LadyCrimson

Jogging in general is bad for the knees. Gogo power-walking.

I know Photoshop is a great program, but it always amuses me when people suggest it for stuff like altering forum avatars. Unless your parents/friends have a copy and let you use it, I don't think anyone's going to want to spend hundreds of bucks just to make avatars. :D Looks like you got it done, but for reference, there's plenty of free or free-trial editors that work fine for basic stuff like that. Sites like tucows or similar always have lots.

Hehe, yeah, that was funny...shows how up to date I keep on stuff. lol It was during the Beetlejuice time when I saw that article...it might have been Alec Baldwin that said it. That'd be typical of his arrogant style. Too bad I threw out all my mags last summer...I could've looked it up. I think it's great Geena got into that tho - always wanted to do archery myself...but I probably won't. And that about sums up my fitness regimen these days. haha! Home treadmills are becoming steadily more popular as they improve in quality and people don't want to brave the weather all year or whatever.

That sounds....attractive.

Yes, well, as I edited into my last post, the article I read was from 11 years before that. Time enough for her to shape up, if indeed the actor who made the observation was being truthful. At any rate, I'd mentioned it because of the relevance about thin vs in-shape...

They also still have the edge on graphic applications. Some of them, anyway.

Ok, I looked it up...guess she was, later. Well, I don't know, that's just what the actor said...it was years ago (like 10 years before the Olypia archery thing). Edit - ARGH I keep typing before I'm thinking.

I'm talking about the actress. Last I knew, she was no Olympian.

For some reason I've always remembered this mag. interview with an actor yaers ago, who commented that Gena Davis was an intelligent & attractive woman who looked great but was in the worst shape he'd ever seen. "Couldn't even do one push-up." I'm also noticing a lot more cellulite on even the thin, youthful thigh's these days.... :D

*skims thru the thread really fast* I don't have a problem with a system that gives levels at a rapid pace, as long as the game doesn't become easy to defeat at any point, no matter how many hours you spend fishing or hoarding gold or plunging dungeons to gain levels. I don't include "action-RPG's" when I say that, because that genre is, of course, power-gaming/short attention span oriented, for when you just want vicarious no-thinking mashing fun. A more 'serious' RPG should be balanced so the character/equipment never outstrips the quests/monsters/new areas, but because there's so many notions of what too-easy entails, combined with trying to make a game not feel too linear (freedom of exploration), blah blah, it's difficult to implement to majority satisfaction...and thus they too also usually fail to have the balance, always falling back to the 'more power' mentality. Even stuff like BG1 with its comparitively low level cap, half way through the game the fights were too easy simply because they made arrow attacks too powerful (whatever the cause) and I blew throgh the 2nd half of the game combat-wise with my eyes almost closed primarly because of that. They were still very fun games tho, with other aspects to keep you entertained...just not balanced combat-wise. People can complain that Kotor2 is too easy combat wise, and it is, but IMO, so are most 'serious' RPG's. Just because you have to configure your party classes & pause the game more often mid-battle to give commands etc. doesn't make it harder - it just makes it more time-consuming. Personally, I think it's just a flaw in the whole mentality of needing to be awarded 'skill points' as you level to gain/pick your powers. I don't think it works all that well in a computer game envrionment. I like RPG's that aren't level based at all - you never 'level up' and your strength/health stays the same etc. - and award you powers/abilities for quests or just as expensive purchases from stores and such...I've played a few like that but can't think of their names at the moment cause unfortunately, they weren't memorable/good games beyond the chr. system... :D Sorry, I've been long-winded lately.... "

My entire family are Mac people, except me. They don't play games tho. The party poopers. My mother just bought one of those new Macs where the HD & stuff is encased in the (very flat profile) monitor - even tho the monitor is nice, I just think that's weird, and potentially inconvienent. They may be improving performance wise & are good for classroom/office machines etc. but it's their odd ways of putting their machines together that I don't like. I don't know a lot about them really, but as my husband likes to say, they're not for people who like to work/upgrade their computers themselves.

That is so what I was thinking.

Even at 20 hours it's still cheaper than a full price movie per hour. And I agree, content and the fun factor are the most important things. I'll take a fun, fast, 20 hour game over one that's 80 hours long but boring as s**t. But it would be nice if the two combined together more often, tis true. A game that takes me more than 30-40hours to finish is because I spend a lot of time 'tinkering,' optional stuff that's not required to 'win', & re-loading type experimenting, even on the first run-thru, not because the game actually has that many hours of straight story/levels/gameplay. That includes BG1. I don't really see how to make the majority of them longer tho - unless you like plain old randomly generated dungeon levels that all look the same, the more content there is the more time and money it takes to make them...which at today's salaries, business practices, and prices, would probably = higher priced games, which would cause people to whine even more. edit-typo

Age of Aquarius from The 40 year old virgin.

If I pack on an extra 10 pounds (goes up and down all the time) I blame my inability to stop snacking. I'm one of those late-night snackers, which drives me nuts, but oh well. I had a girlfriend who was probably in 250+ category and she lost about 80 pounds largely from a lot of walking (she could walk faster than some people jog) and some diet changes, but last I knew, she still couldn't shed the final 50 pounds. Her brother lost 20 pounds just by not eating a pint of ice cream every day anymore. lol Fad diets to permanetly lose weight are stupid & dont work. Although I do admit I like some of the 2-5 day cleansing fasts just to purge the system of all the crap once in a while. heh

Yeah, it happens here and there. http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=32759&hl=

Or sometimes they misjudge how many calories they actually burn via their daily activities, vs. calorie consumption, even if they are eating a lot of chocolate and chips. EDIT: Haha, that's my hubby's main calorie problem. A six pack has a lot of calories. hehe

No. I have no fancy theories as to why not...just....no.

To all those who 'eat everything' and don't gain weight....My brother, hubby, and I are like that (bro's does x-country running), and the past 5 years we've been joking how it appears it's actually possible for us to gain a little too much weight if we're not careful, even with moderate exercise. It does catch up with you...build good habits early - they don't have to be extreme - so you don't have to play catch-up later. Relying largely on the high-metabolism (either natural or from training) doesn't work quite so well as you get older. Also, being thin doesn't neccesarily mean good-health, especially as you age and all the bad habits start to accumulate inside.

Transporter2 - totally absurd but hey, it's an action flick...and Jason's a hottie. Watchable, a few laughs. RedEye - the bad guy has really pretty blue eyes but the movie was pretty boring/bad.

I like some of them because they're...well....funny. Even if it is the unintentional, so bad it's fun to make fun of them kind of way. But I can only take so much at one time. heh Steven Segal cracks me up...we used to joke about how almost all his film titles consist of three short words.

No, not really. Unless someone's made some kind of AI mod or something, I'm never up to speed on those things. I find I'm better off just controlling one character and letting the AI do what it wants, pausing only to deal with health or something. If they're giving you a lot of trouble in certain situations by running forward to melee when you don't want them to, put long range guns in their hands (23m or more) and put them on ranged AI for a while. Also, you can do that to prevent them from running off alone when the first hit they recieve is from someone way 'in the back' (the AI goes for the first attacker, not the closest), then pause to switch weapons/AI and tell them to attack someone closer. I'm kind of a control freak, but in Kotor2 it doesn't matter 99% of the time. If melee is really your thing, once you've given them the top level of a melee skill they'll use it a lot on their own with no prompting. They tend to use their regular attack by default a lot, until then, I assume because the AI considers the lower-feats penalty too high, maybe. Anyway, I've watched Atton & Di beat all the Sith down with no help from me at all, not even pausing, so I let them do what they want. <_< Just give them max Power and/or Critical Strike, since they won't cast Speed on their own in melee, making Flurry not so spectacular for AI melee.

I'll still take a good bike ride or hike through a hilly park over riding an exercycle in some mirrored room. Tho of course I know some people live in a areas where that's not really feasible. And I do have portable music players...it still doesn't keep me from being bored & counting the minutes in a gym. Not everyone is that into music.

Peragus, simply because it's the beginning and all beginnings get really boring to me after a while. I like the fun of starting a new character, but something about Peragus sucks all of that away. Maybe it's because there's too much "Hi here's some newbie info" in all the convo's. Click click, skip. Click click skip. I also found Nar Shadda extremely dull on re-plays, tho I'm not sure why - maybe because it's a dingy ugly city, and because the whole GoTo ship thing really annoyed me.

My back is giving me too many problems to do anything very strenuous these days. Sucks. I"ve been trying to combine photography with long walks tho, it helps some. I hate public gyms. It's not embarassment...I just don't like people and staring at 4 walls while on a machine. Not to mention, being hit on all the time. :angry: Never tried an all-female gym tho.