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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <
kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
Play:
Kerbal Space Program (Linux) - took on another rescue mission
contract. It was on Mun, so I figured, Mun is really close, a pretty
easy one. But somehow I always underestimate how much fuel it actually
takes for a Mun landing and takeoff, and I had to do a near-polar
landing which was a pain. I'd also managed to configure my old rocket
intended for Mun landings wrongly, so the probe core worked while
nobody was on board, but as soon as the non-pilot being rescued was in
the capsule I only had partial control. With low fuel as well, this
was a huge mess. After taking off from Mun, I only managed to reach
orbit with the aid of the "rescued" individual's jetpack while having
to ditch the spacecraft. So, as ever, I had to rescue the rescue
mission.
Nothing (RL) - For like three weekends in a row now. I mean, that's not strictly true because I got a few minutes of Saints Row III and Namco
Museum Volume 4 in, but that barely qualifies as worthy of reporting on.
That's perfectly valid of course, but has me wanting to get
self-indulgent for a moment here.
When I first started doing PWB posts, I was all about playing the
games, and talking about them was incidental at best. At this point,
when I tend to play games far less and currently with very little
focus on any games which are even remotely modern, I'm more concerned
with rambling on about whatever games I do happen to play, however
briefly and however old they might be. For me it's now as much an
excuse to do some minimal regular writing, as crude and simplistic as
it is, as anything else.
So my personal take on this is that any crap at all is equally worthy
and not worthy of being written about, because I feel like writing in
itself is the reason to care - even if it might not be the greatest
prose known to humanity, nor offer the most profound of insights, nor
be read by many people at all. But to each their own. :-)
That said, at times I will do ridiculously minimal posts with just a
few words about some ancient thing which nobody has cared about for
decades. Obviously. Because this is Usenet.
Want:
Probably to try moderately recent indies on the mini PC at some point,
as I think it should be able to manage some.
The original Namco Museum Volume 3 disc (PSX) - My collector's fury has caused me to obtain copies of all five Playstation discs in the series
Nice. I will carefully avoid mentioning Namco Museum Encore.
Bin:
Buying Bluetooth in-ear headphones (just as an alternative to the
speaker(s) I tend to use with e.g. the PC), having inexplicably
managed to overlook how much I disliked even retro in-ear stuff. The
modern type seem so absurd - it's like inserting dual Babel fish. If
this is the price to be paid for better sound, I'll have worse sound
and count myself lucky.
-Rus.
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