LadyCrimson

Watched the 1st episode of The Voice (singing show...). It has the terrible, too-much-filler format of all such shows (which I FF'd thru) but the actual parts where hopefuls sang to the backs of the famous-coaches chairs/heads was different. Since coaches couldn't see the singers, they were judging voice, not looks/style. Also, no terrible singers for mean-comedy value. Beats American Idol, imo. Which isn't hard I suppose.

It's not very complicated...just a lot of hotkeys+easy mouse-click access to skills, typically including crafting skills as well as combat. Or one's mount. Plus spell effects you have on yourself/chat menus. You should see some of the GUI mods people use in WoW. Now those are complicated/crazy. Literally can barely see the actual game for all the stuff...

Ding dong the wicked warlock is dead. ...I'm not into celebrating death per se, but I'm glad he's gone. As Hurlshot said...one less monster in the world. Between this news & last nights hilarious 'roasting' of Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner, I'm sure Obama's chances of 4 more years will be looking better...at least for a while.

--maybe Sean Bean is a bit typecast as the gloomy fantasy male, but he's really good at it --Jamie Lannister gets better every week --Tyrion Lannister, ditto --Daenerys's character progression/growth still compels me. I perk up during her segments --sometimes it's hard to watch when I know the outcomes of certain plot points already --I'm tired of the dragoneggs. --actor playing Jon Snow isn't doing it for me --the constant switching of PoV every 2 minutes is starting to annoy me a little, like it did in the book. It's not a major thing, but...

The Red Sox just scored two runs against Felix and I nearly fainted from shock. Looks like another nice day, so after the ballgame I'm going to go for a cruise with the camera. Maybe with a deli sandwich in tow.

Finally watched The Expendables. It was ok. Not as over the top silly as I was expecting, except near the end. One brief bit as Stallone is was hilarious, with that huge gun popping baddies like a video game almost. The movie, however, has an awesome soundtrack. It's the new listening fave at the moment.

Tomatoes planted. Snoozed in the sun (it's a nice day). Forums & stuff. Lunch. Now I'm going back outside to listen to some tunes & read/snooze in the sun some more. Life is good.

...and yeah, the treasure hunting/collecting sounded like something else I'd like, from one review I read. The rift randomish grouping and collecting. The rest not so much. Well, if I get motivated in the next few days I may buy it. It's only money right. If I do I'll make sure to join that server.

Heh, that is a cute animation. I've been playing FNV just a little too. The weapons changes are definitely awesome from an "I take more damage now" perspective. The world is more dangerous around human enemies and I like it. Probably not enough to carry me through another entire run of the game (or even a half-run, heh) but a very nice job of tweaking.

I've seen the box in stores but thought I'd make sure - I don't need Steam for DRM validation, right? @SadExchange - Thanks for the thoughts on the game & screenies. It sure does look like WoW, lol, only with slightly better/tuned up graphics. Since I'm one of those that played WoW until I badly burned out, I'm worried the differences between the two won't keep me interested enough for long enough. Hm. Wish the disc itself was cheaper.

I was a pre-teen for the Princess Di wedding, which I curiously watched. I think I still have the VHS tape I recorded somewhere, too. But I'm skipping this one. Still having trouble with allergy post-nasal drip cough & sleeping. Congests lungs a little, waking me up coughing. When I stand/sit I'm mostly fine, only when lying down so it drains into the throat/lungs. Driving me crazy. Don't think I have a nasal infection, just a whole lotta allergy. Maple trees, everything else. Clean & clean and still sleep-cough. *purple bags under her eyes*

I've pretty much done everything I can possibly do to make Win7 look and feel like WinXP, including turning off a lot of the 'do this automatically' crap that I can't stand. Some things I can't alter, but...well, works for me. What I like most about Win7 is it's ability to recover from program/driver crashes without a hard freeze. It's much better with that than XP. In over a year and a half, I think I've had one or two instances where I had to do a reboot because of a software/driver malfunction. I can't say the same about XP. And in terms of the RAM thing...when you first turn the pc on, the RAM cache is very low. It only starts increasing as you use programs. If you have less RAM, I'd assume it caches less. Maybe it's a percentage number. Win7's defrag program, however, still sucks. You'll still want something like Defraggler.

Yeah, sorry about the mini-keypad rant. I was just so frustrated last night with trying to even type tweets on the thing. I'd probably find it less annoying if the keys were in some weird arrangement instead of looking like a real keyboard. I'm a semi-rapid touch-typist so hunting & pecking on something that looks like I should be able to touch type on is aggravating. lol Tablets are definitely shiny & I can see some uses for it, if you like those uses. My husband & I tho, we're just not with it when it comes to this new wave of gadgets. Don't fit us or what we'd personally want/design I guess.

Hubs has one of those Xoom tablets for a week (he's testing it to see if a client wants/should get a bunch, vs. ipads) and so I tried it. The screen is very nice looking. The size and weight isn't bad. But... ...these touchpad tablet keyboards suck. They're too small to actually hover your hands over the 'keys' like a proper keyboard and so you're still hunting and pecking. There's a small delay/lag between you hitting a key and it showing up on screen so it's confusing. Having to hit a key to switch between numbers & letters. The keys are so sensitive that even a slight brush with a finger types a letter etc. It took me 2 minutes to type a 100 chr tweet w/out any errors in it. Also, webbrowsing, the 'slide the finger' to scroll is annoying if a webpage has too many buttons that you're going to hit constantly while making the motion. Do you ever get used to all that or ... ? Gawd I'm an old fart.

SNAKE RATTLE N ROLL

I lol'd.

I don't understand why they can't just have a message that pops up that informs you there's a new patch, do you want to download now, yes/no. I don't get it at all. If not patching the game means stuff like Steam achievements won't work until you do patch, they can tell you that in big bolded text & let you decide whether you care. Unless there's an insurmountable tech reason that = have to patch or your PC will run off with your first born child, when to update should be left up to the player.

Do you use voice? I don't like voice, especially w/my allergies meaning I cough and sneeze into a mic all the time. It would definitely be fun to hang out with y'all. I keep hoping for a game I'd like where it would happen. I'll think about it, but at the moment I'm not sure I'd have the dedication for it.

*curmudgeonly hrumphing noises*

This. ...good luck to all, in all things.

So Rift feels a bit like WoW, only better? I've been staring at it for a while now, but not sure I wanted to get into another online game. I tend to become too addicted to them. The notion of rifts appearing that require a group to close sounds kinda fun. That would be more my kind of group dynamic - ppl sometimes randomly grouping to do that (vs dungeon instance runs).

New GECK (1.3) is out now. Performance thingie that I've noticed: that annoying delay between action & info txt msg popping up is largely gone, even from the very start of a new chr/game. @deathdealer - the version # can be seen by loading a save game, hitting ESC, and clicking the "Help" menu option. It doesn't appear in the main/start in-game menu, have to load a save 1st. There might be another way too but that's the one I know of.

Despicable Me. Cute & charming...but a bit too kid-cute for my tastes. Enjoyable enough tho.

Messing with FNV to check out the patch. Technical curiosity mostly...probably won't play it long. All the weapon changes probably will = my needing to recreate a few of my little mods. I knew I should have kept more things separated...

Doesn't work. For a lot of people. It resets itself and starts downloading anyway. @deathdealer - if your Steam game was updated, the .exe files and FalloutNV.esm in the game's main directory should have a new 'modified on' date of yesterday/today/when it was DL'd. Can't recall where to look while in game, offhand. Edit: My PC/game didn't need optimization but I do notice less "pause lag" when things like Pushy's knock-back effect flash on screen. Happens a lot less often. Cowboy repeater definitely a lot slower firing. Had one game crash when trying to load an old save. Loading wheel went round & round forever, 'not responding', had to end task. When I restarted the game, it then loaded just fine. No loading problems since. Weird.