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We had a discussion a few weeks back in the retro general about just acknowledging “I’m never going to play this loving game” and selling it or deleting it or whatever and just playing what you actually like. I started doing this and selling off my retro stuff and I have been enjoying games so much more when I just sit down and focus on one and forget about the hording aspect or worrying about “I gotta play this it was well received!”
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Day to day, what I use is the Recent Games shelf in Steam, it's only really a problem if I want to find something new.  e: holefoods posted:We had a discussion a few weeks back in the retro general about just acknowledging “I’m never going to play this loving game” and selling it or deleting it or whatever and just playing what you actually like. I started doing this and selling off my retro stuff and I have been enjoying games so much more when I just sit down and focus on one and forget about the hording aspect or worrying about “I gotta play this it was well received!” This may make a lot of sense, though.
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Oct 8, 2022 03:03
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lobsterminator posted:I keep my Steam library mostly on the "Only show installed games" and "Sort by last played" mode. And I only have a handful of games installed at any given time. Works for me. I have similar problems if I see a huge list of games. I rightclick on the system tray icon and if it isn't in that last of 5 games I've played, it might as well not exist.
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Oct 8, 2022 04:33
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One of the things I like about GOG is you can bypass galaxy and just install a game or two and play it until it's done with rather than be confronted with Yet Another List To Scroll Through that does something to my burnt out and possibly undiagnosed ADD brain which leaves me spending more time trying to choose and then just moving on to something else rather than just watching/reading/playing. I found this while trying to see if mp3 players built into the cassette were actually a thing like I vaguely remember, it's pretty nifty even if it's obsolete at release. Mixxtape Is A MP3 Player Masquerading As The Good’ol Cassette Tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DVQDnc7oBA The Sausages has a new favorite as of 11:40 on Oct 8, 2022 |
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Oct 8, 2022 11:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUUqxg2Hog
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Oct 8, 2022 12:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQtQWjX-sA
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Oct 13, 2022 03:28
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I hope they discharged it first
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Oct 13, 2022 04:00
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How about inkjet word processors? Useful for maybe two years in the 90s, maybe.  This is a Canon Starwriter. Still trying to fix the feed mechanism, which (sort of) works.
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Oct 13, 2022 04:36
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Neat, I've heard of those but have never gotten to see one. You wouldn't happen to know how much onboard memory it has?
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Oct 13, 2022 04:38
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The Sausages posted:One of the things I like about GOG is you can bypass galaxy and just install a game or two and play it until it's done with rather than be confronted with Yet Another List To Scroll Through that does something to my burnt out and possibly undiagnosed ADD brain which leaves me spending more time trying to choose and then just moving on to something else rather than just watching/reading/playing. Well hell, guess I need one of these for GE Walkman now.
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Oct 13, 2022 04:39
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Kwyndig posted:Neat, I've heard of those but have never gotten to see one. You wouldn't happen to know how much onboard memory it has? Not sure off the top of my head, it's not much. Also takes a typical 1.44mb floppy for storage, BUT uses it's own proprietary formatting and OS. Loosely DOS based, but not really compatible. There's one very dead linux program that can read the disks, I think. Reason I have it apart is it's not feeding paper correctly, which is driving me insane. These pics were from 6pm, and I still missed something somehow! Vile_Nihlist666 has a new favorite as of 04:59 on Oct 13, 2022 |
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Oct 13, 2022 04:43
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LifeSunDeath posted:I hope they discharged it first Her father is a published electrician.
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Oct 13, 2022 04:50
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:How about inkjet word processors? Useful for maybe two years in the 90s, maybe. While nowhere that sophisticated, I typed half my high school papers on a Smith Corona that had one line of memory. You could edit the single line before printing it. I think there was a built-in spell checker and it also beeped at the end of a line.
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Oct 13, 2022 06:00
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RC and Moon Pie posted:While nowhere that sophisticated, I typed half my high school papers on a Smith Corona that had one line of memory. You could edit the single line before printing it. I think there was a built-in spell checker and it also beeped at the end of a line. Got a couple of those as well, thermals. Excellent since they are battery operated and don't need ink, just thermal paper. Gotta repair the belt on my favorite one, though. That's actually got a decent amount of memory, like 16-24kb or so, enough to store up to 20 pages before printing. But it's only got a two line display.
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Oct 13, 2022 06:11
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LifeSunDeath posted:I hope they discharged it first Of course, she goes through a list
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Oct 13, 2022 08:33
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:How about inkjet word processors? Useful for maybe two years in the 90s, maybe. Wow I have seen a few daisy wheel word processors in the wild but I never would have guessed that there were inkjet ones, Can you still get the cartridges for it? it looks pretty neat.
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Oct 13, 2022 11:40
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coldpudding posted:Wow I have seen a few daisy wheel word processors in the wild but I never would have guessed that there were inkjet ones, Surprisingly, yes. I actually just ordered some black ink from Amazon.
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Oct 13, 2022 12:26
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A lot of these devices tend to use fairly generic ink or ribbons that are either somewhat standard in their niche, or are at least shared with several other models. You can still buy printer ribbons for dot matrix printers from the 70s, because the same ribbon was used on dozen of models and it's still viable to keep making them. Same for manual typewriter ribbons.
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Oct 13, 2022 14:19
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The Sausages posted:I found this while trying to see if mp3 players built into the cassette were actually a thing like I vaguely remember, it's pretty nifty even if it's obsolete at release. They were, and they weren't $100 either, though they didn't have USBC 20 years ago. Some also had SD card readers in them
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Oct 13, 2022 20:37
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What sort of technology would be in those goodie bags? https://twitter.com/JacksonBoren/status/1580672026301210624?s=20&t=ff7_ZsE67Pqf2iCSQ8bjwg EDIT: 
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Oct 14, 2022 00:06
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Dick Trauma posted:What sort of technology would be in those goodie bags? More Star Wars merch?
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Oct 14, 2022 00:42
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RC and Moon Pie posted:While nowhere that sophisticated, I typed half my high school papers on a Smith Corona that had one line of memory. You could edit the single line before printing it. I think there was a built-in spell checker and it also beeped at the end of a line. Similar to one of these, I take it? Although, this one can store roughly 20-24 pages in memory. https://i.imgur.com/Os5OVKX.mp4
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Dick Trauma posted:What sort of technology would be in those goodie bags? Honestly, I think about the insane amount of marketing and advertising for TPM way more than I’d like to admit.
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Oct 14, 2022 19:41
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Dick Trauma posted:What sort of technology would be in those goodie bags? I'd love to know what that flip phone toy goes for on the resale market. I would not be surprised if people offered $1k for near pristine examplars.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:21
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pentyne posted:I'd love to know what that flip phone toy goes for on the resale market. I would not be surprised if people offered $1k for near pristine examplars. Fifteen bucks plus shipping for a sealed one: https://www.ebay.com/p/1312154360
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Oct 14, 2022 20:30
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Kwyndig posted:These days I only browse my wishlist for deals. I get email notifications but they're never complete in their listing of what games are on sale this week/weekend. And never when you have the disposable income to use $20 on a game or two  e: I stopped warezing games when I finally got Steam like what, 12 years ago? Late to the game, I know. The only games I actually bought before that were F-117 Nighthawk (Microprose) and Cannon Fodder (Team 17) Everyone has so many games on Steam with 1 or 2 hours played lol F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 02:10 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:How about inkjet word processors? Useful for maybe two years in the 90s, maybe. I don't remember the model, but I typed a few school assignments on it. I remember it had a single row LCD display and you could only input and edit one row at a time.
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Dick Trauma posted:What sort of technology would be in those goodie bags? At first glance, I was like, "Why would there be any toy, much less a flip phone toy, that depicted someone in Star Trek TNG medical operation room scrubs?" 
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Dewgy posted:Fifteen bucks plus shipping for a sealed one: Holy poo poo, I thought that was like a toy for kids or something. It is in fact a loving phone with a RJ-11 jack in the back. 
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Similar to one of these, I take it? Although, this one can store roughly 20-24 pages in memory. From Googling, I think it was the SD 670. Here's one on Etsy that feels familiar. I'm almost positive it had the word eraser feature.
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Similar to one of these, I take it? Although, this one can store roughly 20-24 pages in memory. I had a word processor in early high school like this that I would write 10-15 page stories on. Printing them was awesome because it would be a rapid fire clickety-clack typewriter print
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Oct 15, 2022 04:48
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I want a replica of that camera that used a 3.5 inch disk but it's secretly a state of the 2022 art thing with hidden sd card slot and all the latest connectivity
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Oct 16, 2022 05:00
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I want the same but the compact cassette camcorder.
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By popular demand posted:I want the same but the compact cassette camcorder. Of the two of them this one sounds like an easier build simply because you have a lot more build space to work in after you either gut a camcorder or 3d print a chassis.
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Here's a video on this camcorder BTW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCXJ5twf5tM
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I had a thing in the mid 2000s, it was a normal landline-looking phone handset that plugged into your cell phone. So you could walk down the street with your little 2005 flip phone in your pocket, this thing plugged into it, talking on it like you were a crazy person. It was actually way more comfortable for long conversations than cell phones of the time.
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I got one of those from ThinkGeek. I miss ThinkGeek.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I had a thing in the mid 2000s, it was a normal landline-looking phone handset that plugged into your cell phone. So you could walk down the street with your little 2005 flip phone in your pocket, this thing plugged into it, talking on it like you were a crazy person. It was actually way more comfortable for long conversations than cell phones of the time. Just found this. I still find it difficult to hear cellphones. Can never smoosh it against my ear well enough to hear properly if I'm outdoors. https://www.amazon.com/Old-Style-Telephone-Cell-Phones-Smartphones-notebooks/dp/B09RX1S42G
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Dick Trauma posted:Just found this. I still find it difficult to hear cellphones. Can never smoosh it against my ear well enough to hear properly if I'm outdoors. I had one like that but Bluetooth and rechargable. I wonder where that went...
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unsurprisingly AliEx got you covered for both wired and bluetooth: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/400...id=MlUkxQiRGKg9 https://www.aliexpress.com/item/328...id=X0aAM1AY5U3Z
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