Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@MarioLover92
Thanks for listening me. 😢
I really have to do something with my PS2 Fat USA. Looks like the issues are the optical drive and memory card slot that easily to corrupt the data if i plug in memory card not so firmly. To bring my PS2 machine to video games repair shop during this pandemic situation, i was really worried about the safety and i think the malls (the repair shop i meant was inside mall building) were still closed for several weeks until the situation was safe to open the public places again.

During this year, like last year i picked very few Switch games as i still hunt for old games from various machines and i prioritized the rare games (only 1 left old games from certain sellers) than the current released games. My games order from Tokopedia will be arrived soon on this week, i supposed to be happy but i still felt very sad to think my PS2 fat USA in trouble.

I think i want to leave from Nintendolife as almost nobody care with me. I always felt lonely for being me. I still in grief by losing my PS2 games save data again. I'm not sure i want post some comments here after this. 😔

Huh did you lose your PS2 save files? That’s rough, I hope you’re able to recover at least some of it, but if it’s gone for good, remember, it’ll be ok, it’s just data.

Happen'd to me once actually, lost everything on that thing.

My PS2 is the original model, which I got for my birthday back in 2002. It still works, though I think it starts the game discs longer than it should. It would stay at the "Sony Computer Entertainment" screen, then go to the console menu. I still get them to load by going to the Browser option. I never got the slim model.

thats kinda how im feeling these days too. i also love super cold apple juice.

Whew. Finally ready to relax a bit. Helped my sister's fiancee move into his new place yesterday afternoon/evening, went to a visitation and funeral before that (neighbor I grew up near), and today had a family reunion and also swore at mowed my lawn. My feet are about to declare a mutiny.

@bimmy-lee At the reunion mentioned up there, I was able to indulge in some CCP and a bit of cheesecake as well. There was a heck of a dessert selection, and more fried chicken than Colonel Sanders probably sees in a day. It's usually outdoors, so there aren't too many warm dishes unless someone lives nearby lol. That class size convo might've been with you; I'm fairly sure I did mention that in here before. Most of the teachers my parents had were gone by the time I made it to HS, so I didn't have to deal with the name issue; I look more like my dad anyway lol. Though it's surprising how many people get my sister and me mixed up as we don't look a lot alike. Even close family. It's funny, I have an aunt who cycles through about half a dozen names, including her own children, before getting to my own sometimes. XD

Pipes and plumbing definitely aren't my forte. My brother and I have switched out a couple of sinks on our own with some trial and error (nothing bad thankfully), but anything past that I've left to the professionals. Your plumber sounds like a decent fellow. I have some handy connections, but admittedly not in the pipe department. Still sounds like a memorable day all the same!

By "software developer", I'm a code-slinger. I help develop features for and maintain the desktop side of a service management program along with two other devs. There are also a couple of devs who work on the web application arm of it. My skill set is somewhat uncommon compared to what a lot of firms want out of developers today since I primarily use a language/development environment that's no longer very popular, though still viable (very long story here). The history of how I got to where I am is a long and odd one, but to summarize...I was, shall we say, belatedly inherited by my current place of employment sometime after they bought the software I now work on from my previous employer. I do have some HTML experience from my college days and my previous job (we did deal with websites somewhat, though I wasn't normally very involved with them), but it isn't something I typically use these days.

Digital publishing? That sounds like an interesting job as well!

@MarioLover92 Not a fan of heights, I take it? I'm weird when it come to them; as long as I have something between me and the open air, I'm fine. But get me high up on a ladder or something where there's nothing to break my fall...I do experience mild vertigo then.

But yeah, wooden roller coasters can be a little rough. Some of the shaking is part of the experience, but it's also an engineering hack; it is used to take some of the stress off of the supports. Most steel coasters and a few steel/wooden hybrids, especially more modern ones, are actually a really smooth ride. Many do go quite high, but there are some decent mid-level ones I've been on as well.

@ogo79 MMM cold, Ya now I want some juice.

@Snatcher
ive got cold beer for now

Awright. My windows tablet is now back to where it was before the incident. I of course took the chance and avoided some of the self-inflicted bloatware I had installed in its previous life, going as far as doing the unthinkable and letting Edge be the default web browser instead of installing Chrome on it- I don’t really use it to browse the web so why bother right?

I was considering not installing Steam, since it is not compatible with most of the games I have there anyway, but a tablet just doesn’t feel complete without plants vs zombies and final fantasy 3.

It’s nice to see it back to normal, I was afraid I would need to trash a technically funcional piece of hardware.

Anyhow, that’s the end of that chapter. I can now go back to not really caring about this tablet.

@Tyranexx
it appears yer always busy.
i am as well, im trying to work on that, we all need a solid break.
you gotta learn when its time to say no.
it seems ive got more work to file in with compressed time.
we gotta work on that lol

@Eel Wait, wait, what happen'd to the tablet?

@Tyranexx Man, your so nice, Having a person like you around would be so fun, they really are blessed.

@Snatcher huh, the whole windows-update-ruined-everything debacle. I just finished installing and configuring everything, so it’s now back to normal.

@Eel I have one Lenovo Miix 8 and I love it! I never update the Windows. It is 8.1 and if I update it even once I love my mouse capabilities with it And sometimes the touchscreen is not responsive. The base version of the Windows is good enough for old Windows games and movies

@Zuljaras mine started off with windows 10, and the base version was very bad. The updates did help and improved it considerably though, which is why I was so eager to keep it updated. Too bad I can’t keep it up to date anymore.

The tablet itself is about as basic as it can get… What you’d expect from a 60 dollar tablet I suppose. Though judging from the reviews on the Amazon listing, I’m apparently lucky it even works at all.

I guess the pure novelty of having a functional windows computer in such a small body makes it special, because I do feel a bit attached to it, even though I mostly just use it to play with the GBA roms I extracted last year from my cartridges. (And it’s kinda funny because even those aren’t like entirely smooth). (And as mentioned, a few select steam games)

Does yours get hot? Mine tends to get a bit hot a bit too quickly.

Edit: ah right, mine is a Vulcan Challenger II ex. It seems to be fairly similar to yours!

@Eel Mine is very old about 5 years and it does NOT get hot. The battery is still good. Unfortunately you could not get it anymore

I use it to play Heroes of Might and Magic from 2 to 5 Even with touchscreen only it is a really nice experience!

But it is basic like 2GB of RAM and the processor is Intel Atom or something like that

@Zuljaras yup the specs seem to be very similar. And I do suspect mine is about that old as well, even though I only bought it two years ago.

For touch screen based games, I keep farming simulator 16 on it, a sudoku game, plants vs zombies, and sometimes Minecraft. Though I do also have a program that adds a digital game pad on-screen, for everything else.

@Eel Oh boy, Updates man, gota love em.

i dont mess with mole, but being that you do, a birthday meal is very important.
i like to make my own birthday meals myself as well. happy b day!

@NinChocolate
no problem at all.
we only get 100 birthdays in our lifetime...