LadyCrimson

At last, I might be able to carry enough "stuff." **just kidding. I do modify backpack size (the money/gold line is where I normally have it, default is 3 rows less) but outside of "godmode" you could not fill that many slots and still be able to move, even w/maxed bonuses, heh. 1.0 made the general center X center cursor huge tho, and I've been trying to figure out how to make it smaller. It's the one that shows up even if your "hands" are empty, just a giant grey X. I can make text used in UI's smaller, make the UI generally smaller, alter pieces of the UI (like health bars, toolbars) change columns and rows to silly levels, make that center inventory/chr/crafting/storage window-area the size of a dot if I felt like it (you have to make the center bit smaller to have such a tall rows inventory) and there's ways to remove the ranged weapon aim-down-sights crosshairs etc, but I can't figure out how to make that stupid X change. There's also this giant white circle icon that shows up when repairing/upgrading blocks. Maybe they're an actual image. Still, must be a way to scale it somehow....

We did the more pricey "still in theaters" rental of Kevin Coster's "Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1". 3 hours long. He's the director. ---first hour has all this bad stuff happening to a group of people you know nothing about and care little about. It was filmed ok, actors were ok. ---Kevin Coster's chr. finally shows up at some point after all that, and I thought "ok, here's the main story, it's starting now." But no, after his bits the movie continued to introduce more characters (or go back to ones you'd seen very briefly, earlier). ---I was actually finding it all fairly watchable - not great, but watchable - but after two hours of "is there a point to all of these threads and groups" I had enough. Hubby watched the rest, I did not. Like many big Costner films, there's an element of "spot the well known chr./guest actor" throughout. Apparently there will be a Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 and maybe a Chapter 4 (if the others do well). So the notion that the film would not have a proper ending is also what made my attention founder. Maybe when all chapters are out I'll watch the rest. It felt like it should've been another mini-series, ala Hatfields and McCoy's, vs. 4 (possibly all 3 hr) movies. Costner's trying to have a magnum opus I guess.

At this point Donkey from Shrek would be preferable over Trump.

Randomly ran across a YouTube channel that seemingly has every single episode (over 550 of them anyway) of Richard Dawson hosted Family Feud. Making my way through the early first ones, the 70's time capsule it (and other game shows I'd guess) presents is making me giggle. The hair, the suits/dresses, the silly questions and answers. When you watch it now, one has to remember the answers would not include a bunch of things you might think of that came after the 70's. Also, that final big prize of $5k would be about $15-$16k today, or something. Anyway - just more blasts from the past, for me. Jeopardy was #1, but Feud was stupid fun in small doses too.

Every English lyric site only says floating/drifting/weightless, no mention of cold/pulled thru space etc. Hm. So, an inaccurate English translation = the destruction of even the remote survival dreams for poor ol' Major Tom? Maybe he just forgot to put on a sweater! Ah well...that was my original belief anyway. So unless he became a Star Child - RIP!

I knew of the Bowie connection (and the later Bowie addiction allegories or some such). But I have the same issue w/Bowie's song - it's not actually explicitly stated what goes wrong, like a rocket exploded or another astronaut witness, it's simply implied/assumed because no one can contact him. In Schilling's version there's even the line about how no one knows he's still alive - which I took to be a "he's still alive floating somewhere, but not for long". Maybe Major Tom is a Star Child.

My new NMS pet - TulipHead. It was simply spawning all over on one of my home bases now. I haven't explored much/seen any of the other new exotic fauna. On the 55" OLED TV, this is way too white-bright/blown out. The visual upgrades are mostly nice/good, but bright white noon sun/clear skies/water on some planets were ugh. Turning TV settings down a bit more (I already have such pretty low, since dark room) helped tho.

No Man's Sky --Since I don't build giant bases, and I also build most of them hanging in mid-air, so far none of my chrs/larger bases were an issue. And I lucked out where most of my main "planets" didn't change too much, either. A little here and there, like foliage shapes or fauna, nothing big. --the new water is nice, although it's mostly a big difference on oceans/coasts. Overall cleaner graphic looks. Maybe sometimes almost too "clean." And some lighting is ... overblown re:whites/contrast. I do not have any HDR settings on. Still had to turn such settings down on the TV to not be blinded occasionally. --performance is about the same at native4k, did turn more things to High vs. Ultra to be 60fps/safe, don't notice a visual difference. But I think I'll go back to 7 Days for now. NMS supposedly will have a "Worlds version 2" update coming later - maybe that'd be a better time to jump back in.

I guess I'm on a "are they still alive/how they doing" kick. Happily the answer here is yes (he's 68 now). I think I might actually like this live, slightly (I think, could be wrong) lower pitched version more than the original English/MTV version. Or maybe I just like a live version better. But what I've always wanted to know - is Major Tom dead? Does coming home = crashing/burning up in the atmosphere? That's what I always thought but ... shrug.

--On the one hand: haven't played it in a long while, this is a massive world/everything generation update! Exploration might be fun/feel new again for a while! (new ships/space station designs in earlier updates I didn't care one whit about) --On the other hand: probably a 20% chance any old saves and their main bases are broken (misshaped, half deleted, underground, whatever) by planet generation changes under your feet. Your fave planet could be entirely different/a different biome all of a sudden, stuff like that. If hit by that, one has to deal with, or just write those saves off (which would include your ships, freighters, collections) and start anew. ---either performance fix patches will be incoming, or might need a 4080 to run it at 4k. Might give an idea how Light No Fire might run tho. ---And do I try to preserve my install of older version of game to play it totally Offline if I can't stand/run this new version? More work. Sigh. I'll think about it for the weekend. But it looks nice!

Out of curiosity, do you get much satisfaction from that thing others call "achievement?" I mean, sometimes it does feel nice to finally get a thing off your to-do list crossed off, don't get me wrong, but I mean in a larger sense. A lot of my youth was spent chasing the notion because "everyone" told me that's what you're supposed to do/feel. My inner turmoil quieted quite a bit once I realized I didn't need "goals/achievements" to be content. I'm not geared that way is all. I would like to not feel stuck in emotional neutral all the time tho. I would also like to create more memories. After many years, one starts to realize sitting around the house doesn't make many memorable memories. And yeah, people tire me out too. But I don't mind if they're simply around - like at a park - I just don't want to interact beyond a nod as one walks by. Social interaction isn't the kind of memory I'm looking for.

Probably about 50/50. There's a few things involved for me: ---lost interest/enthusiasm in things that entertained me for 45+ years (books, films/tv, games, parasocial net, music, camping, parks etc) ---a desire to find things that take me outside of the house for at least a few/several hours a week but don't involve other people, and exercise reasons ain't it (EDIT: that one is the easiest to attempt in a way, by visiting new places/shops/events around town etc) ---no desire for ever more physical/material piles of things, thus no interest in anything that would create such, or require tons of material prep just to do 2nd Edit: While this has been going on slowly for a while, I do still feel like it accelerated after the diabetic almost-coma. By that I mean, the feeling that nothing triggers much emotion/reaction, hence it's all neutral reactions. Sometimes the only strong reactions I seem to get much any more are visual cue ones, and by strong I just mean that I notice. Like a field of flowering cherry trees.

The wanna be assassin apparently didn't spend enough time at the shooting range. There, I said it. More seriously, as much as I don't like Trump - or Biden at this point for that matter - no one would "deserve" that. I'm only surprised, with the state of things for a long while, that no one tried a bit sooner. And I don't think it's faked/set up. The next 10-20 years of US politics is going to be nuts. I keep wondering about civil war/internal terrorism potentials lately. Depressing.

Relying on childhood memory watches again: (the first few seasons I probably saw in syndication, I was a bit too young for 1st run etc )

^ ok, thanks, sounds like it would update me to next-gen automatically then. What made people feel ripped off tho? Quick search makes it sound mostly like a graphical/performance/bug fixes (the latter being always in question re: Bethsoft) update with some added quests/outfits.

I am slow brained - if I bought the release version of FO4 and that's it, but I'd have to reinstall the game because I already uninstalled it ages ago, what version of FO4 would I be playing? Is it like Death Stranding where there's a "new" version of the game and the original release store page is delisted, but if you bought that older version, it's still there/that's what you'd download, if you didn't pay/opt in for the update/new version? Edit: not that I'm sure I'm interested in this London mod either, but knowing my options are nice.

^ I don't even know what I'd do with a net speed that fast. I suppose in 10 years we'll need it to download games tho. >.> ========== Unrelated: my search for entertainment these days mostly has my face doing this. I don't know what to do, guys. I'm not depressed. It's just still that syndrome of being an introverted, non-social, recluse where I just find nothing interesting to my tastes (or tastes have changed?)/been there done that/too similar or predictable. The brain just doesn't light up and I don't care. You know how some experiences are just once and done, never care to repeat it in any form, even if you liked that singular experience? It's like my whole life is currently like that. I keep trying different things and it's just ... no. So I sits under the porch and watch the birds fly by. Maybe the ducks will show up in the pool today.

Based on what I've read/seen people comment on, there are two main reasons for Gamepass: ---you would buy/play a lot of games per year vs. only a few/several at most, and generally don't care about replaying them (once and done) or that they might get yanked off the available list in a few/several months (thus the monthly would still end up cheaper) ---you want to be able to try any new games out for "cheap" to first decide if you care enough to fully buy it ---you're console only anyway and/or need the MP/online functions so must pay on some level anyway (?). Me, I never paid/signed up for the PS sub that gives you online access stuff. I don't need it, don't care. I still have zero interest in Gamepass, even with MS doing its best to acquire a lot of franchises. "Owning" a game may be ever more of a precarious illusion in these days of non-physical media, but I still like what illusion there is left.

This seems more my current speed than Pacific Drive. It's by the same people who did Above Snakes. So I expect it to be nothing special but fun, fairly simple and relaxing.

Me with 7 Days to Die: --*create several RWG maps* --*some hours/same evening later* - "This seems like a good map, and this base I made is awesome. I'm digging it. But I wonder" --*fiddles with .xml files* --*create several RWG maps* Repeat forever. I don't think I've played a save of 7 Days for more than 4-5 hours in years. ...wouldn't mind if Manor Lords had a big patch soon. But I think they're upgrading from UE4 to 5 (because Xbox won't take UE4 anymore, I hear), so it might be a while. >.>

To be honest, after Another 48 Hours (which wasn't as good as the first, ofc), I think the only thing I've seen of E. Murphy's that I liked since then (besides "DONKEY!") was Tower Heist (2011). Coming to America2 was ok but eh. But yeah, from that perspective what I saw of BHC/AxelF was one of the better things from him in forever. Doolittle, Nutty Professor, Daddy Day Care etc - no thank you. I haven't seen Dolemite. After Daddy Day Care I stopped paying him any attention outside of "DONKEY!"

...at last, a city that might be big enough. ...unfortunately I don't like the way the RWG generator works anymore - well, for stupid mega cities anyway. It's still "ok" for normal maping. But even there they come out a lot more ... generic ... then in past versions. The illusion of the random is disappearing. Just simlar splat patterns and repeating/repetitious city tiles.

Also: My parents/family had me liking this version: But the 80's had me also liking this version.

I'm similar. To be fair, despite having a very musical parent who kept trying to get me to play instruments, I was never a huge music/bands is life sort. Outside of the brief age 13-16 stage. Parents got me into their generation stuff. Brother got me into the Beatles. Hubby got me into the 60's/70's rock. I think my interest in general popular hits or even searching for new music waned in direct proportion with how much my PC gaming interest peaked. eg, the mid1990's. Also, I stopped listening to radio because I stopped driving a zillion miles every year, so exposure dropped to almost zero. Hubby and I rarely listen to any music and I only listen to it while gaming or a nostalgia wave hits. ...these day's I mostly only know of music or big popular hits thru films/TV, games, or occasionally a random YouTube recommend or something. And even more rarely, a specific search because I suddenly get a hankering to hear some choir/orchestra or monks chanting or drum solos or ....

Wait, he's part of the Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band, in the past and now? Colin Hay still has that voice. The man playing the bass/back vocals was cheery-infectious to watch. Had to look him up, had no idea who he was. I still have no idea who he is, but his name is apparently Hamish Stuart.