The Historian

I have an AIO CPU water cooler on my new build, also on an i7 8700K. Keeps the temperatures low and I can blast the hell out of it with Prime95 and not even get above 50C. Air cooling is usually fine but I wanted something a little better. Plus it looks good with my tempered glass side panel. :p

Still have my NES, Super NES and Nintendo 64 from childhood. I never sell them. I could probably sell them now for some decent coin, but I don't plan on it. I can put those bad boys on a new TV if I want. Adapters are the best things ever.

Anything I played as a kid mainly. Stuff like Combat and Crystal Castles on the 2600 and Mario 3 on the NES are timeless for me.

Are there any other fellow video game collecting enthusiasts around here? I imagine at least or two must be around. I'm probably, like always, the odd man out being the one who collects, primarily, PC games. Short of the Facebook groups I'm in, I'm always the oddball collecting big box PC games. :p

Here's a few random pieces of my collection:
https://i.imgur.com/m5EOHvj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/prTtEFl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4LxX47u.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ePRa8MK.jpg

No, that's not even close to a tenth of what I have overall. xD I've got shelves, boxes and tables full of stuff.

Anywho, any other fellow collectors of video games and video game accessories?
 

Christmas. Because Americans love to shop and this culture is built around acquiring as much useless bullshit as possible.

And that is my cynical take on it.

I'm MtF and I have begun hormone therapy. I couldn't ignore it anymore, even though I'd tried to do so for twenty-two years of my life. Sadly, I started the transition at 34 so I don't think it will end up quite as well as others, but I still have a good chance. Admitting to friends was fairly easy as was telling my brother. I just kinda told him "hey, this is gonna happen soon" and he was like "do what you need to do to be happy." Telling my parents was not nearly as easy. I did tell my mom and dad, and it went better than I expected. Finally got them to understand more with some family therapy time with a specialized gender therapist.

When I'm not so goddamn broke, I'll be going back to said specialist since she's also a vocal coach and has an entire program just for transwomen to transform them from men to women. I am so lucky I live near the Transgender Institute. Not looking forward to replacing a good chunk of my wardrobe, nor getting so much hair lasered the hell off. I'm more tomboyish either way so most of my clothing will be fine. Not giving up my pony shirts regardless. xD

Because it's easy. You can argue relatable, but that seems like it's pushing it a little. Love is the easiest way to put out a song with the least amount of effort. The subject has been overdone and I find incredibly boring so I look elsewhere. But that's me.

To be fair, it looks like a decent family movie. Almost like a kid's version of National Treasure. I might give it a watch for giggles, just to see how it ends up. It really does not look all that bad. Could be kinda fun.

If I listen to anything Christian based, it's usually Audiovision but Stryper is pretty good too.

I use Windows 10 Pro on my current and new build. My laptop from 2008 runs Windows 7 Pro and I use Windows 7 Pro at work. I have a VM where I run XP, 98SE and 3.11. Oh, and I've got a Mac Mini running good old Snow Leopard.

Oh, and my Win server box runs WS 2012 R2.

While I adore Peanuts, I am a huge fan of Calvin & Hobbes. I have a lot of the collections and I still read it at least once or twice a year. C&H is easily the best comic strip ever written and it's so surreal, yet always on point. I've been a fan since before the strip actually ended its original print run. Always good for a surreal laugh.

Panda Free and Malwarebytes. Never pay for anti-virus or anti-malware. It's not worth it.

I build my own desktops and I go with Asus for laptops.

I boot up XP in a VM to play some older games, but that's about it. It was a bad OS when it was new and it's even worse now.

I rather enjoy both so I consume both. I have anime on my shelves and manga right beside it. Even a few "special" manga... hehe.

Pretty much primarily forms of metal, and good old rock music in there too. There are a few other things sprinkled in but very few. Pretty much listen to prog, power and symphonic metal, though I do have plenty of heavy metal in there too. Having a bluetooth enabled radio in my car means listening to good music is much easier. Put on some Dream Theater, crank it up and head on down the road.

Only game that has legitimately creeped me out. I need to play it again.

This was an interesting topic but what I find a little strange is that very few actually make a distinction between graphics and aesthetics. Graphics are little more than the technical rendering capability and software techniques used to display what we see. Aesthetics is how well all elements of a game blend together to create a unified whole. So, for example, while something like, say, Killzone 2 is graphically impressive, it is aesthetically boring. Whereas something like Parappa the Rappa is graphically inferior but has a well designed aesthetic that makes it look better. Breath of the Wild has an impeccably crafted aesthetic that blends all elements of the game together in a wonderfully unified whole. That's why so many people say Breath of the Wild looks so incredibly good. Honestly, I haven't seen a game look that visually stunning and interesting in a long time. Looks even better being emulated on a PC with the right kind of shaders in play, but that's outside the scope of WiiU and Switch. Pokemon Sword and Shield, however, do not benefit from quite the same care as Breath of the Wild did. It looks okay and the aesthetic isn't terrible but it's not polished and has some very lazy elements to it. If it's a handheld title, you can excuse the blocky designs but the visuals I've seen have a lot of color clash to them. Things just don't compliment each other as well and you notice those elements, which gives it that less than appealing look to it. 

This has been around since I was a kid. Not once have I really found any of the claims to be credible and every single one of them smacked of someone trying to make a quick buck. I never felt like any of the testimonies or cases had any real legitimacy. Even back in the 90s, it was a shitshow. If it's legit, it could give closure to the victims but it's well past that time...

I wish Disney would just go back to making hand drawn cartoon animation and not be so big. I don't like mega-corporations.

uh, me with an older, anthro Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and things happened that are highly inappropriate for this forum.

Could do without this cold but at least the weather is looking up.

Finally got some sun back and it's not always cold as balls.

Do the players have a legal citizenship to live in said country? If so, you don't get to whine about them being on the team. Far as I'm concerned, if they decided to become a citizen of another country, they're now part of it. Immigration is a thing - get used to it.

You'd think I was a lazy slob. I have shit everywhere and most of it's not organized in the slightest. I prefer my ordered chaos rather than being overly tidy.

I have a second space down in the basement where my computer stuff and game collection is. You'd think I was a hoarder... haha.