Play Want Bin 2024-08-05

[Russell Marks]

Play:

Kerbal Space Program (Linux) - made a basic spaceplane, and took it to
orbit and back. Which was fine, but reminded me why I don't tend to
use them much. Getting into orbit is great, it's fun watching it heat
up ludicrously leaving a red trail behind it as it nears orbital
speed, but... landing is kind of fiddly and boring. I remember at one
point on the PS4 I made a design which included a detachable nose
section with parachutes purely so I had the option of skipping the
whole landing-a-plane part. Which is the sort of thing that has you
wondering if you should just be using a rocket instead.

Outrun 2006 (PC) - had a quick try of this on controller, realised
that I would seemingly need to calibrate and/or redefine everything to
get it working properly (without any calibration it was never even
reaching top gear), and switched back to keyboard instead. Which is
clunky, weird, and got me through more of Flagman 3. :-) More
importantly, it got me enough points to buy the Euro remixes of
Magical Sound Shower and Passing Breeze.

Want:

Nothing.

Bin:

Outrun 2006's button names in the controller configuration not being
quite as unambiguous as they could be. Apparently "select" means "Tab
equivalent that you use for tweaking minor options in the menus"
rather than "actual main select-things button". Also, redefining just
a single button seemed to change the definition of various other
buttons for no readily-apparent reason, yet somehow also left me
without the aforementioned main select-things button, on a controller
which has buttons for days. Bah.

-Rus.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 5 Aug 2024 at 20:27:09 BST, "Russell Marks"
A quick ten-minute thing, The Good Time Garden. It's a little practice
work by the folks who just released Thank Goodness You're Here. It's
cute and a little bit rude, and also free on steam.

Level Four of We Were Here Forever, with GusWho. It's one of those
asymmetric two-player-co-op action puzzle games, current in a series of
four and a bit, and it's getting properly difficult now. We polished off
the timed multilayered sequence dance at the end of Level 4, which we
spent about four hours on despite it being a ten minute or so loop, and
then spent nearly an hour working out how to get through the environment
to the next actual puzzle... Good stuff.

More time in Divinity Original Sin 2 with Orrah, Choobs and HarpingOn.
We kicked voidwoken arses (and set fire to ourselves a lot).

[spaceplanes]

Post by Russell Marks
wondering if you should just be using a rocket instead.

NASA went through the same cycle.
To break my games ennui, although it's largely caused by inability to
handle long-form media due to brain fade. So anything that fixes it will
ipso facto probably fix a lot of other issues... I really enjoying
playing the PMGs because I have to due to the obvious social obligation;
as soon as I sit down by myself I think of a million more important
things to do.
A million more important things.

Also that Kendrick's usenet provider has busted the group, so he's
working on a workaround.

Cheers - Jaimie

[Russell Marks]

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
On 5 Aug 2024 at 20:27:09 BST, "Russell Marks"

[...]

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
[spaceplanes]

Post by Russell Marks
wondering if you should just be using a rocket instead.

NASA went through the same cycle.

But I mean... spaceplanes are still really neat. I suppose that part
of the cycle will be reflected by Sierra Space with Dream Chaser. :-)

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
Also that Kendrick's usenet provider has busted the group, so he's
working on a workaround.

I'm now half-expecting an eventual reference to RFC 1149.

-Rus.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

On 8 Aug 2024 at 10:30:41 BST, "Russell Marks"

Post by Russell Marks

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
On 5 Aug 2024 at 20:27:09 BST, "Russell Marks"

[...]

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
[spaceplanes]

Post by Russell Marks
wondering if you should just be using a rocket instead.

NASA went through the same cycle.

But I mean... spaceplanes are still really neat. I suppose that part
of the cycle will be reflected by Sierra Space with Dream Chaser. :-)

Post by Jaimie Vandenbergh
Also that Kendrick's usenet provider has busted the group, so he's
working on a workaround.

I'm now half-expecting an eventual reference to RFC 1149.

Worse. Some sort of fax-to-usenet gateway I bet.

Cheers - Jaimie