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HAHA my SQL meaning my SQL abilities... not MySQL!!!

I didn't realize the confusion I would create by that choice of wording this morning, but it's a pretty funny play on words...

The arcade was glorious in the 80's! Every hotel, campground, and even gas station had some cabinet. The local pizza huts had cocktail cabinets, one had some iteration of pac man and the other had breakout or alleyway.

GI Joe was my favorite. I still pick up figures when I see them in the wild and actually just found a GI Joe Monopoly game.

Mask, Thundercats, Transformers, HeMan, SilverHawks, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors were some of my most favorite toon / toy combos. The TNMT cartoon was fantastic as well, but I never really bought into the toys. By 1989 when they came out I was already 8 and more interested in video games and sports. I think I may have ended up with one of the original ralphs somehow.

Sadly, I missed most of the early Star Wars toys when they were new. I did find some used at flea markets and yard sales but never any to amount to anything. I vaguely remember a Roses having Jabba's palace on clearance for 5 - 10 dollars and I BEGGED for it, but my please fell on the deaf ears of my parents.

didn't I just see banjo kazooe and spyro collections coming out in the near future?

Would Idea number 2 be in the form of an access database file and would idea number 2 be available for download and be manipulated to become a personal inventory....

I've been meaning to get around to building a database for years now but sadly, i continue to find more pressing things to do and have had to stick with a poorly formatted spreadsheet.

OR and this would be a huge undertaking ...

An online database for members to catalog their collection in. Using the repository you're talking about building in the future, members would search for the game, click add it to my list, then fill out things like condition, price paid, date aquired, etc. I've seen it done with comic books and loved the idea. My sql is not strong enough to pull it off but I'd help however I could, even with just the original idea!

How do you like it? It didn't seem to appeal to me as much as the other comic / movie lego games.

I just added some older stuff to my collection:

halo
gta san andreas
destroy all humans
call of duty 3
fable
fable 3
gta 3
gta vice city
Morrowind
Oblivion
Jade Empire
metal gear sold 2
various skylanders figures

I missed this totally... what is a gaming backlog tracker?

I'm such a nostalgia freak its ridiculous. This talk around a Hasbro cinematic universe has really gotten my hopes up, only to have them continually crushed, put on hold, and crushed again.

I has ignited tons of people like me as well as hardcore toy collectors, buying up 80's toys for insane prices on eBay. I've been watching auctions, reading fan pages and online articles and frequenting thrift stores and yard sales as often as possible just to get back some of that old 80's magic.

I would imagine a large part of the CDG group grew up in the 80's, not only living the video game resurgence but also the last great age of toys and Saturday morning cartoons of said toys.

After spending an hour looking at M.A.S.K. toys on eBay I was really curious about what toy / cartoon line does everyone else remember fondly?

I got through the Call of Duty WW2 Campaign. Very satisfying, but a little too easy on regular. Only one part took more than a try or two. I mist tons of mementos and heroic acts but I feel like they'd be easy to get on regular if someone was so inclined. I was rushing through because my son was trying to finish first.

He shot the moon with the original  trilogy.

It happens to a lot of my favorites. tarantino, kevin smith, arnofosky, Ritchie - all had fabulous movies and then after about the third they just fell off. Tarantino may have more than three, and I'll admit to liking all of Kevin Smiths flicks but it's hard to name more than three good ones. Heck, look at Guy Ritchie, outside of Snatch and Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels you've gotta dig deep.... Sherlock Holmes?!

Granted none of those have had a fraction of the success Lucas has but it seems like a pattern. Think Linkin Park...

wow, I thought people not liking Star Wars was a myth...

I'd love to play halo 2 multiplayer again

I finished a few more COD WW2 levels today. I'm up to The Battle of the Bulge.

Found skylanders super charger starter set for ps3 at Ross for 5bucks

outside of early Atari, Nintendo is gimmick king

seems to have sold out, online shows the 17ish price but it won't ship and nothing near me now!

I'll probably be out today, i'll see if its still there. I'm regretting not picking one or two up

They're the worst...

MSI, DFI, DUI, STD......

My city is so low tech when I was in college here for Computer Science my advisor said staying in town was insane. Tech jobs here were 6 week certificate course type of jobs.

It's changed a little but not much. There's a huge demand for digital marketing / social media managers but analysis, design, architecture, is all farmed out from bigger cities. There's no shortage of "web designers" (Wix designers) though, and somehow they're getting tons of work!?

I honestly can't tell you how much I've learned just watching others screw up. I don't have a tech job, I work for a management company that owns hotels and invests in hospitality based properties. I've turned into their tech department, but it's not my full time gig! There's still not enough money in technology.

no, at the time there was still just you, me, and retro on this, and three votes...

I've completely abandoned it. I'd love this game if any of my friends played it. I don't want to jump in with randos and play anything requiring teamwork.

Not falling for it. cardboard is for shipping

@BLUEVOODU I was wrong about MSI, it was DFI that I hated. after that I treated all the 3 letter boards as lepers.

My local target has lego dimensions on sale for under 20.00 for ps4 and xbone, 15ish for 360 and ps3.

I'll guarantee any lego fan would get $20.00 use out of the set even if its just putting the portal together.

I love board games. Monopoly is an all time favorite and I've tried to get every video game edition of it I can. I've been meaning to pick up the Nintendo version for a while now. The monopoly gamer edition is awesome, and I've got the Mario kart gamer edition but haven't managed to play yet. Finding a group of adults with enough time to sit down and play a board game is difficult

I could vote again...

Projects......

I went to work Tuesday morning at 7 am and got home at 3:00 PM Wednesday afternoon. I went back this morning as soon as I got up (around 8:00am) and finally finished around 6pm. The representative from HP left me a note that most of my interfaces didn't work because I had incorrect IP addresses programmed. I argued with HP and Oracle for hours over this and finally went to the MDF after realizing that every machine was visible on the network but what I had programmed as the default gateway wasn't reachable. HP moved a switch and the gateway to another set of racks but didn't bother to reconnect the switch to the gateway.

Between two on site HP technicians and a team of programmers from Oracle, none thought to check if they had all the cables plugged in. One cable, wrecked my four day weekend.

I think becoming relevant will take a mix of innovation, price, and luck.

Walmart won on price. Target is carving a whole in the market share by being trendy. Target is competitive in price, especially when you get their membership card. BestBuy won on price in its market. Amazon continues to cut into all these because of their price / convenience. All those folding lost the price war, plain and simple.

Innovation will be key when / if all these new laws / tariffs / trade propositions go into effect. When abroad stops being cheap all these guys will start having to raise price, or figure out loopholes. If an innovation akin to what the assembly line did for cars becomes realized in American manufacturing while imports go up would rocket the benefactor to the top of the heap.

Price - self explanatory.

Luck - there's a lot of moving parts, but a few words out of trumps mouth caused amazon to lose a billion. Some combination of laws falling in someone's favor with a decent marketing strategy and some revenue management could make the next alphabet / amazon / Walmart. Joining forces seems like a good idea but I can't think of an example where two failing companies combined to save one or both. Sears / Kmart was a flop, AOL Time Warner flop, crysler benz... typically a merger that doesn't involve a good company buying and stripping a failing company on the cheap or a good company buying a good company (think disney and everyone they've purchased) seems to have failed, at least in recent memory.

It seems like every furniture store goes out of business at least 10 times before it actually goes out of business

someone should offer a penny

For me, video games stir up emotions from the time period I was playing them, not necessarily what was going on in the game itself. For instance:

Dark Cloud - I played this game day and night. I was 20 / 21 years old when I found this game. It'd been out for a while but I'd completely missed it. I bought it a few days before the girl I'd been in love with since we were small kids decided we weren't a good fit anymore. We'd spent our entire teens together and I'd just bought a house for us. I was devastated. I took some time off of work and played Dark Cloud from start to finish. The roommate I had from college came over and hung out with me a lot. Between him and Dark Cloud I made it through.

Chrono Cross - I was playing this during my last few days living in a dorm. It was a bittersweet time. I was moving away from all the friends I'd made and the close proximity to the 24 /7 party to a new chapter in my life, completely unaware that the previous would happen and cause me to move the party to my house for the next 5 years.

Call of Duty World at War - I was playing this when my ex came in, turned it off, said she was pregnant, and went to bed. 16 months later I'm a single father with two kids. I treasure that game. In a round-about way it marks the beginning of the end of the worst relationship of my life.