LadyCrimson

I love my new PC but the sad part is, I hardly ever use or play anything remotely requiring its capabilities. I just wanted to know I could.

....TinMan. If one isn't a murderous criminal etc. I have sympathy for anyone or anything in pain, because pain sucks no matter the cause. But I'll remember to not send you a get well card if you ever need a new liver because of long-term daily consumption of alcohol or a new colon from eating too much red meat.

Win7's after-boot usability time is super-fast on my system. Desktop appears, I click on whatever and away I go. Almost instant. XP might've been a tad slower in that regard on same system, but again, not so you'd be bothered/notice much. Edit: I will be interested to see how Win7 speed does long-term. XP was (for me) very stable & would run ok even w/out reformatting for ages, but it tended to start to slog noticeably before too long. Wonder how long it'll take for Win7 to become more sluggish as one installs/uninstalls blah blah.

I was thinking if it wasn't lung cancer, maybe the throat ....cancer of the tongue...ouch. :/ And I agree, I'd avoid surgery if possible as well. Maybe if they just wanted to cut a little bit off but...glad the chemo seems to be working enough so far. ...after a busy last couple days I'm having a slow period, where the most active thing today, so far, has been chasing a few squirrels out of the house when they all decided to squirm through the hole in the screendoor looking for my stash of walnuts. Need to fix that.

Would recommend Six Feet Under, to anyone. My favorite show of all-time. Very risque though. The Wire is also all kinds of awesome if you have yet to see these two. Highly recommended. That's one I've been meaning to try out for a while...I just keep forgetting. Thanks, it's in my queue now.

My PC boots up slower.

I tried to read the 1st Potter book years ago...I couldn't stand the writing style either, and stopped. I've heard the last few became much better/her writing improved, but I haven't tried to check myself.

Good luck and hopefully good health, Kelverin. Hugs.

A tv series: Breaking Bad. This show is awesome, I wish there were more episodes. Next on my list of series-I-missed to try...Dexter. Any other good hour-long series to check out? I don't care about things like 90210 or Sex & the City...

You and I are most likely the only ones around here that care about sports titles. I'd care about baseball titles, if I found one I actually liked. Most of the ones I've tried are largely a bunch of stats windows for team management stuff, and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to control players and hit the baseball. :D ....still playing Divine. I hit a snag where the game seemed to randomly crash a lot, but I think it was a combo of too many savegames and trying to use a higher resolution than the seeming gog preference default of 1024x768.

My favorite was the 4th one. I think overall they've improved over the series, but the pacing in Half Blood was just off. Also, I'm pretty tired of Helena Bonham Carter being constantly cast in the crazy, wild haired, witch type role. It makes me sigh w/annoyance instead of delight these days as soon as I see her vampire-makeup face.

I haven't tried Win7's "XP emulator" or whatever that is...I'd have to research how it works & I'm too lazy, since I have the extra PC. (I still much prefer separate rigs vs. dual-booting etc). I've considered switching this new pc back to XP, in fact...but eh...since I use this new one mainly for gaming/media having Win7 on the new rig seems fine. I left things like email, photography files etc. on the old XP. :D So yeah, I'd say if you don't have a specific need to switch, there's still no real reason for a home user to do so. The only reason I did it was because I built the new PC and wanted to see how Win7 ran on it compared to how XP ran on the same system, and since it doesn't run any worse/slower, at least, I'll leave it alone for now. Win7 pretty much uses 1GB of RAM even at idle...was Vista the same?

Potter/Half Blood Prince. Keep in mind that I haven't/don't read the books, so I'm going entirely by the film series here...I appreciated the darker more "adult" (or whatever) tone compared to the early ones, and I did like the Snape (best chr. in series imo) and potion teacher arcs, but at 2.5 hours, it was very plodding for the first half. I nearly fell asleep waiting for something to happen. Perhaps it would've helped if I had read the books and knew what was going on. Think I'll watch it again tomorrow and see if I like it better a 2nd time.

I don't have any number tests to give you, but in terms of how it feels...no, in either direction. Maybe XP felt a little faster here, and Win7 a little faster there, but overall I really see no difference. Keep in mind that I don't use all the Areo "pretty" options tho, since I have no need for "pretty" - plus I don't run that many programs on Win7 besides some basic stuff + games. My main annoyance with Win7 is that most of my fave (non-game) programs will work poorly-they run/don't crash, but don't work properly- requiring either new versions or new programs, which is as always, a potential added expense. And yeah, very old games are kind of a coin-flip, imo. Depends on patches, original disc etc. No dos-box, but I had the same thing with Diablo1 (had to put it on my ancient XP for bnet), and Lords of the Realm2 wouldn't install. If very old games are important, I'd make sure to keep an old XP system around, if you can, long as you can.

I did notice that. Which made me think of how Borderlands would've looked so much better if AA had actually worked.

When she turns around can you see the top of her thong? The 'realism' of her shirt and jeans is pretty impressive.

Did you know that dwarf hamsters can climb cage bars & ceilings w/their itty bitty paws like tiny, stumpy monkeys? I didn't either. It's pretty funny.

I haven't watched in a bit...is it basically the same formula or are they changing it up yet?

Sunshine -- Sci-fi flick about a group flying to sun to try and rekindle its dying energies. A little slow to start, becomes interesting/good, then degenerated into a typical monster-on-ship climax that really annoyed me...but only because the rest of the movie seemed more akin to 2001 atmosphere than Aliens, and thus it was jarring. Decent cast & special effects bits for what seems to be a lower-budget 2nd string sci fi flick.

Immortal Throne gives you a shared stash for extra storage plus EZ muling/exchange of items to other characters. Once you buy all the stash upgrades, it's big enough. Divine Divinity-ahhh, I needed alchemy skill lvl2 to make potions from ground herbs. Seems to be a Tolkein/LOTR subplot homage or something going on, too. Kinda funny.

Ooops, sorry, posted the above in the wrong thread, meant to put in the 'what are you playing.' Can't edit it out now...

Divine Divinity is awesome so far. I had a little trouble in the beginning trying to figure out how to change spells/hotkeys etc...after seemingly being unable to do anything but swing a dagger & teleport my mage around, I finally read the pdf manual. The game (Gog's version on Win7) has occasional path-finding annoyances (like when you click on an urn & you wander all the way around to get to it) and my mouse-clicking doesn't always seem instantly-responsive, but other than that, heck of a lot of fun. Also, can't seem to make the quick save work...having to long-save constantly in case I die and have to reload is kind of a drag. I have the alchemy skill & can combine potions, but still can't put an herb in a bottle to make a simple potion. I need a better manual.

Chocolate and yogurt covered raisins make a great snack between bouts of raking the yard. I can almost see the actual grass and cement patio, now.

After hearing about the beta cheat codes, I installed D2 and checked it out a little. Instant lvl 99, instant max gold as much as you want to gamble good gear, then away you go. You still have to 'rush' through the difficulties tho. And once I realized for the Sorc, at least, nothing much changed -I can now have 6 Hydras up at same time instead of 5, whoo! - I got bored and stopped. If you already quit the game long ago still no reason to go back. BUT, yes, still a nice thing for Blizz to do, for those who still play.

@Musopticon? -- You're making me want to reinstall Titan Quest/Immortal Throne yet again. ...and thanks for the comments on Divine Divinity, all. I was on the fence about getting it from GoG...think I'll give it a go-I like me some old skool action-RPG'ing. Especially for that price.