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"Hey son, do you want to go spend piles of my money on ticket redemption
games that don't resemble the arcade video games of my youth in any
way?"

Play:
--=--

Tokyo Xtreme Racer (PS5) - I lost the tutorial race! Somehow. After I
won it I discovered that the game doesn't forcibly stop you from just continuing to drive, so I went and unlocked all of the westbound slip
road ramps onto the circle that functions as the game's de facto track.
It's kind of reassuring how much this silly game suits all expectations somehow, in that a really dedicated fan would find just as much to love
as a casual racing game player. I'll find some evidence to back up that
wild assertion in a week or so.

Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (ARC) - There are more of these deployed in the
States than I thought. My son was actually playing while I distractedly
tried to remind him how to drive. It's strange to me that when he was
five he instinctively understood where the apex was in every turn and
how to modulate throttle power, but now that he's eight he's decided
that the proper driving technique is to just mash the pedal down into
the floor and leave it there. There must be some wisdom in that
observation about why you start real world kart racers young.

Yakuza 5 Remastered (PS4) - Oh, so it turns out I never did play this on
the PS4 back in the day. I did complete it on PS3 though, so all the
broad strokes of the narrative are completely familiar to me. In the
space of a couple of days I made my way through the entirety of Kiryu's
street racer story, which ends in a big group dinner that includes all
of the old drivers and the entire taxi-driving staff. You wonder why we
didn't see more of these characters pop up randomly in later games,
although I seem to recall that the owner of the company popped up in
Yakuza 6 at least once.

SSH tunnel acrobatics (PC) - Bleah. My home IP address ended up on a
list of AI intrusion targets, so whether or not it answers up there's an attach from a wide array of Asian IP addresses every 45 seconds or so. I
can turn it off for a week or run ban2fail all I like but they never
quit and they never go away. That means I've taken to configuring an
explicit allow list now, which means that if I'm travelling or otherwise located someplace new I have to jump through a few hoops to open up the
port from a known good IP address at a third party. This seems like a perfectly normal thing that people have to do with their home computers,
I'll have you know.

Want:
--=--

Triangle Strategy (PS5) - Oh hey, Sony's platform is getting a disc in
May! I'll have one of those please.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who is very very tired.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

The Swindle (PC) - I think this must be the third or fourth version
I've played now. Still quite fun doing all the 2D sneaking around but
man, it gets pretty hard, and I seem determined to keep dying in
stupid ways and making the worst possible decisions on what upgrades
to buy when. So I doubt I have any real chance of even making it to
the last level on my current run, given the game's curious 100-day
time limit.

Saints Row 4 (PC) - jumping around town like the world's most dubious superhero. I just got this for the differing sandbox flavour from 3
really, and having previously played through two other versions I feel
like I might not bother finishing it yet again. But I'm probably as
wrong as usual about that sort of thing.

Tekken 2 (PS1) - my traditional demonstration of how Heihachi's moves
of this era are absolutely burned into my brain for no good reason.
But apparently that's no longer in a way which avoids the need for
continues, which is something I guess.

Picross e6 (3DS) - a bit more of this.

This seems like a perfectly normal thing that people have to do with
their home computers, I'll have you know.

Speaking of which, I wonder if Linux users are still required to have
that stamped on their foreheads nowadays or not.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Rebuying (and perhaps reburying, as my spellchecker uncharitably
suggests) a bunch of old games on PC which I mostly first played on
PS3, hence the resurrections.

The apparent inevitability of playing SR4 again after Little Kitty,
Big City's collect-em-up reminded me of the special joy of hoovering
up pointless shiny things strewn all over a map. Even if there's no
crow to generously "recycle" them for you in SR4.

-Rus.
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