GoldLeader

@sramirez2008  heha Actually we do have Asteroids at a local barcade called Flipper's...And I have an Asteroids Cab too (needs a little work)...

Oh one more tidbit I forgot all about...This was the location of my dad's music store in the 70s!!  (It's all been rebuilt or remodeled since then, though,  so it looks nothing like it used to.)

@BydoEmpire haha Meant to comment before...Your comment cracked me up because that's what it used to be like! 

Happy Easter to you too!

And I am awaiting friends from out of town,...Then another friend and his GF are bringing by some homemade wine,  A sample from their forthcoming Wine Bar!  I wish he was bringing some homebrew beer as he's really good at that, but it will be cool.  In town we already have various Microbreweries and one Whiskey/Moonshine place so a Wine Bar is more needed I suppose.

haha that's their way of making you come in Atleast it helps take your mind off whatever the poked and prodded at 👍

It’s coming... Soon...

it would be funny if it wasn't true.

Did you also DRP the toilet?

I'd use those for putting a super famicom game into an snes cartridge. No need to mess with the cartridge slot. You would have to find a replacement label though but that's not bad.

I'm not sure if they're still doing this, but in Charlotte there was a Goodwill retail location that was solely focused on electronics and had quite a good game selection. I forget what it was called (something like Goodwill: Electronics, but not that), but I looked it up at the time (2015-ish) and they were rolling out these locations in several large-ish cities and I figured they were funneling the good stuff to those locations.

@copper20  Oh I probably should have specified,  Games were only for PS1 and PS2, and XBOX, XBOX 360 (sometimes Wii).  20 or more of  each title.  No carts to be seen ever.  A long time ago, a different goodwill location had a boxed Atari 2600 for $30, and I didn't buy it because it sounded like there was dirt or gravel rolling around inside the box LOL!

Actually for electronics I've lucked out in the past, having bought a boombox, a 6 disc CD changer (I wanted to have a spare one), and some cables...Strangely I paid more for the cables than I did for the boombox or CD player hehaa...

Hmmm

But that's all based on opinion though.

I agree (as a fan of JS Bach) that

great music is made of prime composition and fine lyrics...

    (... yeah, and much metal in Bachs direction...)

I actually don't keep lists, but I think of "favorite songs" in a couple distinct categories-

Songs with a "vibe" I just like, usually a good chorus, and then-

Songs that seem "perfectly constructed".

Falling to Pieces, by Faith no More, and Your Betrayal, by BFMV would fall into the latter category, as I wouldn't call them "favorite songs", but as a musician, it's a "nailed it" kinda thing.

I use the internet to calculate hehahhaa...Figure our temperatures range from about -25 C to  35 C.  (Give or take)...

@GoldLeader

I envy you those 35C!

(I can do fine without those minus 35)

Here’s back in January:

Even if cold, its pretty.
 

^Very Nice!

Look out!  It's Altered Beast!  "Rise from your grave!"

Yeah!  The picture has blowing snow and was taken through the window.   Call me crazy, but I didn't want to go out in it, in my pajamas and bathrobe hehaaa!  Unfortunately, I am quite snowed in.  I'd shovel my driveway (4+ foot drifts), but I don't think the storm is done with us yet...

  **Garage View**

*oh I see you've heard our demo. 

the countdown appears stuck to me, so no circus convoy for me.... I keep missing all the deals and projects on AA and I can't seem to get the orders for stuff like this audacity game site offers either... maybe it's time to sh*t can all this stuff and lead a life ignorant of all I somehow miss...

You may be in luck Doc!  Circus Convoy got moved to tomorrow...But it seems like (maybe) those of us who use Firefox are not seeing countdowns.  I don't have Chrome anymore on my desktop...Oh there it is on my laptop, but IDK...We'll see if I'm in the bathroom tomorrow when this thing goes live and if I feel like using Chrome when it should work on Firefox numsaying?

People have made superhits out of unknown animal sounds before..,

https://youtu.be/jofNR_WkoCE

My take:  People (my age-ish) grew up with Land of the Lost, Valley of the Dinosaurs, The Land that Time Forgot, etc,..So movies/cartoons/TV have given us that imprint of sound...And of course like in all things, Family Guy!

Jurassic Park spoiled us all.

Don't you deny it.

Hardwired is really good, I still listen regularly.  FWIW, Load definitely grew on me over the years, and I rate it higher than the Black Album nowadays.  IMHO Hardwired is their best since Justice.  Atlas Rise, Dream No More, Confusion... lots of good tunes.

When the Black Album was released, I remember thinking, "haven't these guys watched Spinal Tap?"

^Man!  I Totally thought the same thing!!

I hope you guys watched them on Colbert tonight in honor of this Status Update!

Master of Puppets is 35 years old Tonight!!!

Hypnotizing Power

Crushing all that Cower

Battery is here to stay eeyuh!

Glad you're okay! I've had four of the little bastards in my lifetime. Worst pain I've ever experienced. 4AM emergency room trips and Dilaudid twice. They're absolutely horrific.

I've been lucky enough to never get one, but my best friend gets one every few months.  She ends up in excruciating pain for two or three days!

Thanks all!  I had one more bout of pain (Over quickly though),  and I'm hoping I'm over that part of it...The next part can be painful or not depending on certain things, like the size, etc. 

RCA to my CRT TV, it's decent enough for me. :3 The prices of N64 seem to be climbing a lot, even though I see all these Gen Z and Millenials bagging on it all the time. 😕

@joeatari1 Thanks Joe!  And Thanks all!   After SNES and Genesis, I was a PlayStation guy.  Seems like the PlayStation still looks a lot better on the screen.  I do like N64's exotic controller.  Outside of SONY,  it's the last time the D-Pad was in the right spot.  Modern consoles always put the analog stick where the D-Pad goes if you ask me.

I have a Retro Tink 2X Pro SCART, but of course, N64 doesn't put out a SCART signal like the clearly Superior SNES and Genesis.  I'm probably gonna get a Retro Tink 2X Pro or that other one (Retro Scaler 2X).   I think an RGB mod is a bit much (price and effort), and a Super 64 is pricey too...

It was so exciting I totally completely forgot to clean up!

Hope it wasn't your Preparation H.

Not sure what it was, the label was wearing off. It was a potent experience. Bigger and better than the Soong androids' emotion chip.

^Oh Yeah!  That is Mighty Cold for Texas!!  And being near the ocean, that kind of cold can chill you to the bone!

I love the cold weather. I have so many great memories from childhood in the snow. Also, the cold air is really clean, and there's no water in it for allergens to cling to. Breath in that fresh cold air and enjoy.

Sitting at 3°F right now, with wind chill taking it down to about -25°F.  Only had about 3 or 4 inches of snow, but the real stuff is supposed to hit overnight.  Also getting down to -9°F tonight, so we're about to find out if the HVAC can keep up.

Watching them is almost like SLAPSTIC comedy.

(Yeah, I'm stretching on that one )

They're out doing things that DENISE and FAT AGNUS could only dream of.

...because the game crashed.

Aww, the dilemna of the DIYer. We watch YouTube vids and search Google to learn how to repair something, but chances are we'll never encounter another situation like that again so our hard-won experience is kinda wasted.  Or the next model we get is completely different.  I do sometimes repair household stuff and cars for a friend, so sometimes I get to use what I learned or some of the knowledge is transferable. Makes me envious of an appliance repair man. He's been there, done that, and will use the knowledge over and over everyday.

Yeah,  usually I'm about as mechanical as a pound of whale blubber,  but I've been learning on this one, which started when I watched the repairman do it.  Then some trips to the appliance store to buy parts and the guys behind the counter started teaching me some things,  some YouTube and troubleshooting and I think I have some of it figured out!  At very least I know how to replace run fuses, the heating element, and thermal fuses...And I think I figured out why she's running so hot,  not the vent (which had already been cleaned professionally) as I thought, but a pretty clogged up lint catcher (whatever that part is called haha) even after it had been cleaned.  Tonight I scrubbed it so I could see the screen part underneath again and hopefully it works for while this time!  If not,  I bought some spares (extra heating element, some thermal fuses) to make it work.  If it keeps dying, I may have to just buy a new one, but hopefully it will last a bit.  It's probably 17 years old

Haha, at my last house, we had to take the tumbler out of our dryer, and replace these little white gear looking things-my mechanical ineptitude likely exceeds yours, haha, GoldLeader, I was so proud, I STILL have one of the broken gears around somewhere, as a momento to my success!!

I've had no problems with returns, except a defective monitor got an Amazon credit instead of CC refund.  That was annoying but now I know. Otherwise it's been pretty easy.

I've been doing Amazon returns through the app as opposed to web interface for some time because of exactly the problems you're describing.  It's better, but by no means stellar.  Refund information is at least condensed into small-enough screen real estate that it's harder to send the refund to the wrong place, though not totally impossible.

Thanks all!  Yeah the GF feels HORRIBLE about it.  It's basically a change to their screens on the computer / browser, which now (as of a few months ago, from what I can tell of the many complaints on reddit etc) defaults to "refund to your Amazon account".  With a much smaller print option to "Refund to your credit card ending in XXXX".  And one of the reasons it confused her was that we use an Amazon Visa (via Chase, earns Amazon points etc), so she biffed it thinking our Amazon account was our Visa.  They really, REALLY need to specify "return to GIFT BALANCE" or something similar, not "to your amazon account".  It's purposely misleading, and in combination with the new default setting being that, you KNOW they designed it on purpose.  And yeah, we won't be making THAT mistake again!

Right on!  I had an orange one as a kid (70's).  I want to say it was cracked somewhere near the top but it worked.  I have no idea whatever happened to it.  Just thought about it for some reason...

No; I wanted one. I did have a lamp with a fake faucet, which poured water & looked like it was floating in air.

^ @pacman000 That rules!  I remember a store (I wanna say it was called Zeezo's) in Colorado Springs had a Giant one of those outside probably about 10 feet tall or so!

Now how the hell did that get posted here!?!?!

I just pushed your LCD's Degauss button and up popped some obscure Vietnamese techno thing...🤣

Funny Keatah,  I thought your post fit perfectly with the idea of having it all.  I didn't know it was a misprint.  That happened to me once and put one of my retarded musings on Random Terrain's serious update...Whoops!   I have no idea how it did that.

I thought it was a "T".

I remember getting cash back in the bottle tops of RC.  A dollar or two was the most I remember seeing but back then it was a big deal to kids!

From what I remember (and jr. high lunchroom chatter), There were some Ts out there, but very few Rs...Been a long while though,  I could be wrong.

Right. And don't forget the beauty of BLM. I couldn't imagine my country being without it. Check it out right here!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management