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Haley's "Rhiannon" is mumbly & gets breathy/weak on the low notes again, can't understand half of what she says. And that's on a nice, clean, stage produced performance, which is a lot different than an actual big-stage, live performing. I think. I'm beginning to suspect they use a lot of voice-filtering thru the mics even in live concerts these days, unlike in the old days where things were often very rough (such as that FM video). Or maybe it's just that live stage tech is so much better now. Btw, I'm not totally knockin' Haley's version, she does fine with it imo, just again, not my style of music/I find it boring. Here's FM's studio version: PS - sucks about all country final tho. lol

Crash-prone games are definitely patience-wrecking. Much as I loved FNV, it's probably the worst in that regard I've ever played, before all the patching. The idea that games are rushed to release and then patched later is a business habit I do not support. Blizzard makes us wait forever, but at least they don't usually have major bugs or performance issues. In the past anyway. We'll see what they do in the future.

What I read other people saying re: story-boring games, these days, is how I've felt about story in games from the beginning. I gave up on main-story in video games a long time ago and leave that for the movies, and just focus on whether I like the gameplay/particular characters or environment/humor etc etc instead.

LOL....that's cute. I'd love to see people's heads turn as they walk by that, or something.

I felt that way about Scott too, what I saw of him anyway. And I'm feeling that way about the country guy in The Voice, as well. But then, I don't like country music much. They do have good country or maybe country-blues voices tho.

Completed it last night. I can see why, if you're into story, that it might be kind of meh/disappointing. Feels rushed because it's "here do this" and then suddenly "bang you're done now", but I dunno, it seems like they did fairly well with what they made/had. To me it felt like a mini-version of the main game and I didn't feel much different about that either. It was the side character stories that I liked so much (companions, Ringo, Boyd, 1st Recon, Misfits etc)...the main quest in NV and their head honchos (Legion/NCR/House) never really gave me any joy. Same thing with HH. I'd love to be able to go back to main game and encounter FollowsChalk in Vegas or something, that would be a cool touch. Course, I don't have all the FO "lore" building up expectations, either. Mine's a complete knows-no-lore of HH. My thoughts are that RPG's in general can be very good with thinking up characters/making them come to life (Obsidian's strength, imo) but for whatever reason tends to fall short on bring all those things together into a grand plot/conclusion. Whether it's time, engine limitations, certain limitations about story in a video game format, or whatever, I dunno...just feels that way to me in many RPG's, long or short. Anyhow, I enjoyed HH a lot and I'd give it 7/10. The new gear/weapons were a lot of fun, imo, and gives me a reason to go back with new characters. I liked jumping into it long before I had done much in the MQ of the vanilla game. I don't think I'd enjoy it as much if I was level 28+. Next time I'm going in at lvl 10 instead of lvl4, tho. Oh and I did have a few crashes, but it wasn't bad for me.

Well, since I went in at lvl 4 (I'm now lvl6 w/my lowerxp mod active) and I've yet to see any White Leg carrying AMR's, Brush Guns, or burning swords, I'd say yes, yes they are. I'd guess it's similar to the vanilla game where at certain chr. lvls they up their gear. Not sure what those points are tho...maybe lvl 9 or 15ish. All they've had in my game is 9mm/10mm SMG's, various shotguns, and pistols, war clubs, machete's, etc. Once in a while one has the .45 Auto. I plan on doing another run with a high lvl chr at some point. I've explored most of the new map now, minus a couple caves I'll go back to a bit later. Running up to see Daniel now I guess. No clue how much more there is after that.

I get bored a lot myself, but I still don't understand some of these things people come up with. I don't see the fun/appeal of bothering to do it, I guess. A few of the pics in the vid are kinda funny tho, I'll give them that.

I've only had Chalky-boy for 90 minutes & he's already driving me crazy with that. Not as bad as Cass but yea... :D I've had him on Passive and I've noticed he doesn't seem to auto-shoot when I go into Caution. I don't know if that's normal/a change or some random glitch I have, but I like it. I didn't get DM, but I'm glad they're doing different approaches to the DLC's...something for every player or whatever. The .45 Auto is awesome. Being a pistol/sniper type, I love having a new pistol. And it has a silencer! Whoop.

The game updated itself recently (I'm told by some I know), but I don't know what it's for/what it might do, if anything. I haven't gone online to download it myself yet, no announcement in the forums about it.

Dogs aren't my thing, but the one on the right is definitely cute/adorable. It's been cloudy/rainy here too. Last time I remember rain in mid-late May, around here, was when hubby & I got married, back in the early 90's. At least it gives my allergies/cough a break. I can almost sleep for 3 hours in a row now. I'm learning to live via 2-3 naps per day.

lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one that had the problem with the start. I actually did it TWICE before realizing what the trigger to avoid was. I think they just didn't take playstyles into consideration. In my case he drops off his rock to give chase as I backed off, meaning Chalk did as well, so I thought they were both enemies. Then while shooting in real-time it became a matter of wild shots going wild. I didn't even notice one had a "name" because they were so far away. @virumor Oh I dunno...while in-game it looks fine. Nothing spectacular/has it's issues but it works and sometimes even looks pretty. @mkreku Definitely liking the exploration part. I foresee it'll take me longer than the 3-4 hours so many are saying elsewhere, to finish. I'm so slow initially.

Bah, I had to restart. I'd read about the opening problem that causes you to Fail & ruins the whole thing, essentially....and thought I'd avoided it but no. The descriptions I'd read weren't clear enough and so I must've accidentally hit the NPC guy and then in the ensuing fight just thought he was an enemy - didn't notice the FAIL QUEST message (since I have the GUI set to be very faint). So when you cross the first bridge, don't shoot, just wait. Then you're fine.

You could say that about the original NV game, too...the main quest of NV is doable in fairly quick progression if you really want. Myself, I entered the DLC at clvl4 (hehe), still on VH/no VATS playstyle, and am having a ball exploring before dashing toward the compass marker. I guess that's how I am tho. I don't care about the quest marker, I wanna see what's out there first. The Abiliene BB Gun, scoped 9mm and silence 10mm has been working great, but I'm still weak enough (with my lvl and all) that I'm running around grabbing every plant to heal myself with. I didn't bring tons of healing with me, and early exploration=no stores yet, so...yea. Great fun doing it this way. It's almost...challenging.

Yeah I think it's .0014, if IIRC. Most players won't notice, but I've seen posts from people who emptied their inventory down to their undies and wondered why they still had 20 excess weight...it's almost always the 1000's of lead they forget they have, from breaking down ammo. lol

I'm not sure, really. The current US "diva" type of singing generally leaves me cold, even as I can respect/admire the technical polish of it. Maybe it feels too artificial/fake so it doesn't hit me emotionally? Other than that, it's probably more the style a singer sings in. Singers/music like , or Enya & Natalie Merchant are more likely to grab me, for instance. Haley does have a bit of throaty"growl" to some of her notes, which is all right. She's a little volume-weak in certain ranges and the "glory notes" put me to sleep tho. Vicci sounded pretty good, imo, during the battleround. Her funky weird "war dance" is endearing, too. lol

Assuming I read that right...lead isn't actually weightless. If you have thousands etc. it'll weigh you down. The only items that are truly weightless are the ones with -- in the weight column. If it says 0, it still has weight, just too small to be listed as "1." Edit: not that this ever amounts to much for most people.

I'm buying it tomorrow. Probably not the very instant it's available on Steam, but I'll get it. Going to go in lowish to middling clvl and with a fairly weak weapon load-out with a low DT outfit. I don't want to start it as a buffed out terminator.

Somehow I haven't yet leveled a new FNV chr. for HH, so after the ballgame I have to buckle down and do that. Luckily it won't take too long, since I only plan on being between level 13 and 17. Haven't decided exactly.

I liked the episode much better than last week. The political intrigue is ramping up, the scenes re:Tyrion & all that were great and/or twisted-ly funny, there was a bit more action feeling with the jousting & the end, loved the scene between the rotund bald guy and...uh, whoever that bearded guy who "still has affection for Mrs Stark" is, etc. (I can't keep all these darn names straight)

Nope, not kidding. Haley is definitely more polished. Vicci has the passion & energy. To me it's like the difference between, say, Janis & Whitney. Which is not to say that I think Vicci actually compares to the legendary Janis (not even close). I'm just saying I prefer raw energy to polish, overdone vocal run type stuff, and vanilla staging. eg, I find Haley boring/doesn't evoke any emotion. Just my opinion tho.

Bah. That chick Vicci did it much better on The Voice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbnbgq58GA :D Haley has a nice voice (let's face it 98% of the ppl on these shows have at least good voices) but it's so...diva-vanilla.

I dunno...I don't see how this is any worse than having the Emergency Alert System come on in the middle of your TV/radio program, which you also can't "opt out" of, at least in terms of inconvenience. Especially in this day & age where more people are likely to have a cellphone than be sitting in front of a TV/radio. I don't have any sympathy for people being possibly upset because their Facebook, Twitter, or phone call was interrupted for a possibly important tornado/tsunami warning or whatever. But if there are possible data-privacy concerns re: the software/techniques being used to relay the EA's, that's always a sticky thing (don't know if there actually are, just saying "if"). Still, "smart phones" already have that in spades, what's one more?

If you mean those double-sided DVD's, then no. I'd fill up 100 of them or something, way too much clutter, I'd rather have HD's. And many of the video files are way more than 4-8GB since I use direct stream copy to splice stuff together into one huge file. If you meant some other tech gadget that I'm not familiar with, then...dunno. And today so far I woke up very early (again) and have been playing around with voice recording. Just for kicks, no projects. Mostly an attempt to fill some time and to try to ignore the pounding of the neighbors who have been nosily replacing their roof for over two days via drowning them out with my bad karaoke singing and narrations. Later, baseball & Game of Thrones.