since I think they're kinda expensive. Tho it'd be nice if I could transplant it elsewhere.

Further: The scraggly rosebushes in far left top pic gotta go, and the random "wild" bushes/seedlings in the dirt areas between lawn and fence gotta go (it's a lot more overgrown/full of tree branches/crap now than in the pics, btw). But I'm a little stumped what to do about those fence-dirt areas when I have to rake up stuff like this every few days in fall/winter (or can take it when I ignore the leaves for too long...)...those ugly plants lining the driveway gotta go, too.

It's a multitude of them actually, that'll probably take me all Spring to get around to doing. ....essentially, I'm not a suburbian yard-upkeep person (neither is hubby, outside of mowing the lawns) and I want a yard that doesn't require very much of it. Which is difficult because the 3 big backyard trees and dozens of neighborhood streetside maples and all their leaves + afternoon winds, which severely limits choices because you have to be able to rake the leaves away (so stuff like tanbark/small pebble groundcover doesn't work). edit: this weekend it'll be a lot of ugly bush/palm and rose bush uprooting. There's these dirt sections between cement patio and lawn and I hate these things:

Hey AGX, since you seem to know a lot of meta-data about the game ... does the Warrior have any chance at all (I know it'd be a very miniscule chance) to drop any other Legendary items besides Volcano, Conference Call, Impaler shield, that other shotgun, and the grenade mod? Or are those the only ones in his item list potential? I read the wiki re: legendaries and it'll say "this is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source but [ enemy name ] has a higher chance to drop it," but it isn't clear on what "suitable loot source" means. Any enemy, or just chests, or both, or what.

That angry cat pic always makes me laugh, even tho I've seen it constantly already. Still playing Borderlands 2 with hubby. Mostly on weekends. Rest of the time I'm still playing nada, game-wise. I'll look at my list of Steam or other games that I could finally check out more in-depth or whatever, but then I'll close the list, get out of the deskchair, and play with a cat instead.

That's why I use DuckDuckGo for some things ... no pictures in the results etc. ... ... But yes, Calax, doctor sounds advisable. Hope it's just one of the minor external things like a friction fissure. ....and today I'm headed to the hardware store to buy some stuff for a yard project I want to do this weekend.

Yeah, I'm not expecting much from them. It'll mostly be a matter of watching to see how Farrell does, as well as any/all other rebuilding moves. On the other hand, I believe they're going to be playing the Giants this year, on my home turf. Which if I can get away/get tickets to see it in the stadium, would be awesome. ....I don't analyze teams/stats much, just watch the Sox regularly and a few other teams semi-regularly/occasionally and cheer....if they do well, I'll watch the playoffs etc. I tried once to watch more ballgames than that and keep up with all the good players but meh....that's too much time. Heh.

As others have said, some games (more all the time seems like, altho that trend may not last, who knows) require Steamworks. You can often still buy a physical disc of the game, but on the box it'll say somewhere "Steamworks account required" or whatever. Thus you have a disc, but must still create a Steam account, download Steam and install it/have it running in order to authenticate and play the game. No Steam, no play.

@Gorth - They look really nice - can imagine how awesome it'd be to play a game on those. And I know what you mean ... the bigger you go, the more you 'can't live without it' after a while. It's the same with TV's (50" TV seems tiny, I'd really like a 60" plasma now...). @Spider - good to know, thanks. Think I'll go back to Fry's and see about that Asus monitor then.

Cheapie me was just looking at the Asus PB278Q, which as I understand is their version of IPS (they call it PLS?). Mostly because it's $700 instead of $1000+ and Fry's carries it (I still don't like online ordering...). Sigh. I have such a hard time making decisions sometimes.

Yup, a 590. It's not the GPU I was thinking about, it's the CPU. Still the 1st-gen i7-920. That enough? I have no clue how that relates to the new CPU's these days. I don't care too much about AA or having 100+ fps in games (60ish is fine), but I like everything else as high as possible. If I bought one, the smaller 1080 monitor would be hooked up to the 2nd XP computer, so I wouldn't have to deal with a switchbox as much and view from both PC's at once.

I saw that the other day. I'd definitely love to have one, "just because," (not like I need it) but I'm not buying a card priced like that again for a long time. Heh. ....but it does make me drool.

Finally may be in the processing period of refinancing our home loan, which will likely = about $1000 a month savings. What a pain in the arse. But it's a good thing, so I guess it's worth the hassle. Probably spend most of the day LAN gaming with the spouse. Not quite warm enough outside yet to motivate to do much else.

I have gotten used to the way 1080 looks on my 23" monitor. eg, playing games on this 1600x1200 monitor that's about the same physical size as mine, has been less than exciting. It's not that it looks terrible/very blurry - it looks fine really - it just doesn't look ... as good. Less HD, less refined, if you will. Seems weird it would make any difference to my eyes, but it does. And I don't tend to like the 16:10 ratio, I've discovered. I didn't want to up the resolution yet because I'm not sure I want to deal with the extra computing/GPU power that might pull while gaming. I don't think I'd have an issue with it, but I'd rather not feel a need to upgrade stuff just to support the bigger resolution. Price...budget isn't a biggie, I'm just cheap.