Bits & Bobs 45

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 15:45

Try Ridge Racer 2.

Type 4 is also great though.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 15:45

Findus Fop wrote:

What's the name of the PSP version, Mr Warrior? My Vita's PS store is offering up Ridge Racer Type 4 and Ridge Racer TM (for exciting tracks twisting in and out of intellectual property issues). And approximately 6,000 Ridge Racer songs. Which is of course exactly what I'm looking for. Sony dickheads.

This one: https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/ ... GERA000001

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Thank you! There's a solid £4 difference between Ridge RacerTM and Type 4, so I'll try the cheaper Type 4 if that's good too.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 15:57

Findus Fop wrote:

I'll try the cheaper Type 4 if that's good too.

I've heard it's the best one but I've not played it myself. I never had a PS1.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 16:04

Future Warrior wrote:

Findus Fop wrote:

I'll try the cheaper Type 4 if that's good too.

I've heard it's the best one but I've not played it myself. I never had a PS1.

I've got it with the Jogcon controller which was ace. It only worked with this one game I believe but it was still great. It did the whole tactile/force feedback thing very well.

Cavey · **Posted:** Fri Nov 20, 2015 16:08

Future Warrior wrote:

Findus Fop wrote:

I'll try the cheaper Type 4 if that's good too.

I've heard it's the best one but I've not played it myself. I never had a PS1.

It was released on PSN (for the PS3) a few year back mate, don't know if it's still on there. I never really got into it (personally I love RR7 and loved the original arcade RR and PS1 RR2)

RR7, my fave game of all time and the only one I've ever 100% completed (including all the extra online content/career mode challenges - one of these was almost impossible, the "UFRA Special Event 15", a time attack using one of the special cars. Must've taken me at least 200 attempts, probably more, and I eventually did it with three thousanths of a second to spare

)

"You got nitrous"
"See you at the finish line"
"Triple baby!!" [gotta love triple nitrous on the Himmel EO, RR's "Porsche"

]

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Ridge Racer 7 is awesomely great. Still my favourite PS3 game.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 15:50

There's a pack of bacon in the fridge that looks like it's been open about a week. It'll be fine right?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

There's a pack of bacon in the fridge that looks like it's been open about a week. It'll be fine right?

Is it green or does it have a rainbow look to it?

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 16:19

DavPaz wrote:

Goddess Jasmine wrote:

There's a pack of bacon in the fridge that looks like it's been open about a week. It'll be fine right?

Is it green or does it have a rainbow look to it?

Neither, it was drying out. I decided to do the sensible thing and cook it all. I'd make an awesome bachelor.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

Solid choice

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8648

A week? You wish.

Morte · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:08

Over the weekend I read this article...

http://www.cracked.com/blog/isis-wants- ... -magazine/

Strange to think that in this day and age it's a comedy website that provides the most concise information on ISIS. More valuable information in the article than the seemingly hundreds of hours of 24 Rolling News I've seen in the last week.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:11

From about 2007 to around 2013 I used to read Cracked regularly. Sometimes they could really cover complex issues well and with sufficient knob gags to keep people interested and they frequently had quite serious coverage of stuff in their own style. Then it kind of went crap and samey so I haven't visited for about two years. Will check this one out when I get home.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:18

CHRIST MORTE I HAVE WORK TO DO

Morte · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:24

My plan to destroy capitalism continues apace!

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:33

Good job I don't have work to do... Well, I do... I'm just ignoring it. Great article there Morte. Very interesting.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Nov 23, 2015 13:36

It's the fifty articles I read after it that are the problem.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I usually limit myself to the photoplasty section. There's never more than 2 or 3 per day

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Do we have a whisk(e)y thread?

Anyway, not a single scotch in whisky of the year:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri ... rlds-best/

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Rab writing about games again

http://www.wow247.co.uk/2015/11/23/robe ... kyu-raibu/

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

The BBC's Nga Pham explains how to pronounce the Vietnamese name Phuc Dat Bich.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5151

There was a kid at school called Phuc Huyn who had a similar problem.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Old Infocom stuff

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/6 ... 3975471104

This is a GOLD MINE. Binders documenting every stage of design and development at Infocom. https://t.co/3JtTL9TNDA pic.twitter.com/zuWSXu1rP8
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 23, 2015

Quote:

This is a GOLD MINE. Binders documenting every stage of design and development at Infocom

https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

And http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834

Quote:

This is big news, in the realm of game design studies.

During the production of GET LAMP, I spent a lot of time digitizing or photographing all sorts of artifacts and documents related to Interactive Fiction and text adventures. This included books, advertisements, printouts, and various ephemera that various players or programmers had lying around from that era. This would usually involve one or two ads, maybe a map or two that someone had drawn, and one or two photos snapped at a convention.

But not in the case of Steve Meretzky.

If you’re coming into this relatively new, or even if you need a little brush-up, let me state: Steve Meretzky has earned the title of “Game God” several times over, having been at the center of the early zenith of computer games in the 1980s and persisting, even thriving, in the years since. He continues to work in the industry, still doing game design, 35 years since he started out as a tester at what would become Infocom.

But more than that – besides writing a large amount of game classics in the Interactive Fiction realm, he also was an incredibly good historian and archivist, saving everything.

EVERYTHING.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:19

I did my first Twitch stream tonight.

I don't get it.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

Todays XKCD is a 'game'

http://xkcd.com/

Which you can of course finish in a few seconds , however you can instead leave the play area and explore a 'world' with hidden stuff everywhere :-)

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:14

zaphod79 wrote:

Todays XKCD is a 'game'

http://xkcd.com/

Which you can of course finish in a few seconds , however you can instead leave the play area and explore a 'world' with hidden stuff everywhere :-)

SPOILERS

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:03

My compact stereo arrived yesterday. It was £40 and can play cds, stream bluetooth noises, SD reader, usb socket and an FM radio. And it has a clock.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:07

Haven't you just bought a PS4? Surely that can play CDs?

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:09

My nan has something like that.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:11

A)she probably has a ps4

OR

B) yes I know I gave her one

You can pick whichever one you find funniest.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:20

TheVision wrote:

Haven't you just bought a PS4? Surely that can play CDs?

I should try that. It probably can. If Sony truly want a one box entertainment solution for the home then they surely must have made it play cds.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:23

No DAB?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:28

No, but I can bluetooth a pad, phone or touch through it. You cannot bluetooth an address book over to an iPhone though, which is ANOTHER STUPID THING.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:29

Basically, the lack of functional practicality in modern day consumer electronics really vexes me.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

You mean the lack of support for your weirdly legacy habits really vexes you.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:42

These are not unreasonable expectations. If you have a class one laser them why not stick the chip in to codec a cd? Or use a bluetooth whatnot to transfer one phones address book to another.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

MaliA wrote:

If you have a class one laser them why not stick the chip in to codec a cd?

Con: engineering time to write the software and QA.
Pro: literally one more satisfied customer.
Con: MaliA is more at peace with life.

Looks like a simple calculation for the Sony beancounters!

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:52

NO ONE EXCEPT OLD PEOPLE LISTENS TO CDS ANYMORE

We youngsters listen to vinyl.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

MaliA wrote:

If you have a class one laser them why not stick the chip in to codec a cd?

Just FYI a codec is a device or algorithm used to carry out the encoding, not the process itself.

MaliA wrote:

Or use a bluetooth whatnot to transfer one phones address book to another.

Because it's much better to centralise contact data and have individual devices pull stuff down from the internet presumably.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:56

There's a great old-fashioned (ie 1990s style) record shop on the Cowley Road. Everytime I'm there I end up buying something based on the shopkeeper's recommendation. I feel like I'm cheating as I only buy CDs and don't have a beard.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 13:58

All cd players are are optical grammarphones. it isn't exactly new tech. Harumph.I blame myp

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 13:59

MaliA wrote:

All cd players are are optical grammarphones. it isn't exactly new tech. Harumph.I blame myp

You're a grammarphone

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 18:18

Uber but for angry gamers: https://twitter.com/dryvyng/status/669442572453068805

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Kern wrote:

No DAB?

Why would anyone want DAB? It's rubbish.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 19:48

Also: cafes that do not serve food between half eleven and twelve because they "need to turn the kitchen around".and a chip shop that shuts at 7pm!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Future Warrior wrote:

NO ONE EXCEPT OLD PEOPLE LISTENS TO CDS ANYMORE

We youngsters listen to vinyl.

And gaze in wonder at the artwork, and enjoy reading the lyrics and details of all the musicians who played on each track, which is either too small to see/read properly on CD covers, or non-existent with downloads.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 20:28

Warhead wrote:

Future Warrior wrote:

NO ONE EXCEPT OLD PEOPLE LISTENS TO CDS ANYMORE

We youngsters listen to vinyl.

And gaze in wonder at the artwork, and enjoy reading the lyrics and details of all the musicians who played on each track, which is either too small to see/read properly on CD covers, or non-existent with downloads.

Metadata has all that info, if you want it.

Edit: maybe not lyrics.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2015 20:31

How can you impress visitors/be properly judged by visitors if you don't have your extensive collection on display for them to look at whilst you make the tea?

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