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Spent $80 on new Cat 6a cabling for all my game systems. While that was probably beneficial it was also arguably unnecessary, as I found that it
was the ad-blocking DNS that was slowing them down, not my wiring from
two decades ago. Well, more shielding can't be bad.

Play:
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Yakuza 0 Director's Cut (PS5) - So I did the thing again. Once the real
estate minigame in Chapter 5 and 6 is unlocked it's clear the intent is
for you to nurture the property management stuff in between other main
story content so that you can take what's otherwise optional content and
lean on it to level up quicker. I don't think it's the intended path for someone to spend one in-game night buying up all the available business
in Kamurocho and speedrunning that whole side narrative, the result of
which is that Kiryu gets three fully-powered up fighting styles (and one halfway powered-up secret one) as well as an instant-billion-yen button
that only requires five minutes of real time waiting. The stupid game
tells me I've played 68 hours, and I'm sure that 58 of that was just the
real estate content.

Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock (Wii) - Nothing like an actual MIDI-capable
drum kit to show you how crap you are at playing drums. I like that
Warriors of Rock has the party mode that lets you just jump in and out
of the song as you see fit with no pressure and no demands on your
skill, but that's less entertaining when you only have the one
instrument available to you. I did also just buy Band Hero, but I think
what I've decided is that the drum kit is now going to be fully MIDI-ed
out in that it's going to be an after-dark drum kit for the boy to
enjoy, rather than a game peripheral most of the time.

Want:
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Yakuza 3 Kiwami/Dark Ties (PS5) - Should be just a couple of weeks now.
Sega's been hinting that they want to revisit a lot of the side
characters in the original story, presumably for the purpose of getting
all those actors back into an ADR booth so we can get more drama out of
them. Making the villain Mine from the original Yakuza 3 the protagonist
of his own game is a good testbed for that.

Bin:
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Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who also has a pile of new games to play once and then forget about.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Play:

A Little Bit of... Puzzle League (DSi) - more touchy blocks. Although
I find this take on Tetris Attack to be a bit on the soulless side in
terms of presentation - if nothing else it's noticeably lacking in Yoshi-running-on-rainbows action - having used the touch control more
I'm warming to that. But only... a relatively small amount.

what I've decided is that the drum kit is now going to be fully MIDI-ed
out in that it's going to be an after-dark drum kit for the boy to
enjoy, rather than a game peripheral most of the time.

I feel like the word QUIETLY was excised at some point there. :-)

(Also, I may or may not currently be picturing a drum kit consisting
solely of flying toasters.)

Want:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC) - too soon to play another one really,
but it's been cheap enough and I will admit some level of morbid
curiosity about just how badly it would really run on my PC.

Bin:

The potential for installing 40GB or so of SotTR, trying the
benchmark, and getting a slideshow. Fun times.

-Rus.
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In article <jtU6R.212738$oRN6.74211@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

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

Play:

what I've decided is that the drum kit is now going to be fully MIDI-ed
out in that it's going to be an after-dark drum kit for the boy to
enjoy, rather than a game peripheral most of the time.

I feel like the word QUIETLY was excised at some point there. :-)

(Also, I may or may not currently be picturing a drum kit consisting
solely of flying toasters.)

'Quiet' is a relative measure, in that the Guitar Hero drums will be
plenty noisy inside the house but will not annoy neighbours. So for my purposes, peaceful but not really quiet.

Want:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC) - too soon to play another one really,
but it's been cheap enough and I will admit some level of morbid
curiosity about just how badly it would really run on my PC.

Bin:

The potential for installing 40GB or so of SotTR, trying the
benchmark, and getting a slideshow. Fun times.

I genuinely don't get the later Tomb Raider games, which are essentially linear setpiece rides with button pressing but no actual organic play.
To me Tomb Raider is a semi-open puzzle world where you have free rein
to push bits of it around until it clicks into place to unlock the next gigantic setpiece room, and that hasn't been true for 20 years now of
the series.

-KKC, who spent all night on Yakuza 0 again.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

I genuinely don't get the later Tomb Raider games, which are essentially linear setpiece rides with button pressing but no actual organic play.

Truly an uncharted form of gameplay. :-)

To me Tomb Raider is a semi-open puzzle world where you have free rein
to push bits of it around until it clicks into place to unlock the next gigantic setpiece room, and that hasn't been true for 20 years now of
the series.

Yeah, I think compared to the earlier ones, these TR games are less
brainy and more shooty. Arguably like the world^W^Wgaming in general.

-Rus.
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