Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Thank you, and a (somewhat belated now) Happy New Year right back at'cha, too!

Same to any and all who might be reading this!

DualSense went 100% kaput. The price has jumped up massively on Amazon or they’re out of stock, or they’ll take 2 weeks to arrive. Can’t even cover a single controller with a £50 Amazon voucher. Boiler still not been fixed. The electrics are still on which is something so the PS5 was at least something to do while trying to wrap up warm. I still have an older DualShock 4 but it doesn’t let me play any PS5 games with it. Genuinely what is the point.

@nessisonett I’d go sit in a Spoons. Actually, I’d try and get a job in one and get paid a few quid for my time, so I could buy a new controller. Used to do that back in the day, wasn’t so bad!

Am I helping?

@kyleforrester87 That unfortunately doesn't get you any pity points on the internet though!

@Kairuuu Well, I wasn't meaning to put my boot in, and it's nice to have a place like this to vent when things are going wrong and a broken boiler in sub-zero temperatures after a recent job loss isn't a fun time.

@nessisonett Sorry to hear about your current predicaments. I hear you guys avoided the snow down in Glasgow? I got sent home today at 12 and it took me an hour and 10 mins to do my usual 15 minute journey. Lots of getting out to push stuck cars on the way home as it was coming down so thick and fast you could barely see in front of you.

@kyleforrester87 My younger brother actually works in a pub up in St Andrews while he’s at uni. Think he’s just realised he’ll have to work there when The Open’s on next year but I imagine the tips will be worth it, you get some mental cowboy hat wearing guys up there for the golf.

@MightyDemon82 Yeah, we’ve completely avoided the snow which is a bit of a relief. Seems to be pretty crazy especially up Aberdeen way. It’s more just white all over from frost, think it was -5 last night, which is the coldest we’ve had in a couple of years actually.

@nessisonett
You could maybe use your £50 voucher to buy a budget electric heater (with next day delivery), a snoodie and some PSN credit. Use PSN credit to buy some budget PS4 games to play on your PS5 to tide you over until the situation improves.

I remember particular times when I had no heating in similar conditions, I used to wear lots of jumpers and clean the house. Comical looking back but I suppose it built a degree of character and resilience.

Hope things look up for you soon.

@nessisonett

These are from outside my house and one from my wife's lab window at the hospital. I walked down to walk her home and it was quite the workout in the deep snow.

Oh, gosh....
I bought LIGHTNING RETURNS FINAL FANTASY XIII PS3 recently.
I was surprised after I looked at ESRB descriptor at back cover.
I didn't realize the ESRB descriptor mentioned Blood, not Mild Blood. 😳
After some searching about the description, it said there was a scene with pool of blood from a corpse, not during entire the game because I had watched the gameplay and analyzed the violence level, it was still safe for me.
But that scene, before even I will see... 😣
I think this is the most "adult" game I "accepted" by accident.
It was caught me off guard, actually I could reject that game due to ESRB descriptor.
But at the same time, to think my decision that still accept that game despite of being off guard, I think I felt guilty and tempted by getting the trilogy of FF XIII games as my final attempt with Roman number Final Fantasy games.
After number 13, the Roman number Final Fantasy games (14, 15, 16) are prohibited in my gaming area.

@sorteddan Council house, they came round just there. No hot water cause there’s a couple parts they have to order or something but the heating’s on at least, thankfully. Feet are defrosting 😂

@MightyDemon82 That’s mental, I feel like we barely had any snow last year. Probably the deepest I’ve seen in a good few years. Still remember being off school with that Beast from the East and having the insane idea to walk to McDonalds in it. Not one of my brighter moments 😂

@Werehog Pardon me for the random question, but a comment in another thread reminded me that when you left the forum before, you were hard at work on writing a novel. Apologies if you've already mentioned something about this since your return, but I was wondering what happened with that? Did you manage to complete/publish it in any way or did it not work out for whatever reason? I'd love to hear how it went, whether good or bad!

@Tjuz Jumping in quickly. I'm back in England. I wrote for two, maybe three weeks. There's a lot but now I have the time and discretion to sort through it and arrange it cohesively. No more sneaking around in the small hours of morning. I almost got caught twice, I tabbed out of my virtual machine at lightening speed. And I still have my U.K. residency. Sorry if it was intense, things over there have gone insane. I have no other word for what I saw, I hope by next year there is peace. It can't continue like this, people can't be so hardened in the heart. I already feel like I can breath again, I couldn't while I was there. The walking on egg-shells you mentioned. I didn't even realize how mentally fatigued it made me, I kept staying awake for days at a time. Dipping in and out of threads like the reading and movies kept me sane, kind of like a bridge to normality if that makes sense. I'll figure out when and what to post, I focused on educational and went over every one of your original questions, found where things got lost in translation and cleared them up.

Also today is my actual Christmas day, strange? A little, we left early. He didn't want me staying in Russia for it, neither did I. He didn't want to mark the holiday as a 'holy mission', he saw it as something else. It's a smaller celebration today, calmer. No Santa being taken down by soldiers, only the three of us, not three hundred. I'm already liking it. I got my silence back too, it's bliss🎄

@GirlVersusGame I'm happy to hear you're back in England and able to do stuff more freely again! It must've been scary to be almost caught on two separate occasions. What exactly where you doing when they almost caught you that you might get in trouble for? Something on the dark web or even just less provocative stuff than that?

I truly wish your hopes will come true in terms of it settling down in Russia, but I have a nagging feeling things are only getting worse from here. With everything the US is doing as of late as well, it feels like we're more and more inside of a boiling pot that's ready to explode. Who knows how much of it can be traced and connected to one another when actually being privy to the plans being carried out... For however long you are able to stay in London however, I hope that you'll be able to breathe for the time being. I doubt you're aching to return to Russia at any point soon if given the opportunity to stay. Just take this time to decompress a bit and feel like yourself again more. It sounds like you really needed this mental break, so I'm happy you've gotten it before anything went completely overboard.

I'll be interested to see what you've been writing all this time! Apologies again if I don't get back to you in any reasonable time (or at all), but please do know I genuinely enjoy your writing and read through everything carefully. I'll make an effort to reply at least to all the most pressing stuff that I feel the need to respond to (or whenever you ask a particular question). For now, enjoy your belated Christmas day! Ultimately, it's all just about being around the ones you love with some calm peace and quiet. You have that now, so enjoy it! Merry Christmas!

@Tjuz I deleted all of my public comments from the news section. I have a way to contact someone I know on here. I might delete my profile here, I'm not sure yet but I'll get a message through to that person and see if we can Discord or such. If not then do svidaniya, you really are a beautiful person and it was a pleasure knowing you.

Thanks for remembering and asking but no, I'm afraid that had to be abandoned. I still have all the work, but it's in pieces and it'd take more than I currently have to pull them all together into something coherent. I did manage to successfully complete a couple of smaller "practice" projects in the interim, and people were very kind, but I couldn't carry forward the momentum they generated.

But I now know that I can write, so on my good days I reckon it's only a matter of when, not if.

@GirlVersusGame Well, I'm glad I saw this notification pop up through my e-mail on time! I don't know what happened exactly, but I'm sorry that there's been the need to remove comments and posts. I see up here some were removed for being "inapproriate"... whatever that may mean, since I know you're not the type to write anything worth removing. Maybe inappropriate only in terms of what we're allowed to discuss on the forum and what might be too explicit. The stuff we've gotten away with writing before I was surprised about! I also saw the post you made in the other thread with the Pride wall you built. I'll just respond here quickly and say that really got me in my feels! I'm glad I was able to have any effect on you at all, let alone inspiring you to build anything related to my identity. And it looks great to boot!

If you're able to get your Discord to me in any way, I'd appreciate it! I'd prefer not to lose contact after our conversations. I think you're a great person all the same and would love to stay in touch. I understand it's probably not easy though, so whichever way it works out... it's been my pleasure to get to know you and I wish you all the very best!