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Jan. 3rd, 2021 10:28 pmThe TV is up, and it was fairly painless, although it did take a whole day as I suspected it would. I have more cables than ever back there now. The big screen is beautiful, the colours look better (possibly the placebo effect), and the sound is better (this one's just objectively true). BUT. It's darker than the previous TV. To the point that it's genuinely hard to see at night in Valhalla or in dark/underground places. I hoped there was a setting on the TV I could change, but the brightness is automatically maxed, so. Dad and I think it's possibly because it's a QLED TV with advanced colour/HDR settings, so when they display black, they make it black. It doesn't make things unplayable, but it does make some sections harder. The price of progress I guess. But a bit of a shame that for £400 we didn't just get positive changes.
I'm busy putting off Valhalla at the moment though, because I'm at the end and characters are claiming doom is coming, so I'm a little reluctant to finish it. I just got through a really nice part and am sure they're going to destroy all my happiness now. So I'm trying to complete all the side activities before finishing the game, except that some of the side activities are just glitched and can't be completed. I spent a long time sailing around Norway looking for Big Mackerel, before going online and finding out a few other people also find that they're Just Not There. Which is extremely frustrating. And not particuarly motivating.
We had snow last week, in the middle of the night, which was mostly melted by the time I got up (mid-afternoon). Then yesterday I got up and everything was white again. I assumed it had fallen overnight again, but no, my parents said it started falling at quarter to midday and looked like that by ten to midday. After they'd already made plans to meet my ON, and sort of needed to go food shopping. Eventually we saw a news story on the BBC, posted at 1pm, about how there was a possiblity of snow until 6pm. Thanks, weather people.
We did have a nice little jaunt up the field with the dog though. We couldn't let him off the lead because there were other dogs around, but we saw a snowman, and our dog was afraid of it. Who knew?
I'm busy putting off Valhalla at the moment though, because I'm at the end and characters are claiming doom is coming, so I'm a little reluctant to finish it. I just got through a really nice part and am sure they're going to destroy all my happiness now. So I'm trying to complete all the side activities before finishing the game, except that some of the side activities are just glitched and can't be completed. I spent a long time sailing around Norway looking for Big Mackerel, before going online and finding out a few other people also find that they're Just Not There. Which is extremely frustrating. And not particuarly motivating.
We had snow last week, in the middle of the night, which was mostly melted by the time I got up (mid-afternoon). Then yesterday I got up and everything was white again. I assumed it had fallen overnight again, but no, my parents said it started falling at quarter to midday and looked like that by ten to midday. After they'd already made plans to meet my ON, and sort of needed to go food shopping. Eventually we saw a news story on the BBC, posted at 1pm, about how there was a possiblity of snow until 6pm. Thanks, weather people.
We did have a nice little jaunt up the field with the dog though. We couldn't let him off the lead because there were other dogs around, but we saw a snowman, and our dog was afraid of it. Who knew?
