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 Thursday at 11:50 PM 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.