Guy Fawkes Play Want Bin (PWBE 4 Nov 2024)

[Kendrick Kerwin Chua]

After a half century of being alive, I sort of feel like setting fires
and blowing things up really isn't a fun way to celebrate things
anymore.

Play:
--=--

Disney trip (RL) - Nearly spontaneously, we took the boy (and his ailing
grandmother) to Disney World. He went to Animal Kingdom for the first
time and added a half-dozen character autographs to his collection. He
also rode Space Mountain three times. Lost his special hat covered in
collector pins on the Dinosaur ride, but we got it back because my wife
refuses to give up on anything. Which sort of explains what she's still
doing hanging around me, honestly.

Want:
--=--

All my JPN-region PS3 games (PS3) - Getting them today! Gonna go pick
up, among other treasures, the .hack fighting game and the original
unpatched Demon's Souls. Will have more to say about all of them next
week when I resume normal service.

Bin:
-==-

Nothing game-related. I was going to grouse about this place in Florida
where I live, but that's both redundant and unhelpful.

-KKC, who was treated really well in Orlando though.

[Russell Marks]

Gran Turismo 4 (PS2) - very sensibly replaying this from scratch,
though I've been primarily playing in B-Spec so far, even more so than
the first time around. Starting without the bonus from having a GT3
save meant I only had 10k credits rather than 100k, so of course I
bought an iffy car to make things even worse, and had to slowly dig
myself out of that hole. But I'm finally at the point where I can
somewhat reliably get 3k from winning a race, a huge improvement on
how I started out. Even if I'd literally have to win that race a
thousand times to buy the sort of car I actually want.

Lost his special hat covered in collector pins on the Dinosaur ride,
but we got it back because my wife refuses to give up on anything.
Which sort of explains what she's still doing hanging around me,
honestly.

:-)
To not have to win that race a thousand times. I think there are a few
decent options for making money in GT4, but presumably considerable
faffing about will be required until those are doable.
Inevitably, GT4's licence tests. Even just doing the basic B licence
was a bit of a drag.

-Rus.