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thundara  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 8, 2017

Norovirus, man, heavy shit. Currently doing my best to avoid catching it from my housemate. Jesus the bathroom smells like sickness though.





kleinbl00  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I went from flu to cold-flirting-with-pneumonia. I have been able to run perhaps four times in two months. It's really pissing me off.

On the plus side, I broke Level 40 on Destiny.

OftenBen  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I broke Level 40 on Destiny.

Now you get to enter the fashion show!

kleinbl00  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I do not understand that game. Just a couple days ago I figured out that I'd maxed out my money or whatever because it wouldn't give me this thing that the magic rune reader dude wanted me to have. And now I'm collecting random shit off of planets because it'll be useful some time? And the answer to solving all the hard shit is using a thing called a jellerhorn or some shit and I don't understand why everyone runs around with fucking shotguns when you can literally sit on a hill with a scout rifle and kill everything. That game is like 100% BOOM!Headshot with like random arbitrary speederbikes thrown in.

But it's fuckin' addictive.

I should also mention that I am studiously and obstinately playing single-player. Don't even have a PS Pass or whatever the fuck it's called.

OftenBen  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I don't understand why everyone runs around with fucking shotguns when you can literally sit on a hill with a scout rifle and kill everything.

This and

    I should also mention that I am studiously and obstinately playing single-player.

Are related. Shotguns rule the fuck out of multiplayer, and therefore get more use in single-player than they really need.

You haven't done any raids?

kleinbl00  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I tried giving Sony my credit card. They obstinately refused, which was probably polite of them considering their whole "passwords in plaintext" debacle.

So I gave Sony my Paypal and bought the pass with it, but by the time it was active their cheap-ass deal on... (Final Fantasy? Yeah, mustabeen 'cuz I bought the disc) fell through. Then I discovered that PSN tech support sucks ass, but they finally refunded my money. Then the next day, having spent two days trying to talk to fucking PSN with no dice, my Paypal reverse went through (Paypal gives not a fuck for Sony).

Sony responded by banning my account.

So then I had to buy fuckin' PSN codes on Amazon, feed them to Sony, get my balance back to zero, to get unbanned.

All because Sony is incapable of processing a credit card with any grace.

Which left a seriously bad taste in my mouth. I mean, I've got a working system now (schlep to Amazon, buy fucking codes, feed them painstakingly into PSN, buy the thing you want) that explicitly prohibits Sony from destroying my bank account... but the whole process was such a debacle that I've had little interest in feeding the fuckers.

I decided I get to Level 40 the hard way before I tried to do any multiplayer. I did some crucible shit for the 48 hours I had a pass and their "matchmaking" had my poor little Level 22 hunter engaged in a 3-way death match with a pair of 400-light Level 40 troubadours. It was mostly them running around shooting me over and over again and even when I got five headshots in a row on the assholes they suffered zero damage.