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Twinsies. (Though it’s the Centris 610. And I hope to be doing the same once I’m not mired by a bunch of projects…)

In no particular order: Expedition 33 Chrono Trigger Horizon Zero Dawn (runner up: GoW2018) Skies of Arcadia Diablo II Pokémon Emerald Final Fantasy VI Suikoden II Mother 3

I guess I’ll join in on the 9 games thing. It was kinda tough but I think the final decision I came to captures everything. I hope.

Pizza box on a pizza box.

Got the Centris done, equipped with a @bluescsi.com and ready to go, and I was sure to install only the best Mac OS for 040 machines.

Also got a label maker for cheap from the thrift (with two refills) so I made a service label for it.

An Amazon SIXLTR company name I can actually get behind

I also don’t want to hear “well just run to Canada, then?”

Disabled people can’t really flee the country if things go any further south, no one wants us. Lot of us can’t work, we’re just seen as a burden on the system.

We effectively go down with the ship.

Seeing some posts saying “well if we don’t get a true progressive in 2028, I’m not gonna vote and we can try again in 2032” and it makes me just…DO YOU NOT SEE EVERYTHING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW? TIME IS NOT ON MINORITIES’ SIDE. WE WILL NOT MAKE IT TO 2032 IF 2026 AND 2028 GO AWRY.

Fuck, man.

Gonna politic on main for a bit, but:

Can we please not play the “if I don’t get the candidate I want for 2028 I’m going to stay home and let the GOP notch another win” card? Especially after *gestures at fucking everything*

*You* might survive the GOPocalypse. Many of us don’t have until 2032.

All the late 98/early XP stuff is going up in price big time so it doesn’t surprise me it doesn’t turn up often (9700/9800 straddle the line well, from what I see)

X800 and the like don’t get talked about much but at least judging by eBay…ohhh people have definitely caught on. Sigh.

Rootie and baby pufferfish sitting in front of a fish tank.

Gonna start a cover band.

Gonna call it Rootie & the Blowfish.

This X800 only turned up because the friend who had it WAS going to flash it to work in an AGP G4 but I guess these cards don’t work in the Digital Audio models. Didn’t need another PC Card so it ended up in my lap (and DOA, sadly)

I’ve gotta dive deeper. My practical 98 box utterly shat the bed.🙃

I’m not *actively* searching per se but any mid XP era Radeons (like said X800 or 9700/9800) that have 98 drivers are always awesome cards to encounter. If you do stumble into an extra and have no use for it, definitely appreciated.

It’s still acting really erratic even with a known good PSU on it. But the stock PSU has its own pending problems. Yay.

I’m glad this thing managed to pull through VCF SoCal despite this.

HOLD UP

Was it really a bad ROM flash? Could that have been it?

I hot air’d and fluxed it. Baking it likely wouldn’t change the outcome, unfortunately.

Well, I was excited, thought I had a Radeon X800 Pro lined up for the 98 Shuttle…and it’s dead. Even tried the Hail Mary reflow on it and it’s gone gone. Just doesn’t pass video at all and the board is pretty visibly flexed toward the end. (Near some of the VRAM)

It lacks that whimsy the original had.

Like I’m only confused here because people online act like this was Brawl’s magnum opus and I just don’t see it, all I see is a track claiming to be a rendition of one thing but then going wildly off the rails.

(Bananza, however, did amazingly right by the original. I love it a lot.)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate SoundTrack Stickerbush Symphony YouTube video by D'Andre Incredible

Got reminded of this and this is one of those things where I just don’t see the vision. Like this is NOT Stickerbush, it lacks the ambience of the original and outside of the intro sounds nothing like it.

“bro the smash version of this song is so great” but my dudes it’s barely even the same song

Hell, if my Windows laptop wasn’t effectively a gift from a good friend (and I didn’t already have a 16” M1 that I got for very very cheap) I would definitely be selling that Windows laptop and grabbing a Neo and pocketing the extra cash.

I know I’m gonna get crucified but I tried a thinkpad (T430S) and I seriously didn’t get the hype. I think they’re neat but the build quality isn’t what I was thinking it was going to be.

Also modern sleep on Windows laptops is *bad*

If I had the money I'd totally buy one and use it for FCPX and Lightroom and everything and I'd wager the only complaints I'd ever have about it is how much Liquid Glass sucks. But it's still preferable to buying a Win11 machine with physical bloatware (Copilot key).

One of the more braindead takes on the MacBook Neo is that "you could get a much better machine..."

*beat*

"if you just saved $200 more and got x"

Listen, at the segment this is targeted to, people can't "just" save $200 more and buy something nicer. Oy fucking vey.

I had a little too much fun at Rasputin

Thankfully the girlfriend helped out because I spent way too much but the two VNV singles were worth it.

I had a little too much fun at Rasputin

Thankfully the girlfriend helped out because I spent way too much but the two VNV singles were worth it.

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Lufia is dying for a remaster. Since Square seems to have the rights to it…please, please, PLEASE give it to the same guys who did Star Ocean 2’s remaster/remake. They did such an excellent job with SO2.

As for what I’d add to the list, already mentioned but Paladin’s Quest.

Also have hit mobs point blank with a fireball and they neither flinch nor take damage because again lag means sorry xo, your hit boxes are in another castle!

Sigh.

But hey at least the C2Q Shuttle XPC handled it well without turning into a fire pit.

This has been a miserable climb so far.

My advice is if you want to play D2 on BNet, yeah, don’t. The server lag is horrible. Not sure if it’s D2’s netcode or the servers are just potatoes.

I’ve had…a number of bullshit deaths because my hitbox was two rooms over from where I was due to lag.

They Might Beat Giygas (Mashup Album) YouTube video by idiokit

oh this is better than it has any right to be

In a mood for some Diablo II laddering YouTube video by Xodium Labs

So I decided "hey, I should stream playing some Diablo" and yeah, I guess that sounds like a good idea