LadyCrimson

Has anyone been watching HBO's The Newsroom, with Jeff Daniels? It's not very good overall, but Jeff's character has that right amount of sarcasm that I tend to find really funny. So in spurts, the episodes will have some lol moments for me, when it focuses on his chr., but the drama stuff involving the other characters around him is kind of a snore, even if it's largely well-acted. Edit: apparently the first few episodes were reviewed poorly...so they're hiring new writers for the 2nd season. Maybe that'll improve it. Altho, I kinda liked the most recent "Bullies" episode. Maybe they should focus more on Jeff all the time, make it less of an ensemble.

I miss the days when I could pick up stray cats on a semi-regular basis until I had a full horde. This house is too small for that. Not to mention my energy level. I was tempted to rent Soldiers of Fortune on VoD just to laugh at how bad I expect it to be - not to mention, to see if Sean Bean would end up dead - but I refrained. Still...it's tempting. If I go in expecting it to be laughably bad, maybe I'd find it entertaining. So many good people in it too...makes you wonder how they managed that.

Supposedly that was a glitch or something. Once fixed I saw it constantly...but likely because I ran Act1 dozens of times. I've only encountered that timered dungeon in Act2 twice, and that chicken level for the first time a couple weeks ago. And still haven't had all the pages to that Lost series reference, etc. Yea, that's where I am with my Monk, late Act3. Every boss feels like a gear/skill/strategy or instant-death check and I got fed up with trying to keep up with it. Or everyone goes "well use Sweeping Wind/Conviction/Fists of Thunder" to get past and I go "what if I don't wanna use those?" and I get silence. Skill diversity my butt. I'm sure I could do it the "way I want" with the right gear, but then Act4 will ramp up yet again and .... lost interest. Not enough reward. I still like MF'ing once in a while tho. Most of the time it's terrible - good drops seem to come in very occasional, brief spurts. At the moment I've been spending most gold on working up to the max LoH gem quality. Mostly as something to do. 800 on a weapon + 600 from a gem, times two, might work well...but it ... costs a lot. lol

Elephant: I've had better tasting water, but when you're thirsty, you can't be picky.

Are you trying to imply that stormtroopers can't hit the broadside of a bantha?

If you could read the article, you'd discover it's not about just playing "any ol' game". It's a RPG they made especially for their purpose. How effective this truly is in the long run, I couldn't say. (edit) In a way, maybe a bit like Sesame Street teaching kids the alphabet with singing puppets. Lessons integrated into and turned into entertainment?

That's how I've been feeling about almost all films/TV for years. ....been watching Malcom in the Middle from the beginning on Netflix. Mostly for Bryan Cranston. The show itself is only so-so, but he's hilarious. What a great actor ... from neurotic dad in a weird family comedy to Walter White.

I hate it when you wake up and you're too weak to open a twist-jar lid of a bottle of juice. And you're really thirsty.

Nope, no new areas. Some of the random stuff is just rare to show up. Even two months later I still found a few minor things/events I hadn't seen yet. The AH (for me) is currently: low level stuff, if you sell it for cheap (under 15k), sells pretty well. clvl 60 stuff, however, can be hard to sell even for cheap because majority of ppl with lvl60 chrs wants the "top" stuff by now, and that sells for millions. Except, GF, MF and LoH items still tend to get picked up pretty swiftly if it's highish and with a decent other stat or two, or sockets. Most clvl60 stuff is vendor trash now tho....I can make more gold farming, faster than I can selling 10 items per day for super low prices. :/

Had a homemade Ruben for lunch. Mmm sauerkraut. Currently getting ready to mop the floor, which is difficult when a cat keeps following you around trying to give you a hug. Someday I'm going to get a picture/video of this cat doing his hug-the-waist thing.

Trespass. It was on Netflix instant so what the heck. I was sadly disappointed, however, because Nicholas Cage played it fairly straight (as the threatened father) in this one. Sure, he did some yelling, but it wasn't that great over the top, hammy, Cage yelling. Afterwards, hubby said he thought it would have worked better if Cage had been the main burglar/bad guy, so he could yell stuff like "Where's the money! Where's the monEY! Where's the MONeY!" over and over etc. Now that would have been entertainment.

I like Ryan, he's a likable screen-presence. But I would not want to see him as Batman. He is not "tough" enough for Batman and I can't see him managing to portray the inner turmoil/conflict of Batman at all. Ryan is "nice," not edgy. Unless, of course, they wanted to make a reboot of the TV Batman series with all the "Kapow!" and bad jokes. I could see Ryan doing that.

Are The Expendables super heroes? Netflix had a lot of the Hellraiser films on instant, so I watched the first three again. Y'know, I loved those movies back when. Sure they weren't much, even for low-budget horror, but that Pinhead was awesome, and in those years, the effects were still kinda gross, if y'know what I mean. But seeing them again now....they have not aged well. At all. Except, Pinhead is still awesome. Edit: I read that they kept hoping to reboot the Hellraiser franchise. Which might not be an awful idea, except that I can't see anybody but Doug Bradley as Pinhead.

I really need some more good monster bashing click-fests to keep me occupied until BL2. Sadly, such games seem to be the only thing that keeps my attention these days, because I don't have to "think." Wish I liked PoE more...it's a decent game, but something about it still doesn't quite click with me.

Apparently I can make 300K gold an hour in NM by putting on 240%GF gear and running through Cave of Betrayer. This is about the same as doing it in Hell with 195%GF. Except in NM, I can also put on 5000 attackers-take-dmg-per-hit and just run around the cave letting them kill themselves. Many LOL's were had.

Yup. Don't have to worry about how long you take to kill stuff until then. Don't have to worry about resists either, altho in Hell some resists (200-300) does make things a fair bit easier/faster so I often get them up anyway. Normal-Hell, dps is total king, imo. When I went through NM the very first time, I hadn't focused on dps at all (I'm weird that way), so had very low dps and it was tough for a while. I started doing the dps thing and it became cake and pie again. Then a difficulty spike would hit somewhere, get tougher. Repeat. I think I took almost 14 minutes to beat Diablo in NM, simply because of low dps for that stage. In contrast, I gave my Wiz gear that my Monk had found so he always had moderate to silly-high dps for an area and blew through all 3 difficulties in no time, killing bosses in 20 seconds and such - he was a lightning/disintegrate/spectral blade wrecking ball. He's not at all ready for Inferno, tho.

Would agree that if you're not finding a game fun at all (vs. just being occasionally frustrating), why force yourself to "finish" it? Just stop and play something you do find fun. That said...I'm one of those who did like Borderlands and I just remembered that it's only a month and a half or so away for #2. Just saw the new wimoweh trailer ... more fun trailer stuff from Gearbox. Since I'm having more and more doubts that Torchlight2 will actually be released before even official summer end, at least I'll have BL2 to snap up. Still playing Diablo3 occasionally, but not every day - mostly MF'ing and gold-finding runs. Stopped caring about beating/finishing Inferno and just stick to Act1/Act2 for brief monster-bashing fun. Maybe one day I'll beat Inferno...altho if I don't before BL2 comes out I may never do so.

I think hubs and I have reached a stage where the PiTA of travel has become more trouble than it's worth 99% of the time. Especially since we don't like flying. Of course, I'm sure that will change in another 15-20 years and we'll turn into traveling semi-retirees, or something. Maybe. And today I've been....doing the usual stuff. Sun, yard, music, food, sun, TV, yard...nothing new here. Also, to repeat, I love, love, love, my black cat.

Cleaning out the D3 screenshot folder...

@Cant - you can't, imo, really judge the difficulty of classes by Normal. Even in that public beta when I had no clue I lol'd at the Normal difficulty. D3's Normal is like some other games SuperEasy. And Brown's right ... they all have strong and weak points, and how "difficult" they are to play is, of course, also dependent on playstyle, skillset, and gearset, with the latter becoming more and more difficult to maintain/acquire enough of as the difficulties pass by. Also, a million gold is nothing in this game. This is just considering through Hell difficulty. Inferno is a new ballgame and everyone can have big trouble there at some point or another. As to no more Diablo's ... well, on the one hand, I'm sure D3 made Blizzard/Activision tons of money, so another may someday be made for that reason alone, story be damned. On the other hand, the long-term reception of D3 may make them think a lot harder about doing it.

My resists aren't high enough to forgo that other Mantra. I tried it with only 580 resists but that meant the explosions killed me in one hit (50-60k dmg instead of 30-40k), if I didn't avoid one in time. I used to use 7strike like that, early on, as another invulnerability method. Haven't thought of it in a long time. Despite all my MF'ing, I'm still not "rich." I buy 200K pieces of armor now and then but mostly .... since the patch I've been using what I find. Finally found some ok weapons (not great, but better than what I had) + some good jewelry. Need more....

Since the 1.0.3 patch? Or do you mean just the regular enrage that happens after around 5 minutes? If I'd had 5 minutes I could've killed him super easily. I swear it was silver of health left every time. I tried Fists of Thunder too, didn't help. I dunno, if you did it with only 14k, hats off. Lots of crit chance and damage? I only had 17% chance and 137crit damage. And I guess it's 3 minutes, not 2.5, that he does the new "explosions enrage" thing. Is that the big fat slug larder guy? He's always been cake and pie for my Monk compared to the main Act bosses, despite his poison clouds, but they did change him in the patch. But at least they give you 4 minutes.... I don't know if I'm going to go there any time soon. The way MF works now I'm not sure it's worth the pita to get to Diablo/Inferno.

Oh god, my teen boyfriend at the time, who was into "kungfu movies" made me see that. It's hilarious. So 80's cheese. I have fond memories, but haven't seen it in ages. Still remember that scene tho. I'm still watching Falling Skies. I think the 2nd season is better than the first, by a little. It's really more a character/survival show, not an alien-action show. And after a while, y'kinda start liking the characters. Especially the son Ben angle. It's still full of plot holes of course. Breaking Bad final season is soon. I can't wait. Really curious what they come up to close the series.

@Morgoth - lol! .... that gif is hilarious anyway, but in Monk context even more so. So I reached a point where Act2/Inferno was almost cake and pie. Have 19-22Kdps, 55-60K life, 700+resists, 900LoH, attack speed, etc. A few Elites would give me trouble as always, but generally speaking, no major problems. Decided I'd finally try Belial. Everything to him (including his 1st persona) was easy peasy. Then the main battle, I couldn't kill him faster than that new 2.5 minute enrage timer they patched in. At some point around that time he does his "explosions" attack repeatedly ... that is, he'll stop doing it, then almost immediately do it again - plus they seemed worse than normal and harder to avoid. So I died at that mark. Over and over. 10-12 times. I'd get him to just a sliver of health but couldn't do it faster to beat that "timer". So frustrating! Tried many different gear setups. Then I bought a new weapon for another 2K dps. Tried again. No dice either. Thought to myself, should have done it before the patch. But then I remembered the Monk's minion. Maybe her added dmg. to mine? I put Mystic Ally on the R-mouse button (so I didn't have to give up other needed skill slots) and tried a final time. And finally....I could give Belial a big FU. It was a near thing. I know someone who did it pre-patch with only 11K-dps. I wonder if that's even possible now....I don't think you'd be able to kill him fast enough with that anymore.

Our old bikes that I mentioned in the "what you did today" thread. Guess which one is mine. I've had that 10-speed since I was 11 or 12, so a few decades (yes I stopped growing early...). I just can't let go of it...