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We're getting all kinds of weird sideways entertainment out of wondering whether or not Donald Trump actually understand the rules of football.

Play:
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Phantasy Star Online 1+2 Plus (GC) - Back to the back business then. I
keep forgetting that when I hate everything (and by extension everyone)
I need to come home in order to find my love for the hobby again. PSO is
a reliable reference point for all that.

Running a Neuman Force character up to level 12 now, which is not quite
enough as a solo player to take on De Rol Le at the end of the Cave
levels. So I decide to go grinding in Episode 2 and promptly forget that
the boss at the end of the Temple is freaking Barba Ray, which is a Rol
clone. I managed to cheese my way through the fight since Neumans can regenerate spell points and I'm good at dodging.

I need the third paragraph to talk about how idealised I'm viewing the
turn of the century now. PSO hit the market in 2001, and I had no
worries and no plans at the time. I should have allowed my cynicism,
fully formed as it was, to embitter me in a way that would have caused
me to think about the future more. But 2001 is also when I turned 27 and
fully expected to die in a uniquely violent way that only happens in
America, which is why I didn't think the future was worth my attention.
It's weird to learn that PSO isn't my happy place, but my DGAF place
instead.

Want:
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Phantasy Star Online Remastered - This is a completely hypothetical
thing that doesn't exist in any capacity, to be clear. Sega's made no
plans and no announcement. But for the love of all that's holy, it needs
to happen. Phantasy Star Universe was a better story but a slightly
worse game in spite of having lots of improvements mathematically.
Phantasy Star Portable was flawed in all three of its iterations and
Phantasy Star Zero was a one-shot thing that obviously was never meant
to live outside of Nintendo's space. And the actual sequel, Phantasy
Star Online 2, is monstrously not fun. That it has no offline mode
doesn't help its case either. After so many near misses, why would they
not just go back to what worked before?

Bin:
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Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who needs some time off work.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

We're getting all kinds of weird sideways entertainment out of wondering whether or not Donald Trump actually understand the rules of football.

I think in their native habitat, Donald Trump understand only the
seductive lure of mirrors.

Play:

V-Rally 3 (GBA) - as much as this remains one of my favourite rally
games (no doubt partly because it's one of the easiest), I have to
admit it's not exactly getting prettier as time goes by. Curiously, I
managed to win a rally despite not winning any of the stages. Which I
suppose ought to be possible, but seems weird in a game somehow.

I need the third paragraph to talk about how idealised I'm viewing the
turn of the century now. PSO hit the market in 2001, and I had no
worries and no plans at the time. I should have allowed my cynicism,
fully formed as it was, to embitter me in a way that would have caused
me to think about the future more. But 2001 is also when I turned 27 and fully expected to die in a uniquely violent way that only happens in America, which is why I didn't think the future was worth my attention.
It's weird to learn that PSO isn't my happy place, but my DGAF place instead.

I feel like having differing attitudes at different ages is just an
artefact of being mortal. Probably some old Greek dudes said a bunch
about such things. But I'll add my own spin by saying that Nethack
(which I played a lot in 2001) might be the perfect preparation for
life in general. It too is almost totally incomprehensible, so you
basically have to read what other people have said about it to have
any hope at all. :-)

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Perpetual Heatwave (RL) - this one is really just dragging on
excessively.

-Rus.
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