Retro Gaming, Tech, and Nostalgia. 📺

Joined March 2026
Built a HTPC today. R7 9700X, 32GB, 9070 GRE. It’s leaps and bounds above the Steam Machine. It’s an awkwardly priced GPU, but I got it for $499 at Microcenter. At that price point, it’s a great value. I also didn’t spend too much more than the Steam Machine.
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Pleased to welcome Ambassador Barbera Thornhill, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to the U.S. Embassy in Bern. 🇺🇸🇨🇭
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I wish I could post more at once, but here are front and backs. Any thoughts on grade?
Replying to @AlphRuinsGrails
Posts like this make me wonder where I should send my vintage. Is there an internal strategy to undergrade, purchase them, and regrade them and sell them at a profit? I can see where that makes sense. PSA graded cards command a premium, though. Thoughts?
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I took a closer picture of Charizard. It won’t 10, but it’s pretty nice. 8 maybe?
Replying to @AlphRuinsGrails
Posts like this make me wonder where I should send my vintage. Is there an internal strategy to undergrade, purchase them, and regrade them and sell them at a profit? I can see where that makes sense. PSA graded cards command a premium, though. Thoughts?
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PSA, CGC, or Beckett? I’ve never sent any Pokémon cards to be graded. This is part of my original collection. I’m thinking 7-9 as possible grades. Anything I should know?
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I like his energy. It looks like I’ll have to give WoW Forever a try. I haven’t played seriously since TBC & WotLK. Definitely worth the read.
I'm seeing a lot of discourse about who WoW Forever is being made for and while I cannot speak for anyone else on the team I can speak for myself. I am making WoW forever for the classic gamer and for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse over the years because they were not satisfied with changes that were made to the game. Whether those changes were to the art style, the story, social aspects, game design, or changes to their favorite class. I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players. I could have taken it easy and just kept doing things like I had done for the past 8 years on retail...because I was much more familiar with it and it actually takes a lot less time to do (height maps on textures do a ton of heavy lifting). Because the reality is that the majority of retail players wouldn't care and would probably actually prefer it. But I felt I had a duty to uphold an artistic vision and integrity that millions of people expect from us. But not just for our players, but for my co-workers past and present who worked on it over 20 years ago. If I could not create something that resembled their work then I failed not only them...but myself. Please do not take this as me throwing any shade at retail players or the retail team because I am one myself...but I wanted to make Forever as authentic of a Vanilla experience as possible. This involves making decisions wildly different than retail. It means holding the line against changes that create a domino affect down the road. It means keeping friction and inconveniences in the game. It means finding friends and forming groups with strangers and being social!! Because WoWs social aspects have always been the pillar of the game and over the years it has slowly been chiseled away at with changes that allow you play alone. Since the day I started working on the Riverglades I have lived by three sayings. "Convenience is the death of the journey." "If you're making a game for everyone then you're making it for no one." "Every change we make incurs a debt to the authenticity of the game and sooner or later that debt will be paid." These are my core beliefs and I had a specific group of people I was targeting with my work. These beliefs cannot be shaken and I will try to hold the line against anything that goes against them and will continue to pester the team about things that feel out of place. That being said, my hope is that Forever will pull in as many people as possible, whether you are a retail gamer, a classic gamer, someone who hasn't played in years, or even a new player. I hope you can all remember what made this game so special in the first place and that starts with understanding why we are so passionate about keeping it authentic.
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I purchased a compatible blu-ray drive on eBay. RPCS3 is awesome! I had no idea we’ve come this far. It’s a very simple process to rip your games or play them directly from the drive. Incredible!
You can now play your PS3 games on PC... DIRECTLY FROM THE DISC DRIVE! 💿 PLUG AND PLAY! Owning your games as physical media allows you to play games released as far back as 20 years ago without relying on any servers! See compatible disc drive models at rpcs3.net/quickstart#dumping…
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Mine arrived today and it’s incredible. It’s the first real scaler I’ve used. The pictures don’t do the CRT profiles justice. It’s the cleanest depiction of original content it’s displaying. My deck has S-Video. VHS content shown, both a 4:3 and a proportional example.
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How many years of service do you have? My first Steam game was Counter-Strike: Source.
Replying to @gamestalgiaaa
Reminds me of mine a bit. Damn, I’m getting old!
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The PA602 is a HUGE case despite being classified as a mid tower. Exceptional quality and thermals are fantastic under load. I went with an all black built, which looks superb without RGB, but the occasional unicorn vomit is nice. Mounted the 5090 vertically while I was at it.
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“…as the general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs.” - 35K comments. Lmao.
Important updates: News on physical discs for new games - play.st/4v86Wg3 News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - play.st/4vEN9FX
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Sony is pushing a digital monopoly: ending physical discs and closing PS3/Vita stores turns purchases into revocable licenses under Sony’s control. The EU penalized Apple for comparable DMA abuses; PlayStation is eroding ownership and consumer choice the same way. ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
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The BC-250 lives! This was such a cool project. I wanted to make it look like a Duracell. I installed Bazzite, but I also considered CachyOS. Indie games and emulation are in the future for my poor man’s Steam Machine. Credit to case designer: makerworld.com/models/278095…
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Reshelled an old gameboy I snagged on eBay. It turned out great, but I realized it matches my watch. Absolutely love this G-Shock.
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My dreams looked exactly like this as a kid. Like a Nickelodeon game show + fast-food playground hellscape on VHS. Any 80s/90s kids relate or is it just me?
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I 3D printed a Nintendo Switch game organizer today. It even has fully functional buttons. All credit goes to the original creator, link below. makerworld.com/models/213864…
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