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Shit's getting real in Los Angeles this week. I'm only a little bit
ashamed to observe that LA and New York trade off being the center of
the universe by alternating whatever giant social unrest it is that
shifts my country one way or the other. It's also sobering to see that
in the UK you got three decades of sustained public consensus out of
Dunblane, whereas in the States we had Rodney King and Stonewall that
ended up only nudging the needle slightly. See also George Floyd.

Play:
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Bloodborne (PS4) - Two remaining bosses in the DLC, Laurence the First
Vicar and the Orphan of Kos. They're both fast, tank-y, and unfair. I've
spent a few hours instead going back to areas where I wasn't quite
strong enough to collect all the stuff and collecting all the stuff.
That means I now have Constable trousers, a gatling gun and possibly
some kind of fruit drink. What I really want to do is dig a little
deeper into the random dungeons because there's legitimately good loot
and interesting encounters down there, as well as a trophy for beating
the final, final, final boss down in the depths. I'll probably have to
find some motivation.

Steam Heart's and Advanced VG Remaster (PS5) - Woo, these are the Saturn releases of two of the most absurdly egregious ero-games ever released.
The Saturn versions have the virtue of having had the nudity and sex
dialed way down, to the point where most of it isn't even really implied anymore. I bought this because I have fond memories of Steam Heart's and
its ridiculous danmaku action, but it turns out I'm really enjoying
Advanced VG more than I ever have in spite of owning at least two
previous versions of the game. The emulation in this modern release
(which is also available in a pair of Steam releases) is silky smooth
and includes all kinds of wondering creature comforts, chief of which is
a rewind mode that lets you erase dumb mistakes as you move forward in
the game progression. The majority of the trophies I've achieved thusfar
have been in Advanced VG, which is an outcome I did not expect.

Bust A Move (DS) - "Daddy, can you install Nana's bubble popping game
from her phone on my tablet?" No son, I will not do that. What I will do instead is get you the granddaddy of colour-matching bubble games and
make it available to you on the Nintendo (3)DS so that you can play
without advertising or network connectivity. This is how men play video
games, alone with no salesmen with them.

Want:
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Not a portable Xbox (XSX) - Where do the discs go? I like that they've completely gone all in on Phillippe Tremblay's condescending statement
that gamers should get comfortable not owning their games by not having
any announced accommodation for physical media in their proposed
handheld device. Yes, I'm part of a dwindling minority there because
tons of people are perfectly fine only subscribing to Gimp Ass or only
owning digital copies. But if the publishers want to exert all this
control over availability and scheduling then I'm out. Nobody tells me
what to play or when, that's my decision.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who has Riot: Civil Unrest for the PS4 staring him in the face.
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From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

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

Play:

Driver: Parallel Lines (PC) - it looks like the game is now taking the rocket/tank baddies approach to difficulty. It also seems noticeable
that the actual "design" part of the mission design is barely present
at times, most of them are really remarkably basic. Sandbox games do
have a tendency to be a bit "do X at A/B/C" where X is usually some
very basic mechanic and A/B/C are scattered arbitrarily around the
map, but this is proving to be a fairly extreme example of that.

Bust A Move (DS) - "Daddy, can you install Nana's bubble popping game
from her phone on my tablet?" No son, I will not do that. What I will do instead is get you the granddaddy of colour-matching bubble games and
make it available to you on the Nintendo (3)DS so that you can play
without advertising or network connectivity. This is how men play video games, alone with no salesmen with them.

More generally, I think it's fair to say that no games more exemplify stereotypical manliness than the ones with fearsome dragons steering a projectile launcher with devastating accuracy, who will only reveal
the true depth of their emotions if they somehow fail in their heroic bubble-popping duty.

Want:

Call of Duty x Puzzle Bobble, apparently.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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