Archive of ‘consoles’ category

19
Nov
2023

There are no other words for this waste of money.

categories: consoles; word count: 104 words

As alluring as the idea of this sounds (I am a sucker for handheld, or mobile, consoles, and being able to make our favorite games mobile), this is a glorified… I don’t even know what else to call it. It only makes PlayStation 4 and 5 games handheld if both items are on the same Wi-fi. This allows you to play video games in your hands that you have to be in the same residence and on the same Wi-fi connection for. There are no other words for just how much of a colossal failure I think this is. If only they would actually fix this…

22
Aug
2023

Where are the days and nights going, y’all?

categories: arcade, consoles, first-person shooters, hack and slashers, RPGs, side scrollers; word count: 205 words

Now I get what people say when they’re working on a project — the bigger, the better, and the more likely they are to say this! I decided to put more work into Bub’s desk and desktop, which meant that more work would have had to have been placed into my bedroom as well as a side effect. I am completely happy with this, although removing knots from wires has not been as fun as I had anticipated… especially when I’m given little to no help doing so, because I’m not particularly good at this. It all eventually gets done though, the topic of conversation shifts and we begin to e told what “big bad” we’re up against. As much as I still don’t know why visual changes happen in the real lives of so many of these real-life participants, I still hold out the tiniest sliver of hope. There are two old games in particular that I’d love to see brought over here in some way. And I absolutely do love going off on tangents, even if they are mental. Isn’t this part of the purpose of blogging? (But believe you me, for the sake of business writing I can get and stay on aubject!)

19
Jun
2022

I’ve finally loaded the Steam Deck for Bub!

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 199 words

I have a functioning 1TB Sandisk microSD, so in Bub’s Steam Deck it has gone!

It took me the better part of a day and a half to download all of his games to it, but I downloaded all of his games to it and I am finally done with that. I am glad to be done with that because that is the “big ticket” item that he’s going to be getting from me for his birthday, and I know that he’s just going to love it. I just need to learn to work the buttons a bit better since the way they are set up is not native to me, but I don’t think that will take me too terribly long. We’ve been playing Chrono Trigger together, and I may go back and do the quest that gets you the Crono doll because it frustrated me at the beginning of the game when I was playing it on the computer with a controller in hand. Maybe it will be easy enough on the Steam Deck that I can actually do it. Either way, I’m getting that Crono doll. We are taking Crono with us to the final fight…

10
Jun
2022

If it’s not one thing it’s another, but we make do.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 268 words

Bub’s Steam Deck came in the mail yesterday!

I’m in the process of setting that up for him. I need to get a microSD card for it so that he has access to all of his games, and I’m in the process of having one shipped to my house now. It’ll get here when it gets here, and then I can finish putting this thing together and give it to him for his birthday. The theme of this year’s birthday is (probably what it has always been, but with a bit more oomph this time) games, because Bub loves games. That’s one of the ways that we’ve bonded over the years, and I see absolutely no harm in it.

I also got my formal assessment results in the mail, and I am autistic! Not that I wasn’t told that I was after I completed testing, and I don’t see it as a disability (I do have mild adaptive deficits, but a lot of those come from anxiety, and I have generalized anxiety disorder largely caused and exacerbated by… well, my mother, who I’ve written about, and who I’ll probably continue to touch on in subsequent posts to flesh this out a bit further). I have the results kept in the bottom dresser of my drawer where I tend to keep important things that I’m not going to need to grab on a regular basis, things that I’m probably not going to need to grab at a moment’s notice for some reason, so it is what it is. I mean, I already knew that I was autistic, so… yeah…

14
May
2022

We’ll eventually get our hands on a Steam Deck.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 288 words

Well, the person that I tried to buy Bub a Steam Deck from tried to scam me, but they didn’t get very far in the process. Within minutes of me making the initial purchase from them and sending them a question about shipping, they closed their entire eBay account in response, refused to answer e-mails from me about the status of the item, and have so far refused to answer PayPal’s inquiries about the status of the item or whether or not they are even going to ship it (they’re not). As soon as they made it clear that they were not going to respond to any of the e-mails that were sent to them, I had PayPal place a hold on the transaction money and begin to investigate it on their end. Through eBay, PayPal can see when they closed their entire account in response and how they have refused to answer any inquiries about the item though. I am in the process of being refunded for the item now. So I’ve been searching for another appropriately priced one…

I’m not going to have to pay more than I have to for one of these (and at that, the 512GB one, because let’s face it, Bub has amassed a tidy collection of games over the years), but at the same time, I just want to find one for a decent price. I can finance it on PayPal Credit and then pay off more than the minimum over the course of several months, so there is that. That’s always kind of been my plan going into this to raise my credit score beyond what it is. Having, and raising, a credit score has always been an American problem.

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