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[MonkeyHead]

Overhearing domestic violence of a number of forms in a house near to me again... 

[kaijyuu]

Uh, call the police? Assuming it's actually domestic abuse and not just a shouting match.

[GlyphGryph]

They still have the class available, but it's only available in spring and not at all this Spring. Also, I'm not sure that I'm doing well enough to get an exemption. I'll talk to a counselor about doing something else next fall or over the summer, maybe.

Since they dropped the class (not you) and its required, talk to them at least. They might let you substitute another in its place. Do it quickly, obviously.

[Vector]

Don't think I can permit myself to watch any more Metal Gear LPing stuff.  I watched the LP for MGS1, but for the other games I really think I just want to enjoy fooling around on my own.  Good thing I didn't get far into the LP for 3, and didn't understand most of 4 as I watched it.

*sigh*

Maybe someday I'll have a PS3.  For now, though, I've got to find some sort of other hobby.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm just sorta really peeved, but the replacement mouse I ordered for my broken one still hasn't arrived! I ordered it last Saturday, Newegg's delivery usually comes surprisingly fast, but this is startlingly slow and irritating. Especially since I've been checking the tracking info, and it's been sitting in my home town for two entire days now with no progress. What the hell?!

Worse, my original mouse that broke, a V7 mini USB mouse, was going to be a tad expensive to replace since it's a quality mouse, but I like it so much! However, I noticed that it was still under warrantee, and so I just bought a crappy mouse to replace it while I rangled with Customer Service to get a new one. Turns out V7 Customer Service are amazingly gracious and respectful, and they're sending me a new one.

I swear, if the new V7 gets to my house before the crap mouse that was bought JUST to replace the V7 temporarily, I'm gonna rage. This is ridiculous.

[Nadaka]

Don't think I can permit myself to watch any more Metal Gear LPing stuff.  I watched the LP for MGS1, but for the other games I really think I just want to enjoy fooling around on my own.  Good thing I didn't get far into the LP for 3, and didn't understand most of 4 as I watched it.

*sigh*

Maybe someday I'll have a PS3.  For now, though, I've got to find some sort of other hobby.

I know your frugality puts even my own to shame, but you might be able to get a working used PS3 off craigslist for under $200.

[Reudh]

I got a 160GB PS3 as new for $290AUD a month ago. You could probably get one too.

[Pnx]

If it were convenient I'd let you borrow mine ours for a while... Believe it or not I've never actually played anything on it. I probably should, there's plenty of games out there that I could get for it, but I don't have any disposable income personally, and I don't want to have my parents pay for an endless list of games (I know, I know, get a job).

[MaximumZero]

Get a jo...

Actually, that's pretty difficult in this market. If you decide to go that route, good luck.

[Vector]

I have a lot of tutoring money from high school that I could blow (one year I managed to pull down something like $60+ a week, which is pretty good for a high school student with a cushy 5-hour-per-week-on-average "job"), but I have neither a TV nor any way to hide from my mother that I actually do really like video games.

This is probably going to have to be a post-PhD thing, unfortunately.  Right now, I have to be a lot more responsible than I'd be if I had a PS3 and copies of MGS games + Bayonetta + a whole bunch of other stuff I've been wanting to try out for years.

[MaximumZero]

It's a big deal that you like video games? That...sucks beyond measure. Wow. You could always just say that you're using them for hand eye coordination like surgeons do, or that they provide mental stimulation in an entirely safe environment...

[Willfor]

Her mother will reply that surgeons may need it, but the demand for physicists to have great hand eye coordination is somewhat lacking in the world.

[MaximumZero]

Hey, if Vector mis-writes a number that people are relying on, MILLIONS could die, depending on the application! No pressure, Vector.

[Nadaka]

That does suck. I do understand though. After I got my first degree in 2000 and had to move back home because every Y2K programmer just got laid off, I ended up having to hide almost every book I owned. I had a ton of D&D books, and books on a dozen or two religions that would most likely have ended up burned if I was caught with them.

[Vector]

My mom really wasn't expecting me to turn into this much of a tomboy, much less one who spends so much time in places she doesn't consider "the real world."  As for hand-eye coordination, I'd probably be told to play violin or practice kendo (or play badminton, or play catch, or...) because at least those are things that can involve other people.  And as for mental stimulation, if I need more mental stimulation then there's always textbooks.  Or making something on my own!  Absorbing other people's content without producing isn't a real life!

(blah blah blah)

It's one thing to buy $15 of computer games or so once every 10 years and spend two weeks, once per semester, playing vidjagames during my downtime to give my brain something lightly exerting to do while it rewires itself post-semester.  It's another thing entirely to own a system.

That does suck. I do understand though. After I got my first degree in 2000 and had to move back home because every Y2K programmer just got laid off, I ended up having to hide almost every book I owned. I had a ton of D&D books, and books on a dozen or two religions that would most likely have ended up burned if I was caught with them.

Yeah, thanks.  I'm sure I'll be able to buy some of this stuff soon enough, though.  I've been waiting almost 15 years.  Another few isn't going to kill me.