Honestly, not having any queer friends IRL to share with is a little TOO relatable ๐๐ญ
Incoming story about a Russian coworker when? ๐
zabby
joined 2 years ago
Oh my goodness, the exact same thing happened with me and Guild Wars 2!!! ๐ฑ
I was a teenager at the time and my family burned logs to keep the house warm in winter. My Dad upgraded the smoke detectors so that they were all linked. In other words, if one alarm went off in the basement (where the wood burner was) then every detector in the house would go off.
This sounds great in theory, but in reality it turns out that the detectors would go off on a near weekly basis. Whenever someone tossed logs in the burner and smoke escaped. We got desensitized to the beeping and it became second nature to just cancel the alarm when it happened.
Fast forward to the closed beta for Guild Wars 2 and I was up late, trying to play every possible minute that I could before the weekend was over. My door was closed, headphones on, and I was REALLY immersed.
The smoke detector started beeping. And it kept beeping over and over and over. Normally, at this point my parents would've cancelled it. That kind of struck me as odd, so I opened my door.
Ruh roah, raggy.
A wall of smoke was on the other side of the door. And the smell was NOTHING like the usual wood burner smell. It really hurt to breathe and my eyes were not having a good time either.
After shaking my Dad awake, we called the fire department, got all the animals out, and nobody got hurt. The damage was serious, but the entire house didn't go up. The upstairs needed rebuilt and there was a fair bit of smoke damage.
I don't want to think about what would've happened if I wasn't up playing that closed beta ๐
A friend who I've only known through the Internet is flying up to a neighboring city. So, my husband and I are driving down to meet him in person for the first time.
It's crazy that I've interacted with him for close to a decade without ever meeting him physically. Wish me luck!
Wait, I thought X4 improved after its rocky launch and a lot of people gave it praise? (Although I recall that it was super clunky and the AI was quite rough)
Sorry for your loss, friend.
I've tried to talk my husband into adding some rats into our family SEVERAL times. Usually I feel like I'm making compelling points and am close to convincing him. But then he usually hits me with the question: "How are you going to handle losing them after a few years?"
I never have a good answer to that one ๐ฅ
Woah, with that many hours is there anything specific you're looking forward to?
From what I've played Killing Floor 2 is at the top of my list when it comes to satisfying gunplay. The original was lots of fun too. As long as this one keeps up the quality, it seems like it is hard for them to fail, right?
I played through Cyberpunk a single time shortly after it released. I figured I'd play it again when Phantom Liberty released. But, I had no idea I'd actually be this excited about diving back into it! Maybe the marketing is working on me ๐
On the bright side it's always easy to spot a cheetah!
Oh wow, have you tried any of them out? Do they work well?
I'm very grateful that I only learned about Silicon Valley after the finale had aired. I binged it in the blink of an eye and loved every second of it!