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It'll only cost you a billion dollars to join my super special club
that's here to determine what goes on in this other guy's house. Don't
worry, he doesn't need to be in the club, he just needs to agree to
everything we say because we're on the board!

Play:
--=--

Skyrim VR (PS4) - A dear friend is going to sell me his well-cared for
but otherwise completely unused original PSVR unit. I've borrowed a
vaguely incomplete one just to get the setup and config sorted and I've discovered that it's much better than I expected. I also accidentally
found that the best way for me to experience VR is without the blackout immersion shield in place, so that I can see the real world out of the
corner of my peripheral vision. With all that said, no matter how you
slice it Skyrim VR is a deeply weird experience. The whole notion of
using a pointer and parabolas to teleport around an open world is really messed up, and serves only to show how barren and empty the open world
of Skyrim actually is. I'm glad I got to experience it (and that I
didn't spend more than $5 on the disc) but this is clearly and evidently
not the way that Skyrim should be played, in spite of the FOV and
amazing dragons in 3D.

Want:
--=--

Playstation Aim (PS4) - To be clear, I already have one. This is the
doohickey with the light-up Move ball on the end in lieu of an actual
working light gun interface. Supposedly this thing is compatible with
House of the Dead Remake for PS4, but at the moment there aren't enough
free USB ports on the PS5 to make that happen. But using the original
Move controllers to play HOTD was borderline impossible, so maybe a Move
ball with the right ergonomics is the answer. Or, you know, I could just
use the CRT and the PS2 and the Xbox I have deployed specifically for
light gun games instead.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing gaming-related.

-KKC, who needs to construct a batteries-that-need-to-be-charged table.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

It'll only cost you a billion dollars to join my super special club
that's here to determine what goes on in this other guy's house. Don't worry, he doesn't need to be in the club, he just needs to agree to everything we say because we're on the board!

I'm assuming this is a Trump thing, but they all seem to be blurring
together for me at this point. I think Blair was being charged 25%
extra for a rogue oil tanker to take the former President of Venezuela
to stand trial in Greenland and exchange a leaked letter for a
preowned Nobel Peace Prize, thus dissolving NATO. Something like that.

Play:

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Android) - I tried out the
touch controls on this in the fairly brief trial that you get without
paying. Not completely terrible, but probably not good enough to
bother buying it either.

Picross e6 (3DS) - continued play of which shocks me as much as
anyone. But I suppose it has been a while since I played much of this.
Well, aside from last week I mean.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Android GTA:LCS having a few too many pedestrians getting spawned half-in-half-out of walls and the like.

-KKC, who needs to construct a batteries-that-need-to-be-charged table.

I don't quite know whether you'd need a saw, a mouse, chickens, an
accountant, an army, a lance-wielding knight on horseback, or some
doubtless legendary combination thereof. But somehow, I think I like
it that way.

-Rus.
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In article <OgwbR.60166$WMo5.30076@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

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

It'll only cost you a billion dollars to join my super special club
that's here to determine what goes on in this other guy's house. Don't
worry, he doesn't need to be in the club, he just needs to agree to
everything we say because we're on the board!

I'm assuming this is a Trump thing, but they all seem to be blurring
together for me at this point. I think Blair was being charged 25%
extra for a rogue oil tanker to take the former President of Venezuela
to stand trial in Greenland and exchange a leaked letter for a
preowned Nobel Peace Prize, thus dissolving NATO. Something like that.

Trump has established a farcical 'Board of Peace" to determine how Gaza
is to be restored and redeveloped. He's done that thing of 'inviting'
other nations to pledge $1 billion in support in return for a seat on
the board, and most nations have sensibly not committed. Only Hungary is
on board and it's not even clear if they've paid the entry fee.
Everybody is being way too polite to observe that this is not how you do nation building, especially as both Israel and Palestine have no
apparent input.

Play:

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Android) - I tried out the
touch controls on this in the fairly brief trial that you get without
paying. Not completely terrible, but probably not good enough to
bother buying it either.

I've never understood why the games companies try to sell their flagship and/or belwether games on mobile. These are games that require hours of attention and discrete button inputs, and they never ever make sense
with touch screens and the moment you have in the queue before you have
to remember your food order. On that subject I've only ever seen
somebody use a PS Vita in a queue once, and he was clearly 12 years old
and not repsonsible for his own money.

-KKC, who left this message unsent for 12 hours.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Trump has established a farcical 'Board of Peace" to determine how Gaza
is to be restored and redeveloped. He's done that thing of 'inviting'
other nations to pledge $1 billion in support in return for a seat on
the board, and most nations have sensibly not committed.

Ah. The noble statesman at work.

I've never understood why the games companies try to sell their flagship and/or belwether games on mobile. These are games that require hours of attention and discrete button inputs, and they never ever make sense
with touch screens and the moment you have in the queue before you have
to remember your food order.

I think having to fumble around like you're roughly daubing walls with paint-bearing fingers is such an obviously dystopian kind of user
interface hell that the ubiquity unites most of society in a sort of
brutal shared pain. Which is nice.

I usually feel this most when receiving a delivery and being asked to
sign with just a finger. Sometimes I'm tempted to use the middle one,
a lesser-known tenet from "How to Win Friends and Influence People".

-Rus.
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