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Go celebrate by playing Romero's new episode, episode 6, Sigil 2 :D. https://romero.com/sigil

Two of Us by the Beatles

Thanks! I don't have many pics of my guitars just as is. My zombie collection is surprisingly scant. I don't have much. I like getting some of the weirder things like Dawn of the Dead on UMD video, or the Dawn of the Dead board game. Im gonna actually start buying some vinyls of the library used in Dawn. If you're unfamiliar with that, library music is music already written, and licensed to be used by a company depending on mood. You would subscribe to one of these companies and you could buy vinyls to 'audition' the tracks to how they fit your scenes. Once you know what you want they'll send you a tape of the master. Those vinyls have been floating around but you couldn't buy them in a store. So they're pretty rare and some are real expensive because of what movies they've been in.

I don't think its always jealousy, but its certainly unbecoming of someone who may be financially well off, drop lots of money on things, maybe even more than their worth and then excitedly show it off, to people who may have been collecting for years and either can't afford those items, but have been waiting for good deals. The idea is having some decorum and class. In all my time here, I think maybe ONCE I showed off something I bought that was really expensive I found for cheap, or I spent a lot of money on it. I never got into these forums to 'brag', but to gather and share information. The show-off part of collecting, like how you see on IG is very vapid and superficial to me.

Thanks! I liked Land. I remember seeing it in theaters. I re-watched it at some point last year and my feelings didn't really change. I remember HATING Diary because the acting was awful, even if the message was important. I remember like Survival because I didn't think of it as anything other than a western with zombies. At some point I'll go and revisit the last two. We all love George at the conventions, but we all feel after he left Pittsburgh, that magic was gone. Basically George had 3 major phases with groups of people he used. The Latent Image people which was from Night to around Martin. Then the Laurel people, which was from Martin till Day of the Dead really. Thats the main Pittsburgh crew everyone loves. His wife Christine told me after "The Dark Half" in 1993 (Which I liked), George changed. Then his later career, from Brusier on, is the "Toronto" group, and thats the era no one is really fond of.

I saw someone selling a Sword Master recently on here for $285. I said "Wow is it really worth that much now!?". So I went to pricecharting, and for fun I started a list of all my games from memory and was amazed how how much it was worth. But I never think of it like that because even if they become really cheap, I would still want to own them. Although it is a nice feeling.

Been out of the game for a bit, but was NES. With a small stash of GB that came later. Also some GBA but select titles.

Haha thanks. If other people actually care, I'll add to it here in a post. D'oh I just realized I forgot to mention "Kid Dracula" for Gameboy as one of the games that really impressed me! How could I forget, sheesh.

Ah yes Game On! They're pretty expensive, but their games were incredibly clean. I forgot the owners name, its been years, Haven't been to any stores in a LONG time but I was not familiar with Retro Source. My spot was usually VGTP. I kept that in mind. I didn't want to write a novel.

You know me, I like a good challenge. We all know how 'overrated' some games difficulties are, like Contra/Castlevania and some others like Silver Surfer, which I love arent nearly as bad as people say. But theres a small category of games that basically require a disgusting amount of time/memorization to complete that the balance of fun/response to the challenges is dwarfed by the idea of playing thru to a point, getting a LITTLE bit farther, and having to memorize a sequence, to do it all over again. Ikari Warriors, Battletoads, SHMUPS like Star Force all come to mind.

Its flattering to be asked, I just dont know why anyone would want to read about my nonsense haha.

Late on this but amazed to see how much Takeshis Challenge is still remembered by people haha. Altho I cant disagree with their top 3 hardest, but I have beat Takeshis because at least there was a password :D. Really fascinating lists.

I ended up finding a 7 hour version of "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" which I referenced as my first introduction to the assassination. Even though I don't believe in any of it anymore, I always find it fascinating to watch.

Ok one last thing I wanted to post about this. A lot of the conspiracy people get into it because they're told about it from someone they trust. Its been a 'thing', but a lot of people don't know the details. The origins of a conspiracy really were rooted in the Warren Commission. Here's why: When it came out, it said Oswald was the lone gunman, but things like the single bullet theory really made people skeptical because its preposterous, and rightly so! Its impossible. Basically its like they took a math test, got the right answer but showed their work was wrong. How could the government produce a document like this? They must be covering something up! Well its really because of this, they made one big mistake. Since they could only go by the Zapruder film, and witness testimony, they had to weigh certain testimony higher than others. The reason why the forensics doesn't make any sense is because of two things. 1) They asked Abraham Zapruder "Did you film the whole assassination". He said yes. 2) They asked Connally when he got hit, and he watched the Zapruder film and he chose a frame (Between 231 and 234). In reality it was frame 223. They couldn't figure out precisely when he was hit. The issue is, they're both kind of wrong. Since the consensus was there were 3 shots, and the last shot was the fatal one. So with this incorrect information, they tried to fit it all together. They knew when Kennedys head shot was, but didn't know when the other 2 were. They could see when Kennedy reacts, and when Connally said he was hit. Theres no other possibility other than the bullet hitting them both. So thats where the 6 seconds comes from. Thats the timeline they put together, but its wrong. Plus they had Connally sitting in the car wrong, so thats why it does all those weird turns and whatever. With the 4k version of the Zapruder film, you can actually see Connallys lapel flip up and back the instant Kennedy gets shot. So that was the 1 bullet, it traveled in a straight line, because Connally heard the first shot that missed, looked back and while turning back forward was hit. There's even speculation that the first shot happened RIGHT before Zapruder started recording again (the film has a cut. He filmed the motorcyles, stopped, then resumed when he saw Kennedy). Even tho in those 6 seconds, they said the rifle couldn't shoot that quickly. It can, and people have done it. But now we know Oswald had even more time to aim and reload. They tried to take all the things people said, or mis-remembered and make them fit. That they heard a shot that missed, there were 4 shots, only 1 hit Kennedy, the other Connally, etc. Eyewitness reports are the least credible info you can get, but thats all they really had. Also there was no front headshot, because after being hit the first time, Kennedy slumps in his seat. If the bullet came from the front it would have had to have went thru the windshield and theres no bullet hole. There is a small crack but thats from the bullet fragment. Well what about Jack Ruby killing Oswald? Here's an interesting piece of trivia. We know Ruby was a few stores away at a specific time because theres a Western Union money order with a time stamp that he had. His timeframe from then to when Oswald was shot was really short, like 2 minutes or something. I could be wrong. But while Oswald was being transferred, he asked for a sweatshirt, the one that he was wearing. It wasn't his, he was arrested in pants and a tshirt. If Oswald hadn't asked for that sweater, Jack Ruby wouldn't have been able to get to the basement in time to kill Oswald, he would have already been in the car and transferred. Crazy right? Bottom line, Oswald was a political nut. He tried to kill a General earlier in the year (Its in his diary!), and made a last minute impulsive decision to kill Kennedy. Then he goes, kills a cop (JD Tippet) and then when being arrested, tries to shoot another cop and fails. If the Zapruder film had sound, this wouldn't have been as big of a deal as it was.

It also should be known that the Dallas police/FBI actually had Lee Harvey Oswald on their radar. He visited their office shortly before killing Kennedy to deliver a note that said to stop harassing his wife, as they were going to his house (I could be a little off on that). Then he kills the president. Think the FBI are gonna get out there and said "Hi all! Yea we knew about this guy and let him slip. We fucked up, our bad!".

They had a dome, but he wanted it off because, as Texas wasn't a very JFK "friendly" state, he didn't want to seem aloof. He wanted the people to see him directly. Even when he got off the plane, he was shaking hands with everyone outside. It had drizzled a little bit that morning but by the time they got there it was sunny. If it rained, perhaps things would have been different.

This one is pretty good too, not 20 hrs long but theres a lot to unpack after 60 years.

I had this haha. Still somewhere on my computer. I was a big JFK assassination buff ever since I saw "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" in the late 80s. Asked my parents to rent JFK when it came out and I was 9 haha. Who does that? I always thought conspiracy until I watched a video of Robert Groden talking about the entire scope of it (switching bodies, the autopsy, forging the zapruder film, forging the autopsy photos) and it was so preposterous, I decided to watch/listen to some single gunman arguments, and there were plenty of things I never heard before because the conspiracy people never mentioned them. If you're open minded and are a big JFK buff, I would strongly suggest listening to Gerald Posners audiobook on youtube (as I did) called "Case Closed". Its 20 hours long.

IIRC they all did. If it had to be resubmitted, there would be a PRG revision. Folks, also remember bootgod isn't the be all end all. What makes games fake are EPROMs on legit NES 72 pin PCBs. The only legit EPROM stuff is on prototypes and sometimes the name on the PC will have EPROM on in (IE SKEPROM) http://kevtris.org/mappers/mmc1/NES_SKEPROM.jpg

Living Dead weekend in June will have people from Dawn, Creepshow, Creepshow 2 and Night of the Creeps. Roy Frumkes will probably be there too and you can be one of the 2 people to ask him about Street Trash.

Always enjoy these lists. Had to double check I had Cool Ball too haha

Im still not convinced about MTPO. Mainly because the middle screw wouldn't fit. It would have to go thru the actual PCB, so it would be a 4 screw.

Ahhh! Yeah, I mean, its not like NotLD isn't one of the most important horror movies of all time or anything. I'm more about quality vs. quantity.

The Savini remake is great! But the Snyder one, nah. But this list is flawed already so whatever you post isn't gonna sway me either way :).