"state something completely random time!"

[Leynos]

You know what I like about mechanical keyboards? They're built like a tank. I went through so many of those USB membrane keyboards, so I just forked out for a new old stock Dell AT101W (which isn't a true mechanical keyboard, but it still clicks like one, feels like one, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg ).

Yeah exactly. I was going through about 1 keyboard every 1-2 years. Just kept going for cheap shit but it was time.

[profholt82]

We're at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge in Disney World today. I just ordered a Sprite at the stand, and this is the bottle.

[Leynos]

Installed Windows XP sounds on Windows 10. Yes yes YES! that start-up and shut down the sound! Nostalgia!

Windows used to have such fun boot sounds. Everyone has abandoned the boot sound and it sucks. Even consoles have abanded them.

[The Jackal]

Installed Windows XP sounds on Windows 10. Yes yes YES! that start-up and shut down the sound! Nostalgia!

Windows used to have such fun boot sounds. Everyone has abandoned the boot sound and it sucks. Even consoles have abanded them.

What method did you use? Because there is two ways to go about it, and one is better than the other.

[Leynos]

The lazy dumb route. I didn't do it individually. Playing dangerous lol. Someone put it on Reddit a couple of years ago. Other people said it worked and had no issues and yes, it was an exe. I live dangerously! Scanned it beforehand and after. It's safe.

[The Jackal]

The lazy dumb route.

No, you did it the 'right' way. That exe is the best way doing it. The other way is by using Task Scheduler and only works 2/10 times. FYI, you don't have to keep to the WXP sounds. I personally have mine setup to Win2k's.

[Leynos]

Here is a mind fuck for the day. Jet Set Radio Future and Yakuza share the same universe. In Yakuza 1 there is a man who needs tissues in a bathroom. Turns out it's the exact same Goji Rokkakku from JSRF.

SR Goji Rokkaku makes a cameo in Yakuza ... "See, right there. The same universe.” Kikuchi also oversaw the studio’s 2012 cover shooter eerily reminiscent of Gears of War, Binary Domain. It’s set in, what else, futuristic Tokyo.

found the quote but not the interview I had saved. I remember there have been hints that Binary Domain might take place in the Yakuza universe as well but the real kicker is. Jet Set Radio Future, same universe as Yakuza series.

[JCU]

We're at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge in Disney World today. I just ordered a Sprite at the stand, and this is the bottle.

Just guessing, $8-$10 for it? Disney is the King of overpricing.

[profholt82]

Just guessing, $8-$10 for it? Disney is the King of overpricing.

Ha! You're not wrong about that. I don't think the soda was that much though, 3.79 I think, but maybe 4 something. It was only 13.5 oz though. My stomach was a little shaky after a roller coaster with the kids, so I figured a sprite would help settle it a bit. I'll tell you, when I was younger, I loved roller coasters, but nowadays they make me sick. Guess I'm getting old.

[Thierry Henry]

Like being transported back in time.

[Raijin Z]

The majority of the episodes of The Computer Chronicles are on Youtube. Now THAT is a trip to watch in chronological order. At least, if you were actually alive in the early eighties.

[Leynos]

Funny you mention that. I have a bunch of TechTV, Computer Chronicles, Revision 3 shows, Twit.TV, DL.TV episodes on my PC and been watching them as I play PS4. I may have lost interest in following modern tech but Anything from 2010 and back to the 80s I love to watch stuff about it. Anything from John C Devorak not being able to put that PC back together on CC or Kate and Leo or Leo and Patrick on Screen Savers to Patrick Norton DLTV and so forth. Hell, I have all Indigital episodes where former TechTV guys and Wil Wheaton did tech reviews. Sadly some of this stuff can only be found online with Wayback machine. Why I downloaded as much as I could.

[Leynos]

Watching vids of people build Windows 98 machines using new old stock or Windows XP machines circa 2008 reminded me of a project idea I once had but never did. I don't have the know-how or cash but I have wanted a 2001-2002 Windows XP Gaming PC. CRT Monitor. Voodoo 4. Prob Pentium 4. 512 MB of ram as overkill. 17 inch CRT monitor. One of those really tall white PC cases of the late 90s. CD-Rom. 3-inch floppy and 5-inch floppy drives. Tho I might want it to boot from those SD card mods than an actual HDD from the era. Not even sure I have the room but man I love the idea. XP could still do DOS, right? I seem to remember playing some DOS on my XP machine in 2004.

Edit: When I owned tower PCs I did replace parts like Power supply. Ram. GPU and such, I just never for money reasons was able to get the chance to fully build one. So I would not know how to start from scratch. I just get laptops now so I have not owned a PC tower in a decade. Regardless it's never going to happen anyway.

[Raijin Z]

Novelty cases were pretty common in the early 2000s. Late nineties was the era of white towers with half a dozen drive bays. You do not want a Voodoo card. The resellers have done to them what they have done to the 32X. PCI GeForce MX cards are era-appropriate, and are plenty capable, though you're not going to be scraping the specifications ceiling. Your biggest issue with early 2000s hardware will be blown capacitors on the motherboards, due to the capacitor plague. Most boards were simply discarded due to this issue, driving up the prices of surviving boards.
I've got a P4 board in my basement in need of cap surgery, but I don't know if I have enough remaining hardware to build a whole system out of it. Also, with the Kung Flu savaging China and the coasts, I don't dare order electronic components, lest I end up with a faceful of super-SARS.

[The Jackal]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fallout-N...MAAOSwIrpao8sO

Check that out, namely the box art. Nice game of spot what they got wrong.