April 2021 archive

29
Apr
2021

Not exactly what I wanted to do out of the gate, but…

categories: personal; word count: 205 words

So it seems to be set in stone that my insurance is going to continue to deny my pain clinic’s Botox request.

So the doctor that’s been managing my case decided to get an X-ray off of me to see if he could lobby my insurance with it and that I should receive steroid shots to the neck instead. I suppose I’ll be finding out about that soon, whether it’s by a letter sent in the mail letting me know that my doctor’s request was denied, or… I don’t know what. If I can’t have Botox treatments done, I suppose that steroid shots to the neck might be the next best thing. But knowing the luck I’ve had lately, insurance might try to deny that as well.

At the end of the day, I don’t really care as long as it ameliorates migraine pain or makes it more manageable, even if that treatment may have side effects. Right now, I’m reduced to wearing prescription sunglasses in the house to try and make migraine pain… less than, if that makes sense, and that makes navigating around my house a bit tricky. I do what I have to do to get through the day in general, though.

27
Apr
2021

This still makes me mad, and it’s been days.

categories: consoles; word count: 241 words

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/29/22356791/sony-playstation-store-close-ps3-vita-psp-game-downloads

This made me mad when I read about it the first time, and this makes me mad now.

Some people still have PSPs, PlayStation 3s, and Vitas. A lot of people still play games on any combination of those devices. But because Sony wants to “allocate more resources” to the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5, these older consoles are getting caught in the crossfire. What makes matters worse is that if your PlayStation 3’s internal battery depletes and you have no way to connect to the PlayStation Store that will soon become defunct on it, your PlayStation has no way to figure out what time it is, and this will render all of your digital games on it unable to be played. You know, games that you bought. I’m not sure what it will do with physical copies of games, but my hunch is that they’re going to be treated the same as digital games will be if the PlayStation 3 can’t connect to anything that will tell it what time it really is. This sucks.

I suppose my advice would be to make sure you’ve downloaded all of your games on any of these consoles that you still own, especially if you still play them. It might not hurt to put a new internal battery in your PlayStation 3, either… it will delay the inevitable by some time and let you keep playing all of your games.

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