Posted by Lady Jess on Feb 24, 2010 in
General If you’ve never seen the Sacred Ashes trailer for Dragon Age:Origins you’ll want to watch this…
The little redhead you see is Leliana. One of my personal favorite companions in the game. Who can resist a well trained spy/assassin type, lethal with a bow, deadly with daggers, devious and innocent all wrapped in one?
The only thing that bugs me is she looks nothing like she does in the trailer. Sten does, Morrigan does, but not Leliana. She looks like this in game.
Well, while I was searching for mods to make MY characters look better, I stumbled upon THIS mod . Now? My Leliana looks like this…
Much closer, and much more fitting I think.
Posted by Lady Jess on Feb 22, 2010 in
General After 7 months of this deployment, I’ve realized it’s the stupidest things I am just sick to death of having to do.
1. taking the dogs out. Yeah I know I can make the kids do that, but when the dog weighs more than the kids and goes nuts when he sees the dog next door who the neighbors leave in their yard all day behind a flimsy fence, it’s too risky.
2. Making the coffee. I never seem to get it to taste as good as it does when HE makes the coffee. I either get it too strong, or too weak.
3. mommy I need…Mommy can I…mommy we’re out of…Mommy Mommy mommy
4. I miss Man tv…mainly because I’m subjected to teen tv 8 hours a day.
5/ I’m sick of having to….
WAIT!
Posted by Lady Jess on Feb 18, 2010 in
General I know I posted a screenshot of the Ogre killing in Dragon Age: Origins. But it just doesn’t do it justice. So today while I was playing, I took a quick video. If WoW could do this (or if their ogres looked, you know scary as opposed to tweedle dee and tweedle dum like) I’d enjoy it so much more.
Posted by Lady Jess on Jan 23, 2010 in
General After my royal hissy fit in my last entry, I checked my order status at Dell one more time. SHIPPED! Thank the computer Gods! It arrived here yesterday. All smooth, and sleek, and beautiful. Purple lighting, complimentary hat, leather encased user’s manual. We were off to a good start in our relationship as she waited to be placed in her quarters.
We went through all the usual getting to know yous. Removing useless programs from startup (Seriously impressed with the lack of garbage pre-loaded on the Alienware by the way), putting my own files in folders, reinstalling necessary programs, and the worst part (so I thought)…monitor calibration. This is where we had our first disagreement.
Me: Stop that! the white is too bright, it hurts!
Her: I can’t HELP it I have an awesome display, I’m vivid and lively and brilliant!
Me: Still…I’m going to get a headache.
But I conceded, everything is right, and the white I’ll just have to get used to. I went to bed, and let her rest a while.
This morning, she CLEARLY woke up on the wrong side of the desk. I’m happily chatting away with the Hubby, when suddenly…she starts stomping, and yelling, and shows me her blue screen of death. I quickly logged back to Hunny on my netbook while she started back up. But, not satisfied with things still, she did it again, just as hubby was logging off. I tried the startup repair to no avail and got started back up again. Mind you prior to this, that nifty Windows 7 toolbar was not working properly either.
I finally think I found the problem. And it seems to have resolved itself. Both Bluescreens occurred after I set up the screensaver, and after the amount of time it would have triggered the screensaver to start. I guess the bubbles from my screen saver got on the wires of the taskbar and gave poor Isabella a headache.
She is now sitting here, contently blinking her little alien eyes at me. Maybe it’s because she’s happy in her new home, or maybe it’s the shiny external hard drive I gave her, or maybe she’s plotting my abduction. But I think, after our rough start…we are going to be very happy together.
Tags: Computer
Posted by Lady Jess on Dec 24, 2009 in
General I downloaded Steam the other day. As a part of my effort to broaden my gaming horizons. I think it’s safe to say I’m hooked. If you don’t know what it is, well go look. I’ll still be here when you get back.
The first thing I did was find my blogger friends and stalk them add them to my friends list. Then I started poking around, trying demos, I even bought a game (CSI: Hard Evidence), and another game (Need For Speed: Undercover). NFSU is awesome by the way. You should try it.
Next, I was invited to three groups. Twisted Nether Blogcast, Azeroth Expatriate Gamers, and Polygamerous. Imagine my surprise when I saw…
Yay me! And Thank You Llanion!
My current game list includes Half Life 2, a gift from Triz (Thank you!!), Audiosurf (imagine Tetris with your own music and on a roller coaster), a couple demos like Torchlight and Portal, Left 4 Dead 2 because Santa wanted me to have Zombies for Christmas, and of course I added some non steam games. WoW and Sims.
I can’t say enough about Steam, really. It lets me buy, download and install the games, as well as launch them from my games tab. No more digging through the start menu, no more icons on my desktop. And best of all when I get my new PC, any games I purchased through Steam are SAVED on their servers. Which means I just install Steam, and it will reinstall my purchased games. I can see what games my friends are playing, and even chat with them WITHOUT having to alt+tab out of the game to access an instant messaging service. When trying new games is this easy, how can I not look beyond WoW and try other Genres?? And they run some really great deals on games if you pay attention. Matter of fact, I got Left 4 Dead 2 for 33% off today. Yesterday I got Indigo Prophecy and Audiosurf for a grand total of $6.
I even discovered, I don’t dislike Shooters. I thought I did. But Half Life 2, while frustrating for me at times adjusting to a first person view, has proven to be fun, and just challenging enough to enjoy. Not so challenging I want to throw things, but not so easy that I breeze through it. In fact, I get stuck regularly. But it’s fun. Need For Speed: Undercover is amazing in my opinion. I love that after I finish a preset race, I can just continue driving around, aggravate the cops into chasing me, tear through towns, interstates, construction zones, hell I even rammed a crane and dropped it on a cop car.
Next month, I get a new computer. My first gaming computer ever. I cannot wait to play WoW again without random shutoffs, and I can’t wait to play more! And I must again thank the people of the Blog Azeroth chatroom, for encouraging me to branch out, when I stubbornly insisted I didn’t game. Turns out…I got game baby!
