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Christmas

The only console I don't have in my collection is Xbox One so I bought that today with $300 birthday cash and then $120 from the savings today.  Halo 5 will be pretty awesome.  My PS4 has 6 games...

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Consoles make a comeback in 2014

The last few years of the previous console generation were generally pretty bleak. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 had been on the market for the better part of a decade, hardware and software sales...

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2015

1) Wearables continue to tank This is yet another case of the industry looking for new growth opportunities and a chance to expand by driving something the public doesn't really want. People don't want...

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The most entitled generation is Babyboomers! (not me)

That generation is the millennials – our generation are the most unemployed in american history.The culprit, say some social commenters, are millennials themselves. In this telling, we are a lazy...

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Bought some overdue Retro Bit Super RetroTRIO

I bought a Retro Bit Super RetroTRIO Video Game System for playing 16-bit videogame carts. I watched so many youtube collections or speedruns with 16-bit videogames and Room of Doom website, where...

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Videogame reviews killed my videogame job

The negative reviews at  IGN.com (6 years ago) and Gamespot ultimately decided my career.  I grew up with N64 and looking at what happening to Wii U and console. It wasn't a good fit.   I like...

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Newer Rom Collection

I knew there was Dreamcast, PS2,  Gamecube, Wii ISOs back in 2005, but they were all torrents with 0 seeds. Ten years later, these roms are on FTP servers. I began downloading NDS roms in 2007, because...

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Nanobots for real-time surgery.

The Mach 7 Navy Gunsing electromagnetic energy instead of gunpowder or other combustible fuel, this rail gun fires 23-pound shells a distance of 100 miles or more at seven times the speed of sound —...

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Home video to HEVC

I finally backed up 5 VHS tapes, one  VHS 4 hours long onto 5 DVDRs.  That is 12 hours of 20th century footage.  The next step was to convert these to 720x480  x265 format. I am in the middle of...

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Game store reunion

Of course the local videogame thrift shop is complaining about business due to roms and emulators sold for free. The clerk talking how he cannot mod Playstation 2, because its the users all run games...

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Super Mario 3D World on Smartphone

 I have played  and completed Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8.  Super Mario Bros.  on Smart phone will help Wii U and 3DS, since it makes Nintendo richer.  It would help fund Mario Kart 9, Super...

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Hardest Super Mario GAlaxy levels

The Perfect Run - Grandmaster Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy 2This level requires skill. There are many reasons. 1. Daredevil - you have one life to do the whole thing which is not easy 2. Hammer bros -...

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Hardest Super Mario levels I've played

The Perfect Run - Super Mario Galaxy 2Grandmaster Galaxy only opens up when you have collected all 120 Power Stars, and all 120 Green Stars! There ARE checkpoints, but contains four VERY HARD sections!...

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Hanna Barbara DVDs

I got complete series of Star Trek The Next Generation (another post) Star Trek Deep Space 9 (another post), Star Trek Voyager (another post), Battlestar Galatica (another post), X-Files (another...

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Hillary Clinton

Contents1Early Life1.1Early Political Activism1.2Law School & Career1.3Marriage to Bill Clinton2Moving left3Alinsky Thesis4Radical law firm5Bernard Rapoport connection6Single-payer Bill72000 WFP...

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The Hardest Sonic the Hedgehog levels I've played

1. Cannon's Core - Sonic Adventure 2I got SA2B when I was very small, I swore I could beat it before I became ten. I think I did it... But only a month before. That is all due to this 'mega level'....

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Pandoraviruses from Mars!

If you were to guess right now what kinds of organisms have driven some scientists to believe that another branch of life exists, what would they be? Hideous, green aliens or maybe man-eating flies?...

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Bought Everdrive 64 and Superdrive emulation carts last week.

I bought the 2.5 version (firmware) of Everdrive 64. Now I can play all the Super Mario 64 mods like Starry Road on old N64s.  My N64 collection isn't large enough for Instagram.  I like to collect the...

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Overpriced Nintendo Amiibo isn't worth buying

 Amiibo and Club Nintendo aren't worth it.  Club Nintendo didn't have good enough free Virtual Console games and the known accessories are complete junk.We’re right in the middle of a storm. Nintendo...

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European Union Commission investigating E-commerce (online PC game) eroding...

The gradual erosion of national markets is one of the apparent side effects of the growth of on-line commerce and the ever increasing influence of the institutions and law of the European Union (of...

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