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contain what are, in my opinion, all of the best songs that were on the VB. Leftovers has some game boy music too but it has like 5 more VB songs.
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Completely low energy this week, so writing to people in Kind Words is all Iāve had in me. But I tell ya, people drop some really heavy shit in there and itās impossible to come up with a response thatās not the most shallow platitudes, sometimes. The Real Dark Souls etc etc
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That makes me wonder if experiments like this inevitably turn into ad-hoc Crisis Hotline centers.
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I loaded a bunch of the PSP Need for Speed games onto my Vita (theyāre a weird guilty pleasure) and it got me thinking about the home console versions and I realised that thereās a direct narrative sequel to my favourite Need for Speed and I havenāt actually played it, turns out a PS3 copy of NFS Carbon goes for like $16 so I ordered that and I am hype to find out what happens after Cross chases you out of Rockport in your M3 GTR
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also NFS Carbon: Own the City is the best portable Need for Speed they ever made, itās the only one thatās even close to uncompromised
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first try
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Have been on and off interested to jump back into stardew valley after I played it obsessively when it first launched, to see whatās different and stuff. I donāt really have a strong compulsion for that kind of game these days but I thought maybe I could get pulled into the old groove I established in 2016. Was trying it with a controller and, what the fuck, this thing feels HORRIBLE to play with anything but a mouse and keyboard. Iām surprised itās so popular on Switch and stuff. I really cannot be bothered and Iām surprised how little is there to adapt the UI and control mouse cursor stuff to a gamepad. Yeesh!
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is the undub on cdromance 
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i recently re-installed fallout 4. when itās good, itās really good: rummaging through derelict buildings to find materials to bring back to your village to build stuff, shooting raidersā heads off from a mile away, and so on.
but the bad stuff, which is pretty much everything related to the boring dogshit plot, really fucking sucks.
also since the last time i played, theyāve added a mod download menu to the ps4 version. most of them are basically just action replay codes though: infinite health, start with every weapon, etc. out of those ones, i just installed the infinite carry weight cheat.
thereās a few more interesting ones, though. i installed one that makes more buildings in the city centre explorable, and one that makes the greenery more lush.
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ah man Iām going to have to give that a go 
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I swapped out the shitty retrobit PCB for the 8bitdo wireless mod, and it works wonderfully aside from the charger plug port being slightly tight (but still workable).
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so I loaded this onto my PS2 hard drive, and in testing to make sure it didnāt have any showstopping issues I got up to the second actual area of the first level
then after work I spent maybe thirty minutes being owned by the first crane before realising it wanted me to use the ledge grab and in my testing I had just somehow fluked not needing it first try
the control scheme is incredibly unintuitive lmao but Iām slowly coming around to it, the fact that it wants you to do maybe some of the more complex parts of what it tries to do in the first area of the game, with latter levels being somewhat more tame in that respect, is puzzling
the number of times I fell off the big crane due to using ākickā instead of āshootā because one is L1 and the other is L2 was frankly embarrassing
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I have one of those retrobit controllers and I like it except for the fact that it almost never works
Itās Friday night and Iām raging against bedtime so I can feel like not every hour of my life is subsumed by capitalism, so I am playing video games:
I got bored after a while, of Devil Daggers. I kinda wish the waves/enemies were randomized, a little? I dunno. I wanted to persevere so I could see more cool monsters but I just lost interest. Best thing in the whole game though is when you hear that THX Sound Test kinda sound when youāre approaching a new best time. Thatās great, love it.
Townscaper is neat. I might mess around with it more.
Godstrike is a twinstick shooter thing with time management as the hook (your time and health are a shared resource) but after 5 minutes I knew I didnāt like it.
I find Vangers completely inscrutable, and not in an enjoyable way. Does it rhyme with bangers or dangers? Donāt tell me, I at least enjoy that mystery. Nice visuals, though. Awfully ballsy to open the game up with a huge text-based lore dump.
I made it through one whole playthrough of Dyscourse, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game about being stranded on an island after a plane crash with a few other survivors. You make a bunch of choices and see the consequences play out, etc., do we build an SOS signal or forage for food, that kind of thing. Honestly itās all pretty dull and the attempts at humor are all really poorly written. Thereās a simlish-style vocal effect for the dialogue bubbles that sounds like it was recorded through a pillow, itās horrible. Luckily you can turn it off. The game is definitely structured around multiple plays because itās short but itās 100% not interesting enough to warrant it. I saved 3 out 5 of my fellow survivors and the two that died I didnāt like very much so, I am going to say I nailed it.
And then I played my favorite game, āread reviews of games in my Steam backlog so I can come up with reasons not to ever bother playing themā
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Just bought that, popped out the PCB in the Retrobit, popped that in, and now it is a Bluetooth controller that works for d-input, x-input, and the Switch. Needs some button shortcuts (holding up + start for Home, down + start for Select) for full switch functionality, but totally works.
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