So, today is my wedding day. At least, it's supposed to have been. The reasons are obvious - due to the COVID-19 outbreak, there are restrictions on large gatherings around the country (and even the world). While some restrictions were lifted, the hard lockdown, which only lifted a few weeks ago, meant that no planning could be done prior. Thankfully, the venue were really awesome in allowing to reschedule to a future date of our choosing, which will most likely take place in early 2021.

This may turn into a fairly long catch-up, so if you're not interested, you're welcome to skip to the end where the train is departing from.

There has, however, been some positives during this time. Both myself and fiancé were able to work from home during the lockdown, while also still receiving our full pay. She's gone back to work as of last month, while I'm most likely to continue working from home for the remainder of the year because of underlying conditions from my youth that may put me at higher risk. Prior to the lockdown we were saving for multiple projects, including the wedding and buying a house, which is also not likely to happen until later in the year.

The biggest upside for us is that we've been able to save over and above our normal amount each month, so we've been trying to do our best to help the community. In the first week of the hard lockdown, my work laptop crashed. Thankfully, I had the Acer Predator Triton 900 with me for review, which I could work from. However, the PR collected the unit in May, so I ended up having to use my PC, which is connected to our living room TV for work - after a few days of this my fiancé got annoyed and so we decided to buy a laptop. Long story short, we ended up buying a decent ASUS G15 Strix gaming laptop - mostly thanks to the extra money saved working from home. What's interesting about this is that I bought a gaming PC in November last year. Before that, I didn't upgrade my previous CPU and GPU for over 9 years.

Initially, I wasn't planning on doing much today, as we were supposed to have our own mini-celebration for the day, but, as it turns out, my fiancé got very sick and has been unable to do much for the past day and remains in bed. This actually gave me a bit of time to myself, so I decided to create a train. I really wanted to create something epic, but I didn't realise the effort it would take to do so. Having spent 3 hours gathering all the games and links, trying to make sure they're all in working condition, it took me another hour to create the train, which is only a quarter of the collection. So, we now have 5 separate trains, but they'll be departing at different schedules. I hope you guys do enjoy it.

I know it's been a difficult time for many, and don't write the above to show-boat. I just wanted to share my change of fortune over a few years ago when I wrote on here, heavy in debt and having to cut quite a bit of activity - also why I wasn't able to upgrade any of my tech for years. We'll continue to give back to the organisations in our local area to assist while we're all still dealing with aspects of the COVID-19 effects.

TL;DR - Today was supposed to be my wedding day, but due to COVID-19 restrictions, it's to be moved to 2021.

Arrival Time - 9pm SAST, 20 June 2020

As always, a few disclaimers:

  1. As stated previously, there will be multiple trains, so keep an eye out for those.
  2. If there are any used keys, keys no longer valid, etc. they, unfortunately, won't be replaced. My apologies for that.
  3. If there are any issues within the train (broken tracks, etc.), please just drop a message in the comments.

I didn't really wanna add this, but ... since the last time I did a train, I was banned for 3 days for "begging" on SG. Honestly, I wasn't really. But, there no indication to the moderators that it was a joke, and rules are rules. Fair enough. It's worth noting, for perspective, that I'm moving towards 2,000 games in my Steam library, so I don't really need to be begging for games. But, like I said rules are rules. What I didn't appreciate, however, was some SG users taking the opportunity to go to my Steam page and leave some obscenities because of it. I was considering just closing my account, not wanting have to deal with any of it again. At the same time, I've been part of this community for 7 years now, I've interacted with various people and continue to do so and don't think their stupidity should impact that.

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Thanks for nice ride :)

4 years ago
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Cool. :)

4 years ago
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Congrats and hope you'll have an uninterrupted wedding day next year ^_^
Hvala puno! (x∞)

4 years ago
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Had to Google what that meant. :)
Thanks.

4 years ago
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Nothing bad with googling :D

4 years ago
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Hehe.

4 years ago
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Thanks so much for the trains!
Wishing you the best for your wedding <3

4 years ago
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Thanks for the well-wishes. :)

4 years ago
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Congratulations, wishing you both the best! And thank you so much for such a nice train bump

4 years ago
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Thanks. :)

4 years ago
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It's good to read that things worked out for you, despite the postponement. Having been separated from my better half for 4 months by now due to the pandemic, I know how being close to those you love is important, especially in crazy times like these so yay for more time together due to confinement ;)

I wish you both the best of lives together and many many years of sugar and spice.

4 years ago
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Ah damn. Sorry to hear about the separation. Hoping that you'll be back together again shortly.
All the best.

4 years ago
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Just a few more weeks until Europe is back to normal when it comes to borders.
Thanks and all the best to you and yours :)

4 years ago
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"Normal"? There won't be a normal for a while, but as close to normal as it can be. :)

4 years ago
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Oh normal is a long way off in many many ways. But at least we'll be able to cross borders within Europe again, which is really weird not to do when it's been open borders for so long.

4 years ago
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Yeah, everything that was normal before is now weird.
Even when I go to the store for groceries, I think about it and looking at everyone with masks, it's strange.

4 years ago
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Thanks for nice ride!

4 years ago
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Cool. :)

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Bump!

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:)

4 years ago
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Best wishes and thank you very much for the trains :)

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Much appreciated.

4 years ago
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Bump

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:)

4 years ago
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Best wishes!

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Hehe. Thanks. :)

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:)

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Bump for train 4!

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:)

4 years ago
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Congrats! I really hope you will spent many happy years along with your still-fiancée-but-soon-wife:)
Have a great wedding in 2021 :)

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Haha. Thanks so much. :)

4 years ago
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i wish your marriage will be super happy ^^

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Appreciated. :)

4 years ago
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BUMP!

In May, I had to go on a wedding, but for the same reasons it hadn't place...I think that couple (friends of my GF, so don't know much about them) did married anyway without any guest, decided then to have the full ceremony in 2021.

Anyway best of luck, and thanks

4 years ago
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Yeah, we're thinking of doing something similar. But still takes some planning.
Thanks :)

4 years ago
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Choo choo :)

4 years ago
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:)

4 years ago
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Definitely some wedding-grade trains over there, hopefully this is the last time you have to postpone your wedding AND that they give loads of discounts on the band/catering/honeymoon/etc when the pandemic is over!

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We're not doing a band - just good venue and good food and background music.
We don't like too much of a fuss, so trying to keep it a bit low-key and not tacky. :)
But yeah, some discounts would be great. Already got 50% discount on the venue for paying full upfront.

4 years ago
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sounds like a cool wedding 👍
that's great, hoping more of such discounts come your way!

4 years ago
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Awesomeness. :)

4 years ago
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Good luck with the wedding when your free to do it and congrats on all the plus sides to the lockdown.

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Much appreciated. :)

4 years ago
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Great train, and sad for u that u couldn't marry on the date u decided to do it. But i think, that both of u are in love and safe, and that is even more important right now. So hopefully u will be able to get married really soon and be more happy than today while both still been healthy. Cheer up and thx for this amazing contribution to the community.

4 years ago
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I'm not down, so no need to cheer up. :)
Thanks for the well-wishes.

4 years ago
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many thanks for the TRAINS !

4 years ago
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Cool. :)

4 years ago
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Congrats for the wedding! Sad that it was postponed, but the important part is getting to this point!
I usually don't enter many games during these kind of trains, but it was a really nice train with some good games. Really nice!

4 years ago
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Thanks for joining the different train rides. :)

4 years ago
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"wedding day" is the first station of a LOOOOONG journey
GOOD LUCK...you 're gonna need a ton of it !
:-)

4 years ago
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Yeah, it's already been over a decade - so many many more to come. :)

4 years ago
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Nice giveaways, congrats to level 8-9😃

4 years ago
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Definitely level 8 for sure.
Level 9 maybe another year or two. :)

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Best of wishes in your future. While the times might be tough right now, it never hurts to try and find positives to look forward. In-fact, it might be the best course of action for us to stay calm and hope for the best.

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Yeah, the current situation isn't too bad for me.
Happy to stay indoors and safe. Just during holidays may be an issue to visit family, etc.

4 years ago
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Thank you!

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:)

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