LadyCrimson

I wonder if other sentient lifeforms would consider us sentient lifeforms... As to the topic...could happen, who knows. But even if it does, I'll likely be dead before they have any vacations to mars brochures, so...bah.

The US typically cuts them pretty badly...I watched them a lot growing up and at some point I was watching them w/some of hubby's nieces and such and I couldn't believe how truncated they were. I think it has more to do with commercials and profit than anything else - old cartoon shorts were a lot longer, and that cuts into how many they can play each hour etc....like why old ST episodes are missing large chunks sometimes. I'm sure you can get them on DVD now or something...but on TV they're horribly chopped on most stations.

Kate Bush - Under Ice ---- It's wonderful Everywhere, so white The river has frozen over Not a soul on the ice Only me, skating fast I'm speeding past trees leaving Little lines in the ice Cutting out little lines In the ice, splitting, splitting sound Silver heels spitting, spitting snow There's something moving under Under the ice Moving under ice

You did all that with a little knife? Remind me not to make you angry. :D

Is it full of stars? :D

Xan in BG1. "Our quest is vain" and his other morose sayings. I used to click on him repeatedly while giggling. By and large tho, I've found more giggles from strategy/city builder games than rpg's, usually from the absurdity of situations, not dialogues. Like slapping imps, or cartpushers in Caesar3 running around on high-speed when all your granaries are full.

Thingies I've heard of. But dongles? What is that huge green thing with all the switches for?

Simpsons is/was definitely too drawn out. King of the Hill was kinda amusing for six episodes too, but after that I ignored it. The Flintsones ruled.

The Stand. It's a slow day.

Yes. Make it like the Matrix, so if your avatar dies you also get executed in real-life. Well, yeah, that'd be going too far. :D I'd still like it if when I moved my arm, my arm in a game moved. You can have some of that virtual reality without the death part. Tho I suppose those with certain medical conditions might still have problems...

40 year old virgin, unrated (that's all they had on the shelf, heh) The first 2 minutes was sooooooo funny....the rest was cute and amusing, but not quite so belly-laugh inducing.

I never bought the sequel...it didn't look very good, and I'd kind of lost interest in most strategy by then. Did you actually buy it?

From one female's point of view...most of the time, seXXy-stuff in non-X rated entertaiment is just plain boring, especially when it's often from a stereotypical male-cameraman/director point of view. <_< Honestly, watching faces comically contort while you see bodies writhing under silk sheets, with the occassional flash of skin....YAWN. Immediate fast-forward. If I want porno, I'll watch real porno...the stuff in most movies/games is just a big snore - it's dull time-filler and sex-sells fodder, that's all. You don't need that to get the point across that, y'know, these characters are doing it. Oooooo. Romance, however, is something different, as that's an emotional hook and there are bits of that here and there in some games. Just nothing, so far in my limited gaming experience, that goes much beyond a few one-liners or something. I agree, however, that it's pretty silly to have all the guns/violence and think that's casual, but get in an uproar because of a little seXXy. One is not worse than the other. Just don't start putting long boring in-bed cutscenes in games that I can't skip, please. Zzzzz.

The closest I come to feeling like "I'm there" is when I'm so obsessed I forget about the time or that my butt is numb from sitting. A kind of tunnel-vision thing - at best, it's as if I'm watching a movie via some kind of 3-d glasses surround-o-vision, perhaps. I've never felt like I was actually the character I was playing....not even close. There's always the awareness that I'm controlling an avatar, because...well...my hands are on a keyboard, y'know. If I'm aware I'm playing an avatar, I'm aware it's not real. Plus the wonky physics like being able to jump over lava flows that would burn you alive just from the heat...haha If they get to the point of something like Lawnmower man, where every physical move you make is reflected in the gameworld, then....well...that would be neat, wouldn't it? heh

For many people, those things are a major part of why they like/dislike a character. " Well at least you didn't put Disciple last...that's a change of pace. :D I didn't get very far in Kotor1, so I can't rate many of those. And I don't really want to make a huge list of every one, plus I'm terrible with names so... Disciple - 9 Atton - 9 The blue twilek girl in Kotor1 - 2 (her voice really really annoyed me) Hanharr/any wookie - 1's arrrrgh Atris - 5 snooty but interesting Kreia - 6 great voice acting but I never actually wanted her in my party... Vrook - 8 - simply because he's 'good because you love to hate him' kind of character Carth - 5 I don't find him attractive :D Visas - 5 Darth Sion - 6 .....that's it, my typing fingers are suddenly hit with a lazy stick....

I haven't 'gotten into' most cartoons after the first couple seasons of The Simpsons. I've tried to watch some of them...I don't get South Park at all...I guess I'm getting too fuddy-duddy... :D I did like that robot in the show or two I watched. He was kinda funny.

Things I really dislike ...having to ask for help because of injuries ...popup ads, or ads in general. ...insomnia ...the pile of bills that's always on the table :D ...most reality TV shows ...most TV shows, period. ...inflation ...the list could go on forever, really...

I used to like Lord of the Realms quite a bit...but that's not a new game or anything. First time through, man did those plagues decimate my population and frustrate me. Heh Once you got the knack, it was pretty simple, but it's pretty fun.

I forgot to add, that I do like the idea of having a unified platform for home electronic entertainment, whether it's 'console' or something else. If all the console/game companies would band together to share creative effort and profit of one unified platform, instead of individually trying to 'corner' the market and forcing people to choose between them, I'd be all for it. Ideally, then, there'd be no more having to worry whether or not your specific PC configuration will run the game you want, because they'd all be written for the same platform/hardware. Game programmers would be able to focus a little more on games that would reach everyone, and not on cross-platform compatability etc. Not that I think it's likely to ever happen...or, even if it did, there'd be too much bickering over stuff, including creative environment/freedom, and it'd fall apart...but I do like the idea.

To me it's just practicality. Consoles still make hardly any games I'd consider playing, thus, I see no need to buy one, even if I do miss a game or three. Their only appeal at the moment would be as something my husband and I could sit on the couch and play together side by side once in a while...and I doubt it'd even get much use that way, since he's not all that into games. I may always own a computer, but if I didn't play games, it's likely I would put far less money into upgrading the PC all the time, since one doesn't need the Uber graphic card or RAM etc. for word processing, or even most home digital photography work. And if that was the case, I'd have more to spend on buying/updating multiple consoles, so.... I'm still open to the idea of a console, as long as I don't feel like I'm buying one because of a single game. If more developers start producing console games, perhaps the variety will also increase - tho I've been waiting for 18 years and they still haven't changed one whit IMO in those terms. Until then...consoles...meh.

If I liked the game chosen, I'd be game. Except, I'd probably refuse to do any teamspeak-like stuff, because I doubt anyone would want to listen to, much less be able to understand, my allergy-congested, low-pitched, mumbling ways of speech. :D

March of the Penguins. Man oh man are the baby chicks cute. Almost as cute as puma cubs. Almost. Very good documentary film. P.S. Morgan Freeman's narration helped a lot...he has one of the best narrator voices.

@ Hades - I posted a lot on the very old threaded BG1 boards back in..uh..the late 90's I guess. I didn't like it when they changed, and changed again, and... Not that I've looked in a while. But one of those cases where once all the people I hung out with split up it just wasn't the same and never willbe/never went back. @Magnum Opus - heh, the avatar...must be. Puss n Boots was great.

lol, good one...creative too.

I love you. :ph34r: I still can't get past the longer/slower reply habit of old message board days. Today's forums are like Speed Racer in comparison.