Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I know you're all probably sick of me complaining about... well everything I tend to. Today's unsolicited complaining is about the internet. When I lived in Japan, I lived in an apartment building that was set up with a super high speed fiberoptic internet connection. I had download speeds that I hadn't previously realized were possible outside of a military facility.

Now I'm back in America, in the middle of a desert that's so barren that when I sent pictures to my friend, he asked why I was sending him pictures of Mars?

So while our video streaming isn't bad, our download speeds kinda suck. Especially in comparison to living in a Japanese city with a fiberoptic connection...

I know, first world problems, and I'll be the first to call myself out because there's a million worse things that could happen. More than a million. I'm just whining because it's so different than what I was used to...

All day I have been exiting full-screen videos/games/etc to check the time on my computer whenever I want to know what time it is.

I have a desk clock right next to my monitor.

But it just keeps happening.

Thank you all for the kinds words

@Heavyarms55 Yes everything is from imagination

@ogo79 hey
What have you been up too?

@App Okay, Here go’s.

This is completer gibberish, I just use as a big long joke.

I happened to conduct a rough count up of my physical games collection this afternoon, and it appears I've just tipped over the 1,000 mark on the last few days (though taking out the approx. 10 duplicates I have might take me under) - yay me 🥳

@Zuljaras Most impressive!

@gcunit Wow. I have... probably less than 50.

@BabyYoshi12 Nice! Well, if you really are a goose, then you should understand this.

@gcunit You mean in total right? For all systems you own?

@Heavyarms55 Yep, total. The most I own for any one platform is about 190 for the Wii. The others:

N64 - 26
GCN - 143
Wii U - 69
Switch - 87
DS & 3DS combined - 230
GBA - 5
PS - 5
PS2 - 54
PS3 - 71
PS4 - 50
XB - 12
XB360 - 22
XB1 - 26
PC - 6

The way things are going there's a good chance Switch will take the #1 spot eventually, so long as not too many releases go digital-only or half-and-half (there's already a few I've not bought because the physical version has been unsatisfactorily executed or is absent altogether. Wii will possibly top-out by 200 as I have virtually everything I think I'm after.

@gcunit wow, so many games but so few are GBA titles? And no GB? Just not your cup of tea?

@Heavyarms55 Internet speeds can widely vary in the US, unfortunately. It depends on who services your area, what state and municipal laws govern ISPs and co-ops, costs to lay and maintain lines, geography, whether or not there's a monopoly of your area by a certain huge provider who couldn't care less since they're the only ones who offer a crappy, oversold connection.... It's why I think reliable video game streaming is farther out than people think. You can't just let it buffer like videos and music.

Some areas in my region can only obtain internet through overpriced and limited satellite or wireless options at the mercy of the elements. Then there are people like my parents who are barely on the map for a broadband internet provider. The lines are oversold and they pay for the max 3 MB/s. It absolutely crawls on the weekends. Same with my previous connection when I was forced to use Frontier Communications since they were my only broadband option. I paid for 6 MB/s and didn't get nearly that amount past my second week until they upgraded the lines a couple of years later (I still suspect shaping was involved and wonder if it was because I was under the cheaper contract, but can't prove it). I logged a speed test on a Super Bowl Sunday one time, and I was only getting 0.6 MB/s down. [Insert repeated headdesks] Never mind the price almost doubling after my initial two year contract was up, and then the company adding a yearly "maintenance fee" in $1.99 increments after that.

The saving grace where I live has been a co-op dedicated to providing decent fiber to area towns, hamlets, and subdivisions. They signed a contract with a school district north of here a couple of years ago and laid the fiber line right along where I live. I now pay for 250 MB/s (could go higher if I wanted), get nearly that, and only for a few bucks more than what I had to deal with through Frontier's extortionary practices. I've been pretty satisfied with them. There's the very rare time that it's been down, but for no more than a few seconds.

@gcunit That is very impressive. I haven't actually counted all the physical games I own. Just by eyeballing my shelf though most of them are PS2 and SNES games followed up by PS4. Maybe I will count them all one of these days.

i get every thing about that.

witch would you chose from? Mario bros 1 ,2 or 3 Im just asking

@Tasuki Just counting them all was a fair undertaking, because I don't have them all stored neatly together in the most organised state. Some day I've got to work through them all to index what I've got on my spreadsheet of dreams.

@Heavyarms55 I never owned any Game Boy system back in the day. Until recently the only GBA games I had were the two Golden Sun games, but I've recently added a Game Boy Player to my GameCube setup so wanted to get a few more to get some mileage out of it. I never knew about the Game Boy Player until relatively recently, and I'm finding playing these retro handheld gems on it really cool. I do intend to get a few more, but I've spent a lot of retro cash already these past 2 years so am just easing off for the time being, as I only really want CiB versions, so it gets pricey.

I do actually have about 8 unboxed GBC games I picked up recently in a random bundle. I guess I've not included them on my list because I didn't particularly intend to get them, they just came into my ownership while buying a Game Boy Player I think.

i have an old game boy color but no games

i do have a GBA with mario advance 4 on it its the one i play the most