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When I was on vacation at my friends' place in March, they hooked me up with Lego Indiana Jones, which was fun - and then with Lego Star Wars (The Complete Saga), which was DUUUDE, it was awesome.

I bought it myself when I got home, and I played and played and played. I finished all six movies. I went back and did the bonuses. I went back and did the speed bonuses. I did the extra character bonuses. I did the extra bounty-hunter bonuses. I did the whimsical Lego bonuses. I did everything, got everything, unlocked everything, and I was still only at about 95% complete. I had not done the Super Story bonuses, which require you to complete a whole movie's worth of game in an hour or less and collect 100,000 studs (coins, points) or more.

The prequels, I did no problem. 98.9% complete. But the original trilogy - getting those in under an hour by yourself is hard, you guys. I got well over 100K for each of them, but I was at about an hour and a half for each one. 98.9% complete. You don't get credit for only one of the things. Okay, so I went back and did the first movie as fast as I could, without worrying about points, because I already had a score over 100K. Came in at 55 minutes with about 89K. 98.9% complete. It turns out you don't get credit for anything if you don't get both - and in order to succeed you have to beat your previous best score. It's just that the pre-set "previous best" is 1 hour and 100K. So now I have to beat 55 minutes and 180K, without extras like point multipliers, which is bloody impossible.

So I've begun again with a new game - all those levels I thought I was done with - because I will reach 100%, goddammit.

And Lego Harry Potter comes out on Tuesday. I can't wait. :-)

signal boost

A fan needs a hand, y'all. sanj is in a tough place right now, with her roommate departing and her job not paying much and everything that's due coming due all at once - she stands to lose her loan for next semester, they're about to shut off her electricity, and the repo man is coming for her car.

I know times are tough for all of us, now, but I've never yet been unimpressed with the generosity of fandom when one of our own needs help. She's been persuaded to add a PayPal button over at the link; I hope you'll click if you can.

[eta: Thanks, everyone! Fandom continues to be awesome.]

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Thanks, guys: sanj is going to be okay.

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