LadyCrimson

Yup, I like running around in this game. And at least combat is same-map, not loaded-in encounters. Also, seems a good game for future GPU/RTX performance testing. Not sure how linear it is yet - has small side quests and it guides you forward a lot - you can roam a bit, find things, but it's not hugely expansive early on. Being very plot/scene heavy I'd guess fairly linear.

Sword and Fairy 7: Oh, a mage-warrior pretty-boi - +1 (he's not the main character, will be one of your party tho) Some nice looking/cinematic in-game cutscenes - +1 (movies seem to be the typical 1080 or 1440 resolution and thus fuzzier on 4k tv) To Ray Trace and lose lots of FPS (depending how much quality you're willing to lose) or... ...to not Ray Trace and have lots of 4k FPS (still looks great w/out RT, but I notice RT in an overall effect a bit more here than in Cyberpunk. It's still subtle most of the time tho, like the whiter cape, cave lighting, hair, surface reflections) But dang, some stuff/scenes in the game are absolutely eye-catching/gorgeous. All during the brief prologue/tutorial I kept stopping to gaze around and around. Ground textures/other here and there are sometimes iffy but the overall impression is poppin'. Combat, seeming player party structure ... reminds me a tad of Tales of Arise, really. Nothing uncommon lept out, in other words.

A little game called Dig 2 is the current GoG freebie through tomorrow morning: https://www.gog.com/game/steamworld_dig_2 Although if you prefer Steam, it's free there too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/571310/SteamWorld_Dig_2/ I may grab it and check it out. Not typically into 2D/platformers at all but it looks kinda cute/fun.

Well, so it is "true" open world then. Hm. As one of the few around here who actually likes open world (if it's an interesting open world, unlike ... Skyrim ... pfft), that puts my interest meter up higher. I'd still need a combat cheat tho, since I have no desire to feel some sense of achievement re: tough battles. Also ... save on exit. Not fond of that when something can be played offline/single-player, but I've put up with it for 7 Days to Die for years so it's manageable. Assuming ... it can be played in Offline mode. If one has to have a net connection all the time, even for SP, then no.

"I should be productive with stuff like packing, cleaning etc. today." ...sticks some DVD's in a box ...watches some YouTube ...naps ...game, food, TV, snuggles etc "Tomorrow."

There was/is another Ghostbusters movie? . . . Well, at least it has Paul Rudd.

Any update? Is she doing all right? I am not familiar with that word, I'll have to Google it later.

From what I can see/tell, it's basically just the original Tiny Tina (BL2) DLC - I mean literally that exact DLC - tweaked so you can play it without having to have BL2 attached to it. With new "chest types", some cut and pasted quests from other BL2 stuff into it, and costume heads from other BL2 DLC, that kind of stuff. Maybe a max level for it too. They want to charge $10 for it on Steam from the start and after a week or two same on Epic. This is pretty ridiculous, imo. Should be free if you own BL2 on Steam, although ofc, from the sound of it, there is zero reason to buy it if you own BL2/all its DLC in the first place.

For me Dexter quickly became the James Remar/Harry Morgan show. Not that I didn't enjoy those first five or six seasons as a whole - just sayin'.

Urgh. Hope she recovers/it ends up nothing too serious.

Per usual I don't really have any technical/moral objection or something like that. I'm just lazy and really don't feel like "having" to get one every six months, just like I rarely go for anything medical/dental unless there's an actual problem already in progress. If I'm considered too high risk, I'd rather never leave the house (which I already am 90-95% there anyway) and if I was single I probably would.

Lip movement sync/time maybe. Or because it's almost the only thing the chr says repeatedly. (shaking their coat-arm) "Ahjussi/Ahjuma/Sunbae! .... come on, ahjussi ... ahjussi, please!" I recall one series where a chr. referred to another chr. as songsenim (kinda like "teacher") but the subtitle was the teacher's name. It wasn't repetitive but it was just so obvious of a difference of audible verbal syllables vs. subtitle that it was a little jarring. I think k-drama's and subs have become better about such in recent years but it was sometimes rather extreme in some older dramas. Sometimes Eng. subbers don't even seem to know what to do with "oppa". But that's more of a translator skill then anything else lol.

I'm not sure how I feel about boosters, for myself, tbh. I guess I was thinking about once a year, not every six months, maybe using the fact I hardly leave my house as an excuse. But...since... Hubby ... for me personally he's the largest "vector risk." Like his work dept. is having a Xmas mingle this weekend (I'm not going) and I was surprised they'd do that. I sort of don't want him to go because that's the kind of situation where he could bring something home to higher-risk diabetic me. But I don't want to be a stick in the mud, telling him what he can/can't do, either. Sigh.

^ I don't speak/understand Korean but I do know that in most series they are constantly using terms of cultural respect ... but in many English subs they translate that as using the character's name. Which if you listen, you know the chrs. are NOT speaking actual names. So you may get "John! John! John!" or "Mr. Jones Mr Jones" constantly, which to us Eng. speakers may seem odd because honestly how often do you actually say someone's name out loud in a short conversation like that. On the other hand, I'm not sure how a more literal translation would help either .... "Sir" or "grandfather" (when the chr. is just an older male neighbor, for example) repeated a dozen times would have the same problem.

I hope everyone is/stays ok. I know being vaccinated is supposed to help with covid at least being not as severe if you do then catch it, but does that have any kind of time-reduction too, or would that aspect be a bit more permanent? I guess it's getting close to six months for us since full vaccination too. Being winter, especially, guess we should see about getting those boosters...

Heaven Official's Blessing. A rather mellow, interesting fantasy/supernatural Chinese anime drama and LGBT romance. The romance aspect is oddly obvious after a couple episodes yet also generally very subtle - I didn't know beforehand that it was/had a romance aspect and it took me 2-3 episodes to catch on to it. Nicely done, imo. Tonally and pacing-wise it reminds me just a tad of Mushishi, with supernatural happenings and the main chrs. investigating/trying to fix them. The first ghost-bride mystery was the weakest, I liked the episodes afterwards more. I guess the main character is a ... low rank heavenly god - human who ascended to Heaven - more than once - who lacks worshippers. It's not an exciting, constant action filled anime but it's intriguing, sweet, has a nice mythology feeling, and often quite beautiful. A little bit of humor here and there. Anyway ... I enjoyed it. At least they weren't highschoolers. If there's a second season I'll be glad to check it out.

No, I get that. If we had six arms and four legs spread out in a sort of square shaped stance, we'd probably draw most "aliens" with a similar structure. We draw what we know. But for games, films, TV in this modern era, it'd be nice to see something with better vision more often, vs. just "sexy human bodies with animal heads/tails." At least that last one you posted got the four toes/fingers (evolved from paws, not human feet/hands) much better. Actually, some ancient culture mythical beasts or gods I probably like a bit more to begin with, vs. modern game/media stuff....

Decided to download/try the demo of Sword and Fairy 7. It looked ok, and at least without ray tracing (I'm assuming default demo settings would have no RT) it played in 4k perfectly fine. Unfortunately the demo has zero English dialogue or menu subtitling so I had no idea what to do, outside of figuring out what was the jump and attack buttons. >.> The full game does have the English subs/menus but the demo was not very helpful to me re: whether I wanted to purchase or not. I did manage to whack some starter enemies to death and roamed some wilds and picked herbs for a bit...seems very dialogue/cutscene heavy, possibly typical for the type of game (fantasy wuxia? something like that?).

^ Something like Puss n Boots is so children-cartoonish that it doesn't spark bizarro alarms. Nekomata just looks like a human wearing cat ears/other halloween costume parts or some such. I'm also culturally used to things like typical fairies, where they just have small wasp like wings etc. Using a more full insectoid as example (vs. Tinkerbell fairy), if you want something humanoid in that it has two legs/walks upright etc, I'd prefer something like this: I guess for me certain artistic concepts of non-human+human hybrid is too uncanny valley, for lack of a better word. Or at least, they don't resemble anything that in my mind would likely actually evolve from the known base form (edit: so I can't take them seriously at all). Just me tho.

...I love cats, but I didn't even like the Khajiit in Skyrim. Humonoid-ish animals or insectoids is one thing but basically just sticking an animal head on a human body is so visually weird. At least give them something like, oh, only four fingers w/padded palms vs. a human hand, and/or leg/joint angles (walking on toes) that match felines a bit more, something like that.

Those cauliflower/egg round things make good "pizza things". So I've been toasting them first then adding the sauce, pepperoni, cheese, jalepeno's and spinich and top-broiling them. Went to make more today and ... the large tub of sauce I'd made was near gone. Stared at hubby. "Oh...yeah. I forgot to tell you. You're going to have to make more pizza sauce." (it's not like he doesn't know how to make it himself...) Last week he also ate my last piece of dark chocolate bar. I think he needs some re-training lessons. Anyway ... it's nice to be able to eat "pizza" without much carb guilt.

You don't need armor if you kill everything in one hit.

Total agreement. Also, for me personally, I don't even like most armor designs, male or female, in terms of gaming (not real life warring states where IRL protection is a factor) - I prefer ... clothes. So something like where "armor" is just something you wear stat wise, like an accessory, but the character appearance can be changed with clothes to whatever. FFXV, Tales of Arise style, for example. That way you can have your stats and whatever appearance suits your personal fancy/ideals too. I absolutely hate it in games where in order to get the best or close to best armor stats your character has to wear that stupid looking horned nose-pieced helmet and bright blue suit of armor, or whatever. I mean yeah if the intent of your game is historical accuracy, fine, but otherwise ... gimmie suits or t-shirts and jeans anyday.

The house itself isn't all that much bigger, but you'd still be free to stay on the couch. I think the house itself is maybe 1280sf + 2 car garage (3bd/2 ba), while our first house is 980sf + 1 car garage (3bd/1 ba) ... the lot size is the main difference. 10,000sf (if that= 1/4 acre) vs. 5000sf. Wider in the backyard than the front yard. Decent size for cheaper suburbia around here. It's a good house for the hubster to spend his days frittering around in for sure. Garage came with some ancient beat up but still functional metal workbench/cabinets too. Actually, come to think of it ... I may have to "chase" him in circles around house/yard just to find him as he moves constantly from place to place like a jackrabbit with all his "project spots". Hm. I am lazy. Maybe I can install a comprehensive intercom system and just page him from my tech-cave.