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    #62
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Also Kildare Lockdown 2020 has produced bambino next Feb, might as well do something productive :)


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    #63
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,867 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    eddhorse wrote: »
    Also Kildare Lockdown 2020 has produced bambino next Feb, might as well do something productive :)

    I think my socks are pregnant.
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    #64
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Congratulations to you all! May i suggest some light reading.

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056282040/1

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #65
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    Congratulations to you all! May i suggest some light reading.

    https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056282040/1


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dGh7p1tZmk


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    #66
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I'll have to arrange creche facilities for the next Beers in 2021...


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    #67
    bmorrissey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭bmorrissey


    New enough to this forum and only seen this thread recently. Glad everyone seemed to have gotten on relatively well during the last 6 months give or take. Everyone seems to be nice on this forum so I wish the best for all.

    Also congrats to all who are expecting kids soon :)


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    #68
    The_B_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 7,859 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Things have changed for me really, I used to que up for tickets for gigs and midnight launches of games....this Sunday I'll be at aldi at 7 in the morning to get a high chair, it's a very good high chair mind you. Normally it's €200 but aldi have it for €70 I think. Want any more info just PM me :P


    Oh yeah that too........say goodbye to having money once you have kids too

    IKEA have a really good highchair. Pregnant women get in priority so no queuing. I'd go IKEA over Aldi tbh but I haven't seen the aldi chair. Mine is due end of Sept and we'll be reusing the IKEA chair from the first one.

    Ps arcades, Taito, Namco...


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    #69
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    Steve X2 wrote: »

    Apart from that, new babi on the way for December/January.

    Congratulations Steve, you do like to have two of everything.


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    #70
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,963 ✭✭✭Doge


    Things are going great for me apart from having a 26cm long genetic tumor removed from my neck last month that was wrapped around 2 arteries supplying the brain.
    The surgery lasted 8 hours but went really well and although tests on the mass are ongoing im fairly sure its benign.
    Just really glad to have that out of the way and managed to get in and out of hospital without catching Covid.
    Will take a few months for my vocal chords to get back to normal so I'll be sounding like modern batman for a while. :Pac:
    Steve X2 wrote: »
    All good here, working from home since March so not sure what the real world is like anymore :)
    Not playing a lot of retro games at the moment due to Flight Sim 2020 taking up a lot of time(100+ hours in the air over the last 2 weeks).

    Apart from that, new babi on the way for December/January.


    Congratulations on the new babi dude!


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    #71
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Wow, that can't have been easy at all and must have been some shock - I hope you're doing okay?

    Best of luck with the test results!


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    #72
    CosmicSmash
    Registered Users Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭CosmicSmash


    Serious surgery there Doge, glad to hear you're on the mend. Hopefully we'll see you at a beers when things get back to normal.


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    #73
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,963 ✭✭✭Doge


    It wasn't a fun experience for sure but I'm in good health now.

    Thanks guys!


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    #74
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    ****! Hope youre feeling better soon man!


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    #75
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Yeah Doge, hope this is the end of your woes, get well soon


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    #76
    eddhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    Get well soon Doge , that sounds like it went well. +1 for having Batman voice.


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    #77
    Inviere
    Registered Users Posts: 7,507 ✭✭✭Inviere


    Speedy recovery Doge! :cool:

    Retro Computers/Consoles Repair/Restoration List



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    #78
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Hi everyone,

    I'm just checking in with you all, to see how you are all faring.

    I suppose the hopes that it would all over but the crying by Christmas didn't work out, and we are facing some tough weeks and months ahead.

    From my end I have been working away for the past fortnight in a Covid positive location and it has certainly been tough, living out of a hotel too, with only a Chromebook and a Kindle for company!


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    #79
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    My wife had her 20 week scan today and all is well.

    Saw someone all alone getting into the car beside me who'd had bad news and that was tough to see, we know how she feels. Then as I drive off I see terrified looking couples with brand new babies. All sorts happening.

    Thankfully no one I know has had Covid, let alone got sick from it. My Mum and Dad are high on the list for vaccination, so as long as they're okay, I can cope with everything else on pause, it could be a lot worse.


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    #80
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Colonel Panic wrote: »
    Thankfully no one I know has had Covid, let alone got sick from it. My Mum and Dad are high on the list for vaccination, so as long as they're okay, I can cope with everything else on pause, it could be a lot worse.

    We had a very bad day here, the other day, with two of what they call poor outcomes.
    It's hit all the staff here very badly, but they are being the professionals I know them to be and working very hard still.
    Lots of uncertainty about when the vaccines are to be started too, which is adding to the tension.


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    #81
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    God that sounds tough. Hope you're doing alright.


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    #82
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Hi everyone,

    I'm just checking in with you all, to see how you are all faring.

    I suppose the hopes that it would all over but the crying by Christmas didn't work out, and we are facing some tough weeks and months ahead.

    From my end I have been working away for the past fortnight in a Covid positive location and it has certainly been tough, living out of a hotel too, with only a Chromebook and a Kindle for company!

    Jaysus man, that's tough, take care of yourself!

    Any sign of you getting a vaccine at this stage?


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    #83
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Yes, I'm fine.
    The staff here that I am working with are great.
    The loss was terrible, but this isn't the place for such discussions, as you can understand.
    Certainly, they did everything right and were incredible through the whole thing.
    Vaccines, there is some word that the first doses are imminent, who is going to receive them I cannot say but, hopefully, they will focus upon the most vulnerable of the people here, and I will wait my turn like everyone else.
    Fingers crossed we are all closer to the end of this thing than the beginning.


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    #84
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,867 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Sounds tough Ciderman. I didn't know anyone close to me that had covid but it's starting to hit home since Christmas, when my parents ring they are telling me about more and more people I know that have gotten it.

    I knew from working in the field that Covid wasn't going to magically disappear like some kind of Orange bigot in the new year and we were far from through the worst but never expected to take off quite as much. Finding this lockdown tough, You try to stick to the rules and make sacrifices but you just end up back in lockdown. Totally isolating myself now where I live. I have to be in work and the house I rent is full of people and I can't avoid contact with them so all I can do is take as much precautions as I can and not chance visiting friends and family.

    I've been pretty good with catching up with friends but zoom is only so good at that. Miss socialising, especially the drama group I'm part of here. My first part in a leading role has been cancelled 3 times at this stage. Someday I'll get to play the Dane.

    Other than that I'm just trying to keep fit with running and walks at the weekend. Took back up trying to learn guitar and while I still can't play it I can see a lot of improvement. And discovering that triple A games are the least interesting part of my videogame hobby and ignoring them for indie and retro games has made me fall back in love with the hobby. That's basically how I keep myself sane but social interaction is lacking. At least I have a job and get a small amount of that in work.
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    #85
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Zoom socialising was a bit of a novelty at first, but it's definitely become an absolute pain in the face at this point alright. Just not the same.

    I've a friend who works in a pharma company and has to get covid tests once a week, so sometimes meet up with him for a bit of a socially distanced stroll along the canal with a couple of beers.

    Otherwise it's just the pair of us here in an apartment getting food shops delivered.

    I noticed how physically inactive I've become today when the automatic watch I wear every day actually stopped and had to be manually wound to get it going again.

    That hasn't happened once in 5 years of wearing it daily! Always stays constantly charged from all the walking and cycling I'd usually do.


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    #86
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I got my first vaccine today, hoping that the 5G signal will now give me superpowers...


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    #87
    Retr0gamer
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I got my first vaccine today, hoping that the 5G signal will now give me superpowers...

    I'd lick the vaccine out of Bill Gate's arse crack and down it with a packet of microchips if it gets me on Holiday in September.
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    #88
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I'd lick the vaccine out of Bill Gate's arse crack and down it with a packet of microchips if it gets me on Holiday in September.

    Exactly what I said to my vaccine "skeptic" pal the other day on the phone, she was shocked...

    If it gets me a holiday I am all for it...!

    Hope all you guys are staying safe and healthy...

    My mother had it back in March, it is not something you want, she ended up in Beaumont for nearly a week...


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    #89
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,541 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Indeed, I've seen some people suffer horribly, but recover and still suffer consequences much later on.
    It can't be overstressed how serious Covid is, and how inevitable worse the variants are going to be, each evolving and finding new purchase in the unprotected.


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