Despite some major positive changes happening in my life
lately, this blog will take on a mainly negative tone. None of it is all that
bad, in the grand scheme of things, but there are some inconveniences which
have meant I haven’t had all that much time for playing games over the last
couple of weeks.
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| Yeah... |
The most significant thing that has happened to me in a few
years, then, is that I bought a house. This was something that we had to organise
quite quickly. Kirsty and I had been planning to move out of our flat and into
a house for a little over a year at that point; for various reasons we didn’t
manage it until now. We viewed the property back in January and offered on it,
then Covid-19 happened which bought with it all sorts of confusion with the
solicitors doing the conveyance. By the time we’d got a straight answer and a
date for completion, we had about six days to pack down our entire home and
move it into a house – thankfully not far away, but it was a confused mess and
we couldn’t count on much help! Part of what this meant was that I had to move
my entire collection of board games, and this very afternoon I managed to arrange
them all against the same wall our spare room, taking the picture you see on
your right while conceding that I really do have problems with obsessive
hoarding.
Apart from the time it takes to move to a new house and get
everything fixed and tidy there, which is still an ongoing process, we couldn’t
use our TVs for a while either. The landlord of the flat we moved out of cut
the plugs off our TVs and wired them up straight into the mains so that we didn’t
have wires trailing everywhere.[1]
The problem was of course that with the lockdown, he couldn’t put them back on
again, and because the plugs they came are sealed, neither could we. So, we had
to wait for a convenient moment to go and buy some plugs to plug the TV in
before I could use any of the consoles! Of course, there was always the Switch
or my Laptop, but time was not on my side this week, so I didn’t get to play
them too much.
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| I tried to come up with some sort of snide remark about where I'd like to stick that sniper rifle but it just came out really rude. |
One game I won’t be playing again is Fortnite on the
Nintendo Switch. I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy any of it, but it’s cost me a
lot more than it was worth. Basically, my account got hacked, and a certain amount
of money was spent on it. I won’t say exactly how much here; it was more than a
takeaway, less than the deposit on my house. I’d never had a problem with this
before in a year of owning the Switch and came across it within weeks of sharing
information with Epic Games, so in addition to changing my password, I’ve
deleted Fortnite off my Swtich and I won’t be playing it anymore. I’m currently
having some email dialogue with Nintendo to resolve the situation, so hopefully
I will get my money back, but this has left a rather bitter taste in my mouth
as you might imagine!
I tried to have a go on my Xbox 360 – I was hoping to beat
Sonic Generations, and I’ve been able to see my games for the first time in a year
and a half (they’ve been in the loft hitherto) so I was hoping to try those of
them I hadn’t gotten around to playing yet. Two things got in the way of that –
first, the HDMI cable wasn’t plugged in, and second, it’s doing that thing
again where the controller won’t connect to the console. This is the second
time it’s had this problem this year, and it won’t be going away – it might be
time for a new one. I’ll try and order one in the next few days; if nothing else
I’ll get an extremely helpful new hard drive to download some free games on to!
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