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Trump Always Chickens Out, or so the pithy acronym goes among financial analysts who have noticed that Trump never holds fast to tariff-related deadlines or negotiating positions. By way of the most recent example,
the US treasury secretary announced that agreements should be inked no
later than 2 August, after a month of everybody assuming that 9 July was
the date by which such pacts needed to be finalised based on what had
been published. This is relevant because all this nonsense is getting in
the way of my ability to import games from Japan and Hong Kong and it genuinely means I've spent less on games in 2025 than I ever have since
I started in the hobby.

Irrelevantly, I did make tacos for supper Sunday night.

Play:
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Asdivine Hearts (PS5) - Oh! All these RPGs originated on mobile. I
thought that the Kemco RPG selection games were just after some kind of aggressive retro aesthetic but it turns out they just made the easiest possible game to port to as many platforms as possible. So the not-great
news up front is that the interface is amateurish and clunky, where
menus and character movement are not very polished in a way that screams top-tier RPG. Also the writing is wildly inconsistent, full of the usual anachronistic character dialogue and bombastic worldbuilding that only
seems to work if you're a 15-year-old dungeon master. But with that
said, there's a really original narrative hiding underneath all the
tropes and familiar build-up. One of the characters is the literal
divine creator of the universe, and he's an arrogant prick who needs to
learn a little humility whilst stuck in a mortal body. That's an
excellent hook to hang all the other character development on.

Revenant Saga (PS5) - Exactly the same game engine, but with a few
different tweaks and a different magic system. I can live with that. Oh
look, it's a game about the survivors of a pandemic picking up the
pieces and attempting to put the world back to the way it needed to be
after a larger-than-expected number of untimely deaths. On any other day
I'd have been able to laugh about that, but as I write this I find I'm
just not in the mood.

Want:
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Kemco RPG Selection Vol 2 (PS5) - Out in September! Or at least that's
what they've announced. All these games came out on Steam ten years ago,
you'd think that it'd be relatively easy for them to get the discs
minted and shipped.

Bin:
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Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who needs more sleep.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Kerbal Space Program (Linux) - I was a bit surprised that I didn't
have any instances of my mining runabout thingy already in orbit
somewhere on this, so I thought I'd launch one with the vague plan of
sending Jeb on a tour of the places that it can actually get to and
land on. Which isn't everywhere, but most moons with low gravity at
least. Whether I ever actually bother doing that is another matter -
but I did get to Minmus, land, refuel, and get back into orbit.

One of the characters is the literal divine creator of the universe,
and he's an arrogant prick who needs to learn a little humility
whilst stuck in a mortal body. That's an excellent hook to hang all
the other character development on.

Like a biblical conceit from his biblical conceit. :-)

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Not remembering that the launcher I'd made for said runabout on this
version of KSP was very wobbly, to the point that it had to be
launched almost vertically through the atmosphere and (probably due to
needing more struts really) still came close to snapping in two on the
way to orbit, bending alarmingly in the middle.

Only spotting an old note I'd made for myself about that issue after
doing the precarious launch. "Things get pretty bendy, and sometimes
things go boom on the way, which is not great." You don't say.

-Rus.
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