#anyway I will solve my issue by constantly quitting the game I guess(and thus it will save)but that's stupid that I have to resort to that

[silver-horse]

as much as I am enjoying Kingdom Come Deliverance, I am losing my patience with it a lil bit because of the save system. The game doesn't allow me to save whenever i want to like most RPGs, I need to gather these "saving schnapps" and there aren't many/enough so i don't want to waste them. But this means whenever I get attacked on the road and die, I lose entire hours of progress. This is bullshit tbh. Since I started this game, most quests I had to do 2-3 times... just redoing every dialogue etc. If this continues , completing this game will take a million hours. Maybe I will have to regularly quit the game and restart, just because at least it saves when we quit the game.

[fluffandfiteme-archived]

#JustKeepWriting 1/5/17

At last, I have my laptop up and running for my purposes. Those purposes are, of course, writing. Its a decent little Macbook, I would guess late model 2009. I picked it up refurbished with I want to say four gigabytes of ram and 250 gigabytes of hard drive. More then enough for me, as my iMac upstairs is what contributes to my itunes collection and serious storage, not to speak of assorted portable hard drives, or the 128 gigabyte flash drive I wear around my neck.

As a rule, I prefer mac computers and operating systems-to an extent. I find them easier to use then windows, and because I’m not a big computer gamer, they don’t inconvenience me. But I’ve also been working with them since I was eighteen, seven years ago, when my mother indulged her daughter who had been drooling over them since setting one up at work.

One: newer does not equal better. Newer models might have fancier tech, but I find Lion on to be a bit of a bloated operating system. My imac in my loft has El Captain, mostly because of my brief time dabbling with an iPhone. For assorted reasons, it is good that I have one computer with a more recent operating system. But this little laptop came with the most recent-Sierra. Now, I don’t know if its just because this is a MacBook7, but I found Sierra gunked up the works, demanded too much processing, and as a rule, didn’t help much. So I did some independent investing-for instance, I ordered a disc of Snow Leopard, and a disc of iWork ’09. Now it purrs like a kitten. For a girl who mostly uses it to write, email, new browse, and use tumblr-its all I could ever want and more.

And yet I bought it off NewEgg. There’s a variety of reasons, the first of which was cost: with a year protection plan, it cost me maybe 300, plus another 50 for the software changes. To get a bottom of the line refurbished directly from Apple would be at least 600, and I don’t think they guarantee models. Not to mention from the other side I have found that the apple protection plan was a load of hooey. The number one thing I want is a plan that will repair hardware issues or replace damaged components. While I went through around a dozen chords (priced officially at 80, thus convincing me at the time worth the protection plan until years later I picked one up off Amazon for 20), apparently where Apple and I didn’t see eye to eye was screen replacement. I mean granted, now my little Macbook has a screen protector. But the fact is that was after a long difficult process of getting them to replace a screen crack, because one of their sales people had coaxed me into buying the plan saying screen damages were covered. See? Meanwhile I know without a shadow of a doubt if something like that came up, my new egg protection would kick in-for a fraction of the price.

That said, there’s one other major issue. Apple has decided to phase out disc optical drives, much in the way they’ve more recently dropped the headphone jack on the iPhone 7. Now, don’t get me wrong. When I dabbled with an iPhone (a 5c upstairs demoted to ipod) I can tell you right now I loved how it worked. But it was also ridiculously small compared to my former LG Stylo, which I have since reactivated. Oh yeah, and the battery could have better been served by a potato. I don’t say this lightly; I have an iPad Mini 1 that I love to pieces. I want to get the Gamevice when I have money to stash, but in the meantime, its a beautiful piece of technology that serves me to write when my laptop isn’t available, and houses quite a few games at present, including multiple Final Fantasy titles and Minecraft PE. The battery lasts easily three times as long as that piece of junk in the otherwise very nice iphone. But you know what I never thought while using my iPod phone, bought almost exclusively for easier syncing of my music and apps? Gee, I wish this headphone jack wasn’t here. Yes, I have a bluetooth head set, but I don’t always remember to charge it. That’s when my bedazzled Sony foldable headphones go in. They’re the ones that usually ride in my bag of holding. Also, a lot of adaptors for your car stereo require an auxiliary wire to auxiliary-both male. Inventions like the Selfie Stick depend on it, unless you invest way more then its worth. So basically the iPhone 7 move answered a crisis no one wanted solved: How do I spend more money? No. If my LG Stylo has a way longer lasting battery, then so can you  Apple. Also maybe make them less fragile.

Anyway, the point is this: I wouldn’t have been able to redo this cute little laptop I’m typing on now without the optical drive. I wouldn’t have been able to get Snow Leopard on it, and I certainly wouldn’t have been able to get iWorks ’09 on it to pair with Snow Leopard. The optical drive has issues, I was told at the store, and the most likely to bring a mac back in. Funny-almost all of my issues were related to my hard drive or power chord. In the dozens of apple care appointments, I think I had one optical drive issue, and that was because I’d accidentally jammed in a second disc in.

See, despite the rise of the USB port and digital downloads, I still consider disc drives essential. For instance in my briefly owned Microsoft Surface (a long complicated story ending it returning it and using that money for my Macbook), it only had one usb port. What if I want to use a usb mouse and a usb drive? Its not like when you have a laptop without an optical drive, the length of what it would have been is replaced with usb drives.

Digital downloads? I don’t have a dependable signal of any notable speed. if I leave my PS3 on overnight, tethered to my phone, I might get a smaller game downloaded. I roam the internet on an unlimited moderate speed tether, or at the library. Last night my phone network crashed after we got home. I realized every game on my phone at the time required internet to run. Now a micro SD card is in the mail on the way to me, which reminds me I need to return an item to amazon. The point is this: don’t fix what ain’t broke, especially when you already have stuff to fix, like your wimpy battery and constantly fraying power chords. Though, in apples defense, at least the iPhone 7 didn’t explode.