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Listening to the Yakuza 5 ost track of Taxi race driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsvQ2YAbDFA
Friday, 17-Mar-23 07:58:25 UTC from web -
Ahoyhoy Amsterdam. I’m NOT here for that one thing, or that other thing, grow up
Wednesday, 15-Mar-23 16:58:03 UTC from web -
Danny Trejo is also in it but he at least plays a character.
Tuesday, 14-Mar-23 21:13:03 UTC from web -
Were NES games region locked is probably the better question actually
Monday, 13-Mar-23 12:44:36 UTC from web-
@zeldatra NES games are region locked. You need your console modded to play PAL games on NTSC consoles or vice-versa.
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I’m too tall for double decker buses, in case anybody was wondering.
Sunday, 12-Mar-23 08:54:54 UTC from web -
Finished Yakuza 4. Even though I did a bunch of side stories I completed once again in the 30% range (35%). Is all the content locked behind the cabaret stuff? Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami 2 cabaret mini games were quite fun but all the dating game simping in the other games (dressing up in own cabaret, and talking to girls from other establishments) is quite boring and TEDIOUS.
Thursday, 09-Mar-23 18:20:06 UTC from web -
The Simpsons is on Channel 4 and it’s very clearly sped up to 25 frames per second, this country is GROSS
Wednesday, 08-Mar-23 18:04:27 UTC from web -
I am about to finish Yakuza 4. I'm right now where I have access to all characters before the finale and the last opportunity to gear up and to finish sidestories. So far it was way more enjoyable than 3, however one character cannot move as freely through the city as the others because of police. Taking huge detours through the sewers and roofs is hugely annoying. Also that character is the least enjoyable in a fight.
Wednesday, 08-Mar-23 09:06:45 UTC from web -
…did I make that joke already? I’m getting deja vu from that joke.
Sunday, 05-Mar-23 20:51:49 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I'm not sure... I might also be deja-vu'ing, based largely on the fact that CA hasn't had a popular governor since before I was born
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One week until my risk of death in a transatlantic plane crash rises significantly
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 20:25:04 UTC from web-
@adiwan and then once the plan lands my risk of getting killed in a mass shooting also falls significantly
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@zeldatra Lemme know how it feels to not need to scope the exits and cover opportunities for every building you enter
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@scribus Downtown London is crazy man, kids in the suburbs were getting off school, came to the city on a train, and were just wandering about buying sweets with their allowances, never would’ve dreamed of doing that when I was a kid (I mean, mostly because the Washington metro didn’t hit my hometown until I was 25, but still…
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Steam achievements are weird or strangely not working properly. In Yakuza 3 I did over 80 substories but the achievement for 10 wasn't triggered.
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 19:34:50 UTC from web -
I put sunflower seeds on my window ledge because I feed Eurasian Blue Fluffle Puff. They have made a nest nearby.
Tuesday, 28-Feb-23 09:47:24 UTC from web -
I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 11:18:03 UTC from web -
new comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876325
Monday, 27-Feb-23 05:00:13 UTC from web -
Hearing about a big, nationally syndicated comic getting pulled from newspapers nationwide because its creator is a racist, going to see what it was, and then seeing that it was Dilbert was genuinely funnier than any strip of Dilbert. Laughed out papayaing loud.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 00:53:00 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And possibly all because he didn't get a 6 year old meme and is incapable of admitting being wrong
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Finished Yakuza 3. Well... It was fine. I eventually adapted to the controls. Plot-wise it's getting better but remained quite rough to the end. This time I only completed about 35 %. I could have more but the cabaret stuff was just awful.
I also started Yakuza 4. It got immediately more enjoyable as it is graphically on par of Kiwami 1 but has badly compressed video sequences like 3 for a bunch of cut-scenes.
I don't mind I'm not playing Kiryu as he has become too big of a persona for all the small side-quests and him forgetting fighting techniques and being out-of-shape got repetitive. Understandable and gameplay-wise mandatory, but still sigh-worthy. 3's upgrade system was also very uninspired and bare. It made me use the weapons more but it didn't made me want to mod and upgrade those weapons as they break too fast for my liking.Sunday, 26-Feb-23 21:16:28 UTC from web -
Snowfall at the hardware store today
Saturday, 25-Feb-23 20:10:03 UTC from web-
@scribus As somebody who’s never been west of El Paso, Southern California is all the same to me, frankly you guys are lucky people even know there’s places besides LA over there
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@zeldatra It would probably help if the Anaheim (OC) Angels didn't somehow become an LA team, and a FrankerZant car auction in the boondocks of Mira Loma, IE called itself their LA location, among other things like the city's history of swallowing up other towns (largely by calling dibs on water rights, which of course involved the flooding of a native sacred site) and the general fact that most of SoCal really is just one neverending urban/suburban/exurban sprawl
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@scribus I was gonna say, the other day I saw a map of SoCal’s road network and it sure does seem like urban Los Angeles is much bigger than LA County based on that alone
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My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.
Monday, 20-Feb-23 18:23:07 UTC from web -
I quit sleeping pills, which I developed an addiction to in 2019 when my depression got really bad, a little under a year ago during my first trip to the UK. I started taking them again in August after getting transferred to my new store but I’ve been a good boy since around October and I think I’ve finally kicked them for good. We’ll see how this year goes I guess.
Sunday, 19-Feb-23 09:02:27 UTC from web-
@zeldatra If you get the insomnia but don't want to give in, I've made use of NyQuil or Benadryl to zonk out forcibly
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@scribus tried this, it works for the night but then exasperates my insomnia so that I can’t sleep without some kind of aid for like a week, so now if I have any restless nights I just deal
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@zeldatra suuuucks, been there man. Gratz on getting and staying off, though. Hope things settle.
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Looks like my old Fluttershy avatar has brokey.
Sunday, 19-Feb-23 16:23:53 UTC from web-
@jackpipsam Ah, but look at what *does* still kiwiing work! :D
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I'm slowly warming up to Yakuza 3. Its presentation and controls are old and stiff in comparison to Kiwami but the Okinawa setting has it laid-back charm. I ended my last game session right before heading to Kamurocho.
Saturday, 18-Feb-23 18:14:27 UTC from web -
“Witcher 3 grape Modder Claims CDPR Used Mod Without Permission” is probably the headline of the year tbh
Monday, 13-Feb-23 21:28:31 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Slightly lesser now that I know that isn't the Chinese Democratic Peoples Republic
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Embarrassingly, I did not know that Parry Gripp was the guitarist for Nerf Herder until just now.
Monday, 13-Feb-23 03:08:37 UTC from web-
@scribus That sounds rad. One of the script treatments I’m writing as part of this series pitch is a spoof of supernatural media & part of me wonders, supposing I had to stay on the web, how difficult/expensive it’d be to get Nerf Herder to perform a cover of the Swole Foods theme song for that one. Definitely one of my production fantasies.
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Ooof... Yakuza 3 Remastered looks like it needs another remaster. It controls very weirdly and looks like a PS3 game.
Sunday, 12-Feb-23 18:58:53 UTC from web -
I mean I'll play it to the end but it'll be a doozy just from the controls standpoint.
Sunday, 12-Feb-23 20:16:26 UTC from web -
Just finished Yakuza Kiwami 2 and completed about 60% of all completables. The game was also quite good. The plot is equally as convoluted as 0 and 1. The only big gripe I have is towards the end where an optional task required a poker game with a ridiculous amount of winnings in one sitting. Also an open task I have is a game of Mahjong. I tried it but it's to foreign to me to grasp it. I'm thinking about getting the Yakuza Remastered Collection (3-5).
Sunday, 12-Feb-23 15:11:05 UTC from web -
I miss having the Rush and Beast fighting styles in Yakuza Kiwami 2. I used Rush a lot in Kiwami 1. I get that the developers wanted to scale it down to one fighting style in order to create a more consistent game experience. In Kiwami 1 the fights got often unfairly difficult and I had to buy tons of healing items. In Kiwami 2 I had to buy far less of them to the point I have more than I need from all the items I found.
Wednesday, 08-Feb-23 20:25:32 UTC from web -
The Yakuza Kiwami 2 gameplay is getting better the more I unlock. The first fights feel very clunky as I got ragdolled around. At chapter 6 onwards there is enough to ragdoll the enemies around. I'm at Chapter 9 right now.
Wednesday, 08-Feb-23 20:01:59 UTC from web -
I’m so bored.
Sunday, 05-Feb-23 13:03:26 UTC from web-
@polarisbrony There used to be a website especially for that exact situation, before socialmedia took over
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is my favorite game because I just robbed two trains and took hundreds of dollars of cash and valuables, and the game still considers me a decently honorable guy, but my friend killed a domesticated duck for its pelt and he is literally Satan.
Friday, 03-Feb-23 06:28:49 UTC from web-
@zeldatra In Yakuza the protagonist is accused of murder but didn't do it. On the other hand in the actual game he breaks spines left and right, shoots people, jams a broken bottle into the abdomen, piledrive a person head first into the concrete floor. It's ok because after the fight they are shown to be alive but bruised.
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@adiwan I’ve been playing through Yakuza Kiwami, haha. It’s my other favorite game right now.
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