LadyCrimson

When in doubt, make stupid photoshops.

Avoid Googling, it made a huge media article splash and writers aren't being very careful even w/their headlines. *shrug* I may be going to a funeral soon myself, before long. Spring doesn't seem too cheery this year... Missed that one ... that's messed up. Can't say much more than that.

Trying a Mount & Blade stand-alone still-in-process mod called "Custom Settlements." It seems like a mod designed to turn the game a bit more into a strategy/sim, where you claim a small tent camp and "build" it into a major town/faction, whilst other AI npcs/neutral Heroes (that don't sit around waiting for you to come hire them, they can roam around/claim settlements too) and peasant tents are doing the same thing all around you. Watch your tent-city grow into the finished castle-town (with you eventually being King/Queen) and eventually taking over/leading other towns while battling other bandit factions and/or making friends etc. Neat in concept, but it still needs a lot of work ... getting started is confusing and very very slow ... still, quite an amazing mod in terms of restructuring the entire game, rather than just giving new names to factions, tweaking combat values, and adding new weapons/troop trees etc. The modder is having people create new 'settlements' designs to add in future versions.

Apparently, she thinks otherwise. Go say hi, see what happens. And right now I'm still reeling about tonights episode of "House." Wow. I don't want to spoil it in case anyone DVR'd it and hasn't watched it yet, but that caught me totally by surprise. I'm also rediscovering how much bad emotional stress makes me seriously crave chocolate. Like the "lie in bed and wallow with CostCo sized boxes" cravings. So far I've managed to not give in to them, but arrrgh. The last couple days ... just argh.

My sister in law got her real estate license a couple years ago. Timing is everything, baby. On the bright side, when things swing back up, she'll have experience and some seniority and will probably do well.

Same here. I mean, even to see it on the big screen in a theater you pay around $10 (depends on where you live, I know). $20 I'm willing to pay, since unlike a movie theater I can see it over and over...but meh... I watched another PPV freebie, Silent Hill. Didn't expect much, but I wanted to see Sean Bean. The film has absolutely great cinematic atmosphere, which actually kept me watching...and the acting was ok...but as a whole, it's not very good. Maybe if the ending hadn't been so laughably over the top it might've fared better. Still, for a film based on a video game, it wasn't the worst of its kind.

There's a couple "hidden" chests in two of the main cities that contain parts of a set. Have no clue what their origins are/were for.

I loved D2, but that comment still made me

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

So is the CADIE link on Google their April Fools? I can't be bothered looking it all up, but the website and videos certainly don't look ... professional.

No mods except for some graphical enhancement ones yet. I wanted to play the vanilla Native till I was bored to tears before gameplay mods. Maybe a couple more weeks. I have looked at a lot of the mods, tho. Some look interesting and I'd like the added graphic armors/different maps and such - the vanilla Native armors are kind of goofy, like the pink armors, argh. And ... I see you hired Alayen. He seemed a good soul, but he took me aside one day and had some choice words about my main man Nizar so he got the boot. Did you find the "Strange sword?" I've been using it sometimes because it looks cool. heh

That would make an excellent conspiracy theory. The next Oliver Stone movie!

I played it back in the day. It's a very solid game, I'd definitely say it is worth the pickup. They've changed a ton of stuff since I played it, for the better from what I hear, so I can't give you too much insight on it. I played it when it was first released...it was ok. For me the best part was being able to play solo w/those idiotic hirelings (they were a hoot...) in an anti-social separated instance. But the MP aspect was ok, just not as fun as, say, WoW, imo. GW didn't have a real "big MMO" feeling, because of the instance system. I've thought about trying out the new stuff but .... nah. I don't think it'll have changed enough to make it worth going back.

If that's Washington DC, that's one of the areas that's as average-expensive or more so than around here. New York is another one, especially if you use dollars per square foot. 2008/2009 Forbes "Most Expensive Zipcodes" list (based on median home values) has 250 California zip codes in their top 500, which includes a lot not far from us. Our house has dropped in value since we bought it a year ago (we expected it) but it's nothing like many other areas hit so hard...unless the world collapses (never know) I'd guess in a couple years, three at most, our personal house value will be back where it was, if not higher. I don't know if it'll ever reach back to it's 'boom-time' peak, tho...which was ridiculously over-priced for a 1000sf home (I think it was close to 750K, and we wouldn't have bought it then). *shrug* Edit: lol, yeah, even in expensive US areas, it's still a lot better than in say, Japan. I've seen real estate shows about people buying there...tiny little concrete boxes with a sink and toaster-oven counter ovens for a kitchen, and bathrooms are like tiny closets. Ouch.

War is a bloody business. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The only problem with Swadian Knights is they tend to cluster in a giant knot of horsemen and if you're not careful they "trap" you in the middle. I should try weaker units...Knights are becoming boring. I win everything.

I wonder who all the "cool kids" are? But yeah, that's pretty much what entertainment-as-multi-million-business does.

Aha, I think I finally got it! U2's The Edge's "Numb." K, now I can sleep at night.

Agreed. They make very basic, simple stories that are effective for wrapping around action-oriented gameplay progression, and it works, but imo they certainly haven't been genius story-tellers. That's their key, imo. If you like the kind of gameplay they provide, they provide it consistently. And they don't seem to rush their games as much, which is one reason why I think they have a decent record re: bugs. I'd definitely like to see a completely new series by Blizz (is that what you guys mean by "IP?"). It's time for a different world setting.

I remember those ads, but no, that's not it either ... those are too "peppy".

I'm moving there. Most people here would disagree with you. Heh. Sheesh. I grew up with 2 siblings in a house that was about 2100sf...my mom sold that a couple years ago for 1.4 million. Average home lots around here are 5000-5500sf (that's including house, front, back yard). So most houses that are 2500+sf have to be two story w/little yard, or be in the rich acre+ areas like Atherton/Woodside where the mansions are 3-5-10+ million. Heh. I can understand about not having a yard, tho. I think kids need a yard to play if it's possible for the parents to provide one (not to mention safety reasons). Our house may be really small, but at least it has a decent yard for a big city suburb. Meaning, it's small compared to a lot of middle-states/non-big city areas but big enough for a garden, kids to play, a pool if you wanted, a dog, etc.

Today is the day that the conficker 2.0 worm is supposed to hit. Hubby's spent all week trying to prepare for it, for some customers, just in case. I wondered if it was a mean April Fools hacker joke to panic people (and the virus would do something relatively harmless like 'hahaha'), but apparently not. :/

The first time I saw these (kinda creepy) ads, the monotonous tune drove me up the wall because it sounded so familiar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNafENKCvI All the posts/searches I see say some Moldy Peaches song from a film called "Juno", but for me, that's not it. Never seen the movie, never heard that song. Can anyone think of another song that the ad's music reminds them of? It's driving me nuts.

There's already so many such threads - books, movies, music, what I did etc...possibly making this one "Movies & TV" seems easier.

For real? I didn't know that was possible... heh What, developing a crush? No, it's not in the game. I make up a story for myself in my head as I go along, which I'm finding a lot more fun than having one pre-made for me. There's a rpgforum thread called "Let's Play...Mount & Blade" that I read that's the perfect example of this. It makes good reading, if you're familiar with the game anyway I guess. It's 20 pages long from all the replies, but you can just read the posts with the screenies, which are the "story" posts from the person playing. One of the best "let's play" type of threads ever, imo. The person has a great imagination and simple but fun story-telling style. http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=431317

So does this thread encompass general TV watching, too? Did anyone see last night's House episode? Maybe the most interesting one for a while, with the whole "locked inside my head" patient viewpoint. I loved his internal head-voice comments about "so you're wrong, again, and don't know what's wrong with me, again?" Kind of a gentle inside-jab on the formula of the show, I thought.