LadyCrimson

Does "I play mostly mobile" etc. these days mean Switch/Deck? I still think of it as phone/tablet. I tried phone/tablet games initially, and some of them are all right for brief time wasters but no desire to touch-smash a screen constantly or have a controller attached to those for anything more complex. Plus it's not PC vs other format for me. Mostly it's just ... the industry has changed a lot + when I do play something my feeling is often "this is cute/cool but I can't be bothered to sit here and keep playing or do the "git gud" process (if needed), so I turn it off. The core concept or loops of most games is always the same and I'm bored of that loop, no matter how different the details around it might be. Edit: it's akin to when I became bored of fantasy novels, or the film industry etc. I should take up some (low-key) dance again maybe. Turn the family room into a dance-room. Maybe I just don't want to sit in front of a screen anymore.

Outside of maybe very occasionally revisiting fave games for a day or two, I'm seriously starting to feel like I've become a non-gamer. >.> I still look but everything is "meh" or "hell no" ... indie, AAA, genre, doesn't matter. Even if a new game I try is ok/charming/playable, just bored of it all. That said I am still going to buy that Stray game on the 19th, which I expect to be shortish with little replay value, because, cat, and decent graphics (so very cute cat) for the budget. And less/little combat focus. After that ... I dunno...I suppose if Avowed is ever released I might at least buy it to try it but other than that...seems like I'll be saving a lot of money re: PC building for a long while.

I was hoping for something re: Avowed, disappointed. Diablo4, graphically and in that trailer showcase, looks a lot like Path of Exile. I mean, not exactly (and I'm sure there's other games with that look now, that I've never played), but there were some scenes where the ground and shininess and other things is so PoE. Including the particular top-down PoV that I didn't like that much in PoE. >.> At any rate, while it might be fun to play through once or twice, I'm sure the "endgame" will be as repetitive (which I don't mind if it's light-fun grind) and full of micro transactions ('live as service", which I hate) as many expect. I wonder if "almost 150 dungeons" have layout/design randomization or if they're always the same for each one. At any rate ... visually looks great, but I've yet to see anything to make me want to give Blizz more money. Won't count it out 100%, but doubtful, for me.

I've been interested in that Everywhere and that Nic Cage movie but at the moment I think I can only "buy" it on Amazon Prime, it's not for rent yet or otherwise available on the few streaming services I have. Maybe in couple weeks.

Only time we've gone through stuff like that is when we went to Death Valley. In a car with black interior. I think my t-shirt/shorts were constantly sweat-soaked the entire time. We wore out the car's A/C on that one trip (we visited AZ in that same journey) trying to keep us from becoming dehydrated bags of sand. Well, one thing about high heat (if you're lucky enough to have air conditioning at least) is that it makes a great excuse for homebodies like me to ... well, stay at home. "I'm not lazy, it's just too hot."

This is more the "metal" that I would likely be attracted to. Some of us used to call it, generically, heavy metal. Or maybe metal ballads? What do you call it these days? ...also, I've decided Pellek's YT channel stuff is the bestest, and sometimes the funniest.

It's 102F/38.88889C

So, yeah, most metal (any type) isn't really my thing - occasional radio hit, film track or 80's hit I like, just not what I want to listen to all day. But this group's mega-viewed metal cover of BTS's "Fake Love" (which is great - you can youtube it if you've never heard of it) brought me here to post one of their original (I think?)songs. ---I like their drummer/singer's tonal range when he does the more melodic singing bits, and his big smile ---I can't understand a word the "screamer" is saying (I never can) but his energy is infectious. ---guitarist short solo is fun and his and bassist's dynamic is fun too. ---I'd probably like them live.

I had no idea I wanted a screaming metal cover of PSY's "Gentlemen," but apparently I did.

Guess it's been a slow week for everyone? ...I got food poisoning, spewing from both ends for a couple days. That was fun. ...it rained a fair amount - relatively speaking for time of year - for a couple days. Felt almost tropical. Now it's super hot again and I can't sleep. ...we're still not totally moved/cleaned out of the Bay Area house. In fact we keep talking about how if the home prices drop a little bit the next several months/year (higher interest rates, inflation slowing buyers and other such things) maybe we should look for another house in the same Sac. neighborhood that we might like a tad better and get rid of/sell the one we're currently in. We seem to be all kinds of confused/confuddled re: our future plans. >.> EDIT: although the way the world is going I'm still leaning towards selling everything and building an underground bunker-house in the mid-west. HAHA

K-drama's: current actor crush - Lee Soo Hyuk Via Viki website: Lucky Romance - rom-com, predictable and often preposterous but quite cute, although the main couple gets together with maybe 4 episodes still left and I grew bored of the filler. Up to that point it was mostly adorable/ridiculous fun. Born Again - oh lord, this was tragic-triangle-murder-reincarnation melodrama terrible. Although the first couple episodes showing the past were ok. After that it went all crazy/stupid and the female lead made the wrong choice, darnit! Heh. FFWD'd through most of it. On Netflix: Tomorrow - well, I liked this one a fair amount. It has a main story arc and then episodic cases. Supernatural/fantasy, with a group of reapers who try to prevent suicides. Yeah don't ask. Some of the stories, while very melodrama, can be hard to watch, and a few made me sniffle. Don't watch if you're in a bad mood maybe. A little inconsistent but largely binge-worthy. One male lead chr. was kind of annoying - whiny and immature - but he did get more tolerable later. Female lead was awesome. But, despite being billed as a lead, not enough Lee Soo Hyuk until near the end. Ha.

I heard some of y'all like meowing/cute kittens.

We watched Matrix 4. ...um...I liked the deja vu cat. Best character in the movie. Also, I'm not sure how they managed to make even the action scenes flat, lifeless and dull, but they did. That said, there were some interesting ideas and moments, and NPH's one long dialogue re: humanity was entertaining but yeah overall it earned its bad rep. ...they should have just made deja vu kitty the main character.

Hmm...interesting. I know sounds and sometimes dialogue are done in studio after filming etc, but I always thought the screams were at least dubbed by the actors themselves. Guess not, most of the time (at least in modern times). Makes sense to be sound effects in a manner of speaking, but still weird.

Got around to watching the new Dune, mostly because I was afraid HBO would yank it long before pt. 2. I...as a grumpy old cat...didn't hate it. Didn't particularly like it either, however, although there were certainly small things here and there that I admired, and the cinematography was often nice. Outside of saying that it has all the usual issues I find modern blockbuster film-making to have, not going to analyze it. It's not terrible but also nothing I'm going to remember either. (EDIT: I do appreciate the effort behind it tho but ...) So...yeah, I know it's "part 1"... but still unfilm-able, to me.

Idealized youthful fantasy/tearjerker K-drama version: Kim Go-eun ,,,that's an interesting question tho, really, because as an adopted Korean-American I don't really "relate" to the vast majority of the actresses I see on screen (Hollywood or many East-Asian productions either) in terms of seeing a sort of reflection of myself. I don't mean that in a negative way (eg, it doesn't bother me, it can still entertain), and I don't mean simply racially/looks but also the personality and culture portrayals...and because of that I have zero notion of an actress that would be "good" at playing me. So ... uh ... any adult female under 5 feet who's broody, a little tomboyish, lazy as f*** and verbalizes curse words far too often would work.

Movie sound mixers must have seen this video back when and decided to emulate it. eg, this is exactly how I feel trying to watch many movies now - where I know they're speaking English but I can't hear/understand it.

Biomutant - ok that announcer became even more annoying and I totally disabled it. The "gibberish" by NPC's as well. Unfortunately there still seems to be occasional scripted moments where the narrator "must" speak, even if you have subtitles on - can button-press faster thru such at least. I need more funny hats. A jester hat with some wild pantaloons would work. Gameplay wise - it's still simplistic. Early on quite a few cutscenes (that are often used to unlock/introduce new abilities) for backstory/lore. So far no consequences for looting anything anywhere. I've found small and easy to miss loot/enemy spots if you were never go off the beaten path , but nothing significant (yet). The world map makes the game seem kinda large but I have a feeling the actual scale will = won't seem very big at all running through it. At any rate, still a moderately enjoyable (on Easy) casual adventure/rpg-lite romp. Nothing deep or strategic. But it's full of cuteness!

Stylin'! Wait, short pants and a gasmask, even moah stylin'! Training that WungFu with Mom. Child-"me" is sooo cuuute. I wanna play as him all the time vs. the adult version...I wonder if he (and she) changes appearance based on how you make your chr...

*reads about histamine (food) intolerance* Hm...I keep having these bouts of intense all-over patch itchiness/tiny bumps/hives (no major rash tho) that comes and goes ... maybe it's not just pollens/dust/plastics/chemicals and I've developed a (pretty mild) case of food allergies and should alter my diet a bit yet again. *high histamine foods you should avoid: fermented (pickles, kim chi, sauerkraut etc), soy, all cured meats, some nuts, eggplant, tomato, yogurt/cheese, booze etc* ...with diabetes on top, at that rate the only thing I'll be able to eat is ... ultra-filtered water? ... nvm, it's probably not it anyway and I can live with the itchiness (sour grapes).

My Holderness Family crush continues. 1:25 - the wives wonder if their husbands are nuts 2:20 - the wives take the boat and leave bickering hubby's behind. Not really into the music overall but the lyrics are cute. And at the end when it becomes "Hot Mom Summer" instead...loved that. Had to clip just that bit so I can loop it forever.

Fixed that for you. More seriously, in my of course completely objective and unbiased opinion ( ), 97.999% of all shows/movies are terribly written. That doesn't mean I don't find some of it still very entertaining, mind ... entertainment doesn't have to be super literate or sensible or whatever to just entertain ... but they are still weakly plotted and paced. Quantity over quality or something, especially re: Netflix and their "we just care about getting people to binge-watch something, anything, all the time" mantra.

rofl! Classic, I love it. Always nice when it turns out to be something like that. Thanks, I needed that chuckle.

That pretty much sums up my feeling about ST. Although I think I only watched one or two episodes of season2. I've pretty much decided that every "Netflix" labeled series ever, even if (I think) the first season is fun/good/great, if they keep going with more seasons, I won't like it. (EDIT - it's not that they become bad exactly, they just become...not-compelling enough to watch) Stranger Things Lost In Space Umbrella Academy Haunting of Hill House Daredevil Bridgerton (to a lesser extent) Love Death and Robots ...and on and on. Netflix is the one-season-wonder originals.

This time it's the reverse: the weather is cooler but I'm in a depressive mood. >.> Not sure what triggered it - just wake up one day feeling that way and it is what it is I guess. I need more cookies, but I guess these slightly off-tasting sugar-free chocolate lollipops will have to do.