What You've Done Today - Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

[LadyCrimson]

My ram won't be here for probably a few or several more days. Since the reboot situation is so unpredictable, it makes me not want to play anything. Cue extra boredom.

(me:  decrease "memes" and "theme song lyrics" by half to enlarge "cat videos", and decrease "cringey memories" by half to make "random obsession" larger)

I did buy a few of the story collection books of Stephen King that I hadn't read and am slowly going through those. I came to the conclusion years ago that I like his shorts and short novels more than his 800+ page novels. But so far not impressed with the more recent offerings of such. They're not bad, but I'd probably rather re-read the older collections. May try John Scalzi's Lock In, next.

[LadyCrimson]

Tim Cain's recent videos on violence as default in AAA games and the cost of moddability were interesting.

Games generally having violent actions as the progression requirement or simply the main gameplay loop irks me more and more as time goes on. I would like it if non or less violent option games could be something other than puzzle or farming/walking sims, if you get my meaning. But I still have no idea what to do instead. Stealth/avoidance is the main method I suppose but having to sneak around at a crawl pace gets old after a while.

Edited January 2 by LadyCrimson

[Bartimaeus]

hbomberguy's video on Fallout 3 vs. Fallout: New Vegas was pretty funny in that regard... The former kicks off with you escaping from your vault, and you have to slaughter half of your entire community, all people that your character grew up with and knew, in order to get out, and there aren't any non-violent options presented to you. Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand, the whole game can be completed while being completely pacifist. Bethesda, not even once.

[Malcador]

New Year means performance review crap at work, joy.

Well, and annual layoffs of the most senior people, because experienced workers are bad.  

[LadyCrimson]

My RAM arrived. Installed, winblows memtest at least said no issues found, desktop seems fine/usual etc. I didn't enable XMP. So now I get to see if new ram means games won't cause random system reboots in 1 minute or 2 hrs. Which means I have to turn on/play at least a few different games, for such sessions, multiple times to try to trigger reboots. It's a difficult task, but for the sake of knowledge, I shall endure. 

I really don't want to build a new PC (yet) and have to spend days/weeks setting up/refining all the stupid O/S, software and bajillion data transfers. So, please be fixed, gimmie another year or two, please.  

[LadyCrimson]

NOPE. Pfft. Zombie game did the reboot twice, once almost right away, 2nd after an hour. Guess a new PSU/power cables is next. After that it's not worth the bother spending weeks trying to figure it out etc.

[Bartimaeus]

Not sure if here, the Politics thread, or the "What Are You Reading" thread is most the appropriate place for this.

[Raithe]

Well I've been kept fairly busy the last few months. Pretty much constantly required in the actual office, which is added fun to dealing with the house and my father's things. The majority of watch and clock stuff is now off to the auction house. Spent a chunk of one day over the christmas break taking up carpets from a few rooms in the house.

But that whole combination of elements has been why I haven't really been lurking around the forums or doing my usual constant updates of the funnythings thread.

Today has been about the.. 4th? work from home day I've had since September, and I had to spend about an hour and a half on the phone with the tax people because they sent me a note that my father owed taxes for last year. The tax folk were really nice and helpful, and it looks like its a paperwork screw-up from the pension companies filing wrong stuff. But it means I do need to schedule in more phone time chasing up other people. Huzzah.

Hope you folks are all finding the journey into the New Year welcoming and non-disturbing.

[uuuhhii]

On 1/3/2025 at 7:49 AM, LadyCrimson said:

Tim Cain's recent videos on violence as default in AAA games and the cost of moddability were interesting.

Games generally having violent actions as the progression requirement or simply the main gameplay loop irks me more and more as time goes on. I would like it if non or less violent option games could be something other than puzzle or farming/walking sims, if you get my meaning. But I still have no idea what to do instead. Stealth/avoidance is the main method I suppose but having to sneak around at a crawl pace gets old after a while.

 

player find a settlement kill everyone inside loot everything they can carry create new weapon out of the loot then repeat the circle

sometimes as world saving hero

it does lead to some warped perspective

[LadyCrimson]

Oh look, a part of California is on fire again. If anyone's down there (W. Los Angeles area), stay safe. It's becoming so regular the state is going to have to regulate/force some kind of min. fire insurance from companies or something. edit: passing costs to consumers, which CA I think didn't used to allow, or something - eg, it'll get really pricey

Watching old man James Woods relate rescuing an even older neighbor and sob about his destroyed house is a bit surreal.

 

Edited Wednesday at 11:52 PM by LadyCrimson

[rjshae]

2 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

Oh look, a part of California is on fire again. If anyone's down there (W. Los Angeles area), stay safe. It's becoming so regular the state is going to have to regulate/force some kind of min. fire insurance from companies or something. edit: passing costs to consumers, which CA I think didn't used to allow, or something - eg, it'll get really pricey

Watching old man James Woods relate rescuing an even older neighbor and sob about his destroyed house is a bit surreal.

It's a bit unusual because the normal state wildfire season (May to October) is over. There's just a combination of dry conditions and strong winds.