Lol was pretty much my first thought.

Most ‘gaming’ chairs are trash material covering shipping foam - garbage.

There are exceptions though. A couple years ago I bought the least gaming looking full leather seat from noble, same foam as good car seats, leather very good, and got it on sale for a silly price. 2 years later it still looks the same as day 1 and the foam hasn’t started to deform yet, I work in it all day.

All my back pain from previous shit chairs was gone in a week too. After that I’d have been happy to pay double.

As in most markets, there are always diamonds in the rough, the hardest part is just identifying them.

Same for flux when doing smd work. If you need to flood an area, the cheap shit will just cost you time and cleaning

Yeah, bad post.

This is the current temp in south UK, been 14-15c last 2 days. Usually would be less than 0c now, often around -5 or lower in the past.

First Christmas I’ve seen people going from car to shop/garage in t shirts

Being in your 30s really means getting to grow up though the golden era of gaming. Real life gets in the way now so I just have the games I liked, maybe buy one or 3 (non AAA) titles a year, and that’s good for me. I’m still young enough to be confident I’m not being an old fart when I say, there really is barely anything worth your time or money in the industry anymore. There are of course exceptions, but man, its rough.

I hope it all fails and has to start again before ‘valve, and EA company’ becomes a possible timeline

Haven’t used airbnb in years, hotels are so much better and usually cheaper