LadyCrimson

Oh? I could swear I saw ... but regardless, if that's the case and that nice FS score was because it was "only" 1080, that's even MOAH REASON that I need a new rig. Ah. Poor "design" haha. Basically sounds like that whole wall/area needs to be redone/updated. Either in the rational but requires a little work way like Sarex suggests, or in that "crazy blonde guy from Die Hard 1, hey chainsaws are wire cutters aren't they" way.

I saw that movie "Old" on HBOMax today. I wasn't expecting much from it, but I neither fell asleep nor turned it off. *shrug* Still, maybe a 4/10 at best. ...for some reason the thing that stuck in my mind the most was the excuse they made up for why their finger/toenails and hair were not growing at the same accelerated rate (eg, not at all) - which I think was supposed to be about 2 years for every hour - to paraphrase: "maybe it's because those things are dead cells and aren't affected....." ...but, but, they are connected/extended from the live cell nailbeds/hair roots, which would "age" and keep going, so hair/nails would still get longer, see, and ...then I started imagining this group of folks just sitting in a circle passing a pair of nail clippers around, where by the time it reached back to the first person they'd have to cut their foot long (or more) nails again, and that would be the entire movie. Actually, with some snappy dialogue, that might've been a better movie.

Me: "Do I trip constantly over anything? No? I have perfect cable management." ...I did notice in that pic you posted tho, that there seemed to be a lot of tangled wires or something behind that setup. I don't like that....there's an order to my personal chaos. Tangles aren't allowed.

^ I'm still waiting for teleporters/transporters ... which I will be too old, and fearful curmudgeonly to use, but will marvel that I lived long enough to see them in existence. ...also, I am not really playing anything - just to kinda/sorta be on thread-topic. Mostly I think about playing something, but then I don't. Maybe it's time for another 2 day run of Diablo 1.

3DMark (freebie version) tests: DX11/Firestrike/1440p - Score: 26,500/better than 95% - all right! I don't even overclock or anything like that. My rig ain't too bad, yet! DX12/Timespy/1440p - Score: 12,800/better than 77% - CRAP I need to build a new PC, like, right now! ...*uninstalls 3DMark* ...I think I was better off not knowing.

Ok, apparently 80 of those full-auto archers is maybe ... 70-75 too many. A million units didn't even get close. But...I laughed like a loon. $17 well spent. Gotta try 5 on a hill against 2 million Chuck Norris'....or maybe custom-make a still powerful but not god-tier archer unit.

- if you don't hear from me ever again it's from eating too many of these at once. ...I haven't had my fave cookie ( a real cookie) in forever. Today I couldn't resist. At least it's not a ginormous box. Hubby saw them in the basket and tried to toss them back into an open meat freezer section but I fished them out again. HAHA. ...btw, Wal-Mart's grocery section around here isn't all that much cheaper or particularly impressive in any way (average, name brands) but I was "amused" that their produce selection was fresher and more varied then the local Raley's. Usually Raley's is ok but the one close to our house, it's small and often wilted/not much choices. I'll have to go elsewhere for produce. ...the warm weather is starting. After getting home I'm just sitting near the pool under the patio watching the treetops wave in the breeze. I think I'll remain here a while.

IIRC, you are sooper tall, so isn't almost everyone child-like to you? Sounds like the opposite problem with what I usually get re: desks/chairs etc (too high, wide, whatever). I also have issues re: mouse usage/shoulder because my short arm wants mice to be "below" the keyboard position, not even with it, so the shoulder/elbow isn't always thrust forward/off the arm-rest to reach/circle with it. Anyway, I would definitely use books, a small plastic monitor riser thingie, or similar, because you can stack them on the floor/to the side and just use them when you're using it/there and remove them again before you leave, for your less height-endowed co-workers. Edit: although I suppose if you only sit down for a minute or two at a time, repeatedly all day, that wouldn't work. But other than that...

I do not care if this is a one-trick pony that would entertain me only for a handful of long afternoons and/or never get polished up much ... I am buying it. ...there are no beavers, but apparently there are ducks. (1:48)

I saw this: ....which of course meant I had to immediately sub/week free trial of PBS thru Prime ($2.99/month after that 7 days, or cancel) to see it, because, MISHA. (if you don't know, Castiel on Supernatural). ....as adorable as he is in interviews/fan conventions however, he's a bit socially awkward/hesitant re: being a host/asking questions/riffing. Could use more practice. Show focused a bit more on culture and the cook's personal and/or political history vs. the food itself.

I've decided my gut doesn't like too much cabbage. A little is fine but constant large amounts, not so much. Bloat/gas city. >.> SEARCH: *simple, common, easy to get, not "exotic for the US" ingredients, quick, inexpensive to moderate pricing, meals* ..."1 pound of potatoes" ..."1 box of pasta" ..."lots of rice or flour, bread, etc" ..."baked beans/kidney beans" (don't like starchy beans/legumes, or most starchy root vegies either) ...remember I can't eat lots of carbs or high insulin index foods (which is/can be quite different from high glycemic index). Excessive protein in a single meal isn't great either re: insulin. So while a little in a soup is fine I can't have, say, corn/beans etc be a big staple filler etc. ...any suggestions for meal fillers so I don't feel like I'm eating nothing but thin soup and salad all the time? I mean it was fine for a year or so but ... >.> So far it's mostly broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant and certain small squashes (moderate quantities), spinach....with a little meat ... EDIT: green string beans are acceptable but not my fave - those don't bloat me like a balloon at least. Anything else?

If I play a modern "big graphic" game for an hour or two the overall ambient temp of my room (closed door) goes up 7-12 degrees (F), maybe more if it's warm weather/longer play time. Sacramento is going to have a lot more 90+F/32+C days then where we were, as well, so a single AC unit may be hard pressed at keeping (gaming) ambient room temp at or below 78F/25.5C. Not sure yet. I know further south, when it did occasionally reach 90-100F, AC helped but it does not make the room "cold" either, then add all that PC/game heat and....

I already have what feels like a bajillion external USB "things" that could fill 2-3 bookshelves or 3-4 deep drawers in a tangled piled up mess and the last thing I really want is yet more that I always have to hunt for when I want them. But yeah I've noticed for a while that "no drive bays" has become dominant in case designs. Pfft. The one I bought in 2019 was this Corsair Obsidian 750D one, at the time about $150USD. It was perfectly fine/seemed awesome for six months or so until it started the bzzzzzt vibration stuff. I think the HDD drive bays rattle too much - I don't feel like those plastic pinchers everything uses now, or the actual thin material bays keep them stable or level enough - which makes the warped side panel ( which got more warped every time I took it off etc) buzz. I suppose I could just get all SSD's now and maybe that would solve that aspect, but they're still so expensive for a lot of TB's. Am I going to need whatever those are any time soon. Nothing I have at the moment cares about anything other than what's on that Corsair and I'm not especially concerned with super-uber-speed USB. Whatever I have is already "good enough".

^ Only need one kidney, or so I've heard.

For the first time, I was unable to fully scroll down this - edit: or the previous - current page on my phone without the tab crashing. If I let the page load for a couple minutes than very very slowly scrolled, I could get almost to the bottom of the page/images but then it would still crash before all images were viewed by my eyeballs. (desktop it's fine). I blame Bokishi. Glorious.

Oh...I did notice the swing door but didn't expect one would need to have it open for airflow on heavy usage. Thought it was just a way to access the fans without having to remove a panel off-case entirely. If heavy duty gaming on such cases would mean you'd want that door swung open all the time I wouldn't like that. I'll look at the Meshify 2. I currently have 1 nvme, 1 sata SSD and two HDD's. Next rig I'll probably have all SSD's and no HDD's but not quite yet. And I do have a bluray/DVD player (hardly ever used but I want it there) so has to have a spot for that etc. eg, I don't need 3 front intakes. And an internal sound card, adding to the height/space between hardware slots a little bit. If high end GPU's get too much "fatter/taller" I'm going to need an even taller/higher case. >.>

Hmm, I like the no window antec look. I'd rather have the USB ports be on the front panel itself vs. on the top (wire angle thing) but I suppose I could live with that. I probably should have mentioned that it does need to remain about 9" wide because I use one of the huge double wide Noctua cpu cooler thingies and much smaller it would hit the side panel or something. But I think most full (mid?) towers are like that now anyway. One of the two front intake fans of current case has been sporadic lately. I could just replace it but since the side panel vibration intermittently annoys me - leading me to bang on it like a drum, desperately stick foam around the edges and tape it to make it stop until it decides to randomly override all my efforts and do it again - I was thinking I would just get a whole new case instead. >.>

Not reading it but I randomly came across some video re: "the banned Stephen King book", where the topic was the out of print/pulled from publication Bachman story "Rage." And I was all "what?" I guess years and years and years ago, so it'd be sorta hard-ish to get a legit copy of it now - not impossible or anything, but ... I had no idea. I still have my slightly tattered orange-cover US paperback of the four-book compilation (1986 or 1987) that has it in it. I guess I can understand why King pulled it but eh. Glad I never tossed that paperbook. Not that Rage was one of my fave stories of his. Of the Bachman novels the only one I liked a lot (a lot) was The Long Walk, which I read from a copy that my highschool library had, before Bachman was outed as King. I wonder if that movie based on Long Walk will ever happen and if it does, if it'll be any good. Since Frank Darabont lost the film rights/someone else has it now, probably not. >.>

...guess we need Elon Musk to save us. ...course, still need the foundation, utility hookups, and ... the land. I would also wonder how durable (and/or expensive) they are in terms of repairs needed over decades and decades. And ofc, most of them are a little small. Edit: ones priced more like 50k are more roomy but yeah...still small.

Even within California you have towns/cities where they are sorta cursing the "Bay Area ppl" coming up and buying stuff in their town. >.> Can't say I blame them really ... although at the same time I understand because most ppl really can't afford to stay in the Bay Area for long either. Or at least to buy there while working there. Hence 2 hr commute and/or remote. A lot of companies - that aren't Fortune 500 or whatever types - have a hard time paying wages that attract people enough who *live in area* to boot. It'd be a lot easier to just sell the Bay Area house to be honest but also tbh it's the house you don't want to sell until you're absolutely ready to, because in the long term it's worth so much more, and weathers economic ups and downs so much more (the 2009 crash barely touched it at the time) that it'd be foolish to sell it if we don't "have to" yet. We also have the factor that we still aren't 100% sure if hubby's remote work is going to be something he wants to live with long term. There's a lot of factors re: that and it could be in a year or two he won't be able to stand it and want to move back - or maybe that would be the house/area we'd rather "die" in - meaning we don't want to sell it, because once sold, there is no way in heck we'd be able to really "buy back" into the area again. Pffft.

^ Every person we know who has rentals or tried rental properties has a "horror" story of trying to evict a tenant, which took months and/or maybe court time. Some of them then sold their property/s and quit being landlords because of it. It's what rather scared me off re: trying to be a landlord of even one small property. Technically we could long-term afford to not rent the Bay Area house and just eat the annual taxes/insur. of our new house (which aren't tooo bad since the purchase price was relatively "low"), but it would be a bit of a crimp, and certainly having the rent in elderly years would be very nice to bank on. It's still a tempting thought to leave it empty tho. Maybe we could just rent it a week or month at a time to hubby's workmates who need an occasional flop-house when they're in the area (many of them work remotely), vs. long term contract renters. So, in terms of sympathy ... you can have mine. Rental property can be a boon and most of the time one might have good luck with tenants overall, but it's not without potential drawbacks. I am not looking forward to it and if we can crunch numbers to avoid it that doesn't throw us wildly off track, we probably will, frankly. Or at least, leave it empty for a few years at first at least.

Sometimes I think there should be a Star Trek thread. Noticed Netflix had a k-drama/musical (short series, 6 eps. I think) called The Sound of Magic, with Ji Chang-wook in a role. He hasn't been in a show I've truly liked yet, since he finished his army duty, but still an insta-click if I see his name. I didn't realize it was a musical initially but didn't take long to figure that out. There were maybe a couple songs per episode? Sometimes three? Sadly for me they were all of the slow, schmaltzy, sorta ballad type, which isn't my thing. They were sung well tho. Ji Chang-wook's chr. reminded me a tad of the movie Benny and Joon and not just because of the outfit. The female lead was the kdrama cliched "super poor downtrodden student" sort. It was overall ok, with good performances, falling into that "inspirational/live your life" type of tale, but not something you'd likely watch repeatedly. Edit: oh, also, while a musical, it's a little on the darker theme side for (really young) kids. I don't think they've marketed it to children ala Disney.

Tried to watch Snyder's 4hr grey, 4:3 cut of Justice League. After an hour or so I was so bored I turned it off. Cinematography and framing was nice I suppose but too arty for superhero for me I guess. I have not seen the theatrical release. Hubby and I then watched The Batman. The sound mixing (at least through HBO Max's PS4 app) was kind of audible but I had to turn it really loud and even then I ended up turning on subtitles to make sure I didn't miss or misunderstand dialogue. There was one mega car chase scene where the big bass soundtrack became totally lost in all the explosions, tire screeching etc and I wondered why even have a background soundtrack. At any rate, The Batman was a bit more entertaining. I give it props for not making up the villains in the usual way and the "mood cinematics" and most of the actors did decent, but I felt like The Riddler chr. was too akin to the movie Seven in execution. Also, I felt like the pacing was off (should've been 2 hours 15 min. at most) for the content and I kept getting up and walking away to fiddle in the kitchen, coming back feeling like I missed nothing. We may all know the basics of "Batman" history already but there was so little characterization of anyone that I didn't care a lot about what was happening, to anyone. Which to me is a problem with most modern big blockbuster. They're all visuals and mood and not much else.

Anyone have recommendations? I mean, sure, you look on Amazon and they all sorta look the same in a way, it's a basic thing right, but are they? I don't care about RGB lights as long as I can turn them off/disconnect wiring easily if I want. To go along with that, I don't like ones that are all glass/viewable. Big and roomy/airflow with fans included, and I sure would like a case that feels like it's made out of relatively study pieces vs. sheets of super thin metal that twist/warp if you sneeze in their direction, causing case vibration issues before long, if you get what I mean (especially the sliding removable side covers). Size and weight (and price) doesn't matter too much to me as long as it's not ridiculously over the top for a desktop. My current case is about 22" high, 21.5" deep and 9" wide and while overall it was decent I was unhappy with its warp-y side panels and crap HDD holders... Still has to have at least a few HDD slots but I don't need tons of those. Oh and definitely front USB ports.

Y'know how there are those 90yr olds who can tell you in great, minute detail about their daily lives on the farm when they were 8? ...I wont be one of them. Oh, and to be clear, am not saying disliked Vegas. Just dont remember much/not really our style. No big city/metro is. There are lots of our trips I dont recall many details of. They kind of blur together for me because hubby is type who cant sit still in one place/liked to keep moving, so it was always lets keep going, whats over there. so we would seevisit multiple parks, towns, long mt. roads every time.