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Also moviefone doesn't exist anymore 
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Queen Combat posted:Also moviefone doesn't exist anymore Don’t understand a forums post? Try checking your TV listings and see if the Simpsons episode “A Star Is Burns” is coming up. Go to your local RadioShack and ask them for a VCR. Record the Simpsons episode according to the manufacturers instructions and then watch until you get to Rainier Wolfcastle doing stand-up comedy. Turn up the volume and watch over and over until you break the VCR.
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Apr 9, 2019 07:53
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Acute Grill posted:Don't actually.do this. The moisture and Doritos crumbs on your breath will corrode the contacts, ruining the game and likely your console. Did this actually happen to anyone? Someone always points it out, but never offers an alternative. The choice is between having a failed cartridge now, or blowing on it to play your game and maybe having a failed cartridge later. Maybe canned air but I don't think that was especially common during the age of the NES.
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Apr 9, 2019 09:34
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it's usually not even a problem with cleanliness but rather a design flaw of the cartridge slot itself. the piece inside the NES gets lovely over time and use, it bends out of shape or something.
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Apr 9, 2019 09:48
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The other common failure point is the lock-out chip, which can fail to authenticate carts and cause that bullshit where the power light just blinks at startup. The later top-loader NES doesn't have this chip and games boot on the first try nearly every time.
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Apr 9, 2019 10:00
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My mouse has a ball.
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Apr 9, 2019 11:56
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this doesn't exactly explain why you were watching Cartoon Network six inches from the screen with your pants around your ankles, Kevin
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Apr 9, 2019 12:10
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EKDS5k posted:Did this actually happen to anyone? Someone always points it out, but never offers an alternative. The choice is between having a failed cartridge now, or blowing on it to play your game and maybe having a failed cartridge later. Maybe canned air but I don't think that was especially common during the age of the NES. Just taking the cartridge out and putting it back in is what "fixes" it. You don't need an alternative to blowing on it, you just don't do it.
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Apr 9, 2019 12:11
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wesleywillis posted:My mouse has a ball. Same
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Apr 9, 2019 12:11
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EKDS5k posted:Did this actually happen to anyone? Someone always points it out, but never offers an alternative. The choice is between having a failed cartridge now, or blowing on it to play your game and maybe having a failed cartridge later. Maybe canned air but I don't think that was especially common during the age of the NES. As a kid I'd clean my cartridges with qtips moistened with rubbing alcohol.
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Apr 9, 2019 14:49
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rydiafan posted:As a kid I'd clean my cartridges with qtips moistened with rubbing alcohol. We always used a dry toothbrush
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Apr 9, 2019 15:01
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I did all of those things, except it was my housemates not my parents I didn’t want to wake up 
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Apr 9, 2019 15:47
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Apr 9, 2019 20:14
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Edit: this joke may actually be too awful.
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Apr 12, 2019 05:32
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Pastry of the Year posted:this doesn't exactly explain why you were watching Cartoon Network six inches from the screen with your pants around your ankles, Kevin Yeah, that lifehack just makes things worse. Whoops, now instead of thinking your a normal pervert like everyone else, your parents think you get off to Craig of the Creek.
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Apr 12, 2019 05:37
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Pastry of the Year posted:this doesn't exactly explain why you were watching Cartoon Network six inches from the screen with your pants around your ankles, Kevin Johnny Bravo is hot, okay?
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Apr 12, 2019 05:40
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Flashbacks to realizing you'd taken a wrong turn somewhere and trying to trace back to where it happened
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Apr 12, 2019 05:41
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It makes musical notes you tone-deaf bastard!!! signed, someone who actually managed to beat Simon one time as a kid
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Apr 12, 2019 06:05
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Flashbacks to realizing you'd taken a wrong turn somewhere and trying to trace back to where it happened just lol if you can't find your exact position based on the intersection of your current road and a funny shaped tree on a 4ft by 3ft fold-out map of the tri-state region that you got from a reststop kiosk.
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Apr 12, 2019 06:27
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:The other common failure point is the lock-out chip, which can fail to authenticate carts and cause that bullshit where the power light just blinks at startup. The later top-loader NES doesn't have this chip and games boot on the first try nearly every time. Light Gun Man posted:it's usually not even a problem with cleanliness but rather a design flaw of the cartridge slot itself. the piece inside the NES gets lovely over time and use, it bends out of shape or something. Actual lifehack: spend like six bucks on a new 72-pin connector for your NES, it takes like ten minutes to swap out and while you have the thing open you can cut the power pin to the lockout chip with a razor blade. Bam, an NES that will boot nearly any cartridge on the first try for years to come.
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Apr 12, 2019 07:00
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Back in the late 90s I bent my NES's pins so they'd put put more tension against the cart and cut the lock-out chip and to this day it works first time every time.
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Apr 12, 2019 07:16
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Back in the late 90s I bent my NES's pins so they'd put put more tension against the cart and cut the lock-out chip and to this day it works first time every time. Do the old carts still work? I thought they had a battery or something.
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Apr 12, 2019 07:22
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^ Only games with saves, and you can theoretically solder a new CR2032 in place to fix them anyway. food court bailiff posted:Actual lifehack: spend like six bucks on a new 72-pin connector for your NES, it takes like ten minutes to swap out and while you have the thing open you can cut the power pin to the lockout chip with a razor blade. Bam, an NES that will boot nearly any cartridge on the first try for years to come. Also replace the LED with a blue one because gently caress it! I need to get another NES, drat.
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Apr 12, 2019 07:22
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In theory the save batteries should only last 10 years or so, but every game I own all the way back to The Legend of Zelda still holds saves just fine. I think that environmental conditions matter a lot. Edit: lithium button cell batteries in general are overlooked marvels of technology. The watch I'm wearing on my wrist right now is one my mom bought for me in 1996. I've never replaced the battery and it still runs perfectly. A FUCKIN CANARY!! has a new favorite as of 08:11 on Apr 12, 2019 |
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Apr 12, 2019 07:57
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pseudorandom posted:just lol if you can't find your exact position based on the intersection of your current road and a funny shaped tree on a 4ft by 3ft fold-out map of the tri-state region that you got from a reststop kiosk. It’s important so you can get to the two-and-a-half-diamond barbeque restaurant from your guidebook (that burned down six months ago, gently caress, it’s going to be Denny’s for dinner again).
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Apr 12, 2019 14:58
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Dewgy posted:^ Only games with saves, and you can theoretically solder a new CR2032 in place to fix them anyway. Blue is so 2006, though, I popped a green one in mine.
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Apr 12, 2019 18:31
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food court bailiff posted:Blue is so 2006, though, I popped a green one in mine. Ah, going retro with the matrix reference, nice
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Apr 12, 2019 19:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVSEpvFe9Uo
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Apr 15, 2019 22:17
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Considering maybe shaving your beard? Shave your beard. LIFE HACK! Want to cut your bangs? Try cutting your bangs  using a straight line and obscured vision to achieve very unevenly cut bangs! LIFE HAACK!!!!!!!!!
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Apr 17, 2019 05:53
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IDK why chubby Jason Momoa using the eyelash curler on his moustache just keeps making me loving giggle.
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Apr 17, 2019 08:25
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GREASY HAIR? It's probably because of that artificial jism we got you to rub in your hair a couple of hacks back.
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Apr 17, 2019 11:53
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Sunswipe posted:GREASY HAIR? It's probably because of that artificial jism we got you to rub in your hair a couple of hacks back. The idea that someone just does all the life hacks in order of release has me busting up rn
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Apr 17, 2019 13:19
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Wait, so I can make my hair look more oily by just spraying oil into it? I've wasted years of my life trying to jerk off onto my head!
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Apr 17, 2019 13:34
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Try jumping to get that extra airtime you need to pull it off #johack #maybelline
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Apr 17, 2019 13:52
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pseudorandom posted:Considering maybe shaving your beard? Shave your beard. LIFE HACK! With a drat meat cleaver at that. I think my favorite is using a candle to handle the frizzies in your hair. Because that won't work how they think it will
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Apr 17, 2019 15:19
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Primo douchifying hax in there btw
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Apr 17, 2019 18:50
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https://i.imgur.com/kaG8dnL.mp4
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May 2, 2019 21:36
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Dry skin? Try making a vegan bulletproof coffee.
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May 2, 2019 23:15
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Not often that you see someone shrug with their feet.
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jobson groeth posted:Dry skin? Try making a vegan bulletproof coffee. BPC doesn't have half its mass in sugar Also what does "meth-scab-skin" have to do with dry skin?
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