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Gee I wonder if Iran successfully smuggled the Russian munitions through
their Caspian Sea routes before anybody in the west noticed. The
ceasefire was a good time to do that.

Play:
--=--

Persona Q (3DS) - It takes you 36 minutes from starting the game to get
to the first save point where you can proceed into actual gameplay. The
game is really talk-y and slow, but I can accept that as a function of
serving the long-time fans who are invested in the Persona 3 and Persona
4 characters. I should note that this cartridge is a reprint, and is
here in my house to replace my original broken cart bought nearly a
decade ago and only played for about eight or nine hours before it gave
up the ghost.

I've gone and verified (through sources that seem trustworthy) that the
cart I've just bought is a reprint that's likely to last, and isn't part
of the intial run that used defective parts and bad flash memory. It's
not the first time I've had to buy a game twice, and I wonder how hard
it would be to reissue this game (and its sequel) in a world where IP
rights are harder to manage than ever. I have a sense that the proper
Etrian remasters didn't sell as well as they wanted, so that's probably
a factor. It's worth being petty enough to mention now that I don't feel
much like buying any other 3DS games on the strength of that I don't
know how well they've been maintained.

Playstation 3 [tm] Wireless Keypad (PS3) - It's the thing you clip on to
the top of a Dual Shock 3 so that you can do text entry in DC Universe
Online. Hypothetically you could use it to do text entry in almost any
other PS3 game but it's hardly worth the bother. But, unlike the Xbox
360 keypad (which only communicated over some weird proprietary
Microsoft serial signalling that went through the headphone jack) this
thing is a fully capable wireless keyboard. Better still, all the
buttons are touch-sensitive and can come together to become an
inadequate mousing surface. So logically I've Bluetoothed it to my Kodi
box so that I can key in Youtube searches more easily.

Want:
--=--

To have played other games - I have some of the hot releases of the last
few years sitting here in a recent order. FF 12 Zodiac, the Assault Suit Leynos 2 remaster, and the 3D version of Dragon Quest XI. The star
attraction is a game called Turbo Boost Racing, which only got a disc in
the EU region and game with terrible, terrible steering wheel
peripherals that clip on to a Dual Sense controller and light up when
you hit the throttle or the brake. Parenting and mental health got in
the way, and I'm starting to think the best way to make time for games
is to fake my death Reggie Perrin style and find a place where I can
steal electricity and food.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who should probably take more time off work this week.
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From Newsgroup: uk.games.video.misc

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

Play:

Picross e6 (3DS) - more of this, mostly played on the hidden and
surprisingly challenging "heatwave" setting.

Minecraft (PSV) - gave this a random poke again too. Having had my
main base in a desert temple on this save is a bit unusual, and it's
not an especially convenient place to be when you run low on wood.
Then again, this old version has a really small map by modern
standards, so along with the seed's biome variety that makes the wood
issue less dubious than it could have been.

I hear it may even be possible to plant trees manually, but I'm
inclined to avoid such witchcraft - instead preferring to rely on more
natural and traditional means of having a computer respond to button
presses with patterns of light depicting a simulated 3D world in which
a blocky tree object gets gradually deleted and replaced by floating
wood items that rotate. Obviously. Anything else would just be weird.

Want:

To revisit Android Minecraft, as fiddly as the touch controls are.

Probably Grand Theft Auto 6, in some form, at some point. But I mean,
I still haven't played Red Dead Redemption 2, so my track record with
post-GTA5 Rockstar releases is maybe not the best. :-)

I'm starting to think the best way to make time for games is to fake
my death Reggie Perrin style and find a place where I can steal
electricity and food.

Just be sure to then play games featuring minigames and multiple
lives. For the full fake death, play games, fake death, play games
experience.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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