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Oh I can't really take two more weeks of this and I'm sure the rest of
the world is just as tired of it.

Play:
--=--

Pump It Up (PS2) - Woo, made enough room in the gaming area to lay out
the pad and play properly. And actually, now that I've done that I
suddenly remember why I never used the Xbox version of the game all that
much. In addition to the X-pattern with the diagonals and the center
button, the PIU home controller also has standard up/down/left/right
buttons for menu control. What that means is that you have to have
enough space to dance on the pad, but also to step off the pad if you
don't want to enter any input. There's no neutral, non-contact space
like there is on the Dance Dance Revolution controller. So obviously the solution is a big metal platform controller like the old pro players
used to buy and/or make. The game is the same as it ever was, only I'm
now 30 years older and less fit. So time marches on.

Forza Horizon 4 (XSX) - Finally, a working disc that installs all the
way through and it only took three hours. Wait, why is it saying my
screen won't support HDR? Oh, because I've had the Raspberry Poirot
connected to that port and the TV is communicating in 1.4 compatibility
mode so the port doesn't know that the TV does HDR. Okay, let's reboot
six times until it all works again. Okay, now I'm no longer excited to
play the stupid game and will get back to it later.

A bunch of other Xbox games (XSX) - So this was a very cheap lot of
games I picked up for the purpose of replacing the broken FH4 disc and
it turns out nearly all of the games in the pile actually work. Mega Man
11 is just 2 GB on the stupid disc but it's a really pleasant iteration
of the platforming classic, even if I'm a bit too thick now to work
through some of the level puzzles. RBI 18 is a super realistic baseball simulator that bears almost no resemblance to its pick-up-and-play predecessors from the NES and the Megadrive. The standout of the bunch
was Pro Evolution Soccer 2019, but not because it's a notable sports
title in any way. No, the game was delisted not long ago and with it all
of the Series X upgrades and textures, which means that the version
installed is only from the disc. Even better, the game barely operates
in offline mode because it tries to check for Konami's servers and
content with every menu selection. If ever there were a game that I
would cite as an example of how games-as-service just doesn't work, it'd
be PES 2019.

Want:
--=--

Forza Horizon 3 (XSX) - On the way! Maybe. I somehow lost all of the
broken Xbox discs I had lying around (I may have actually thrown them
away and forgotten) so apart from an imperfect Usenet archive I have no
idea which two FH games it was I'd tried to resurface before. I'm sure
this is the first step towards full-on dementia as I spend a few hours
trying to remember things that have no significance whatsoever.porridge

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, slowly tidying up his gaming spaces.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Oh I can't really take two more weeks of this and I'm sure the rest of
the world is just as tired of it.

Speaking of which...

Play:

Minecraft (Linux) - did that End ship finally, after clearing out the surprising number of shooty baddies that were still in the vicinity.

I came back via the main map, stopping off at a village I'd previously
found on the way, and bought some arrows despite absent-mindedly
forgetting to take any emeralds to do that with. What I did instead
was pinch the hay bales from the village, convert them to wheat
(because that's totally how that works), and sell that back to the
farmer. So I still managed to buy the arrows, as well as now fully understanding why privatisation is such a popular concept with those
profiting from it rather than getting ripped off. :-) But, y'know, I
heroically stimulated the village economy by buying those arrows, and presumably the villagers are all super competitive and efficient now.
Good for them.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Tweaking my main base building in Minecraft to make it a very tasteful
10x50x10 monstrosity of mostly-glass. I was kind of playing with the
fact that it had already looked like some sort of bizarre brutalist
office block dropped on the beach, but... maybe I took it a bit far.
Especially since it's mostly empty, though I suppose that seems oddly appropriate nowadays.

-Rus.
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