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Ok here's one I'd love some clarity on. Let's say you sell or not, it's not relevant directly ok, but you have say $100 in your wallet. You take that $100 and place it in your personal home (pay check goes here) checking account. Then due to ebay being scummy you had to setup an online banking account, and you want to move the money there. (IE: CASH -> Bank 1 -> Bank 2) is there any reporting on that? I remember fury about 9mo ago of them trying to pass some rule that was like any money over a year at over $600 would get reported to the IRS if it wasn't paycheck/tax refund-credit related. I think they amended it up back towards $10000. So is there a solid answer to this one? I've been thinking of taking some money I had between Christmas or dumping a few used goods at halfprice etc and putting it back into my former ebay shield account to buy stuff I could really use/need online but I don't want to get screwed. Not a fan of carrying a lot of cash or paying in it, so if I can stuff it into that specific account I'd do it.

Not going to do an image on this as it's basic. Today my other package arrived so now I got Evercade Cartridges #13 and #14 -- Atari Lynx Collection 1 and 2 which are a nice choice of 25 games to mess with. It has been a long time, but what a flash back kind of hit in a related sense, the sense of smell. It has been ages since I cracked open a new cartridge based game where you get that very notable smell blended mix of freshly printed/cut paper from the manual with the plastic of the case. It's a nice moment.

It's interesting... I mean sure they could just assume you got it, but then it gets into a gray area of burden of proof. That's basically charging someone tax for something you think they got...but did they?

I'm 50/50 joking but not here, I don't think they've really been usurped, and given the forum choices out there, software updates, and activity we're what the idea of 'indie' gaming was a decade ago before it got toxic erosion from deeper pockets/bigger teams as a catch all for stuff that doesn't look tripleA hollywood studio gaming budget. People with smarts who know what works, what is fun, and accepts the smaller pool in trade get the better more useful experience that sticks and has more than superficial meaning. This is 'indie media forums' where stuff that used to work, work better too, still thrives and excels.

Good question, that's a big maybe, but doing reading I think it's safe. The bank thing that was overturned was them ratting out movement of 10K or more on transactions in/out a year, wage income excluded. If you go to a bank or other cashing space with a check or money order, sure(bank) they'll make sure you have an account with them to do it, but if you're taking cash directly and not placing it into the account no it wont be logged. If they would have to log it it would be over a 10K level and they'd have to warn you first before proceeding. So yes, if people here(like me) want to continue selling gaming/nerdy toy/anime whatever stuff in the forums, as long as the buyer and site are cool with it, money orders like the pre-paypal days would be the preferred method since cash can be stolen and checks can get very rubbery. Does ebay even allow money orders anymore? Not that it would matter, those jerks still want a bank account to use the site and would rat you out over the $600 anyway. I'm betting Mercari, FB marketplace, etc are the same too. I imagine you could dodge facebook some, offerup perhaps, just post stuff for sale, have someone buy it with a MO, then remove it. FB allows you to sell locally and then just remove it, that gets around that reporting.

SLG = ININ both are puppets owned by one larger company in the shadows. All the more reason why SLG is kind of sleazy in their pre-pay tactics having you wait forever for a game that doesn't insta-sellout, because they'll just have ININ sell it anyway on amazon. Well I got myself a new system of sorts here didn't I? Evercade, UK version Funstock sold, the Mega Pack with carts 1-10, and the official carry case. Interestingly enough, got it from a seller in Ohio who ended up with a christmas snafu that had 2 copies of it all from gifting so I grabbed it. So far I'm really digging it, quality piece of handheld here, and the game collation for the packs is pretty nice. Already discovered a few games I hadn't played or even heard of before I liked. I think quite highly of what the Evercade company has done with their same named game player here. It doesn't cost much, and the games center around being $20-25 a piece and depending on the cart usually they range from 6-20 games on each. I'm surprised we don't have a thread for this thing really, plenty of relatable games.

Valis I and III are also on the Renovation Collection 1 pack for the Evercade.

That's an interesting take on it, but since you're only dealing with a 1099 here, that value is rolled into what you really make a year on your actual job. I think the value will get based upon total taxable income for the year, so 10% is low.

@killerkobra Well good you're back. You're NOT wrong about social media gaming err boards...pages? Largely you'll find a daily drop of bragging, trolling, trying to grift another person for ebay or over value because...? Sure you'll find some posts about the system(s), a game or games, but nothing that really cuts into it much. Yes they happen, but no they don't happen like in a closed registration required classic forum. It's just NOT built for it. A place like this is designed not in mind for clickbait, instant gratification posts, camera whoring from your phone app and bouncing around topic to topic like a bad case of ADHD which is all social media is largely about in this hobby and many circles...no loyalty or real huge cares from the majority. You sign up here, you care, you get to know people, trust them more, do stuff with them if local (or other means), treat fair or more than fairly in deals and trades, and the history. People dig and dig, go into details, post questions that'll run for days, weeks, years which (anti)social media will scroll away for the next crack hit within an hour. Kind of funny we use anon names on here largely and there's far more community and trust, and on the facebook shitshow you could make a fake account but largely it's real names/faces and it's douchebag central with no shame. Seems backwards. You're NOT jaded, you're just seeing social media for what it is (a shitshow.) I'm in some groups on there, limited, as it's mostly around for a few contacts, but those I am are gaming(general nintendo, general, gameboy, handheld (general), neo geo, anime/manga, and little else. Despite having dedicated people there, the longer standing regulars who bother posting nice stuff or policing the turds fairly hard, it still some cases aside, has no value on it compared to here, and nothing you can keep stuck around to access a day let alone years later. It just is what it is, FB groups are inferior, fly by night, and not very friendly for a community sake but instant brag/gratification stuff as it scrolls into the ether within hours. Had that dump been better designed or overhauled right from it's college boy roots of finding a hot chick, maybe it would be competition.

@RH @Dr. Morbis @DefaultGen Ugh...so I basically did read that legal garbage pasta correctly enough to get the idea. Usually I'm pretty good at that, but this one was so looped around itself, clearly like some ninja magic smoke bomb type logic it threw me. I mean I get it, you have patsy types into this who digital money bit who then throw it around like water to see what sticks as an opportunity of sorts. It's nothing exactly new either owning some pathetic sliver of a share of some actual real thing, a recent one would be a Pawn Stars episode where Rick owned momentarily an original copy of the Declaration of Independence, but then as to not actually pay for it, he sold it to this company CEO who peddles the items like stocks in a company and your get X amount of shares which is what RIck did, kept a $50K(I think) portion. My problem isn't owning a piece of the pie, but in this case, you still don't own crap. What Konami is doing is fairly disgusting, there's no ownership, no use of ownership, just being able to say you own it, and only for a year, before that license expires. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, that's how game companies are now, wanting full digital control so they can take it away for any reason after a period, which is exactly what this NFT for Konami goods are. They put a buy (or in this case AUCTION) button on there, but it really means RENT, and in this case you're RENTING a year.

Good for you. I've done the same with some weird stuff in the last few years. I'll find some random piece from some old toy, part, random scrap and people oddly pay too much for it. I mean I guess it's easier than the harassment of buying another complete item, then the added harassment and fees/time lost selling the same crap right back off again for parts. I've got a couple pieces here I never bothered with a G1 Kup Gun and an original He-Man(himself) battle axe and it looks like ebay people will pay like $10-20 a piece of them. Whatever floats their boat I guess.

Yeah I got lost and I just asked a little question yesterday actually on topic. What exactly is Konami selling in that auction? I can't make sense of all the legal bs of which it seems there's pages worth if you take it off like a 2pt font. It almost looks like you own but don't own anything, and that non-owning ownership of whatever has like a year where you really don't own something? I saw the classic piece of music Vampire Killer as an auction piece, but like...you don't really own it, but like can attach your name for a year as some co-dependent non-owner? Seems like some bs fake ownership scam to raise some money.

I guess I'm confused, what really are you buying here? I saw the Vampire Killer piece of music was a choice, you're not actually owning this piece of music, but...something else?

That lovely classic set of PCE based Valis games (1-3) pop up on Switch tomorrow on the site. I have to remember to research that one, it's already out in asian regions that do english copies. Buy there, wait a week or two, buy from LRG and see it sometime in summer or fall. Tough call.

Don't ask me I have no idea. I gave up on PS2 some years ago, last one was probably 3-5 years back a slim and it rarely got touched so I traded it out for something useful. PS5 I have no interest in as it has nothing of interest, but so far I find I like Sony's odd numbered systems historically speaking. I would image if they figured out mod-less burns, then sure that would explain this strange mastering of english into a Japanese game with Japanese(largely) box art.

Parents still live there so I'm not entirely out of the loop and before the dumb virus I used to go back and visit. I left the state 9 years ago, haven't been back in 2.5-3yrs.

Keep telling yourself that, it's fine. I wasn't going to reply again but I was too stuck between the eye roll and laugh emoji not being able to use both. Probably best we drop it, seriously not going to agree on this one.

Nope, full good one was made on the hacker side of the equation in 2015, that's what you're seeing here. Some form of pirated or self created copy there, perhaps some HK/Asia-Eng release using a stolen translation and mastered onto a nice full "retail" copy from the looks of it using the Japanese art and throwing that extra bit about 'english version' on the back.

Impressive, but narrow audience given it's PS4 only for those reissues, and that price that's some serious fanboy/girl fodder there coming up nearly to $200 (easily is with shipping I bet.)

Yeah I've lived there just as long, string me another yarn. That state went severely downhill into the 21st century. Ask me back in the 90s, I would have loved it still. Just because where you lived you didn't have that, doesn't make that behemoth of a state sunshine and roses everywhere.

I wish I had a fair answer but I don't. Metroid Dread I wish I could throw another log into the game of the year fire, but given how janky the button combos are and how they'll muddle some excessively already unbalanced hard boss fights vs the rest of the other bosses and game itself I can't, it would be a lie. SMT5 I own, but, it's now 2022 and barely started it so I can't, same can be said for stuff like Tony Hawk 1+2 remaster and Cruis'n Blast too. SMW+Bowser's Fury isn't really fair, it's a port but then the other is a new game, moreso a mini game as it can't stand up either by itself. So like New Pokemon Snap? That's kind of a stretch even if it is fairly unique fun. While new to it, or remakes into new I don't think stuff like Doom64 should count, but I'd feel better voting on that as I"m more knowledgeable of it. So no vote, probably would be SMT5 if I had to, but too too early to be sure, and New Pokemon Snap as a follow up.

I'm picky on what I'll take out with me on the wreck it side of things, too paranoid to misplace. I had a PSP taken out by a pushy d-bag on a flight back in its era, totally shattered the screen because he couldn't wait to get his crap from above and swung it into me instead flattening it...in its case no less. So what I do take out clamshells shut or is sturdy enough to take a beating, preferably has been re-inforced (tempered glass lens replacement on old GB/GBC for example), or perhaps I have more than one in case of disaster. I never take my Switch out of the house, but I have more than one style of GB, GBP, GBC, GBA(SP/MIcro), and DSLite I'd be willing to take the risk.

Eh what? Hack it? Weather aside, I didn't like the state even before it turned into a test bed for liberal democrat leaning really bad ideas and schemes. Too expensive sure but the pay kind of balances that, the over crowding, dirtiness, crime, awful traffic, lack of friendliness, wasted time, leaning towards bilingual or no job garbage, the list goes on. I know you're joking, but I was glad to leave the first time, escape the second. Outside of vacation there's just not much to like left there anymore sadly.

Well see you're talking TV based play right? DS is a handheld, so I was thinking portability and comfort of that. DStwo plus seems the way to go with it for best results given the extras on board in that one kit. I've got the GC+GBP+ED GB and Omega for GBA -- and it's attached to a GC2HDMI adapter off the digital port for extreme quality so I get it, great performance going that route. I also have the Epilogue GB/C/A player for PC via USB and that does a really fantastic job too, only gripe really it's not a fan of knockoff multicarts, yet I think the flash kits worked (have to double check that.)

I don't think there's a clear answer. I do believe there was a very intended influence though that ties back to the Nintendo Power coloring system to differentiate things. NES got RED and SNES got purple. Nintendo seemed to have used the red top around 1992-94 era. Originally it seemed to start with it also in larger print below saying CLASSIC SERIES on the 2 gray Zelda cart boxes, Metroid as well. It dropped that with others like Dr Mario and Punchout. It was just those 4 games in 1992 (Z1, Z2, PO!!, Metroid) but in 1993 that classic bit was dropped(maybe 92?) when others got the banner alone. There is one outlier, Dr Mario is a 1990 game and uses that banner too, so they clearly had the art before hand but didn't press using it until after the SNES release. Other companies did it too by choice, and seems about the same area post-SNES launch. Ninja Gaiden III uses it, Dragon Warrior IV, but slightly earlier stuff in 1992 like Super Spy Hunter and Dragon Warrior III do not, while later 1992 does like Jetsons. I really just think it was choice because even later than 1992 some games like Batman ROTJ and Returns didn't bother.