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I think it's the principle of it - the entire database in the system I designed to try to cure cancer is 10Gb.
Is Forza 6 15x better than curing cancer? I don't think so.

Late Play - Ravenswatch.
This is a good looking Hades-esque roguelike/roguelite. One big plus is that it's multiplayer (which is fine for 2, but probably uplayable for 4). It also has some interesting character designs, which go a little further than the Gauntlet-style classes you still get in games like this. It looks great, has random map generation, plays well and probably should be fantastic - but it's also hard as nails. Every enemy is a bullet/damage sponge, and it's the sort of game where you have to learn intricate attack patterns. It's like the opposite to Diablo IV, which is superficially similar, but just has you wading through enemies with barely a thought (unless you're playing on the harder difficulties, but even then….). I don't know if I like it - I might try playing more of it coop and see if it's more palatable.

Want
A Switch 2, maybe. I really want to play Mario Kart, even though I know it's not great. Maybe I'll dive in at the next bundle.

Bin
My partner is looking to become tangled up in the latest set of big tech firms doing layoffs because of AI. It does feel like a proper snake eating its own tail system at the moment. If you AI everything, then who is left to be a good capitalist consumer of anything? I'm just hoping I can eke out 10 years of work until retirement, but I do wonder about what my kids are going to be doing for jobs.

I was in until I saw Forza 6 was 153Gb. Jesus wept.

I didn't like it a huge amount - I found it pretty underwhelming, but I might give it another go. Had a lot of small annoyances i didn't like. .

I've finished Mixtape and I don't think my thoughts have changed from what I wrote above (I was pretty near the end anyway). What is alarming is its now become a focal point for the worst sort of manbabies on the Internet. The biggest criticism I've seen from them (as they desperately try to avoid saying they just don't like it cos its got a woman in it) is that it's not really a game. Which is so fucking weird, as it's literally a collection of minigames strung together with narrative segments.

All it doesn't have is a bad punitive failstate. But these chuds all play Call of Duty - and Mixtape is much a game as that is. There's "skill" sections in both, only in one you have to die and restart, in the other it just rewinds a bit. Fucking irritating - there are literally plenty of games for these mouthbreathers, why can't they fuck off and play one of them.

Best drifting is probably the system in Mario Kart 8, Burnout Revenge or Outrun Coast to Coast. Honourable mention to Split/Second.

Apparently if you change your Xbox location to Kiribati, FH6 unlocks today at 10am.

@MPH

I shipped my Xbox to Kiribati as requested (I just sent it to the British Consulate). I think it turned up today. What's the next step?