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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • So I’ll preface this with - here’s an example of how it turned out for me. Chuck E Cheese I’m 1994?

    A big part of saving VHS tapes is that you can only save what the tape still has, so if the tape was poor quality already then you can only pull so much out of it. But if this kind of quality is reasonable for you, then this was done very easily.

    I used an I-O Data GV-USB2 Video, they run about $50 USD. I recorded the video through OBS, which is a free program. Just plugged VCR into the I-O GV-USB2, hit recorded on OBS, and hit play on the vcr.

    All of the upscaling is great but I think the cost-quality difference wasn’t worth it considering the low quality of many of our home movies anyway. You can do better than what I have, and if it’s worth the cost then absolutely go for it. But for 50 bucks I saved all of my family’s old home videos on a hard drive and burned them to dvds and that’s more than good enough for me.


  • It is a Halloween tradition of mine to play through at least one game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series every October and the past few years I’ve been branching out into ports of the games that I wasn’t previously familiar with.

    This list and write up so absolutely incredible and it’s nice to see someone share a lot of my thoughts on them.

    Especially with your

    I start a lot of these Spectrum sections with “you’ll have to trust me on this…”

    This is pretty much what I have to do, too. “I promise, it looks weird but it’s actually really good” is how I have to explain my love for the ZX Spectrum in general.


  • To keep it soiler free, the specifics don’t matter. I read fan translations of the manga Attack On Titan because I got tired of waiting for the anime to be dubbed or released or whatever. So I finished the series a long while ago.

    My brother has been watching the anime as it gets released. I’ve been saving memes I found about it and after the next section comes out I’ll send them to my brother.

    Well. One time I over estimated how far the anime had gotten and sent him a couple memes of events that he hadn’t seen yet.

    Now that I think about it, I also spoiled Hereditary in about the same way, through memes. I sent a couple in a group chat that reference

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    the telephone pole scene, if you’ve seen it you know. Not a huge plot spoiler but it did ruin the shock value I guess.

    forgetting that one person in the group chat hasn’t watched it yet but was planning on watching it soon.




  • As someone also in their mid 30s, I think a lot of people really misunderstand how the confederate flag was viewed so casually by many people up until recently. It was always offensive to some, but I genuinely was unaware of that as a teen growing up in the 2000s. It was just an image of being kind of edgy and rebellious but I genuinely didn’t think much of it seeing any band using them. Watching Skynyrd or Guns N Roses videos of live concerts? There were “rebel flags” pretty often and I just kind of let it go. It meant nothing to me.

    I was in my mid 20s, probably, when it really was explained to me how insensitive that can be. I never associated it with racism or slavery up until that point - and I’m pretty sure that’s the same thought that a lot of these bands had. The absolute best thing to do is exactly as you said: own up to it, change your ways, and grow.


  • This one gets to me. Not because I liked them that much, but because Justin has always been a dick and I could just write it off as “yeah they were a bunch of dicks but they put on a good show”. An Anti-Flag show in the 2000s, here at least, was one of the few times a punk show wasn’t in a basement somewhere, so it was absolutely THE place to be if you were in the scene. They also frequently had great bands with them so it always made for a great time.

    But after the accusations came out it left a real bad taste realizing that he’s probably much more than “just a dick”.



  • I have a 100% positive feedback on ebay as a buyer, so that’s cool I guess.

    I haven’t driven for Uber in years, but I was a 4.93 (last I can find. I looked for an old screen shot).

    I was around Elo 1100 in Age of Empires 2 for a while, but I’m sure I would be lower now (and honestly 1100 isn’t impressive. It’s barely above average, but it’s the only other rating I can think of).

    And this made me realize that I’m not rated in many situations on a scale beyond “Hey good job”/“this could be better”.


  • I think this really is just a personal preference deal. I WANT games with scores and grades. Come on, game, tell me that I’m horrible and that I need to do better! Maybe I’m into the punishment, I don’t know. Played too much Bop It! as a kid and got used to the guy screaming when I messed up.

    This is why I play so many arcade style games, and so many rhythm games. This is why communities for speedrunning, rhythm games, and high scores still exist - otherwise I would think I’m completely alone in this 😂