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A Weekend Indoors

*Looking for a guide or walkthrough for Tomb Raider Legend? Try [here][walkthrough] for text-based or here for video-based*

[walkthrough]: http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/tr7/walkthrough/index.html

This weekend, I have been playing [Tomb Raider Legend][]. It all began on Saturday morning, on the way to the pub for a hearty traditional English breakfast in a pub. I was weighing up the options, trying to decide whether I wanted to spend £30 of my hard-earned cash on this game, when Karen came up with the frankly rather splendid idea of seeing if Blockbuster had it available for rental.

[tomb raider legend]: http://amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009RWHPK/

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Community Spirit

> Doing the play has really opened my eyes to just how much free time we have in the course of our everyday lives. With our/my free time roughly halved, all of a sudden I haven’t wanted to play Grand Theft Auto all that much, and a strange new wave of Wanting To Do Something Constructive has befallen.

I know this feeling very well. While Karen was away I did a pretty good job of suppressing it, and just getting on with beating up those whores, but this was an isolated fortnight in a sea of otherwise.

I live in a bit of a bubble at the moment: get up, get in the car, go to work, drive home, potter about the house. The real world is being squeezed down a telephone line for my consumption. And though it is a fat pipe, it’s not representative. It doesn’t tell me much about what’s going on in my town, and what I can do to be a part of it.

So I guess that’s my challenge.

Heh, a fat woman on a bicycle just rode past the window. She was huge, and clearly struggling.

*Originally posted here*

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The final boss

Silent HillYou don’t want to fight the final boss guy right at the start, for two reasons.

Firstly, you don’t stand a chance. If you go up against the final boss guy at the start, you will surely lose. You need to play through the game, to collect the big weapons. You need the right tools for the job, in order to maximise the probability of success when you finally do meet him.

Secondly, the final boss guy is exactly that – final. Once you’ve defeated him, you turn the computer off. If you get your satisfaction solely from beating the final boss guy, then that’s fine. But I want the game to be long, rewarding and constantly changing. I don’t necessarily want to discover every secret area, but at least a few of them.

This metaphor for life was brought to you by the same people that brought you Jelly Baby curry.