Young Fang and social security
Sep. 6th, 2018 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marchionessofmustacheSOOOO I guess just information sources for RSG3 are bad in general because I finally learned after trying myself that if you recruit Young Fang early (which is possible!) it's only temporary. You still can't permanently recruit him until near the end of the game, and there's no way to abandon the quest you recruit him temporarily for to run around the world without him :\
So I think I might pick up my old RSG3 game and bring it out of hiatus. Would be fun to do a few runs on the SFC version and then pick up the updated version on Steam when it rolls around, right? And it's going to be FOREVER until we get that, anyway.
In other news, my social security appeal finally got denied a second time. Apparently this is extremely common and like 99% of cases have to go to the hearing stage (which means two official denials first) before being approved. And, anecdotally, at least, I know this to be true because I've known people who were physically paralyzed or bed-ridden and got denied twice and had to go to a hearing.
And uh, one thing I wasn't prepared for: getting a hearing usually takes EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SIX MONTHS. So, uh, surprise! I'm going to be poor for a LOT longer. I thought it would be similar to the hearing I got re: food stamps when Medicaid deemed me 'medically frail;' that happened like right away and I was actually able to start eating food pretty soon after applying! I mean, it took a couple of months, but we're well over a year into this process and it seems like it could be two more?!
So, uh, yeah. Looks like I'm not going to be nabbing up Scarlet Grace's English version when it comes out, which I'm SUPER bummed about. I'll have enough for Mega Man 11, at least, though, but I'm at this point unsure if my computer will be able to handle it. Since it's already taken a long time to get to this stage, if my second appeal had been approved, I would have gotten over a year's worth of back-pay and suddenly had a bunch of money on hand. In addition to getting a LOT of things I need to live a semblance of a normal life, I was also going to try to upgrade (or rather, replace) my computer.
But it seems I'll be playing the same old early 00s games for a while longer.
Though in "good" news, you get backpay from the moment you first file for disability, which means that once the hearing is over (I'm... fairly confident at this point I'll be able to succeed, based on what my therapist, doctor, and attorney have been saying) I should get like THREE YEARS' backpay, and disabled people aren't allowed to save money, so I'll have to spend almost all of it in like one month? Which is ... stupid and frustrating for many reasons because I'd love to actually save money, but... it also means I can kind of binge spend.
I think some things I'd like to get right away include bedstuffs, a used car for short travel, some new clothes (I haven't gotten new clothes other than xmas gifts since like... middle school LOL), a noise-cancelling headset (for sensory sensitivity stuff), help pay for some things needed around the house with Dens since he's basically been supporting me like I'm his child for years now (and we need many things, like new gutters so the roof will stop getting destroyed, etc.) ...
But as for 'fun' things, I'll probably get a new compy and some compy accessories, a capture card... depending on how much I really have and feel comfortable spending, I might try to get Dens and I a Nintendo Switch as a birthday/xmas present, and get him Dragon Quest XI. It's his favorite series and he saw the trailer for XI and was so sad that we're not getting the 3DS version in the west, because that's the only platform he has available to play it. And I'd probably get Super Mario and Mario Kart for myself, and Smash, maybe, if it still seems worth picking up after the hype has already died down, since I'll mostly be playing with myself.
I also want to just... give my dad money...? lol since he's been supporting me through my entire adult life and even helped (and by helped I mean almost entirely, even if through loans) pay for my education that I never ended up profiting from. There's lots of stuff he could use that I'd like to help him acquire.
Uhhh so I guess for myself it's just a computer and maybe a Switch that is more for Dens lol. I guess I could buy up a bunch of little cheap things I've always wanted but couldn't get because even cheap things are expensive when you have $0. Like the Unlimited Saga manga or something. There's only two books! Oh, and I'd renew my WWE subscription. But that's like $9.
Oh yeah, I'd also start paying for a lot of my own things, like paying my own cell phone bill and things like that, instead of leeching off everyone else. Actually the main thing I'm looking forward to is that -- just being able to give basic financial support to myself, which will hopefully alleviate a lot of guilt and stress I have about being so dependent. Of course, it's unlikely I'll be able to be completely independent any time soon, but it still would be nice to feel less like such a burden.
So yeah that's my rant about that I guess.
Oh and I wrote another Iron Man thing: http://thaao.net/blog/?id=41
This month's flavor is misogyny.
So I think I might pick up my old RSG3 game and bring it out of hiatus. Would be fun to do a few runs on the SFC version and then pick up the updated version on Steam when it rolls around, right? And it's going to be FOREVER until we get that, anyway.
In other news, my social security appeal finally got denied a second time. Apparently this is extremely common and like 99% of cases have to go to the hearing stage (which means two official denials first) before being approved. And, anecdotally, at least, I know this to be true because I've known people who were physically paralyzed or bed-ridden and got denied twice and had to go to a hearing.
And uh, one thing I wasn't prepared for: getting a hearing usually takes EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-SIX MONTHS. So, uh, surprise! I'm going to be poor for a LOT longer. I thought it would be similar to the hearing I got re: food stamps when Medicaid deemed me 'medically frail;' that happened like right away and I was actually able to start eating food pretty soon after applying! I mean, it took a couple of months, but we're well over a year into this process and it seems like it could be two more?!
So, uh, yeah. Looks like I'm not going to be nabbing up Scarlet Grace's English version when it comes out, which I'm SUPER bummed about. I'll have enough for Mega Man 11, at least, though, but I'm at this point unsure if my computer will be able to handle it. Since it's already taken a long time to get to this stage, if my second appeal had been approved, I would have gotten over a year's worth of back-pay and suddenly had a bunch of money on hand. In addition to getting a LOT of things I need to live a semblance of a normal life, I was also going to try to upgrade (or rather, replace) my computer.
But it seems I'll be playing the same old early 00s games for a while longer.
Though in "good" news, you get backpay from the moment you first file for disability, which means that once the hearing is over (I'm... fairly confident at this point I'll be able to succeed, based on what my therapist, doctor, and attorney have been saying) I should get like THREE YEARS' backpay, and disabled people aren't allowed to save money, so I'll have to spend almost all of it in like one month? Which is ... stupid and frustrating for many reasons because I'd love to actually save money, but... it also means I can kind of binge spend.
I think some things I'd like to get right away include bedstuffs, a used car for short travel, some new clothes (I haven't gotten new clothes other than xmas gifts since like... middle school LOL), a noise-cancelling headset (for sensory sensitivity stuff), help pay for some things needed around the house with Dens since he's basically been supporting me like I'm his child for years now (and we need many things, like new gutters so the roof will stop getting destroyed, etc.) ...
But as for 'fun' things, I'll probably get a new compy and some compy accessories, a capture card... depending on how much I really have and feel comfortable spending, I might try to get Dens and I a Nintendo Switch as a birthday/xmas present, and get him Dragon Quest XI. It's his favorite series and he saw the trailer for XI and was so sad that we're not getting the 3DS version in the west, because that's the only platform he has available to play it. And I'd probably get Super Mario and Mario Kart for myself, and Smash, maybe, if it still seems worth picking up after the hype has already died down, since I'll mostly be playing with myself.
I also want to just... give my dad money...? lol since he's been supporting me through my entire adult life and even helped (and by helped I mean almost entirely, even if through loans) pay for my education that I never ended up profiting from. There's lots of stuff he could use that I'd like to help him acquire.
Uhhh so I guess for myself it's just a computer and maybe a Switch that is more for Dens lol. I guess I could buy up a bunch of little cheap things I've always wanted but couldn't get because even cheap things are expensive when you have $0. Like the Unlimited Saga manga or something. There's only two books! Oh, and I'd renew my WWE subscription. But that's like $9.
Oh yeah, I'd also start paying for a lot of my own things, like paying my own cell phone bill and things like that, instead of leeching off everyone else. Actually the main thing I'm looking forward to is that -- just being able to give basic financial support to myself, which will hopefully alleviate a lot of guilt and stress I have about being so dependent. Of course, it's unlikely I'll be able to be completely independent any time soon, but it still would be nice to feel less like such a burden.
So yeah that's my rant about that I guess.
Oh and I wrote another Iron Man thing: http://thaao.net/blog/?id=41
This month's flavor is misogyny.
