Don’t hate the player

Months of self-denied game play has served nothing more than creating a mild ting of animosity towards my haters. Well, the term haters is a bit harsh as they are very close individuals to me.

The promise of Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 DLC 2025 has lured me back to the game and this time the temptation is to return to Brooklyn itself.

Back to the beginning.

PS5 has been dusted off, updated, base game installed and ready for DLC – May 27th 2025.

Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 wonder if my Eagle Bearer is still in my stash.

The maze of Digital hygiene

Digital: An abstract mess of details. What is my data, company data, public data, who owns it, who can share it, can I unplug from it?

Most folk willingly sign up for privacy notices just to use a service without really understanding the risk or their obligations or even reading the 20+ pages of nonsense.

Regulations wrap us up in legal jargon that is often difficult to understand and is contantly changing.

I’m so sick of being an “expert”.

How do I get out of this one?

Broken impact

Time to prepare for the Dark Winter. Right now, I seem to break easily well actually my right knee is the weak point. According to Ai, it’s likely that I’ve caused a Meniscus Tear: The meniscus is a piece of cartilage that provides a cushion between your femur (thighbone) and tibia (shinbone). Hurts like a son of a bitch and I’m limping everywhere. It could also be a common grade 1 sprain of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) one of the four major ligaments in the knee that connects the femur (thighbone) to the tibia (shinbone). *Ai certainly makes one sound like an expert in anything.

Past few days I’ve been applying Conservative Treatment: This is usually the first line of treatment for meniscus tears and includes rest, ice, compression, and elevation (RICE) to reduce pain and swelling. Physical therapy can also help strengthen the surrounding muscles and improve the range of motion.

I should be up and running in a few days hopefully as I have my first trip to Edinburgh next week.

STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ Still Your Father

Warning!!! Shop, Stream and Send levels exceeded.

What was once an uncertain landscape is now as predictable as Perma Death mod.

Accepting this will lead to a better path of contentment. Like many, I sat at home streaming, sending and shopping from our favourite forest. 2022 will need to be different because I don’t have any more space in the house but mainly because material things don’t generate a decent level of dopamine. 

Path of the Nomad tactics are needed to regenerate my health and well-being over time, but seriously I’m now on the hunt for a new Path. In the meantime, I’ve attracted a gradual load of low-level pesky bot attacks but not too interesting to talk about here.

Maybe a spending cap is needed for 2020 toooooo

Dirty device

After navigating for the first time in months across the pond, I find personal data sprawled across multiple unknown official entities and a primary phone that is filthy with geolocators and suspicious tracking tech. I haven’t bothered with VPN for weeks.

So time for a brisk digital scrub down.

UK is now at COVID-19 Alert Level 4 and things do not appear to be getting better.

Last known incoming attack from 28°39’15.1″N 77°14’14.3″E – pretty standard, no real threat.

Bunker time as the world fights this new variant – Far Cry® 6