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[girlofprey]

Well, I was going to watch scary movies all tonight, but instead I'm waiting for a press conference to start. Thanks Boris.

If we do have a full lockdown, including non-essential retail, for a month, that will mean I might not be able to go pick up my PS5 when it comes out on 19th November. And I won't really be able to buy another, because I already paid it off in full. The least terrible outcome of this is that I'll have to wait until December - or whenever we come out of lockdown - to pick it up. But I actually called my local games shop this week to ask about it, hypothetically, and I happen to know that the worst case scenario is they go out of business entirely, because they have bought a bunch of PS5s they can't pass on to customers. And if that happens because of government mishandling of this pandemic and it's impacts on local businesses, I will be quite angry.

Happy Halloween though, everyone.

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[breyzyyin]

Orz, that stinks about the lockdown and PS5. If you do go on lockdown, I hope that it will help in regards to the pandemic (as we have definitely not gotten it under control here, but there was never any nationwide-lockdown and very poor leadership, orz). ♥

Happy Halloween if you're able to celebrate it in the end.

[girlofprey]

Yes, and the problem is that - although it's a little problem in the grand scheme of things - I could wait for it, but I spoke to my games shop this week about this hypothetical situation, and they said to me "we're definitely getting PS5s, and if we can't get them out to people we're sunk". And I've already paid the full amount for mine as a deposit, so if we can't get them, and they do go bankrupt, I don't really know...where that leaves me at all. Looking for another PS5 with another £450 possibly. In a national lockdown.

I did have a good Halloween in the end, thank you.