LadyCrimson

I've rewatched "RRR" three times (well, 90% of it, I skip a few scenes here and there). I've decided that whoever is the team largely responsible for it (director, writers, cgi-effects house? etc) should now be the ones responsible for any attempt at turning video games or anime into "live action" versions. ... ok that's hyperbole, but I bet they'd have a high chance of making a good one if they tried. I've read that India may have largely decided to (mostly) abandon DVD-sale/releases in favor of streaming, which is making it difficult for me to find/watch other, recent-ish films from there, since the streaming services I use don't have many. Shades of the early days of getting into k-dramas/access....

Re: cozy games - I guess for myself it's mostly that I like games with "cozy elements". I mean, I would consider 7 Days to Die with zombies turned off or at least settings turned down or modded to be a very minimal threat to be quite "cozy", with most goals largely self-created vs. game driven, which is why I return to it periodically. And while I don't mind there being combat, I don't want to have to be razor focused or super precise all the time or in a state of constant stressed anticipation. Something very one specific "thing" focused, like "Power Wash Simulator" is probably not my bag of tea however, unless it's 99 cents. I did love the original RCT, except overall I was terrible at creating/building impressive original coasters, and using the pre-made ones became limiting/dull after a while. So more a limit/frustration of my game-engineering capability.

Am I correct in the assumption that the power draw would likely be moderately less than 300w etc. for actual gaming? While modern games do hit more than single core these days they are not typically anywhere near "full bore" across all of them. Thus making the mega power load and cooling mostly a concern for those that want to heavily use certain work programs and the like?

Yes, I would like more "cozy" games, please. Although...I've had enough of "cutesy farming sims" already. But stuff that's more about escapism, cats, exploration, sim-elements, cats, design efficiency, not too complex...anything but pure combat power-fantasy. Edit: oh, and not MT-filled phone/mobile. (vid has language - it's Zero P after all)

I'll admit, maybe 1/3 of this goes right over my head, but I still laughed/found it interesting. I've watched quite a few of this lady's vids, I like her.

There are four Indian language versions: Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada, and Telugu would be the "original". There's a reason the title card on Netflix is "RRR - Hindi". Because of hubby I tried "pure Eng. dub" first, but that meant the song lyrics weren't subtitled, that sort of thing. But the Eng. subtitles titled everything and often was quite different from the actual spoken English lines - a common dub/sub type issue ofc, but still distracting to me w/multi-language films and blanket subtitles. Anyway, Telugu and Hindi versions sound/lip sync pretty different, based on trailers and clips at least, even if the lead actors did their own post-dubbing.

Gedonia - I found the spot for the player house. Near a castled town. But I ran out of gold. Anyway, that's how you get a "stash" - purchase and plonk down some chests in your house, or anywhere. Backpack is decent size (3 pages) but chest stash is always handy. Can also place crafting stations and the like within that circle. I think you can build up to three-story, but ... need more gold! Forgot to mention, the game has a simple modding editor/Steam Workshop capability. Add your own caves/bosses or chests or even basic towns or quests, I think, to the map if you feel like it for some reason. So that's a bonus.

Watched "RRR". I ... enjoyed it a lot. Is it over the top, often ludicrous, absurd etc. Yes. And it was awesome. The main nitpick I'd have is with pacing - three hours is a bit too long, there are lots of places where time or maybe story elements could have been shortened a bit to make it 15-20 minutes shorter for better pacing. The other nitpick is not the film's fault but Netflix's. They did not have the original language as an option and the subtitling vs. singing vs. Eng./non-Eng. dialogues seemed a bit erratic depending what you want/chose, even the full Eng. dub (I tried all the available options). I think the main actors did their own language dubs, so tonally it was fine, but it was still quite distracting/discordant at times. If the blu-ray has the original language on it I might buy it.

Gedonia - Pros (at least in my opinion) ---rather charming to explore around. Nothing special, but still charming enough. ---there's an alchemy pot for respec talent tree pts but you cannot respect attribute/chr. points. Thus you actually have to replay if you want to try multiple min/max type builds, if that's your thing. ---skill trees are totally up to you/build your own class, altho attribute points affect what you can do/how good you are, beyond just dialogue or quest options. Example, 0 INT means no crafting, 0 Agility means no Dodge mechanic for u. The layout/structure of the talent/skill trees remind me a little of Grim Dawn. A little. ---There's an option to turn off enemy respawning, which I'm using. It's nice to not have to fight/avoid anything just to go "back" long distances. I may turn it on and off periodically, dunno. ---the usual skills like alchemy, cooking, weapon/outfit crafting, ingredient collectables and nodes. ---one magic tree eventually gets Flying. I...must...have...it... Cons ---combat, especially melee, feels clunky and a little unresponsive or with little "impact" feel. It works but... ---companion/summon AI follow is glitchy at times. There's a button combo to teleport them back to you and I find I have to do it constantly to make them effective. Creep up to enemy, hit those buttons to make them appear next to you so they start a fight, then use a bow myself. Twice they've gotten totally stuck but an exit/reload fixes it. ---the horse riding is clunky, no surprise. I prefer walking but default walking is pretty slow and I don't have 10000 staminia potions yet, so the horse is useful for long treks to towns or whtaever. ---one of those games where if you explore/battle randomly, a lot, early on, you start getting rep with factions that you know nothing about or whether the rep is something you even want. I would guess it doesn't matter tons tho, outside of when you finally choose a faction. Initial summary: ----reminds me a little of a cross between Elder Scrolls and an ARPG like Grim Dawn or Torchlight, perhaps ---there's a plot but don't know much about it yet. Good light fun if you like such gameplay, probably decent replay value if you like trying different builds/options. ---for a one-man developer, not a bad game for the low price. eg, so far I like it.

...during chr. creation, you start with 1 pt in each attribute (re-assignable) and some extra - there are none for leveling up or (I think) on gear either. Choose wisely? Hm. So....strength? agility? I don't need any of that. Not sure what max spell summon count is yet. I have two here early on. I think it might depend on mana available/skill pts + gear Anyway, short take - Gedonia is not "deep" and its combat is clunky (if you're no agility/strength, bow seems better than melee early on by far) but I'm finding it light fun/absorbing enough. I could see getting rather absorbed with it once you get past any clunkiness.

I've never bought a FE/direct from Nvidia before - would the "buy now" link on their site just take you to a retail affiliate (eg, newegg) like it does with the partner cards listed there? I noticed on Amazon some 4090 Asus cards going for $2500-$3500-ish US - that's gotta be a "scalper" price, right? Absurd.

When you're randomly rewatching clips of Soylent Green (I've only seen it in full once) and suddenly realize the older woman (head librarian? elder of some sort?) is T'Pau from ST:OS "Amok Time." I can't recall if I noticed this the first time I saw the movie. If I did, I totally forgot, and got to experience the sensation of "whoah, that's ---" again. The side benefit of an aging/poor memory? If only that worked for something wholesale, like ... a game.

It's out of early access, so for $12 (slight sale) I bought Gedonia. It looks like an old school flavor (late 90's/early 2000's I mean) open world RPG with lots of exploring and simple quests, factions (where your stats/build affect options available). And there's a house somewhere you can make yours, or something. The voice acting is supposed to be often pretty bad and there may be some bugs/performance hitching but I think I can handle that. I would like some "old school-ish" rpg/arpg gameplay, vs. the modern stuff, so am willing to try.

Apparently, at least at the moment, because the FE does so well itself, there doesn't seem to be much reason to buy a partner version of the 4090. Especially for any inflated price point. Plus the partner versions are often physically even bigger. Although I'm sure there will be some who think the very minor benefits is still something they covet, as always. EVGA seems to have made a good decision.

Speaking of dragons, a while back I seem to recall Warner Bro's getting the rights to Anne McCaffrey's Dragons of Pern at some point (dunno if they're still the holders). But there has been silence re: products. Seems like that would be ripe for an Amazon/HBO/Disney/whatever streaming series at this point (tech and cgi being what they are now). I would watch that. Or try to anyway, not sure how it would translate to screen, even if done "well." Pern dragons/that world still hold a fave dragons spot for me. Early teenage reader nostalgia probably. Now I want to re-read the "Dragonriders trilogy."

It is confirmed. I still loathe airports.

When I have a little spare time I've been making my way through the YouTube channel Dust, which features short sci-fi films, usually in the 6-12 min. range. Wouldn't surprise me if someone's mentioned it here before but it's a nice way to see both maybe some newer and some older ones you may have missed or never heard of (most of the time I never hear of/see short films). Some you may like, some may make you go "meh" but it's always interesting to browse 'em, when you're not in the mood for long time commitment. There was one for horror themed shorts as well but I forget the name of the channel...

Yeah, as a 4k-'r, those review benchmarks make me drool. Still no interest unless my current PC just ups and dies or something tho, for myself. Will be very curious re: a 50xx/equivalent series/period tho, re: whether they manage to get the power use/transient spiking under control (or if it'll only get worse...). I would hate to get a 40xx period and then the very next one suddenly is much better in that regard. Heh.

^ Neither seem to be on Amazon Prime or Netflix and I don't feel like registering/subbing or whatever to Funimation or Crunchyroll (again) or where-ever they are at the moment etc. >.> ...I have the same situation re: the 2019 (or something) reboot of Fruits Basket, that I learned about only very recently, but that one I'd be more willing to buy physically. (if I can find it all at least...) I've seen parts of episodes of this newer version and it looks pretty close in style/content to the original, except more faithful to the manga/more chr. detailed and full story complete.

Kotaro Lives Alone (Netflix version) ---one of those shows where I was initially not all that into it - and it requires a certain level of simply accepting that a 4-5 year old could actually live "alone" and be that self sufficient, maybe it's possible, what do I know about kids - but there are elements that I was curious about so I kept watching. Mostly comedy, slice of life, sometimes more than one mini-story within each short episode (often connected eventually) with some poignant moments here and there. Overall I'd say I ended up liking it.

Those three Full Metal Alchemist live-actor movies on Netflix. The first one is sorta ok in a low budget way. The 2nd one is slightly better. The third one becomes ... not so ok. It reminded me I've never watched either version of the animes. I think I wanted to watch the somewhat more recent Brotherhood because of the Japanese VA for Roy, but never got around to it, or that alone wasn't reason enough. These films did at least make me curious about that again. A little.

We downloaded the 4th main LC of Tiny Tina, which far as we can tell, adds another one of those survive-these-maps without-dying-once scenarios and a new player class. Maybe some new gear and small stuff like that. So for us at least, it doesn't really add much, outside of checking a new class. Nothing to inspire you to replay the whole campaign seems like. The new class is a poison-dmg. type with an Action Skill of tossing out a stationary totem that shoots poison balls at enemies. You can cast it twice (have two) before cooldown waiting. Basically it feels like a spell. I would say that in early play I can it see it being my 2nd fave class vs. the spellcaster, because ... it feels like a spellcaster. Spell in one slot, your totem Action skill, so all the bonuses for both can still apply ... vs. the spellcaster with 2 spells where zero of the Action Skill stuff applies. That said, nothing exciting.

I was thinking that those Intel Arc gpu's would be good for someone like my husband, but then I read that it requires something called resizable BAR that is unlikely to be on older mobo's/cpu's etc. Not keeping track of such things a lot, I had to look it up ... at any rate, that sorta eliminates the idea of the Arc as a budget gpu to toss into an current older rig (vs. when building a new budget rig). Interesting. Nothing wrong with it, but guess it won't be on hubby's list for a few or several then. That said, I wish Intel/Arc at least enough future success to keep them going with it, because we definitely need another competitive gpu maker, especially in the budget-mid range.

We watched the two Jurassic World sequels over the weekend. I recall that I at least moderately enjoyed the first one as light entertainment. Sure, not as much as the original Jurassic Park, but it was still sorta fun here and there. --The first JW sequel - both of us rather liked it. Felt like it had a similar action/thrills/humor vibe as the original in some ways. I liked the young female actress' chr too. I probably liked it a little better then the first JW. --The second sequel (Dominion?) .... well, I found it watchable at least, and I give it credit for trying to change up the predictable a little here and there. But it felt too long, too many "plots", and the humor mostly didn't work for me. It was nice to see the original JP actors again. Oh, I did laugh hysterically at the very end dino fighting stuff, almost worth the price of admission for mirth factor alone - but I'm guessing that wasn't the intended effect. Who knows tho.

I'm not sure how many other females visit this forum (especially this section of it, heh) these days but I'm going to put this here anyway. Even if you aren't interested in having children yourself, if you have irregular cycles, maybe all your life, it still would be worth going to a doc to check for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. because while not having regular menstrual cycles can feel like a boon (unless one wants to have a baby, ofc), there's a whole lot of other risks/increased risks with it. It's not uncommon or anything, but I believe it's something often overlooked as a possible issue/explanation until a woman is actively trying to get pregnant or whatever. I think if you don't have extra-hair or aren't overweight, some docs may not check for/think about it at all (kinda like how some docs think t2 diabetes/pancreas etc = alcoholic...). Or perhaps birth control hides/hid it for ages. And if you do have it, the earlier you make lifestyle changes (there's no "cure"), the more you might prevent those future complications. And yes, I have finally been confirmed that I have it. It (partially) explains a lot of things. Health PSA end. Keep healthy, folks.