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I don't actually have any experience with or knowledge of marijuana, and anyway the date numerals are in the wrong order in the UK so the 4/20
gag doesn't really work where you are. It was interesting to observe how conservative politics in Florida have stymied and blocked expansion of legalised marijuana though, or at least it was interesting to me.

Play:
--=--

Nothing! (RL) - Weekend was consumed with gardening and cleaning. I did
cram in some home server maintenance and sorting of game peripherals but
I'd struggle to categorise either of those activities as 'playing'
anything.

Want:
--=--

Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening (PS5) - My credit card is being
upgraded, and I suspect it's because they want to retire the clunky and unprofitable points reward system that I've abused over the years to
pick up discount and remaindered games and hardware. I forfeit the
points if I don't use them in time, so this is one of the things making
its slow and ponderous way to my house now. I'm not sure if I like the
Space Adventure Cobra property on its own merits or because it was one
of the featured titles on the Mega CD that I never got to enjoy
properly, so owning this will be a good test of how long it sits on my
backlog before I forget about it.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related

-KKC, who hopes to sneak in some gaming later tonight.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

I don't actually have any experience with or knowledge of marijuana

"I don't know her."

anyway the date numerals are in the wrong order in the UK so the 4/20
gag doesn't really work where you are.

Well, clearly the only sensible date ordering choice is a random one,
meaning that today is 2026-20-04, 04-2026-20, 20-2026-04, or more
boringly, 2026-04-20, 04-20-2026, or 20-04-2026. But that still only
gives a 1-in-3 chance of 4/20 working. Pot luck, really.

Play:

Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PSP) - the third version of this I've played
and probably the worst, with it being inferior to the PS2 one, let
alone the PS3. So it's pretty rough really, but at the same time it's
kind of not too bad. It's also surprising just how quickly you can
work your way from one level to the next in this.

Saints Row 4 (PC) - more collecting of the bright shiny things.

YAHTZE.BAS (PDP-10) - so, about that. After playing Space Invaders
last time, which is getting on for 50 years old at this point, I
thought I'd try to unearth a game from 50+ years ago which I hadn't
played before. I ended up playing a game from a DECUS tape, written in
Basic and apparently dating from 1971, which I ran on TOPS-10 using
SIMH. (I already had an old SIMH executable around, so for now I'm
dubiously counting that as sidestepping the debate over which version
to use.) Maybe this is cheating given that I've played Yahtzee once or
twice before - but not in this specific way at least. :-) As old as it
might be, I can honestly say that it was an experience, and one of the
games of all time.

Want:

Nothing.

My credit card is being upgraded

To me this seems like it'd be a pretty solid/general standby excuse.
"I can't go bowling tonight, my credit card is being upgraded."

Bin:

Running down the global strategic double-quotes stockpile, which is
only going to get worse from here.

YAHTZE.BAS requiring "UP TO 15 PEOPLE" to type e.g. "SIXES", "THREE OF
A KIND", or "LG. STRAIGHT", with no other ways of conveying this
allowed. It also needed an array-related fix before it would run
(which to be fair does make me wonder if I was running it on an
incompatible Basic), and even then it was acting weirdly by changing
dice incorrectly at times, e.g. the magically disappearing 1 below,
with the "WHICH" intended to mean "'1' FOR THE 1ST DIE, '2' FOR THE
2ND DIE, ETC.":

"RUS'S TURN
YOU HAVE A 6 4 3 2 1
THIS IS YOUR 2ND OF 3 ROLLS,
HOW MANY DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE ?1
WHICH ?1
YOU HAVE A 4 3 3 2 2"

After that I fixed a bug with the sorting (it seemed like it could
potentially swap with a non-existent sixth die at the low end), but
would still get things like:

"HOW DO YOU WANT THIS ROUND SCORED ?SUMMARY
RUS HAS USED THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
ACES, CHANCE, THREE OF A KIND, FOURS, SM. STRAIGHT, FOUR OF A KIND,
THREES, SIXES, FULL HOUSE, FIVES, TWOS,
HE HAS 175 POINTS,
AND 142 OF THE 65 POINTS NEEDED FOR THE BONUS."

That's 142 out of the 105 possible points for that bonus judgement.
I never realised I was this good at Yahtzee. :-)

-Rus.
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