LadyCrimson

Little tired of Darkstone now but I'm still in the mood for some mindless, fast paced, hack n slash item/monster meta-gaming. Sadly I don't feel like re-playing Diablo1/2 or Dungeon Siege or Titan Quest. Need something else....

I had thought of making a joke about a bat and a ball...guess I wasn't too far off. ...Took a bunch of stuff to the dump/yardwork over the weekend & other such home-y stuff. Watching the Red Sox implode all month & thinking even if they make the wild card, they won't last long much after. Trying to keep up with daily exercise to keep the aging joints in shape, I'm terrible at keeping up with any exercise-for-sake-of-exercise regimen (and I don't play sports). Aerobics/gymnastics while watching TV seems to be about the only thing I do well with in that regard.

Electric pump definitely a must. The double-height (or whatever they call it) ones are more comfortable- that's what puts them higher off the floor. They're ones that look sort of like they have two mattresses on top of each other but it's really one unit. Don't get ones with built in "pillow" risers at one end, use your own pillows. Silly marketers. Ones that have shallower depressions on the top are more comfortable imo, some get carried away with those circular pits. But I do tend to prefer ones with some kind of depression design vs. the long rounded lines that look a bit like tubes (that are more akin to the cheap camping air mattress or pool flotation style). Perhaps something like this: Edit: non-circular depressions on top might be cool too. Never tried one but it looks flatter so I might like it more. (yes I'm even picky about an air mattress, Princess & the Pea haha). Add a 1"-2" foam mattress topper and you're good to go.

Me. Onboard sound always seems to give programs fits and errors at some point, I usually don't like the sound they produce & I guess I'm still a control freak. I always disable it in BIOS & plonk in a card. I've been kind of disappointed that it's moving away from independent cards so much. @Walsh - I've never liked RealTek for anything. Sometimes they're adequate technically (tho for me, often not...) but their support is definitely terrible.

*looks at the item packs* ...nah, don't need them. I might be interested in the Gun Runner's one, but mostly for the katana. Not because it makes much sense to have/use one in NV (imo) but because I just like Japanese swords, even in games. It can be a room decoration/screenshot pose item.

How in the world did that happen? ---------------------------------------------------------- Change of pace from spiders. I wish we had things like deer in our backyard. Sigh. (I leave things like cityscapes and portraits to other photographers.) Also, butterflies are fast. *clickclickdamnclickclickdamnclickclickdamn* ...I suppose I could make another photo thread but I know as soon as I did, I'd stop having anything to share.

After Bokishi's studmuffin graphic goodness, I shall now regale you all with a couple of 640x480 shots of Darkstone, blown up to 800x600.

Yeah, it was a slowish start this season...focusing more on character perhaps, with all the the Hank and Walt's wife stuff. It took 3-4 episodes to get going and even then it remains a bit more of a slow burn season. But it's building up and the last couple look to be pretty important chr/plot wise, in terms of Jessie/Walt/Gus. It's been interesting because Jessie is the opposite of Walt for me - not terribly likable at first but he's become a lot more interesting this season.

Hm, thanks for looking that up. I knew some did that but didn't realize most did. The line runs in the direction of the almost-every-day afternoon wind that we get here, so if he started from the left side and cast it out, it might have attached to the blackberry bushes if the wind was strong enough that day.

Item DLC's? I'll have to look them up to see if I'd want those too. I hope that's it...I wouldn't mind playing it again once in a while, I just became fed up with having to alter/redo all my own and downloaded mods so often. :D

Television: Breaking Bad's episode on Sun. was awesome. It's great to see more of Gus' world...and Jessie, where's his plot going? Going to be Gus' new right hand man when the other guy kicks the bucket? Used to be Gus wanted to get rid of Jessie & keep Walt, now it may be the other way around. I'd still like to see Walt's wife eat it tho...her sub-plots at this point are annoying, imo. (edit) Love the turn around of Walt's chr...from someone you can mostly sympathize with, to someone you love to hate.

Rick Astley, the 'rickroll' song. It's 80's, so I kinda like it...sue me.

Hubs sister's husband was out of work for multiple years, when his old job got rid of his dept. long time ago. He did PT/temp work here and there but one, he's on the older side and two, his career area/skills were a bit outdated (some kind of design engineer), so even w/some retraining it was difficult. When he finally got one, they had to move out of state. They kept the house they own here tho (they rent it out). ...as for me, I tell my morning tale in casual photos, as the orb weaver backyard takeover continues: What I'm wondering is how in the hell does the spider bridge this huge of a level gap (can't just jump downwards) to string it's upper web support line? ...but it loves this spot & keeps rebuilding the main oval every morning for days. Fun to watch cause it's so big. Different spider, where support lines have such tension they bend over a small branch. Yet another diff. one. Just liked the lighting/colors.

So the 4th one is out....has there any word on whether there will be more, and/or more patches? If not, it may be time for me to patch up, get the last couple DLC's and play the game again soon...maybe in Oct.

Still Darkstone a couple hours a day. Still rather fun re-living it again. I'd like to play/try Two World II, but so far I haven't found a PC version in a retail outlet. I could do the Steam thing but as usual I'd rather not.

If I do editing it's always in the first few seconds of hitting "post." Usually from typos or wanting to clarify a sentence or two. The time limit was implemented a while back....I can see how it'd be bothersome if you're trying to edit the first post of some info/link thread I guess, but generally not an issue here.

Don't know about Dilbert (never read that much) but that sure makes me think of ST:TNG. Worf: "Captain Picard, the warp engines are down, the Klingons are powering up their phasers and the Borg are on their way!" (long pause) Picard: "Ready room, meeting."

I think spoof would apply, altho some might prefer to call them satirical farces/parodies, perhaps. I'd also disagree that Blazing Saddles didn't parody known films. High Noon was a big one, where they even recreated the church scene, among other films & references. Even the famous 'we don't need no stinkin badges' line is a reference to Sierra Madre I think. It's just that Blazing Saddles wasn't parodying only one film, and did have more generalistic parody as well as the specific, and the way the parody was done made it still resonate to those who hadn't seen specific films being referenced.

No idea. Yeah, ditto, which is why I was surprised I laughed. Like I said - not saying it was good in general...just some of the jokes resonated with me re: the absurdity of Twilight films. Airplane - just the first one - was one of the few that I really liked back then...and I hadn't even seen the Airport films. And some of Mel Brooks stuff is fitfully amusing. Most of the time I don't bother watching such movies tho. Judging from the film, I'd say the makers of the spoof had at least seen the first one. It was made a couple years after I think.

Spider caught a honeybee. Luxury meal. But I was slightly sad since there aren't many bees around here anymore. Time for some din-din.

Vampires Suck - any movie that makes fun of the Twilight series is all right in my book...don't get me wrong, it's stupid & inane like you'd expect from such a film, but I LOL'd several times in spite of myself.

*waves at tarna* ... hope you're feeling better now that you're back home. It's the time of year when orb weavers take over our backyard. They're everywhere, like Kingdom of the Spiders, big webs between house and fences, in the bushes/trees etc. Great fun for me tho.

I'd hazard the guess that many are becoming used to the way MMORPG's work and thus come to expect that sort of formula in 'rpg's.'

Oh yeah...I forgot about bullets in New Vegas. Never did that either. Since the regular bullets still killed everything just fine/with relative ease, I had no incentive to craft those in NV either.

I KILLED SANTA...but it was self-defense, I swear. MONEY.