syntheticgerbil

Can someone post in here when the Shovel Knight Amiibo becomes available? I'm tired of going to Best Buy's site every two weeks to check.

Definitely never. It's a lot like Valiant Hearts in some ways except way more platforming. I love Valiant Hearts dearly.

I started it, played some with my wife. The WiiU version has some extra edutainment stuff. I can't fully recommend it because I haven't finished but it is a nice puzzle platformer with cute graphics and neato Alaskan native art and themes. Only bad thing I can say is the character physics and collision can get kind of janky sometimes. If you like how the trailers look might as well give it a shot.

White people shoot guns. Long live guns and ammo. Open carry culture man.

Can you reach the lamp?

Thank you a billion zillion Korax, it downloaded! Now I no longer have to throw away my PS4! I am not really sure how this even works, but I'm glad it does.

Gah I hope part of this relaunch is putting P.T. back!

Man if that were the case where I live, I'd never want water from the tap. I don't know what kidney stones feel like, but I never want to find out.

Thanks Danielle for the advice and kind words. I haven't started yet but I'm gonna do my best to be honest (mostly with myself) and prepared.

I recall my relatives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan having some gross ass fart water, but I assumed it was just me and what I was used to. I've had some good water tasting experiences in Texas so far. I kind of like it more from the tap than actual filtered bottled water.

I have one thing that has been bugging me for a while, I can't seem to multiquote seperate people anymore without things getting weird and attributing it all to the same person. Sometimes this seems to work with the multiquote option and sometimes it doesn't. I used to be able to fix it with using the full editor, but no luck anymore. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong? Also I just noticed that my location is no longer displayed under my name and everyone else has it displayed. Is it just because I am seeing myself or did I break something with my profile? Edit: Oh wait, my location has to go in a different place now, my old profile is under "converted."

Yo, where are you guys seeing it ever called General Zuo's chicken? Did I miss something? Is this regional? I've always known it as Tso's or Joe's (if one should be inclined to be Joe cool).

Holy shit! That must have been intentional!

Oh sorry, I guess you wouldn't be able to get S-Video then, damn. Can you guys get component cables for the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox Generation and on? Yeah it's surprising how much Sega was sort of ahead of the game with the VGA hookups, even though no one really knows it or generally used it at the time. Most HD TVs seem to have VGA ports but maybe this isn't as common anymore? I'm kind of afraid if my HD TV breaks I may not be able to find one these days that have all the hook ups, because I don't know how many ports there are anymore. Mine currently has everything I need, although sadly there's only one S-Video port. It also only has only two composite which is a shame. One thing I hate about PS2 is to play PS1 games looking the best, you have to also have a S-Video cable since for whatever reason it won't force the composite cable to output PS1 games.

Yeah, a lot of the boxed copies of games I got were on ebay between 2004-2007 I have noticed since then almost everything complete in box that is worth owning Pc or consoles games has gotten almost as expensive as a rarer game from back in that time period. I remember getting Snatcher on Sega CD for about $70 back then and now I see a complete copy is something like $300.A lot of those old systems look pretty nice on an HD TV if you get the S-video hookups, they are relatively cheap and the ones for Snes will work for both Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. The VGA box for Dreamcast is worthwhile to get widescreen on some games and there are cheap knock offs still available. Some people spend way too much money on an official SEGA VGA box and I have no idea why kt would actually be any different.

Jesus Christ, I hope this all gets fixed. I can't believe it didn't hurt at the time, even if you were drinking.

Man, this thread speaks my language. I have so many retro consoles, I refuse to play emulators if I can and I try to own every old game of mine complete in box. I only have a few games for each console because a lot of them were rereleased somewhere on a newer console and take up space. I keep most of these consoles hooked up at all times: NES, Sega Saturn, Sega CDX, 32X, SNES, Xbox, N64, PS2 slim, Dreamcast, GBCs, GBA SP, original blocky DS (for the rumble pack), and an old Nokia Symbian smartphone for some old Java games and Ngage 2.0. It's kind of a weird combo of collector OCD, nostalgia for consoles I did or did not own, and the magic and authenticity it feels to load up stuff on what it was made for. Sometimes repairing this stuff is a little bit of fun in and of itself. My dad does PC repair for a living (he used to do a lot more intricate stuff in the 80s and 90s, but these days it's more about just swapping out parts). He taught me how to solder but I haven't used it much. I'm not as good as him, but I'm inclined to figure this stuff out myself sometimes, especially since I fondly remember my dad fixing my NES blinking issues to somehow make it so you didn't push the tray down and I guess make the contacts hit the pinout easier. He doesn't remember how he did this though, so I have no idea. I've taken apart an NES to clean the pin connector. I once bought all of the capacitors for a game gear and then replace and soldered them all in using a youtube video. That one was tough but this is what you have to do to fix any Game Gear these days because they will almost all have faint sound or unwatchable screens right now since apparently Sega (and many companies in the early 90s) used cheap ass capacitors back then. It ended up that somehow the video card chip was a mess though and the tiles for any game would be all out of wack and they would lock up, so I had to through it away. The Sega repair forum I went to told me that was basically not replacable. I've also replaced a bad Xbox DVD drive twice, and attempted to repair a PS3 blu-ray drive, but somehow PS3s are wired to only communicate with the chip on the Blu-ray drive it comes with even if you replace the laser, and I think either that chip failed or I damaged it by taking it apart. Then recently (not game related) I had an all region blu-ray player where the laser failed. It's a cheapo model by Toshiba, one of the few that you can region unlock with Australian firmware, but they are rare as they aren't made anymore. I got one on ebay but the tray would not open, so I got a refund and they told me to keep it. I eventually opened it up to see if I could fix the issues with the plastic tray, but no luck. Then I realized I could take the laser from that one and install it in my old one. I was back in business (for free even!) because of my experience with messing with the PS3, without the headache of the Sony chip locking the drive to the hardware it came with. Also I like to region unlock things so I broke the tabs on an SNES, I use a Game Genie for Genesis region unlocks, and I put the little tabs and stuff in my PS2 for Swap Magic. I also installed Homebrew on my Wii to play Fatal Frame IV, although I haven't had any luck the last time I tried, it will however play all region. I installed the hacked firmware on the PSP so I can run this tweak that will use more of the processor speed and make certain choppy games run fine. Oh and last thing, I like to have bootleg repro carts for unreleased games or games with fan translations, since I'd prefer to play those on original consoles as well. I have some GBC flash carts for For the Frog the Bell Tolls and Balloon Fight GBC. Then I have some for GBA just in case, but I only use one for Mother 3 at the moment. My first repro cart was Earthbound Zero and then I kind of been getting more and more as they come out. Eventually I got Devil World for NES, Famicom Detective Club for SNES, Zelda BS, and Zelda Stone Tablets (Also BS). There's some more games I hope get translated one day so I can have more repro carts. I know some people get mad when dudes sell repro carts of translations other fans made, but I guess in the end I would rather pay to own the games and play them on the actual hardware instead of through an emulator for free. Sorry if this dumb stuff comes off as bragging, I just think retro junk is cool.

Thank you Mike, that means a lot. We did agree to try six weeks of marriage counseling, but it's definitely hanging by a thread. If anyone still wants to talk to me about this or now (haha) went through this kind of thing with marriage counseling and has some advice, I'd still really appreciate it.

Hey guys, so my wife is divorcing me as of today. It's not really a sudden thing and I understand. We've been holding on for like 11 or so years now trying to make stuff work, to make it better, and we can never just get along when we fight which kind of mars all the good times. I don't want to dwell too much on it or I'll feel really sad. But if there's any Thumbs out there who ever want to IM me sometime in AIM, slack, skype or whatever, about divorce if you've been through it or just help me get through this, it'd mean a lot to me. This is probably going to be the hardest moment in my life and it's compounded by money problems, no job, finishing school, etc. I probably can't talk much right now, I'm trying as hard as I can to finish my final final project for this semester, and I think I'm going to drive home to Houston this weekend to be with my family because I'm scared of being alone right now but if there's any time, I'd appreciate a friend. Thanks everyone.

Kimmy Schmidt made me sort of uncomfortable and I didn't laugh a ton, but it was TV fodder to keep on the background, so there's that. My beloved show these days is Brooklyn 99. Mindy Project Christmas episode was amazing though.

Will Christmas Duck have candy in it the way it does in Costume Quest 2? Is that canon?

I've gotten much more into the second season with the last two episodes, but now I don't know why the Native American character is an Anton Chigurh clone. The broader reference stuff is kind of grating on me.

Same Bjorn. I think they are on a different plane of understanding.

Oh hmmm, I kind of forgot how you toggled on the commentary but I know I definitely heard it all, but I have the UK boxed copy, so perhaps the patch was already installed. I might just rebuy this to have it on PS4 anyway though.

If I'm understanding the video right, Steve, is there more commentary for this release?