LadyCrimson

No Man's Sky - just checking out performance. FPS number seems higher/I could turn more things up to High/Ultra again, even on native/no DLSS, but there seems to be more general micro stutter. Not constant, but little jerks here and there. Didn't try to "fix" it/find out if I could. It's not terrible but not as smooth as before. There seems to be more clarity/crispness to the graphics of two planets I looked at. Swimming underwater looks nicer too. Problem with this games is after many many months away, you're not sure you want to play an old save where you have no clue what you were up to. But the main quest/post-quests are pfft/don't care to repeat, so you don't want to start a new chr again (30+ hrs) if you have to have those finished to activate the Worlds 2 new systems/planets (post-game quest to be able to get the new hyperdrive that lets you get to purple systems). I only finished the MQ with a single chr/save, none of my other chrs ever bothered. I think the save editor might be able to mark them as finished/give the inventory item needed ... maybe I'll do that when they update it, see if I can get the new quest to trigger that way.

Wait, wtf. Hm. Well the band does great, but as much as I love Rick, I thought he was only "ok". But as a tribute it works. Love the mike twirling at 3:18. This somehow led me to a Justin Hawkins interview with Rick, which was one of the better long interviews I've seen. Two people talking their trade like old buddies. I didn't even FFWD. Which then led me to "who is Justin Hawkins, apparently he's famous" and some early vids/songs of the band The Darkness. Which was fine, just not my kind of music etc. Which led me to a more recent The Darkness song, which I liked somewhat better, but mostly because at 1:38, ok, that was fire. Both vocally and the wind machine hair. >.> Edit: oh, the final moments at end of the below video is maybe NSFW. Nothing bad in this day/age, but just saying.

Have I posted this before, can't recall. I still find it funny tho, and revisit it occasionally. He's apparently taking a bit of a break (at least social media) after his last album. Funny how I remember (and liked) his 80's hits playing constantly on MTV etc - but it's his more current "adult" stuff (and his knowledge and humorous attitude) that I admire/respect and will remember him for. Edit: anyone who warms up before a concert with Frank Sinatra tunes is ok in my book.

--larger "gas giant" planets (just larger planets, not real-life physics gas planets...), deeper oceans, new purple galaxy systems, new quest, new lighting and terrain. --would assume one will still have to spend time randomly finding planets with said new features --I think a lot of stuff is gated behind having finished both the Main Story and the post-game Autophage questline. eg, can't start a new chr. and see/visit everything quickly --not ready to deep-dive into NMS again but I guess I shall update and see how many more notches I have to lower the graphic settings this time.

"I should at least rush-finish Indiana game just so I can uninstall it." "I should play more of that Little Kitty, Big City for cute funsies." "I should try a serious run of the new Manor Lords maps." "I should turn on The Last Campfire, which I bought recently because it looked like a nice little puzzle/adventure from Hello Games." ........ *turns on 7 Days, dig more tunnels and build more bases in every biome* I am a creature of unending habit, apparently.

I feel like all high-end stuff now - by the time I might be able to get hands such, without having to camp over night or spend days with mouse pointer hovered over "buy" in the hope you can click faster than anyone else, or drive 700 miles to the nearest MicroCenter, the next version is on its way soon. Repeat.

I watched a couple episodes of Paramount+ Landman, because Billy Bob Thornton. My impression was it's a slower/deliberate big oil business/legal drama where Billy's the only reason I'd care to watch it. His brand of cranky sarcasm/humor and such. The chrs. of his daughter and ex-wife were aggravating/could be excised, too much focus given to them. Hubby watched all of season 1 and when I asked he shrugged and basically said the "Billy Bob makes it watchable" refrain. I did observe him using FFWD a fair bit tho (while walking up and down the hallway past the living room occasionally). Edit: don't think he cared for the ex-wife/daughter scenes either haha.

---actual mod kit tied to Epic Games >.> I'm not clear if mods only appear in a CurseForge attached menu while actually in-game or if you can download mods from website pages (or Steam workshop re: Steam), also. ---not clear if mods you make are you-usable without uploading them to CurseForge/whatever first, or if that's only if you want to share them ---only thing that might interest me is other's dungeon/level/gameplay mods, if anyone makes any worth trying. Don't care about costumes/skins or making your broom or flying mount look like a cat. ---I guess it's something tho.

Also, on a lighter note - it's not an actual song/music, but it did make me smile.

Yup.

A little more investigation (and now hubby's awake) makes it appear that the double pole is actually the main breaker, something you'd flip to turn everything off at once? *small brain, lost* And yeah I plan on checking the breakers one by one and relabel anything that's not accurate but it's difficult to find a time where I can get hubby to power off his workstations in his office room etc. Just want info re: bedrooms. Hubby's stuff isn't too power hungry I think, no beefy rigs. He does run a space heater in winter (I open his door and it's a blast of 82F air, blargh) but it's fine since I don't run the A/C then, we're opposite poles, heh. So it's just heater in winter, A/C in summer, computers, tv's/monitors mostly. We rarely even have the lights on, monitors cast enough light.

@PK htiw klaw eriF Thanks. I spent an hour net searching and as usual now mostly got useless and/or unrelated "how 2 pole breakers work/why people use them" essays (remember when net searching felt more useful?). I think I got more stat info looking at Amazon product pages listing stats on products, haha Of course like any house you buy into, never know about the accuracy of the panels or the labeling past people have done so more detective work required. Ideally I'd wish for two of our bedrooms to be on separate breakers/circuits - or even more ideally, redo all the electrical/new circuit panel many more wall outlets entirely etc - but that would be an expensive labor/and possibly permit job. I wouldn't be too concerned except I do run that window A/C in summer which is ... a fair amount of wattage. >.>

More AAA hardware "lifting" - another "RT required". I'd wild guess it'll be kind like Indy tho, where you could turn a few certain settings down/low and it'd at least run ok on 8gb vram without full pathtracing bling on. I also saw the FF7-Rebirth requires RTX gpu, not because of RT specifically but because DX12-Ultimate (something about shader AI version maybe), which GTX can't/doesn't support. I don't care about either of these games, but yeah - here comes the generation of "upgrade your rig you peons" game releases. Even beyond GPU nonsense, my next rig is definitely going to have 128 (system) RAM in it.

I have a question: if your circuit panel has a 2-pole/double circuit breaker and the label on it says "125" (no A, just the number), does it mean 125 amp? And if it's supposed to be amp, how to know/calculate how much wattage anything connected to it might trip it (because of the 2-pole thing)? Context: I was thinking about power requirements on highend/gaming PC's growing and growing and checked our circuit breaker panel. Supposedly they are all 20 and 40 amp breakers (there are two 15amp connected to the roof circulation fans I think). But the one for garage + bedrooms is on that double-pole. Stuff like dryer/washer/oven blah blah are all on single breakers separate from the double-pole (supposedly). I'd guess "garage" might include the garage door + basic lights and wanting power tools/shop lights a DIY home and auto type would use, with bedrooms on the same breaker for some reason. I don't know for sure tho, just guessing there. Anyway just trying to figure out what the bedrooms circuit capability might be etc.

I know the first four. I vaguely maybe recognize titles of half a dozen others. That's it. Looking a few random titles up, nothing I'd want to play or care about non-drm self-collecting. And ofc I'm not trying to speak ill of GoG - no one actually expects Square or Activision/Blizzard etc. to put their games there, after all, and if someone loves all the games GoG offers/wants little else beyond those, more power to them - but unfortunately GoG in the long run hasn't been a place for me. I find Caesar 3 being on that list rather odd, considering I bought C3 from GoG in 2011. It's supposedly the 13th game (out of 56) that I purchased from them. I'd guess the "launch" in 2024 is some slightly updated version but looking at their store page for it, it doesn't look any different - not an HDD edition, no new soundtrack or anything, etc. Probably just some O/S patch. Wonder what their criteria for "launch" is. The last game I purchased from GoG was The Outer Worlds, over 4 years ago.

20-50% 4k rasterization vs. 4090 (depends greatly on title, ofc). GPU thermals decent (72ish C). Memory thermals higher than they'd like to see (near 90 c) Even at the price the performance increase I'd get might be worth it because of where I'd be upgrading from (2080ti), but I'd still like to wait one more. Maybe a 6080 will come with 24 vram and I won't feel like I "need" a xx90. I can dream.

I've been pondering if I'd prefer a Presidential term of 6 years (vs. 4) but you can only do it once. I'm still of the opinion that short terms = difficulty in the US (or anywhere with short terms) of ever getting anything done because every President half-undoes what the one before did, if only because things took most of a term to even get off the ground in the first place. So what's the point, in a way. But of course, too long a term = a problem too. Edit: in the long run, changes are made, but this is often more a result of shifting general national and maybe world attitudes that the politicians are trying to follow to keep favor. At least in my uneducated bimbo opinion. Also, Trump seems to forget there are checks and balances in our system and that our President doesn't have dictator powers. He can't just wave hands and say "Trump's will be done." Most of his blathering about what he's going to do is largely to keep his followers following, eg, amped up in the "gogo Trump is for the USA-first" emotional mindstate. Like he thinks he's a football rally making a speech. Or something.

I have a weird relationship with GoG. After buying all the old 90's/2000-2008 titles re: O/S compatibility (loved GoG for that purpose), I barely use them. I still like them in theory etc but it's so rare for them to carry a post-2010 game where I'd REALLY want a not-tied to a launcher/drm .exe, for, that I often forget to even look at GoG first anymore. Like, they never got/added even Stray, alas. If GoG ever got a drm/launcher-free of FFXV, or Diablo 2, or even 7 Days to Die (req. secure MP server authentication, so extremely unlikely unless they chose to release a SP-only capable version), I'd buy them all again. But they won't. At least not before I'm retirement-home-infirm/dead.

I love Worth a Buy, but he needs a program where the fps counter numbers are a lot larger. And maybe colored orange. >.> Anyway, always tweak manually vs. using those Low/Med/High/Ultra preset buttons - there's almost always some combo of things - some things Low, some things Ultra, some things Med/High, personal graphic preferences/tolerances etc - that make it work while still looking nice. From their spec sheet it doesn't seem like it'd be all that hard to find something that works well enough as long as you're not on truly ancient "gaming" hardware and aren't a mega-fps/ultra fanatic.

Coldest weather I was in was around 18-20F in Lake Tahoe and back then I thought nothing of it/ran around that town without a jacket. These days I may whinge at 33F-38F breezing on my skin (here, only late night/very early morning, sometimes). But I am still walking around the pool in nothing but my long-T cotton nightshirt. Laziness re: taking clothing on/off constantly still trumps (short term) mild discomfort. Obviously I wouldn't want to be wearing that if marching in some open tundra for hours/days. >.> Hubby said when he was in Alaska (teen), it was basically 20F or a bit less, every single day/all day during the period where it was largely dark most of the time. Likely why he grew to hate both dark and cold, haha. But -51F - yeah, I'm not leaving the house, even with a parka. If school wasn't cancelled, I'd be "sick" that week. Terrible flu, yes, that's it.

I still get zero ads on YouTube, on the PC. FF/Ublock+noscript. This is while not logged into any YT account. Tablet/phone with chrome/zero ad/script blockers, I will occasionally get an ad mid-very long video but it's rare (edit: also rare I watch super long videos to begin with). Or I'll get an ad if I left a tab open for a long time/turn tablet on/off so it reloads the tab automatically then. Or if I manually reload the tab sometimes. I still have my simple method for not seeing any start/b4 mobile video loads ad, ever, when opening a new YT video and it still seems to work, but I no longer say what it is because then they'll find out and put a stop to it. Edit: also, a pc that doesn't crash while gaming is nice to have again, but of course it doesn't actually solve my racing-brain/lack of focus, issues. Just sayin'. Hehe.

lol, yeah all the co. logos/credits at the start of a lot of movies nowadays gets a bit excessive. Takes a lot of 'em to get indies (and sometimes even bigger budget) made these days I guess.

Played enough 7 days to decide my pc issues are, yes, fixed. Also enough 7 days to remind me again that the entire reason I keep playing it, is it makes hours pass without me noticing (never look at a clock, say), while doing absolutely "nothing" gamewise. eg, I looted 1000 trash bags, fixed up a house, dug a 3 mile tunnel, jogged on 40 miles of road, killed 200 deer for meat I don't actually need, filled up 8 storage chests with resources I don't really need. Apparently that's the aspect of a game that I covet the most, these days - doesn't matter the genre really, only that it does that to my brain. Most games now, even if I like them, I can't play for more than 1-2 hrs without shifting in my seat, looking at a clock several times, and quitting. Same thing as checking your watch constantly in a movie, basically, vs. not looking at your watch even once.

When did (PC) blockbuster/AAA gaming become an association anyway. I mean, I'm sure there were ones that always had bigger budgets vs. others but I used to go to the store, there were 10-30 titles on shelves, I'd ponder if any were good, randomly pick something. Store shelf wise, it's not like there was 70k+ pc games existing at that point. Like, Myst was originally published by the same who published Mavis Beacon Typing. >.> I wasn't enough of a game-geek back then I guess to be aware of "AAA" gaming, they were just ... there, like picking a can of soup. Although magazines made you aware of popular-game developers. But yeah ... AAA today mostly means "attract as large an audience as possible for sales numbers", which for some reason is equated to mega development and marketing budgets. So they tend to become pretty generic, or just sequels of sequels. edit: and these days, remakes and reboots...

Flow - that was quite impressive. Visual poetry, sometimes quirky/funny, sometimes touching, sometimes haunting/mystifying. No (human) dialogue, no conventional "plot" or explanations/answers, just follow some creatures as they navigate a happening in their world. The animals behave mostly like animals, outside of an ability to figure out how/why to use a boat rudder and perhaps a touch of "human-like" emotion reactions/awareness here and there. Or animal-like mixed with human-like, up for interpretation. I adored the cat of course but all the animals were fantastically done/animated and became characters I cared about on some level. It's like watching an animated short you find fantastic, where you're wishing it was not a short, and in this case, it isn't. I could have some nitpicks (I always have those) but not worth quibbling. For visual poetry type animation, I'd give it an 8.8/10. There's a very very brief after-credits bit, easy to miss on streaming with them tossing up "WATCH NEXT" menus so you have to hit the "watch credits" to get there. >.> It doesn't give answers either just a little coda for people to make folks wonder what the meaning is.