LadyCrimson

I think we gave a pretty good "fight" during the series considering half our team feels like it's currently made from AAA. With Youk & Pedroia both out, I've pretty much given up on the season...I suppose it's still mathematically possible for a little longer but I don't expect it. I'll have to cheer on the Braves or something now. heh ...and today we took a cruise in the hills, watched baseball, and I ate a lot of beef jerky.

I'm in luv w/Cillian Murphy. Noticed him in 28 Days Later then forgot about him until Red Eye. Now he's more US mainstream I guess. Trying to catch up with some of his early/indie films. The heavy Irish brogues are sometimes difficult for me tho. The Wind That Shakes the Barley - pretty good anti-war film about the Republicans in early 20th century Ireland. Intermission - a multiple storyline movie ala Crash or Pulp Fiction. Not bad, not great. Jumps between stories are a bit abrupt for me. Colin Farrell & Colm Meaney from ST:TNG are in it too.

You mean, like last night? ... Bazinga! ...but yeah, I don't have my hopes up too high or anything. heh

Aye, legalities differ from place to place. Then there's also how enforceable some things are & whether companies want to go to the expense/bother of trying to enforce them. My guess is that it's often not worthwhile to do so, which can lead to ppl thinking that (from a legal standpoint) something is ok...since no one gets taken to court except in occasional extreme circumstances.

Hubby has a 'guys' poker night out, so I have the house all to myself. Being happily married, this mostly means...that I can play all the music my husband can't stand, as loud as I want, have a dinner that consists entirely of stuff he hates, & watch a subtitled film. Yay!

I'm going to side with Wrath on this aspect, at least in legal theory. Despite having a physical thing in your hands, you have not bought the rights to the property, only the right to use that property, and it's up to the owners of that intellectual property what they consider/want "use" to mean. Whether we think the decisions are "fair" or even rational, means nothing from a legal standpoint. And you definitely can't "resell the use-license", digital or otherwise.

*giggles* The Purkstab....it should be in the dictionary, I love it. I only got about half way through Portal (puzzle games aren't really my thing) but what I did play seemed pretty cool in concept. I wouldn't personally call it 'awesome' but it was charming. But using vid games in classrooms is interesting. I had a history teacher that used classic movies a lot to teach...or maybe he just wanted to nap, I'm not sure. heh If he's still around, I bet he'd use video games these days. (edit:seriously, I find it interesting...I mean, they use manual toys/games in grade schools to teach certain things, why not vid games as well, right?)

Friend got nailed doing 50 in a 25 - she was late for work. Her husband was like "I've sped on that road too, but that's really bad, lol." A few city tickets in my teens kinda cured me re:going more than 5 over, anywhere but on the freeway, heh. Bummer about the driving record tho. Mine's been clean a long long time too & I dread the day...

Dr. Ned was light fun/humorous, but it was so very...monotonous...in color that my brain started to atrophy. But it did have some a couple cool new monster types. And yes, Borderlands wasn't difficult at all, except for a few boss monsters, if/when you didn't know the tricks and/or aren't a shooter type player to begin with. Those multi-hit revolvers were one of my faves too, but they seemed to become hard to find high-dmg ones later. The scoped 2-shot Pestilent Defilers rated at 500-800+ dmg are what I mostly used.

Since I haven't played any, this is only random speculation based on numerous screenshots of them all...but the older games seem a lot browner, even the forests...the new ones a lot greener, with all the improved foliage textures. Plus the mentioned shiny/less blocky of course.

I heard the Secret Armory is by far the best DLC. I've yet to play any of them though, got them in the recent Steam sale. I'm going through playthrough 2 right now, and my character is still in Fyrestone, so it'll be a while until I can play the DLC I think. Moxxi does give two additional skill points and some extra stash space (only accessible via the DLC, it doesn't make inventory bigger)...so I've heard. It didn't sound interesting to me either so I skipped it. Secret Armory plays more like an actual expansion, albeit a smallish one. If you enter it at lvl 50 from playthrough2, however, be prepared for it to be pretty hard. And very car-centric in the first half. But definitely the best one of the current available three. The new one, ClapTrap's Robot Revolution, is slated for Sept. I can't wait for it...sounds hilarious.

Noticed that my vid. drivers very randomly "stop responding" (but Win7 'recovers' so no interruption) once in a great while during non-game applications. So I tried installing nvidia's most recent drivers, which apparently decided I should no longer have the ability to turn PhysX off from the cpanel. ::frownyface::

Any better? ...what they remind me of, for the female versions anyway, are those cartoonish line drawings you get from the sidewalk artists in some places.

Go forth and conquer, oh fearless Obsidianites! .... or at least, try not to die. ...I've never even head of this game, so this should be interesting.

Had a lvl 68 (Darkstone) Monk IIRC...the hardest difficulty was pretty darn hard, never got to 100. (video's not mine, just shows the gameplay) It was well supported at the time for a while too, with extra quest downloads, patches, & such. Could re-skin your chrs....*rummages in drawers*...lol had my website on disc. It dealt mostly with the seed numbers the game used to spawn stuff. Ah the good old days. Edit:yeah, Borderlands is good for the category too, if you like guns.

Darkstone was an old Diablo-clone that I liked a lot. The 3D graphics were blocky (1999), & the above ground level design/texture were simplistic to say the least (the actual dungeons were better) but if you looked past that, it was a fun/mindless hack/slash game. I loved the Monk, & being able to control/play two characters at once by switching back & forth between them was kinda cool. When I finished with Diablo1 & was desperate for something similar, I played that game to death, even had a crap webpage. lol ...it might even work on XP. Hm.

None of the hair or noses are like mine. The lips either, but that's ok because I like the freaky smile. If I had a smile like that I'd be in People. With & without my glasses. Then I used the magic of the clone & push brushes to...make it still look not much like me!

While I can sympathize with any potential "neighbor cats turned my yard into a smelly litterbox" sentiments, that woman is obviously disturbed & maybe cause for psych. evaluation. I mean, we don't know what was in her head/her motivation at the time - but, um, yeah. But death threats...for almost anything...solve nothing/is absurd.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure this isn't an actual flaw in the game. Personally, I liked having the choice. Also, every merchant has different wares. It's worth it to check up on all of them every once in a while.. just not every time! Aye, not a game flaw...it's a me-flaw! Somewhere after level 24 I started spending an hour or two shopping for every hour of questing/killing. The system of stacking items doesn't help. I have a low level quiver (don't use a bow) I've been stacking forever that is awesome. Then I realized you could use horses & empty chests for loot stashes & I began trying to collect all the sets that I think are 'cool looking'. I need help! Bring the net, Shoppers Anonymous!

A halfling? That's actually fairly appropriate.

M&M's are RPG's, not strategy like the HoMM's. Or they're brightly colored chocolate candies, if you're a non-gamer.

Finally a heat wave of near 100F, which makes my PC's run at 55C+ during the day. Hubby put in the window AC unit we took from his sister and .... ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Much better. PC's back to 39C & my personal sanity restored. It's not too loud, either. Not good for keeping thieves out, but I'm usually home anyway. Tonight we may watch Netflix movies in here. heheh

Yeah...I loved that aspect to the film. Gorgeous & great for mood. Made me want to be there. I also appreciated the slower, more deliberate pace (not Hollywood-frenetic) & subtlety of some things. I just wish the 2nd half had lived up to the promise of the 1st half.

Well, I don't like forum let's plays, so there. Video let's plays work best with things like shooters/closer viewpoint/action games...where you aren't always stopping for/selling loot or pausing to give commands etc. Not that you can't do them w/other games, just harder to make it entertaining w/out a lot of editing/work. So imo there's still room for forum/screenshot let's plays. I usually like them best when they're written out like an actual story w/pic illustrations, but Tigranes naming the party after forumites is a hoot. If we started getting a lot of them, I'd agree...but one now and then, I don't see a need. As to the original question, I don't have a preference. I'm not familiar with even half those games (I've played M&M 6-9 & a little of Wizardry8) so...seeing one of a game I haven't played would always be interesting to me.

More Two Worlds pic spam! No bigger versions this time, too lazy to do the process... WTF? (they're dead ppl, I didn't kill them) My golem is not above hitting below the belt! Going to get to the top of this hill if it takes me all night! Which it did! (j/k...it was almost dawn in the 1st pic anyway...) WTF? part2 (or:hey ma, look what my sword can do) "I appreciate the help out there, but now you're crowding me. Get out."