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  I have an old bluesky account that I seldom use. I logged in this morning and was faced with an age verification page. I always use a VPN and it thought I was in Texas so I disabled it and, living in Oklahoma, I was able to get right in with no age verification... For now... So, it looks like if you live in Texas this is a sign of things to come and something many more of us will probably have to deal with in the future. I'm not sharing my associated Google account nor am I going to use...

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  Yesterday I got a classic #SonicTheHedgehog chip tune stuck in my head. I knew it was from either the first or second game. My kids were also familiar with it but we could not remember which stage it was from. We qued up the sound tracks on YouTube and made our way through each of the stages songs and came up empty handed. We were baffled. We all knew the song and knew that it was from either Sonic 1 or Sonic 2 but none of the stages played it. Long story short, It turns out that it was Eme...

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  The news of #Fox purchasing #Roku is quite depressing. Apparently its #FoxCorp, the Fox News arm. At first I thought perhaps it was being brought under the #Disney owned arm of Fox but that's not the case. This regime has all the big social media sites under their thumb. Their allies have purchased #CBS and now Roku. They have owned #Tubi for years. They are stripping funding and punishing networks with dissenting viewpoints like #NPR and #PBS and #ABC Time to disconnect my Roku TV from...

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  @eff@mastodon.social Yep. As soon as I saw this ad this is immediately what I thought of. Anybody that's even remotely been paying attention knows exactly what this is for and where it's headed.

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  After upgrading my #Android phone a while back, I decided to take the old phone (Pixel 6) and backup all my photos, videos etc. As I am copying them to my computer I was having a hard time finding where the voice recordings were located. I take a LOT of voice recordings & haven't backed them up in years. After doing a bit of reading it sounds like #Google sealed them off and you have to have root access unless you share them online. WTF?! #PocketPC would never do this to me.

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  Life Lesson #347 If you own an all wheel drive vehicle and a single tire goes bad and needs to be replaced, ALL FOUR tires need to be replaced. Thanks to a single nail in the sidewall of the tire, there goes $900 that I didn't plan on.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher Don't care. Great game! I'm sorry if I gave the impression that this was up for discussion.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher Nope, not the Arcade port. The original TMNT game. The underwater level at the dam where you have to defuse the bombs is quite a challenge but it's totally doable. This was one of those games where I would play it a little bit everyday and I would slowly learn, get better and get further.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou Definitely. No arguments there. 😂

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  @nazokiyoubinbou 😂 I would love to keep going but I will concede that it is possibly, technically, critically not a great game. However, I really have always enjoyed the game. Even as a kid as frustrating as it could be, I also found it very rewarding. I really liked the fact that each one of the turtles were very distinct in how they played. Much more so than in the arcade game & coupled with the overworld it always felt like a TMNT action RPG to me and I loved that.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher I can't speak on behalf of the developer, or the corruption of taking people's money and not making sure the game is completable or handling of other versions or ports. I can just speak for the NES version. Which, as a finished product, is a pretty darn great game! 👍

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher Yeah. I know exactly what you're talking about. I have it on the Commodore 64 and in one of the sewers there's a platform that's one block just too far away. It's like no one playtested the game. Just another example of why the NES version is so great! They fixed it in that version. 😁

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher YES!!!! That blew me away! I had so much trouble with that jump as a kid and never had any idea that you could just walk over it. So many frustrating moments on that segment of the game. So, it has some devious design choices. It is a brutally tough game. Regardless, I really do love this one. It''s a great game and everybody else is incorrect. 😁

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher What?!?! The original Ninja Turtles game on the NES is a great game and I will die on that hill!!! Silver Surfer, well, it's at least got an awesome Tim Follin chiptune soundtrack. 🤘 That's about all I can say for that one. 😂

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher True. Good point. Like, by the time most people were hating on it, there was no reason to be frustrated because they had easy access to the information they needed.

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  @nazokiyoubinbou @scribblemacher I grew up with Castlevania 2 and loved it. Beat it many times as a kid but looking back I can understand some of the hate. The translation is lackluster & not very helpful and some of the puzzles are completely obtuse. I probably never would have beaten it if not for Nintendo Power. Aside from the translation & some of the cryptic puzzles however, it was a ton of fun. Great graphics, great music, fun gameplay & an atmosphere like no other game at...

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  I have been looking for a Sylvania #SmartBook for some time & finally got one! These are such interesting devices. One part 90's H/PC, one part 2000's #PocketPC & thrown into a #NetBook form factor. It's a strange hybrid device of form and function. I can't wait to tinker around with this. Since it runs on ARM and #WindowsCE I have heard there are ways to load pocket PC programs on it, though they may be unoptimized. #PDA #RetroTech #Handheld #HandheldPC

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  Okay... I'm no mathematician & barely understand the difference between letters & numbers but after looking over a few charts that cover the last year, it depressingly looks like: RAM prices are up 400% SSD prices are up 125% HDD prices are up 25% Micro / SD card prices are up 150% Processor prices are expected to start their climb. What's next? I would like to be ahead of the game. I already sold one kidney last year for a graphics card. I really don't...

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  Why is this #PacMan World Repack boss so difficult!?!?!? He only takes four hits but each hit that you do on him he changes up his attack pattern and adds additional attacks. I've gotten him down to the last hit countless times but I cannot seem to finish him off. I'm sucking so bad the game has asked me multiple times if I want to switch into 'Easy' mode. I will not give in! #VideoGames #RetroGaming

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  After settling back in from our Branson vacation I decided to give #Arzette another go. I thoroughly searched all of the stages for a shovel or any other item to trade and had no luck. I decided that the next tradable item would have to be in the final stage. I started the final stage and before I knew it made it to the boss and beat the game. LOL I didn't intend on doing that, but, um, cool! I suppose now I'll take a peek at a walk-through and see what I missed. #VideoG...

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  The #Atari cx78+ wireless gamepad is compatible with the #Commodore64 Ultimate. I had heard that this was the case but had yet to see video or pictures of anyone actually using it. I can confirm that it works flawlessly. Now if only there was a way to make the second button register as up on the controller... One can dream... #C64 #RetroGaming

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  One memory I would have liked to have kept suppressed is just how bad driver issues used to be in #Windows. 😆 Driver discovery and installation is one area where Windows really improved over the years. I remember being impressed with just how good it was upgrading from XP to 7, but Win 10 was near perfection in my use case. I bring this up because I was trying to revive an old #Asus #EeePC this week and it was a challenge. 🧵1/3

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  OMG!!! It has arrived! #Commodore #Commodore64