Share your pickup loot and finds

[Steve W]

Spent the day mostly stuck in traffic because everybody decided today was the perfect day to drive like douchebags. It's like people think using a turn signal will make their car explode or something. Ugh.

Finally found a store with Mars Odyssey, which I've been interested in for a while. It's VR compatible, and it's basically just you exploring the surface of Mars with a rover, taking soil samples and examining rocks. It sounds kind of relaxing. Also picked up the Carmageddon remake - the original late '90s game was one of my all-time favorite games, I'm hoping they don't go overboard with it and screw it up (like they did with Carmageddon 2 back in the day). The store I bought those two at is a retailer of the Limited Run line of games, and since the Limited Run website is always sold out of everything, I'm going to have to research which ones look like fun and grab 'em fairly soon since I might not ever see them again. They had a case full of PS4 Limited Run releases.

[gbpxl]

Carmageddon 64 is one of my favorites "bad games"

how exactly are you posting photos? what are you clicking on? and are you doing it from a phone or a computer?

[Steve W]

I only post from a computer, and I use ImgBB for storing images online. It's pretty good, so much better than Photobucket. It takes a little bit of effort (I use GraphicConverter for the Mac to crop the picture and resize it), but the site's drag-and-drop and it gives you a variety of link types for whatever you're using it for.

The original Carmageddon was a great little game, I've always loved vehicular combat games so it was like it was made for me. It was published in the UK but nobody in the US bothered to distribute it for a year, so all I had to play was the 5-minute demo game. But frustrated Americans made patches for the demo to shut off the timer and such, so when it was finally published here a bunch of patches were quickly made for it to unlock all sorts of stuff. I loved the crap out of it, and bought a 3DFX Voodoo 1 card just to get the most out of it. I was so excited when Carmageddon 2 came out, and it chugged along with low framerates and badly thought out missions (and that damn warball you get stuck with dragging behind you that means you can't drive worth crap) and upgrading my OS meant it broke the playability of Carmageddon 1. Sigh.

Played the new Carmageddon last night... it was okay, but wandering around the city I hit a power up and got a damn warball and chain. And had no idea how to get rid of it so I can drive more than 30 miles per hour. I hope maybe I can disable it somehow.

[Steve W]

Yesterday I hit a Movie Trading Company, one that has had a few foreign PS3 games on the shelf, hoping they might have something cool. All I bought there was The Talos Principle. Went to a GameXchange looking for interesting VR games and bought Race The Sun and Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, a Japanese import. And for the styrofoam head I keep my VR helmet on I bought a wig, some clip-on cat ears, and a neck warmer from the Japanese dollar store Daiso because I'm weird and I wanted to give it some character.

[Steve W]

I had time tonight to go to a retro game and toy place that recently opened up in Fort Worth, TX called Retro Madness. They've got a bigger selection of import games since I first visited them right after they opened. I ended up buying Nitro Blasterz and Arslan: The Warriors of Legend. Their PS4 selection was pretty tiny. I guess not a lot of people trading in games to a toy store.



On a shelf next to the counter was this beauty, a Shogun Warrior. I've still got my original, with most of the pieces missing but the stickers still on the buckle and chest unlike this one... In case you can't read that price tag, it says $300. Ouch. At least it seems to have the box, which is amazing in this day and age. They don't make toys this cool any more.

[Niku-Sama]

Yesterday I hit a Movie Trading Company, one that has had a few foreign PS3 games on the shelf, hoping they might have something cool. All I bought there was The Talos Principle. Went to a GameXchange looking for interesting VR games and bought Race The Sun and Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, a Japanese import. And for the styrofoam head I keep my VR helmet on I bought a wig, some clip-on cat ears, and a neck warmer from the Japanese dollar store Daiso because I'm weird and I wanted to give it some character.

i have to ask does it have googly eyes yet?

[Gameguy]

And for the styrofoam head I keep my VR helmet on I bought a wig, some clip-on cat ears, and a neck warmer from the Japanese dollar store Daiso because I'm weird and I wanted to give it some character.

[Niku-Sama]

oh i totally forgot about that...


please dont french it

[gbpxl]

King of the Hill seems to be a universally loved TV show. I remember that ep