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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The location, modes, and featured cars are continually changing in Forza. I’m lagging on the titles and will probably skip Forza Horizon 5, but FH6 has great reviews on launch. While I can guess you aren’t into cars/racing like that, I guess I can’t really differentiate it from human sports games as much as I thought I could. A new football game has the same field shape, the same rules, and mostly the same teams, but just updates the roster and maybe background appearance? I don’t get it. But I can see the correlation to racing games if driving is a chore (not me) and if you aren’t up to date on the latest trends in cars (me). I guess both really come down to whether or not you can empathetically experience the game as something you actually want to do.

    It’s also been 4 years since the last FH. The shortest interval was 2 years, done twice. Six titles across 14 years. Forza Motorsport # is a different style and, unfortunately, has likely been ended.



  • Allow me to rephrase Starbucks’ claim: “the plastic we said was recyclable decades ago but then found to be prohibitively expensive to recycle, information that didn’t change our practice at all, is now considered recyclable again and wevre taking credit and celebrating but still pawning the task off on whoever takes our garbage”

    Polypropylene is #5, which nearly all takeout containers are made form in my experience. My town hasn’t taken any plastic besides 1/2/3 for at least a decade.

    1: polyethylene, such as soda bottles
    2: high density polyethylene, such as milk jugs (and a pretty good material for flat bearings)
    3: pvc, such as medicine bottles
    4: low density polyethylene, such as bags
    5: polypropylene, such as most food takeout containers



  • Having a sporty, questionable car after playing this game has given me unending anxiety. Any time I leave the house and feel my phone buzz a minute later, I fear it’s going to be a call saying “hey, somethings wrong with your ride. You left a huge oil slick at the start line”

    For those that didn’t play, the game opens with a race between you in the cover art M3 GTR against the final boss in the Mustang. It’s for pinks and your car breaks down after a few minutes, forfeiting your car to the rival. The campaign then has you climb the ladder to get back to him.



  • I remember having to drag a chase out for a long time. 60 or 90 minutes. I think it was a challenge race form outside the campaign. It mixes into the finale race/chase where I think the escape strategy has to develop before letting you jump the bridge, all on heat 6 for the first and only time.

    Yes, for all of those, so much effort could be lost to one professional placement of a spike strip. Good times. Bad times. But at least you could reset the game to win the loot boxes back then.