Posts by Steppenwolf

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from [HP]

    17 minutes ago, [HP] said: I remember when I lived in Germany for a few years, it's the strangest thing in the world that when you move in to a place, the kitchen is usually just a couple of tubes sticking out of the wall, you need to buy everything. lol

    Not always the case. New place will be my 6th appartement and first time i need to buy a kitchen.

    Quote from Radu

    16 minutes ago, Radu said: @Steppenwolf make sure you check the piping (kitchen, bathroom, heaters in all the rooms), especially the bits where the pipe goes into the wall. It's not just for leaks, but if there are noticeable cracks/tiny spaces in the wall around the pipes, those can allow occasional pests like cockroaches to invade you. Nothing you can't seal, but it's good to know in advance.

    The new place is in excellent shape as far as i can tell. Have never seen a cockroach in Germany btw. Only ever had trouble with ants if anything and now mold.

    I blame the previous tenants to some degrees. They were pretty strange. The place looked like a third reich nazi museum. Was surprised that they showed it to me but otherwise they didnt seem to let any handymen in and kept the windows closed all the time i suppose because everything was full of swastika flags and such.

  • What's going on with your life?

    Oh wow that sucks. And yea i'm not getting my deposit back but that's ok because i was supposed to pay for reburbishing my old appartement. Instead of paying for that bill directly i will tell him to keep the deposit so he can't fuck me over with the new apartement. What's annoying tho is that i have to pay for moving once again. New place i will also need to buy a new kitchen and a lot more furniture but the quality of life will be so much better. New place has two floors, a terrace and a proper bath with bathtub.

    I also ordered a mold test from amazon btw and it's growing some insteresting colonies right now...

  • What's going on with your life?

    Just moved into a new place 3 weeks ago and in november i will move out again already because this new place stinks (literally)!

    Backstory: I lived in this house for 9 years with no problems. Last year i told my landlord that i'm interested in moving into a larger apartement. So happend that one got available this year. The deal was that the new place gets refurbished before i move in. But then 3 weeks before when i already made all the arrangements and packed my stuff the landlord told me a bullshit story that he couldn't find someone to take care of that. I should have cancelled there but was naive and desperate to get into a bigger place so i moved in with only the living room refurbished.

    First night i notice that the bedroom has a very strange smell. Havent slept there once yet. Also noticed that the hallway smells weird. First couple days i tried with getting lot of fresh air in and cleaning everything. Then i noticed that in the bath and in the windows someone hid mold under a thin layer of paint. Also in the living room some stains appeared from under the freshly painted wall.

    Then after about a week i confronted my landlord with everything and then things got sour between us. He refused to acknowledge the problems and made some snide remarks like "it's your word against mine". I told him he either fixes this apartement or i will move out again. I think he thought i'm bluffing and was very clear that he doesnt want to spent money even tho the bastard kept the deposit from the people who lived here before! So immediately i started looking for a new place and now i have found something very nice not far away. Tomorrow i will tell my landlord when i have signed the papers. Cant wait to see the look on his face.

  • Fallout 76

    Not sure how to feel about it. If it's just a open ended multiplayer sandbox i will pass. If it's like Fallout 3/4 singleplayer but with other players in the game world i will be more interested.

  • Totalbiscuit, the cinical Brit is dying

    RIP

    I remember that he was positive and supportive about our game and that certainly helped us a bit. I often watched his videos.

    Don't know what that programmer was thinking would happen. People need to get of twitter if they have nothing good to say. One way to throw away a career because he certainly will be remembered for this.

  • What are you playing now?

    It's really fun. I'm already 50 hours in and still feels like i've only scratched the surface especially with all the mods out there that add new content. Haven't even bothered much with that yet. Will dive into that when i get bored of my (almost) vanilla game.

  • What are you playing now?

    I gave Kerbal Space Program a proper shot finaly and love it. It's ticking so many boxes for me. Science, engineering, economics, exploration, drama and excitement. My first succesful langing on the moon was a real thriller. My lander almost tipped over when i got out, little astronaut guy knocked himself out in the process. Then i struggled to get back in because i had no ladders installed, made it barely back with the last drop of fuel, reentry too steep, almost burned my precious experiments, had to manually roll the craft around at high speed to keep the temperatures on them low.

  • Battlefront 2

    I've been following the whole lootcrate fiasco a bit this week and was thinking about it a lot. I wonder where this corporate greed will lead our industry. For the time being this seems to be here to stay, maybe slowed down a bit, while publishers will continue to think of more schemes secretly.

    I think what must and will happen eventualy, could be a couple years from now, is is that the industry will have to agree on a code for ethical buisness practices. Otherwise it's only a question of time that some governments or maybe the EU will want to hop in and regulate. This can work. We've seen it in the past with the ESRB, USK etc. organizations for self regulation. Right now it's the wild west out there.

  • What's going on with your life?

    @MadsenFK I had to battle with panic attacks a lot in the past. It's not easy because it's all in your head and irrational. What helped me was to always double check what my last thought was before panic kicked in. Although it feels like a physical problem the panic always starts with a bad thought, like for instance a short flash where you have a picture in your head about something bad that could happen. Being aware of these thoughts helps not freaking out that something could be wrong with your health and can stop the panic atttack before it gets worse.

    The other thing that helped me get over the worst of it was that i stopped fearing the fear. At some point i got so upset with it that i developed a "fuck off" attitude towards the fear and in that moment clicked something for me that it had no power over me anymore.

  • The Witcher 3

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