Tax Avoidance Play Want Bin (PWBE 16 Dec 2024)

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

My wife has concocted a (completely legal) scheme to reduce our tax
burden by reclassifying the house that her mother lives in. This feels
very much like the sort of thing that only privileged and informed
people do, and I wonder when it is I started playing real life with
cheat codes. Or if this is actual experience rather than a short cut.

Play:
--=--

Raspberry Pi 500 (Pi) - This thing is pretty astonishing. It's
essentially the tiny desktop computer inside a microscopic form factor
that we all imagined in our youth. It's a decker keyboard, it's a
all-in-one emulation box, it's an open source jack of all trades. And
it's super cheap in this form factor, in that I essentially got a Pi 5
in a keyboard (minus the NVME slot) for about a hundred bucks. Well, not
counting the power supply and some of the video leads. If the Pi 3 had
been this capable back in the day (and didn't require that you blank out
all the rest of the UI to play videos) I'd have been on board the RasPi
train years and years ago.

PS4 (PS4) - I got the PS4 going again just to keep it up to date, as I
feel compelled to keep one of every game system and have them all ready
to go at a moment's notice at all times. Interestingly, all of the game
installs stubbornly insist that they reside on a USB hard drive that no
longer exists, and the official advice is that I have to delete them
from storage and install them anew in order to play them. So what I have
here is an over-elaborate Blu-Ray player that I don't use for Blu-Ray
discs. Hooray?

Want:
--=--

My Video Games Plus Order - It's landed in town! Possibly for delivery
today? Today being Monday. One of the neighbourhood kids has revealed
himself to be some kind of lying weasel, but thankfully he's only five
so hopefully he's not in the business of stealing parcels off of stoops
and selling them for drug money. More likely he'd be selling stuff in
exchange for Roblox currency. :/

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who needs to set up one of these Pi 500 things as a media box.

[Russell Marks]

SteamWorld Dig (Linux) - finished a replay, having originally played
it on the Vita. I never quite know if this one counts as a
Metroidvania in the modern sense, but it's there or thereabouts. It
hooked me just as much as the first time I think, so much so that I
didn't even bother trying the controller support, I just kept digging
away with the keyboard controls.

Lego DC Super-Villains (PC) - finished the main story and some bonus
missions. It's not exactly the best Lego game ever, for me it doesn't
have the best levels, sandbox, or licence/theming - but it's fairly
good overall. As for what I said last time, you could argue the game
did end up unlocking a bit more sandbox map area eventually, but not
much. (It's a separate and much smaller area you have to deliberately
travel to/from, so I'm not sure it really counts somehow.)

Post by Kendrick Kerwin Chua
Raspberry Pi 500 (Pi) - This thing is pretty astonishing. It's
essentially the tiny desktop computer inside a microscopic form factor
that we all imagined in our youth. It's a decker keyboard, it's a
all-in-one emulation box, it's an open source jack of all trades.

And the Pi does seem to get more OS updates than most ARM Linux
options, so it's actually possible to use for more than ten minutes.
Which is nice.
To play Just Cause 2 (PC), having apparently convinced it to stop
crashing on Wine.
Lego DC SV also crashing to some extent.

-Rus.