LadyCrimson

I tend to like visual consistency. That is, if there are super-duper sized 1H swords, there better be super-duper sized magic staffs, bigger 2H swords, and even daggers should be ridiculously large. If you're going for a certain type of look in your game, it should be similar through either the whole game or the area of the game where such things occur. But that doesn't mean I care much about visual reality. Rainbow hued flowers and fluorescent purple horses and dogs? Not my personal thing, but whatever. A gun chamber and reloading animation doesn't match reality enough? Don't care, as long as within the game the mechanics of reloading (across the board for all gear) feels fair and works well for the way combat is designed. I mean, it's cool when a game bases its stuff in reality that you can point to, but it's not something I particularly look/wish for ... unless the game is an actual simulator of something, perhaps (Subway Train Simulator #29!). And I definitely don't want/care about truly realistic weight/hunger/thirst/everyone's-gotta-poo type reality in games.

Just thought of something. Would Disney be willing to release a Blu-Ray of the original unaltered original Star Wars trilogy? Or does that control still remain with Lucas.

What Paramount did with Star Trek felt similar, to me, too. I don't mean only the reboot movie, either. Just the concept that they ran that franchise into the ground to a point where even a lot of fans stopped caring. But that's often the nature of film/TV. Occasionally, years later, things align and something great comes out of the pile again. But not often, imo.

I like Jason Bateman, so I tried watching the start of AR once. It was kinda cute, but there seems to be a type of media humor/style that I don't "get" anymore, these days. It's not that I think they're bad shows, but they don't make me laugh, either. :/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/30/disney-star-wars-lucasfilm/1669739/ Oh for heaven's sake. Let it go already. Not that I don't understand. Money to be made and all. But I'm going to remain huddled in my corner pretending only the first three movies exist. ...it is interesting about Lucas letting go of the reins, however. Reminds me of Roddenberry doing similar with ST:TNG. Creative consultant. Hm.

Oh, no, it's not out yet. Apologies. That must have been a typo on my part. Either that or I was thinking "the 3rd episode of ..." and the brain to finger/typing translation process became garbled.

Well, from my memory of Overlord, I found that type of system kinda boring. The progression was ok, but I still prefer "decorating" a house on my own. For instance, how I spent hours arranging tiny dino's and Nuka-Cola's in the Novac hotel room in FNV. That said, I'm not sure what the limits will be for P.E. in terms of movable/placeable objects. So having a progression-reward system might be ok. I probably wouldn't take advantage of it much myself, tho. Don't really care about curtains and rugs and paintings...mostly I'm into displaying collections of stuff I've found, like having a weapon rack.

Cat, meet wall heater. (they sit by it even when not "on" because the pilot light still gives off some heat...) ...I got in the car today to do a CostCo run and was pleased that one, I'm right-handed, and two, the US has the stick shift on the right hand side. Else I probably wouldn't be driving anywhere.

Saw the 1959 "Hound of the Baskervilles" film the other day. One of those films I saw ages ago but barely remembered. I often have difficulty with older movies because of the very different style of pacing/acting, but it was ok. Peter Cushing did fine as Sherlock and I did like Christopher Lee as Sir Henry.

Heh. That's why I can't put it in my Top Ten. I do love Firefly, but I don't like putting series with only one season in the top, because it's just not quite long enough for me to feel like I can do that. Needs at least a couple seasons, preferably 3. For all I know, a 2nd season of Firefly would have been horrible and watered down the impact considerably. If BBC's Sherlock's 3rd season stays consistent with the previous two, it will probably end up on my Top Ten. Just not quite sure if I want to put it there yet.

I'm not fond of easy, constant ability to respec, but I don't have any serious issue with it being available in some form. My main issue with respec is - if you use it - it does tend to lessen the desire to replay a game/build and try new characters if you can just respec your current one to check out all the options. You could do something like be able to respec only a couple times, maybe at certain points in the game (like a quest reward?) or something like that. That way people still have to be somewhat careful about their choices during a playthrough, but can feel safe in terms of not having an early "mistake" make them feel like they have to start over.

That's because whatever killed them didn't completely ruin the biosphere to an unrecoverable point where such life as we're familiar with couldn't develop. I'd agree that it's unlikely human-caused global warming would reach a point of creating a whole new biosphere incapable of supporting cellular/biological life so far as we know it - we're far more likely to become extinct first, and then over a lot of time the biosphere would recover again, new life would create, new life would become dominant, and so on. But it's possible that greenhouse effect run amuck could turn Earth into something closer to Venus. Which as far as I know, is a pretty unlikely place for life (again, as we know of it) to develop. Could have weird alien ilfe tho, who knows.

Finally tried the Mech class in BL2. The robot is cool I guess. Seems more effective than the turret in some ways. But every character just feels too much the same, especially in the beginning. In terms of the way the class feels during actual gunplay (vs. using their special skill), I feel like I'm playing the same character, only with a turret, or a phaselock, or a robot helper, etc. Like playing an ice mage vs. a cold mage vs. a fire mage. Different, but the same. Maybe that seems weird but...eh. Had enough of BL2. Is P.E. out yet?

The planet may be here. Whether it'll be capable of sustaining what we call life (and I don't mean just human life) is another question .... and as far as I can tell, that's usually what they're talking about. Not whether the planet will still be a floating rock in space circling around a star. I'm still not entirely convinced that the global warming, to the extent it's going, is completely something humanity can control, however. By that I mean, I think we have increased its rate, but I'm not as sure whether it wouldn't be happening to some degree regardless ... that is, it might be some "natural" planetary cycle...we're just making it worse/happen faster. If that makes sense.

If it's not a working, Star Trek-like Holodeck....it's still useless to me.

And over population. And I don't mean whether we can technically feed/house every person or not ... just seems to me that billions isn't exactly an ideal balance of humanity for this planet's current ecosystems/biosphere, especially when combined with our current tech.

Ah....hm. These are always tough, since while I still love a lot of the shows I grew up with, they may not exactly fall on a "favorites" listing anymore. Top of my head, no order, maybe... --Star Trek:OS ... it's Kirk, man. And Spock. That is all. --Breaking Bad ... Cranston is the awesome --CSI:Vegas ... the Grissom years, especially seasons 1-5. --Family Ties ... Alex P. Keaton is legendary. Michael Gross as Mr. Keaton was great too. --Nip/Tuck (first few seasons) ... it may be soap opera, but it was dark and twisted soap opera. --Married with Children ... Ed O' Neil is the awesome. --Twilight Zone ... still the best for this type of series.

Not today, but last night ... I was doing housework and my left wrist joint (the "outer" side) popped. Had to massage it back into place. Kinda like what happened with my thumb/index/middle fingers on both hands a few years ago. I can't do even mild stuff with the hand - like pulling sheets making a bed, picking stuff up - without it constantly popping again, but when it's still, it's fine (not swollen/painful when not in stress-motion). Fun. If it's anything like the fingers, it'll be pretty bad for a few/several months of not stressing it, then heal up to a point where it's generally fine, only slightly stiffer with a bit of nerve numbness. At least I can still type.

This probably isn't exactly what the OP was asking about, but I could do without the villain performing the "evil laugh". Y'know, the "You've fallen into my trap, I'm going to destroy the world, HahaMwahaha" thing....which is then sometimes accompanied by the "I could kill you directly but instead I'm going to leave the room while my over-elaborate method of execution gives you a chance to escape." I mean, it can be funny/appropriate sometimes, but .... I could do without it.

I have no clue on the technical possibilities, but I do like being able to smash some objects in the name of hunting for treasure, or quest objectives. It's fun. But too much destruction or item manipulation in a game can just get in the way/be annoying. Example: in the old top-down view game Nox, every freakin' chair, table, thing in a room could be moved by pushing on it with your character. In theory this was kinda cool, but in effect what often happened was your character would get stuck on constant moving objects as you tried to fight or make your way through narrow rooms/corridors/tunnels. I don't want to have to push past/destroy every meaningless object in a room just to get by. But, of course, at least some crates must be smashable. It's just not a real game without some breakable crates.

Going to try to finish this blasted 2nd playthru of BL2 with hubby today, before the baseball game comes on. Btw, does Bonehead2 show up every time? We never saw him in PT1...maybe he shows up only in PT2? Random? We just missed him?

I'm hoping that Steam's desire to start supporting Linux will mean I won't feel as constrained re: gaming in the future/before Win7 isn't viable anymore. At least for the newer games. I'll always have some old rig set up with XP or Win7 to play older games, for as long as I can maintain a machine that will run those older O/S. I know you can play some games on Linux now, but it's still not where I'd want it to be. Someone elsewhere posted this Tom's Hardware assessment of gaming performance of Win7 vs. Win8, in case anyone hasn't seen it yet/is interested in that aspect. Doesn't appear to be any real difference. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-8-gaming-performance,3331.html

The Giant's only need to win one more game. Crossing my fingers! Also...occasionally I ignore the allergies, because there's nothing like a warm kitty on a cool morning.

Thread pruned. I'm a little tired of the repetitive picture spam, especially when they're potentially mocking other members. If you're bored of a topic and have nothing constructive to contribute, you are always free to ignore the thread a while. Just a thought.

Snacks/drinks in hand, check. A few people to hang out with, check. Baseball cap ready. Check. Journey's Don't Stop Believin' ready to play at a moment's notice. Check. I'm off for some World Series party-time.