Punctuality Would Be Effective (PWBE 20 Feb 2017)

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
personnel department all put together!

Play:
=-=-=

Yakuza 0 (PS4) - I have now added to my real estate labour pool a cloaked
fortune teller with a talent for restaurant investment, the muscular drag
queen that used to exploit sex workers in town, her Armani-suited enforcer
who has the unlikely name of 'Jaguar', and a super-intelligent chicken
that I rescued from being eaten as the prize in a bowling alley contest.
That's 60 percent of Kamurocho under my control now all in the space of
one night in the game, and I'm inclined to finish out this particular side
game before I make any more progress in the story. It's a clear benefit to
be able to sit and make 200 million yen any time I want, because that
means easy combat upgrades.

Want:
=-=-=

Nioh (PS4) - Maybe? Probably after the first price drop. Or more likely,
when a consolidated release including all the inevitable DLC happens. I
like the idea of medieval Japanese Dark Souls (in the same principled way
I might like medieval Japanese Yakuza or medieval Japanese River City
Ransom) but I'm a little bit concerned that Team Ninja might have lost
their way by not having enough obvious sexism in their game. I'm not even
sure if I'm joking with that statement.

Better customer service (RL) - So I won't describe or name the company I
just reached out to about a video game product, except to say that they
couldn't help me. But isn't there an art to delivering bad news
diplomatically, especially if you're hoping ever to make money from the
people receiving the news? I feel like maybe the world economy is
collapsing not because of oversupply or too much competition, but because
we as a civilsation have all collectively forgotten how to actually do
business with one another. "Can't help you, piss off" is essentially how
my polite query was answered.

Bin:
=-=

Nothing game related. Although you get a consolation point if you guessed
'Everything apart from Yakuza' for my entry in this category.

Expenditure:
=--=--=--=

Balance forward - $244

-KKC, who feels like he should have spent more at this point.
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childhood is the perfect background for covert ops. You | @
don't trust anyone. You're used to getting smacked around, | io-nyc
and you never get homesick." - Michael Westen, /Burn Notice/ | .com

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:34:11 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

>We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
>works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
>personnel department all put together!

Also my brain, which seriously isn't interested in today being Monday.

>Play:
>=-=-=

Crypt of the Necrodancer (Steam) - so I was round my sister's place the
other day and her elder lad said something very sweet - "You're the only
person who plays the same games I do". Aww. And then he proceeded to
describe how he'd smashed Crypt with almost every character, while I've
not yet won zone 4 with the default in 23 hours play. Sigh. Twelve year
olds, eh? They have all the time and all the reaction speeds.

That is all. I failed to Stardew or Elite.

>Want:
>=-=-=

Switchy switchy Zelda.

>Nioh (PS4) - Maybe?

I'm quite into the new Nier, myself.

>Better customer service (RL) - So I won't describe or name the company I
>just reached out to about a video game product, except to say that they
>couldn't help me. But isn't there an art to delivering bad news
>diplomatically, especially if you're hoping ever to make money from the
>people receiving the news?

Yeah. This is what I got from Nevosoft last week: "Some old games may
not work on the newest versions of MacOS. Unfortunately there is nothing
we can do to solve this problem right now. We apologies for
inconvenience and recommend you to appeal to iTunes support for the
refund."

>Bin:
>=-=

Immune systems that don't know their job properly.

Also routers that are so reliable that when it does pop for the first
time in about four years I spend ten minutes disabling/re-enabling wifi
on phones and computers then go around the house rebooting the wifi APs
before even thinking to try pinging the router. Cisco RV180, folks! Good
kit.

>Expenditure:
>=--=--=--=

Potential expense largely unrelated to games: I am thinking of getting a
mesh wifi system in, like the Ubiquiti UAP system. The current wifi has
been a tiny bit flaky since I put an extender in, but not so flaky that
it's better to remove the extender. So I'd like to get a cleverer
multipoint system going. Anyone had any experience with Ubiquiti, Eero,
or any others?

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <gbrlac59maceif4rr...@4ax.com>,

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:34:11 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>>We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
>>works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
>>personnel department all put together!
>
>Also my brain, which seriously isn't interested in today being Monday.
>

It's technically a bank holiday in the States today, although it's one
that not all banks honour and that not all government entities shut down
for. So if there's a wind blowing in from the west, then that's probably
where your confused apathy is coming from. :)

>>Want:
>>=-=-=

>
>>Better customer service (RL) - So I won't describe or name the company I
>>just reached out to about a video game product, except to say that they
>>couldn't help me. But isn't there an art to delivering bad news
>>diplomatically, especially if you're hoping ever to make money from the
>>people receiving the news?
>
>Yeah. This is what I got from Nevosoft last week: "Some old games may
>not work on the newest versions of MacOS. Unfortunately there is nothing
>we can do to solve this problem right now. We apologies for
>inconvenience and recommend you to appeal to iTunes support for the
>refund."
>

See, that's exactly what I expect. An up-front admission that they're
powerless to help, a sincere effort to let you know that they're on your
side, and a clear suggestion about what to do next. Either I'm not doing
business with the right people or I've offended them all to the point that
they don't think I'm worth their time.

>>Expenditure:
>>=--=--=--=
>
>Potential expense largely unrelated to games: I am thinking of getting a
>mesh wifi system in, like the Ubiquiti UAP system. The current wifi has
>been a tiny bit flaky since I put an extender in, but not so flaky that
>it's better to remove the extender. So I'd like to get a cleverer
>multipoint system going. Anyone had any experience with Ubiquiti, Eero,
>or any others?
>

I briefly looked into implementing Orbi, but I couldn't really justify the
expense. I ended up drilling holes and running CAT-5 wires everywhere,
which is faster and more reliable, but requires me to have additional
switches at endpoints where I have multiple nodes. On an unrelated note, I
can't read the words 'Mesh Wi-fi' without hearing them in Sean Connery's
voice.

-KKC, who makes 'Confused Apathy' his new punk band name.

[HarpingOn]

On 20/02/2017 11:34, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
> works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
> personnel department all put together!
>
> Play:
> =-=-=
>

Minecraft (PC)

Mod wrangling. And shaders.

Twatlight Princess (WiiU)

Controls like a ten year old game. Shall persist.


Pokeman Mooooon (3DS)

MY FIRST EVER POKEMAN GMAE!

My son is playing Sun, so I got Moooon. It's like a JRPG or something.


>
> Want:
> =-=-=
>

Breath of the widl (Wii U)

ANd for it to work with WOlf Link Amiiboo so my play time on Twatlight
Pricness isn't wasted totally.

>

A new and good Mechwarrior game.

>
> Bin:
> =-=
>

Fitbit. Unreliable bits of shitbit hardware.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:05:37 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua

<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

>In article <gbrlac59maceif4rr...@4ax.com>,
>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:34:11 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>
>>>We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
>>>works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
>>>personnel department all put together!
>>
>>Also my brain, which seriously isn't interested in today being Monday.
>>
>
>It's technically a bank holiday in the States today, although it's one
>that not all banks honour and that not all government entities shut down
>for. So if there's a wind blowing in from the west, then that's probably
>where your confused apathy is coming from. :)

Hm, wonder if my American teams are away today then. Does CA shut down
for it?

>>>Want:
>>>=-=-=
>>
>>>Better customer service (RL) - So I won't describe or name the company I
>>>just reached out to about a video game product, except to say that they
>>>couldn't help me. But isn't there an art to delivering bad news
>>>diplomatically, especially if you're hoping ever to make money from the
>>>people receiving the news?
>>
>>Yeah. This is what I got from Nevosoft last week: "Some old games may
>>not work on the newest versions of MacOS. Unfortunately there is nothing
>>we can do to solve this problem right now. We apologies for
>>inconvenience and recommend you to appeal to iTunes support for the
>>refund."
>
>See, that's exactly what I expect. An up-front admission that they're
>powerless to help, a sincere effort to let you know that they're on your
>side, and a clear suggestion about what to do next. Either I'm not doing
>business with the right people or I've offended them all to the point that
>they don't think I'm worth their time.

Huh. I thought I was matching your crap event, not showing a positive
counterpoint! What did your turkeys actually write to you?

>>>Expenditure:
>>>=--=--=--=
>>
>>Potential expense largely unrelated to games: I am thinking of getting a
>>mesh wifi system in, like the Ubiquiti UAP system. The current wifi has
>>been a tiny bit flaky since I put an extender in, but not so flaky that
>>it's better to remove the extender. So I'd like to get a cleverer
>>multipoint system going. Anyone had any experience with Ubiquiti, Eero,
>>or any others?
>>
>
>I briefly looked into implementing Orbi, but I couldn't really justify the
>expense. I ended up drilling holes and running CAT-5 wires everywhere,
>which is faster and more reliable, but requires me to have additional
>switches at endpoints where I have multiple nodes.

I've got one wire each to upstairs and the attic, but no wired devices
to hook them onto (they'll be useful for the WAPs though). Doesn't work
brilliantly with phones. No wifi for gf's phone in the bedroom was the
"fuck it, let's do something about this" trigger, so I put in the
extender as above.

>On an unrelated note, I
>can't read the words 'Mesh Wi-fi' without hearing them in Sean Connery's
>voice.

"Shay yesh to mesh"

Cheers - Jaimie
--
The physics and scientific approach of Armageddon was criticized for its
poor adherence to the laws of physics. This has led NASA to show the
film as part of its management training program. Prospective managers
are asked to find as many inaccuracies in the movie as they can.

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <cjulactjqtcs961t8...@4ax.com>,

Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:05:37 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>>In article <gbrlac59maceif4rr...@4ax.com>,
>>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:34:11 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>>><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>>
>>It's technically a bank holiday in the States today, although it's one
>>that not all banks honour and that not all government entities shut down
>>for. So if there's a wind blowing in from the west, then that's probably
>>where your confused apathy is coming from. :)
>
>Hm, wonder if my American teams are away today then. Does CA shut down
>for it?
>

It's technically President's Day in the States, but I'm reasonably
confident that California doesn't treat it as a national bank holiday.
Seems like something they would have given you advance notice of though.

>>>>Want:
>>>>=-=-=
>>>
>>>>Better customer service (RL) - So I won't describe or name the company I
>>>>just reached out to about a video game product, except to say that they
>>>>couldn't help me. But isn't there an art to delivering bad news
>>>>diplomatically, especially if you're hoping ever to make money from the
>>>>people receiving the news?
>>>
>>>Yeah. This is what I got from Nevosoft last week: "Some old games may
>>>not work on the newest versions of MacOS. Unfortunately there is nothing
>>>we can do to solve this problem right now. We apologies for
>>>inconvenience and recommend you to appeal to iTunes support for the
>>>refund."
>>
>>See, that's exactly what I expect. An up-front admission that they're
>>powerless to help, a sincere effort to let you know that they're on your
>>side, and a clear suggestion about what to do next. Either I'm not doing
>>business with the right people or I've offended them all to the point that
>>they don't think I'm worth their time.
>
>Huh. I thought I was matching your crap event, not showing a positive
>counterpoint! What did your turkeys actually write to you?
>

I wrote about 15 lines asking, in great detail, about the specific
capabilities of a particular product they claim a sort of universal
functionality for. I then wrote a brief follow-up after four weeks of no
response. Their e-mail back to me that day read 'No, it does not.' with no
other text or embellishment. Without giving away too much detail, I'm
saddenned that the tiny developer in St. Petersburg that set up shop
yesterday has better English literacy and service instincts than a
decades-old hardware manufacturer located around the corner from what used
to be ground zero for game hardware design in the States.

>>>>Expenditure:
>>>>=--=--=--=
>>>
>>>Potential expense largely unrelated to games: I am thinking of getting a
>>>mesh wifi system in, like the Ubiquiti UAP system.
>>

>>I briefly looked into implementing Orbi, but I couldn't really justify the
>>expense. I ended up drilling holes and running CAT-5 wires everywhere,
>>which is faster and more reliable, but requires me to have additional
>>switches at endpoints where I have multiple nodes.
>
>I've got one wire each to upstairs and the attic, but no wired devices
>to hook them onto (they'll be useful for the WAPs though). Doesn't work
>brilliantly with phones. No wifi for gf's phone in the bedroom was the
>"fuck it, let's do something about this" trigger, so I put in the
>extender as above.
>

Hm. Any chance this is just a geometry problem? A WAP over at one end of
the house, at waist level on the ground floor, isn't going to serve your
upstairs porn needs very efficiently. Is this maybe a problem you can
solve just be moving the access point to a more central location on the
ground floor and mounting it on the ceiling instead? That might mean more
wiring acrobatics but less hardware overall.

-KKC, who works in service of faster nudity.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:30:46 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua

<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

>In article <cjulactjqtcs961t8...@4ax.com>,
>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:05:37 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <gbrlac59maceif4rr...@4ax.com>,
>>>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>>>On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:34:11 -0600, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>>>><kend...@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>>>>
>>>It's technically a bank holiday in the States today, although it's one
>>>that not all banks honour and that not all government entities shut down
>>>for. So if there's a wind blowing in from the west, then that's probably
>>>where your confused apathy is coming from. :)
>>
>>Hm, wonder if my American teams are away today then. Does CA shut down
>>for it?
>>
>
>It's technically President's Day in the States, but I'm reasonably
>confident that California doesn't treat it as a national bank holiday.
>Seems like something they would have given you advance notice of though.

We rarely remember to mention national holidays to each other, so it
wouldn't be a surprise if it was a surprise. IYSWIM.

>>Huh. I thought I was matching your crap event, not showing a positive
>>counterpoint! What did your turkeys actually write to you?
>
>I wrote about 15 lines asking, in great detail, about the specific
>capabilities of a particular product they claim a sort of universal
>functionality for. I then wrote a brief follow-up after four weeks of no
>response. Their e-mail back to me that day read 'No, it does not.' with no
>other text or embellishment.

Yup, that's pretty crap.

>>I've got one wire each to upstairs and the attic, but no wired devices
>>to hook them onto (they'll be useful for the WAPs though). Doesn't work
>>brilliantly with phones. No wifi for gf's phone in the bedroom was the
>>"fuck it, let's do something about this" trigger, so I put in the
>>extender as above.
>
>Hm. Any chance this is just a geometry problem? A WAP over at one end of
>the house, at waist level on the ground floor, isn't going to serve your
>upstairs porn needs very efficiently.

I keep the primary WAP basically in the centre of the house, but we have
a remarkably wifi-proof supporting wall running down the centre and the
bed is on the other side of that. And one floor up, but the ceilings are
just the usual wood/plasterboard and pretty transparent to 11n. The
extender is in the bedroom and works almost all the time, but due to the
geometry tries to be the primary all through that vertical half of the
house and doesn't have the range. This means kitchen and toilet wifi is
intermittent.

This was never a problem until she got her new HTC, though since I got
it for her I'm now on hook for making it work... you know how it is!

Ooh, I've just had an idea about another location to place the extender
that I didn't try before - same floor as the primary, other side of the
wall. Can't test the bedroom signal until she gets home though.

Cheers - Jaimie (the bedroom signal is not like the batsignal)
--
There's no limit to the amount of work someone can do,
provided it's not the work they're supposed to be doing.

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

In article <opvlacpkg7vtoas17...@4ax.com>,

"Darling, I've taken the little pill, so you now have four hours to amuse
yourself upon my person. How much Night Nurse did you put in the
children's pudding and how long will they sleep as a result?"

-KKC

[Russell Marks]

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

> Play:

Hitman (PS4) - played through the latest bonus level (unsurprisingly,
a modification of an existing one again). I also tried the latest
Elusive target and kind of bounced off due to how tricky it was
looking - strictly speaking I think I ran out of time rather than
failing, but effectively it was a fail. There was just an awful lot of
added security to try and get past, and not many good ways to do so.

After then failing an Escalation mission having got into the
traditional screwing-up-in-Hitman thing of setting off "all" the
guards in a level (the military in that case) and desperately trying
to pick them off as they all approached me on the exact same path
through a door, I wondered if it was possible to deliberately do a
level in a shoot-em-up style and just clear it out completely (I was
curious about this at least partly because I suspected the soldiers
might have been newly spawned rather than simply moving from elsewhere
on the level). I tried this on the Sapienza level's normal mission so
I could save, and it took quite a while - as well as being a bit
gruelling at times, as they do a decent job of making you feel bad for
doing it (which I'm certainly not complaining about, probably more
games should do that if anything). I have to admit things were
lightened up by some of the macabre absurdity of the situation, like
running out of ammo to such an extent towards the end that I mostly
resorted to knife-throwing.

In the end the game reported 292 non-target kills, in addition to the
two targets and I would guess at least five survivors (from early
knockouts stashed in hiding spots when I was playing more normally out
of habit; it keeps them out of the way for good but equally makes them
invulnerable), and I honestly don't think it was ever spawning anyone
new on the level. The scale of the game is just nuts really, and this
was only one level out of six main ones. It's no wonder it can be so
hard to do stuff without people noticing sometimes.

After all that madness I managed to get Silent Assassin on the Paris
level, only killing two people seeming positively saintly by
comparison. :-)

Grand Theft Auto 5 (PS4) - a bit of online.

> Want:

Probably to replay the rest of Hitman's main levels, as there was a
good amount on Paris and Sapienza I hadn't seen or didn't really know
about (and quite possibly still is). It's amazing the kind of
difference you can make to things just by e.g. waking up the right
person by throwing a coin.

> Bin:

Hitman only letting you save in the main missions and multiplatform
bonus missions. You can't save in the PS4-only bonus missions, nor
Escalations, nor Contracts, nor Elusive targets. A bit ridiculous
really.

Hitman including non-silenced weapons as options in your inventory
selection, which as you might imagine from the above are very
difficult to use in any sane gameplay. Silenced pistol or sniper
rifle, fine. Unsilenced assault rifle? Not so much.

Finally enabling what I feel is the rather cheaty Instinct ability in
Hitman, which lets you see people through walls. It is a really handy
thing to have though, and in particular, it's way easier to tell where
people are vertically than with the minimap.

-Rus.

[Nils Tanner]

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> got it all completely wrong and wrote:


>Play:
>=-=-=

Tales of Xillia (PS3) - Was in the mood for a new (well, new for me)
Tales game and found this for a good price. I'm now about 10 hours in,
doing a lot of random battles just to get that wee bit stonger.
So far I like the game - the usual convoluted and mindless story about
someone who wants to destroy everything. But I like the battle system,
and the little interactions between the characters are genuinely funny
from time to time.

>Want:
>=-=-=

A Switch and Zelda. Both are preordered.

>Bin:
>=-=

Nothing game related at the moment. Yay.

[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 20 Feb
2017 05:34:11 -0600, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kend...@nospam.io-nyc> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

>
>We're on time this week!

I'm not!

> the Brexit planning committee

The what now?

Play
----

Bioshock Infinite (PC)
Well that was a thing, wasn’t it? I completed it, and wrote a reasonably big
thing about it, and you can find that here. With spoilers. In essence, though:
“Bioshock Infinite is a great story punctuated with pointless, annoying combat
sections.”.

Grow Up (PS4)
I completed this too. It was fun, and definitely a break from Bioshock. It’s
more of the same game that Grow Home was, only slightly less good.

Pokémon Go (iOS)
They put new pokeymen in it! Well, new old pokeymen. I caught a lot of them.

Pokémon Sun (3DS)
I tried to play this, but the PokéPelego stepped in every time and defeated
me. It takes so long harvesting your berries and swapping your pokeys about in
the training isle, and collecting all of the pokébeans, that “a quick go”
means busywork and no actual game. Sigh.

Total War: Warhammer (PC)
It’s my first Total War game, and I am not a fan of Warhammer. However, I am a
fan of unit management and real-time strategy, and this is just great. I can
just ignore the Warhammeryness of it anyway. Only about five battles in so
far, and I’m playing as the humans (Empire? I think?). There’s a lot to take
in, but it seems to be doing a good job of telling me how to play without
lecturing.


Want
----

A Nintendo Switch. It’s out soon, I hear.


Bin
---

Nothing!


Expense
-------

Ruh roh…

I bought a single month’s Humble Monthly in order to get Total War: Warhammer
stupidly cheap. It’ll be a few days before I find out what else I got in the
bundle. That was Ł8.97.

I also got, thanks to Sega’s Make War Not Love giveaways, Steam copies of
Shining Force, Alien Storm and Golden Axe II. Free!

And finally, Ł24.99 went on the incredible Humble Freedom Bundle. Worth it
just for The Witness, which I already had. So gave it away. Um.

deKay
--
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[MerseyMal]

In article <ic-dnV9uepiuSTfF...@giganews.com>, kend...@nospam.io-
nyc says...

>
> We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
> works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
> personnel department all put together!
>
> Play:
> =-=-=

The Division (PC) - got my 3rd level 30 who is probably going to specialise
with assault rifle and shotgun and shield and flame turret (boosted by
FireCrest gear set). Though thinking of swapping assault rifle for an SMG or
LMG.

Dead Space (PC) - this is my current choice from my Steam pile of shame. Not a
bad game and I'm close to finishing it, I think.


> Want:
> =-=-=

Prey [2016] (PC)?

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (PC/PS4)?

> Bin:
> =-=

The usual

> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=

£39.99 January

+

Nothing so far, this month.




--
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Guild Wars 2: MerseyMal.3921 & MerseyMal.7124
Battle.net ID: merseymal#1677

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-02-20, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Play:
>> =-=-=

> Twatlight Princess (WiiU)
> Controls like a ten year old game. Shall persist.
>>

>> Want:
>> =-=-=
>>
>
> Breath of the widl (Wii U)
>
> ANd for it to work with WOlf Link Amiiboo so my play time on Twatlight
> Pricness isn't wasted totally.

If you're going to call it Twatlight Princess then the correct typo
would be Breadth of the Widdle.

--
-Toby
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.

[Toby Newman]

> Play:
>=-=-=
Overcooked! (PC)
I'd heard this was a brilliant co-op game... and it is! Very
challenging, but I guess because it is based on real-world problems it
also feels very approachable. Lots of vocal communication, including
such gems as "Are you ready to receive my meat?" ... "Yes, I am ready to
receive your meat".

Tricky Towers (PC)
A nice physic based Tetris clone. Didn't go down as well as
Overcooked, I think, because it undermines the nice neat and tidy
squared-away feeling people get from Tetris.
It also didn't quite have that "one more go" mechanic of making sure
you go straight into another round at the end of the previous round.
You have to press A to start again, but I think it would be better to
press A not to start again.

SportsFriends (PC)
-BaraBariBall
Wonderful game in the vein of Kung Foot but I think with a higher
skill ceiling.
-Super Pole Riders
Excellently bizarre game with some real eyebrow-raising sword fight
moments.

Tetris Party (Wii via Wii U)
We came back to this instead of Tricky Towers because it gets the
basics down better.

> Want:
>=-=-=

To finish Dishonored 2. I still haven't had chance to and I'm sure I'm
minutes from the end.

> Bin:
>=-=

3DS online connections
It took me a full 30 minutes in a quiet room on my own to work out how
to connect my son's 3DS to his friend's 3DS and allow them to send
Swapdoodles and Pokemon over the internet.

Steam controller support
I wanted to try Speedball 2 HD and Skullgirls but found that I
couldn't get past the controller selection screen in either case. I
think this was a Steam issue because they talk about it in the recent
Crate and Crowbar podcast also.

[HarpingOn]

On 21/02/2017 12:06, Toby Newman wrote:
> On 2017-02-20, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> Play:
>>> =-=-=
>> Twatlight Princess (WiiU)
>> Controls like a ten year old game. Shall persist.
>>>
>>> Want:
>>> =-=-=
>>>
>>
>> Breath of the widl (Wii U)
>>
>> ANd for it to work with WOlf Link Amiiboo so my play time on Twatlight
>> Pricness isn't wasted totally.
>
> If you're going to call it Twatlight Princess then the correct typo
> would be Breadth of the Widdle.
>

It's a bit unfair, but the controls are getting me down, and I'm a scant
few hours in.

[MerseyMal]

In article <MPG.33163569...@news.individual.net>,
spa...@merseymal.com says...

>
> In article <ic-dnV9uepiuSTfF...@giganews.com>, kend...@nospam.io-
> nyc says...
> >
> > We're on time this week! That means we're better than the ISIL public road
> > works, the Brexit planning committee and the US Federal Government
> > personnel department all put together!
> >
> > Play:
> > =-=-=
>
> The Division (PC) - got my 3rd level 30 who is probably going to specialise
> with assault rifle and shotgun and shield and flame turret (boosted by
> FireCrest gear set). Though thinking of swapping assault rifle for an SMG or
> LMG.
>
> Dead Space (PC) - this is my current choice from my Steam pile of shame. Not a
> bad game and I'm close to finishing it, I think.

Oops Toby's post reminded me...

Dishonored 2 (PC) - did the Clockwork Mansion and the Royal Conservatory
missions. Good stuff.

[Toby Newman]

On 2017-02-21, MerseyMal <spa...@merseymal.com> wrote:
> Oops Toby's post reminded me...
>
> Dishonored 2 (PC) - did the Clockwork Mansion and the Royal Conservatory
> missions. Good stuff.

I finished the game last night! Loved it.
There's a new game + mode which lets you carry over your runes into a
new save and re-spec yourself from level 1. I re-specced as an
agressive Corvo and played up to Addermire Institute. It's amazing how
much quicker you can get through the game if you aren't sneaking.
It was fun watching the sword fighting animations for the first time
but I quickly realised that I didn't want to replay the game - with
the story resolved I didn't have any motivation.

I went and watched the world record speed-run instead, which is at
about 25 minutes (including loading times) and is seriously
impressive. Probably the best speedrun I've watched since QDQWAV.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

deKay <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote:
>
> “Bioshock Infinite is a great story punctuated with pointless, annoying combat
> sections.”.

This is my feeling about a *lot* of games these days. You're mimbling along
enjoying the design and ambience, maybe navigating some platforms or
solving environmental puzzles and rummaging in bins for coins and whatnot,
and suddenly some waist high walls or an ammo crate or some rails turn up
and it's all "oh here we go, tedious fight sequence time".

And it's avoidable, even in shoot-mans games. Take Hitman or Dishonored as
examples.

Cheers - Jaimie

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:47:10 +0000, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

I can't think what you might be having trouble with on the controls -
they seem like perfectly normal Link controls to me, I didn't need any
conscious adaptation. I'm using the usual gamepad controller and the
only thing that gives me problems is finding the save.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"It's made of people?"
"There's already a drink like that - Soylent Cola."
"How does it taste?"
"It varies from person to person." -- Fry and Leela

[HarpingOn]

On 23/02/2017 23:01, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

> I can't think what you might be having trouble with on the controls -
> they seem like perfectly normal Link controls to me, I didn't need any
> conscious adaptation. I'm using the usual gamepad controller and the
> only thing that gives me problems is finding the save.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie

I can't quite tie down what's irritating me about it. I think it's the
enemy lock on. And perhaps the fact I last played it on the Cube with
the wonderful wavebird. Gamepad isn't the same as that.

As for saves, I just tap my Wolf Link amiibo and it launches my save.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:22:55 +0000, HarpingOn <postm...@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

>On 23/02/2017 23:01, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
>> I can't think what you might be having trouble with on the controls -
>> they seem like perfectly normal Link controls to me, I didn't need any
>> conscious adaptation. I'm using the usual gamepad controller and the
>> only thing that gives me problems is finding the save.
>>
>> Cheers - Jaimie
>
>I can't quite tie down what's irritating me about it. I think it's the
>enemy lock on. And perhaps the fact I last played it on the Cube with
>the wonderful wavebird. Gamepad isn't the same as that.

Oh, aye - it is one of the best controllers of all time. My
finger-programming decays too quickly for that to have been a problem
for me, and for my sins I actually like using the gamepad. Nice hand
separation distance.

>As for saves, I just tap my Wolf Link amiibo and it launches my save.

I didn't know that! It's the "how do I save my game?" I have trouble
with though, it's always simple once I've found it but I always forget
how to navigate to it. I just expect there to be a third
map/inventory/save screen.

[MerseyMal]

In article <slrnoaqsm3...@asktoby.eternal-september.org>,
goo...@asktoby.com says...

>
> On 2017-02-21, MerseyMal <spa...@merseymal.com> wrote:
> > Oops Toby's post reminded me...
> >
> > Dishonored 2 (PC) - did the Clockwork Mansion and the Royal Conservatory
> > missions. Good stuff.
>
> I finished the game last night! Loved it.
> There's a new game + mode which lets you carry over your runes into a
> new save and re-spec yourself from level 1. I re-specced as an
> agressive Corvo and played up to Addermire Institute. It's amazing how
> much quicker you can get through the game if you aren't sneaking.
> It was fun watching the sword fighting animations for the first time
> but I quickly realised that I didn't want to replay the game - with
> the story resolved I didn't have any motivation.

Planning to give it a go in a similar way. Hopefully I'll manage to stick out
through the game, but I've got so many unplayed games that I should probably do
them instead.

> I went and watched the world record speed-run instead, which is at
> about 25 minutes (including loading times) and is seriously
> impressive. Probably the best speedrun I've watched since QDQWAV.

Excellent!