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Y’all know there are a slew of extensions for browsers that disable the comments and suggested videos, right?
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Aug 23, 2020 14:14
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Just add this as a rule to adblock/ublock: youtube.com###watch-discussion
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Aug 23, 2020 14:47
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My favorite thing about High Score so far is that there is literally 10 seconds devoted to LGBTQ material, at least in the first three episodes, and that was enough for this furious dude to come into a retrogaming Facebook group I looked at and say "NO POINT WATCHING THIS, JUST LGBT PROPAGANDA DISGUISED AS A SHOW ABOUT VIDEO GAMES" That study that shows men think teachers are biased against them if they do not get called on 80% of the time must be related here, like people who hate LGBTQ individuals must think something is propaganda if it addresses said individuals 0.01% of the time Edit: O.K. I spoke too soon into episode 3; it is definitely surprising that Gay Blade is part of this series that so casually ignores whole swaths of the traditional market, haha. Dr. Quarex has a new favorite as of 07:52 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 19:12
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YouTube comments are similar to most other free online forums, really - there are good and bad corners, and the larger and wider the audience is, the worse the comments tend to be. Most of the niche things I watch have perfectly civil and sometimes interesting comment sections. (When it's bad it's bad, of course. Not worse than twitter, in my experience, but that's less of a hurdle and more of a flat line on the ground.)
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Aug 23, 2020 20:54
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I tend not to watch the types of videos that attract and/or rile up chuds, so I read the comments mostly
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Aug 24, 2020 00:18
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High Score is fun to watch but it's pretty shallow and more focused on entertainment like most TV documentaries. The RPG episode makes absolutely no mention of Wizardry or Dragon Quest, both of which are fundamental in my mind. Maybe they should have also mentioned Rogue and Star Control 2.
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Aug 24, 2020 03:17
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I tend not to watch the types of videos that attract and/or rile up chuds, so I read the comments mostly Acknowledging that gay people exist is usually enough to set them off.
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Aug 24, 2020 05:01
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RVWinkle posted:High Score is fun to watch but it's pretty shallow and more focused on entertainment like most TV documentaries. The RPG episode makes absolutely no mention of Wizardry or Dragon Quest, both of which are fundamental in my mind. Maybe they should have also mentioned Rogue and Star Control 2. haha how the gently caress does it not mention Dragon Quest
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Aug 24, 2020 06:35
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Code Jockey posted:haha how the gently caress does it not mention Dragon Quest
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Aug 24, 2020 07:54
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I've seen most of the episodes of High Score. I think it's entertaining, and they did a decent job of capturing the feel of what was going on back then. But they whiffed pretty hard on the history. As others have noted, they picked some odd things to focus on, and completely omitted a lot of things that most people would consider significant. In some cases, the omission changes the narrative. For example, the section on console wars compared Sega Genesis to the NES and acted as if it were Sega's first attempt at a home console. Or the early history, where they showed a couple of pong consoles and then skipped straight to the Channel F without any mention of Ralph Baer and the Magnavox Odyssey. Cool that they gave the godfather of video games some much deserved coverage, but not even a single sentence for the dude widely acknowledged as the father of video games? Azathoth Prime has a new favorite as of 22:50 on Aug 25, 2020 |
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Aug 25, 2020 22:45
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Azathoth Prime posted:I've seen most of the episodes of High Score. I think it's entertaining, and they did a decent job of capturing the feel of what was going on back then. But they whiffed pretty hard on the history. As others have noted, they picked some odd things to focus on, and completely omitted a lot of things that most people would consider significant. In some cases, the omission changes the narrative. I'm stil lgoing through it, but seeing footage from the Nintendo Championship and Segas one was new to me (well I have a terrible memory). there was some neato tidbits throughout so far. Am still mad there isn't a Mention of Ralph H Baer yet.
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Aug 28, 2020 11:06
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I don’t ever recall seeing anything like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDB9BaxJWWE
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Aug 28, 2020 11:27
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Techmoan finds some NOS reel-to-reel tape recorders. And he's become Phil Collins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3cXu27M-M
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Aug 29, 2020 12:05
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Mister Kingdom posted:Techmoan finds some NOS reel-to-reel tape recorders. And he's become Phil Collins. THATS what I was trying to describe his look as. Does it sound OK to you? I dunno if it's just me, but in times a bit deflated.
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Aug 29, 2020 15:37
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Humphreys posted:My Gotek floppy emulator arrived! And immediately shoved into my Super UFO:
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Aug 31, 2020 11:03
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holy poo poo that's awesome
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Aug 31, 2020 18:03
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 The Apple PC compatibility card is a magical device
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Aug 31, 2020 21:59
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And another day, another random 3rd Party Vidya thing: I've been wanting a clear PSX shell to go with my clear controller/memory card and Pocketstation. These unofficial shells were made in Venezuela and were out of production 13 years ago. They are VERY fragile and international shipping at the best of times resulted in busted pieces. I was actually in touch with the people in Venezuela who still have New Old Stock but they are locked down and cannot/will not export at the moment. By shear chance I found a clear purple here in Australia for a reasonable price considering it comes complete with a console so I don't even have to transplant internals!  
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Sep 1, 2020 09:27
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That's gorgeous. Why Venezuela of all places though...... e. Also nice pocketstation!
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Sep 1, 2020 09:33
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That is cool as hell, I love that you can see the disc spinning. ... wait, do they spin backwards in Australia?
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Sep 1, 2020 10:12
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Code Jockey posted:That is cool as hell, I love that you can see the disc spinning. They spin clockwise.
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Sep 1, 2020 10:25
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Humphreys posted:They spin clockwise. I would have gone with they spin upside-down in the correct direction. Venezuela, huh? I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with the VZ-BR electronics black market. Not that Venezuelans don't play video games, of course.
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Sep 1, 2020 10:37
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madeintaipei posted:I would have gone with they spin upside-down in the correct direction. This video is an unboxing and I think it has some information from memory about them. It's hazy in my memory. What the 'retail box' looks like:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBcDn_HY-g Got a nice message from the seller of the one I bought and he is currently working with some people with bigger high quality resin 3D printers and mixing colours. Said he would send me one as a gift once they get it all going!
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Sep 1, 2020 10:46
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Humphreys posted:And another day, another random 3rd Party Vidya thing: so when does your youtube channel of tech tear downs start? not asking sarcastically.
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Sep 1, 2020 13:49
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Pretty good posted:That's gorgeous. Why Venezuela of all places though...... My best guess is that might have been where the OEM shells were made. Either in the off-hours during production, or after they stopped making PS1s, they switched over to making bootlegs.
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Sep 1, 2020 13:58
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LifeSunDeath posted:so when does your youtube channel of tech tear downs start? not asking sarcastically. Never. I enjoy this stuff and don't ever want it to be a job as I'm a lazy fucker. I do a bit of behind the scenes stuff for a number of channels (supplying hardware, fixing their gear, advice etc). Meanwhile I've been pissed off on a build of junk PC parts that I know worked for a few hours. No screen, CPU fan pulses and thats it. Gotta find a PC speaker to see if boot beeps can help.
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Sep 1, 2020 14:02
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Humphreys posted:This video is an unboxing and I think it has some information from memory about them. It's hazy in my memory. That dude's knife is dangerously dull
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Sep 1, 2020 16:05
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Humphreys posted:Never. I enjoy this stuff and don't ever want it to be a job as I'm a lazy fucker. I do a bit of behind the scenes stuff for a number of channels (supplying hardware, fixing their gear, advice etc). Hook up the oscilloscope instead, and get a nice graphical display?
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Sep 1, 2020 18:01
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Computer viking posted:Hook up the oscilloscope instead, and get a nice graphical display? Holy poo poo I'm dumb for not even thinking of doing that. I also noted that in my raging I had plugged the CPU fan into a Chassis Fan port.
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Sep 2, 2020 03:05
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I don't think i've ever heard of this, let alone seen one. What a weird accessory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGAOKvKRmQ
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Sep 6, 2020 06:26
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Gonz posted:I don't think i've ever heard of this, let alone seen one. Not gonna lie, of course I want some of those things, but my GBA has a hosed screen (and yes I am aware of the IPS upgrades). But wow I haven't played GBA since Tony Hawks when I was in the army 18 years ago.
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Sep 6, 2020 14:02
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Just some Intel product demos including their hottest laptop https://youtu.be/9VhfvVRPlwY https://youtu.be/zRCBepOHaYk
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Sep 6, 2020 21:57
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Gonz posted:I don't think i've ever heard of this, let alone seen one. The joystick mod seems cool. The pad needs a demi-gate (basically a hard flat plastic ring/square) to make it better to transmit the force more easily to the direction pads.
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Sep 6, 2020 22:04
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https://i.imgur.com/GoNOlb7.gifv
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Sep 7, 2020 02:59
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The looping did not need to be that good. All I can picture is a prompt reading "now ejecting disk [26] of 400"
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Sep 7, 2020 03:06
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Humphreys posted:Not gonna lie, of course I want some of those things, but my GBA has a hosed screen (and yes I am aware of the IPS upgrades). But wow I haven't played GBA since Tony Hawks when I was in the army 18 years ago.
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Sep 7, 2020 05:21
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Pretty good posted:GBA THPS3 was so loving good A LOT of toilet time playing it and the Rainbow 6 port. EDIT: Mail day again! Another SNES item today:    Strangely the power socket and plug on it are different to mine. Must be a thing between PAL/NTSC but confirm it works using battery power. (doesn't like Jap games, doesn't like loading from flash cart - but will make the motions of saving) Turns out LGR did a video a while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJGbbTe8nU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fWBlkS2JRs Later in the week I have something quite special to show. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:12 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Sep 7, 2020 09:44
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Humphreys posted:A LOT of toilet time playing it and the Rainbow 6 port. Man, I wish I could find a list of good games for GBA like this. Every time I look up good GBA games, it's always a list of games I don't want to play or just SNES ports. This game looks cool as hell.
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Sep 7, 2020 16:01
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Winamp Skin Museum https://skins.webamp.org/ also they work
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Sep 8, 2020 02:33
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Cojawfee posted:Man, I wish I could find a list of good games for GBA like this. Every time I look up good GBA games, it's always a list of games I don't want to play or just SNES ports. This game looks cool as hell. Boktai! Also, snes ports.
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