LadyCrimson

Been sick a while, on the road to better. It's been 3+ years since we moved into this house I'm in another period of tossing old stuff away. Reams and reams of stuff. Even the old NES. Never play the thing, but I just haven't been able to toss it until now.

Rubber - a very very strange movie about a tire that gains sentience & rolls around exploding ppl's heads via "mind power." I liked it for about 60 minutes & the cinematography was actually pretty cool, but it gets old by the end. True Grit - never saw the original film. Kinda slow, kinda lyrical, some nice moments. Didn't really grip me much, but beautiful scenery. Plus I got to say "Is that Barry Pepper?" Wrecked - Adrian Brody really knows how to pick bad movies to be in, lately. Arctic Blast - lowish budget 'end of the world' movie...cross between ID4 & Day After Tomorrow, only instead of advancing alien spaceship shadows you have ... a deadly creeping ice fog via a hole in the ozone. Acting tolerable and at least at 2am, mildly entertaining in that bad-movie kind of way. Michael Shanks from SG-1 is the male lead. Collapse - documentary consisting of Michael Ruppert yakking for 80 minutes about how farked up the world will be when oil runs out. Stuff like that. Interesting topic imo but the guy's a serious doomsayer nut. I liked his line about crop seeds becoming a new currency in the face of starvation & economic collapse, tho. The New Daughter - Horror/thriller movie about a father who's daughter starts acting weird. Kevin Coster needed a paycheck I guess. I'm Still Here - I couldn't sit through more than 15-20 minutes.

I do that all the time. I walked around the BG1 maps from side to side, one screen width at a time until all the shroud was gone. It's worse in RTS games where you usually have a minimap staring at your the whole time making it harder to ignore. I did that too. Couldn't stand seeing any of that 'black fog' left on my screen.

Oh ok, lol. There were plenty of fake trailers for The Thing-prequel too, so...

I'm going to agree with this. They change minor things of course, like skill & loot systems, but as much as I have loved hack n slash games in the past, anything gets old when it's basically the same game over & over again. I liked Torchlight well enough, but I didn't play it very long because...well...I'd done it before. Obviously if the maps and combat and all of that are still awesome, it'd still be fun to play for a while, but....I'd rather they have created a hack slash game that was at least set in a new "world" rather than that of Diablo again. Guess that's why, even tho a part of me was looking forward to D3, another part was thinking "meh don't care." It's a strange feeling.

Yeah...you have to try one of those at least once in your life. I have to stay away from those just because I'd eat too many...

This is the trailer I saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9laXAH-lk It's on imdb too.

I don't think I'd say D3 looks the same or better as TQ, but it does constantly remind me of TQ graphically. That is, when I watched all those early vids they kept releasing, my mind kept thinking "TQ." I'm not sure exactly why. It's not just the shared 'top down" 3D viewpoint thingie either - many games that remind me nothing of each other have that...but something about TQ & D3 specifically reminds me a lot of each other. At least in the videos.

Hikaru no Go. Can't believe an anime about the board game of Go could be somehow so enthralling. And then eps. 60/61 had me bawling like a baby. Also, I saw a long trailer for the prequel film to The Thing. I wasn't impressed. The notion of making a film based around the team that actually digs up the "thing" in the ice isn't bad, but eh, I have doubts they pulled it off. Plus I'd personally be annoyed if they ignore certain continuity aspects related to the Carpenter film.

Silly as in exhibiting the traits of He-Man type trash fantasy? Yes. But agreed they're definitely a huge improvement over Oblivion.

Samurai Champloo (anime series) - so awesome. ....still tons of anime I don't like or don't "get", or at best give me 'take it or leave it' feelings, but the few series I discover that I do like, I like a lot.

Sometimes I wish I was good with humorous responses. Sending good health vibes your way...I'll be thinking of you.

She works great early on using her human form, but I find her human abilities (even maxed out spinning kick etc) to be very difficult to "win" with/do effectively against the end boss sections, on HC at least. And the focus regen thing is kind of a pain, as mentioned already. But then, I'm not very good with melee in general, in most games. So maybe it's just me.

There's another post that deals with that. It doesn't yet have all of them tho. http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=58111

It's been the mantra of humanity in all things for countless ages.

The "silly" seasons of Top Gear/UK is hilarious when you've never seen it before. I can see it getting old after a while but I was lol'ing a lot last night anyway.

Too true. ....you guys kill me. I may not be purchasing the game, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the YT Let's Plays and hearing from my buddies about what they think of it. It's always interesting to watch the hoopla over a Blizzard title even if one isn't playing. I didn't buy SC2, either, because I didn't even like SC1 so just not interested...but it was fun to hear about it from friends and articles.

I've been slowly losing interest for five years. Don't buy that many per year anymore. FNV was the first game in a long time that I played to death like that.

I love the Red Sox 10th inning walk-off win against the Yankees last night (great game, great low-scoring contest), but it would definitely be nice if these two teams could manage to finish a game by 3 hours like most others. 4.5 hour games, sheesh. Currently paying bills & wondering if I can spare the funds for a shiny new camera lens.

That has zero to do with whether a specific individual is actually interested in the game. I still don't have a cellphone, if that helps explain my old-fogieness. If I don't like the sound of it and I don't need it, I don't get it. Yeah...while I personally do like some hack n slash games and did want a Diablo3, I haven't felt much excitement about it yet, plus I'm moving towards being less interested in games overall to begin with...so it's easier to let go of it this time around.

Yup. But it does matter to me. I don't base my purchases on what "everyone else" is going to do.

It was nice to see the Red Sox get lucky & beat CC to win the 2nd game of the weekend series. Since I seem to be in non-gamer mode (and likely will stay that way until winter) I've been doing all kinds of little things this month (edit:the past month, I guess it's Aug. already). I'm feeling super-organized again, too, instead of half-organized. Feels good.

Blizzard VP 'Surprised' Over Fan Reaction To 'Diablo 3' Online Requirements I think more have complained about the real money thing tho. It wouldn't surprise me if Blizzard changes their mind on that one. Which isn't to say I believe they will, just that it wouldn't surprise me. At any rate, I'm still not buying the game. All those changes and my uneasiness about Activision/Blizzard as a company that I may not want to support anymore - I could "live with them/it" a while longer, and I'm sure I'd have fun with the game for a bit if I did, but I don't feel like it this time. And no, always-online doesn't = MMO. Even with Diablo2, you could be on Closed Battle.net and never talk to/play with another soul if you wished. Probably won't be any different. For me it's the removal of choice...a principle thing. I don't care if there's no "open battlenet" (never used that anyway), but I do want an offline play mode. The duplication of character thing doesn't bother me & just sounds like an excuse. The extra work I can understand tho. Bah humbug.

So I'm hearing about this stuff this morning. I was already losing interest a bit with the direction Activision/Blizzard seems to be going in, and this kind of tips me over the edge. I won't be buying the game. Bah humbug. Actually the real-money thing bothers me not too much...no one's being forced to use that trade option (plus I don't trade much personally, anyway). But no offline/always online...boo. Stop pretending and make Diblo3 a MMO to replace your aging WoW then. Bah...I suspect in another decade I'll have quit games entirely. Oh well, by then I'll be sitting around a table drinking rum & playing bridge & tiddlywinks with other aging coots, anyway.