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Mar. 11th, 2016 02:30 pmI've been playing a lot of Dance Dance Revolution since sitting up my PS2 here at Danae''s place. Watching me, she decided she'd like to do some dance games herself, but wanted one that has you doing things that actually have some resemblance to real dance. DDR offends her sensibilities as a trained dancer. *grins*
So she ordered an XBox One and a Kinect. It arrived today, and I realized that I am far out of the loop on current AV hardware. It hadn't even occurred to me that there would be no option other than HDMI for video. I expected component video or some other option. Not so much. Our TV, a 32" flat panel from a thrift store, has an HDMI port, but it doesn't work. I'm going to have to price some active signal converters to do the digital/analog conversion I guess. At least there's an SP/DIF audio jack so I don't have to manage extracting audio out of HDMI, which probably requires *another* kind of adapter.
I bought a copy of Chulip for the PS2 at a used game store, which makes me happy.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cranberrynomiko introduced me to it years ago and I always wanted to play more. And, because I am one who has strong connections between things and concepts and people, it makes me think of her, which makes me happy.
I hope I feel up to being more social and interactive soon. I've been really enjoying all my inward focused work on the condo and things, but thinking about outside focused work seems to sap all my mental energy. We were talking about my photography, and Danae said that if I wanted to work at marketing myself and trying to do a gallery show somewhere rather than looking for a job, she'd support me in that endeavor. The idea is really exciting, but it would introduce so many kinds of uncertainty. There are so many aspects to something like that and I don't know how to do *any* of them. I feel totally clueless about it. If I was in better headspace, maybe I could break the learning process down into digestible portions, but I think it's too much right now. Originally, I was planning to look for a job right away, but I haven't done that either; I've just dived into all the other things I've been doing. And the next thing I need to concentrate on is probably finding mental health care and, hopefully, getting set up with Medicaid to renew my prescription, which I will be out of in most of a month.
So she ordered an XBox One and a Kinect. It arrived today, and I realized that I am far out of the loop on current AV hardware. It hadn't even occurred to me that there would be no option other than HDMI for video. I expected component video or some other option. Not so much. Our TV, a 32" flat panel from a thrift store, has an HDMI port, but it doesn't work. I'm going to have to price some active signal converters to do the digital/analog conversion I guess. At least there's an SP/DIF audio jack so I don't have to manage extracting audio out of HDMI, which probably requires *another* kind of adapter.
I bought a copy of Chulip for the PS2 at a used game store, which makes me happy.
cranberrynomiko introduced me to it years ago and I always wanted to play more. And, because I am one who has strong connections between things and concepts and people, it makes me think of her, which makes me happy.I hope I feel up to being more social and interactive soon. I've been really enjoying all my inward focused work on the condo and things, but thinking about outside focused work seems to sap all my mental energy. We were talking about my photography, and Danae said that if I wanted to work at marketing myself and trying to do a gallery show somewhere rather than looking for a job, she'd support me in that endeavor. The idea is really exciting, but it would introduce so many kinds of uncertainty. There are so many aspects to something like that and I don't know how to do *any* of them. I feel totally clueless about it. If I was in better headspace, maybe I could break the learning process down into digestible portions, but I think it's too much right now. Originally, I was planning to look for a job right away, but I haven't done that either; I've just dived into all the other things I've been doing. And the next thing I need to concentrate on is probably finding mental health care and, hopefully, getting set up with Medicaid to renew my prescription, which I will be out of in most of a month.
