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  1. K has a 65nm GPU and CPU, it's a pretty reliable model. But it does have tokins that can fail on you. The biggest issue with thise super slims are the wifi modues, from what I hear.
  2. I wouldn't worry about it until you have issues. No sense worrying about something that may not happen. The BD has a daughterboard that is married. So if you replace the whole Drive, you need to retain the OG. However, you can remarry them using a jailbroken custom firmware. You just need to dump the eid root key and use factory service mode to remarry it. I'm not sure how common BD issues are. Pretty common I'd suspect. 15 years or so old solid state lasers are starting to fail. Not too big a deal to replace the laser itself. But I've not needed to myself...yet.
  3. In the original I forgot that ATI designed the 360 GPU and mistakenly said Nvidia designed both. That was inaccurate. Both were fabricated by TSMC (at least some of the defective chips). So it's not too big an oversight, it just didn't paint the correct picture of how 2 different designers ended up having similar issues. I also toned down the "who's to blame" rhetoric and placed a disclaimer before BumpGate theory. There are a few other minor changes that I think improve the accuracy alot. Most people wont notice.
  4. Okay Guys. I have been working on a BIG project in secret for the last 6 months. But it took nearly the last 4 years to research. And it finally went live today! I hope you enjoy... EDIT: there were some legit oversights that a few people pointed out to me about the video that I needed to address. They were serious enough that I needed to pull it down. Soft opening didn't go well! Anyway...it's back up now. New and improved!
  5. If you haven't seen any other videos that have spoiled this, then watch it here first. It's pretty awesome! I unfortunately was fed (by the YT algorithm) a reaction video that spoiled it for me. Seeing it from the event is much better. So before YT's spoilBOT get's you too, watch this!
  6. I must say, I picked this up a while ago and it's been sitting on my shelf. Then today I saw this video and thought, "that cover looks familiar." I went to the game shelf and there it was! No I had never played it. But I think I will now! Just logged into the XBOX PC app and started DL'ing. Pretty crazy it's free. 4k remaster, online and everything. Also long time no see. Just wanted to pop in to share this little nugget with you all!
  7. THX, I haven't played any of these yet. I guess I waited long enough!
  8. PS1 games are starting to work on MiSTer now too. I've been seeing some preliminary tweets (yes, I finally gave in). Starting to get very inciting with Saturn and PS1 being worked on. Kinda crazy! I never thought the DE10nano could handle those systems. Honestly, I don't know why I keep putting this off. I know I'll want one eventually. I guess it's because I'm satisfied with having real HW instead! But really, I can't justify buying a PC Engine Duo just for bonk! And I have been wanting to build a MiSTerCade. It's just another big project in an already long line of projects I haven't gotten to.
  9. DISACLAIMER: This it like, just my opinion man! If you don't like it, I respect your right to express yourself...so long as you respect mine. It's been over a year and I still haven't been blessed with good timing. Forgive my old stupid ass for not subscribing to restock alerts or resorting to paid bot buying groups for the privilege of paying full retail price. And it does, doesn't it - Feel like a privelege to pay "only" $500? First, let me express how STUPID it is to feel privileged to pay the Launch price for a console that launched over a year ago. Call me old fashioned, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, a year after launch, should be discounted. "But they are in high demand." "They're not available in stores." "There's a global parts shortage." Oh, and the most overused excuse..."the pandemic!" Second, they're not sold in stores, online only. That method is incredibly unfair to people like me. I never know when restocks are coming and can't compete with the trigger fingers of a generation that grew up jacked into the web. I don't want to stop everything at the drop of a tweet, just to pay full retail price for a console that launched a year ago, having a 2ms window to buy. I have no problem on amazon.com buying a USB cable, but the moment there's demand from 10's of thousands of rabid gamer's willing to run up their credit card debt competing for a limited number of consoles, normal servers and Firefox doesn't cut it. I value my privacy and use browser extensions like Ghostery and UBlock origin that sometimes interfere with cookies needed to make a purchasing experience go smooth. Using chrome with it's big-brother-friendly default settings is 100% necessary, when you're competing to add to cart on an overloaded server. Hitting that refresh button over and over again shouldn't require me to give up on my values, but it's become ordinary - that's just what you have to do! But WHY??? Why do they REFUSE to sell them in stores? It would solve all of this nonsense. Yes, I know recently the Halo infinate limited edition X-Box SX was sold in store at Best Buy. But was I the only one who found the timing inconvenient? Why did they do it on a Monday morning? I'm not as young as I used to be and had to work Monday. I couldn't get the day off just to camp out at Best Buy for a video game console! I don't know where you work, buy that won't fly by my boss! A Saturday makes sense. People can begin camping out after work and won't have to work the weekend. Not only does that give you a chance to sleep off the camp-out, but also play some games before having to go to work on Monday! That's the way Black Friday worked when I was growing up! That's how it's supposed to work. Sure, I get the pandemic excuse here. I mean if I were SONY or MS I'd be saying the same things. 'Why would we lower the price when they keep selling out? We don't control the price resellers list their consoles at. There is a global parts shortage and pandemic. Selling in stores with long lines makes social distancing difficult or impossible.' That last one is a solid argument, but that's a decision I should be able to make for myself. I can wear an N95, face shield, self contained HazMat suit if I effing want! Retailers can setup social distancing measures too. I don't get why they, be "they" retailers or whoever, remove the option from us (the customer)? Shouldn't we have the opportunity to get lucky and find a console in store? I find myself checking the electronics section at Wallmart, Target, and Best Buy every time I'm there, just in case there was a silent restock. I'd even pay full retail price for the convenience of buying in person, instead of enduring the hassle of competing for one online. I happend upon a SNES and NES classic just wondering by the electronics section. It's a small ritual I used to enjoy performing while vising the supermarket. But it's completely lost it's appeal. Now, I don't even bother with th electronics section. If I were to go by the switch games, I'd see a $60 price for a game that's been out for 4 years. And if there's ZERO chance of finding a PS5 or XBSX, the only thing I have to look forward to is a 2 for 1 sale on soap...FML! The one time there is an in store release it's was a random Monday. Had I not checked Twitter, I wouldn't have even known about it! In fact, this is why I joined Twitter, because I keep missing out on news like this. I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA! But I had to join to keep on top of updates like this. That's a failure of marketing, not some kind of grassroots gurella marking strategy. Whatever BS non-sense they try to spin it as! Regardless, I only saw this in my feed the morning of! It was too late for me to plan to take the day off by then. I can only assume this was by design, intended to be difficult. Heaven forbid we have a fair shot! Instead they would pass out tickets (1/customer) at 7am...but that you HAD to wait around for the 10am open or they wouldn't hold on to it. So you couldn't come back later if you had to go to work. No, you had to wait all night, and most of the morning too. I got the message loud and clear. The timing said, "no working adults!" The price said, "no broke young people!" So who was this for? The only people who can do that are people without a regular 9-5, but who somehow have and extra $500 laying around...like resellers! Really limited demographic there. Maybe they were hoping to give scalpers COVID! You better believe scalpers have no problem camping out for the chance to double their money. I See the Halo Infinite LE X-Box SX selling on e-bay for $1200. $1200 - $500 = A cool $700. Sure e-bay takes their fee, but it's worth loosing a little sleep if you're a resller. But I want to get back to this point. Just because you can't get a console, doesn't mean it's rare or worth it's asking price! I would argue that the system has been manipulated to create scarcity and speculation. By slowly releasing consoles, small restocks at a time, SONY and MS are creating a reseller market! And the manner they, or their distributors, have chosen to release these consoles (online only) is easily exploited by bots reseller groups use to acquire large lots. The true price of the console is being set by speculation, not demand. That's why the price's aren't falling. Keeping supply low for as long as possible ensures SONY & MS will end up selling more consoles overall. Speculation will cause consoles to sit on inventory shelves waiting to be resold, up until the bubble pops. Once all gamer's have either bought an overpriced console (either from the scalpers or SONY/MS) or lose interest and give up, resellers will be stuck with unsold inventory taking up space. It works out for SONY and MS, who will have sold WAY more consoles than they would have otherwise. And most of those consoles will have sold for full price, no discounts. That's when I'll pick one up. Once the PS5 and XBSX is no longer relevant. Just like I am doing now with PS3 and XB360. That's what I'm playing now. It's not new, but it's new to me and cheap! I have plenty of games to play, so I can hold out. But you know who can't? Developers! The biggest loser's in all of this are game developers who are not able to sell as many games as they would have otherwise. They only have a short amount of time to make their money back, so the sooner their gamer base has a console they can play the game on, the sooner they can sell it to them. All the people like me, who wait 10 years to buy the console and games used, are a missed opportunity for a sale that would help support their work. And I'm a working adult with the money to buy those games. I want to also. I just can't get my hands on the console! So I'm faced with the decision to buy the game for a console I can't get yet, or wait until I get one. The fact that some of these games become rare and appreciate in value, instead of getting cheaper with time, makes that decision even harder! Worse, because of all this I'm alienated...pissed off really! I want to support development of the games I like. But i'm about ready to say, eff'em all! Let them die! Nothing about this is conducive to good game development or innovation. Devs can't take the chances they did during the X-Box, PS2, Dreamcast, and GC generation. They haven't since then. That has soured my taste for gaming in general. It caused me to wait to buy consoles and games, and that was back when we had the luxury of games and consoles that came down in price. The only reason I'm even interested in the overpriced PS5 and XBSX is for backwards compatibility and Games I want to support development of. They need it to have enough to offer gamers! Nintendo somehow manages to look like the good guy in all of this. I was able to pay full price in a store...SHOCKER!!! The prices haven't come down, but availability is better. I just bought Metroid Dread because I love the series and want to support it's continued development. I have a lot of switch games that I haven't even opened yet, because I wanted to support development, and was afraid the price would go up...strange times we live in. But I can't justify doing this for a console I don't own yet. Yeah, this thread is venting...it's spilled milk, sour grapes, hey you kid's get off my lawn. Deal with it!
  10. Yeah, me too! My Dad came down and hadn't seen it yet, so I went again. Picked up a lot more the second time. I get what your mean about seeing things I thought were omitted the first time. After the first viewing, I started listening to the audiobook at work and reached as far as where this movie left off the day we went. I think I like it even more now! Seriously, don't open this one!
  11. I still enjoyed the game and recommend giving it the chance it deserves, but it definitely takes getting over an entrance barrier. That could have been avoided with a more linear path until the controls were figured out. I fought with the controls for the first 8-10 hours before getting used to them. Use the pro controller! Luckily you don't have to use the quicklime event system to defeat enemies unless you want to. I like that they don't force you into it. But the world was too open too soon and they intentionally give you another quest to confuse you and to get you lost. I understand that's intentional, to recreate the OG Zelda formula, but it was too much too soon. I can see why people might say it's one of the best games for the switch. But that reason has to be they haven't played other zelda games. BotW failed to live up to it's full potential for me. For example, without spoiling, there are 3 labyrinths scattered about the map which have a prize at the end. They are just mazes...period. No enemies, no puzzles, no creativity beyond the maze itself. They do make it harder than just looking at the map to solve it, but only just barely. From the top down it looks like you can't go certain ways, because there are passages through the stone walls from the ground level you can't see from above. But by looking at the map and having enough stamina to climb the walls, you can make short work of the maze. That's the catch 22 of BotW IMO. Because you can go anywhere at any time it breaks some puzzles. Had I found the Labyrinths earlier, before accumulating enough stamina to climb over the walls, then they would have been more challenging. But even then I would have felt they were missing an opportunity to be special. They need more inspiration! I envision Labyrinth (1986) or Pan's Labyrinth (2007). The prize at the end is okay as far as BotW prizes go, but it doesn't make me feel like I need to get it next time (if there is a next time). The prizes don't feel important. So the other missed opportunity was the lack of a big pay-off at the end that would make the labyrinth desirable to visit. As it is the lack luster prize is only worth the trouble because it was wasn't much trouble to begin with. The mazes were a cool idea, that left so much on the table. Missed opportunity! A shame, really.
  12. Hmm...I'm going to listen to the book again. I think it's been long enough that I forgot alot of those details. Maybe that's why I liked the movie! Unlike ready Player One, which I could almost recite word for word when I saw the movie...um..."adaptation" (abomination).
  13. Oh, forgot to tell ya. I left about half an hour early so I would have some time to kill playing the arcade. I brought $5 in quarters with me. First, the Area 51 cabinet is gone . Second it's been replaced with redemption games (those stupid win a prize gambling machines that are meant to look like skill is involved when it isn't). The only actual arcade game they had was crus'n world. "Okay fine," I thought. "I like crusin cabs. Let's do this." I go to put the quarters in and it only takes tokins! So I go to the tokin machine and it only takes $1 and $5 dollar bills. And I didn't bring cash! At least I got my overpriced popcorn, soda, and candy. 1 Matinee ticket for DUNE = $8.70. My total = $30. Concessions will kill you! Sadly, I wasn't able to spend $5 so aliens could kill me too.
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