From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc


My house is littered with unfinished technology projects. The most
prominent may be the Radio Shack PC-3 Pocket Computer, which is a
rebranded Sharp device that's essentially a glorified hand calculator
that can store a tiny amount of BASIC program. Sharp cheaped out on the components and so the crap LCD screen was prone to leakage, but some
clever obsessive type in California has been making huge batches of replacement screens and selling them to morons like me. One is due in
today, so that I can finally put this thing to proper operational
neglect after 30 years of owning it.

Play:
--=--

Bloodborne (PS4) - Level 160 and a few more bosses down. I think I
finally understand that the levelling system in any Souls game is
essentially a huge prank, in that you can arguably beat any boss on any
level with only basic equipment as long as you know the moves and the patterns. The level is not the point, as Bloodborne helpfully points out
while you try to move up a level and watch as none of your stats rise at
all. There's a point where you have to gain five levels to raise a basic
stat one point, at which point you have to be asking yourself if it's
the little pretend character or the human player that's being
conditioned. I've only the last boss of the Old Hunters DLC to go now,
and it's not exactly a rewarding fight in any way, so I think I might
well give it a pass

Want:
--=--

Legend of Mana Remastered (PS4) - It's in this Play Asia order that's
been delayed for two months by tariffs and tears. I'm not that anxious
to play, I just want some loving reassurance that I haven't hallucinated
the last eight weeks.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who needs more sleep.
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2

From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

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

Play:

Mr. Driller (DC) - back to the reassuring familiarity of getting
entertainingly squashed. For me there's something about this game
which seems very resistant to any consistent level of performance, I
seem to be all over the place. I suppose it would be boring if I
always beat it, but I feel like I could probably live with that kind
of boredom.

Bloodborne (PS4) - Level 160 and a few more bosses down. I think I
finally understand that the levelling system in any Souls game is essentially a huge prank, in that you can arguably beat any boss on any level with only basic equipment as long as you know the moves and the patterns. The level is not the point, as Bloodborne helpfully points out while you try to move up a level and watch as none of your stats rise at all. There's a point where you have to gain five levels to raise a basic stat one point, at which point you have to be asking yourself if it's
the little pretend character or the human player that's being
conditioned.

Sometimes I wonder if Souls games are just an elaborate parody of the developer/player relationship, if you can call it that. :-)

Want:

To try that Dreamcast GTA3 port somewhen. That said, the "official"
image construction process is probably the most masochistic activity
mentioned in this post.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
--- Synchronet 3.21d-Linux NewsLink 1.2