Planned Weekend Gaming (PWG) 17-3-17

[HarpingOn]

This weekend I will play

Pokeyman Moon (3DS)

Spent long time leveling my sandyghast into palosand. Beat a trial
easily with it. I think my team is op now :/

Finally figured out how the day/night cycle works. Call me slow on the
uptake if you like.

Twilight Pricness (Wii U)

Hopefully get another major section done. I don't know if it's because
I'm only playing this to level up my wolf link amiibo, or if it's
because Pokeyman Moon is so much easier to pick up and play, what with
being portable and all, but feels like a slog. Still, it's a £50 slog,
so I'm going to get to the end (let's not talk about the size and cost
of not-even-booted-up-once steam library games).

Fast Racing Neo (Wii U)

Because I've been drooling over Fast Racing on the switch via Digital
Foundry, and I've realised I've not played anything like enough FR Neo,
so that'll get fired up for a bit.

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-03-17, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Pokeyman Moon (3DS)
>
> Spent long time leveling my sandyghast into palosand. Beat a trial
> easily with it. I think my team is op now :/
>
> Finally figured out how the day/night cycle works. Call me slow on the
> uptake if you like.

I don't play the game, but my son does. What's the day night cycle?

> Twilight Pricness (Wii U)
>
> Hopefully get another major section done. I don't know if it's because
> I'm only playing this to level up my wolf link amiibo, or if it's
> because Pokeyman Moon is so much easier to pick up and play, what with
> being portable and all, but feels like a slog. Still, it's a £50 slog,
> so I'm going to get to the end (let's not talk about the size and cost
> of not-even-booted-up-once steam library games).

Could it be because it's a sea of brown?


--
-Toby
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[Toby Newman]

Really tired after a heavy week at work so I don't know if I can be
bothered with prancing around in VR, despite my kids being away.

Life is Strange would be good to crack on with.

Also watching Twin Peaks for the first time so will catch a few
episodes of that.

[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 17 Mar
2017 07:34:46 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

I'll be playing:

Teh Zleda (Switch)
It isn't perfect. It has flaws. It's not as good as HYRULE WARRIORS. It isn't
even Zelda, really, but you know what? It's fun. FUN.

The Battle Cats POP! (3DS)
Mobile game on a 3DS, with IAP restrictions but no actual IAPs. Bit annoying,
but only playing for half an hour a day anyway so not a big problem for me.
Baffling there's a Buy Some IAPs delay in it though when you can't.

deKay
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[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 17 Mar

2017 09:07:48 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>

fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>On 2017-03-17, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Pokeyman Moon (3DS)
>>
>> Spent long time leveling my sandyghast into palosand. Beat a trial
>> easily with it. I think my team is op now :/
>>
>> Finally figured out how the day/night cycle works. Call me slow on the
>> uptake if you like.
>
>I don't play the game, but my son does. What's the day night cycle?

In Pokeymen Sun, it's day when it's day in real life, and night when it's
night in real life.

In Pokeymen Moon, it's reversed.

[hurricanepilot]

HarpingOn wrote:

> This weekend I will play

Resident Evil the Seventh (PC) :

I've gotten myself in a bit of a pickle. I have a checkpoint save that
I'm trying to work forward from that has a burst of enemy activity. I
have about 12 bullets left in my gun and there's no way out other than
through. Would be a shame to have to go back to the latest proper save
as it'll feel a bit like cheating.

Rive (PC) :

Started playing this on a whim the other night and managed to polish off
more than a few levels. Nice little twin stick shooter with some novel
gameplay ideas.

I may get some time for co-op over the weekend as well, and if I do
it'll likely involve Aiens: Colonial Marines, though there may also be
some racing.

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-03-17, deKay <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 17 Mar
> 2017 09:07:48 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>On 2017-03-17, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> Pokeyman Moon (3DS)
>>>
>>> Spent long time leveling my sandyghast into palosand. Beat a trial
>>> easily with it. I think my team is op now :/
>>>
>>> Finally figured out how the day/night cycle works. Call me slow on the
>>> uptake if you like.
>>
>>I don't play the game, but my son does. What's the day night cycle?
>
> In Pokeymen Sun, it's day when it's day in real life, and night when it's
> night in real life.
>
> In Pokeymen Moon, it's reversed.

Does it do a clever look-up with your region to work out when sunset
is?

[Zomoniac]

On 17/03/2017 09:09, Toby Newman wrote:

> Life is Strange would be good to crack on with.

Yes. Yes it would.


--

Zo

[Zomoniac]

On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
> This weekend I will play

TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.

And yet all I want to do is play it, all the time, because I love it so
much.


--

Zo

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-03-17, hurricanepilot <h@g.c> wrote:
> HarpingOn wrote:
>
>> This weekend I will play
>

> Rive (PC) :
>
> Started playing this on a whim the other night and managed to polish off
> more than a few levels. Nice little twin stick shooter with some novel
> gameplay ideas.

Ooh, that looks nice, like a shiny Metal Slug.

Does it have multiplayer?

[HarpingOn]

On 17/03/2017 09:57, Toby Newman wrote:

> Does it do a clever look-up with your region to work out when sunset
> is?
>

I don't know. I only found out it could be night time at all in Moon
when I took my 3DS to work to play in my break. Otherwise, I was always
playing in the evenings, when it's light in Moon. I never knew until
then that it used the real time, I always just thought it was light in
Moon. This is after 27 hours of gameplay! LOL

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <ej1hsm...@mid.individual.net>,

HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>This weekend I will play
>

Yakuza 0 (PS4) - Over sessions spanning four separate days, I finally
caught that last elusive saltwater fish and earned the completion point
associated with disturbing all the endangered species in the ocean. And
then in a half hour last night, I gain eight more points by being really
good at the disco dancing minigame. Somethings strangely imbalanced here,
and I'm not entirely sure it's not me. Anyway, the short term goal is to
get another ten points so that I have enough to unlock the last bit of the
secret fourth fighting style that's available to Kiryu, and then play
through the whole New Game+ mode using only that.

Something on the 3DS (3DS) - I updated to the latest firmware the other
night, and I halfheartedly tried to get into some of the games I carry
around with me all the time. I think it's probably time to dig out the big
box of unloved DS games and see what I've neglected over the years.
Although the smart money is that I'll just restart Infinite Space like
I've been threatening to do for the last month or so.

Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
can watch them on my phone. For the eleven international intelligence
agencies who are watching, I bought them legitimately and I can
demonstrate proof of purchase and licence to use the media at any time.

-KKC, who wishes you could still buy computers in stores.
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[MerseyMal]

In article <ej1hsm...@mid.individual.net>, postm...@127.0.0.1 says...
>
Apart from going to see Logan at the cinema, have nothing else planned so
gaming will most certainly take up a lot of the time so...

>
> This weekend I will play
>

MGSV:TPP (PC) - had a whale of time last weekend playing this so I'll more than
likely return to it for this weekend.

The Division (PC) - well duh. Might go onto PS4 though and play it there too
using the non-UGVM wednesday evening group character I started first.

Dead Space (PC) - close to the end so I'll get this done and dusted possibly.

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[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 17 Mar

2017 09:57:27 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do

uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>On 2017-03-17, deKay <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote:
>> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 17 Mar
>> 2017 09:07:48 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
>> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
>> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>>
>>>On 2017-03-17, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>>> Pokeyman Moon (3DS)
>>>>
>>>> Spent long time leveling my sandyghast into palosand. Beat a trial
>>>> easily with it. I think my team is op now :/
>>>>
>>>> Finally figured out how the day/night cycle works. Call me slow on the
>>>> uptake if you like.
>>>
>>>I don't play the game, but my son does. What's the day night cycle?
>>
>> In Pokeymen Sun, it's day when it's day in real life, and night when it's
>> night in real life.
>>
>> In Pokeymen Moon, it's reversed.
>
>Does it do a clever look-up with your region to work out when sunset
>is?

It looks at the clock on your 3DS

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-03-17, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
> good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
> an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
> watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
> can watch them on my phone. For the eleven international intelligence
> agencies who are watching, I bought them legitimately and I can
> demonstrate proof of purchase and licence to use the media at any time.

One day I need to rip my DVD collection (in the garage) to my NAS.
Rainy day job if ever there was one.

[MerseyMal]

In article <slrnocngku...@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
goo...@asktoby.com says...

>
> On 2017-03-17, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> > Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
> > good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
> > an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
> > watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
> > can watch them on my phone. For the eleven international intelligence
> > agencies who are watching, I bought them legitimately and I can
> > demonstrate proof of purchase and licence to use the media at any time.
>
> One day I need to rip my DVD collection (in the garage) to my NAS.
> Rainy day job if ever there was one.

I keep thinking about moving my DVD collection onto a media server but the
effort taken to do that would be far more than just putting the disc in a
player.

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <MPG.3335d5c6a...@news.individual.net>,

MerseyMal <spa...@merseymal.com> wrote:
>In article <slrnocngku...@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
>goo...@asktoby.com says...
>> On 2017-03-17, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>> > Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
>> > good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
>> > an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
>> > watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
>> > can watch them on my phone.
>>

>> One day I need to rip my DVD collection (in the garage) to my NAS.
>> Rainy day job if ever there was one.
>
>I keep thinking about moving my DVD collection onto a media server but the
>effort taken to do that would be far more than just putting the disc in a
>player.
>

I've got it down to a partly-automated science. I'm using MakeMKV, which
intelligently generates subfolders based on the DVD media label and which
can be scripted to a degree. You can also tell it to ignore streams below
a certain play length, although I found that to be imprecise when working
with TV shows as opposed to movies. So I've got a separate shell script
that polls for new output and looks at absolute file sizes once the video
streams are exported. Team that with a DLNA server that rebuilds its
library at the end of the day and you've got a mostly foolproof ripping
method.

I suddenly remember the story of the master mechanic who doesn't have a
driving licence because he doesn't actually know how to operate a moving
vehicle. This is by way of saying, I never seem to have time to enjoy all
this video entertainment I've so carefully organising and cataloguing.

-KKC, who should just make ISO images and mount them in Kodi.

[Toby Newman]

I'm put off by having to back them all up once I've ripped them. I
haven't actually calculated what the footprint would be yet.

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-03-17, MerseyMal <spa...@merseymal.com> wrote:
> In article <slrnocngku...@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
> goo...@asktoby.com says...
>>
>> On 2017-03-17, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>> > Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
>> > good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
>> > an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
>> > watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
>> > can watch them on my phone. For the eleven international intelligence
>> > agencies who are watching, I bought them legitimately and I can
>> > demonstrate proof of purchase and licence to use the media at any time.
>>
>> One day I need to rip my DVD collection (in the garage) to my NAS.
>> Rainy day job if ever there was one.
>
> I keep thinking about moving my DVD collection onto a media server but the
> effort taken to do that would be far more than just putting the disc in a
> player.

It's storage, really. Because they are large we don't want them in the
living room so they go to the garage, which is a bomb site.

[Paul Murray]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:03:58 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> wrote:
> On 2017-03-17, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>> Ripping DVDs - I remember it wasn't too long ago that I thought it was a
>> good idea for handheld computing devices to all have the option to connect
>> an optical drive. I suspect the only way I'm ever getting around to
>> watching the last two seasons of The Americans is to scale them down so I
>> can watch them on my phone. For the eleven international intelligence
>> agencies who are watching, I bought them legitimately and I can
>> demonstrate proof of purchase and licence to use the media at any time.
> One day I need to rip my DVD collection (in the garage) to my NAS.
> Rainy day job if ever there was one.

The logic train of thought is:
a) I have bought this film
b) Therefore I feel I am allowed to rip it and put it on my tablet
c) I could get someone to do the ripping for me
d) Someone has already done that, and uploaded the result
e) I should just download a copy of the film

Each step seems reasonable, but the end result doesn't?

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <oagjs7$u2s$1...@murraypaul.eternal-september.org>,

If you're a media company of any description, your argument is that the
licence is strictly limited to the reuse of the actual physical media you
bought, and not anybody else's copy of said media. Put another way, you
are not necessarily entitled to view my rip of the Camp Cuddly Pines
Powertool Massacre just because you also bought the DVD separately.

There's another issue, in that there's no guarantee that what you
purchased matches what you can download. In a bizarre reversal of that
situation, I found out that my first copy of Ocean's Twelve on DVD that I
bought at a discount was actually an eastern European bootleg, which was
missing a few of the extra features and had a slightly broken aspect
ratio. I did eventually buy a legit copy, but owning that previous disk
obviously didn't entitle me to any sort of medium transfer.

-KKC, who loves the Ocean's movies much more than they deserve.

[Nils Tanner]

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, HarpingOn

<postm...@127.0.0.1> got it all completely wrong and wrote:

>This weekend I will play

Zelda Breath of the Wild (Switch): I'm currently doing my second
big-animal-thing. I brought down the elephant and am now trying to
bring down Birdo. It's phantastic.

Phoenix Wright Spirit Justice. I'm on the 4th case, just at the
beginning of the second cross-examination. So not really far into the
case.

Aztech2 or whatever this Bejewelledclone is called (PS4). Stupidly
addictive little game, which somehow found it's way onto my console
for free. And I wanted to have a look at all my free games, in order
to delete them...

[hurricanepilot]

Toby Newman wrote:

> On 2017-03-17, hurricanepilot <h@g.c> wrote:
>> HarpingOn wrote:
>>
>>> This weekend I will play
>>
>> Rive (PC) :
>>
>> Started playing this on a whim the other night and managed to polish off
>> more than a few levels. Nice little twin stick shooter with some novel
>> gameplay ideas.
>
> Ooh, that looks nice, like a shiny Metal Slug.

It's very polished in terms of presentation.

I probably couldn't say exactly what it was that I like about it, but
it's got the replayability hook thanks to instant restarts and
generous checkpoints, and the fact that gravity toggles on and off
allows it to be both a twin-stick shooter and a platformer.

> Does it have multiplayer?

Looking at the steamdb.info page for it, it appears to be only single
player.

It was part of this month's humble monthly, but it was actually on my
wishlist as well.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:37 +0000, Zomoniac
<the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
>> This weekend I will play
>
>TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
>There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
>pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
>seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
>and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.

Is the WiiU Pro not motion controlling? That's disappointing. The Switch
one is, btw.

Cheers - Jaimie
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astronomy references to try and identify it, and we're reasonably
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[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:46:26 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
wrote:

>I'm put off by having to back them all up once I've ripped them. I
>haven't actually calculated what the footprint would be yet.

You've got the DVDs as backups, so you can skip that.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[deKay]

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:37 +0000, Zomoniac
> <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
>>> This weekend I will play
>>
>> TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
>> There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
>> pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
>> seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
>> and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.
>
> Is the WiiU Pro not motion controlling? That's disappointing. The Switch
> one is, btw.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie

The Switch one is also twice the price.

--
Posted from my Amstrad eM@iler

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:06:24 -0000 (UTC), deKay
<nospam...@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.nospam> wrote:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:37 +0000, Zomoniac
>> <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
>>>> This weekend I will play
>>>
>>> TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
>>> There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
>>> pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
>>> seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
>>> and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.
>>
>> Is the WiiU Pro not motion controlling? That's disappointing. The Switch
>> one is, btw.
>

>The Switch one is also twice the price.

Zo's wasn't, I think he got that for £35.

Cheers - Jaimie
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-- Mark Edwards, asr

[deKay]

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:06:24 -0000 (UTC), deKay
> <nospam...@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.nospam> wrote:
>
>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:37 +0000, Zomoniac
>>> <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
>>>>> This weekend I will play
>>>>
>>>> TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
>>>> There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
>>>> pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
>>>> seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
>>>> and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.
>>>
>>> Is the WiiU Pro not motion controlling? That's disappointing. The Switch
>>> one is, btw.
>>
>> The Switch one is also twice the price.
>
> Zo's wasn't, I think he got that for £35.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie

I paid £20 for the Wii U Pro though ;)

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:36:37 -0000 (UTC), deKay

<nospam...@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.nospam> wrote:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:06:24 -0000 (UTC), deKay
>> <nospam...@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk.nospam> wrote:
>>
>>> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:10:37 +0000, Zomoniac
>>>> <the_pro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 17/03/2017 07:34, HarpingOn wrote:
>>>>>> This weekend I will play
>>>>>
>>>>> TLoZ:BotW (Wii U)
>>>>> There is so much to hate about this game, the juddering, the texture
>>>>> pop-in being Mass Effect/Halo 2 bad in places, the weapons lasting five
>>>>> seconds, that fucking shrine that made me put down the pro controller
>>>>> and pick up the gamepad for fucking motion controlled bullshit.
>>>>
>>>> Is the WiiU Pro not motion controlling? That's disappointing. The Switch
>>>> one is, btw.
>>>
>>> The Switch one is also twice the price.
>>
>> Zo's wasn't, I think he got that for £35.
>

>I paid £20 for the Wii U Pro though ;)

Nice! I almost never get in on that sort of thing.

Cheers - Jaimie
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