MeganJoanne

Had several wow, this shit is awesome times during my gaming years and so many I remember so fondly and so much I still hold dear in my thoughts, and once in a great while revisit, I just don't stick around for as long as I used to with them when I do. Most nostalgic were the NES, SNES and Playstation. Going to go with the Playstation because at the time that was a whole new thing, felt light years beyond anything else even with other similar consoles out.

Donkey Kong Country (totally bought the game after that) Red Alarm (beat this Virtual Boy game several times on the kiosk) Sonic & Knuckles (beat it on the kiosk) Vector Man (another Sega game beaten on the kiosk) Sonic 3D Blast (came close to beating it, did later when my brother bought a Sega Genesis) Virtual Racing (couldn't play this one, guess I sucked at it or didn't care enough) Bug! (didn't like it) Virtual Fighter (same as above) Battle Arena Toushinden (I jumped ship, no longer a Nintendo only fan, played the demo every night during break, nabbed me up a Playstation that christmas of '95) Wipeout (the new F-Zero, was just wow, on the same kiosk demo disk as the above) Jumping Flash (loved how high this robo rabbit could jump, this was fun) ESPN Extreme Games (meh, nothing to get excited about, but was sorta fun for an occasional race) A whole bunch other PS1 games that I can't remember exactly which were playable and which were just viewable. Wario Blast (came very close to beating it) Street Fighter EX (my asshole store manager got his ass whooped by me-and I'm not really that good at fighters-after talking smack, he didn't take it well) Nights in Dreams (very weird) Mario 64 (hated it, Crash Bandicoot was way better) Zelda : Ocarina of Time (I guess Nintendo really is dead) F-Zero X (really, this shit sucks) Cruise 'n World (garbage) Diddy Kong Racing (got me to agree with my brother to get an N64) There were more games, can't remember all at the moment.

Back when Mario 64 came out I was working at Toys R Us, remember playing the demo of it and thought, this totally sucks, the controls, the crappy camera, the lack of cool enemies, the lack of detail, and that is when Mario actually became annoying with his constant whoo, whaaa, and other sounds. I looked at that and Crash Bandicoot and though, damn, if only Mario were like this. Of course over the years Crash has gone the way of crap, with only the PS1 games being really good of those I have played in the series (had a couple of the PS2 games and they weren't horrible, just not great, and played demos of some on the xbox 360 and those were garbage). What I loved about the original Crash Bandicoot back then is how it took the 2D old school Mario style platforming and made it work in 3D. Okay, not complete 3D, but back then that was enough for me. There was a lot of detail in the environment, the enemies were cool and the game challenging and fun without being annoying. Nowadays while I could enjoy it still it wouldn't hold my attention for long, but only because my interest in gaming has changed over the years.

10/10 Poured more hours into this game that any other; well over a thousand for sure over the several years that I've had the game. Even though I give it a 10 because it is one of my favorite games ever, it is not perfect, has more glitches than any other game that I've ever played except State of Decay, and more useless stuff than should be and still with so much that could have been improved upon, yet somehow what it does works, enough to had drawn me into the open world games and keep me wanting to play that and others like it.

Had intended to get, via download early last year, was about to trade in my microsoft reward points but then they asked and required a telephone number, something I did not have then, thus I missed out on the chance to get it while it was on sale for super cheap at the time. Definitely looks like something I would enjoy.

Back in the day when I actually had a rather good size physical game collection I had beaten two thirds of my games for NES and Playstation. It was my goal to eventually beat all that could be actually finished, but those times have passed and it's not important anymore. I used to keep lists on games I beat, very detailed, date and how it was finished and kept up with that for many years but now am like, whatever, doesn't matter. Nowadays, in recent years I've beaten a very small number of new games, though with a different mindset, not on the whole game conquering thing anymore, I just like to be able to experience and enjoy what the game offers, sorta taking a more leisurely approach. Back in November 2009 my games beaten looked like this: Atari 2600 = 1 Gameboy = 8 Gameboy Advance = 5 Genesis = 9 N64 = 6 NES = 264 Playstation = 73 PS2 = 7 SNES = 83 Virtual Boy = 2 458 games total I never did update the list for this even though had beaten more games since then, a handful more NES games were added which brought the total to 267 or 269 (I forget which number), a handful or more Playstation games, might be a few SNES games as well, a few more GBA games as well as a small number of DS games. So the number of games beaten while not too much higher is probably somewhere around 480ish range. I don't care enough to go over everything, but once upon a time I did. Of games I currently own, 14 of them for the Xbox 360, I beat a few of them, only ever completed one as in got every achievement.

One of the best movies of all time.

My favorite, Deathtrap Dungeon, love just about everything about the game. It is extremely challenging, enemies are hard to beat, traps are super deadly and are everywhere, there are lots of hidden secrets to find, and the music is awesome. Because of the difficulty, getting good at it takes a while, and it's one of those action games where just can't just rush in, you have to be ever cautions where you step and take care with using your items at the right time and fight enemies smartly. Only thing that I didn't like was the ending, it really sucked bad, and this game had a nice intro, so it didn't make sense why they did what they did for the ending.

It may have been in my teens or early 20s when I saw Blade Runner, I can't exactly remember, anyway, it was weird, and bored the hell out of me. Haven't seen the movie again since. Thought about giving it a second chance since many years have passed, but meh, I really don't care enough.

Long ago from kiddom to early adulthood aside from video game music and cartoon theme songs I was not heavily into music. I did listen to and liked music then, just really didn't go out of my way to really and never owned any music. Mid 90s I got into anime, so actually had some music from some of my favorites which were my very first music cd's (never owned a record in my life, nor cassette). But it wasn't until sometime in the later 200X with Youtube that I really started to find stuff I enjoyed outside of those I've already mentioned, and it was through music videos that it happened. Still to this day I listen to all of my music through Youtube, though it has become more a pain in the ass with ads galour beginning, end and sometimes interrupting right in the middle. Most of the music has videos, that is how I start when I find something I like, but then I will listen to sometimes without, but the overall experience makes it even more enjoyable.

If it weren't for games that I already have for it, I would have gone for the more recent console. I thought it would be cheaper to go with another 360, and is, but is costing me more than I anticipated but still much less than an xbox one would with having to get several games over again because they want you to get the versions for that thus making the 360 ones not backward compatible. Jerks. I had to order another controller, the one I have, the analog sticks have been fussy since a month after I got the thing last year and so with not being able to get my character to respond or with it constantly drifting, I open it up to attempt to fix it, but no good, the parts are damaged, one of those little pieces works when it put it back after cleaning it, the other doesn't, so either I can only move side to side, or forward and backwards, not both. But doesn't matter, having to push so hard just to open a fucking menu screen got to be too much frustration. I did learn a little how they work though, second pic, the black rings inside the yellow side casings, that is where the movement sensoring is, and found that sliding something metal, aluminium across it caused my character to move. I could have ordered new ones of those little parts I removed in the third pic, but why bother when the stick buttons (on left side of analog stick housing) are such a pain to respond. One thing I can say about this, it has been an adventure, one of those puzzle solving kind, not sure how much I like that though. Anyway, my solution after failing to fix it, get another. I still wonder, there has got to be a better way to design these controllers, because what is here is so fragile and just too many extra little parts.

Well, have had the new used adapter for over a week and so far, working out just fine. It came in condition described and everything running fine. Though have had issues with my controller, took that apart, found that the squishy pieces that lay under the buttons that have contact things on the bottoms of them to register the button presses, they were falling apart, one which stopped working had completely come off and caved in where it wouldn't fit back in place so I had another controller, a generic SNES one and used the rubber under button things, cut those into pieces to fit in place for the 360 controller buttons and those ones have been perfect since. Was still having trouble with the shoulder buttons, removed the springs in them that cause them to spring back in place because they are pointless and one would not stay and kept popping out thus misaligning the button, but since removing those springs they have worked fine. Now the analog sticks, they drift a lot and the left one grinds a little (maybe it needs oil, speaking of which, the whole inside was a mess, black specks of oil all over everything in there, cleaned all that up), character suddenly starts moving on their own or ways I don't want them to, not too much a problem so long as you pay attention, but what is a problem are the button press of each stick, left one sometimes responsive sometimes not, right I really have to press on that one hard, reserving both of these towards things noncombat. Problem with these things is that they are made cheap and pressing in on something that should be very precision only damages it over time, always thought this to be a shit ass design flaw, yet they all still continue to do it. I would love to be able to design a controller to my own liking, there would be buttons on the back, underside just on the inside of the grips for those ones that you use the sticks for, thus still in perfectly easy access and natural feeling and less stress on the analog sticks with all that constant pressing in on them that they get with so many of these games. Shoulder buttons, though not so much the trigger ones, need to be made better too because they are flimsy. My little do-it-myself button repair below.

Not a really good shot and camera couldn't zoom in as close as I wanted, and most of the pictures was of road which I cropped out, but wanted to get this pic before they flew off - a pair of vultures going after what remains of roadkill. One had flown right over my head before making a sharp u-turn and gliding down to join the other. If only I could have gotten a closer pic, but moments later they flew up to the top of a light post together.

I've played 5 Metroid games, The original, the Gameboy sequel, Super Metroid, and the two Gameboy advance games, enjoyed them all, though will say that the 2nd game is the weakest of the lot, and while I like many things about Super Metroid, Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion, the first game still remains my favorite, and why is because of the ease to just get in and start playing with total freedom to explore once you aquire a few items and can explore in whatever way you want, no story to break it up, no telling you where to go next, no forcing you along a certain path until you accomplish a certain thing.

Well, if not that how about just impliment something on the site that will bring you to a list that will link to various vgs people's twitch channels. See image(s) below as example (Live Streaming link at top with other links). Then people here with a twitch can request to be added to it, or maybe are added automatically if they set that in their profile (can that be done easily?). I don't do the twitch thing myself, it doesn't like me most of the time, takes too much power that my computer can't handle or maybe my internet speed sucks or something. But in seeing this and there being possibilities here, thought I'd add my idea, maybe it can work? Maybe not? Figure I'd share regardless.

Fuck it, ordered another one. Says "Cleaned & Tested", and is official microsoft version. Was trying to avoid having to buy another one but this thing is acting up too much to trust it without me sitting right there with it to watch over it or fiddle with it just to get it to work as it should. Do hope it will be as described and that everything will be good after I get it.

So, power brick buzzing and grinding still, and it seems random, will do it for a while and then suddenly stop, be it stop spinning altogether or just make less noise. Issue maybe with power getting to it, a failing somewhere in the brick? Maybe just the wires leading to the fan or something else...?

On the way home from the post office today, thought this would be very random picture worthy, stopped to take a photo of it.

A lot of fanatics bitched about Star Wars (when have they not, though that in itself is fine if you can be civilized about it), but the massive nutzoid outrages over The Last Jedi I remember reading about and watching videos on shortly after that came out, and went so far as to make youtube videos and other stuff with their hate on the director, trying to run the producer out, wanting others to help in banning Disney or forcing them to remake the shit movie they got, threatening the actors because they didn't like the character(s), silly crazy stuff. Yes it was disappointing and heavily flawed, but damn, it is just a movie people, like or don't, move on, not the end of the world. The Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Sonic looked really terrible, fans voiced their disapproval, the people making it listened and changed him to look more like how he is supposed to. I dunno, maybe they handled it better than Disney did. But then the issue was not that big, just changed Sonic to the way he is supposed to look. Not sure how well the movie was received, but I enjoyed it a lot, certainly a surprise as I was thinking it would be stupid regardless what the hedgehog looked like. Sometimes things are going to disappoint, but unless you yourself are involved in, don't expect the movie, game, book, whatever to be catered to you, because while you might hate it or in the case of some out there, vehemently try to ruin another's career or life over it, someone else out there will not mind it or actually like it. Fucking grow up... actually that seems to be the problem most of the time, those ragers I see all too often are grown adults. It is okay to voice opinion, or share your dislike about something, but there are better ways to handle it than whine like a baby and throw tantrums over it, but you just might not get as many views, but then, that is what it is all about, putting on a show.

Always though it was dumb how everything in these game consoles or nearly all electronics lay flat, horizontally, thus heat get trapped between layers or thick casing which tend to not be vented well enough, and the silly measly little fan that is only in one place, one side of it only I don't feel is enough. And then I saw the Xbox Series X a few months ago and though, wholy shit, about damn time, they built the insides vertically with fan and vent covering the whole top of it so that rising heat would not get trapped and exit the console with the natural airflow. As for how effective it will be will also be determined on the overall performance of everything inside of it but give how it appears to be set up it shouldn't be a issue for that one. As for my 360, it worked all day yesterday, had it on for many hours, stayed at a good slightly warm temperature. But then, and probably because I lifted it up to check it, shortly after it started grinding again. Took it apart, found out that it did this when the casing around the fan was too tight, so I loosened the screws a little and it stopped grinding and worked again as normal. So it is being sensitive. Also didn't stop after I turned off the console, looked into that and from my understanding that if any downloads are going on it will continue to stay on even though I pressed power off, so I unplugged it just to be on the safe side when I was going to bed early this morning.

People have always been like that, as a whole they like to bitch and complain, and even more so if they know that they can get lots of attention doing it, and with social media, being able to have the whole world see and listen, all the better. Best thing to do, either don't get in too deep with it, or don't take it too heart. Problem is, like any negative actions, it is like a virus or cancer and somehow will latch on and spread its misery. Sometimes we really don't mean much harm in sharing our negative opinions on something, but in the case of most things in social media, anything negative posted be it typed words, pictures or video, it's all about the hits, the numbers, how many viewers and likes one can get, attention... heck the news has been like that since forever, anything bad or violent and that will be most of what you see shown.

A token effort while I was not doing anything else. But then the emulator froze up so I quit. Pretty sad that my laptop sometimes can't even handle a friggin' NES emulator. Maybe it was just the game.

Thank you Phillip, but I don't really want to spend money on parts when the issue could be more, don't know for certain, could be something else in the brick causing the fan to sometimes work, sometimes not. I'd get another adapter but even that given their prices I hesitate on (and most I am seeing on ebay look dirty, and then there are those knock offs which I don't feel would be trustworthy that they wouldn't blow up), and then possibly run into the same problem and repeating. Eventually, if it persists enough I may give in and buy another. For now it is a little project for me, until my attention level and patience wears thin and I give up and move on.

Nah, fan is completely clear, disassembled, washed, and put back together. Just got to grinding then stopped working, and then sorta started working on its own randomly after I put it back together (okay, so I banged it a few times, wasn't working, what else could I do). Put brick up at an angle standing on one edge because those itty bitty feet they put on it really aren't enough to get that warm, or hot air away from it. So far, fan still going and temperature good, but then I haven't dared Skyrim again.

Well, trust getting another one in shitty condition or buy a new generic which could be a piece of shit... not sure which is the more risky. Anyway, fan exposed so I can see it, plugged it again, turned console on, fan not spinning, tapped it hard against the table a few times, it starts spinning again. Took fan completely apart, something I should have done to begin with, see more dust to be removed, cleaned it again washing the fan itself with soap and water. Reassemble once dry. Tried again. Fan not spinning, tapped it a few times, no response. Hmm. Then suddenly it started up on its own and is working again. Still, sounds like distant small airplane propeller, but at least not grinding and currently brick is only warm, not hot. Wondering if somehow there is issues with proper power getting to the fan, something else not running as it should in there.