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Let's say, I had some fun playing it, but there was a problem, a rather big problem: I couldn't perform the Turbo Dash for crying out loud! Dx

Well, that is because I played it on the keyboard. The game was originally meant to be played on a motorbike with an analog-based accelerator, which you get to quickly twist it twice to boost your way through the race tracks (that's obviously what the game tells you to after all). On the keyboard, I learned that it is clearly impossible to use the Turbo Dash, perhaps the most important mechanic in the game (digital "on'n'off" deadzone when a key is pressed, not inbetween (years ago, I played the PS2 version of HL with the keys as I discovered this, no doubt the stupidest idea ever, moving on :/). As a result, most of (if not all) my playthroughs were unsuccessful with me not reaching 1st place or running out of time (even with Gunz (potential blorbo??🤔), who is arguably the fastest racer, low accel. stat notwithstanding). :( Like, I tried sort of a workaround with seperate keys assigned to Analog values (Inc/Dec) for accelerating to try simulating the twisting, but sadly, it didn't work.

Anyway, it's mainly because Google had decided to "kill off" the search box by completely replacing it with their AI chatbot to make it more... "intelligent". They will be rolling it out next week.

You know, I'm so fed up with Google or the entire Big Tech in general persuading us to use AI, while (I guarantee) the change will pose the significant risk of hallucinating delusional facts.

Speaking of which, recently, I actually did install Helium and migrate my account there. However, I will be changing the browser in less than two weeks (1st of June this year). Yeah, I tend to schedule my own "resolutions" sometimes. :P

I think Helium's neat; it's just like Chrome, but more compact and, most importantly, without the nonconsensual AI file (really, 4GBs? :/).

The fusion will come into effect 16th of May this year (the day the Resonance Cascade supposedly happened in-universe in HL), so please look forward to it, until then. :D (click Keep reading for the asterisk footnote)

For those who don't know me, I've been emulating retro games over the years, especially the PS1 (obviously :P). For months, I have had a problem with DuckStation lagging like crazy on certain games (mostly Music 2000 (ironically for my VFX work) or pretty much anything graphic-intensive).

Honestly, I didn't expect to get this much engagement since forever (excluding the teen years on YT), thank you so very much you guys! :D

To all the followers, I would like to warn you though, the blog will not only feature content of PS1 games and those aesthetics, but also other niche interests like stuff from other game platforms, demoscene, personal blorbos, basically anything I directly want to post/share with you really.