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How do you do elections in the UK anyway, from a mechanical standpoint?
Are there ballot slips that you fill out with writing implements, or is
it an actual set of booths with levers and punches and mallets and other medieval devices? It'd be nice for the candidate who assumes office to
be the one with the fewest tomato stains on his face after being removed
from the stocks.

Play:
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Wappy Dog (DS) - Well that's a surprise. I had thought all this time
that the DS used the IR port to communicate with the robot dog, but it
turns out that it uses audio signals only. It's pretty clever, in that
you can hear the handshake and the acknowledge signals in what are
otherwise little musical cues at slightly too-high a frequency. But the
dog doesn't always pick up on them, because microphones are imperfect
and there's too much noise in the world. Still, here I am with a robot
dog and a Nintendo DS game that controls it.

The entirety of the Atelier series on PS3 (PS3) - I have like nine of
these stupid games and I've never played them and I thought I should
bung in all the discs and do the install and play through to see what's
going on. It's interesting in that some games are more RPG, and some
games are more crafting and little timing missions. The one that made
the biggest impression on me was Atelier Shallie, because it does just a
bit more world-building up front and tells you all the stakes in a way
that gets you to care. By comparison the other games are just "Oh my,
I'm a young girl in a big world and I have to overcome other people's prejudices and my own insecurity to save the world" and that sort of
feels like it's happening in the wrong order for me to really get it.

Want:
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Atelier Arland and Atelier Dusk on PS4 (PS4) - Oh hey, these are all
available on PS4 too but only digitally in the west. No telling if
having the stupidly-expensive JPN-region discs enables the correct
region and version of the game or not. That's a problem for later after
I decide if I'm willing to have multiple iterations of these games or if
I can just live with having the PS3 discs.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

Expenditure:
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Balance forward - $1,515

-KKC, who is full of allergy medication and regret.
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From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

How do you do elections in the UK anyway, from a mechanical standpoint?
Are there ballot slips that you fill out with writing implements

Yeah, X marks the spot, like a map to buried treasure. I will resist
the temptation to add a punchline.

Play:

Outrun 2006 (PC) - so, inevitably, I have a horrible feeling I'm
actually going to try clearing Flagman mode on this version as well,
quite possibly using keyboard controls all the way. In some ways it
reminds me of playing arcade Outrun 2 SP - I find myself sort of
simulating controller inputs, having played the game that way so much.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS4) - some sandboxy messing about on
this. I still seem to have so many item and vehicle spawn locations
pointlessly memorised.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Outrun 2006 seeming to run weirdly fast on a one-on-one event I did,
for some reason. Which was... interesting, but made it a bit tricky.

-Rus.
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