Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:00 this Wednesday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 21:15 this Sunday (GMT):
>> > candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> >> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 18:24 this Sunday (GMT):
>> >> > Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> On Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:50:33 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> >On Sun, 01 Dec 2024 12:40:39 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
>> >> >> ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >> >>Oh, and I'm trying something new this month: providing URLs to Steam
>> >> >> >>(or elsewhere) where you can get more information about the game
>> >> >> >>(honestly, I'm not trying to get you to buy any of these. I just
>> >> >> >>figured maybe you'd like a link to screenshots or something). Is it
>> >> >> >>worth the effort or should I not bother?
>> >> >
>> >> >> >I don't really need links. I am perfectly capable of finding any game
>> >> >> >that I am interested in. Of course, I can only speak for myself.
>> >> >> >Although... Ant likes links. You are probably making him happy at
>> >> >> >least.
>> >> >
>> >> >> Always keep the ants happy. I for one welcome our new insect overlords
>> >> >> and I'd like to remind them that I can be helpful in rounding up
>> >> >> others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
>> >> >
>> >> > /me whitelists Spalls.
>> >
>> >> Oh no, what are you planning
>> >
>> > You'll see
>
>> scawy :(
>
> Scawy? Scary? :P

yea
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>The long read:
>//The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
>It's officially the game I have put more hours into it since I have an
>Steam account...The battle was so long and hard that when i finally got
>over it, I finally was able to put down the game. There's a lot more stuff
>after 10 years of expansions, but I feel like this is skill ceiling. Feels
>good that the urges are finally satiated.

Wow! That was quite a story, enjoyed reading it, thanks!

rms

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 08:51:12 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>On 03/12/2024 15:18, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> Fahrenheit 451
>>> --------------
>>> I finally got around to reading this as it's always on those lists of
>>> must read sci-fi books. I very much enjoyed it with its mix of a
>>> dystopian future (all books to be burned) and commentary on US politics
>>> at the time. Well worth a read with a downside that I found some of the
>>> writing a bit clunky compared to modern standards.
>
>> Bradbury was one of those sci-fi writers were the idea took precedence
>> over the story and characters. His writing reflects that. It's very
>> work-a-day with little excess or flourish. It was fairly common
>> amongst authors of the genre of the time.
>
>That's really what I mean by clunky compared to modern standards where
>the writing is more elaborate and not so functional. Sci-fi I feel is
>one where you can get away with that more than some other other genres
>as you're exploring ideas not 'showing off' your literal flourish. I put
>some of Philip K. Dick's work in the same category. I also recently read
>Iain M. Banks Look to Windward and that's a real contrast in writing style.
>
>Tolkien I found an extreme version of it so much so that I gave up
>reading it after maybe ten pages and finding it a slog. A great story
>teller but just not a good writer. IMHO the films bring his stories to
>life far better than the books did.

It was almost a feature of the old-school sci-fi writers. Asimov and
Clarke were also famous for their 'brown prose'; Asimov especially put
almost no details into what things looked like, for instance, focusing
instead almost entirely on the ideas and dialogue. I don't know if it
was an intentional reaction to the overly florid 'purple prose' of
pulp fantasy, but the 'new wave' of science-fiction authors in the
seventies definitely were a reaction to the dry style of the old
masters.

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?

* Castlevania

Played with this a little but platformers were never really my
thing. But one freebie checked out for once.

* Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender

Someone mentioned it and I kinda remembered playing it back when. Clunky
pixel adventure from the 90s, kind of trying to maybe be both Leisure
Suit Larry and Space Quest. Well, at least looking around usually
mentions if you need to pixel hunt on a specific screen to grab
something. Although this has actual difficulty levels so it might well
be that sort of help would go away on higher difficulty. Puzzles seem to
be pretty much object puzzles, give or take something to/from someone to
get something else or somewhere. And deaths are gruesome and common. At
least the game just undoes your last move automatically when that
happens.

Curious, I read a review from 1992. It was positive 92/100, even though
it mentioned the game was short and fairly easy and the marketing with
sex was just that. I guess the game counted as pretty good then in 1992.

* Fallout: London

My interest in this seems to be waning. I guess now it's all the
scrounging and of course, I played Fallout 4 *a lot*. I got to the point
where I can finally mod my armor but I don't have as much leather as I'd
need to add a "deep pockets" mod to each part to be able to carry more
stuff. Likewise, I unlocked "kinetic fibre" which can turn many hats
into badass helmets but actually finding that stuff? Gah. One traveling
vendor at least should have it but... Might need to teleport to the guy
via console commands. Which isn't just for cheating, sometimes need to
do that to work around quest bugs. Might be the vendor is dead too...

I've kind of lost track of the main plot but I think I need to get into
a government building next by collecting some petitions or something.

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
>
> * Castlevania
>
> Played with this a little but platformers were never really my
> thing. But one freebie checked out for once.
>
> * Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
>
> Someone mentioned it and I kinda remembered playing it back when. Clunky
> pixel adventure from the 90s, kind of trying to maybe be both Leisure
> Suit Larry and Space Quest. Well, at least looking around usually
> mentions if you need to pixel hunt on a specific screen to grab
> something. Although this has actual difficulty levels so it might well
> be that sort of help would go away on higher difficulty. Puzzles seem to
> be pretty much object puzzles, give or take something to/from someone to
> get something else or somewhere. And deaths are gruesome and common. At
> least the game just undoes your last move automatically when that
> happens.
>
> Curious, I read a review from 1992. It was positive 92/100, even though
> it mentioned the game was short and fairly easy and the marketing with
> sex was just that. I guess the game counted as pretty good then in 1992.
>
> * Fallout: London
>
> My interest in this seems to be waning. I guess now it's all the
> scrounging and of course, I played Fallout 4 *a lot*. I got to the point
> where I can finally mod my armor but I don't have as much leather as I'd
> need to add a "deep pockets" mod to each part to be able to carry more
> stuff. Likewise, I unlocked "kinetic fibre" which can turn many hats
> into badass helmets but actually finding that stuff? Gah. One traveling
> vendor at least should have it but... Might need to teleport to the guy
> via console commands. Which isn't just for cheating, sometimes need to
> do that to work around quest bugs. Might be the vendor is dead too...
>
> I've kind of lost track of the main plot but I think I need to get into
> a government building next by collecting some petitions or something.

Wait, is that a real game? I have never heard of it before.. is it by
Bethesda?
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

>Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
>>
>> * Castlevania
>>
>> Played with this a little but platformers were never really my
>> thing. But one freebie checked out for once.
>>
>> * Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
>>
>> Someone mentioned it and I kinda remembered playing it back when. Clunky
>> pixel adventure from the 90s, kind of trying to maybe be both Leisure
>> Suit Larry and Space Quest. Well, at least looking around usually
>> mentions if you need to pixel hunt on a specific screen to grab
>> something. Although this has actual difficulty levels so it might well
>> be that sort of help would go away on higher difficulty. Puzzles seem to
>> be pretty much object puzzles, give or take something to/from someone to
>> get something else or somewhere. And deaths are gruesome and common. At
>> least the game just undoes your last move automatically when that
>> happens.
>>
>> Curious, I read a review from 1992. It was positive 92/100, even though
>> it mentioned the game was short and fairly easy and the marketing with
>> sex was just that. I guess the game counted as pretty good then in 1992.
>>
>> * Fallout: London
>>
>> My interest in this seems to be waning. I guess now it's all the
>> scrounging and of course, I played Fallout 4 *a lot*. I got to the point
>> where I can finally mod my armor but I don't have as much leather as I'd
>> need to add a "deep pockets" mod to each part to be able to carry more
>> stuff. Likewise, I unlocked "kinetic fibre" which can turn many hats
>> into badass helmets but actually finding that stuff? Gah. One traveling
>> vendor at least should have it but... Might need to teleport to the guy
>> via console commands. Which isn't just for cheating, sometimes need to
>> do that to work around quest bugs. Might be the vendor is dead too...
>>
>> I've kind of lost track of the main plot but I think I need to get into
>> a government building next by collecting some petitions or something.
>
>
>Wait, is that a real game? I have never heard of it before.. is it by
>Bethesda?

No. Well, yes. Except no.

It's a free fan-made total modification for Fallout 4, available from
GOG (and possibly other places). It uses the base Fallout 4 engine and
some of its assests (so its not entirely fair to say Bethesda had no
involvement) but all the new stuff is made by the Team FOLON. AFAIK,
there's no official relationship between Bethesda and the modders.

Available here:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london

It completely revamps the game, with new location (London), new
quests, new monsters; the whole she-bang. It's even got voice-acting.

It's recommended that -if you play it- you use the GOG version since
the Steam version has been updated and you'd have to manually
roll-back all those updates first. GOG offers the un-updated version
so installation of the mod is much easier.

On 12/2/2024 8:49 AM, rms wrote:
>> ("Black Myth: Wukong" also looks interesting... but not so much I want
>> to pay full price for it;-)
>
>   I've watched streams of Wukong.  Pretty, but the gameplay is
> repetitive to an extreme, and other aspects are mediocre.  Not one for me.

I've been keeping an eye on it as it was coming up on the Souls reddits
which I have in my feed when it first came out. It seems to have dried
up there though, so perhaps it was just hype. I wasn't about to pay
full price either. I'll probably pop for PS+ again if it shows up
there, but it's not there last time I checked.

Too bad you find it mediocre and repetitive as my likes seem to mirror
yours somewhat. I'm not sure I'll even bother with the PS+ now.

Still I've got tons to replay, and all the free games everywhere I
haven't checked out yet.

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On 12/2/2024 11:54 PM, H1M3M wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
>>
>> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
>>
>
> I swear, this gets harder every month. I don't know where october gaming
> ends and November gaming begins anymore.
>
> I think I may have been playing:
>
> - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
> - Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney
> - World of Warcraft Classic
> - Link's Awakening (remake)
> - Link's Awakening (original)
>
>
> The long read:
> //The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

I played the original, it's one of very few game I didn't like the
subject matter enough to somewhat regret playing it. It was a fairly
good game of it's type otherwise, and I managed to finish the lass boss,
but not any further play for me. It wouldn't surprise me if I messed
the super secret real boss etc.

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 19:14 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:50 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?
>>>
>>> * Castlevania
>>>
>>> Played with this a little but platformers were never really my
>>> thing. But one freebie checked out for once.
>>>
>>> * Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
>>>
>>> Someone mentioned it and I kinda remembered playing it back when. Clunky
>>> pixel adventure from the 90s, kind of trying to maybe be both Leisure
>>> Suit Larry and Space Quest. Well, at least looking around usually
>>> mentions if you need to pixel hunt on a specific screen to grab
>>> something. Although this has actual difficulty levels so it might well
>>> be that sort of help would go away on higher difficulty. Puzzles seem to
>>> be pretty much object puzzles, give or take something to/from someone to
>>> get something else or somewhere. And deaths are gruesome and common. At
>>> least the game just undoes your last move automatically when that
>>> happens.
>>>
>>> Curious, I read a review from 1992. It was positive 92/100, even though
>>> it mentioned the game was short and fairly easy and the marketing with
>>> sex was just that. I guess the game counted as pretty good then in 1992.
>>>
>>> * Fallout: London
>>>
>>> My interest in this seems to be waning. I guess now it's all the
>>> scrounging and of course, I played Fallout 4 *a lot*. I got to the point
>>> where I can finally mod my armor but I don't have as much leather as I'd
>>> need to add a "deep pockets" mod to each part to be able to carry more
>>> stuff. Likewise, I unlocked "kinetic fibre" which can turn many hats
>>> into badass helmets but actually finding that stuff? Gah. One traveling
>>> vendor at least should have it but... Might need to teleport to the guy
>>> via console commands. Which isn't just for cheating, sometimes need to
>>> do that to work around quest bugs. Might be the vendor is dead too...
>>>
>>> I've kind of lost track of the main plot but I think I need to get into
>>> a government building next by collecting some petitions or something.
>>
>>
>>Wait, is that a real game? I have never heard of it before.. is it by
>>Bethesda?
>
> No. Well, yes. Except no.
>
> It's a free fan-made total modification for Fallout 4, available from
> GOG (and possibly other places). It uses the base Fallout 4 engine and
> some of its assests (so its not entirely fair to say Bethesda had no
> involvement) but all the new stuff is made by the Team FOLON. AFAIK,
> there's no official relationship between Bethesda and the modders.
>
> Available here:
> https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london
>
> It completely revamps the game, with new location (London), new
> quests, new monsters; the whole she-bang. It's even got voice-acting.
>
> It's recommended that -if you play it- you use the GOG version since
> the Steam version has been updated and you'd have to manually
> roll-back all those updates first. GOG offers the un-updated version
> so installation of the mod is much easier.

Neat. I just don't own FO4, though. I'm glad that the fans do what
Bethesdont.
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