You are close. My partner was giving me a playful kiss goodbye this morning and I slipped a little off the stool I was sitting on. She was biting my lip a little so when I slipped it ended up making my lip bleed a little. Nothing major, but that was about all that is different with me health wise since last we spoke. :-)

Thank you. My lip was only bleeding a little (just a scrape, not a deep but or anything), thinking about it there was no real need to mention is, so just for get I said anything. I did have my latest load of tests yesterday, so hopefully I will know more very soon about my more important health issues.

Sorry to hear things are continuing to build up for you. You know where my chat is if you ever need to talk or just to rant. I will be glad to help in any way I can. *big comforting hug*

*big return hug*
Could be better, could be worse ;-)

*laughing hug*

Good morning! *big hug*

I sometimes get that when looking at games. There are lots of games out there I have never played, but for some reason fewer and fewer of them are appealing to me. Possibly as I have so many still to play, or that I can't really play them at the moment. There are one or two games on Steam that I hope we will get here some day as they look like they could be fun.

*big hug for the peeking Moon*

And now that you are here there are even more nice and lovely people here. :-)

-good morning waves back- =)

Sui... Sooeeko... Sooeekoden? e__< *gives up trying to pronounce that strange word*

Wonderful. I hope things stop piling up on you, chat's open for venting as well.
Hey there, and good morning. =)

Hang in there, don't drink coffee for a bit if you notice your hands shaking, and good luck with the day.
There are worse things than Bakersfield. You could be going to Modesto. Or Stockton. Holy fucking shit, be glad it's not Stockton. -laughing hard-

**Big comforting hug with some medicine to cheer you up**
Really sorry to hear it, Wings... I hope things will get better for you.

Maybe it's overload. Backlogs too large to finish, sale bombardment beyond anyone's ability to consume, and an endless wave of new things with no breaks, ever.

Bwahaha...wait you do know about Oildale, right?

No, I didn't until a second ago. But the name alone sounds exciting. It's like a grassy field...that's been ripped to shit and covered in machinery.

The unrealistic high specs many games have now doesn't help. Nor the fact I am getting a bit tired of a lot of indie games that all just look the same. The same "retro" look, the same rogue-lite features, the same gameplay elements. I kind of miss how things where a few years ago, when we got more variety and quality with indie games. But I know people love the newer indie stuff, so it doesn't bother me too much, it just means there is less games that I will get.

*laughs* Yes, a lot of people have that problem. It's a good game though. Or rather a good series of games.

Here's the intro if you're interested.

Agreed. The constant race to upgrade so lazy people can make use of their customers' tech and avoid optimizing their work gets old.

And yes, the independent field is very much awash in derivative crap that only exists to strangle every last drop of nostalgia out of the customer base.
Course, it just manages to largely demonstrate that there are plenty of games from 20 years ago that are still better than what some people are putting out now.

Well...replace "grassy field" with run down old houses and "ripped to shit and covered in machinery" with "meth capital of California" and you get a general idea of what Oildale is like. I grew up in THE ghetto neighborhood of a small southern city that has a crime rate (when ratio is adjusted for population size etc) literally comparable to Philadelphia/NYC etc and even I'm afraid to step foot in Oildale.

Fun story, I once auditioned a guitarist at the guitarist's house in Oildale. We were in his garage, halfway through the audition I see a GIANT rat the size of a possum run along the top of some shelves. I'm not scared of rats or anything but man if it didn't get a reaction out of me.