"state something completely random time!"

[Iron Lizard]

Anyone get buyers on Ebay or Etsy that hound you with like 35 pointless questions with their final question being a lowball offer? Some sort of sick strategy to get a lower price.

[Yharnamresident]

I remember when I was like 13, I hardcore low-balled this guy selling bike parts and he said something like "thats so bloody insulting I could swear at you".


Also is there any news on Catalonia?

[cleeg]

Thierry and Stu, thanks for the replies, very interesting.

[Mad Moham]

Does anyone else think its kind of weird that Ready Player One (the book) became popular? I can't imagine any of the kids being excited about a book with as many 1950s references when I was growing up in the 1980s.

[Thierry Henry]

Inside the desperate fight to keep old TV's alive





https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16...gaming-vintage

[EternalChampion]

I can prove God exists. If I could just find that receipt from that brunch we had in heaven.

[MrMatthews]

Does anyone else think its kind of weird that Ready Player One (the book) became popular? I can't imagine any of the kids being excited about a book with as many 1950s references when I was growing up in the 1980s.

My father in law just asked me if I had that book. I’d never heard of it, but now I guess I should look into it.

And I think every generation eventually has its moment in the rose-colored spotlight, but it seems like the pattern that is developing is that the big moments happen every 30 years. 80s nostalgia is huge right now, the 50s era was pretty popular (and is still relevant).

It’s funny to think that people in the 2040s might be nostalgic about the 2010’s (although I can’t imagine about what specifically).

[Mad Moham]

I’d never heard of it, but now I guess I should look into it.

I only discovered it by accident, I was in a bookstore and I thought the cover looked interesting. I was surprised to find out that its was already a popular story. It looks like you won't have to wait long before you can watch the movie instead of reading it:

And I think every generation eventually has its moment in the rose-colored spotlight, but it seems like the pattern that is developing is that the big moments happen every 30 years. 80s nostalgia is huge right now, the 50s era was pretty popular (and is still relevant).

I think you're absolutely right, things from 30 years ago seem to come back round in popularity. The strange thing to me is that I seem to remember my parents and their friends being the ones that were nostalgic for the 50s, whereas the 80s nostalgia present today seems to come from teenagers as well as older people. Maybe my memory is kind of skewed, perhaps if I went back to the 80s I would actually see younger people that were interested in the 50s too. Are today's kids nostalgic for AIDS and impending nuclear war too?

[Bones Justice]

Maybe thirty years is far enough back that you don't tend to relate it to what was popular with your parents.

[Raijin Z]

Nostalgia for the concept of "a little while ago", though there were a few missteps taken prior to the experiment.

[Blades]

Anyone play the Shadow of collosus remake? Makes me wish I had a proper 4k tv.

My friend has, complete with 4K and HDR. Pretty nice. Video games are starting to look surreally good.

[Iron Lizard]

My father in law just asked me if I had that book. I’d never heard of it, but now I guess I should look into it.

And I think every generation eventually has its moment in the rose-colored spotlight, but it seems like the pattern that is developing is that the big moments happen every 30 years. 80s nostalgia is huge right now, the 50s era was pretty popular (and is still relevant).

It’s funny to think that people in the 2040s might be nostalgic about the 2010’s (although I can’t imagine about what specifically).

I've felt like that for awhile. I remember joking they would make a Wonder Years for the 80's and then they did with the Goldbergs. The 80's have become the new 50's.

[MrMatthews]

I went to the flea market today, for the first time in nearly a year.

Just reminded me of why I stopped going in the first place.

[Thierry Henry]

Re gaming related stuff, flea markets here are still of some value. The "mainstream" stuff do tend to get picked up quite quickly or are priced higher than in past years, but dirt cheap decent quality CRT's (S-Video, Component) and the cool, oddball type items like clone systems and weird looking fake carts ( ) are still doing the rounds here.

[Thierry Henry]

40 Winks is a Nintendo 64 platformer that was cancelled back in 1998 by publisher GT Interactive. Now is ready to release officially.

Piko Interactive LLC has launched a new Kickstarter to fund the production of the official release for 40 Winks for Nintendo 64.

This would be the first time a N64 game is released after the discontinuation of the console.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ntendo-64-game