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Ugh. I'm at the age now where I think that trading life expectancy for discomfort may not be worth the swap.

Play:
--=--

Time and Eternity (PS3) - A little more of this. Now that I've unlocked
the proper game with its somewhat-open world and somewhat-persistent
scenarios I'm finding the NPCs are a bit oddball. You don't really have standard merchants, but you do have a bookseller who needs energy drinks
and is late to everything. There's a lot of people in the game who seem
to be quirky for its own sake and not for any broader thematic reason,
which is a shame because the format of the game could have benefitted
from a little more 'normal' to offset the novelty of the setting. I've
talked around the fact that the game expects you to juggle telepathic transference and tune travel on top of the moderately absurd medieval
setting, and it doesn't quite work.

Valkyria Revolution (PS4) - I've only had time to make it midway through chapter 1, but I've been properly introduced now to the soldier, the
spy, the politician, the industrialist, and the journalist. If ever
there were five perfectly positioned people to push a nation into war
(for noble reasons or not) it's this group, who are thick as thieves and understand how the moving parts of a country at war fit together. I
really wish that the game were more like a normal RPG, because I can
feel the creative conflict between the people who wanted to tell the
story and the people who wanted a pulse-pounding action game, and it's
almost like they've welded two different games together along an uneven
edge that doesn't quite fit.

Want:
--=--

Moar Thyme (RL) - I have to skip the podcast this month for medical
scheduling reasons, which blows. I'd also like more time to play so I
actually have things to talk about in the podcast.

Bin:
-==-

The ice maker in my refrigerator - It leaks water and requires daily maintenance, which is not the point of a machine that you're supposed to
be able to leave alone to fulfill its automatic purpose. If I need to
clean it out daily then I might as well go back to twisty ice trays.

Expenditure:
-----=-----

Balance forward - $2,113

Hot Shots Golf 3 (PS2) - $5
Hot Shots Golf Fore (PS2) - $5
Outlaw Golf 2 (PS2) - $6
Outlaw Volleyball Remixed (PS2) - $5
Super Swing Golf (Wii) - $3
Moshi Monsters Moshling Theme Park (DS) - $3
Moshi Monster Katsuma Unleashed (DS) - $6

Total to date - $2,146

-KKC, who also worked both days of the weekend, but that's boring to discuss. --- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

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

Ugh. I'm at the age now where I think that trading life expectancy for discomfort may not be worth the swap.

The closest I've been to this is having lately had the misfortune to
experience something similar to regular exercise. Not a fan. For me,
the thought that muscles supposedly exist beyond those required to
operate a keyboard remains a strange and unsettling one.

Play:

Grand Theft Auto 5 (PC) - finished the story missions, ending up with
a decent amount of money for the characters, but I feel like I managed
more on the other versions. That said, the primary reasons to have
money after the story (if you don't want to buy all the pointless
properties) are buying aircraft and eating the $5000 cost of a death,
so... good enough.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Taking an excessively long time to notice that the reason I couldn't
enter GTA5's airport as Michael or Franklin to buy their hangars
without getting a wanted level was that you don't actually buy them in
the airport proper, you buy them just outside - as indicated quite
clearly with an icon on the map, and as I'd done at least three times
before on other versions. That was a fun realisation.

-Rus.
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