Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Learning to play jazz guitar at my age (I'm in my thirties) and coming from a rock n' roll background on the electric guitar is challenging to say the least. It's like learning a new language in your thirties, the language of jazz, and just as difficult as doing that, hopefully I can get my brain acclimatized to this new type of music that I love, though.

@NedStarksGhost how is your own guitar journey going?

Today is my first day back to working at the office. Not that I didn't like working from home but I think I needed this

@Kidfried Full time, mostly anyway. I'm always able to work from home when I need to but I work with too much hardware to be taking it home and back to the office - this is one of the benefits of going back to the office, I'm getting some space back at home

@Voltan @Kidfried Starting in September for our offices. I've not requested a change, so will be back in the office full time. I know some people have requested either a change to hybrid or full time homeworker. I'm not sure on some of their reasons however, as most are doing it because it is more convenient to work from home, but if they can't do their job properly I think they may a bit disappointed if their requested gets rejected or it is seen as not working during the 6 month trial period.

@Kidfried Yeah it's less convenient for me having to travel to work and wait for buses, but my workspace is tiny in my flat so is not ideal when things start to get busier. Also unsure of having support from manager if we are not in the same place, as that has not been ideal working from home. I've not seen much of anyone from work since we've been working from home, and as I'm still not comfortable going out to the pubs and stuff, so it will be a bit of a social thing for me.

@JohnnyShoulder fortunately for me, it's a 20 minute bicycle ride, mostly through a forest, to get to my office
It only sucks when it's been raining a lot and there's mud everywhere... like right about now :/

@Th3solution @Jimmer-jammer @Voltan I am getting into jazz properly now, Miles Davis, John Scofield, John Abercrombie, etc. feeling like it is age-appropriate to listen to that music now I'm in my 30s as that and dad rock are what many people my age or older listen to once they feel like they can't relate to the modern-day artists who emerge in their 20s and then only stick around in the public eye for a limited number of years before being forgotten. A select few continue to make music but it is rarely the music they make as older musicians that gets airplay, they are remembered by their earlier hits. Even artists who are more or less the exception to the rule of being forgotten about as they get older, i.e Rolling Stones, still essentially find their airplay limited to their youthful hits.

What do you think the reason for this is?

Activision-Blizzard employees are walking out tomorrow in protest. Good to see, especially considering there isn’t a union for those employees in the US.

Absolutely horrific look for Sony after a customer has lost a majority of their ps3 and vita digital purchases, and customer service or lack there of (so typical these days) shrugs it off as just another day. Let the link below be another lesson in the mistake that is digital purchases and a reminder to save your receipts.

Olympic medalist and now qualified medical practitioner?

@Thrillho He justs need to become a plumber now and his life will be complete.

@Thrillho Freddie took Sonic’s self help book ‘I’ll make a Super Sonic man out of you’ a bit too literally.

@nessisonett Oh wow — now that’s an epic pun. 😂

@Thrillho Did you hear about Ben Stokes? Potentially a sad early end to his career eh? (He's on indefinite leave from cricket for "the sake of his mental well-being").

@colonelkilgore Also, the Queen Yharnham with her miscarriage-stained dress cut-scene you referred to recently occurs just after you defeat Rom, nothing to do with the Chalice Dungeons in case you were wondering/had trouble remembering.

@TheBrandedSwordsman yeah I think my memory was a bit fuzzy as it’s been a while… and you end up fighting her in the Chalice Dungeons so I guess the two events may have merged.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I'll be surprised if it's the last we see of Stokes for England but I can't blame the bloke for needing a break. He didn't lose his dad that long ago and has then been going from bubble to bubble for various forms of crickets for England and other teams.

I saw that players were talking to the ECB about pulling out of the Ashes as currently their families won't be able to go to Australia with them. The T20 World Cup has been reorganised to the Autumn so some of them will be away from family for over 4 months if playing both. I don't blame players for wanting to have some semblance of a life!

@Th3solution Also, any word on when you're playing FFVII Remake yet? I think you said it would be around this time/in a couple of weeks from now.

@RogerRoger To be fair, last 2 weeks were mostly nice