LadyCrimson

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Wirt

It's also vaguely possible your monitor itself may have some option setting about how to display non-widescreen...w/black bars or 'stretched out' to fill screen. Mine does. I personally dislike the stretched out look myself...

Hubby had a cold, which he then so graciously gave to me, so I'm sniffling and snuffling w/balloon-head Since Sun. At least it's not the flu (of any sort). My husband also gets the week after Xmas entirely off, which is extremely unusual...last time he had 10 days in a row off was...um...I can't remember, it was so long ago. Being winter, we're unsure what to do with it. Hawaii would be fun but we'd rather continue being conservative in these economic times till we know better where we'll stand in a couple years, so...hmm. Maybe a cozy cabin in Tahoe/the mts? Other than that, same ol' same ol'...

Terminator:Salvation -- 1st hour was *yawn*, 2nd hour was middling entertaining. The cyborg dude was definitely the best thing in the movie...chr, acting, storyline etc. I also lol'd at them explaining how Connor got his face/eye scar that was displayed in T2. A nice continuity touch. Taking Chance - Interesting HBO movie about a Col. (Kevin Bacon) who volunteers for military escort duty (of a deceased soldier) and how the brief journey affects both him & everyone he encounters. Not "entertaining" in the Hollywood sense at all but a nice chr. study/human interest drama. I liked it.

Been playing some Diablo1. And if you've played that game for any time, you'll recall that this was one reason why everyone hated Wirt.

I found this other old forum thread that talks about the same issue, that you might want to read through. If you were using mods, it's possible that even tho you uninstalled them, the save game file you're trying to use is still not "clean" enough to work, especially if the mods were ones that gave you items or altered item attributes etc.. If you have a save that was untouched by mods try that one see if it works.

I'm sure D3's story will be mostly in the manual and lots of yakkity yak from NPC's, like always. I'd be content with WoW-type quests, for the kind of game D3 will be. I'm mostly worried about items and skills and how they'll be handled...some of the fun of D3 was in trying crazy chr. skill choices to see how far you could go (melee sorceress etc) & I hope that remains in some form or another. Classes that are too formed and specialized become kind of a drag/limit replay.

It took me forever to figure out that cows were nothing but a huge trap. Farming cows sucks up all your resources. Hehe...trying to do all cows is pretty difficult, the grain is much faster.

Lord of the Realms2, which I had to install on my old XP computer since Win7 wouldn't even get to the 'preparing to install' screen. ...it's old, but I still love it.

Adding my 2 cents that I'm semi-patiently waiting for Diablo3 and at this moment couldn't care less about TES5. Which isn't to say that I don't think Diablo3 could end up disappointing me...especially w/my track record w/games lately...but I must buy it to find out, and I won't be waiting for the bargain bin.

The Flight of the Phoenix - both original classic version and the more recent remake. The classic is still better, but the remake wasn't too bad, if you can overlook some silliness. My Name Is Bruce - not as funny as I was hoping. The 1st 30 min. were *yawn*, the 2nd 3 min were ok, and the last 30 min. had some pretty good stuff. Lots of "inside" jokes peppered all throughout which made me chuckle. Very low budget and script was terrible, even for a parody/satire. Bruce Campbell is still adorably cranky & silly, tho.

If you press ctrl+shift+alt+s while in the browser you can alter the buffer but it only goes up to 1500 & so far that's what I'm always on anyway. :/ The enforced 15-20 min buffer is a bit annoying, along with the fact every time you scroll forward the player resets with the 'starting up/detecting quality setting' red screen. One can spend an awful lot of time rating movies...kinda fun initially. I've rated 1500+ so far. It's made me realize how many awful horror flicks are made, that I've never seen (and don't want to) as well as how stingy I am with a 5 star rating.

Under Tools/Folder Options/View there's an "Always show icons, never thumbnails" checkbox. That seems to have prevented actual true thumbnails ever showing up for me, but occasionally folders don't want to default into details mode, or remember which details I want displayed. Don't know for a fact, but it feels like you have to apply settings to "all folders" for each main directory folder to get to all subfolders. All the sleek stuff I have turned off so I know nothing about those things. But it does all run like butter...then again, so did XP...I think on my new PC it would all run smoothly.

Since it costs nothing to do so, I'd say yes. At least the first couple, to see if you like it. I haven't been watching it on TV but 'catch up' on it now and then on hulu...less commercials, too.

Aye...it doesn't look terrible or anything, very watchable. It's just not anywhere near HD on PC (don't know about the 'direct to TV' using boxes etc options). I think the aspect of Netflix I'll like most is being able to re-watch favorite films (or check out ones you weren't sure you'd like) almost as much as I want, when I want, without having to pay $3-5 for each one ala retail rentals. So it's a great bargain in that regard. Very new releases I'll probably still just order them on cable's HD on-demand instead.

Ah...I haven't tried KOTOR1 on this thing yet. I take it the above steps didn't work for you on that one, then?

Started watching Quarantine on Netflix. Shaky-cam style and 18 minutes before the first violence isn't making a good impression on me so far. Pick, pick, pick....

Tried Netflix for the 1st time. It's nice to stream all these movies to my PC screen, but little disappointed in streaming video quality. Even Hulu at 480 looks a bit better when fullscreen. Lots think it's the MS Silverlight player or sneaky throttling. Oh well, what can you expect for 9-13 a month. It looks ok overall and it keeps you from hogging too much bandwidth.

Not sure about invisible, but you can grab the top bar of the active window and "shake" it to make all other open windows minimize (Aero Shake). The only hide thing I know of at the moment is hiding icons in the notification area of the taskbar.

No. It won't even start. Anyone have any ideas? It works in Win7 for me so far. Seems fine, except for the much-faster movement speed w/a faster PC... >.> All I did was put a direct shortcut to the swkotor2.exe on my desktop - ie, don't run it from the CD autoplay menu - and used the compatibility 'run in XP-SP2' mode. One issue: On my PC at least, I can only use up to 1280x1024 resolution w/black bars on the sides. The black bars may be a monitor setting I set, tho, rather than the game itself...I don't remember...

I no longer have top favorite games. They're all kind of blending together into one giant mass called "just another fun time-passer video game."

Whenever the power goes out for a while and I'm reading a book by dim candlelight, I think, "So this is how the pioneers did things. Glad I wasn't a pioneer."

Can't speak to the book, as I haven't read it. But the movie is obviously aimed to appeal to youthful ladies who dream of ultimate romance. Or something. Themes:growing up, teen rebellion/maturing, sacrificing everything for love. Typical romance formula, with a bit of Romeo & Juliet feeling conflicts perhaps. Seriously...Twiglight (at least the first film) isn't a vampire movie. It's a youth romance movie that happens to have vampires (and werewolves) in it.

If this turns into a series, it might give me a reason to temporarily get HBO again, like I did for Rome. And if it turns out to be a good series, I hope it lasts longer than Rome did. >.> It would also save me from having to read the entire book series. Which still sits on my shelf with only the 1st one read.

I only saw 1st Twilight after it came on cable on-demand (for the 2nd or third time I think), so you can guess how much I care about seeing the 2nd one. But I did find the first one entertaining in a teen-angst, unintentional, lol-comedy way, so I'll probably watch the 2nd when it, also, comes on cable on-demand.