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Can barely walk. Too old to play dancing games.

Play:
--=--

Dance Rush Stardom (ARC) - Finally had a go, and weirdly it's both
easier than harder than either Pump It Up or Dance Dance Revolution. I
was in my usual lineman boots, so I couldn't really dance properly. I
didn't know that the game essentially includes a giant shuffle dancing tutorial, which in my great wisdom I skipped most of to see if I could
figure out the game organically. I'm not really a natural dancer but I
can see how the game is cultivating moves in its players by encouraging
three axes of movement. There are certain steps where you're expected to
duck down or leap up, and I figured out that there's a sensor in the
cabinet that detects (but does not display) the position of your torso
as well as knowing where your feet are placed. This is essentially the
Kinect in its final complete form, and it's sort of a shame that home
consoles never included all this functionality. Also that Dance Rush
Stardom will never have a home port because there's no way to properly miniaturise the tech or make it portable enough to fit into a cardboard
box.


Want:
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More time (RL) - I took a whole week off work so that I could play
games. Instead I was queueing for government services, car repair, and
my son's boy scout events. I need a week off of my week off now because
I literally only got to play the one arcade cab.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who needs some anti-inflammatory medicine now.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

Call of Duty Mobile (Android) - I think it would be fair to say that,
for better or worse, I resisted getting a mobile phone for slightly
longer than most people. That has now ended, with my purchase of a
Moto G55 probably best described as low-but-not-quite-lowest-end.
Clearly, an event best celebrated by playing some terrible
free-to-download game.

Surprisingly though, this CoD thing seems kind of not too bad. It
reminds me a bit of playing on the Wii, where (arguably) everyone is
equally limited by the awkward controls (aside from those using a
controller, but presumably they're not in the same matchmaking pool).
I think if you had to make a touch-based multiplayer CoD with recycled
maps where anyone sufficiently determined could sort of vaguely fumble
their way around, this is what you'd end up with. Which is, I don't
know... maybe "good" is overstating it. It's interesting, at least.

The screens before you play are a bit of a disaster, though. Most text
is tiny for no good reason, and the design is remarkably busy with
random small UI elements scattered everywhere. They also seem
perversely keen on placing very small buttons right in the corner of
the screen, as if actively trying to make them unnecessarily hard to
press.

Still, I did manage the shooty hide-and-seek thing with random people
sometimes helpfully pointing guns in slightly more random directions
than myself. So that was nice. :-)

Want:

Probably to try some more mobile games, terrible or otherwise.

More time (RL) - I took a whole week off work so that I could play
games. Instead I was queueing for government services, car repair, and
my son's boy scout events. I need a week off of my week off now because
I literally only got to play the one arcade cab.

I tend to be managing about one a decade myself, but I get your point.

Bin:

My phone having significantly higher hardware specs than my Pi 400.
Which makes perfect sense for various reasons (and is obviously handy
for games), but still feels pretty weird when I'm using both on a
daily basis.

-Rus.
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In article <hMuJQ.45372$UXx1.31271@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

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

Bin:

My phone having significantly higher hardware specs than my Pi 400.
Which makes perfect sense for various reasons (and is obviously handy
for games), but still feels pretty weird when I'm using both on a
daily basis.

I have a Pi 500 that is sitting on a shelf acting as a media server,
which means I don't have access to the keyboard on the actual device
itself. Which is brilliant. At some point I need to get a proper Pi 5
with a NVME hat so that I can run actual real storage instead of putting
all my television programmes on the SD card.

For complicated reasons I carry two phones around, one for work and one
for personal calls. The personal one is the overcomplicated Android with
all kinds of custom, open-source hacks and an SSH tunnel of my own
design. The other phone for work calls is a flip phone with a 12-key
pad. I genuinely use the flip phone more. I wish that my other phone
were a better phone, but as it stands it's an excellent small tablet
with terrible phone functions. I really want those proportions to be
reversed.

-KKC, who just bought more Neptunia games to own and not play.
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