all made up with nowhere to go

I spent most of Friday and also yesterday catching up on Oxboxtra's racing games videos/streams that I'd (somehow) missed, and I regret nothing. I really enjoyed it. Racing games are, like, one of my favourite things. I don't know how or why, but they are.

I must admit that, while catching up on this stream of Gran Turismo 7, every time either Luke or Mike mentioned PP, I did do a little bit of an internal snigger, because I am a twelve year old boy. I assume, as someone else suspected in the chat, that it stands for Power Points, but the game does not tell you this as far as I know. GT5 certainly doesn't (more on that in a minute).

I am unsure how I missed this stream in the first place, as it was on a day when I wasn't working, and I'd enjoyed this Show of the Weekend, in which Mike decided he was going to teach Luke to drive properly in GT7, because Reasons*, which had been uploaded mere days before. No, I did not just sit and rewatch this, oh no, not me. I probably thought I'd catch it later and then just. didn't, for whatever reason.

ANYWAY.

So although I own some racing games myself, most of them are PSX/2 vintage. But when I was given the PS3, it came with a copy of Gran Turismo 5, and a very scratched copy of Grid Autosport. Anyway, I thought I'd try GT5, and it's okay? I had to wait 45 minutes for updates, and then half an hour for it to install to disk (allegedly to reduce loading times, but I'm not seeing a massive difference, tbh. But also it is a 12 year old game installed to an HDD, soooo, yeah...)

I am going to have to remap the buttons so I can drive properly, however - accelerate and brake are mapped to x and square, which means I do what I used to in racing games all the time, which is have accelerate always on, which isn't good!** I actually like the way driving works in Saints Row the Third, which is that accelerate and brake are mapped to R2 and L2 respectively, meaning I learnt to drive "properly" in that, because I wasn't always hammering accelerate. So that's what I'll do. And then I might remap the gear shifts to x and square instead. I've been using automatic transmission cars, so it hasn't been an issue so far, but it will be eventually!

(I'm glad remapping buttons is a thing that exists now, even if I've never done it before, which I haven't. I talk about it, but for some reason I never have).

This doesn't mean I've ditched Ni no Kuni, btw. I've just temporarily been distracted by this other thing! Also it got it got me through a two day migraine that I think was caused by the multivitamins I started taking. Which is annoying, because now I have nearly two months' worth left that I can't do anything with. BUT ANYWAY.

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I don't have anything else to say, as the migraine took up the majority of my brain space over the last two days, and I haven't done anything remotely interesting since my last post!

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*It's not completely out of the blue - Mike got Jane into F1 via Drive to Survive, but I don't think her interest goes any deeper than that, whereas Luke has shown WAY more interest in what's going on in F1/cars in general.

**Also I kind of want to do some of the driving licences properly, which teenage me is screaming about, because I never learnt to play games properly, least of all racing ones.