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Here is Spooky, sleepin’ hard with her tail over her head. Here she is, loving a back rub. She’s 19 years old.

This is my opinion. In its original, Greek mythological meaning, the phrase is the first generation. In pop culture, it’s the first period of popularity in the mainstream culture. It doesn’t have to be the best era ever in one’s personal view. It’s more like the first period of quality and the medium gaining a foothold to permanent installation in the collective consciousness.

I finished the book and I’m ready to join the dogpile, lol. Ryan contradicts himself and reads too much into things. He miscontrues obvious details, glosses over bits that need more, and seems to make up others completely. There are no citations or quotations despite including a bibliography (wait... there is one quote. Page 163.) In the acknowledgment section, he mentions his editor, but more prominently describes the editing efforts of his family members. None of them caught some fairly glaring mistakes, or stopped him from slipping into bizarre Japanese caricature a couple of times. And somebody needs to take away his damn thesaurus. My sole issue with David Sheff’s book is that Sheff doesn’t seem to really understand video games himself. Which is fine, because he still adequately explained things without confusing the timeline, unlike this book which does so many times. Ryan, a “lifelong gamer” who “has covered four console launches” seems to share Sheff’s fundamental misunderstanding of the particulars of what he writes about, despite being “the video games editor for Katrillion, a popular Web site.” Has anybody here ever heard of Katrillion, because I have not. I could provide specific examples of my criticisms, but I think this review is long enough without them. I noted each issue numerous times and used that to formulate the above. Overall a strange book that doesn’t seem right for people who already know much of this info, nor people who don’t.

Black Friday you can begin visible preparations. I will also accept when Santa appears in the Thanksgiving Day parade but certainly nothing before that.

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Oh, and here I come with my drawing that I just finished could be said a little reaper-ish. Whatever, I'm a metalhead. I'm really waiting for @BouncekDeLemos to get in here because otherwise, if he's got nothing, I feel like this should have been done given to @CasualCart's awesome little guy forever ago.

If you didn’t know, now you know.

notepad, notepad2, notepad++, LaTeK, MS Word, DreamWeaver... all and many more can be used to make a website, to say nothing of languages and css... The end result matters. Yes, a msword.exe website is probably gonna suck. But if it somehow doesn’t, would you denigrate it just because “MSWord, lol”? Or on the other hand is writing purely in Assembly like Paint, and NESmaker is like Photoshop (or Premiere)? And Paint takes more effort so its pictures are guaranteed to be better? Advanced tools let people do more and collective human knowledge benefits all of us. I know carpenters who make custom furniture, they can use power tools or buy dimensional material without losing personality in their projects. I don’t think anybody is purely using axes and planes and sandpaper right now. Some will mill a log or trunk down customwise and that’s super cool, but doesn’t mean other approaches aren’t. If your shit is more impressive on its own merits, then it will be, regardless. So do good, instead of talking bad. I have nothing but respect for solegoose, sivak, and other homebrewers and people early to the scene. But like music, the scene is going to advance. Critique has to happen on merits of the product.

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Welcome. Zelda 2 is my favorite game. The LoZ merch from the NES period was the best! Post what you have in the Show Off section. Or just message me if you have any to sell!

I use https://images.google.com/ , perhaps you’ve heard of it?

Personally I am waiting for video game paprika. Dot org.

No. Wait, what? Where?

frere jacques, frere jacques dormes vous? dormes vous? sonnez les motines, sonnez les montines, din din don! din din don!

sacre bleu! la fromage!

I encountered an issue with link depth. With 900+ pages per subforum listing threads, HTTrack would only grab so much for me. I played around with the settings but could not grab any complete subforum, only threads listed on the first few and last few pages (since “last” is linked from the first page). I considered trying from deeper in the indexes, but haven’t had the time and somewhat lost inclination. After multiple attempts from different points in the listings, 2 full days and change apiece with the maximum number of connections, it’s a PITA. Maybe you’re already aware of this hurdle, but I’d suggest to audit what you’ve already got if you haven’t yet.

I disagree. Yes, there are key issues that are wanted by more people, just like there are dank games. But there are comics collectors who go for entire series. Maybe fewer, due to the sheer longevity of the medium (8-12 issues per year, 45 years worth of Amazing, 80 years of Detective Comics... vs 9 years of NES) but they’re there. I’m not active in the comics scene, and I know a guy who has every TMNT and is working on every Uncanny, if not already there. And not every sought-after series runs forever (Walking Dead). There’s also desirable runs of multiple issues (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Frank Miller Daredevils) that could be compared to video game subsets. As for the question of whether lower tiers like CIB could be affected by an increase in sealed collecting, yes I think so. Very easily, with where we are right now. First, there are lower tier collectors too. No reason why increased interest in another hobby can’t trickle down. There’s people who like various conditions, readers vs collectors, shops and conventions and forums with “Everything Else” sections, just in like game collecting. Second, I think it is already happening for black box titles, based on my casual observations of ebay lately. Then, once black box runs its hype course, there’s comic IP games as noted above, Disney, silver box (Metroid /Rad Racer /Kid Icarus), other first party titles, hidden gems, The Mega Man 1 Box Art Fiasco (or however somebody wants to spin it), screw variants... et cetera.

yes! This is on 16th St, west of Halsted. I passed it on my way to an art exhibit called Nevermore Park, which I highly recommend. There’s also a lot of other graffiti on that stretch.

Got my copy today. I’m on chapter 3. Err, 1-3. So far, so good. Too soon for a review yet, obviously. Although I can already tell it will basically be in line with what has already been said.

It’s November! Maybe you left it on the book shelf.

I didn't realize the forum would reduce a 14MB picture to 60 KB.... maybe it's more visible if I break it up a little

I gotta go with @arch_8ngel on this one. A good response is to say 'let's go shopping and get you a new one' on Saturday, and get lunch afterwards, maybe a movie. @RH also has good points about communicating.

Why only one Ultimate Superstick?

What are the red titles vs blue titles?