Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

seeing in one thing, but coming in contact is another.
trust me

its dangerous to go alone!
take this.

It's dangerous to go alone!
Take this.

@Wavey84
sold my entire retro collection. got tired of the clutter.
all the rare nes, snes, famicom, super famicom, japan/and pal region sealed ps2 games, saturn, dreamcast, sealed gba, ds, genesis, homebrews, all the retro systems, the 5 million earthbound complete in box games i had, little samson, medium samson, power blade 1-2, all that taito crap, you name it.
now its someone elses pain in the butt to try and sell these days. im good.
someone will have a blast making huge forts out of earthbound and little samson boxes.
it gives me time to play the things i actually have time for. and appreciate.
one of the first things i did for myself was get rid of physical.
and sought out digital. hell, i even gave away 3 bloodstained backer keys.
i predicted long, looong ago all these retro youtube guys were gonna get burned out, and now little by little they are rather pondering selling or they are selling their stuff. adult timelines come into play.
ive been working on this whole thing for a few years. it took a few years to sell it all as well.
i hooked some people up on here, but 99% of my collection, one person bought it all.
and you know what? i dont miss a thing.
just felt like throwing this in here.

@MarioLover92 Yeah, when prices go that high, the cheaper option ends up being digital. I ended up buying Shin Megami Tensei IV digitally on 3DS because of price.

I think this might be the first time I've ever heard of a Mario anime. Maybe I did see it a bit about it because I looked up Peach at one point and maybe saw a picture of what she looked like, but never looked into it.

Recently i found my villagers on ACNH like to sing in group in front of Resident Service.
I recorded their performance with some different songs when i caught them singing together.
Sometimes duo, sometimes trio.

Edit: GAAAH...!!!
I got stung again by Scorpion when i was exploring my island ! 😫
I think i will get paranoid to walk alone at night due to scorpion attack. 😟

Welp.

Today’s the day I put my pool up.
Good times.

Edit, I don’t know why my logic was like this, but I meant today I took it down. I guess I meant I put it up, in a sense where I.. oh never mind.

I took it down today, alright?

@Apportal August 30th? haha I'm not going to point out how summer in the northern hemisphere started a while ago 🤪. Are we talking about a grand 3-4 foot high inflatable pool, or a more substantial construction? If it is circular above ground pool, it's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

@WoomyNNYes haven’t been in it in forever. Putting it up this afternoon. Is August 30th bad? That’s what my friend said the best time is.

Also, it’s not inflatable. It’s the real deal. Just, above ground.

@Apportal That's not bad. It's still warm for another month or more, depending on where you are Some pool = better than no pool.

How long does it take to construct or deconstruct? Temporary above ground pools are selling well this year, due to the covids.

@WoomyNNYes I’ve had tons of hot weather, but the pool is just insanely cold. Not really enjoyable anymore. It took my friends and I about a month to put it up, but that’s mainly due to the rain and thunder that day. Freaking rain.

I just clean and empty the water (a little bit mind you) and then put the tarp on. Not that big a process. I’ve had it for a couple years now. Worth it in my opinion.

@Apportal Oh wait. Now that you say the "pool is just insanely cold". That sounds like you want to take it down. Are you building the pool to use it, or taking the pool down for the season? haha. Either answer is fine

@Sunsy Yeah if you've seen Peach in an old-school anime form, that's likely her appearance from that movie. She had her old dress design there as well. That's a good move you made with SMT IV, saving cash just like that.

aw sweet!
this means i can break out my new bathing suit.

i play a mean game of marco polo

I have a question for the mods here.

Why is there a time span to how many times we change our name? What’s the point of it?

@Wavey84 I don’t have a huge collection of physical games myself. Mostly digital cause it’s easier. I used to display the physical games for switch I had, but it just looked weird so I took it down and replaced it with Mario plushies. Great decision in hindsight

@Wavey84 I don’t understand whether you love or hate the designs, but I actually love the switch cartridges/case design.

it took at least 10 years to get the collection i had, lot of rare and obscure stuff. i nailed it too. it got to the point where i could predict certain games spiking in price. kickmaster for nes was a prime example. it went from 10 dollars to 200 dollars little by little. i watched a little samson auction and a power blade 2 auction on ebay going in an all out live bidding war. i sat back with a beer and just watched it all happen. and those were sealed games. two separate bids mind you. i noticed after winning dracula x, the price i payed literally made that price the new base price. i was just trying to get a mint copy. all that work on nailing clean copies and i got rid of them. for like 10 years id walk into my game room and start analyzing year after year a plan of doing some shrinkage. my ocd has always been pretty crazy anyways, so it definitely played a huge factor in this. i moved my collection i think, 5 or so different locations of living. and each time id think how much clutter id have to pack along. ive always been a picky gamer and was a picky collector, yet i cringe when i think how much money i spent. having games that other collectors didnt have never made me feel i was better than then. they were envious, but i always thought it was silly. silly in more ways than one. silly because they may be rare, but they are just games. and silly because i never got around to playing a nice chunk of them. one time we had a webcam chat with some people on here, and i broke out some of my collection, all for fun. some people thought the games were fake repros, until i showed them in fact, i had also a repro of said games lol. i had a plan, to play them all in the beginning.
my plan turned out to be my collection lives about 15 minutes away from me these days. small world.
i sold my collection to a reseller for the most part. one of the things that got to me about collecting was the disc rot that just always happened to be in the sega cd games. the notorious popful mail. that game has a bad reputation for getting disc rot, just like its price tag. i feel sorry for some guy who pays 400 dollars on that game to flip it over and see the horror. one time a guy handed me that game, i opened it and flipped the cd over. he was like "what are you doing? when i told him he said "i was hoping you werent gonna see that" so yep, all the games, all the knowledge, if i would have blew up a youtube channel i would have lost interest sooner or later anyways. or i could be like rgt85 and make videos just for the money. lol that guy sucks id never do that. but what i will do, is try to forget how much money i spent on it.
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I don't like turning on ad blockers for content producers I like. For NL or YouTubers and Twitch streamers I enjoy. I'm not paying for the content after all.

But ever since moving back to this trash heap of a country, it's disgusting. I sit there watching a video about POKEMON CARDS and in a 28 minute video it breaks for ads 3 times. Okay, that's fine. But every time it goes to ad, it's POLITICS. Because I'm sure the majority of people watching Pokemon card videos are of voting age... anyway, I am, so whatever. BUT it's not just political ads, they are LIARS. I don't want to start a debate about specific sides here. But I keep seeing ads from both sides lying about each other!

Why? Why lie!? Defend your point of view, or describe why the other guy is wrong! Stop making up garbage! There's plenty of things to say about both of these disgusting old men. Real things. True things.

I hate this, and I do not want to see it when I am sitting in bed in the morning watching a video about Pokemon!

So I am sorry, I want my favorite content producers to get the ad revenue they deserve, but I can't handle this crap anymore.

If I could like, set parameters for what ads I might be interested in, I probably wouldn't mind it. It doesn't make any sense to me. I used to think that all these sites based ads on what you watched. While I lived in Japan, it seemed like that's how it worked. I watched game and anime videos, and my ads were for games and anime and generally electronics and related stuff. But not here! Here it's all political lies and slander.

Do you guys think a VPN would help? If I get one and just set my IP to mimic Japan, can I go back to ads I can tolerate?

If you're talking about YouTube, you can pay for a premium subscription that removes the ads but still gives ad money to the videos you watch.