Present and Unaccounted for

My sister, Mom, Mathew and The Rat-brat are seriously awesome.

Combine this case, with this motherboard, this CPU, this graphics card and a few other bits (like 8 GB DDR3 RAM) and you have what they got me yesterday!

I can play sims! On MY computer! With all my downloads! And it only takes 20 minutes from starting the game to in a lot actually playing!

I can also play Metro 2033 on Very High settings at around 25-30 fps for those who that makes sense for. Just High settings pushes 40 no problem. Everything else holds steady at around 60.

Oh, and photoshop does't lag for an hour when I make big sweeping brush strokes on 9000px wide canvases anymore!

I am about to go try Mass Effect again and see if those momentary lag spikes I was getting last time (on medium settings) are gone. I am guessing they are. :D

Then I am going to go WvW in GW2 for a while and enjoy non locking graphics and after I am all done playing with the new shinies and marveling at smooth framerates I will get back to sims, and hood rebuilds and story updates. YAY!!!

Heading over to the Team Winston lot ...

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First, thank you to everyone who left comments on my last post. I do appreciate it and I am grateful for your support. It just seems strange to go through and say thank you to everyone and I am not sure what else to say. My awkwardness, it is epic.

I think I have mentioned before that I really miss my sims. Like a lot. One of the things I miss the most is my hood makeovers. I was having fun with those and really looking forward to sharing the best bits with everyone. Obviously, that didn't get to happen.

Until Mathew said "try it on my computer, then we know if it is your game or you computer."

It is officially my computer ... and I took some of those pics I wanted to share while I was on his computer! Hehe! I get to share after all! I do want to say though, they are not the best pics I have ever done. I don't have Fraps on Mathew's computer and I am really not used to the in game camera, so ... yeah.


( piccies this way! )

Over the next week or so I will be moving this journal over to dreamwidth. The only reason for the delay is to work out what to do with what is currently on my dreamwidth account. Once that is worked out the move will happen.

Also a heads up for those who haven't heard and have been wondering why, even with the very vocal outcry against the new friends page, LJ staff is not listening. http://ru-news.livejournal.com/27672.html (anyone who speaks Russian that could give me a better translation of the following would get many, many virtual cookies)

From the first comment by yegorka Orginal Russian: 1. платные пользователи тоже будут принудительно видеть эти новые журнальные "промо"? без возможности их отключения?

Rough Translation: 1. Premium users will also be forced to see the new magazine "promo"? Without the possibility of turning them off?

Reply from tritankista Original Russian: Да, промо будут видеть все пользователи, включая платников. Кстати, скоро мы отменим платные аккаунты.

Rough Translation: Yes, the promo will be seen by all users including paid accounts. By the way, soon we will be removing paid accounts.

It seems the response from LiveJournal to their paid users demanding the services we pay for will be to remove the ability to be a paid user. Fair enough, I am sure dreamwidth will appreciate my subscription money.

Okay, first, sorry to anyone who showed today. There was a thing where my child was being .. a child really and time got away from me.
The link for anyone who wanted to stop by just because. I was planning to be there for most of the rest of the evening, only now I have a headache. :( I will be in and out instead.

(also, I think I hate the new look of the LJ post editor ... just sayin)

"It's like a fucking trainwreck, only you have to be interactive with this trainwreck. You can't just drive by and see the carnage, no, you have to click next and there is a whole new trainwreck!"

I am working on something and need people to help me test a concept. It is a fun concept, I swear! Or it should be. That is the plan anyway.

Some time in the next week or two, if I could get some people together at a website (I will post a link closer to the day of) for 15-30 minutes to just be as random as possible (don't worry if you aren't sure exactly how to be random, Mathew and I will be there as well and we have random covered! All you have to do is jump in.) that would be great. If you could also answer a few questions I will post here to LJ afterward (a day or so afterward) that would be a bonus, but right now I am really only worried about the being random part.
 
If you are interested, let me know what day/time would work best for you.

Thanks!

Oh. Yeah, I am still here! Still doing okay.

First things first (for the all one of you wondering) No, I STILL have not heard shit about that last round of tests. You know the ones that decide between chemo and radiation or removing half of my lung. I am at a loss, my GP is at a loss (and she's been trying!) and we continue to wait.

I will admit to totally having fallen off the ex-smoker band wagon. It happens, stress and such. Back on it now though so I guess that is good.

I am still without sims. I have come to accept this. The issue is my computer and not just one or two simple things with my computer either, but rather the whole thing and the generally bad perfomance at all times which becomes glaringly obvious when you try to run things that are not as "optomized" (we are going to go with that description rather than the actual words I usually use which may or may not contain clunky and shit-stack in the descriptors). It is not JUST Sims I have issues with either. It is just sims that I notice it with the most (probably because the quick restart every 30 minutes to an hour with other things is not so quick with TS2 ...). The upside to all of this being that I am getting a new computer. The downside to that being it is taking time to do this as I research each part I am adding to a tenative list that will be handed to Mathew for the final "Make it work and order it" portion of the process. Further on the upside, I am excited as hell about the whole process, this is going to be a kick-ass awesome system. I will share the final specs (and pics!) for those on the f-list who (like me) enjoy drooling over PC builds.

A good portion of my last post was Mass Effect. I am going to pretend Mass Effect didn't happen. Yes, I did finish all three games and no, I was not disapointed with the endings (the most common complaint I keep hearing). My issues all settle very firmly into the 10 minutes just BEFORE the endings in which everything that has happened to that point is ripped to shreds and tossed out. Not even called into question. Plot = NEGATED!

And now is when I back away from that whole topic ... ask amochan8878 she heard ALL about it and that was three or four days after the fact. (Sorry Amo, I promise I am better now and can totally carry on a normal conversation again. Plus, I kind of really still want to hook you up with those copies we were talking about. It's all about the elves, not that there aren't a host of other sexy, tortured, brooding males who aren't elves, just that those descriptors are so much better with pointy ears.)

Speaking of Amo (she is totally wondering what in hell she didn't do this time that I am going to blame her for right now ... lol) I had promised her a Pleasantries wrap up. A funny thing happened though. I sat down to start organizing all of the snippets and bits and notes and ... realized that in my efforts to make them make sense I was writing the damn story anyway.

Not sure how I feel about this.  I am by no means doing it justice at this point either, but I almost think there will be a point when I might be able to. Not sure what I am going to do about this. Set it aside for a bit longer and see what happens? Try writing something else in the mean time? Something simple and uncomplicated just to get back into the groove? Don't know, but I am sure it will sort itself out.

Anyway, this is pretty much just me keeping in touch. I am going back to reading now. I am in the middle of a horrible, awful, wonderfully written tear jerker I have been trying to work my way through in small doses. I think I don't have enough tissues to make it to the end this time, but I am going to try.

There I am playing around on the Akinator, which is kind of cool, but I haven't played with it in years, and I get part way through my first game when this shows up:

( can I get the cut to work this time? y/n? )


Seriously, that is ridiculously cool.