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I guess this would belong to "Awesome stuff you've just built" - thread, but we don't have such.
So.. I built myself a Lego Vic Viper from instructions I downloaded from Rebrickable. Took few hours, and parts cost me less than €50.
So.. I built myself a Lego Vic Viper from instructions I downloaded from Rebrickable. Took few hours, and parts cost me less than €50.
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I used to had that KO Sixwing (upper left giftset box), I threw it away after the knee peg for the leg combiners broke, so be careful when combining them.
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Picked up the new Mid-Scale variant Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon #75375 from my local Target store that Lego just recently released on 3/01/2024 stateside. It has a bit more greebling (a bit more detailing compared to the older midi-scale Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon #7778 circa 2009 with it's more simplistic aestethics/overall appearance) and has a mere 921 pieces with all parts professionally silkscreen printed -- means not having to deal with a Lego supplied sticker sheet whatsoever which is a plus in my book. Found a 3rd-party Lego compatible LED lighting kit to upgrade it/enhance it even further through the https://www.lightmybricks.com/products/ ... -light-kit website -- didn't realize that it's now available to purchase. The slick cool blue leds light up the Falcon's hyperdrive -- quite impressive!
Has a couple of cool Easter Egg nods in reference to Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope & Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back which is quite something to marvel at/behold.
What's awesome about this 2024 mid-scale Millennium Falcon is, you can add optional landing gear legs + create a landing pad with minature leds + add a background diorama to accompany it for more realism/go the extra mile.
Here's a cool Death Star II Trench Run diorama that a Youtube poster made using the Lego #75375 set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zu5riCWSMU -- it'd be nice to get proper instructions and a count of how many extra pieces used to create this custom-made MOC diorama build to complement the #75375 set.
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Has a couple of cool Easter Egg nods in reference to Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope & Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back which is quite something to marvel at/behold.
What's awesome about this 2024 mid-scale Millennium Falcon is, you can add optional landing gear legs + create a landing pad with minature leds + add a background diorama to accompany it for more realism/go the extra mile.
Here's a cool Death Star II Trench Run diorama that a Youtube poster made using the Lego #75375 set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zu5riCWSMU -- it'd be nice to get proper instructions and a count of how many extra pieces used to create this custom-made MOC diorama build to complement the #75375 set.
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Recently purchased a Tomy Mini Arcade "Cosmic Clash" circa 1982. Came with the original box + instruction sheet. Checked the battery contacts and they were in pristine condition since it's powered by two "D" batteries (no port to hook up an AC/DC adapter whatsoever). A single motor powers the extravagant and complex array of gearing mechanisms that power up this cool electro-mechanical based miniature arcade game cab (i.e. -- mechanical score counter + lasers fired counter, the actual laser firing mechanism, the scrolling enemy film projection mechanism and the slick rear-projection based explosion effect mechanism = seven different mechanisms + lighting effects for laser fire, enemies & backlit explosion effect & the audio + speech portions as well -- quite a bit of complicated electro-mechanics with audio & visual aspects going on during a single game session). Cosmic Clash uses the old-school tiny incandescent-based light bulbs to light everything up (no led lighting used). Tomy manufactured two different Mini Arcade games, the second one was called "Daring Driver" that was released concurrently at the same time as Cosmic Clash did -- both were made in Japan (with Tomy's dedicated in-house team of mechanical engineers based in both Japan & the USA). Both games came a MSRP of $29.99 usd at retail. The sound effects and synthesized voice effects play really loud and crystal-clear but no volume control knob to limit the overall volume sound output (typical of the early 1980s full-sized arcade games craze/fad going on during that particular point in time) -- uses a miniature record disc mechanism hooked up to a speaker for both sound effects + voice snippet phrases.
I was browsing at the local mall and saw that one toy store had a demo model of the Cosmic Clash available to try out inside a glass display case. Asked the guy manning the display case if I could try it out. He said he would let me try it out. He got it from the glass display shelf and placed it on top of the glass display countertop and turned it on. I proceeded to play a single gaming session of it and was blown away by the awesome but simple overall gameplay off using a single fire button to fire a laser at passing alien fightercraft and ground-based heavy armored vehicles. One sound effect sounds like it was lifted from the classic Namco's Pac-Man game (a little insider nod/tribute indeed whether this was intentional or not, we'll never know if it was construed as arcade sound effect plagarism or just taking creative liberty with arcade sound effects in general).
So essentially, it's brand new and in 100% working condition (which is quite rare to find nowadays). Am glad to have it after trying out a demo model back in 1982. Just need to find the accompanying Daring Driver to complete the Mini Arcade lineup set and it'll finally be complete.
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I was browsing at the local mall and saw that one toy store had a demo model of the Cosmic Clash available to try out inside a glass display case. Asked the guy manning the display case if I could try it out. He said he would let me try it out. He got it from the glass display shelf and placed it on top of the glass display countertop and turned it on. I proceeded to play a single gaming session of it and was blown away by the awesome but simple overall gameplay off using a single fire button to fire a laser at passing alien fightercraft and ground-based heavy armored vehicles. One sound effect sounds like it was lifted from the classic Namco's Pac-Man game (a little insider nod/tribute indeed whether this was intentional or not, we'll never know if it was construed as arcade sound effect plagarism or just taking creative liberty with arcade sound effects in general).
So essentially, it's brand new and in 100% working condition (which is quite rare to find nowadays). Am glad to have it after trying out a demo model back in 1982. Just need to find the accompanying Daring Driver to complete the Mini Arcade lineup set and it'll finally be complete.
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Picked up an SNES (real SPC700 module) music player:
https://youtu.be/rmcjUAN0Lsw?si=PSfZWUKMFFqSLbaP
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Nice. Could you provide links to the instructions and where to get the parts?
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Don't worry about it. You can travel from the Milky Way to Andromeda and back 1500 times before the sun explodes.
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Certainly: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-176086 ... r/#details
I also got myself a working Vectrex last weekend, seller took it to maintenance service for checking before selling to make sure it works and stays together! Yay
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Recently picked up a super mint Tandy Armatron (manufactured by Tomy of Japan and sold through Radio Shack stores in the USA under Tandy's brand namesake back in 1982). Later on, the Super Armatron was sold (is just the classic Armatron arm with "Super Armatron" stickers slapped on it and "Mobile Armatron" spin-off as well).
Sure, I'd browse at the local Radio Shack store and try out some of their newest offerings -- one of them was the Armatron as a demo model. Tried it out and was intrigued by it. Nowadays, a robotic arm can move faster and are built with the newest technology that's available at a reasonable cost "production-wise".
Considering with Tomy's in-house mechanical engineers based in both Japan & the USA, they managed to create an awesome electro-mechanical based robotic arm using a single electric motor to power up twelve centrifugal banks of gears to move the arm itself (to save on production costs in the long run -- makes economic sense without the necessity of having more motors and more of the possibility of mechanical breakdown/failure issues "down the road").
What's impressive is that it was designed and built "old-school" without the aid of computers, especially with early 1980s based electro-mechanical toys. It's possible to supply 6v or even 9v DC to make the Armatron move even faster than with it's default slower 3v setup (but at the expense of premature motor burn up and faster gearing wear out than usual). The 2-speed gearing setup with certain functionality is another highlight with being able to activate the arm's joints to move slow or fast via the analog twin joystick scheme is quite cool indeed. By adding servos or solenoids attached directly to the joystick levers, an Armatron can be controlled by a computer.
The Armatron robotic arm was so well made that the movie studios would take a stock Armatron and spray paint it silver or chrome to use it as a prop for the front cover VHS movie jackets on display at the local Blockbuster Video & Hollywood Video rental outlets back in the early 1990s. How cool was that?
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Sure, I'd browse at the local Radio Shack store and try out some of their newest offerings -- one of them was the Armatron as a demo model. Tried it out and was intrigued by it. Nowadays, a robotic arm can move faster and are built with the newest technology that's available at a reasonable cost "production-wise".
Considering with Tomy's in-house mechanical engineers based in both Japan & the USA, they managed to create an awesome electro-mechanical based robotic arm using a single electric motor to power up twelve centrifugal banks of gears to move the arm itself (to save on production costs in the long run -- makes economic sense without the necessity of having more motors and more of the possibility of mechanical breakdown/failure issues "down the road").
What's impressive is that it was designed and built "old-school" without the aid of computers, especially with early 1980s based electro-mechanical toys. It's possible to supply 6v or even 9v DC to make the Armatron move even faster than with it's default slower 3v setup (but at the expense of premature motor burn up and faster gearing wear out than usual). The 2-speed gearing setup with certain functionality is another highlight with being able to activate the arm's joints to move slow or fast via the analog twin joystick scheme is quite cool indeed. By adding servos or solenoids attached directly to the joystick levers, an Armatron can be controlled by a computer.
The Armatron robotic arm was so well made that the movie studios would take a stock Armatron and spray paint it silver or chrome to use it as a prop for the front cover VHS movie jackets on display at the local Blockbuster Video & Hollywood Video rental outlets back in the early 1990s. How cool was that?
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approaching the end of (times?) warhammer40k rogue trader boxes quest in styles/colours we searched, The emperor protects !
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eons ago, few desperate blisters , the emperor protects !
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Now that takes me back!
Yes, we used to buy blisters like this. I grew up during the formative years of 40K myself.
I only play Space-Hulk though but I've followed 40K for many years. I have to say that I am not really a fan of present era GW and instead I pick and choose which bits of lore to focus on.
If anyone fancies a nice, easily expandable SciFi dungeon crawler then try Space-Hulk - it's a classic
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these oldies becoming really scarce to find
Henry Cavill himself is a wh40k fanatic (we'll see that soon in a live series?), he said : it's like crack in plastic.. (or lead). yep the best years when it was kind of weird/funny, every fan of Aliens movie, must play "Space hulk". the wh40k universe since v3, became so rigid..
Henry Cavill himself is a wh40k fanatic (we'll see that soon in a live series?), he said : it's like crack in plastic.. (or lead). yep the best years when it was kind of weird/funny, every fan of Aliens movie, must play "Space hulk". the wh40k universe since v3, became so rigid..
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Awesome! My buddy had one of those in college and I used to always play it. Strange how such a simple concept can be so addicting. I think the whole vector graphics thing gave a level of immersion that wouldn't have otherwise been possible.
I've always wanted to build one out of a TV like this hardware hacker did. https://spritesmods.com/?art=bwidow_fpga&page=2
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Some recent stuff
Mega Drive stuff from Japan. Picture doesn't do the systems justice as they look pretty close to like new. Very happy with it. The collecderp in me now wants to get a Megadrive box/paperwork at some point.
Picked up Chrono Trigger CIB from a local store yesterday. Last SNES CIB I was after.
Mega Drive stuff from Japan. Picture doesn't do the systems justice as they look pretty close to like new. Very happy with it. The collecderp in me now wants to get a Megadrive box/paperwork at some point.
Picked up Chrono Trigger CIB from a local store yesterday. Last SNES CIB I was after.
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Respect to the Tuxedo cat inspecting the dutySteamflogger Boss wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 6:20 pm Some recent stuff
Mega Drive stuff from Japan. Picture doesn't do the systems justice as they look pretty close to like new. Very happy with it. The collecderp in me now wants to get a Megadrive box/paperwork at some point.
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Recently got a mint and in 100% working condition Tomy Mini Arcade Daring Driver (circa 1982). It's one of two games that Tomy released as part of their Mini Arcade series lineup (Cosmic Clash is the other game) -- Tomy also developed it's wind-up powered mechanical based "Pocket Arcade" (aka the "TechnoBoy" based games sold in Japan) lineup of games (making their debut in 1982 as well). With Daring Driver, Tomy uses some very clever & ingenious optical illusionary tricks up it's sleeves -- how they managed to pull it off as for revealing the "grand prestige" is, by involving a flat one-way mirror used in conjunction with an outward curved parabolic mirror using leds for the winding and twisty road course that your race car races on -- a very simple but elegant and effective way to render the road course in it's entirety. Like with Tomy's earlier electro-mechanical based racing game of Digital Derby from 1978 (aka "Black Racer" in Japan) with it's variable-speed manual shifting lever apparatus, Daring Driver uses a dedicated manual gear shifting knob to put the "pedal to the metal" balls-to-the-walls all-out racing.
A pair of "D" batteries powers up the entire DD game while a pair of double "AA" batteries separately powers up the internal bank array of flashing leds used to depict the night-time racing course. It's generally recommended that Tomy's DD game best be played in a dark environment for maximum visual punch/effect. A switch marked both "AMA" and "PRO" (abbreviated for Amateur and Professional) dictates the overall game difficulty when playing a session of DD -- pick the right skill level prior to starting a race & you're all set. Get ready at the start of the race with the green colored flag madly waving.
Tomy's dedicated in-house group of mechanical engineers (based in both Japan and the USA) created the DD electro-mechanical game that's powered by a single motor using an incredible array of branching network of gear train mechanisms that moves the bank of leds, advancing the analog mechanical score counter display, and the variable road course speeds with the manual gear shifting knob. Your race car is fully 3D rendered as an all white colored scheme plastic car model and is steered with a real on-board miniature steering wheel using an internal rack & pinion geared mechanism setup. If your race car veers off course, it'll crash (complete with red led-lit flashing explosion effect + strong haptic force feedback felt through the steering wheel itself) forcing you to use the gear shifter to get "out of the accident jam" and resume racing. If you recall seeing/playing Atari's Night Driver arcade racing cab back in the late 1970s - early 1980s, Tomy's DD game sorta replicates that type of "night time racing" at it's best as a miniature arcade game cab setup. See you at the finish line!
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A pair of "D" batteries powers up the entire DD game while a pair of double "AA" batteries separately powers up the internal bank array of flashing leds used to depict the night-time racing course. It's generally recommended that Tomy's DD game best be played in a dark environment for maximum visual punch/effect. A switch marked both "AMA" and "PRO" (abbreviated for Amateur and Professional) dictates the overall game difficulty when playing a session of DD -- pick the right skill level prior to starting a race & you're all set. Get ready at the start of the race with the green colored flag madly waving.
Tomy's dedicated in-house group of mechanical engineers (based in both Japan and the USA) created the DD electro-mechanical game that's powered by a single motor using an incredible array of branching network of gear train mechanisms that moves the bank of leds, advancing the analog mechanical score counter display, and the variable road course speeds with the manual gear shifting knob. Your race car is fully 3D rendered as an all white colored scheme plastic car model and is steered with a real on-board miniature steering wheel using an internal rack & pinion geared mechanism setup. If your race car veers off course, it'll crash (complete with red led-lit flashing explosion effect + strong haptic force feedback felt through the steering wheel itself) forcing you to use the gear shifter to get "out of the accident jam" and resume racing. If you recall seeing/playing Atari's Night Driver arcade racing cab back in the late 1970s - early 1980s, Tomy's DD game sorta replicates that type of "night time racing" at it's best as a miniature arcade game cab setup. See you at the finish line!
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I found two 1980s mugs from the animated film Penguin's Memory. It's a really good film about an anthropomorphic penguin who goes to the Vietnam War and comes home with PTSD and how he starts to roam and figure his life out afterwards. Somehow these two mugs ended up in a thrift store in Baltimore County after being in someone's basement for what looks like 30 years (judging by the thick layer of dust). I watched this movie a long time ago with someone important to me who grew up with it, and it struck me immediately when I noticed them in a dusty little corner.
Here is a link to the OG movie on youtube, subbed, if you are curious. It's not light hearted, in spite of the cute mugs appearance.
Here is a link to the OG movie on youtube, subbed, if you are curious. It's not light hearted, in spite of the cute mugs appearance.
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I got tired of waiting for the Chainsaw Man anime to get localized, so I imported the four LEs:
Not sure if they have non-special editions or not, but these have cool artbooks with artwork, storyboards, etc:
And yes, they're JP only, no subs, but fortunately, it was a cinch to find subtitle files to incorporate into VLC player.
(They also have supplement that'd also certainly get removed from a US release, like cast interviews and things.)
Not sure if they have non-special editions or not, but these have cool artbooks with artwork, storyboards, etc:
And yes, they're JP only, no subs, but fortunately, it was a cinch to find subtitle files to incorporate into VLC player.
(They also have supplement that'd also certainly get removed from a US release, like cast interviews and things.)
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Reminds me of Sanrio's Tuxedo Sam character when I first encountered it back in the early 1980s. Checked about 41 minutes of the "Penguin's Memory" -- it portrays an America I'd have assume in the late 1960's timeline (substitute real people in lieu of penguins and the story gels together). Bonus points if you remember one of Sanrio's older characters, Robby Rabbit, from the mid-1980's.vol.2 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:33 pm I found two 1980s mugs from the animated film Penguin's Memory. It's a really good film about an anthropomorphic penguin who goes to the Vietnam War and comes home with PTSD and how he starts to roam and figure his life out afterwards. Somehow these two mugs ended up in a thrift store in Baltimore County after being in someone's basement for what looks like 30 years (judging by the thick layer of dust). I watched this movie a long time ago with someone important to me who grew up with it, and it struck me immediately when I noticed them in a dusty little corner.
Here is a link to the OG movie on youtube, subbed, if you are curious. It's not light hearted, in spite of the cute mugs appearance.
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Totally. It's a major Tuxedo Sam look-alike. It's a source of confusion even among natives. Penguin's Memory was commissioned by the Suntory beverage company (most famous in Japan for Whiskey), as a cash-in on nostalgia for the war era. It used the Vietnam War as a proxy for the experiences of the Japanese soldiers who had to deal with their own PTSD, but without having to tread on sensitive political territory. It's ironic that they chose the Vietnam War if you consider the M.A.S.H. basically did the same thing with Nam, but through the lens of the Korean War, which enough time had passed that it could be discussed with less politicism.PC Engine Fan X! wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:02 pm Reminds me of Sanrio's Tuxedo Sam character when I first encountered it back in the early 1980s. Checked about 41 minutes of the "Penguin's Memory" -- it portrays an America I'd have assume in the late 1960's timeline (substitute real people in lieu of penguins and the story gels together). Bonus points if you remember one of Sanrio's older characters, Robby Rabbit, from the mid-1980's.
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I think it was late 60's or early 70's, yeah. Probably influenced by the influx of Nam PTSD culture that was flooding the US cultural sphere in the late 70s and early 80s (like Rambo).
Nope, never heard of Robby Rabbit before now. Looking him up it seems like his character was created in 1975 and didn't make it much further than that; I can't find any toys or mention of him past 1983, but most of it is ~1976.
My favorite when I was a kid was always Kerropi. I had a Kerropi pencil case and a small bag I put toys in. I'm sure it all got taken to the goodwill by my mom.
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when the going gets tougher...
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I did order a copy when Lost Patrol was reprinted myself. The tiles especially could be used in other games. However, the game itself with the Scouts provided kind of hardly stand any chance at all
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Just picked up a Sony KV-20M40 with RGB and G1 mods. It's absolutely gorgeous! Still waiting on my SCART connectors to get here so I can't share pictures yet, but I played a couple minutes of R-Type III to test it when I picked it up and nearly shed a tear. It makes everything look like a magazine shot from 1993. If you have someone in your area who does G1 mods, take advantage.
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Awesome. It's the only way to play 'em!Air Master Burst wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:43 pm Just picked up a Sony KV-20M40 with RGB and G1 mods.
I could do a G1 mod myself, but i'm a bit concerned to do so; you have to crank the screen up to do it, and i would be worried about wearing out the tube more quickly. Isn't a higher voltage on the G2 what uses up the cathodes?
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I have no idea on the more sciency bits, which is why I paid a dude to do it for me, but from what I understand the G1 mod doesn't put any extra wear on the tube.vol.2 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 10:29 pmAwesome. It's the only way to play 'em!Air Master Burst wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:43 pm Just picked up a Sony KV-20M40 with RGB and G1 mods.
I could do a G1 mod myself, but i'm a bit concerned to do so; you have to crank the screen up to do it, and i would be worried about wearing out the tube more quickly. Isn't a higher voltage on the G2 what uses up the cathodes?
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Hmmm. I wonder then. AFAIK, the way it works is you pull the G1 to like around -67V or so, and that gives narrower control of the beam, but it also pulls the brightness way the hell the down because the final screen brightness is also a function of the relationship between G1 and G2, so changing G1 alters that and dims the screen. Basically, the solution to it is to just turn the screen the hell up until it looks normal again.Air Master Burst wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 10:53 pm I have no idea on the more sciency bits, which is why I paid a dude to do it for me, but from what I understand the G1 mod doesn't put any extra wear on the tube.
Normally, turning cranking up the voltage on the G2 depletes the cathode material faster; the cathode is a limited sacrificial material that when it is gone, the tube is dead, but it gets way dim long before that happens.
I guess maybe there's something about the mod that changes that? I know Mike Moffitt did it to at least one of his sets and outlined the procedure on his website, so I guess idk maybe it's fine. Or it's also possible that it's just considered an acceptable trade-off maybe?
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Again, a lot of the more sciencey bits are beyond me, but the folks in this thread seem pretty sure of it, and I'm a bit of a risk-taker so that was good enough for me!vol.2 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:40 am I guess maybe there's something about the mod that changes that? I know Mike Moffitt did it to at least one of his sets and outlined the procedure on his website, so I guess idk maybe it's fine. Or it's also possible that it's just considered an acceptable trade-off maybe?
King's Field IV is the best Souls game.