LadyCrimson

I guess I'd have to say character development. Basically, Kotor2 was a game that made me actually pay attention to, and like (or dislike) the characters. Most RPG's I've played, even if I really enjoy the game, characters are just pixels to control to give me an advantage in a battle or there to give me instructions; they affect me emotionally in no way whatsoever. So any that do, are exceptionally memorable to me.

The Lake House. If you're in the mood for the romance drama, it's not terrible. It had one of the fella's from Nip/Tuck in it in a small role, too.

Oooh, how cute, I want one. :D We don't have any red ones near us. I think there are some with red tones, but nothing that red. I need to get back to Yosemite and Tahoe.

No...I'd rather they just leave it alone.

Eh? It's just a Calif. ground squirrel. They're everywhere, usually in huge colonies. Gray squirrels (bigger, bushier tails, less like chipmunks) and the like are semi-common, but you don't actually see them in the open very much, except in certain parks perhaps.

Well, I myself thought that Padme post was kind of amusing ...

So going through a bunch of pics, and I was about to delete the one above for being boringly un-printable, when I zoomed in and noticed what the squirrel was eating. The couple feeding this bunch of squirrels - I thought they were feeding them nuts and crusts of bread. Y'know...what people usually feed squirrels? But no! It's a ..... TWINKIE.

Congrats! Now all you need are some minature game control pads for her to practice with ...

Or get the save game editor and/or some mod tools here.

There was a small dead rat in our pool a while back. Yes, I took a picture. So far, however, no human has fallen into our pool.

I rescue bugs out of the pool, pop them in jars, then take pictures of them. heh Does that camera do pretty well with macros? I need to get a few extenders for my macro lens. I hear they're not too expensive. :D I find in terms of taking pictures I either want to be physically up close (macros) or zoomed in max to get up close (animals/scenes from long distances). Every zoom lens I had in the past (film) was always at max-zoom position all the time. I would love to have a 500mm prime. That optical zoom on your camera seemed pretty impressive, so it'd definitely be the sort of camera I'd like when I didn't want to lug heavy camera gear everywhere.

I don't understand that kind of music. I have nothing against it; it's all personal taste, but if I wanted to listen to someone screaming in my ear I could just pick a fight with my family, or something ...

I'm kind of hoping that smiley face doesn't come with it ... then again, it'd make an interesting convo piece...

What are "noodz?"

I hope it's not a Kotor MMO vs a Kotor3. I personally find MMO's fun to play for a couple months at a time, just like any other game, perhaps, but the MMO as a constant fad on the whole is rather ... dull.

Hubby has a Canon Rebel SLR and during a trip today he managed to accidentally (and fuzzily) catch me in the background of a couple of pics. One of those "picture of someone taking a picture." I was trying to take a picture of these. There were a bunch in tidepools fighting over some dead snail meat. I failed to get a great shot tho.

He's a scientologist? Oh well ... he's still cool in the show.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I have no real answer, but I've seen articles just before the release of NWN2 that said NWN sold about 2 million copies, and more recent articles stating that the 'NWN franchise' has sold about 3 million. It seems to be pretty hard to get sales figures for games tho, beyond the no-figures 'top ten' lists?

I forgot ... I was going to make the reply to this comment. My husband has said similar things before. Another of his favorite things to say (nothing to do with seasonal birth stuff) is that dictionaries frustrate him, since how's he supposed to look up a words spelling if he doesn't know how to spell it to look it up?

Today I managed to burn our teapot. Which, btw, appears to be an excellent way to get rid of hard water deposit buildup, tho I wouldn't recommend it as a purposeful method ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1959. Peter Cushing as Holmes. Pure genius! The movie as a whole, however, was only mediocore, even allowing for its age.

Very sensible. I was by no means trying to say I thought the article factual or something to base the birthdate of your children on - it's mostly amusing, with a dash of "hmm, interesting." I think even in the supposed studies that show a "season of birth" correlation, it's very small, like 5-10% - ie, too small to say with authority that seasonal birth is the true cause - it's all theory and a lot more testing would need to be done. My guess is the article above probably heard of/saw such claimed studies as those linked below and made their own conclusions. Whether any of these studies are 'good' or specious is beyond me. (linked articles are short study abstracts, no major reading) Birth month and suicidal and depressive symptoms in Australians born in the Southern vs. the Northern hemisphere - Cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite levels in human newborn infants born in winter differ from those born in summer Season of Birth Variations in the Temperament and Character Inventory of Personality in a General Population Then there's the more cautious/dubious counterpoint view regarding studies such as these: Does season of birth affect schizophrenia? And if you want, you can Google season of birth effect and get all kinds of hits on the topic, usually related to schizophrenia, but other things as well. And often in PDF form, which I usually don't bother to actually read ... Even the 'well known big' internet news sites often seem, to me, to not really quote sources, beyond "in a new study in Sweden, doctors say..." It's all about writing hypothesis/opinion newsbyte articles nowadays.

Link Someone posted this on another forum I go to, and I found it so amusing I had to steal the link. Hope it wasn't already posted 5 months ago or something ...

Article Link While the whole article is rather interesting, the fact that they lumped dyslexia into the "mental disorder" category next to schizophrenia and panic disorders in their graphic representation, while making no mention of it in the article itself, seems rather odd. Tho I must add that my husband was born in May and is mildly dyslexic...