LadyCrimson

This is not my own screenshot, someone posted it on the Beth forum....omg, every time I look at it I can't stop laughing. http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/6632/fa...tnv20110119.jpg

Planning on getting out of the house to see The Company Men this weekend. Chris Cooper + decent early reviews = I'm there. The other top actors are a draw as well.

Agreed. I think I've been coming here off and on for what... going on six years? (sheesh..time...) ... people here are usually pretty easy going even in the midst of a heated debate. Always nice.

Heheh, I hardly ever carry more than 2-3 weapons. So for me it goes: 1-stimpack 2-default change ammo 3-pistol or other closer range gun weapon 4-sniper weapon 5-unarmed weapon (hardly ever used) 6-variable 7-radaway 8-sunset sas. I never worried about it too much, especially since there were so many times where the weapon hotkeys were wiped out (casinos, etc).

Public armchair drumming with (usually) no consequences has become a world past-time for the masses (instead of the few)....which does/can magnify certain unsavory aspects of human nature (if you're taking part in it). One thing about the internet is conversations may never die...in person people get tired of yapping/arguing and call it quits or whatever...the internet, you get angry, post, go to sleep, wake up, go online, read, get angry, and continue where you left off. But yeah....I get pretty tired of all the anger/judgment/uncouthness too. When I do, I stop reading the internet, except for some main news sites. Works for me.

If you'll forgive my saying so, that's a bloody dangerous line to take. They're just merchants. We can and should smack them down when they get delusions of grandeur. I think you're mistaking not being mad, or not being an active activist, for utter 1984-style apathy. If I don't like something and I have the means/ability to not use/buy it, I won't. Then I don't think about it anymore. There's enough things for my blood pressure to worry over without including things I have no direct control over. Edit: With Comcast, we need/don't have a choice on the internet part, and I'm not going to cancel the cable until they actually DO something that I personally find intolerable.

That was my first thought too, but really, if you're wearing some big heavy power helmet with visor, chances are you view is going to be at least a little restricted. But it's always hard to simulate that in a video game. Not really my kind of mod at all, but imo from what I can tell (and from using one of the mods that one of the makers of this mod has done) I'd say that if it IS your kind of mod, the end result is going to be well done and polished....and supported. That last part is important. Weapon dmg., dmg. multipliers, etc. in NV has been talked to death about, and there are conflicting ideas on that, but I have no idea what they're going to do with it in this mod.

I gave up being mad about such business things a long time ago. It certainly doesn't please me/I think it sucks, but that's money and greed and business for you, nothing new.

Yeah...textures can look ok from a distance, but get up close and they're blurry horrid things. Certain areas look ok with distantlandLOD maxed and everything on ultra but limb/body models are terrible, etc. And for some reason, the late morning through late afternoon lighting is awful. It's like there's a constant white haze. I like it best at night & early morning/evening. Does look better in motion, but still. I've seen some body model mods that make them look quite a bit better, but haven't bothered using them.

What the heck... Increased spawns mod: (Fiends use incinerators a lot more, Legion use chainsaws more, and there's a lot more of them + more NCR) Ghoulies.

Still goof off with NV & the increased spawn mod + GECK now and then, but more often I just post on forums. Thinking about playing Two Worlds again for a bit, or maybe I'll finally check out Witcher.

I remember being excited about Oblivion, and even buying a new video card to make sure I could run it ok. Then I played Oblivion for a short while (several hours?) and .... never picked it up again. I think I did try it once more several months ago, but had the same result. It's funny since I do like sandboxy games and did like Morrowind ok but I guess MW was enough of that...I've learned that individual chr. stories are what motivates me to act, not the 'save the world' A to B main plot, and Beth typically doesn't give me that. I hope the new engine and the FO experiences will have Beth making a game that I'll enjoy more/fits my current tastes...would enjoy more RPG's that I'd love playing. I'll be keeping an eye on Skyrim....but I'm not holding my breath.

Missing (1982) - Still a good movie, even if the production is dated. Matewan - I love this film. Not one I can watch many times a year or something, but it's Sayles best/masterpiece.

(edit: ooops posted movies stuff in wrong thread)....so....well today I goofed around a lot with the GECK, cooked/ate some stir fry, and, uh...well...that's about it.

See, I don't like that kind of gameplay. It may not be timed in the sense of having a big old countdown clock or something, but it's still timed, possibly making it feel like a somewhat random chance of success (at least your first time through it when you don't know what to do). Run around, oops, didn't make it, reload, run around, etc. Does it feel like that?

Clash of Titans, because as usual, it was free. I wasn't expecting much, and not much was what I got. ...however, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson both made me LOL several times. It was so campy/terrible, what they had to do/say, you just had to laugh. And of course the giant scorpions made me think of Fallout. "Look, giant radscorpions! Where's my gauss rifle?" It's such a shame because I still think Sam Worthington is so much better than the 'big US' movies he's been in so far. Hope he gets some better roles at some point.

The power of nature is often scary to us puny humans....thoughts are with anyone affected by the floods. :/

Well, I did say media/pageants/some parents. Also, for me at least, media encompasses a very broad, generic category. I was including magazines, movies, TV, ads/marketing (that would include toys/clothing/products etc.), news coverage of said events, and all of that. (edit)- and I do think it's more than a "handful of photoshoots." It may not be every single magazine article or advertisement on the planet ever made, but it's becoming quite common to see, imo. That's only from my personal experience/observation tho...I don't claim to have seen 'everything' to be able to compare.

I don't find anything overtly sexual/provocative about those pictures either. However I do find it a little disturbing how the media (and pageants and some parents) keep trying make children look grown up. It's one thing, to me, to put on a little blush & lip gloss, do their hair all nice and put them in a fluffy dress for church or a portrait, and another to go to this sort of level. They're children. Let them be children. I don't understand it. Well, I do understand (marketing, sales, blah blah) but I still find it a little creepy when they're only six? ...ah well, I was raised where you couldn't wear makeup at all until you were at least 12, so y'know, I'm just behind the times I guess.

Scout the cat drinks beer.

Hubby was watching "Knowing" again so I watched a bit of it. Then I remembered it wasn't a particularly good movie, even with the Cage-cheese, so I left the room. I wonder about my husband, sometimes. Then again, it's winter...

13 pounds lighter now. Eating now more stabilized vs. gameing-induced starvation but keeping the goal going. Haven't eaten out in a couple weeks, too. But I've been craving pizza all day. I really really want pizza. We're talking the uber meat loaded, artery-clogging kind of pizza. *drools on self* *cries*

I don't care one whit whether Gamespot thinks the overall DLC content/story is awesome or not awesome/what rating they give it....what I do care about are the words "forced" and "timed". I absolutely loathe timed anything in games. Now, if the gamespot review is exaggerating and it's not really timed, maybe it just felt timed to them because there's a sense of pressure to the gameplay, that could be something different. Edit: from reading some quick threads, the first impression I'm getting is that the DLC is slower-paced, possibly repetitive in that pacing, has more of a horror/suspense feeling, and of course, about 1/3 love it, 1/3 hate it and the rest think it's "ok". haha

I've avoided reading the threads on the beth forum about the DLC to avoid huge spoilers (don't mind little ones), but I guess I'll start taking a look to see if anyone describes (whines) about stuff that matches the review's notions.

I usually renew for 2-3 years at a time...since mine are just for personal use, haven't bothered to change from godaddy since I started registering domains ages ago - I only register the names w/godaddy, I don't host with them - and until now, they've always been good at sending reminders. Bah. ...and today, was like every other day. I've been staring at our disgusting back lawn that's quite literally covered in rain-moldering leaves, but I can't work up the motivation to rake it up this year. Don't need grass anyway, let it suffocate under the load. Har.