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I find sandals hideous in general. These sandals even more so. But hey, they'd go great with a crisp pair of white socks. /s

Damn, I'm not a Sega fan but that's a hell of a thing!

Looked at my Gamecube today, lo' and behold it is a DOL-101. Which means this mod won't work. At least by the time I get around to picking up a DOL-001, he might actually be able to fulfill orders.

I think for most people (myself included) it's hardly about the object in question. It's about the principles behind certain actions pertaining to said objects. It's amazing to me, how pretentious and holier-than-thou you manage to sound. My sincere apologies that you have to stoop so low to interact with the peasantry here on AtariAge, especially the ones who have the gall to disagree with your actions. It's so much better to just filter them out and pretend they don't exist.

Saw it in another thread, I'll definitely be picking one up. The games he showed looked almost like HD reboots. Proof that the GC hardware was capable of producing pretty graphics, it was just let down by poor video output.

I'm glad this topic was bumped. I also enjoy chairs. Discuss.

But that's your view on things. Your assumption is, since you feel a certain way, it must be thus. Which is narcissism plain and simple. Besides, no one hyped anything in this thread. You just have a weird erection for dumping on people who use, or even *gasp* enjoy things you don't.

I love Archive.org. Specifically, one of my favourite things is using Archive.org to reminisce about what different websites looked like back in the day. And one thing I've noticed over my time browsing it, is that I prefer the design of web pages from years gone by, as opposed to modern designs. Take eBay, for example. Here's what it looked like in 1998 (screenshot from Archive, so ignore the missing images): And what it looks like today: I find the 19 year-old version to be much easier to look at and browse than the current version. The old one is basic, refined, and simple. The new one? It's overflowing with colours, animations, sliders, text, buttons, drop-downs, forms, links, logos, and pictures. You need a road-map just to try and browse the blessed site. Maybe I'm grouchy, but I feel like web design was nicer back in the 90's and early 2000's. I know that it mostly had to do with internet speeds being low, so websites had to be simple. But I just can't stand this new trend of huge images cramming in your face, swoopy animations flying in from every which way, and ultra-wide webpages. I know it's never going to go back to the way it was, but I sure miss it. But hey, I could be a lone idiot. Do you guys think web design was better back in the day, or are we currently enjoying web design that's as good as it's ever been?

I'm laughing, but I also want to cry because that's so on-the-money.

I had a Game.com when I was a kid, I liked it. If I stumbled across one for cheap, I'd pick it up. Most of game collecting is dumb and doesn't make sense. To shit on someone because they like something you don't, is pretty infantile.

I just bought a PCMCIA to USB adapter for my Toshiba Tecra 700 laptop. It's on the slow boat, so it should arrive in time for fall In any case, I'm hoping it works well. Much easier to transfer things that way, instead of burning CD's or futzing with floppies.

Just wait till the eBay auctions fire up with "Launch Edition" in the title

Scalp - to resell (tickets, merchandise, etc.) at higher than the official rates. Resell - To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. Yep, no difference at all between those two things. The whole scalping argument, and your attempted defence of it, already went down a few pages ago. Why you felt the need to come back and re-affirm to us that yes you scalp, and yes it's totally fine, is beyond me. We get it bro, you make sick profits because "muh capitalism". All the poor sacks who don't have the ability to wait in line at 3am totally deserve to lose out on the item because scalpe- I mean "resellers" such as yourself deny them that chance. But you aren't exactly "sticking it to the fools who have too much money", because if they can afford to drop $450 on a chunk of plastic, then $450 doesn't really matter a squirt of piss to them. That means that, surprise surprise, the only people that scalpe- sorry, "resellers", are hurting is the average Joe who just wants an interesting gadget. But right, right, it's all Nintendo's fault for enabling the behaviour. But let's walk the argument to a logical conclusion, and use your milk example. Pretend a hurricane is on the way, and a guy goes and buys up most of the milk in the area. Then, when people are in need of milk, he "resells" it to them at a 300% mark-up. By your logic, that's totally fine because it's absolutely no different than what you do. By your own argument, that behaviour is acceptable because all he's doing is making a capitalist profit off the SOB's who are rich enough to afford his markup on the milk. Or, how about a different scenario. The government artificially limits the availability of milk, and that guy goes to buy up most of the milk. He then marks it up 300%. People have no choice but to either buy it from him, or go without. So whose fault is it, the government's fault for limiting the milk or the scalpe- my apologies I keep doing that, "resellers", for simply working a "free market". It's all the same principle. Your principle, actually. Alaska looks very cool, I wouldn't mind visiting it myself some day.

You mean wild animals don't transform into perfectly-cut selections of meat when you kill them? Strange, maybe that only happens in Canada.

Try Canada! It's doable here. My plan is to move even further away from people than I already am. If there's one thing we have an abundance of, it's space.

It shouldn't surprise me, but it does, that there are so many ill-adjusted people in the world. It's a pre-order for a piece of plastic. Sure, it's a cool piece of plastic, but hardly something to lose sleep over.

To be fair I can see things from that perspective too. There's no doubt the DMG Gameboy's screen leaves a lot to be desired. That also being said, for about the same price as this thing you could get an AGS-101 and play GB/GBC games on a very nice screen there too. But, it's whatever floats your boat. If you dig this thing, go for it. If you do end up buying it I'd be interested to hear how it plays and feels.

I don't agree that those games fit in the point-and-click genre. They control different, the puzzles are different, the whole feel of the game is different than a classic P&C. At least the first 4 you mentioned. And Tell Tale produces something more akin to those old choose-your-adventure books, with some QTE's thrown in. I find modern fare like Life is Strange, a game that was lame IMHO but the critics creamed themselves over, to be dull and witless. And while the story in Firewatch was interesting, there's wasn't a whole lot that required skill or intense thought. Take games like Roger Wilco, King's Quest, Day of the Tentacle, etc - you had to solve puzzles, explore, and think critically. In things like Life is Strange you walk around until you find the magic button that progresses the story forward. And I certainly wouldn't lump walking simulators in with P&C in any way, shape, or form. Walking simulators require almost no input from the player, beyond actually walking around. Hardly the stuff of Lucas Arts or Sierra. Now a game like Primordia is a good example of a modern P&C. Or Thimbleweed Park. Those are P&C to me.

Yeesh, when it was first teased as a joke it looked nice. In the final version, it does not look nearly as slick.

I, for one, would love to see the stats on how many people who boldy declared they would "Never support Nintendo again" are now frothing at the mouth to get a SNES Classic.

You underestimate my power at being out-of-touch.

I like the different colours. After the SNES, I appreciated that Nintendo wasn't afraid to make a gaming console actually look fun. Everyone else is obsessed with boring, angular black (or sometimes white) boxes.

Came in here, thought NIN stood for Nintendo. Apparently I am out-of-touch. Interesting visuals on the video, though I must admit the music is not quite my cup of tea.

I saw a couple videos on these, they're pretty lame apparently. Not that surprising considering their origin. Though I suppose if you found one cheap enough, it could be a good 'beater' machine if you just wanted to chuck it somewhere and have some NES games. There's a bunch of weird homebrews and hacks on there.

Years ago I bought my brother a 64 with a small stack of games for his birthday, and that's one of them. No matter how many times we sit down to play it, it's still as enjoyable as the first time. I know the SNES version is the original, and the Gamecube version wasn't bad, but to me the 64 version is the 'definitive' F-Zero game.