Regulars' Table

[Altbert]

I haven't been playing much lately. Waiting for my new rig: new Asus mainboard with i5-12600FK 32G, new videocard with RTX 4060Ti 16G, 2TB SSD and a new BlueRay/DVD player. Last couple of days busy creating backups of anything important on my old rig, and in between playing some other games like XING: The Land Beyond and Call of the Sea. Also slowly emptying my old rig of anything I'm not using at the moment.

[Selene310187]

Noise pollution from neighbors got out of hand:
I hadn't talked about the noise pollution from my neighbors for a long time. With the strategies I had developed over time (playing white noise on YouTube, for example), I was able to come to terms with it. Unfortunately, the noise pollution got out of hand recently. Now they are constantly slamming the doors and have moved their arguments outside, entertaining the whole neighborhood with their sometimes extremely loud voices. I don't want to have the white noise on all night. After talking to a friend and my mother about this situation, I came to the conclusion that it would be better if I moved to another apartment.

Vacation:
I've been on vacation since Monday, which lasts a total of two weeks. Monday and Tuesday I played several hours of Cyberpunk 2077, which I rarely got to do recently. Let's see what I do the rest of the week. I'll probably continue working on Abyss Demon, which I paused a short time ago after doing too many all-nighters again. Next week I want to go away for a few days (within Germany). Maybe to Hamburg, Düsseldorf or Cologne. I'm having a hard time deciding. One reason why I'm putting off booking. Hopefully I'll get my butt in gear in the next few days...

Steam Deck and Cyberpunk 2077:
Because of the planned trip, I have postponed the purchase of the Steam Deck anew. The desire to own it is still there, but not the urgency. For the time being, I'm continuing to play Cyberpunk 2077 on the PC with settings that consume less power (so I've switched off ray tracing and set the graphics settings to medium). I also tried a lower resolution, but the upscaling by the AI caused an annoying graphics bug.

[Avrie]

Sucks that you feel the need to move, but wise to make the call and get on with it. I hope they allow you to at least enjoy your vacation. Personally the old cat would get a very large high powered water gun and spray them with cold water when they're outside yammering. It works on cats

(It's also more satisfying than letting them force you to move... perhaps both)

[Selene310187]

On Monday, I'm going to the customer center of the housing company in my district to get in touch about looking for a new apartment. I went to the main office last week. They told me that everything can now only be done online using a form - no consulting, nothing. I felt really left out in the cold. Hopefully I'll at least get some consulting at the branch office.

[Avrie]

Best of luck with that. Hopefully something is available that works for you.

[Selene310187]

The advisor at the customer center referred me to the janitor. He inspected my apartment and told me that I needed to do some painting work, for example on the baseboards. If these are ok, I'll get various suggestions for a new apartment. Nevertheless, I will contact the caseworker to see if I really need to do this painting work. The advisor at the customer center didn't say anything about this. She told me that I should contact the caseworker after I have made the appointment with the janitor. Or she forgot to mention the painting work part.

Yesterday, I actually managed to take a trip. I went to Bremerhaven and visited the zoo there (Zoo am Meer). Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time for a harbor tour as I didn't arrive until midday. I'll do the harbor tour next time.