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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

> Huh. House of Lords is getting a Labour-flavoured makeover. I only heard
> about that from our American comics pages. You'd think a big change to
> the UK government like that would get a bit more attention.

It seems like a continuation of Blair-era changes, so if you see
Starmer as a Blair tribute act, in some sense it isn't that
newsworthy.

> Play:

Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) - there are various two-monster village
quests which open up after you get the credits, so I figured I might
as well make a start on those in this third playthrough. The
Agnaktor/Uragaan one wasn't too bad with the long sword from the
Argosy captain, but even with my Qurupeco armour nearly maxed-out now
it's definitely showing how non-ideal it is for such a quest. As is my
dubious level of long sword proficiency, to be fair.

Tomb Raider (2013) (PC) - more collect-em-up action, finishing off
everything shown on the map for what the game describes as 90%
completion. Knowing me I might well look up where to find the rest
too, but that would probably be excessive (which virtually guarantees
it'll happen).

> Want:

Maybe this eventually...

> Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii

Shame they couldn't work Robot and Ninja into the name somehow.

> Bin:

Failing to run GRIP (Linux) - the gog.com installer was inexplicably
falling over in Wine, and I was considering some VM-based approach for
installation before remembering that search engines exist, and using
innoextract instead. Then the game would fall over trying to play a
video. After sorting that, it still fell over, just a few seconds
later. Apparently this can actually run on Linux, but whether it'll
play nice with my setup might be a different matter. Anyway, it's kind
of surprising given the sheer number of games that have worked for me
so far with generally fairly minimal hassle.

-Rus.

In article <6oOsP.18319$7fef.740@usenetxs.com>,
Russell Marks  <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:
>Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
>
>> Huh. House of Lords is getting a Labour-flavoured makeover. I only heard
>> about that from our American comics pages. You'd think a big change to
>> the UK government like that would get a bit more attention.
>
>It seems like a continuation of Blair-era changes, so if you see
>Starmer as a Blair tribute act, in some sense it isn't that
>newsworthy.
>

I won't consider Starmer to be a fully realised Blair analogue until he
declares victory and announces when he'll leave office without having
been shown the door by his own party in some undignified way.

>> Play:
>
>Monster Hunter Tri (Wii) - there are various two-monster village
>quests which open up after you get the credits, so I figured I might
>as well make a start on those in this third playthrough. The
>Agnaktor/Uragaan one wasn't too bad with the long sword from the
>Argosy captain, but even with my Qurupeco armour nearly maxed-out now
>it's definitely showing how non-ideal it is for such a quest. As is my
>dubious level of long sword proficiency, to be fair.
>

Something I observed in all the Nintendo Monster Hunter games is that
the boss rushes were always designed to make your loadout impossible to
plan out. You'd get armour or elemental defence ready for the first
boss, and then it'd be useless against the second and the third. It was
always more important to just get the stupid earring accessories to buff
other unrelated stats, which essentially meant you were going into
battle completely naked and with a less-than-ideal weapon in hand.

>> Want:
>
>Maybe this eventually...
>
>> Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
>
>Shame they couldn't work Robot and Ninja into the name somehow.
>

I don't know any spoilers ahead of time, but I am confident in asserting
that the game will feature both a robot and a ninja in spite of their
conspicuous absence from the title.

-KKC, who also has RPG Maker With on the way.