LadyCrimson

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I think that's what so many are really annoyed with. Jay's attitude overall/the pattern...this isn't the first time he's massed the ire of the fanbase and each time it gets worse (the reaction). Well, that's better than nothing. I wish they'd put it up to 1000 tho. If tomes can go that high, I see no rational reason to not have gems do the same. I'm waiting for them to make MF apply to chests again. I still that was the dumbest thing ever. Walk up to a huge, glowy gold chest and not have your MF apply to it, where all that pops out is a few blues and a gem or two (95% of the time), just like any other lesser chest is just .... bah. The rest....should help with magic finding and other things (I like the AH search changes too) and it's a great list for sure, and if those things are the main things that annoyed you it'll be great. For me it's not enough I think. The area/levels, the dungeons, the game design (boring to repeat 100's of times, short, no reason/desire to replay/make new chrs etc)... it doesn't fix that.

I stayed up late enough for today to become yesterday, so tomorrow is now today.

Hunger Games. Not terrible, but I occasionally felt a bit lost in terms of chr. and environment set-up (haven't read the books). There was never any suspense/interest about the contest because 99% of the contestants were only shown in brief flashes so I felt nothing about them. Visually interesting at times, but failed to make me care about anything.

Nothing myself (not even D3) but hubby has been playing Borderlands 1 again. He's played a few other games since BL1 came out, but he just loves that BL1. I might not have to wait until Xmas to get him to play BL2 with me. Heh.

.... As if the fanboi's didn't have enough reason to hate Jay Wilson already. Blizzard has a PR nightmare on their hands now. http://kotaku.com/5936142/diablo-iii-interview-leads-to-unexpected-facebook-bitching And if you don't know who these people are, here's a helpful pic on that: http://imgur.com/lvWdB Kind of neutral on the remarks themselves (who hasn't had a bitching/moaning session w/friends at some point) but doing it on Facebook, for cryin' out loud...what idiots. Highly unprofessional and in some companies, a reason to be fired. The whole Brevik interview that started it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT_XiT2mifo

Is that 112k while using that one DH crit chance skill? That's a nutty (but cool) skill. I kept having to turn it 'off' before going to shop in the AH because it skewed the comparison stats.

Watching Daybreakers again. Has it's problems but at least it tried to do something a bit different than the usual vampire/horror.

I just noticed this YT "feature" for the first time... (to be fair, that video has sped-up sound, but it's perfectly understandable to the ear)

I think I'm the only one who doesn't care about the Dark Knight Rising. Batman Begins was cool and the Dark Night was ok (the Joker performance was the best thing about it) but left me with no desire to see a third. I like dark, broody films and don't need happy endings (Seven is still one of my fave films ever) but I'm tired of brooding superheros.

Bah, I've been cutting my own hair for 25 years. It's not that hard, unless you want very stylized hair or something. My mom's hairdresser used to tell me I should be a hairdresser. The problem, as mentioned, is that my hair is no longer totally straight. Even tho it's still mostly straight, there's three or four length-spots where it "bends", so if you cut it at those spots, it does weird things. Even having someone else cut it, they hardly do any better. Don't know why it got semi-curly. Must be an age thing. I usually wear it longer now, because of that, but ... eh, sometimes I get a bee up my bonnet.

Pre-ordered BL2 ... other than that, not playing a thing. I still get "into" a few games here and there per year, but overall, the gaming industry has rather lost me. I look sometimes, but almost none of it - big name or indie - is even remotely appealing/my thing. I'm guessing if the industry continues in the directions it's been going, genre/style wise, in about 5-8 years I won't be playing video games at all. :/

Became annoyed with how my hair gets kinkier/curlier every year and totally butchered it one night. Which didn't help, since apparently the kinks start pretty short, so now I have short hair that likes to curl upwards at the ends, causing a crazy, bizarre mess of a head. I may have to completely buzz-cut it.

Ethically it's not cool to hack a site....but I dislike/am tired of marketing gimmicks like that, that "everyone" seems to do these days with every big new product launch (not to mention, I don't care about Mt. Dew flavor #34) so I find the sabotage amusing in a protest-marketing kind of sense. Just seems like a practical joke type thing. But I'm probably morally bankrupt. Most of the fake names aren't actually funny, however.

Well, he did say downloaded....even if it's not streaming, if 'net speeds are slow, I don't care if it says it's 1080 it's still going to be highly compressed in order to be downloadable in a reasonable amount of time ... especially if the company is assuming most people don't have high-speed cable. Then again, I have yet to purchase a download type movie, preferring to still buy them on disc, so maybe quality of such is a lot better than I'm imagining/my limited experience. But over here, even cableTV(Comcast) isn't always that great (outside of sports and primetime), because they keep compressing things more and more as programming or costs (or greed) increases. I hate digital compression artifacts/effects. Sigh.

So basically, Humanoid, size does matter? ..... *pause* ... *ducks* ...srsly tho, I agree, size and plasma. Of course, online streaming is not generally high-quality enough to actually need super-size or other awesome TV capabilities. Not that they're not plenty watchable - Netflix looks ok on a big screen....but they won't blow you away either (yet), no matter how great your huge TV is. To some degree, if that's seriously going to be the only method of film watching, I might stick with a smaller screen size so online compression artifacts (especially in dark scenes/fast movement) might be a bit less noticeable at times. But I don't know what the source is for your "downloaded movies" ... if they're high quality enough, go for it. And, of course, for gaming, bigger is always nice. If you're not very demanding about sound quality but still want something at least better than the TV-speakers, the single unit speaker bars can be an option. You won't get big deep bass of course but it's still a fair improvement over the built-ins, for only 150-300US bucks and a lot less space. Also, I'm not sure about sound quality from online movie options to begin with. Again tho, could be worth it for the gaming at least.

The creativity of the internet knows no bounds. ...and yeah, I find it pretty amusing myself.

Wait, they remade Red Dawn? I have some 80's nostalgia-fondness for the original one, but seriously, it did not need to be remade. I saw Happy Feet Two. The first one was cute and gelled together nicely, with fun song/dance animations. This sequel was .... well, it had a few moments but meh. I've also been watching this show called 24 Hours in the ER on BBC-America. I find it fairly interesting, both in content and especially in the filming style. eg, I keep trying to imagine how the US would film/edit such a show... "FOX presents 24 Hours in ER Hell, with host Gordon Ramsay"

Time to change your password, secret questions and answer. http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=launcher&utm_campaign=d3&utm_content=news-textlink

I played it solo 80% of the time....occasionally played it with hubby, but both of us largely play alone. I like it as a solo game just fine. I think most people who think of it largely as a MP game probably don't like the type of gameplay all that much to begin with and it's playing with other people that makes it fun (or tolerable). It's like how there are plenty of people who also think the Diablo's are awful single-player games....to which I disagree.

Beating a dead horse: Seriously, even when a weapon, for once, has ok-ish stats, the game then does this to you instead: ...and to be honest, those stats aren't even that great. And no socket. But really, come on...clvl60 items shouldn't ever be created with less than 500dps by default. The fact even ilvl62/63 items have very low base dps and have to rely on getting "%damage" modifiers upon generation to have high enough dps to be remotely useful even in Act1/2 Inferno or even late Hell is just stupid. You'd be surprised how many of the ones with 5-6 attributes are actually crafted. Which is probably why they want so much for some of them, because they spend hundreds of thousands + materials at the blacksmith to get a few decent-moderately good results. And then the ones that are genuinely found ... even more gold, because they're so rare. Outside of that, however....they come from people with a ton of time. I have the time, but not the desire to spend 12+ hours a day MF'ing...still, I've found some relatively good stuff, actually - Eternal Union, Nat's Gaze w/good stats, Tal Rasha's armor, some good Rare rings and ammys that would sell for 2-5 million if I didn't want to use them myself - but as a percentage of all things that ever dropped, it's not much. Also, I calculated how much gold it costs to craft a single top-level gem (the ones where you have to find the recipe for it), and it's millions and millions. I've "collected" over 8 million in gold - not counting AH profit - in the past 3-4 weeks and spent most of that on crafting Amethysts because I want two or three Perfect ones. And I'm not even close to that point yet. I have 6 Stars and 1 Flawless Star. Oh, also, I bought a lot of recipes because I'm not MF'ing where some of them drop. I buy the Flawless Squares because they're cheap and go from there. It's so redonkulous. But it passes the time now and then.

Sept. 18th can't come fast enough. ...of course, I'll probably be disappointed, but at least then the wait will be over...and I can always hope until then.

http://youtu.be/WXvsl8xgRxc

Heh, Battleship is another of those "I know it'll be terrible" films that I yet would be tempted to see just for the lol's, like Soldiers of Fortune. At least when it's cheap and on cable. I finished it, but it was definitely the least of the recent spate of comic hero movies. Didn't think it was terrible, but I did find it rather snooze-inducing for most of its length.

--Enchantress is best for melee, hands down. Armor, attack speed buffs, disorient, and high survivability even in Inferno even with lowish resists, except when she stupidly decides to stand in a pool of poison or something. Also, 2H maces with tons of INT/VIT are cheap to buy and drop semi-frequently. --Templar, in Inferno, starts to die to almost every Elite mob quickly, and by Act3, in about 2 seconds. If you can get him a lot of LoH/Resist gear, it helps him, but that's expensive. I love his "character" but I find him rather useless. Also, his healing spell doesn't scale very well to all your +VIT item gear, so long before Inferno, you won't be impressed with his ability to heal you. He does not attract/pull aggro (none of them do) very often so you can't rely on that with the companions at all. Even if they occupy a few, you will be running or dying from the rest. He is, however, plenty viable through Hell, in terms of survivability...but won't be doing much damage. --I have yet to find a good use for the Scoundrel. His buffs aren't appealing, but like the Enchantress he'll survive better than Templar because of ranged attacking. Nor have I ever had any equipped to do more than about 2k-3k dps. If you have the time you can get lol's from the Enchantress killing stuck bosses, but that's about it. Mostly, it's their buffs people want.