@Voltan Yeah, I’m really not a fan of the summers we’ve been getting either. Normally it rains throughout the summer but the last few years have been 25C and upwards which isn’t natural. Just want our rubbish weather back.
@nessisonett I'd love it to be 25C over here right now
Unfortunately it's more like 32... unless there's a thunderstorm at the moment - which looks like it will be in a few minutes.
@RogerRoger Most of my stuff was on some pallets in case of exactly such event. We had some heavy rains last year but nothing like this happened. By "completely flooded" I mean there was an inch or two of water on the entire basement level floor (and it stayed that way for hours).
Unfortunately my girlfriend temporarily put some stuff on the floor beside the pallets, with the intention of moving them to a whole different location in a couple weeks. Those included some books and magazines, which I'm afraid are ruined now. It's technically nothing particularly valuable but she's not happy to say the least.
@Jimmer-jammer just thought I'd share this with you as I've shared a few other nuggets about my life already. I am planning on making another attempt at a PhD in English Literature in the coming months, with a view to one day becoming a Professor of English Literature (hopefully it won't take 25 years!) What about you? How is work, life and family? Any ambitions outside of music/work?
"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won’t see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you’ll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in its entirety...effortlessly. That is what it means...to truly "see." "
@Kidfried Closest to the latter, I guess. I’m neither vegan or lactose intolerant but I do like some plant based stuff and rice milk smoothies are one of them
@Voltan I always get substitutes when I drink coffee despite not being vegan or whatever either. Oat and coconut are probably my favourites, so I should give rice milk a go!
@nessisonett I don't have much experience with substitutes in coffee specifically but almond milk is also great in smoothies - but significantly sweeter, which is why I usually go with rice
@Kidfried I’ve never frequented Kotaku except for maybe the odd article here and there that might catch on and go the rounds, but it’s been years since I looked there. But to answer your question then I say IGN is the site that I cut my gaming teeth on and now I rarely go there. I try to but I can’t even find information on video games half the time since I’m bombarded with flotsam like movie and tech reviews. The scarcity of PlayStation news and commentary was what made me wander toward other sites and eventually found PushSquare. Part of the problem with IGN also is the app. They did some kind of update to the app a while ago that makes it almost useless. There’s no way to filter the content to only the consoles you want to see, there’s no category for guides, and there’s not even a search function. It’s awful.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution To be fair IGN's old app was almost just as useless IMO
I do check IGN a few times a week maybe but I always go straight to the PlayStation section, never through the home page. And yeah, I used to come there more often.
@Voltan True. The old app wasn’t all that great. But I had some use for it and it saved my preferences to only see PlayStation content. It was still 90% superfluous though.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Kidfried I used to read Kotaku UK most days but drifted away from it as so many of the articles seemed to be pretty clickbaity and trying to find controversy where none existed. It was also a weird mix of articles from the main US site and then their own stuff. They had some great writers for a period though but I still have no idea how Jason Schreier stayed there so long. The UK site closed a year or two ago though.
I also grew up with IGN but haven’t touched the site in years as it felt all over the place and bombarded you with ads, cookie consent popups etc. The search for something more PlayStation-centric is also what bought me here.
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