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There are a lot of maladies that seem to manifest themselves as back
pain. Gastrointestinal issues primarily, but also many nerve injuries
and cancers. I'm not super worried about being sick in any particular
way, if only because there's a lot of benefits to checking out early and missing all the drama that comes from western civilisation ending.

Play:
--=--

TV Repair, part 2 (RL) - Reluctantly, the Roku TV is now back on my
network after two years of being isolated from the Internet. I'm still blocking actual ad display but it'll now randomly add "Featured" content
to the home screen that I purposefully abjure by selecting the input I
want directly from a button on a universal remote that doesn't have an analogue on the OEM remote. It's a first-world problem, but if Roku is
going to make it possible for my HDMI ports to stop working unless I'm
always on the Internet for them to harvest device information (and to
update the HDCP features) then I guess I'm stuck. I've owned this
specific TV for just under four years and it feels both wrong and anger-inducing to be in a position to consider getting a new one simply
on the basis of that I don't want to be advertised at anymore. I am
genuinely willing to look into paying four digits for an industrial
display that doesn't have actual TV functions just so I've saved from
having to do all this crap.

Want:
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To have played some games - I'm planning a visit to an arcade for the
bank holiday weekend of Remembrance Day here in the states, but that's
not until the end of this week. It means something that I don't seem to
get to play anything unless I leave my house, but I'll leave exploration
of that question for a later date.

Evercade Games - I've ordered some Evercade games after not having done
so since the election. Not yours, mine. Tariffs made it prohibitively
onerous (dangerous even, I would argue) to import to the US from the UK,
and I thought it best to avoid the paperwork or the hassle even after
Funstock established a US-region store. I've gone and ordered a pile of
things I missed, most notably Roguecraft. I essentially use the Evercade
EXP handheld for nothing but Rogue64 at this point, so Roguecraft seems
like the thing I need to own at this point. Makes a difference that you
can't really have it on any other platform properly right now too.

Bin:
-==-

The Guitar Hero drum kit (Wii) - It's not actually in the bin, but I did
find a clever way to store it that doesn't require it to take up a huge refrigerator-sized hitbox shape in my gaming area. That does free up the
space I had otherwise designated for being able to get to my important
PS2 games. I hope next week there'll be some further adventures in retro entertainment that I never otherwise seem to make time for.

-KKC, who suddenly understands why people abuse opioids.
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From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

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

There are a lot of maladies that seem to manifest themselves as back
pain. Gastrointestinal issues primarily, but also many nerve injuries
and cancers. I'm not super worried about being sick in any particular
way, if only because there's a lot of benefits to checking out early and missing all the drama that comes from western civilisation ending.

If personal research is a thing, I can only recommend awareness of the perennial danger faced by medical students, i.e. that of dying on
every page. But now, I will awkwardly segue from inescapable mortality
and existential dread to blue skies and happy music, as is my wont.

Play:

Outrun 2006 (PC) - although I've had a non-analogue qjoypad-based
setup for this for some time, it's not been especially ideal, so I
finally went through the eccentric contortions required to configure a controller on this. At least you get a bonus minigame for doing that,
i.e. the one where you have to translate every key it still mentions
into the relevant button press. There are some particularly
entertaining mappings in the menus, too - gear-up is select (Enter),
gear-down is back (Esc), and accelerate is e.g. change class (Tab).
You know, exactly like they aren't in the other versions.

Anyway, I still hadn't cleared a route through Flagman 4 on PC, so I
ended up doing that and got the completion screen for it on the way.
I'm just glad the game gives you three routes to choose from, because
I seem to have a real talent for failing two of them nowadays.

Outrun 2006 (PSP) - got the same completion screen on this, having
vaguely remembered not quite reaching the same point on this version previously.

display that doesn't have actual TV functions just so I've saved from
having to do all this crap.

I will monitor this situation with interest. :-)

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Not finishing Flagman on PC Outrun 2006 keyboard-only, as I think I
might have originally intended to. Oh well.

-Rus.
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