LadyCrimson

Hubby finally getting around to watching season 2 of Stranger Things (we saw the first episode or two of it but never the rest of it). I walked by and was all "Paul Reiser was in this? I don't remember that. Oh my god, he got old!" (my memory of him is still stuck in the 80's/90's) Hubby: "If he grew old, so did we." Me: "lalala I can't hear you."

I wish I could dig a (useful vs. decorative) moat. Zombies, sadly, can walk in water and don't have to breathe, thus it won't stop them at all and they will just pummel any structure support blocks underwater. I'm sure everyone was wondering what I do when I'm not building fancy creative pool houses. Well, I build fancy zombie defense highrises. Although the height is mostly to defeat a certain enemy AI that spawns from too much activity (so I can do stuff like burn forges day and night w/out being pestered all the time). The actual magical horde zombie fighting is done on that small side extension (it's my "hallway" - works fine for easyish difficulties). 6x6 is a nice "room" size, not too big, not too small. It was ... a lot of concrete making tho. It has six floors plus basement and roof (8). To have plants grow indoors you have to have at least one tile open to the "sun" all the way down. (p.s. - there is a ladder for access, I don't "fly" up - most of the time, hah). Rebuilding and fortifying the world one hammer blow at a time! (I've re-mastered the personal housing, I think I might start repairing/rebuilding whole pre-fab towns now...)

Getting bored of 7 Days to Die again but there aren't many other games that I want can play with the current condition of my hands/fingers. Controller use is out, right now - r-trigger use is murder and finger splints make it impossible anyway. Basically, mouse-clicking dominant games (much more than WASD and TAB/EsC on kb is too difficult, too) like Diablo-likes are about it. Thus ... staring at the wall again like the boring introvert that I am, wondering what to do now. Can't garden. Can't easily hold/manipulate a heavy camera. Maybe it's finally time to start spending all my cash on digital ebooks. It's been so long since I've kept up with/done any major reading I'd have no idea where to begin re: new authors.

The problem isn't carbs per se ... it's all the "bad carbs" as well as over-indulgence and lack of balancing high carb intake with other things. You can eat a lot of white rice or potatoes as the filler, but balanced with low meat, high vegetable, small/moderate portion size etc. you're going to be fine. If all you're eating is instant ramen, fatty pork, and sweet rice cakes however, well....yeah. An unbalanced diet, where ever the imbalance is, tends to not be good for most people in the long run. Apply that to any cultural diet preferences, really.

Example: it now takes close to 20 minutes to generate an 8100kx8100k map, which is just stupid. The "4kx4k" sized ones take about 4 minutes. They have 3 pre-generated ones (always the same file) for ppl who can't generate maps on their PC's well. >.> For solo play 8x is overkill tho, most people would base and at most explore 2-3 cities, like in the magnified section (each grid of a city is a "block" with several buildings/houses in it). Anyway, biomes are now always same position direction wise, so ... predictable.... ....versus the way they were before, where they mingled and was much more random (and larger/more cities etc) thus more fun to explore. Oh well. I have no idea why they take so long to generate now tho. The below used to just take a few minutes vs. close to 20. Terrain, water, town/POI, physics generation changed a lot I guess. Whatever. Edit: at least you can still d/l and play the old betas, back to A8 or A9 I think, still, if you want.

@keyrock - nice. I miss when 7 Day's random maps were essentially "infinite". Then they became "60kx60k" or 100k or something but you could still hack them to be infinite. Now they're around 8kx8k (this is still really huge, multiple giant cities/biomes, can't fit it all in the map viewer), or if you have a potato PC, there's a 4kx4k option. But the random maps have become more predictable biome wise vs. more random biome placement and merging. Less interesting to attempt to go from edge to edge to edge. Kind of a shame.

Since Amazon Fresh is working great again I haven't been "outside" the house in weeks ... except for some brief walks. But finally went to Nob HIll yesterday ... bought a deli sandwich and a small package of thin crispy cookies. When you haven't had any cookies in months ... best cookies evah. Unrelated: what I like about my tablet - when I'm watching a video, it's not interrupted by a spam phone call.

*scratches head* I'm unsure if "choice of game" is the name of a game you're playing or if you are referring to what I (or someone else) am playing.

At least you get what looks like some decent decorative items. There are some in 7 Days but many you have to go into the "creative/dev" menu to grab from there - they're not normally craftable by players. I will try Valheim one day ... but going to wait a year or so and see what happens/what it turns into, first.

Oh sure, new thread right as I was hitting reply. Messing up my quote... @melkathi "I want to write my own cyoa/adventure/vn." ...every time I play a game that I like but wish had "a few things different", I want the skills to program so I could make my own game that's tailored toward only my wants (cause I'm selfish like that). But even if I could, I know by the time I actually finished it (years later) ... I'd be so sick of thinking about the thing I'd never play it. Thus I stick to something like 7 Days where I can simply mod the heck out of the .xml files to suit me. I'm having fun with the extra large no-zombie bedroll zone, since I still have to clear out the houses/POI's and monitor my 'activity/heat map' increases re: screamer spawns, which having zombies totally off would negate/remove. Sadly, none of this alleviates my issue of growing bored of a map/save after about 10-16 "days" and wanting to start a new map.

A while back I noticed this little thing in hubby's office, that I at first thought was some router or whatnot: It's one of those mini-PC's. Apparently his work has been giving those to workers who don't have good enough computers needed to do their work/networking from home so he has one to test it etc. I think they run around $200-$400 depending on ram and power and the like. Obviously not for gaming, but more general desktop tasks. Anyway, for some reason I want one now.

But do you have a lap pool? No zombie apocalypse is going to deprive me of my comforts, darnit!

That's still one of my fond personal faves. Others: "Yesterday's Enterprise" "Deja Q" "Q Who" "The Most Toys" (cause Data, and Saul Rubinek) "Lower Decks" "Clues" Looking back at it there's so many mediocre episodes but even many of those at least had nice character moments or funnies. I remember the first time they put Troi in a regular Starfleet uniform and I was all "she looks fantastic/professional that way, she should wear that more often instead of the stupid leotard pants outfit" (which I didn't think even flattered her that much, outside of the low cut neckline I suppose). Eventually she did wear a uniform more often.

I had to sign the tax papers the other day and hubby, observing my taking off finger splints, told me soon I'll need a rubber 'X' stamp, pffft. You can get adequate at using your stupid hand for a lot more things but (for me anyway) penmanship isn't one of them. This morning I woke up having the use the bathroom and when I got back into bed my brain said "nope too late not sleepy now" ... so I got up again and fiddled with game things. Now it's time for a short walk, food, and then ... a nap?

See those white lines at the top edges? Giant bedroll "no spawn" area size. I have found the way! Enter debug mode, type "setgamepref BedrollDeadZoneSize whatevernumberyouwant" Tested it, seems to work on POI spawning as well as surface random walkers, unlike buggy land claim blocks. Have to retype it every time you reload but works fine. I can cover the entire map size but I think medium town size will be good enough to not have to go crazy building walls of China - just walls around around main rooms.

Hmm how to explain concisely: For total overkill design protection and AI control: Yes. Current zombie AI: if a horde (or any zombie) senses you and wants to find you, they will take the fastest/shortest route to the weakest defense closest to you. Dirt/sand is soft and digging a tunnel thru it may be considered "easiest path" vs. walking around or over a hill/mountain. A barrier at least 2-3 blocks high (they can't jump like the player) and going 2 blocks into the ground should/would make them walk around the whole thing to attack a weak door or purposefully left opening instead. So current "meta" for those who like the periodic tower defense aspect are funneling hallways. Edit: note with the size/number of map chunks I'm using, this is kind of unlikely but ... overkill ...ofc you can also create a tiny "horde" base full of z-attractants like forges and cooking fires and just stand on top of it like Conan, waiting for them to show up, and then jump from ground to platforms like a madman parkour expert if you want to fight/test your whacking skills for hours. Not what I'm doing, tho.

One of my parents neighbors used to take an annual salmon fishing run. He'd return home with both smoked canned salmon and not-canned smoked salmon (some was done where he fished, some he did in a backyard smoker). He'd always give some to my mother. Best smoked salmon ever. And I'm not a fish eating person.

Please excuse the terrible image, the game looks funky when flying way way up high. But that yellow circle? That's the outer wall I want to make, with all inside being a zombie-spawn free zone. This afternoon I started ... to think maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew. >.> But my 'city park' zone is coming along nicely! I forgot I can plant trees - that also helps beautification. I wonder if the zombies can 'spawn' in water. They can walk in it, not sure about spawning...

I'll just bring the mountain climbing gear, then.

This too shall pass. Maybe. Someday. Probably before I'm dead at any rate.

...you'd probably get a neck cramp trying to look down at the top of my head. If we ever meet in real life, do I have permission to ask you how's the weather up there? Most of the time I feel like they recommend the entire video collection of a single author because 3 minutes ago I watched one of their videos.

When it's too big to get a good, full screenshot. This is not a zombie-horde defense home, btw. Those would be more spartan and combat functional. Building a couple of those a few game-chunks away from this thing. Just sayin'. See that hill that I'm building the planter boxes on? I'm going to cover the entire thing with those and porches and the like, then build another "house" at the top, which will have a height-walkway from one to the other. The farm-plot squares are at least not all-concrete and look better with the plants in them. Maybe that'll work for zombie spawn prevention. I'll think of something...

Oh? They don't seem that large to me. Edit: unless you mean the originals, if you edited those posted. At any rate, y'all know I'm just ribbing GD.

Dear Guard Dog: not that I personally care about multi-posting at all, but you can post more than one pic in a post, y'know. Looks like a lovely spot for a walk/whatever, tho! In other "news" - my PC hasn't spontaneously rebooted since I changed the cooler, confirming in my mind that was the problem. Also, I really like that Noctua cooler. I assume I didn't get the most uber version possible (D15S, it's all black!) which is fine since I don't manually OC (CPU just does that varied volt/oc on its own) but no game has gone over 55C, even cpu-intensive unity games . BL3 sits around 43C. If the fan starts to wear/get noisy in some years years I'll just buy a new one. I wonder how well the less tall ones would fare.