Archive of ‘consoles’ category

09
Apr
2021

I am still fighting to get disability, folks.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 263 words

Even though my disabilities are physical, it is almost always thrown in my face that I am “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. Okay then, let me know how I can consistently work in spite of nearly blinding pain (or so the saying seems to go). I’ve had to take bursts of prednisone to break migraines that have lasted for days. I’ve had to wear sunglasses in the house to be able to cope with sources of light. But I’m “intelligent, so I can adapt to work”. I think not. The fact that this is even an excuse here just blows my mind in a really bad way.

At any rate, our stimulus check came just before everyone else that I know got theirs, and they actually counted both of my dependents and gave me the correct amount. That blew my mind in a good way. My rule with these is that as long as we don’t need anything that it can buy (since none of us are working and two of us actually get disability checks), I’ll spoil us with them. It’s the least I can do after we put up with Trump for four years. I was actually able to scalp us a PlayStation 5 for a great price given their shortage, and I got us some games that Bub is sure to enjoy. I also got myself some more cyberlox to wear. I mean, really, why not?

Soon I’ll make a list of the things that I’ve spent it on. I think I did that with the past two checks.

02
Apr
2021

So I have a new television set now, y’all.

categories: consoles, personal; word count: 266 words

My former (old?) television set kind of… fell forward and onto our PlayStation 4 and Wii U, causing the screen to get messed up in a way that was not fixable. It was also just old enough for me not to be able to replace it with an identical television from the vendor that I got it from, so I sucked it up and got the cheapest “new” television that they had with enough HDMI slots for all of our consoles and games to seamlessly play. With a button, I can also summon Hulu and Netflix… well, with two buttons, respectively. It is kind of surreal to do.

Whenever I do manage to get us a PlayStation 5, I’m going to have to switch out which HDMI cable is plugged in with the PlayStation 4 unless I get another splitter, which I already saw coming. I may get that splitter depending on how many HDMI cabels I have to plug in and unplug, though… it all depends on how organized these things manage to keep themselves, as sometimes things like these have the penchant for at least attempting to wander off. I’m still not entirely sure if I want to get the digital version of the PlayStation 5 or what, although I am also aware that I will more than likely be at the mercy of scalpers, although I’ve already found a few good scalpers with decent prices that I am considering buying from. I guess we’ll have to see how that goes. I’ve already chosen several games that I want to get us on this new console as well.

14
Jan
2021

That took nowhere near as long as anticipated.

categories: consoles; word count: 302 words

Bub’s microSD is completely set up with no issue and he has all of the games that he currently owns on it!

Well, the digital ones.

I did get him some digital games when the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic was… being treated as more severe of a thing, a crisis, simply because I didn’t want to have to wait for them to come in the mail when there was bound to be a delay and could just as well switch Amazon orders from physical copies to digital copies. I did that until the mail was not quite as… delayed, at least on the end of games and other things actually being shipped out (“non-essentials”, and as a gamer I believe they are not a life-and-death thing).

In other news, I’ve been reunited with ten doses of Fioricet at two pills and twenty doses of Fioricet at one pill depending on how I take it. I try to take at least one as soon as I am aware that a migraine is actually just starting to become a migraine (“could this be a headache?”, no, never, not in my world), and I’ve gotten better at timing this. Not perfect, but I have gotten better at it. Since I now see the local pain management clinic for my migraine needs with my neurologist “on call” because she doesn’t feel comfortable co-treating unless absolutely necessary, I can work with them to coordinate being on the proper medications at the right doses and exploring things such as Botox. A few years ago, you wouldn’t have caught me dead consenting to be injected around the face and neck, let alone anywhere at all unless absolutely needed, but here we are.

If that ever actually happens I anticipate making sizable dents in my (our) gaming backlog, I really do.

12
Jan
2021

Why must you do the thing, Nintendo Switch?

categories: consoles; word count: 195 words

Or Internet?

Why must you do the thing, router?

Why must both of you do the thing in tandem?

I’ve had to babysit the Switch to ensure that everything does download, because as soon as there’s lag — and there invariably are spots of lag whenever the kids are playing on their WiFi-connected devices or there’s inclement weather — the Switch drops whatever it’s doing, and based on my observations of it, you have to manually set everything to resume downloading once that has happened. Luckily it managed to get half through our game collection before that happened, and since it’s at 100% power I am babysitting it through the rest of the way or as much through the rest of the way that I can before I go to bed for the night. If it’s still downloading games then, I’ll do what I did last night and set it up to automatically download while charging, hoping that it actually finishes the second time around. I have some hope for that as long as the Internet holds at the speed it’s at, but… not a whole lot of hope. I just want our games on a better microSD…

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