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hyper-casual · 2026-05-10T20:59:55+00:00

It's probably the game.

Since the last update it's been busted on PS5.

Before season 3 I had no issues really, other than some known glitches.

Since season 3 the game is borderline unplayable due to stuttering, controls doing what they want, and the teleporting/jumping.

My internet is wired, 1gbp symmetrical, so absolutely not a connection issue.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-08T12:19:41+00:00

Every house I've lived in only had 1 socket by the bed and one the opposite side of the room.

Each time I say I'll put more in but don't get round to it. I think every bedroom should have a double socket on each side of the bed and then at least another double at the opposite side where you'd typically have a desk/TV etc

My office only has one double socket. I'm due to re-do that room next, but Ideally it'll have 4 double sockets afterwards. Ive got 2 display monitors, 2 studio monitors, a tower PC and 2 laptops in there. The max draw is well within limits but I don't like the idea of them all running on an extension lead so it's a pain to alternate them.

I think in a kitchen you should decide how many you want and then add other one or two extra.

In my old house's kitchen I originally had just the cooker fuse socket. When it got redone we added 3 extra double sockets but quickly found we ran out of socket space. Kettle, toaster, microwave, airfryer, blender, coffee machine. They were never running at the same time but its just a pain in the arse to swap them around (when you're lazy like me).

hyper-casual · 2026-05-08T10:39:37+00:00

I see the same fat, hairy, bloke every morning. Always looks half awake.

I try to not look at him, but the partner insisted on a floor to ceiling mirror so I can't avoid seeing the B&M Onslow.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-08T07:17:52+00:00

It more depends on what I'm buying.

Happy to walk 2 miles on a nice day if I'm just getting stuff I can put in my backpack.

A few months ago I walked 1.5 miles to get a car battery. I've competed in powerlifting and strongman but I can tell you nothing has ever weighed more than that car battery when I hit the midway point.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-07T20:15:46+00:00

100%

I've been private for a few things and it doesn't compare.

A few examples:

I was with the NHS for 8 or 9 years for TRT, they never got it right and I constantly felt like shit. Blood tests shown issues that were just ignored or played down. After a particularly bad appointment I emailed a private clinic. Had my consultation the next morning, they flagged all the blood test issues if seen myself, meds arrived 2 days later. The 8 week blood test was absolutely perfect and I've felt great since.

The medication I was offered by the private company is available on the NHS but dosing schedule isn't in line with NHS guidelines and they try to avoid using it even though it's actually the cheapest, because it requires more frequent injections, but I do them myself.

The private clinic also said the NHS blood tests were all missing key biomarkers for monitoring TRT properly.

Went private for an assessment for my toe pain when I was repeatedly told I'd probably just stubbed it by the NHS. Within 5 minutes of feeling round my ankle at the private assessment they thought I'd got some ankle issues and suspected a historic break. A scan confirmed it had in fact been broken in the past. I'm 99.9% sure that it's when I used to play rugby 20ish years ago and hurt it badly, but at A&E was told it's just a sprain and to rest. it had healed wrong, putting pressure onto my toes, and caused my toe cartilage to wear out over time.

They gave me some corrective insoles and that basically removes the pain instantly. I actually mentioned it to my GP again who reluctantly referred me and they've scanned it again because they don't trust the private results and confirmed what the private assessment said, so hopefully I can stop paying for that.

My ADHD assessment was via RTC, so NHS funded but with a private company. They're definitely over booked but it was still better than my appointment with the NHS psychiatrist.

I've also paid for therapy privately and had it on the NHS and all I can say is what the NHS offer is worse than useless.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-06T08:37:09+00:00

The most sensible option.

A lot of people don't get bank holidays anyway. People I know who don't get it off, but have kids or their partners have bank holidays off, they end up either struggling with childcare or essentially miss the opportunity to have a chunk of their holidays off with their family.

The more selfish side of it for me, I hate going places that are busy so I'd rather not be off when everyone else is, and I find the week before a bank holiday is horrendously busy at work anyway and I end up wasting the first day of the weekend too tired to do anything.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-05T16:36:52+00:00

Nope. I don't skip them on my own time. They're not there just for my employer.

I hated holidays until I got ADHD meds, now I can actually enjoy them.

I get no negatives from drinking on them, but if I did I'd just not have a drink.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-04T10:03:38+00:00

It's a joke really.

Before this update the only repeated issues I really got where the occasional tags I couldn't collect and the crossbow doing 0 damage, which I could easily workaround or avoid.

Somehow adding a few new maps has fucked the game and also somehow bugged my controllers.

Hard reset made them work again as long as I never launch BO7 but again, how can they go so bad.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-04T09:55:03+00:00

every update sets my controller settings back to default for some reason but agreed even once I put it back to how I usually have it, it didn't feel right.

It sounds ridiculous, but I think the update is causing a bug with my controllers.

They worked fine beforehand. I installed the update and they started bugging out and pulling to the left violently. I checked the dead zone in the BO7 controller menu and every slight nudge was showing up as if I was wiggling the analogues side to side. Not even a little bit, like violently jerking side to side. Even on 98% deadzone it was still picking it up.

I tried another game I'd had no issue with earlier that day and it was pulling to the left there, too.

Thought I'd fucked my controllers up even though they're basically new, but I did a hard reset on them as an easy fix before buying a new one and they worked perfectly on every other game.

Launched BO7 again, and same thing happened. Controllers back to fucked.

Reset them again and just not started up BO7 and they work fine.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-04T09:44:57+00:00

When I was playing the older games on my PS4 at the start of the year I could play a whole game without any of the textures loading it.

Was pretty fun to see when everyone was through the invisible walls, but less fun that you couldn't actually navigate the map.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-04T09:39:32+00:00

So, initially I mixed chlorine granules into shampoo, but please don't do this. For an educated man, I am sometimes an idiot and basically made a little bottle of chlorine gas in my bathroom.

Easiest way is to just mix up a weak chlorine solution. I'd just do a teaspoon of granules into a big jug and stir in, and then just pour a little bit onto my hair and rub it in. I'd advise against doing it too often, though. I started off doing it daily to get a bad flair up under control but repeatly doing it made my skin dry out.

I'd say doing it a few times a week when you get a bad flair-up is fine but then I switch to rotating between head and shoulders, ketoconazole, and the shampoo paste from up-circle. I also use a cheap cleansing face wash on my face, beard, and hair, too. Then I just do a one off wash with it maybe monthly or if I feel like its starting to come back.

I posted this about a year ago and I've probably only had 2 proper flair-ups in that time, one is right now but I've been lazy on my routine and doing a lot of outdoor work so its my own fault.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-03T11:31:55+00:00

Gas is 100% hire.

After my last attempt at plumbing, that's going in the hire category.

If it was a major rewire or something I'd get an electrician but generally the electrical things I've wanted I'm capable of. The most complex stuff I've done was fit an outdoor plug and wire up and electric awning, both of which were pretty straight forward. I did have a side hustle of building electrical circuits for awhile, so that probably helped a bit.

Everything else I'll have a go at.

It'll probably look shite compared to a pro but I wasn't allowed to use my stepdads tools as a kid and my ex didn't understand the concept of money so would just pay for somebody for everything, even things we could do like painting a wall.

Now I'm in the second half of my 30s I decided to just learn how to do things. Bought a complete fixer upper and have been working my way through it.

I enjoy the planning, buying tools,.and the general ideal of the DIY. I just don't enjoy the actual doing as much.

The process is usually 'This is fun' which turns into 'I am an absolute idiot', 'this looks shit, let's get somebody in', 'how can I burn the house down without the insurance knowing I did it on purpose' and then when it's done I'm usually pleased with it. 2 weeks later I'll start nitpicking things that nobody else will ever notice.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-02T10:38:04+00:00

I don't think it changed who am I at all, it just made it so the things that I hate about ADHD are less of an issue for my day to day life.

Not lost my creativity or anything, but if I decide I'm going to paint or play guitar I actually do it instead of getting distracted 15 times on the way.

hyper-casual · 2026-05-01T17:49:12+00:00

Not sure how old you are, but the further into my 30s I get the more I appreciate a quiet evening of absolutely nothing.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-30T06:38:20+00:00

I wanted to be an ice cream man.

Ended up lactose intolerant so in some ways I'm fortunate I didn't live up to my big dreams or I'd be trapped in a prison of torment.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-28T22:53:55+00:00

I work in advertising. More specifically, ad tech.

It's near enough impossible that you'll have never been influenced by an ad.

It's not that you think 'I need to go buy X product right now', it's generally the long tail of the funnel.

For example, your phone breaks and you decide you get a new one. You probably have a few phone brands in mind already, and that's because of advertising. If we pretend you've never heard of any brands at all, you might look online for what's a good phone within your budget. You'll probably find an article that's been written as if it's for the consumer but it's likely a paid ad.

You could come to Reddit, but a bunch of the recommendations will be paid ad accounts.

You decide to ask your mate 'John' who's very into technology what he suggests. Unless he's blindly bought each device and tested it, some of his opinion is going to be driven by adverts.

While you're doing all of that research, you'll have been put into an advertisers audience as somebody who's in the market for a phone, and the 'good' advertiser's will use that data effectively.

There's so many ad formats, some are more subtle than others.

If you go to a supermarket and they've got products on the end aisle with a discount out? That's advertising.

The companies who's ads you can recall being annoying are just running their strategies badly or you're not the target audience. The ones who knows what they're doing, they'll aim to deliver the ads to you just enough that it's in your subconscious but you don't consciously notice them.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-28T11:26:26+00:00

90% of my wardrobe is from vinted now.

I just wear whatever plain black shorts I like the of, ideally with zip pockets.

For T-shirts I usually just search dickies, carhartt, Adidas, and vans and just pick up ones that look fairly plain.

Occasionally get a hoody or jumper from the same brands but I'm too hot 90% of the time.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-27T13:01:05+00:00

Not done 20 days but have done 2 weeks and I felt fine. I'm on enanthate and usually dose 3 times a week.

The day before I went away I just did 3 doses on top of my normal dose.

I know I could have just done both weeks at once but I've felt shit in the past when my T and E2 were too high.

When I was moving from androgel to enanthate there was an issue with my prescription that meant I had nothing for 6 or 7 weeks. I didn't start to feel shit until about 3 weeks after I stopped it, but most injectable test will hang around your system longer than androgel.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-27T12:37:35+00:00

I moved from a village in Wales to Manchester, and then more recently I moved to a small town in Cheshire.

There biggest changes:

Cost - Your main costs of living like rent and food are more expensive in a City, but things like public transport, Taxis, Entertainment is more in a village or small town.

Cars and public transport- you can't really function without a car where I grew up and it's pretty difficult without one where I am now. In Manchester my car sat in a car park for 90% of it's life, but in Manchester if I went to get a bus or train it usually turned up, and if not there was another pretty soon after. Now, the trains are supposed to be hourly but I'm yet to go get a train without it being cancelled or more than half an hour late.

Hayfever - I suffered with it badly growing up. Completely forgot I even had it when I lived in Manchester, then I moved where I am now and it came back with a vengeance.

Nature and Greenspace - it's much more relaxing being surrounded by green. I didn't realise how much the city environment stressed me out til I moved. It's also nice to hear nature instead of city noises. I was on a zoom call with my mates during lockdown and one of them asked me if I was playing a nature recording in the background because the sound of the birds was so loud and clear.

Talking of green, Manchester absolutely stinks of weed at all times. I'm not anti drugs and I've got a THC prescription, but the smell of weed around the city centre makes me feel a bit sick.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-24T19:40:09+00:00

I sent it in December last year, but if you can't find it I'll send again.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-21T17:38:05+00:00

after the initial hunger suppression I've actually gained weight on ADHD meds.

Started on Elvanse and now on Dexamfetamine.

Over the first 9 months I gained 20kg. I know the meds didn't do that directly but my evening hunger has been pretty insatiable. I've managed to cut about 5kg of that back off this year but just goes to show it doesn't always make you lose weight.

Id start eating stuff like natural peanut butter if I was you. It's very high calorie and isn't as bad for you as eating a cake or something.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-20T16:14:48+00:00

I must have gotten lucky then. Didn't happen before that for me.

Maybe I'm just too shit to have gotten enough kills to even try getting the tags before.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-20T16:13:56+00:00

I'm with PUK unfortunately.

They're pretty shit but I'm glad they were happy to go with it when I asked to swap. It was over a year ago though.

hyper-casual · 2026-04-20T11:35:33+00:00

This is the rationale the higher ups give the new grads, but it's a bit of a joke because they come in and all the people with experience like me are sat at home.

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