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Absolutely. Whats your preference. No joke, if you really want something yummy and we ever meet up I will go out of my way to bring you somewhere nice. Good friends, food, music, and wine is my favorite thing

@MrWunderful also, I’m sorry I’m not trying to be over the top. I really do love steak, I’m an enthusiast. I love feeding people at my house and if you and I ever cross paths I’d be more than happy to feed you too. I’ll even respect your diet of your choice. I went out of my way for example and got a vegetarian friend a fresh pan just so I don’t cook meat with their food I prepped for them. If I had access to rabbi or imam, I’d even have one bless my kitchen to make it kosher for a Jewish friend, or Halal for an Islamic one. Food is my favorite hobby, even moreso than Nintendo tapes.

Also...for reference....

It's highly valuable medical data. Yeah...I don't eat steak for the protein, cholesterol, fiber or anything beyond HOLY SHIT, STEAK IS AMAZING. IMO, a reverse seared dry aged bone-in Ribeye Steak is God's way of saying "You don't need sex to reach eurphoria. In fact, this might be a little better" But sure, if you can make crickets approach that high bar, I'd consider trying it. But, I don't live in a third world nation during a drought after a bad years harvest, so I don't need or want to eat bugs at any time. Here's just half of this year's steaks I've had so far...I didn't take a photo of the others.

See, I hate this woman because she makes my rational conspiracy theories sound like mindless babbling, which is why... (CONSPIRACY) she's a gubmint' plant. (/CONSPIRACY) They really DO want to know your bowel movements, and want you to eat fake meat or crickets. It's literally the WEF public goals to know all this information and reshape the world for the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and they publicly list this stuff on their website...also it's not like the WEF is some small forum, it's literally people like presidents around the world, CEO's, and celebrities...

I thought it was extremely underwhelming. Then again, I'm spoiled by emulation. I wanted a Netflix of gaming with a few pages. Dashboard - A brief combination of all the other pages. Maybe even a "continue playing last game" button Discover - Shows me everything I might like according to my gaming habits Favorites - Shows only the stuff I enjoy and personally curate. New Additions - All the new stuff added. I wanted not just regular old ROMs and emulators...NO I wanted rebuilt stuff including Online co-op Translations and localizations for previously unreleased games 16:9 aspect ratio Improved graphics and sound Achievements Additional content Developer commentary When you bring over a movie from older time periods you don't just take a VHS tape and upload it to netflix, you scan the original film and try to give the best possible experience. When you bring over music from an older time you don't just put a microphone to the record player, you look for the reel-to-reels....AND WHEN YOU RE-RELEASE A GAME YOU SHOULDN'T JUST GIVE US WHAT THE CONSUMERS HAD IN 1985 either....Emulation rules, fills that niche, and only going above and beyond that would make me get off my high horse. RIP to a uninspired, lazy, and inferior platform. You were already outdated before you even launched.

38 TO GO

Hi, it's me...Society. Gime.

If you're waiting for the perfect time to become a parent, then the time will be a about five minutes past never. You'll always be just one more milestone away. Truth is, there is no perfect parent. That being said, not wanting kids entirely? Well that's a normal thing throughout history too. Not all people end up marrying and procreating and that's fine.

I put all my musty smelling stuff in a brown paper bag, then place that bag inside of a Tupperware filled with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). Leave it sit for a couple days and the smell is gone with no other lingering odors. make sure you remove the cause of the must first though. If you have mold then you won’t remove the smell permanently.

Nah, but I’d love one of those Nokia’s with Nokia Snake in it!

>_> Hey now...I'll still trade my rare stuff for some Crypto, or rare instruments....or vice versa. Also, not just mandolins, but any weird turn of the century stuff. I want some classic guitars, a real Strativarius violin, I'll take some old bullion, and vintage camera equipment, I want to get into old films, records, early electronics, vintage computers. I also want to get into gemstones, fossils...and weapons.

Wow I thought this might be the case. So, I'll have to update my list to include the "Pre-Transition" games as possibly 5-Screw oddities (despite them having "legitimate" 5-screw variants) So, the repair theory is starting to add up thanks to this. But what still makes no sense is, where the heck is the documentation that you can submit a game to Konami for repairs!? The warranty cards maybe?

Personally, I just don't see the Game Boy Color as a unique system in the same way that I don't see the PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 4 Pro as unique systems. Let's just take a look at the launch titles of the Game Boy Color. Centipede Game & Watch Gallery 2 Tetris DX Pocket Bomberman ... ... Yeah, that's NOT a new console.

Some modern developers, especially on Steam release M rated hentai games and just by some miraculous co-incidence on launch day, there exist "hacks" of the game that make the game convert to XXX. The Japanese are quite fond of their XXX games too, but more infamously on NEC platforms like the PC-98 or PC-FX. There are some non-hentai games with nudity that are AMAZING. My personal favorite being a game called "Dead of the Brain"

Thank God that racist is gone. How big is it now?

Thanks for the shoutout. I'm currently high bidder on a couple of the items. I'm in between business stuff right now, so unfortunately this isn't my chance to buy a cart either. Maybe next one. (This is also one I always liked too, that and the infamous "MARIO" cart) Edit: Oh crap It's at $40k already? When i put my bids in the cart was like $11k!

I have no idea what's going on...

Yep, I’m starting to believe they sourced EVERYTHING from a Taiwan bootleg company now. So…maybe the Famicom versions of those Brush Rollers and Fire Dragons are also bootlegged from another company? Do you know what fully authentic Fire Dragon, and Brush Roller would look like Dave? This is really interesting

Brush Roller, Fire Dragon, and various other games from the Brazilian game “publishing” company “INTERATIVE” (yes that’s the right spelling) Brazilian releases are shrouded in mystery and no one in our small community or even extended circles really goes out of their way to document their existence. I have a fairly decent list of Brazilian games, but even then, I can go right now on Mercado Livre right now and discover a bunch more, just by looking at every listing. I’m pretty sure you know what Phantom Air Mission, and Snowboard Challenge are (they’re licensed PAL releases of Ultimate Air Combat, and Heavy Shreddin’) That *is* pretty damning. They’re identical labels and everything. So, looks like Brush Roller & Fire Dragon are back on the menu boys Just so odd that Interative would make straight up pirates, and then work with people from overseas out of nowhere. But, Brazilian games are just crazy like that I guess.

No joke, and WOW thank you for sharing this. I still need to finish the standard 677, but stuff like this keeps me going. I'll admit I'd have been nervous opening up one of these.

I also see that Phantom Air Mission in your avatar too...wow (what about Snowboard Challenge?) Any info shared would be appreciated in regards to demystifying anything from Brazil. A screenshot of the title screen would be great too.

It might be? I can't say for sure since I don't own one so let's leave it as "possibly" until someone here shows up with one. And regarding Fire Dragon, you and I have different viewpoints on what's unlicensed versus pirate content, but I think even you and I could agree that it's just a pirate based on circumstantial evidence...there's NO way that INTERATIVE went out of their way to license the code of Fire Dragon from Gamtec, when they could have just borrow it for free like everything else they did. My list of games for INTERATIVE includes stuff like Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Mega Man, Kick Master, Robocop, Snow Bros., Super Mario Bros., Ninja Gaiden, Tiny Toons, Simpsons, just to name a few.

Got any tendo tapes?