JaguarWong

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    It was a beautiful weekend in my part of England so I decided to try out a 'Retrobright' (ish) solution I read about a while ago.

     

    Couple of weeks back I bought a one litre bottle of 12% peroxide cream from eBay.

     

    The thing I read suggested mixing this with 'Vanish oxy-action' but, since I didn't have this I  mixed the cream with a little bicarbonate of soda and painted it onto the number keys of my very yellowed Amiga 600 keyboard.

    Then it was left out in the sun for 3 hours.

     

    This was the result

     

    Not too shabby if I do say so myself!

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    I'd say you should only add a game to your spreadsheet if you liked the game and remembered to add it after you played it.

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    That's a nice idea (and I do have a played/completed column) but one of the main reasons for having this is to know what I own and haven't played.

    And it's more of an inventory than a diary. A blog with thoughts on every game played would be a diary - I kind of had that when I was playing every game on Mame (http://mybudgetmame.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/setting-standard-mame-hidden-gems-0-9.html) but it's very different to a list of the games in my collection. 

     

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    I think 'collector' can sometimes bring the wrong image to mind (thanks The Simpsons).

     

    So yeah, I do own a lot of games and a lot of consoles but they are all there to be played - the only thing I have that's still sealed in its original packaging is a Yoshi amiibo.

     

    To get to the point. As a full on geek I like to keep tabs on the games I have by means of a spreadsheet, (check it out if you're curious: https://goo.gl/cm6slg) because of this I know, for example, that I have exactly 1077 video games - Or do I...

     

    This morning I finished Kathy Rain, I loved it. On the train to work yesterday I was playing Lara Croft Go, I love that too.

     

    But neither of those games appear in that spreadsheet because I played them both on my phone.

     

    It seems so pointless a thing to bother a person but I can't quite bring myself to add an Android column - and if I did, what criteria would I use?

     

    Anything goes? Only games I have installed? Only games that are also on 'proper' platforms? Only games that aren't freemium?

     

    All opinions on this most 1st world of problems are welcome.

     

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    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/03/10/reservoir-dogs-bloody-days/

     

    Well, it’s all about flashbacks. Bloody Days follows the Dogs (yes, that’s what we’re calling them) through the jobs that lead up to the fateful diamond heist, and each mission is a rapidly escalating catastrophe, as alarms are triggered, police cars surround the building, and the bodies start to pile up.

     

    On each mission, you have control of all three Dogs involved, but rather than moving them all at the same time by dragging a cursor around them, you use a twin-stick method (though I played with WASD and mouse aim). Say you’re initially in control of Mr Blonde, you could enter a room, take out two guards with their backs turned and then cover one of the doorways. And then you hit space.

     

    That’s the key to the entire game. As soon as you press it, you move to the next character in line and time rewinds to the beginning of Mr Blonde’s ‘turn’. These turns aren’t discrete things. You might control Blonde for fifteen seconds before hitting space, in which case you’ll have control of the next character for that same passage of time. Blonde repeats his actions exactly as they were the first time around, and you use the second character to support him. And then, when you catch up to real time, the clock rewinds again and you figure out what the third character should be doing during that fifteen second period.

     

    Colour me interested.

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    I've just been through the GoG sale picking out recommendations for my nephew, thought I'd share since I had it in the clipboard anyway.

     

    Mark of the Ninja Special Edition- £3.69

    World of Goo - £1.69

    Super Time Force Ultra - £4.09

    Crypt of the Necrodancer - £2.79

    Beyond Good and Evil - £2.69

    Bloodrayne Betrayal - £0.79

    A Boy and his Blob - £2.89

    Galak-Z - £2.89

    Broforce - £2.99

    Invisible Inc - £4.99

    The Swindle - £2.99

    Freedom Force - £1.19

    Mirror’s Edge - £3.79

    Braid - £2.79

    Gemini Rue - £1.69

    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - £2.69

    Rayman Origins - £5.39

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    2 hours ago, dartmonkey said:

    anyone have any experience with those powerline Ethernet adaptors?

    I've used them in my last two houses and they work a treat. Full speed internet with no drops anywhere in the house.

    I'll be using them up to the new games room when it's finished.

     

    In the previous place we had a real Heath Robinson setup combining WiFi boosters, power line adapters and rebroadcasting the WiFi from a laptop.

    In the whole chain the weakest link was always the laptop.

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    8 hours ago, Ben X said:

    Also includes The Swindle for only £3, the best cybersteampunk stealth platformer from the year before Xcom 2 came out.

     

    Yes indeed! Fantastic game - £3 is silly money for.

    I'm very much looking forward to his Behold The Kickmen.