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No way am I watching that, but I hope he exhibited proper "name on front, not on back" coaching style.

Facebook is lame. The cool NA kids are in the Friendster group.

Right on! Did you beat it with a normal controller? Maybe I'll screw around with it next year.

One of the moments of my generation where everyone remembers where they were is when that chase was televised live. Also, "If I Did It" was one of the ballsiest book ideas in human history. The Frogmen pilot was on YT for quite a while, but looks like it was taken down at some point.

Ok starting Bases Loaded. Will report back in 2 weeks

Also, what's up with Xevious? I suck at shooters, but thought that one is way easier than Starship Hector

Well.. I have beaten Bases Loaded before with the exploit, so I guess I could slog through it again. Is anyone actively working on it?

I'd have to be on a raging diet coke / vodka / meth bender to ever consider playing that POS again

Well, to be fair, I smoke cigars and watch retro softcore nudie vids all day anyway, especially now that I retired this year. Anyway, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 is done. Since @Gaia Gensouki is doing Genghis Khan, that may be it for me for this year.

We need a quarantine thread for people to air their non-video game grievances no one else cares about, like when Ryan made Creed that Word doc on The Office

That's impressive. Played it for about 5 minutes once and it beat my ass hard.

This guy is the coach? And he got a new job? Can't they just find another one, or are they out of stock?

Well, words can have more than one meaning, ya know. Are you interested in bullion or collectible coins? Because they are two different things. You can get bags of cull Franklins to just get melt value coins, but the high end deep cameo proof Franklins command a premium even over regular proofs as truly rare (and beautiful) coins.

Too lazy to search the original thread, but 3 pages in and no Arrested Development reference? Shame.

Should also point out that if you have any 1965-1969 Kennedy halves still, they are 40% silver. There are 1970 silver halves, but only in mint sets.

Here's an example of a DCAM proof Franklin MS68 currently on ebay. It's hard to photograph these slabs and do the coins themselves justice. Getting a deep cameo (DCAM) early strike commands a large premium compared to normal proofs.

Depends where you want to go with the hobby. Searching through rolls is fun, but pointless nowadays for silver. You'll get more checking the Coinstar reject bin. There's a huge spectrum from that to collecting slabbed DCAM Franklin halves, which look so amazing. Franklin halves are even prettier than Walking Liberty halves IMO. I'd consider straight bullion accumulation a different beast altogether, and not really a hobby. You can just get silver at some small markup above spot from places like APMEX

Maybe I'm just slow, but why not? Is it a matter of not triggering the glitch again, or an issue with the saved game?

You can't start a new game and save over the old one? I don't get how it can get permanently bricked

Good luck! I suggest not selecting the Mongols on the world map. You're in a tough starting position. England and Japan are easier, IIRC

Carmen pops up about 50 cases in, after your last promotion. But you're prompted to keep solving cases until 80, when you are forced into retirement. Since that's in the manual too, it makes sense to be the winning condition. Plus you don't get the end screen until then.

Well, there are two left. Genghis Khan is definitely harder, but RotTK2 is no slouch either. If you're serious, let me know since I'm going to start on one or the other next.

It snuck up on me, but I just finished the 80 cases of Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? I just got into the groove and zoned out while playing it by smoking cigars and watching 1990s Playmate profiles on shuffle in the background.

The sad story of Guillaume Le Gentil, who missed the transit of Venus reading in 1761 because his ship was blown off course and stranded at sea for several weeks. When he finally arrived at Pondicherry, it was occupied by the British at the time. Then, in 1769 in Manila, for the second and last transit until 1874, although the skies were clear for the month before, it was overcast on the day of the transit. When he finally got home 2 years later, his wife had remarried and his property seized as he had been legally declared dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1 I'll start on Carmen Sandiego now