LadyCrimson

I liked Rogue One in a casual adventure sort of way. I think it was helped in that the main chrs. were unknown to me and thus I had no stakes and just went along for the ride. Donnie Yen was funny and I always like Mads even if the role was small. Every time that robot was on screen I kept thinking of KOTOR. But SW to me is kinda like ST - they're both long dead (as story "universes") but the owners of the IP's keep resurrecting them like necromancer minions, because, money. Sometimes it works at least as light/action/cgi entertainment or for new generations tho. Different strokes. -------- I finally watched that final Avengers: Endgame movie. I'd seen the first one and just never bothered with the finale. But I'm interested in Guardians 3, which made me wonder if it would reference Endgame so I felt I should watch it just in case. I found Endgame to be fitfully amusing in spots but otherwise kind of a snore. Maybe if they'd cut out 30 minutes. But I have seen it now. 😛

Don't remember if I or someone posted the teaser trailer a while back, but the full "official" trailer is out now. It still looks potentially interesting. Original IP, not an over-inflated mega budget production ("only" 86 million! heh). Kinda rooting for it.

7 Days to Die, current save: for food, I just made "bacon and eggs" and "yucca drink". That is more than sufficient and I never need more for survival/day to day (as a solo player at least). But I finally had enough magazines and ingredients to cook some of the higher end foods, which I haven't done in A21 yet. Holy, WTF. Around 53 (real life) minutes? I will tell you right now, the foods are nothing that special, they don't make you fly or give you massive uber buffs or anything. Just more "hunger" points mostly. That is ridiculous. I also have 2 perks that make cooking times 40% faster. Uh huh. I will stick with bacon and eggs. Oh sure, if you cook 24 of those at once it might be 8-12 minutes, but that is a far cry from nearly an hour. >.> Edit: I know, you're supposed to go loot or dig while waiting, but that's not the point. If for some reason I really like those "foods" I would mod their cooking times to 1/4 of default. Just silly. A21 has done stuff like that with many things, time to craft anything has skyrocketed. Not everyone plays in 6 hours sessions, ok.

If you haven't seen it before, maybe you should. And if you have seen it before, maybe it's worth watching again. Am not a drum expert in any way but to my ears the kid (he was 19 when he did this?) seems pretty great - keeping that Buddy Rich level alive. If he's really lucky, maybe in 20-30 years he'll have that kind of rep (if he cares about such). Regardless, fun to watch.

Told my hubby not to die before me, but on the off chance he does, I guess the bright side is that I could finally move somewhere cool and rainy. 😛 He's still no better. No worse overall, but no better. Still, could be a lot worse. Just an "old man" with a very bad back, now. Trying to find a new chair or recliner or both that is more comfortable for him so he can at least sit for 2 hours without issue, and bought a new remote adjustable TV-monitor holder so it can go up and down with the stand/sit desk table. (55" TV's don't fit on that thing).

Apparently, even the rabbits are aware you can find water in toilets. Anything works in an apocalypse, right. ...but sorry, Mr. Bunny, my hunger trumps your thirst. It was a strange game day where I kept finding those bunnies in places you usually never see them in the game, like hardware stores, under shopping carts, inside cargo trailers on top of boxes, etc. 😄

I don't care about the movie at all but Hugh Grant as the Oompa Loompa made me LOL. (very end of trailer)

^ Pretty cool, pretty cool, Raithe. As to my morning: --gets groceries: puts car keys in the fridge --does laundry: tosses four folded pairs of socks in the garbage can instead of the clothes basket before realizing --"where are my main glasses? Screw it I'll just use the older pair, here." ... an hour later..."Where are either of my pairs of glasses? Honey? Seen my glasses?" (one on the back edge of the couch, one on the floor by a to-recycle paper bin) One of those days.

Our neighbors made fireworks noise every night, for over a week, and last night it was so loud sitting outside was impossible. It wasn't the modest pops and nice lightshow of last year (the guy who did that moved), mostly eardrum bursting loud explosives. Now that the actual day has come and gone maybe it'll be quiet again. I wonder how much they all spend on fireworks. It must be quite a lot.

I remember this: But now apparently it's this: ...I was never a fan, but I guess he's a popular Vegas concert now. Or at least was, a few/several years ago.

7 Days to Die A21 went "stable" so I had to wipe maps/saves, leading to more map making, because that's about half of what I ever do anymore. With the better world generator I'm going to try super-mini towns again. Each one can only be 1-2 tiles (a tile houses 6-8 POI's each I think). I want a map filled with like 150 of those, spread out all over. It's gonna be awesome. Above Snakes Adventure Mode has also been awesome. Extra world tiles useful and great, ability to do things out of order/whenever great. These two games are currently the only games in existence. I play one of them each day for 2-3 hours, alternating each day. Works for me.

Ooooodles of noodles! Thanks KQED for uploading many of Yan's episodes. I used to love the way he chopped things and his humor. He's still alive and doing stuff, too. I wonder if this episode is when I started using "oodles". I mean, I'm sure the word usage existed for ages before this show but I refer to me personally. It was either this, a book I read, or my mother. I know not which. 🤔 😛

Co workers bringing hubby an inversion table they're not using, so I spent the weekend moving stuff/clearing space in one room for it. Also, ate too many (slightly sweetened) cashew nut clusters.

Got around to watching that Tom Hanks movie (via Netflix) A Man Called Otto. I liked it more than I thought I would since it wasn't quite the direction I expected from the trailer. Tom Hanks makes a good grumpy old man, the pacing between heartwarming (wasn't overwhelming/overdone) and codger humor was a good mix. Just a light and decent feel good.

My reaction to that is sorta "what gameplay?" 😛 If one is the type that likes games to be almost literal movies 80% of the playtime, it could be the game for you. Seriously ... watching Asmongold (and some others) it's like NPC's - gotta fight tyranny, lets go beat them up - Asmongold - "Let's go, I'm ready!" ---melts into another cutscene NPC's - "blahblah, over there." - Asmongold - "Let's go, I'm ready." **repeat two more times* --fight lasts 50 seconds. ---tons more cutscenes. And on and on. edit: yes I'm aware jrpg's can like this kind of storytelling, but 16 is extreme. That reviewer in the video is not wrong on the ratio. In depth cutscene story telling/watching may appeal to some ... but it's not my style. But! you can jump-stomp-attack enemies with your chocobo while mounted! That's almost better than petting the dog!

Tried to sleep. Didn't succeed. Above Snakes new mode isn't out yet (is it the 29th yet?). So I made several new "best" 7 Days to Die random maps. Now it is daylight and I'm going to check on the small sunflowers growing the backyard that we let/did grow on a whim. Hubby finally got a video-face call with a doc, which led to an xray and a physical therapy consult. We shall see. And they gave him one of those big plastic bouncy exercise ball thingies to lie on re: spine decompression moments. Every time I look at it I want to put a handle on it and use it as a hoppity hop.

To be fair, it does look like a good game overall for the kind of game it's trying to be. I'm not trying to bash it or anything. Just doesn't really look that interesting for my gameplay wants these days. And maybe I'm finding the actual player-character (Clive?) rather annoying - well-voiced, but annoying chr - at least in the early-ish sections, which doesn't help.

^ I think the folks who think FF16 is the bees knees are more likely action/combat fans vs lengthy rpg fans. By that I mean, the Devil May Cry side, so to speak. You're a solo, move-busting badarse. Main story/cutscenes are "great" (and probably much better than XV's piecemeal story, haha!) but sidequests are mostly stupid (MMO sort). They were clear they were making an action game and that's what they delivered. eg, if you want more depth to your mainline FF and were hoping 16 might at least bring at little of that back in some way, I don't think so. Fully modern era. But remember - you can pet the dog! That makes it 10/10 right there. 😛 ...honestly, the more I see/watch of it (asmongold has been running thru it), the less I want to play it myself. The combat may be fun and sure the story bits are visually astounding, but the rest seems kinda boring.

YouTube's "Uncle Roger" introduced me to a movie called God of Cookery. Weirdest movie I've seen in ages and not 100% my "thing," but admittedly it's pretty funny. I've heard of Kung Fu Hustle before but never watched, I might try it later.

Never heard of it. *looks it up* ...definitely cute looking. Especially the hats. Cats definitely need hats.

More 7 Days to Die - well, all right, I'm pretty impressed with some of the new POI's. Just pure design, not whether they're fair or too hard or sleeper AI is borked. Just the design. And the RWG maps turn out a lot better road/terrain wise, I haven't noticed any terribad quirks. Add on my personal tweaks and it's shaping up to be pretty nice to casually roam/explore in. That said, I still think the magazine for crafting/item skills went a bit overboard. I get that it helps slow down early progression/lengthens "early game", but the main annoyance I have with it is reading magazines (almost every category is 100 to max it out, which is a lot of RNG looting) gives you skills in a specific order. Example: read 10+ handgun magazines and first it's craft lvl 1 pipe pistol, all the way to lvl 5 pipe pistol, and only after that will reading magazines have learn how to craft a regular lvl1 pistol. You can't pick and choose what to learn to craft/not to craft, you have to learn it all, in order. Magazines in loot isn't rare by any means, but it's still a choice-annoyance. You're more likely to find lvl 6 (not craftable) gear before maxing out most such skills. In other news, the dev's of Above Snakes announced their new game mode - they call it exploration, but I'd call it true sandbox, with some new features and highly requested QoL. I am more excited by this upcoming mode for this tiny indie game than any of these other giant games the 'net is a hubub about. I may end up liking this mode more - especially for replayability/sandbox - than the original quest-progression version. https://steamcommunity.com/games/1589120/announcements/detail/3653030337001095558

7 Days to Die A21 - "I'll just fiddle with the rwgmixer.xml numbers and try to make the perfect map for a bit." **10 minutes later** "Well apparently I made the perfect map (for me) already, I can quit now." ...more than one trader can now spawn within a modified humongous town now, so within the large lump are 4 (different) Traders, thus making single-city make more sense in that regard. ...they seem to have done better re: POI placement and repetition if you do this sort of altering, too. Buildings still repeat but better spaced out (like no more of the same gas station on all four corners) so it doesn't look as stupid, plus with better layout arrangement for the different types of City sections.

Rented that Adam Driver 65 movie. I know it was panned critically but I was still curious re: if my guesses after seeing the trailer were correct or not. And then the movie basically tells you what I was thinking re: trailer in the first few minutes or so, so any minor intrigue in that regard disappeared. All right then. It's definitely not a good movie, and it's not so bad it's good, either, even if I did LOL several times. I felt like Adam Driver and the youthful female lead were directed poorly and thus got subpar performances from them and to me any chemistry together was non-existent. Tension/suspense building and interest in characters was low. Still, something like Battlefield Earth would beat it in the "bad movie" category by miles and miles. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. 😄