Let It Out

I've been replaying Extreme JP on the PS2 since I got new memory cards and I can't unlock Max Period no matter how hard I try. I can't for the life of me remember how I unlocked it 10 years ago when I was 17, but I just can't do it anymore. Maybe it's my age catching up to me. I can't read the fast part at all anymore. I also started to use slower speed mods for songs I used to play on x3 and can't play on Reverse as well as I used to. It took a good while to unlock The Legend of Max, so this seems like a battle I just can't win.

I'll probably have to resort to using the system memory support method since I have a copy of Party Collection, but I'll wait until I've unlocked everything else before I do so.

I have only started to get back into playing console games back in June, so I hope it's me being rusty and not my age. If it is, it makes me sad that my abilities are waning due to forces outside my control.

Been diagnosed with costochondritis maybe because of me overplaying DDR and me aging (I'm in my 30s). Just when I'm about to do good at certain expert charts, though at least I've accomplished things like doing a full combo with Dead End. I don't know when this will be gone and if it'll come back again some time, but my body will definitely crave for DDR other than having these chest pains.

Yeah, I was quite surprised to find that this forum was still getting several daily posts here, as I had assumed pretty much all forums online were dead by this point. Discord certainly isn't a bad platform by any means, but I like seeing that independent forums like this one are still alive as well.

As if things this year and decade couldn't get any worse... 2024 has eclipsed both 2016 AND 2020 as the new worst year of all time. Full Stop. Things WILL get even worse by the conclusion of this year.

GX is an absolute banger of a game, and every time I play it I get a little more sad that we've had no real new F-Zero game since. I guess since Mario Kart basically sells quad-fuck-trillions, Nintendo doesn't need a second first party racer.

F-Zero 99 feels more like a proof of concept or a location test than an actual official game. Like 'here's a taste, if enough people get it we'll actually try to make something proper'.