I’ve been off from here for a bit (almost two weeks, now that I look it up), mostly because I’ve spent most of my free time playing the New World Preview. And let me tell you, I’ve had a BLAST! I’m not going to delve too much into it in this blog – I highly suggest you look at my YouTube where I uploaded most of what I streamed. If you catch me live on Twitch I might not notice you though, but if you want to you’re welcome there as well!
There was one stream I added some text in the beginning, explaining that I had played a bit off-stream. It wasnt anything much, I walked a bit, traded, crafted and got my big bags I had been trying to get my hands on. You didnt miss much, however, right after that part of the stream where I added text on stream, my stream crashed without me knowing, so I lost 1h50min of actual gameplay. That sucked a bit. So beside those things, everything I played is there on YouTube.
I got the new phone since last time, the Note 20. It took a bit of work, but eventually I also got the Buds-voucher working and I got those yesterday. I’m still getting used to having earbuds, wireless at that, so it chafes a bit. I’m still trying out the padding though, it came in 3 sizes and there’s two pieces of padding for each bud. One sort of a “wing” that sits in the outer ear to kind of hold it in place, and I believe the smallest one fits me best. As for the padding in ear, so far I’ve gone with the medium size.
It also has “Ambient sound” which is as awesome as it is creepy. First of all – I hear my own voice as from a recording. You know how your own voice doesnt sound the same to you as a recording of your voice does? Yeah, the recording voice is what I can hear when I talk. Second of all, it’s got a weird mix of boosting lower sounds – bass sounds clearer – and a boost in discants which just sounds louder. It was disorienting at first, but I’m growing used to it. Honestly, in the end it makes some things just easier to hear. Granted, it seems like it’s filtering out other stuff I’m used to hear, which in turn just make it partly harder to hear because I’m unused to it.
On the whole, I’m liking the “setup”. I really loved the Note 2 when it came out way back, and I would’ve still used it if it wasnt for the banking ID app I really needed stopped supporting the version of Android I had on the Note 2. I had to make due with a cheap(-ish) phone since, a ~$200 phone that was good enough for what I was using it for. But the Note-series is probably where my “cellphone love” lies. Either way – Samsung is probably the best I’ve had. Even the Lady upgraded her plan to include the “new” Samsung S20, and she seems to love it as well. The only gripe I have is the lack of cases. There’s these official cases that doesnt include a front flap, and the two that do have a front apparently dont “lock in place”. Then there’s this whole bunch of unofficial cases that is bulky as all hell. At the moment I’m using a magnetic backcover that sticks to a super thick wallet for ~$30. I’m assuming that when this phone gets a bit older there’ll be more cases, and as soon as I find a case with back and front and magnetic shut, I’m grabbing that. I dont need the fancy stuff Samsung had on their two more exclusive ones with front cover, the LED stuff and see-through panel. All I need out of it is something to properly safeguard the phone, especially the glass front. I DONT want that to be cracked.
Also, Playstation 5 news – seems like the PS5 is going to be released in mid-November! Still no price though, but rumors has it that since there’ll be two versions, one with a disc-reader and one fully digital without disc-reader, there’s going to be two prices to look out for. The digital one most likely cheaper, and – again, rumors – will probably go for around $400, while the more expensive one with a disc-reader will go for around $500. I’m aiming for the digital version. I mean, a disc-reader would be nice to have if you need it, I really dont need it. I’ve had a disc-reader in my PS4, and I’ve used it for one game. A game that had its disc misplaced so in the end I ended up buying the digital version of the game anyway (although we did find the disc in the end, but that’s a different matter – I gave that to the eldest, since she loves the game as well). Also, if I want to watch movies, I could just as easily do that digitally, or if I want to use discs, I can just NOT do that on the PS5, since the Lady has one of the latest Xboxes and we could use that to play movies on discs. Which reminds me.. I think it’s time to rewatch Stargate Atlantis soon.