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Lol it was a reference. Guess not a good one. Changed to trolls and baiters.  More correct I suppose. Either way, synonymous.

No bullying. Respect people and their opinions.  Etc etc. I don't want sexual stuff around. 

Does this make sense?

 

Yeah. At some point this has to be addressed. Pg13 sounds good. But here's the thing... respectful Amd knowledgeable ... courteous posts.

Look ... sites like quora, stack exchange, Atari age and a whole host of other sites didn't become big by people acting like a bunch of disrespectful trolls and baiters.  This is coming from someone who finds the hitman's body guard a hilarious movie.

I disagree on this point a bit. I've seen posts and content ... and flames take forums apart or descend into disrepair.  Understand what's invited on once you start heavily going down that path.

I cannot state this is right and wrong and set every stupid scenario.  I hate micromanagement with a passion. 

Any of that make sense? Lol

delmonicos? Isn't that one of Emeril's restaurants?

Yes. We each ate a whole restaurant 

I get the "thank you Mario but our princess is in another castle" message from the link..

Try now... fixed the link.  Missed a double quote.

Speaking of that... we ended up watching all the LOTR movies over the last week. We are going to start he Hobbit movies tonight.

Time to break out the Hobbit book and maybe buy the Silmarillion soon and make it through that book. It's been a long time.

I think I might turn off the last 10 posts. I've grown a bit more accustomed to it... any other thoughts?

Everyone good with everything?

Questions, comments, concerns? Lol

Ok -  I will leave them for now.  The option I can set would remove the quotes in quotes when quoting a topic.

The way it is now, quotes are indefinite. 

I don't mind them either, curious on what others like. Feel free to post up.

Did you buy and use a Nintendo 3DS?


This system has a ton of great games... it's hard to not have it in a collection.

Post up likes and dislikes ... your thoughts... etc!

I ran into an interesting article on IGN and thought I would post it here:

Rejected names for the original Xbox on IGN

The one that makes sense... Directx Box.  This makes sense due to Directx software in windows used for gaming and other stuff.   I guess that's how they derived the name Xbox.

Thoughts!  Post it up!

Great post, retro!  I dig reading these.

What Steam store games have you bought that were taken down and no longer exist on the Steam store?


Explain the games and if they were they good or bad? 

Post it up!

No one else hoards crap on their wish list just in case?

Up until now, I used to.   I kept a lot of stuff on there.  But I changed up how I did things 

Lol yes. That's a part of compromise.

The lady and I are cooking up delmonicos tonight ... surrounded by sautéed onions!  Can't wait for these lol... we don't get delmonicos that often,  but when we do... they are crushed.

Cool. I'll change those boards and we'll run with that.   We can change this in the future as well. 

With this board, I want us to do things that make sense, good for the future, and that make for a good experienfe over all ... plus give ample opportunities for creating topics and posts and a large scale.   We can always change as everything changes in the future.

I want to avoid as much extra work as possible all together including moving posts around. Topics gain search engine rankings and followings and if we move them, they can lose some of that pull.  Yes, there are ways to redirect topics that point to the new posts, but there's still good chance to lose that following. 

That's all - just thinking ahead.

Pot roast ... omm nommm nommm so tasty.

You're not late to the party  . Welcome retro lol.

See... the big conundrum of ega was I had to take time off for stuff going on in life.   Things progressed for awhile but then many members wouldn't post because topics weren't created they wanted.  Some wouldn't take the time to create the topics they wanted that would interest them and others.  The forum was reliant on several members / posters had the same thing as I, sometimes life happens and you have to handle it. 

That's what I want to be different this time - somehow.  I want it to be about the community - which ega was in a sense, but Hopefully this can be achieved this time with more success.  At some point I'll post about this because maybe others have different perspectives I'm not seeing   


We are in the beginning stages now, so it will take some push to get this rolling.  However, I'm hoping members will put into it what they want to see out of it.   If they don't see what they want, create it.  Create topics and conversations for more people to discuss and get into.  This is supposed to be a fun side project.  And I hope it creates value for people in the way of enjoyment and fun in their lives.

Updated.  Mine is 1431 not 1434. Derp

lol...

MasterMario Birthday Post

Belated LOL  February 10th.  Put it in the forums or no more birthday topics for you!

Or no forum birthday email either

Decision or not... Just want to make sure everyone has a say - as much as possible and we mold this together.  Even more important than that... we have fun doing this lol.

How about this... from now and indefinitely, we include Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 in with the current gen.  There will be no moving of Playstation 3 or 360 to Retro Wii stays as classic / retro.

All Agree with that?

well... it probably wouldn't be for all Current Gen and future stuff... but it would / could be utilized for Old school Retro games.   But I do agree some ugliness can come with it.  So we can shelve the buy/sell for now and revisit sometime in the future.

So would everyone suggest creating a new category called "The Market" and have 3 boards:
1.) Console / handheld Deals
2.)  PC Hardware and Games Deals
3.)  Movie / Media Deals

Is that what you are thinking?   I'm sort of leaning to merging Movie / Media deals in with Console / handheld ... What media exactly?   Hm... might need to brain storm a bit more on this.  Good suggestions... thinking of how to implement right.

What does everyone else think?

Welcome back, Snatcher-L! Glad to have you!   Hope to see you around 

Feel free to upload a different avatar if you wish. They stay uploaded while you use them.  We can save them to the avatar directory if you want something more permanent.

I'm looking at:
King of Fighters XIV - Playstation 4 - Amazon.com

I'm thinking about buying the King of Fighters XIV... I've been a fan of the series on the Neo Geo (AES and CD).  I bought one 12 (I think) for the PS3... but it made its way into my backlog.

Has anyone played this?  And recommendations on this game? 

Yes it is... I get the bug to build.  I swear it off... do what I can to ward it off... but then I start to sweat and think about it.   It's like the SpongeBob episode where SpongeBob is trying not to need water lol when he's drying up and out of water in Sandy's Tree dome...
"I don't need it.  I don't need it.  I definitely don't need it.    I NNNEEEEDDDDD IITTTTTTT."


yes... I just used a SpongeBob reference. Successfully.

Do you have any links for the Threadripper and D15?

We may revisit this topic in the future as cases evolve.

I currently have an Antec 900 and Antec 1200.   I love both cases... they definitely aren't light.  But I will say there have been a TON of improvements in cases since I bought those 7-9 years ago (respectively).

One of the best features of newer cases is the ease of access to the hard drives.   Easily pop one in... and pop one out.  Or just as easily - add a couple more.     My Antec 900 and 1200 have a ton a bays... but the you have 4 thumb screws on each side JUST TO GET THE BAY OUT.  I've reduced this to 2 screws each side placed diagonally.   After you get the bay out, you then have to unscrew the hard drive.  Fan cables run along the bays (due to front side fans)... so you have to work with them as well if you have those fans plugged in.   

While I have been reusing the cases... I wanted to buy into something else.  I have this thing right now for re-using them and probably will because I don't feel like spending $120-150+ on a new good case.

What are you thoughts... post it up!

Yeah, I had an MSi mobo like that a long time ago. And yeah, unless you have a known good to test with, testing a mobo is a real crap shoot.

Exactly... but it's also in part how tech support handles it.

I've been Dell certified before and replaced tons of parts at work - now the new IT guys just have techs come out and work.  Dell's newest gig is to make you send it off.   That's dumb IMO.

Anyway... I can pretty easily tell when there is a MOBO issue.  The tech support guys don't care what you know.  I guess for good reason because I'm sure they handle a lot of hard to handle cases.  I couldn't imagine doing that for the general population... customer service... but for fixing mother boards... barf.

That's one of the two games you've always talked about and I've just never gotten around to pick up...

You seriously need this game if you like Shmups.  Now... I've talked about 5-10 games a lot lol.  but I'm curious... what's the second you're thinking of?

Prove it!

That's not too hard to prove.  I have the SNES setup and out lol.  We played Super Mario World the other day.... and then Yoshi's Island.

I know it sounds ridiculous... but I have a stupid amount of games in Steam.  My account is probably average to many others now... partly because I imposed a game buying ban on myself until more back log is cleared.

Part of the Back Log being cleared is my question to play every Steam game in my list a minimum of 5 minutes.

I have made pretty good progress on this... However, I still have a long way to go.  I cannot believe how hard it is to play every game for 5 minutes.  It almost puts things into perspective:
1.) 1st world problems.
2.) I have too many games - many of them were Steam sale impulse purchases.

Anyone else doing something like this?