LadyCrimson

The Davinci Code. W/reviews, I expected to dislike it, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Again, haven't raed the book, maybe that helps. It does start a bit slow, so if you're the type where the first 15 minutes affects how you feel about a movie, probably not for you. The ending and some of the 'surprises' were a bit weak and predictable even w/out the foreknowledge of having read the novel, but I thought it had decent pacing and suspense...not action/scary suspense, just the drama kind suspense. Thought it told it's story fairly well. Could've been 15 minutes or so shorter, and Tom Hanks seemed like he was on acting-auto-pilot but anyway, I liked it and didn't feel bored.

It's not just the store pricetag that makes a lot of stuff expensive to me. I'ev spent a lot of money on stuff that was a good deal in the long run and a little money on stuff that felt like a ripoff.

Cheap rickety parts in expensive yet disposable hardware, perhaps? Maybe we're unlucky, but I've also noticed it in DVD-theater players lately.

I used to have a lot of pipedream goals and ambitions. Then I realized I had neither the personality or the drive to accomplish them, and now I'm just happy to be....well, happy, whatever it is I'm doing. It's the little things that make me content, and most of those I already have or have done. I wouldn't mind building a massive non-profit housepet shelter for pets & wild animals that does not ever put the animals 'to sleep' (there'd have to be a limit to new admissions of course, but I'd want that to number to be HUGE, not just a few hundred). But I don't think that's going to happen. :D

If one has the seat reclined back enough to steer with one's feet, how does one see out the window?

I knew there was a reason I didn't like RealPlayer. Personally I'd add QuickTime to that list...tho I haven't tried it in a little while.

I remember reading a lot of good things about G. Fandango...but never bought it, not my type of game really. And I think I'm one of the few who doesn't generally mind that old games run faster. Guess I don't play games that are really affected much...even stuff like DK1, the extra speed doesn't bother me at all. The imps run a little faster and are harder to grab, that's it. I get used to it and then it seems normal. Doom1 was a little hard to control the view-swing but still fine. But I don't play any ancient side-scrollers or anything.

I have 9 games installed on my PC at the moment and I switch back and forth between them all...which means I make very little progress in stuff like Oblivion. Games don't affect your attention span, oh no. :D (that's a joke...)

This is a bit off-topic, but has anyone else had problems with their DVD-rom RW drive not even noticing that some game CD-roms are inserted? ie, the drive spins the disc a while then falls silent, no error message, no nothing...just doesn't see the disc. If I re-insert it several times it'll eventually notice. It's not the disc itself, cause I can put in the plain vanilla CD-rom drive in the older PC and it runs just fine. Sometimes I think DVD drives are a bit more...picky.

It's been a couple years since the 58K modem days but I remember websurfing with images turned off as more and more people loaded up huge images without thought. Pain in the arse.

Posts like these make me glad I'm on broadband. Failing compression, you could have made them attachments... I've been trying to get some decent skirmish castle siege shots of Crusader but no luck so far.

Well, according to that picture, it actually does fill up the entire width of your screenshot. Your screen seems oddly tall compared to it's width, however.

Silver (or white, it's pretty much white...)...orange/copper, and blue.

Some drama/character study called Winter Passing. Funny, it was one of those films where you're so bored you're about to fall asleep and yet you don't get up to go do something else. Or maybe it was just cause my back hurt and the couch was comfy. At any rate...it's a really weird, slow, plodding film with a main character that I just couldn't relate to at all. Ed Harris is always fun to watch tho.

I find all such movies a little superficial... :ph34r:

I find the longer you have money to throw around, the more likely it is you'll end up doing so....it's not that you don't still think of yourself as cheap or practical, it's just that the higher the dollar value becomes before you start thinking 'that's too expensive to waste money on.'

Patrick Stewart - a far cry from Shakespeare...(plus now when I think of him I think of that King's face in Oblivion...scary). The trailers make the movie look like fun eye-candy, I might check it out. I liked the first one, didn't like the 2nd much.

I remember coming home from school and watching the Transformers for a while. Every episode was exactly the same... Does 'live action Transformers movie' translate into 'mostly blue screen' movie? Hard to picture actors playing robots who can change into a vehicle. heh

Stronghold Crusader...love building castles. If only those blasted trees would stop growing so fast.

You can never have too many gatehouses!

To stop myself from turning this into an Oblivion pic thread, most of mine will now go here. The one of the Khajiit smiling is for LoneWolf.

Maybe because they've always been funny-looking? I thought it'd be whitish with visible dark stripes or something, but no...I'll probably go back and change her to mundane tiger color.

I wanted a white kitty-thief...the face looks fine, but put her in the 'sunlight' and she needs Sublock9000....