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I wonder where this is gonna be posted.
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I started playing Spirit Tracks a few days ago on my Wii U. I like the music, the fact that it’s a direct sequel to Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass, and having a Zelda that possessed shit with me instead of some generic fairy. Immediately became one of my favorite Zeldas (the character, not the game) I’ve met in the series.
The game is one of the easiest Zeldas I’ve played so far (not sure how much more difficult it’s gonna get as I progress, but it’s far easier than some other games in the series that are complicated from the get-go) and the touch controls can take a while to get used to. Oh, and playing on the Wii U is more than a little annoying, as the gamepad is a tad heavy to hold in one hand and use the stylus with the other, and it’s difficult to try to watch what’s happening in both your gamepad and the TV in scenes that utilizes both of them.
All in all, despite being really easy, everything else (minus the graphics) sort of make up for it. Particularly if you’ve played WW and PH you’ll recognize characters or mentions of characters that you’ve met in those games.
So yeah, here’s my 13 years too late quick review of this game.
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TIL Walter Rohrl, the German rally driver who famously raced for Lancia and Audi in the Group B era, raced at Le Mans in 1981 in a Porsche 944 LM and finished first in class.
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Been watching some Olympic short track skating the past few days. Exciting sport ruined by biased judging and naughtiness of Chinese so called “Olympians”. The men’s 1500m finals (lacking any Chinese athletes) were really exciting, though. Hooray to all athletes who had to put up with China’s bullshit and still performed fantastically.
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Well, I did it. I beat Sonic 2. Fine, I played on my Switch and used savestates, but whatever. Maybe I'll try to beat it on my actual Genesis sometime later.
Meanwhile, I've started Sonic Mania. Really digging the remixed tunes.
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Second attempt at Sonic 2 brought me to Metropolis Zone Act 2. For fun, I decided to try it on my Nintendo Switch, and thanks to better controls
and savestatesI managed to get to Sky Chase when I decided I’d had enough for the day. Looks like I’ll be beating this game tomorrow!-
Wait until you see the final stage. No rings lol. Metropolis Zone has some awesome music, though. You're making me want to play this game again! Drop dash on Switch Sonic 1 and 2 is amazing, by the way. After Mania, I keep forgetting that drop dash didn't exist aside from in the Sonic 3 beta before it got cut, and I am very glad that they put it in Sonic 1 and 2 on Switch.
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I played Sonic 2 seriously for the first time today. I went as far as Mystic Cave Zone Act 2 until I ran out of lives and the one continue. Damn, how am I gonna beat this without saves?
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You know how the game's physics engine works? If you don't, take a look into it, as the way it works is really cool. Sonic's gameplay, in Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3&K, and Mania, is extremely heavily reliant on the physics engine, which was something perhaps revolutionary at the time in a home console game. Sonic is defined by slopes, and these are the most important parts of the level design, as they are what affect your jump height to a massive degree. With enough speed, which you get from practice, and an upwards slope, you can jump insanely high and far. This is how you master Sonic. Speed is your reward for being good, not something that is or should be given to the player without earning it, and this is why the 2D games have a relatively high skill ceiling for platformers.
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I was reminded today that if Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were still alive today, they’d both be 93. Turns out the past is more recent that I thought.
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I’ve been dabbling with Kerbal Space Program recently. Nice game if you want to rip your head off trying to be a rocket scientist. I’ve so far managed to land a few kerbals on the moon and bring them back, but I can’t do it consistently nor do much more than that. Still, it’s definitely something to check out if you like tinkering with… anything.
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I played with it as well a while back. Fun game, but the time it would take to really figure it out was just more than I have available.
Then I turned it into, "build the least spaceworthy ship possible and see how long your Kerbals last." The goal isn't to necessarily have it just blow up, but to fail in novel ways and with as great a casualty count as possible. Bonus points if it actually makes it into space for a time.
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Building spaceplanes now. I’ve managed to reach orbit then drop back down, but I don’t have fuel to go any further. Plane is heavy enough as is. I have no idea how people build interplanetary planes.
In response to your challenge, I built a satellite covered in an ungodly amount of small solid fuel boosters and put it in orbit. I made a rocket with a crew of about 10 kerbals and put it in orbit, making sure the two have intersecting orbits. I sped the game up until the two finally collided. It took way too much time and effort, but I think it’s a pretty spectacular way to kill a dozen kerbies.
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Spent the first day of winter break reading Ready Player Two from beginning to end. It's probably the worst of his three novels. Instead of Ready Player One's epic adventure going through various phases of twists and turns, Two is just one big phase that drags on and on and on. Two had 2/3 the pages of One but had a tenth of its content. What should have been major characters only get like 2 pages' worth of content on them, and the book's idea itself isn't what I'd call novel. I liked the ending though, but it was really predictable. The few subtle references I caught ("Don't spend it all in one place" and Norton the warden) were kind of fun too.
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27 years ago today, my grandfather (dad’s side) passed away in a car accident. He was in his late 40s and my dad was 21. My dad, well, he isn’t the nicest person in the world, but I respect him for what he managed to accomplish in his life after losing his father at such a young age.
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Installed Debian and KDE on a spare laptop. I'm actually liking it so much that I'm considering using this on my main laptop too.
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@GoldLeader My car is white as well Johnny. I would blend easy with the rest.
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Some kid who goes to the same hagwon that I go to was tested positive for COVID. School immediately made me go home and I’m required to have a swab stabbed up my nostril again. Good thing I’m vaccinated I guess, although I probably won’t be allowed to go to school until I’m confirmed negative.
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No more CAPTCHA, yay.
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Korean Air used to have a bunch of games in the entertainment screen and they have since disappeared. These weren’t just chess and soccer either, there was a rally game (which oddly had a terrible handling WRX and an excellent handling F150), a first person shooter, and some really fun strategy games. I wonder if any of these were preserved or if they’re lost forever.
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There was some talk a few years ago about adding them as consoles in MAME, but I don't believe that it ever really went anywhere. From what I remember of the (relatively brief) discussion, obstacles included:
- Obtaining the units, which were mostly on lease to the airlines and maintained under contract by the manufacturer
- Some may have worked on a VDI / thin client model, so could be relatively hardware-intensive to emulate
- Software would have to be extracted from units that weren't taken back by the manufacturer, which would make it as difficult to find in the wild as the hardware
- Potential for whole-disk encryption, security keys / dongles, etc.
It wasn't so much that there was any opposition to the idea or that they were considered unreasonable to emulate, but that the practicalities of obtaining a working setup to reverse-engineer and emulate were very significant.
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Semi-related: What I would really love is some emulator of those 3D non-textured driving simulators that driving schools have been using for decades. I googled like crazy, but I had no luck. I remember being hypnotized by those machines as a kid. Computerized visual tests are interesting too.
It's sad that some programs/games/books are lost forever. And let's not talk about songs created thousands of years ago, as we only have the instruments for those.
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Got my second dose of Pfizer this morning. It’s 10pm now and I’m still totally fine. Hope I don’t feel like a wet rag tomorrow.
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Here in Norway I got my (my age-groups) second vaccine 17th Sept. (older and more sickly got it earlier).
I didn’t really bother about concerns as to vaccine side-effects… but, you know… got this phobia to blood… blood-talk… and some associated parapharnelia…
And she asked… ‘Do you use blood-thinning midications…’
And … on and on…
Then the shot… with all the blood n’ needle phobia in my mind…
I almost blacked out + puked.
But got through it.
As for worries concerning the vaccine-content and possible side-effects … just wasn’t there at all.
Hope we can get at those offshot-Covid-variants spreading.
Anyway… we - Humanity - should take some lesson as to what we directly or indirectly ‘import’ into our societies, into our crowds. It’s hardly a secret it came from one certain province on the face of the planet. Why not be a little more careful about what agents of nature we interact or meddle with…? And why shouldn’t anyone concerned with such issues be alert to the dangers of such things? In any run-of-the-mill YouTube video about bats, or about virus-research, its inherent in the content that such things pose an actual danger…
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