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4 years ago
Okay, I suppose I'll come out and say a few things. First, I am still alive...obviously. Would be hard to do a journal otherwise.
I cannot remember everything that has happened over the past year. My birthday is obviously approaching and so I get to feel myself get older, a bit closer to death and hopefully wiser. Big hope. X3
My family has grown a little thinner over time, down to one final grandparent whom isn't going to last much longer. But she is well into her 90's. And while I did hope she would make it to a full hundred, it may not happen if she doesn't recover...but news is grim. I'll be okay, because she (like all my grandparents) had a good long life...and that's awesome, and that I got to have them in my life as long as I did.
Let's see...I got hospitalised with an unknown infection of sorts that was causing a raging temperature and caused me to spend Christmas in the hospital. Got out on the 26th, but ended up back on the 27th with intense pain.
Surprise, my body had a gift...a kidney stone.
But on a more positive, and somewhat amusing note, I got a PS4 finally on Christmas. I paid towards it myself (if I recall correctly) but then...I had not even got it set up yet, I was busy with other matters.
Along rolls February and the game store contacts me saying that my PS5 had arrived. It's like "Great. I JUST got a PS4 and now a PS5 arrives. Well alright..."
So I got this unopened PS4 sitting here. XD
I don't know whether to be happy I have a brand new PS4 Pro that can maybe be resold (ha, not likely. Not in a pandemic and the game store sure won't give much for it) or just laugh at the fact that by the time I was ready to set it up...I got the call to collect the next gen.
Speaking of that, I have been streaming my playthrough of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
I am not only enjoying it, but I feel bad that it took this long for me to ever play a Ratchet & Clank game.
I won't spoil anything, but I will say that it is a great game that can (minus some background of the connection between Ratchet and Clank) stand on its own quite well. Though I have also encountered a number of bugs and anomalies that I am quite skilled at somehow finding in games. And yet it has never detracted from my enjoyment as it isn't anything game-breaking or damages the fun because I only found ONE bug and the only other things I managed to do was end up in places you probably shouldn't be.
Oh...and one weird graphical thing where a pipe changed (next to a collectable) when moved even slightly away from it.
What else to talk about..?
Oh! I actually ended up in the land of VR...with a VR headset, the Valve Index. But at the time I got it, it was not sold in Australia and even now it won't be in stores until August. So I had to order one from the USA which meant getting some adapters to change the plug to Australian ones. But still, it's fun to do.
I only have VRChat (obviously, free game) and a friend gifted me Beat Saber which I have yet to play but I will eventually when I am certain I won't break my computer swinging my arms around.
Oh right, my old computer died finally. Lasted 8 years, and so now I have a new one that I got with some money given to me. A share of an inheritance my mother got.
And...I think that's really all I can think about.
Life has been up and down, and I'm sorry that I'm not on FA a whole lot. Mostly around on Discord.
I would try be on FA more but other than browsing and maybe a comment here and there...I don't really do a whole lot.
I tried to get back into drawing but my OCD shoots that down constantly. Though I was told that if I got a program like SAI that is uh...Vector Art? I forget. They told me I'd be a good, or decent, artist. I'm skeptical...I honestly feel my greatest weakness is shading. I can never properly figure it out.
I think I'll end the journal here. Not sure what else to say, but doing this at 2:22 AM probably isn't helping with that critical thing called "thinking". XD
I cannot remember everything that has happened over the past year. My birthday is obviously approaching and so I get to feel myself get older, a bit closer to death and hopefully wiser. Big hope. X3
My family has grown a little thinner over time, down to one final grandparent whom isn't going to last much longer. But she is well into her 90's. And while I did hope she would make it to a full hundred, it may not happen if she doesn't recover...but news is grim. I'll be okay, because she (like all my grandparents) had a good long life...and that's awesome, and that I got to have them in my life as long as I did.
Let's see...I got hospitalised with an unknown infection of sorts that was causing a raging temperature and caused me to spend Christmas in the hospital. Got out on the 26th, but ended up back on the 27th with intense pain.
Surprise, my body had a gift...a kidney stone.
But on a more positive, and somewhat amusing note, I got a PS4 finally on Christmas. I paid towards it myself (if I recall correctly) but then...I had not even got it set up yet, I was busy with other matters.
Along rolls February and the game store contacts me saying that my PS5 had arrived. It's like "Great. I JUST got a PS4 and now a PS5 arrives. Well alright..."
So I got this unopened PS4 sitting here. XD
I don't know whether to be happy I have a brand new PS4 Pro that can maybe be resold (ha, not likely. Not in a pandemic and the game store sure won't give much for it) or just laugh at the fact that by the time I was ready to set it up...I got the call to collect the next gen.
Speaking of that, I have been streaming my playthrough of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
I am not only enjoying it, but I feel bad that it took this long for me to ever play a Ratchet & Clank game.
I won't spoil anything, but I will say that it is a great game that can (minus some background of the connection between Ratchet and Clank) stand on its own quite well. Though I have also encountered a number of bugs and anomalies that I am quite skilled at somehow finding in games. And yet it has never detracted from my enjoyment as it isn't anything game-breaking or damages the fun because I only found ONE bug and the only other things I managed to do was end up in places you probably shouldn't be.
Oh...and one weird graphical thing where a pipe changed (next to a collectable) when moved even slightly away from it.
What else to talk about..?
Oh! I actually ended up in the land of VR...with a VR headset, the Valve Index. But at the time I got it, it was not sold in Australia and even now it won't be in stores until August. So I had to order one from the USA which meant getting some adapters to change the plug to Australian ones. But still, it's fun to do.
I only have VRChat (obviously, free game) and a friend gifted me Beat Saber which I have yet to play but I will eventually when I am certain I won't break my computer swinging my arms around.
Oh right, my old computer died finally. Lasted 8 years, and so now I have a new one that I got with some money given to me. A share of an inheritance my mother got.
And...I think that's really all I can think about.
Life has been up and down, and I'm sorry that I'm not on FA a whole lot. Mostly around on Discord.
I would try be on FA more but other than browsing and maybe a comment here and there...I don't really do a whole lot.
I tried to get back into drawing but my OCD shoots that down constantly. Though I was told that if I got a program like SAI that is uh...Vector Art? I forget. They told me I'd be a good, or decent, artist. I'm skeptical...I honestly feel my greatest weakness is shading. I can never properly figure it out.
I think I'll end the journal here. Not sure what else to say, but doing this at 2:22 AM probably isn't helping with that critical thing called "thinking". XD
Noms, on the otherhand...that's different.
I suppose it all depends on circumstances...it may be more convenient to keep the PS4 instead of the PS3. I will need to think on it.
I know it is also a bit of a pain to upload an avatar. I have heard good things and bad things.
...But that doesn't mean I'm not intrigued by it. It is also on Steam. Not sure about virtual desktop, I don't know how to do those anyway... :c
Only having an Oculus, I wouldn't know the things necessary to get Neos on other headsets.
After all, just because something is on Steam doesn't mean it is optimised.
If I ever try it, I'll be sure to research in advance. Thanks for letting me know. o:
Sounds like a lot has happened, ah I'd recommend still keeping previous console, I've still got my PS2 and PS3, since PSNOW sucks big time, even if you have a strong internet connection.
And yis, I am still around. <3