Is that a Schiit headphone amp?
i looooooooove tiny pvms. thank you!
yes, a Magni 2. it does the thing or driving my phones while also being smaller than what I had before: a goddamn stereo receiver from the 80s
my experience of playing games on an 8" screen has shown me that the biggest thing I would want is probably in the 13" range. nice and portable, but still big enough for a sizable picture up close
Iāve been getting energy back lately (thank god) and managed to beat two games. I canāt decide if Everybodyās Gone to the Rapture is interesting or if itās extremely boring and slow. Six hours is too long for a walking sim.
The other game was Retro Game Challenge 2 which I put off for forever and you know what? It was pretty delightful.
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This really clever, unique puzzle game called BABA IS YOU. It appears the gameās author is planning on a much-expanded version of this and I gotta say I canāt wait.
IT IS SO GOOD
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i wanted to give ffxi a go but i accidentally started playing starbound
hopefully iāll lose interest again before too long
Hey I just started playing Starbound! Tried playing on survival mode for a while and I was doing ok but then I lost a bunch of core fragments by falling down a hole and dying and then I died on my way back to recover them.
So! Casual mode it is then.
So I played a little bit of ReCore last night since itās on sale this week and I like what Iāve seen so far. It feels good, mechanically. The jumping and dashing and light platforming combined with the shooting. The charged shot.
Uh, this game is Mega Man isnāt it? That just occurred to me last night while playing it. I was like wait this is a Mega Man game how did I not see that until now.
Anyway it feels good to play. Hopefully someday people outside the Microsoft-verse will be able to play it.
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Iām playing the Crazy Taxi series to learn all The Offspring lyrics. Itās going pretty well!
I just finished Crazy Pyramid mode in CT2. The last mission (where you have to stop by all 33 Small Apple locations in under 6 minutes) was hell and it made me fully realize how useless the GPS arrow is in this game. The simple ring structure of CT1ās West Coast made it so that exploration was natural and never confusing, but here, they fully expect you to waste some coins while learning the city layout. At least the Dreamcast version lets you unlock maps for both levels and analyze all the routes. I wouldnāt finish the final challenge without that!
Honestly donāt know what to make of CT2. The added vertical complexity of Small/Around Apple is fun for discovering shortcuts, but it feels they could have done so much more with it ā in current form, it only serves to make you find a few places where jumping saves time. Meanwhile, CT1 feels like it has much more variety with every zone/district having a different structure and feel, itās simple, but well paced. Around Apple is better than Small Apple in this regard, but it still feels like a samey concrete jungle. Not to mention they both have some few places (like those narrow brick walls scattered around or small blind alleys) that are just meant to mess with the player.
Only Crazy Taxi 3 left to try out. Sadly, Iāve only got the crappy PC version with unknown bands and terrible performance that completely kills the sense of speed. I could get the console port, but I would have to find a CRT to plug my Xbox into, and thatās probably not gonna happen. Still, it already seems interesting how they expanded West Coast map to accomodate jumping (not so crazy about the way mountain areas in Glitter City look), and I canāt get enough of the series recently. The way it has me optimizing every aspect of the way I play every second, from parking as close to the customer as I can to boosting as often as possible without crashing or losing my combo, is just insanely addicting. Is there any other racing game that tries to give you a similar experience?
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Truly appalling.
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The Offspring were my fav as a teeeeeen so I recently went back through the albums. The quality drops off exactly where I remembered (roughly halfway through Splinter, completely dead by Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace), and the good albums whip back and forth between bangers and completely forgettable filler.
At least thereāll always be Original Prankster, which is burned into my head as Narutoās theme song.
americana was my favourite album in grade 6!
and one of my favourite delillo novels still
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the offspring occupies the same headspace hybrid theory does, you have to say goodbye to it as soon as possible, but you CANāT ever truly say goodbye to it
unless you never really said hello to begin with
(ok i liked ācome out and playā when i was 12 but it stopped there.)
I kind of feel like the fact that the music itself has aged so awkwardly has only made the depressing resonance of the lyrics to The Kids Arenāt Alright with my own life and those of my peers feel even more authentic and poignant, so thereās that
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Iām really enjoying Really Bad Chess, itās the most Iāve enjoyed chess in a long time
I just replayed the public prototype of Pirates of New Horizons and now Iām off to have a good cry. Somehow the environment where Yooka-Laylee got one zillion USD couldnāt come up with $10k for a cute pirate girl with a flying cat? We haaates it.
plunking through lunkās awunkanunk
feels good. so dreamy
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It infuriates me that I canāt roll up stairs in Titan Souls. Like every time I bounce off a set of stairs (and there are stairs all over the fucking place in this game) I just get so mad. Pretty tite little game otherwise though, I guess. Iāmā¦ whelmed.
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