LadyCrimson

When I hit the small "SignIn" key/lock icon at the top of the page, the forum does a little blip up there like it wants to do something, but doesn't. I had to click the "Sign In" (or Register now!) text link that's among all the "Hello welcome to the forums" intro at the top (when not logged in). I turned off the 'block popup windows' option (Firefox thinking that might be it, but it still didn't work. Don't care about liking posts. I also miss how the old forum could/did fill up my whole browser window, instead of being a column in the middle with empty space columns on the side. (not that this is important...heh) Edit: I logged out and suddenly the login icon at top of page worked, tossing up the extra window to type in your stuff. Strange. Maybe because first time I logged into the new forums? Anyway....I'll see if it still works later. Maybe it's my cookie settings or something, too.

The Thing (prequel) - meh. Not badly done or anything like that, but such a retread it held no suspense for me whatsoever. And no one in the cast with the presence/fun of a Kurt Russell. The cgi creature effects looked better, of course, but somehow the old models are still technically more impressive, because of all the work that goes into those, vs. clicking pixels on a computer.... Moneyball - awesome, just awesome. Drive - action trying to be arty? It was ok I guess. Not as action-oriented as I was expecting. The bit players (Cranston, Brooks) were the best things. And wtf was up with the main chr. wearing that face mask at the end? To what purpose/what for? Just to be visually artsy I think....

Holy forum-look changes, batman. *waves hello* Same ol' same ol...hope all is well with everyone.

The water glass pic - omg Others are fun too. You guys are great at finding the funnies!

Wish I could see the new Sherlock season/episode, but it's not 1st run here, that I know of anyway. Contagion - pretty good. I think it would have worked better/been more "real-world scary" with lesser known actors/actresses, tho.

From across the street, ppl might still believe I'm 30ish. Closer up, more like late 30's. But on day's like today, I probably look 60. ...tired, shoulder-hunching, long day, and it's only half over. Har.

LOL at the D2 doggy pic. Too true.

Relaxing week and feelin' really good. That's about it.

Finally bought/played Claptrap Revolution DLC. I still like the main game the best, but it had some funny moments. The design wasn't too special, and the "evil" claptraps sounded more amusing on paper. The boss fights were rather punishing, for me, since I was using a xbox controller on the TV. Urgh. Found the "cheat-win" spots each time tho so got thru it. I did like that it didn't feature driving in cars at all, but like all the DLC's, while I get my $10 worth out of them (and more), won't be replaying it like I do the main game. I hear Borderlands2 will have new characters...and they're changing it a lot seems like. I hope it's still the light fun the first one ending up being.

My husband really really likes Borderlands. He tries other ones now & again but I guess it's his go-to-game now. Y'know how usually watching someone else play a game puts you to sleep after a few minutes? Don't know what it is, but for some reason I can sit & watch him play BL for hours. It's like playing without having to play. But fits my semi-non-gaming mood, in a strange way. Plus it's fun - at least when it's your spouse & the silly interaction that comes with it, when one is playing/the other watching.

No particular Xmas celebration in this house, but Happy Holidays everyone. Hope it's a good one. I have hubs to myself for 10 days and we're going to be marathon gaming. Ho ho ho!

I wanna hold your paw. What's that?

Cowboys & Aliens - ...meh. Took itself way too seriously most of the time. Some good early moments but then I started to zzzz. The Adjustment Bureau - watchable. Terrance Stamp is still awesome.

No loss.

DX11/tessellation runs fine on my system/nvidia, at least with the few games I have that use it. It's not like there's a lot of them, still, tho seems to be increasing. I don't know what you mean by runs like **** tho. Tessellation may round some edges but it's often not that big a difference while moving, imo (vs. still screenshot). What you end up noticing the most is the heightened texture height/depth mapping. At least, that seems to be how they're using it a lot of the time. Sometimes they use it on a feature that makes it look great, sometimes it just looks silly. When over-used you end up with stone roads that no wagon wheel would be comfy rolling over.

*digs around* Apparently that board has 8 SATA ports, but only 6 of them actually work for HDD bootup by default (the six red ones). http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardw...d-review-5.html So, first question, is the drive you want to use plugged into one of these six?

Hubs sister & her husband were visiting from Oregon so we spent a couple afternoons hangin' with them. Miss having them close by. They're still not quite sure if they're going to stay up North permanently or not, depends on work and stuff. If they sell their house here (being rented out at the moment) it'd be pretty hard to move back, I'd guess (house prices would be out of their reach now from when they originally bought). They are not liking the rain, heh. So much of hubby's family used to be centered where we are, but now they're all up North in various places. We're the last "holdouts." Not that we have any desire to move. Maybe in another 15 years.

Still playing Borderlands (no DLC's/patches). Hubs keeps playing, so I keep playing. And yes, the end-boss is still horrible. But love dem guns.

Since I'm (hopefully) up & running again, tried a little of everything this evening, to make sure my scheme of copying my Steam apps directory (vs. downloading them all again) worked. It did. Think I'm going to go with DeathSpank, Borderlands (hubs made me want to play it again) & Saints Row2 this week. Going to put Skyrim on hold until that darn editor is released.

@Bokishi - What? Only 2560x1600? Those shots look really nice, imo. Created my character for Saints Row2, but that's as far as I got, heh. Just making her was kinda funny tho - all those weird selections. But in the end I made her "normal." Except, apparently, for her teeth/mouth. That's some ugly mouth movement in this game. lol

Yes. If you like action/guns with a bit of chr/questing, it's a blast. Has it's faults but what doesn't. Still the only game hubs finds replayable every year, too.

...I'm sure if I was trying to SLI two 590's I'd be using a 1200-1500w PSU too.

Large, happy, comfy, feelin' safe cats are apparently copious amounts of poo and pee cats.

I would have liked that recent Hollywood Holmes movie a lot more if it hadn't been the usual CGI/special effects action bonanza, with a ridiculous ending. But that's Hollywood for you. Because of that, tho, I only found it "watchable."