LadyCrimson

Guardians of the Galaxy ... I might get out of the easy/early chapters one day. I've turned the game on twice, spent most of my time in Photo Mode. Did you know Drax keeps a "SARCASM for DUMMIES" in his bunkroom? Me either. Dysmantle ... I spent more time with this one today, because at least early on, it's simple but almost immediately kind of addictive. Definitely feels a bit more akin to Torchlight vs. 7 Days to Die, except for the destroy and collect everything aspect. And there's cooking (healing or effects, not "food survival"), and fishing. So far, no huge mobs, so less ARPG in that sense (so far). You can barrel through or spend a lot of time grinding, your choice. The world map you're gonna have to traverse seems quite huge, although I dunno if it'll feel huge. Combat seems ok, too early to really tell. Mostly, I just like destroying and collecting and upgrading and ... when you start, enemies respawn every time you rest, but there's a quest goal of making it so that won't happen anymore. Seems like a fun little game.

I'm going to Rick Roll through the Universe! I agree, more pockets is always better.

Spent an hour fiddling with Guardians of the Galaxy settings and running the included benchmark. Then I started the prologue and spent 30 minutes using Photomode to gaze around Teen-Lord's bedroom full of geek. I could even play the Rubik's Cube, kinda. The game allows you to individually define quite a lot of difficulty parameters (vs. only "Easy/Normal/Hard presets") - that's always a nice feature, that more games should adapt. So you can have some stuffs on "Very Hard" level (like damages) and other things on "Easy" setting (like how long death-delay or ability timers are). All up to you.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - I wanna listen to the fun banter Dysmantle (I think it came out of early-access recently) - it was on sale for $13 and sounded like an exploration, combat, crafting/upgrade fest so why not. It's survival but food and sleep are apparently optional, and from gameplay videos I'm guessing it's a little less survival and a little more explore/craft/arpg than most. https://store.steampowered.com/app/846770/DYSMANTLE/

To DLSS or not DLSS ... 🤔 (chose RT with no DLSS for the moment) Nerd-Lord has a huge bedroom every 80's teen would've died for.

Picked up watching the kdrama Black again. Now on episode 10. It's still somewhat entertaining but for the past three or four episodes it started to suffer from being a little too ... over the top? Ridiculous? ..even for a kdrama. Not in a slapstick way, but too many rapid coincidences and evil happenings one after another + cartoony villians. My eyes start to roll now and then. Also, the female lead becomes more annoying all the time, in that "constantly makes annoying idiotic decisions" way. The theme of death/fate and whether one should always try to change it simply because you emotionally think no one should have to ever ever die or something, not an uncommon theme, has been done far better in other fantasy kdramas. But at least the male lead looks great in a casual black suit.

Geordi is the guy who is always friend-zoned, had a holodeck creation - that he wanted the computer to make "more human acting" - help him troubleshoot instead of utilizing his actual human team, and generally treated by the writers as a sometimes engine-tech genius but an interpersonal relationship dufus (not including Data). It's not surprising that most of his episodes were not very good.

FINALLY. I still have to wait almost a month tho. 😕 Please don't suck, please don't suck ... at minimum, at least be watchable.

I was actually thinking about that a couple days ago. Relationship shenanigans are (usually) much more fun than hanging out on some old game forum. 😆 Hope it's all going swimmingly for him.

*looks out a window* ... "I think there's a squirrel hanging out by the pool! Where's that bag of walnuts I bought?" ...."Never mind." Also, it's a galley kitchen, but all the cabinets have giant built-in lazy susans and drawers, so you don't have to remove half the stuff in front to get to anything in back. After years of almost no kitchen storage, this one has almost too much. It's very late 80's or something. Reminds me of my mom's kitchen a lot. Miss you, mom.

Took me a bit to place the singer/voice. Also, I still think we should move to Canada. Except ... the snow, the cold. nvm. ....you'd have to make that "If I had ten million dollars", now.

How have I never known of this guy's YT channel before. If you're ever stuck in a car but have your phone, it's a great one to look through and they're all very short. Half of them had me in stitches, hubby kept wanting to know why I was laughing. Minus the lawnmower, this was so me when I used to read a ton. Including the shower. I once walked three+ miles home reading the entire time.

Spent the last couple days at the new house doing various stuff. "This weird plastic jet whirlpool tub in hallway bathroom is too high walled and I can barely step over into it without jumping, it has got to go" "Closet rods are like 7 feet high, I can't reach them at all - gotta knock out/remove all this weird homemade closet organizer crap" "I can't reach this shower head holder (to use it hand-held)." "This microwave over the range-top is too high I can't reach/use, how useless (to me)." Apparently, most people don't do their houses for short people. 😆 ...if standing straight and I stretch arms fully above my head, tips of my fingers might reach six foot, two inches. On tippy toes. My good/effective height reach is a lot less than that, especially if you have to lean. Pffft. Tall people.

Guardians of the Galaxy is 35% off (a bit under $40), making it tempting again. The banter/story seems like fun but I get the feeling there's going to be too much space-station/ship environment for me. 🤔

Not really news but darnit, I sorta want this game, because city builder/management, with .. beavers! Cute little beavers! But it's only been in EA for a few months. Must...be...more patient and at least give it a few more months first.

^ That is disgusting. 😬 I've never understood ambroisa salad's ... I like mandarin oranges (fresh or bottled/canned) and I like fresh pineapple (canned pineapple is gross) and grapes individually, but I don't like them covered in marshmallows, coconut or whatever else people tend to put in those.

Is Amazon still doing that LotR series? I remember when I thought (younger) Ryan Reynolds might make a decent Atton Rand, mostly because of Blade Trinity. He's more famous now, maybe it could still work.

After 50+ years of Best Foods, my tastebuds refuse to adapt to anything else. I tried some of the avocado and olive oil based ones. Gross. They taste stale, plasticky, something weird and off. And yes I love whole avocados. EV olive oil alone is fine for use with stir frying vegies or whatever. The mayos tho? Ick. Not that I use a lot of mayo. Only for sandwiches or occasionally mixed with a little lemon juice as a vegie dip type thing. Oh, sometimes I put a teaspoon mixed into plate of meat and rice, stuff like that. But I no longer eat sandwiches or rice. Well, a few times a year I may indulge in a deli sandwich...hubby's the one that can't live without mayo/makes it disappear. >.>

Not a helpful post: I still have that 45 spindle around somewhere. I used to use it a lot and I never had any damage issues with it. I'm pretty certain in the US, even cheap turntables, as long as they had the tall pole vs. just a knub, would "stack" two or maybe three LP's - the one I had could, I remember putting two on a time and the top one dropping down. Edit: this was on a cheap turntable+radio combo unit type thingie. The only reason for the 45-spindle - outside of stacking - was because of the different hole size/so you didn't have to use those individual plastic hole-fillers in the 45.

Strangely, sometimes I still sorta miss it. Not the anthem/varied images. But snorting awake to that tone. Or static snow.

Hubby: "well, with that tree gone, there will be more sun on this side of the yard than before, anyway." Me: "I believe you were wrong, dear." (edit the phone lens makes it look smaller - when I look out the kitchen window it fills the whole view on that side) ...hubby says our current city is actively encouraging this type of thing since there is not enough "affordable" housing. So now I'm wondering if we should do the same in a couple years. Then we could rent the house for $4000+ and the extra "apartment" for $2500. Heck, take up the whole yard and build three and we can be rent lords with only one tiny housing lot! Maybe you could make them two story and charge $3200 for each one. Sure it'd cost a lot but then we'll be filthy rich old-fart slum lords! 🤔 Pffft.

Y'all are so "exotic" with all your foods. This afternoon I just had this lowly soup - chicken bone broth+sausage and ham bits+spinach. And my wasa crackers w/yogurt on top. ...also, for the life of me I can't take a good picture of food. The color and lighting always comes out terrible. Makes you appreciate pro food pics.

...when you suddenly realize that the "complete DLC" reward items you're supposed to have, have never actually appeared in your main save file like they're supposed to, meaning you have to load save/replay the loathed "kill boss while riding the back of a snowmobile, before you reach the end of the snowmobile ride" (basically a different kind of timer) end-boss fight of that DLC again and hope they'll appear then. ...and I know I finished it because the two bonus "arena-like combat mode" thingies are unlocked/available. And have Ansel screens of the cutscene after. But I didn't get the "you won story part" score/certificate apparently, not sure why. *scratches head* ...god I hate that boss fight. Better work this time.

Ridiculous/silly but fun costumes are one reason I don't clamor for true photo-realism in games. My low-level FFXV game is almost ready to move onto Chapt 2. 😛 At this point I always start by staying in Chapt 1 (so there is no enemy dropship factor to contend with) and train up the bro's Technique skills. Gotta have Overwhelm and especially Sagefire maxed out and if you do it "naturally" it takes forever and ever. MsCrimson don't play that way ... at least with a game she's already played half a dozen times and just wants to romp through again. Also, spam fishing and camping to get those bro skills up to unlock stuff. Using that mod to increase enemy levels and their damage a bit. I love that mod.

Nothing special ... it's just to say that even after 4+ years, FFXV can still impress visually in many ways/moments. Sure, much of the "world" is empty, but for some reason it's still fun/relaxing to just romp around in. I guess that's how I felt about Death Stranding, too, environmentally.