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I'm still using an AMD FX8320 8 core processor. Thing still holds up surprisingly well after all this time, but it also gets super hot and I had to upgrade to a water cooled loop. Before that I had a quad core AMD that was also pretty hot, used a giant heatsink and fan the size of two large donuts. Been thinking of going to a Ryzen sometime soon, but the ones I want have been out of stock at my local Microcenter.

You can call Playstation bland with their numbering scheme, but at least they're consistent and logical. There's no rhyme or reason to Microsoft's strategy: XBox XBox 360 (This really should have been their 3rd release) XBox One (And XBox One S/X)....wtf XBox Series S/X....again, wtf. How does the Japanese based Sony company have a more sensible naming strategy than the American based company?

Tyson is beatable once you have that passcode. You can get a lot of practice in without having to mess with the trash before him. I've got a Playchoice 10 in my garage with Mike Tyson's Punch Out on it, but I can't beat him unless I'm playing on my NES console. Dame controls on the Playchoice are worn out and unforgiving to the one uppercut knockdowns. For later versions of Punch Out they did take Mike out and replaced him with "Mr. Dream." He was just a head/color swap of the original Tyson, so the movesets were identical as was the difficulty.

You talkin' about Shadows of the Empire? Good game.

Should checkout Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2. It'll bring back some memories.

How well do those Ryzen's run with stock cooling? I've found my AMD processors tend to run hotter than Intels I've had in the past, but they also pack more punch typically. I know Ryzens are all the rage right now.

Dude was focused on getting the movie made for two kids that were terminally ill from cancer while he was fighting his own battle, but no one knew.

Fuck cancer, way too young.

I'm still ticked inXile didn't hire me to be part of the team. I was so overqualified... Wasteland 2 was great and definitely felt like the spiritual successor to the original Fallout games.

River City Ransom: Underground on Steam? I got it about a year ago but haven't played it much since I beat it. Great game though, love how it picked up where the first game left off. If you tell me where you're at I may be able to help.

Back in the early 2000s I got nostalgic for my old NES (Sold it in a garage sale stupidly when I was young). Started going around to garage sales, flea markets, and occasionally Ebay. I started off just hunting for games I used to have and once rented, then it turned into a full on collection. I'm sitting on 600+ unique carts now with another 150ish to go to complete the collection. I kind of quit collecting once kids came around, just didn't have the budget for it now...and unfortunately a lot of NES stuff has really increased in value in the last 10-15 years. If you're looking for a deal, flea markets and garage sales are going to be your best bet, although these days you're probably unlikely to find NES games at a garage sale unless you see them listed in a newspaper ad or something. Flea markets still sell NES games, just keep in mind that as online auctions got more and more popular 15-20 years ago people started getting more and more knowledgeable on what certain games were really worth on the market. It was always fun when you found a truly rare game sitting in someone's box of junk with a $5 price tag, harder to get those gems now even at a less than ridiculous price. Super Dodge Ball and River City Ransom are definitely great two player games. Mario 3, Contra, TMNT II, Super Tecmo Bowl, Tengen Tetris (Harder to find, better than Nintendo's version), Dr. Mario, Rampage, Base Wars, and Battletoads (Very tough though) are all other options. Most of those will be easier to find too, aside from Tengen Tetris, but you can always get the original too. It's a one player game, but Fire and Ice is a fun little game that everyone can enjoy. It's a puzzle game that my wife really enjoyed back in the day, and I'd help her when she got stuck. Unfortunately it looks like it goes for stupid money on Ebay now, you used to be able to get it for about $20 in the mid 2000s. Maybe just get a ROM of that one unless you get lucky and find it cheap.

I don't personally care if players want to kneel during the Anthem, but it occurred to me that the players could very easily all kneel together before, after, or both before and after the anthem and it would still send a message without giving idiots something to complain about. It would be impossible not to acknowledge the movement, because there would be a noticeable delay for the coin toss and/or the anthem as all the players kneel. It will always be done during the Anthem though, because the controversy and drama brings in clicks and keeps the discussion bumped. That's just the truth.

This isn't for RDR2, but back in the day I'm the guy that originally figured out how to get into Blackwater in RDR1 early. I wanted to be able to get the black Stallion and the good guns early on a new play through, so after trying to jump the river a few thousand times I found the waterfall near Bonnie's ranch that loads "Tall Trees" when you're at the edge of the cliff. Getting arrested there allowed you to wind up in the jail cell in Blackwater, unlocking the zone early. I updated the RDR Wiki with the steps, and then sometime after people started making videos of the process. I doubt you can get to Blackwater in a similar way in RDR2, but just wanted to say your post took me back...this hits close to home 😄 Best of luck.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....just Tweets less.

I'd expect we'd get a corona-virus vaccine in the next year or so, economy would recover to pre-pandemic levels, all while media and celebrities try to convince us that the country is still falling into pieces. Trump sustained everything that was thrown at him the first few years, it took a major pandemic to really make him falter. I expect he'll lose in November though, no President would have come out of this unscathed. You can't stop a pandemic like this, you can only slow it till a vaccine comes or you achieve herd immunity if possible.

AotS went downhill after Munn left. Candace Bailey didn't have the sex appeal, nor the comedic chops to fill her shoes. She just felt uncomfortable and out of her element. Hopefully they get Munn and pair her with someone good. Bring back Sara Jean and Bustice too!

The original quote we took was just for walls since most of the trim was done. He was going to charge a lot to add the trim that wasn't done, but just $500 to paint the entire 1st floor, stairwell, upstairs hallway, and bathroom walls. I took the cost effective approach.

We had painters coming today. In preparation this weekend I spent Saturday night painting the trim in the stairwell and upstairs hallway because it had never been done. We also have two bay-view windows that were previously painted, but she likes to put some sticky crap down to hold her Christmas displays and fake snow in the winter...and so those have to be sanded a bit and touched up. This was late last night while I'm busy working on a million things: Her: "Why don't you sand and paint those bay-view windows tonight?" Me: "Nah, I'll do them after he leaves." Her: "You painted the stairwell trim last night, why not fix the bay-view windows while you're at it? Why is every suggestion I make disregarded?" Me: "The stairwell trim has never been painted. If I do it now and make some mistakes in a rush, the painter is just going to paint over the mistakes later. The bay-view window trim is already painted, it just needs touch ups. It can be fixed without getting paint close to the walls, so it's not a priority. I'd rather prioritize the rest of the evening getting furniture moved away from the walls, dust, straighten things up, etc so he can work." Her: "Oh, that makes sense." We have this same discussion about priorities on a regular basis. When the painter was coming to do the estimate weeks ago I wanted to clean up the house before he came so it wasn't such a mess. The wife decided that was a good time to sort through an old box of kids clothes that had been stored away in the laundry room...the painter wasn't even going near the laundry room.

I got off, but Olivia Munn's was better. I kid, but Aubrey is cute and funny. I saw her video with Kevin Nealon hiking in the Hollywood Hills on Youtube. She's good even unscripted.

Interested in trading wives? Mine knows how to store food and cook real good, but she won't let me have a threesome, much less screw around with other women. I'll miss the cooking, but I'm willing to take one for the team.

Can't fix the original, here was the info

We've got a hot dog stand near our house called J & E. Got a text from the wife: Autocorrect tryin' to help a brotha out. Maybe I serve her my coney later tonight.

My parents weren't into Sci-Fi when we were growing up. Back in the early 90s there was a lot less Star Wars exposure of course. So, one weekend we visited my uncle and he had TIE Fighter on an old Windows 3.1 box. I watched him play, then I stayed up that night and read this short story about a TIE Fighter pilot that was packaged with the game. I ate that nerd shit up, got my uncle to let me borrow the disks without my parents knowing. Our computer couldn't quite run it, so I had to save lawn mowing money to buy extra RAM and figured out how to upgrade our IBM at age 11. Even then I still had to figure out how to use memmaker in DOS to get the game to launch, I was so proud when I finally got it running. Dad caught me playing once on our home computer when he didn't want anything installed on there, I got grounded. Eventually I got a boxed set of the original trilogy when the Special Edition was released years later. Rest is history. TL:DR: I was manic for video games growing up, still am. TIE Fighter on PC back in the day led me to nerd culture.