LadyCrimson

...when it's warm enough outside that your house A/C setting of 80F/26.5C feels like opening the freezer door (for the first few minutes you walk inside, at least). ...midnight last night: 85F/29.5C -- 5am this morning: 70F/21C -- Yesterday/Today-currently: 113F/45C Now, no mistake, we're in a normally warm area. So it's frequently 95F-102F/35C-39C in summer regardless. I'm kinda used to that by now. But ugh, could it just stay there and not ever go higher? No? Ah well. Definitely more a of nightowl in summer here than ever before. It's the only time it's "nice."

7 Days to Die - Alpha 22 .... er, I mean Release 1.0 ---fps is a fair bit worse (at 4k anyway), if I try to use all High/Ultra like before, but it's so smooth I didn't notice without a fps counter on. Mostly it's the shadows/object shadowing. I had those up High/Ultra before w/60+ fps still. I had to knock their quality to Low. But now there's hardly any difference visually between High/Low shadows. Only Off looks terrible. So, it's fine. ---Traders are now specific to specific biomes. "Trader Jen" is in burnt forest. "trader Rekt" is in forest biome, because of trader quest "progression". And by default the map generator will not create "big cities" in the Forest biome at all, also in the name of progression/forcing players to expand to other biomes. Which sucks donkey sweat if Forest biome is your favorite biome and don't give a hoot about "trader quests" anyway. Good thing I know how to open Notepad and alter .xml's. There, all fixed, big cities everywhere and multiple Traders in multiple biomes when I want. ---map generator is way way way faster. I can now make 10k+ sized maps in 90 or so seconds instead of take-a-nap amount of time. ---actual gameplay - well, it's 7 Days to Die. Some item/loot/quest mechanics have changed, and a whole lot of new POI's, but it's all largely the same. ---I'm still guffawing at the "1.0 release" for console naming, shenanigans. It's still an Alpha, stop pretending.

*stares at the big banner selling Avowed sweatshirts and such* "Is Avowed out yet? .... ah, apparently nope." *returns to her sleepy/quiet life and lurking*

It works, I like it better than the original, for some reason. More soothing, less sentimental. I haven't listened to John Denver in a long time. I wasn't a huge fan of his but my mom was. I remember him most from that "Oh God" movie (mom "dragged" me to it), actually, haha. I had one of his greatest hits type albums, liked about half of that. Probably my fave of JD's songs was actually this one

Just to say, I also do not have 2FA enabled/used - outside of financial institutions I avoid the hassle of it. This is a game forum, I don't need/care/want. I also do not sign in with/do not have a Microsoft account. Or any other type of account so many sites may ask if you want to login with, these days. >.> Didn't have an issue logging in right now, but who knows.

I'm mostly not interested in another round of the "the xx90 is the only one "worth" buying if they're gonna gimp the lower tiers but not also lower the price enough on those gimped lower tiers." And by lower tiers I mean ... the xx80. ...also not interested in a gpu that weighs more than my head and needs support brackets in a tower case, or an extra gpu cooler stack, or a 3rd mobo slot, or a dedicated home circuit, or whatever else, if any of that comes to pass, either soon or in the future.

The login weirdness issues, reply box issues (including the entire post thread getting visibly put into the reply box), etc. are all intermittently back for me again. I may pull a Keyrock and disappear for a while. It's too frustrating.

All the rumors/"leaks" re: 50xx specs has me thinking I'll be waiting until 60xx. Or maybe 70xx. Or maybe a used 50xx during the 60xx period. Or maybe never.

Godzilla Minus One via Netflix -- the actual few Godzilla scenes were fun. There aren't all that many of them tho. It felt 20 minutes too long and while it's leagues better than the Hollywood attempts,I was left largely unmoved by it overall. But then, I'm not a mega old-timer Godzilla fan, so that's probably part of it. I remember watching some of those poorly Eng. dubbed versions after school when I was a kid, but I barely remember them. Atlas, also via Netflix - well...the robot/mech suit personality/VA was a decent "character" for entertainment value. The CGI looked clean. That's about all one can about it, really.

I'm getting a little tired of Steam's client updates, lately, often reverting my Cloud setting back to On vs. Off. In terms of actual games ... nothing new, still mostly fart around with Manor Lords/sandboxing for a few hours here and there, when I want to escape the heat of outside. Per usual I keep looking for a new simplish/chill game but never find much.

"Dr Pimple Popper" wtf am I watching and why haven't I turned it off yet. She's a charming/fun persona tho.

Tried to log in/post the other day. Was getting the mega-long load time issue again (there were maybe only 250 'visitors) and weird posting errors. Left. Seems better today. So here I am. It's Costco day, or "spend way more than you should" day. My teeth etc. are still fine. Hubby's still depressed. I'm still hobby-unmotivated and feeling rather directionless - but not depressed. Thinking about buying some roller skates. Just regular ones, not those inline types. I used to love roller skating as a kid/teen. Maybe it'd be fun again, get me outside more etc.

Tiny Glade demo - I've had it wishlisted for a bit. ...it's cute, but in the end I'm not sure I'm into the artstyle. I feel like I'm building something that would go into a rich person's ceramic collector fantasy curio cabinet. Which is odd because I might like some of such in a curio cabinet, but on-screen/game it doesn't appeal to me. But it is cute, the mechanics work well enough/are cool (maybe a bit finicky/over precise), and if the style is your thing, looks promising a small/chill time waster. One of those games with essentially no point but use tools to create a small castle/town in a small area.

I clicked on the "Deadpool and Wolverine Popcorn Bucket" video. I feel unclean.* *it is rather funny tho

... I know the (hilarious) intro is a comedic video edit, but - did some quirky AI take over this guy's brain? Seriously, some of those quotes.

Since yesterday I finally felt I could eat some stuff besides chicken broth/boiled spinach (after day 3, I sometimes poached an egg in it) and plain greek yogurt. Little tougher when it's both sides of mouth vs. just one. At any rate, healing well at this point. Not being able to eat a lot of carbs sort of stomps out a lot of the "soft foods" concepts/drinks. I did not try jarred gerber-like baby foods. I remember using the meat baby foods to syringe-feed cats who were sick because they were smoother/easier to water down/syringe than regular canned cat food. Based on those experiences with such, I'd rather go hungry.

Manor Lords: there have been two experimental patch opt-ins. I tried the 2nd one. ---The market wonkiness has been improved, it works better now, with a little better control. Less headache. So that makes things easier. ---a King's tax has been implemented, something you have to pay, and it's based on number of citizens you have. Currently it's almost a nothing burger tho (on Normal), once familiar with game logistics. And you can turn it off if you wish. ---overall it's actually easier than before - for town-scaping. Less weird headaches. Crop farming is better, backyard gardens have been nerfed somewhat (mostly a time slow down). ---the patch changes will likely go live fairly soon I've reached the familiarity point where it only takes me a few game years and/or 1.5-2 irl hours to make any town stable and get what I want from it. The only reason to have a larger population, mechanics wise, is for pulling army numbers from and you can just make a single city for that. Everything else is just because "you feel like it." The "magic number" of bored/restart is now down to about 400, although I have gotten total map/regions population up to 1600 or so a couple times. The dev has said the next regional map he has in mind will have ... water? coast? ships/ship trade? not sure. It would be a change of pace tho. Current state: you can/could spend 20-100+ hours messing around with it, sandbox and beating the combat/Baron, but it's very much early-access lacking long-term content/motivation. My biggest curiosity is what the dev plans for the supremely not-finished tree node paths.

Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty similar here in the US too, re: education requirements. I just mean the ... retail? customer service? ... aspect of pharmacy/prescription pick-up for many hospitals or retail outlets (a pharmacy can be put into/offered in a Wal-Mart) has turned into a cattle-drive retail line system, which generally doesn't encourage people to hangout and try to get lots of info at those places specifically. I'd guess most people spend more time talking to doctors and online research then talking to pharmacists - who are more likely to be viewed as a sort of cashier (just someone you hand a prescription to/or give your name to and they fill it). Don't quote me tho - just what I think while standing/watching in lines.

I didn't ask. I'm sure they would have knowledge if you insist on asking questions but in my life most pharmacists act mostly like store cashiers. Stand in line like you're at the dept. of motor vehicles, pick up your bag/pay, shuffle out so someone else can do the same. It's not really conducive to info gathering if you know what I mean. Looking up antibiotics, I think in the past it was the Tetracycline broad spectrum family that I was usually given, and the one the dentist kept pushing/asking about was Amoxicillin, which is penicillin based. I guess that's why he kept asking how bad my penicillin allergy was. I honestly don't think I seriously needed an antibiotic to begin with, for this case, it's more that precaution/preventive concept.

Told dentist I'm supposedly allergic to penicillin but don't really know how severe (it was on my adoption forms, mom always took it seriously, I've been trained to say it). He kept pushing an antibiotic with a name that started with A, asking if I was ok with that. I kept saying I have no idea. I guess he prescribed one called Clindamycin. I can't recall what doctors in the past used to frequently give me, but it wasn't that one. Took 4 doses. Felt a little weird after a while, as if I was abdomen-back tension-stressed. Ate some broth with tiny bits of pork/spinach (so I don't have to chew). Felt worse and worse. Six hours later I threw it all up. The notes for the antibiotic mention nausea and vomiting as possible "side effects". Yeah, I think I won't take any more. First time an antibiotic made me toss my cookies. >.> At least I've had almost no after-extracion swelling/pain. I was expecting worse. Only needed one of the codeine-Tylenol pills, haven't taken any more.

So maybe a year ago one of my upper back molars broke in half/off. But since I'm silly/stupid and almost never do the dentist thing, and there was no pain (I assume it "died" at some point, so it cracked), I didn't do anything about it. Then a lower back molar started to shift rotation and wiggle a bit. Then this week the gum above the broken upper molar finally had an infection. So today I had both removed. Dentistry has improved a lot in 17 years. No pain, fast. Those 3d images of your teeth they can do etc are pretty neat too. Other than those two teeth, everything else looked pretty good, weirdly enough. They have no idea why the one started wiggling. Per usual I'm complimented on having a mouth that never seems to produce tartar even after decades. After healing months I may get some implants. I explain all that because like many before me, as I lie half asleep in a chair as my jaw is tugged and pulled around, I kept asking myself: WHY do dentists/cleaners always yap at you and ask chatty questions while they have tools/fingers in your mouth - it's not like you can answer.

The next goose/goat game? ...I don't think I'd have interest in it myself (never tried goose/goat game either), but the trailer made me giggle.

Hubby's been pretty depressed off and on. Goes up and down, he's trying to stay positive etc. But took a few long weekends, kinda mopes around the house or sits silent in my room on weekends, watching me PC for hours since he doesn't feel like doing anything else. >.> His sister will be moving back to the Bay Area soon - they plan to stay a while, then sell that house and retire in far south California. I really think we should go with them. It's sad tho, when 50% of why hubby doesn't want to retire is because ... his work's health insurance. Ours is currently so good (cost wise - pretty much zero for everything) that it feels like it'd be a mistake to not have it available as long as possible. Gotta look at things again, maybe there's ways around it.

While I'd agree (and that trailers give this feeling too often these days), one can also go too far into another direction. Like this one. It tells me so little I searched for a brief plot synopsis because I couldn't tell even the tiniest thing about what it would be about - not even what genre/s it might fall into. I guess it got me curious enough to look up the movie tho, so it worked in that sense.