Kendrick Kerwin Chua

It's been proven that the Inuit do not have hundreds of different words to
describe snow. What they do have, however, is a surprising variety of
profanity.

Play:
=-=-=

Mytran Wars (PSP) - Lovely. The comic book stylings of the video sequences
are somehow less annoying than in other media that use overlapping still
images that way. Having played through to the end of a battle (for a
change) I note that there are secret areas on every map a la Shining
Force. Do I painstakingly replay every tactical skirmish to scour every
little square area, or do I resort to viewing a FAQ? We'll find out later
in the week.

Phantasy Star Zero (DS) - Did some inventory management and carelessly
lost a nice armour unit that recovers HP. If I were ten years old, that
would be heartbreaking. I've decided that the way the game is engineered,
it's intended to make you go out and find additional players to get over
the crazy difficulty in some areas. That would be wonderful if I actually
knew any other adult DS owners who played the game. It's an agonising
grind to get anywhere in the game, which is why I only seem to pick up the
game once in a blue moon now.

The car repair game (RL) - The failed part was not a fuel pump! Win! Two
continuous-velocity axles were broken instead. Double expense! Boo. Still,
it's cheaper than a regular car payment. 315,800 miles on the odometer,
baby. Should I spend an extra $200 on a strut tower brace to stiffen up
the car now that it's 12 years old?

Want:
=-=-=

Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition: Colon Delimiter (360) - Preordered a
month ago, on its way from Amazon. I'm told that it has a JRPG-styled hub
area where missions are assigned? Not sure how I feel about that, although
I'm sure that the game still allows you to explore the Nevada wasteland
freely, which is what I really want the game for.

Bin:
=-=

Game shopping - This week, anyway. No game shopping until next payday if
I've got a four-digit car repair bill coming.

Expenditure:
=--=--=--=

Balance forward - $308

-KKC, who should have made time for Lunar.
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deKay

On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:

> It's been proven that the Inuit do not have hundreds of different words to
> describe snow. What they do have, however, is a surprising variety of
> profanity.

The only surprising thing about this snowfall is how it *hasn't* caused
the entire country to grind to a halt.

> Play:
> =-=-=

FABLAY DREI (360)
Or rather, it played itself. You see, when I became King I decided to be a
nice King, so kept all my promises and taxed everyone low and various
other things. All of which meant I needed about 8 million gold else my
people die. How to make 8 million gold?

1) Buy the Blacksmith Level 5 chest.
2) Smith for a while.
3) Buy houses and rent them out, buy shops.
4) Leave 360 on all day to earn money.
5) Reapir all houses, buy more houses (if there are any).
6) Repeat.

How tedious. There's no way in hell you can get the money any other way,
as even gaining money via rent while playing, the game isn't long enough!
Utterly stupid.

Also stupid is how you have to upgrade your weapons. Kill *500* Hollow
Men? Shit, no.

Freakyforms (3DS)
Stupid fun.

Cycletron 4000 (RL)
With the weather turning cold I've stopped cycling this week. Zero degrees
is my limit did that Tuesday - it was COLD), so the -2 or worse it has
been since, plus the snow, means nuh-uh. Been on the exercise bike instead
which isn't nearly as fun or good, but at least it's something.

> Want:
> =-=-=

Batrim (360)

> Bin:
> =-=

Nothing much.

> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=

Nothing last week.

deKay
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Zomoniac

On 06/02/2012 02:37, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:

> Play:
> =-=-=

Metal Gear Solid 2 (360)
Still as batshit mental as ever. Put 8 hours in, I have about 5 minutes
of gameplay and 2 hours of cutscenes to go.

Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
This is just all kinds of lovely, wonderful amazement. Only done the
first 2.5 worlds, but it's just perfect.

Skyrim (360)
Briefly. Made some daggers and ting.

> Want:
> =-=-=

Vita, Jak Trilogy.

> Bin:
> =-=

Nothing much.

> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=

January: -£568.25

February:
03/02/2012 Metal Gear Solid HD Collection 360 £27.97

Month to date: £27.97
Year to date: -£540.28

--

Zo

gunthergloop

Hang on Hang on! We need to discuss someone. I thought Niaz was the
obvious contender, but since you started let's do...


Kendrick
========

He's American. Of Chinese extraction (?)

Play
=-=-=

Poker (RL)
Friday night we had a _real life_ poker game out here. 11 of us played.
20 euros pp/ per game. And... I won the second one! Yippee!
....200 knicker was won and (mostly) spent the next day though on a
birthday slap-up for yours truly.


Battlefield 3 (360). ...Except I couldn't yesterday because I kept
getting dropped by EA and/or XBL. My two favourite playmates (of the
year) Toad and Trooper were online and we could all talk in a party
-mostly in my case, but for some reason I just kept getting kicked out.
I _suspect_ it was a problem with EA in Ireland -or XBL in Ireland. I've
had such kicks before -months ago. But never anything bad as yesterday.

I even resorted to playing...

Battlefield 3 Campaign.
This was kinda good, but I couldn't stand all the shoot/ die/ load/ go
back to the start of the cut-scene. I liked the train-start. Got a
little through the next stage before quitting out. To anyone who only
plays the campaign... that's not Battlefield 3.


Want:
=-=-=

To be able to play Battlefield 3 again. Hopefully tonight!


Bin:
=-=

Not being able to play Battlefield 3 for a whole day. I even tried it
again last night but it was the same. Boo hoo.


On 06/02/2012 02:37, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> It's been proven that the Inuit do not have hundreds of different words to
> describe snow. What they do have, however, is a surprising variety of
> profanity.
>
> Play:
> =-=-=
>
> Mytran Wars (PSP) - Lovely. The comic book stylings of the video sequences
> are somehow less annoying than in other media that use overlapping still
> images that way. Having played through to the end of a battle (for a
> change) I note that there are secret areas on every map a la Shining
> Force. Do I painstakingly replay every tactical skirmish to scour every
> little square area, or do I resort to viewing a FAQ? We'll find out later
> in the week.
>
> Phantasy Star Zero (DS) - Did some inventory management and carelessly
> lost a nice armour unit that recovers HP. If I were ten years old, that
> would be heartbreaking. I've decided that the way the game is engineered,
> it's intended to make you go out and find additional players to get over
> the crazy difficulty in some areas. That would be wonderful if I actually
> knew any other adult DS owners who played the game. It's an agonising
> grind to get anywhere in the game, which is why I only seem to pick up the
> game once in a blue moon now.
>
> The car repair game (RL) - The failed part was not a fuel pump! Win! Two
> continuous-velocity axles were broken instead. Double expense! Boo. Still,
> it's cheaper than a regular car payment. 315,800 miles on the odometer,
> baby. Should I spend an extra $200 on a strut tower brace to stiffen up
> the car now that it's 12 years old?
>
> Want:
> =-=-=
>
> Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition: Colon Delimiter (360) - Preordered a
> month ago, on its way from Amazon. I'm told that it has a JRPG-styled hub
> area where missions are assigned? Not sure how I feel about that, although
> I'm sure that the game still allows you to explore the Nevada wasteland
> freely, which is what I really want the game for.
>
> Bin:
> =-=
>
> Game shopping - This week, anyway. No game shopping until next payday if
> I've got a four-digit car repair bill coming.
>
> Expenditure:
> =--=--=--=
>
> Balance forward - $308
>
> -KKC, who should have made time for Lunar.

gospvg

"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote in message
news:2Zydne_YD61kobLSnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@giganews.com ...
>
> It's been proven that the Inuit do not have hundreds of different words to
> describe snow. What they do have, however, is a surprising variety of
> profanity.
>

My daughter loved that the snow arrived on her birthday

> Play:
Halo CE (360)
Reluctantly I have agreed to play this on local co-op with Abbas, I have
already completed it twice on PC & Xbox. The graphics look all new & shiny
but it's essentially all the same .. Zzzzzz

Skyrim (360)
I've not played this for a few weeks so it was good to go back to it, had to
find a character called Esbern & then started a new quest Forbidden Legends
which I am enjoying with my army of followers now

iOS
I have resigned quite a few games now on all the turn based games to bring
the total games in progress to just under 20. Apologies to anyone who I have
resigned a game with but I need to get some time back & these games are just
boring me now.

> Want:
> Fallout: New Vegas: Ultimate Edition
This I want but not yet, at least not until it drops below £14.99
Also of course Borderlands 2 & Halo 4

> Bin:

Lack of updates on my blog, I got a few posts in drafts I need to complete
before posting.

> Expenditure:

Jan total was £240.18
http://gospvg.blogspot.com/2012/02/s...uary-2012.html
But taking out subscriptions, kids & MS points it comes down to £78

Feb - £12 spent on purchasing resistance 1 + 2 for Abbas & The Orange Box
(360)


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gospvg

"gunthergloop" <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote in message
news:4f2f9def$0$26941$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraw eb.com...
> Hang on Hang on! We need to discuss someone. I thought Niaz was the
> obvious contender, but since you started let's do...
>
> Kendrick
> ========
>
> He's American. Of Chinese extraction (?)

I though I had an issue with purchasing too many games but Kendrick is KING

> Play
> =-=-=
>
> Poker (RL)
> Friday night we had a _real life_ poker game out here. 11 of us played. 20
> euros pp/ per game. And... I won the second one! Yippee!
> ...200 knicker was won and (mostly) spent the next day though on a
> birthday slap-up for yours truly.

Happy Birthday

> Battlefield 3 (360). ...Except I couldn't yesterday because I kept getting
> dropped by EA and/or XBL. My two favourite playmates (of the year) Toad
> and Trooper were online and we could all talk in a party -mostly in my
> case, but for some reason I just kept getting kicked out.
> I _suspect_ it was a problem with EA in Ireland -or XBL in Ireland. I've
> had such kicks before -months ago. But never anything bad as yesterday.

Toad sent me an invite for this on Sunday Afternoon but I don't have the
game.


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[..getting old and still playing video games..]
http://www.gospvg.com

Toby Newman

On 2012-02-06, gunthergloop <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:
> Play
>=-=-=
> Battlefield 3 (360). ...Except I couldn't yesterday because I kept
> getting dropped by EA and/or XBL. My two favourite playmates (of the
> year) Toad and Trooper were online

Looking forward to their appearance in the 2013 playmates calendar!

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Chris Whitworth

On 2012-02-06, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
> It's been proven that the Inuit do not have hundreds of different words to
> describe snow. What they do have, however, is a surprising variety of
> profanity.
>
> Play:
>=-=-=

Final Fantasy XIII-2 (X360) - Soooo. Given that the whole game is basically
a tacit admission that they fucked up XIII, have they fixed it? Well, kinda,
yes. XIII was basically one annoying 80-hour-long corridor. XIII-2 isn't; you
can wander around pretty freely in the first zone (after the usual drawn-out
intro bit), chat to people, admire the scenery, that sort of thing. You get
a world map (of sorts) in under two hours and you can freely travel about in
areas you've unlocked (subject to plot mechanics preventing you at times). So,
on that score, yes, lots better. However, the plot is still nonsense, the
characters are annoying as fuck and some cretin had the idea of wedging QTEs
into the middle of the tediously overwrought cutscenes, meaning you can't pop
off to grab a cup of tea when they start any more. Plus, the fact that it's
not a corridor any more basically means the engine can't keep up and so the
framerate has gone to shit. However, the battle mechanic is still great (and
mostly unchanged from XIII, modulo some minor tweaks) and it turns into Pokemon
after a point, too, so, uhm. A cautious "yay", I guess?

AssCreed 2 (PC) - Oh christ I forgot this was a modern Ubi game. See "bin" for
stupid uPlay launcher woes. I played about an hour of this before I realised I
didn't give a shit. It looks worse that AssCreed 1, and they seem to have a new
actor playing the girl and her lips bother me. English dude is *so* blatantly
going to turn out to be a bad guy I'm not even sure it's worth me playing
through the rest of the game. Meh. I'll persist, probably, but slowly.

Dustforce (PC) - I want to like it, really I do, but the controls are just
pissing me off.

ESPGaluda 2 Black Label (X360) - Now this is more like it. Took a while to get
my head round the mechanics (besides the normal fire/laser fire+slow move
mechanic, there's a thing where you collect gems to build up a meter that you
can activate to slow down bullets, or speed up bullets for SUPER BONUS MAX
POINTS depending on context, and it's all a bit odd) but it's super good fun
shooty times and reminds me why I love Cave so very much.

Sorting out the office/studio (RL) - so I now have guitar hangers on the wall
and a two-level keyboard setup so I can play at being Keith Emerson at home.
Woo.

> Want:
>=-=-=

Nothing much right now

> Bin:
>=-=

UbiSoft uPlay - So, I download all 6GB of AssCreed 2 and click "Play". This
being Steam, it reinstalls DirectX again, and I settle in to play. But no! You
must now download an updated version of the UbiSoft Enhanced uPlay Game Launch
Experience Toolkit Shitbox, which will download at approximately 3kb/s from
Ubi's massively overloaded and under-specced servers. Then, once it's updated,
you have to create an UbiSoft account - it turns out I already have one, fuck
knows how - and log in. And then once you do, you start the game and it tells
you you can't play it because you're offline, but you're clearly not, it's just
Ubi's shitty servers, again. And then once you *have* launched the game
succesfully, every time the game loads the next chunk of content, the little
piece of code that checks that you're online gets held up and goes "Ooh! I
haven't pinged the server in 5 seconds [because I've been loading the next
chunk of content] so I'd better warn the user they're about to get
disconnected!". Fucking, fucking stupidly idiotic piece of unnecessary fucking
shit that punishes legitimate players like me and gives pirates a better
fucking experience. Next time, I will pirate your game, Ubi. Fuck you.

Chris

Toby Newman

On 2012-02-06, gospvg <gospvg@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> "gunthergloop" <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote in message
> news:4f2f9def$0$26941$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraw eb.com...
>> Hang on Hang on! We need to discuss someone. I thought Niaz was the
>> obvious contender, but since you started let's do...
>>
>> Kendrick
>> ========
>>
>> He's American. Of Chinese extraction (?)
>
> I though I had an issue with purchasing too many games but Kendrick is KING

I think of him like Uncle Travelling Matt from the Fraggles.
We all stay on this little set of islands, and he's off having
adventures in the world of cheap fuel and Gamestop.

--
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Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.

deKay

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, gunthergloop wrote:

> Kendrick
> ========
>
> He's American. Of Chinese extraction (?)

They extracted the Chinese?

Sounds like a morning after a particularly dodgy takeaway.

deKay
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