arch_8ngel

And Vince was making comparable boxes way before Timewalk got big. I mean, he wasn't making "CIB sets" like Timewalk/Rosecolored were doing, but he was making the boxes to pair with other makers' cartridges. My point was more that "CIB" for reproductions always seemed silly to me in the first place, and really only served to confuse people about genuine homebrew releases.

No, Outlands used a standard cartridge, though I did buy that one on cartridge WAY back in the day, because that was before flashcarts were even a thing. Legend of Link was the MMC5 conversion. Honestly, there was nothing all that special about the boxes Timewalk was putting out. Multiple other people at that time already had diecutters and were doing the same thing, just as well. And I completely disagree about the "weren't quite as rampant" comment -- if anything Timewalk stuff was selling for crazy prices at the PEAK of repro production. They somehow just lucked into people thinking "limited editions" of reproductions should "matter", tapping into the excitement around LE homebrew production (and product confusion).

The only ROM hack I ever paid meaningful money for was the Zelda hack that required an MMC5 donor cartridge (since it wasn't supported on flash carts at the time). It wasn't hugely expensive ($100? at the time?) and I was able to flip it for a gain after I had my fun playing through it a couple of times. But at least some amount of the expense was justified by the unique hardware requirements of the cartridge, inherently limiting supply. The Timewalk stuff, on the other hand... I agree. Never saw the appeal, at all.

I took his comment more as saying it doesn't have a dumped ROM for emulation. And while it was definitely a fun game... I was glad to be be able to sell it for the amount that I did last year.

Even a random poll of a forum leaves out the major independent candidate Sad.

Presumably you'd need to come up with a distribution curve that highlights the outlier prices as outliers, and shows both the median sale price (over some period of time) as well as the distribution of sale points around that median. Distilling it down to a single end-all "value" number is nonsensical with sales volumes as small as this (i.e. the market is too thin), and an opaque algorithm is just going to cause mistrust. But you can VERY OPENLY AND CLEARLY -- state: (1) the "median sale price" (over last x-weeks) (2) show all sales (over last x-weeks) as a distribution (3) show the numerical average (over last x-weeks) (4) identify the "percentile" of various prices/sales (5) couple that with a time-history of the known sales Unfortunately, the vast majority of people are going to look at that and: (a) , see either the average or median and latch onto that "one number". or (b) just look at the last sales price as their "one number" But at least it would be 100% clear what was being presented, for anyone who cared enough to dig deeper, versus what sounds like an evolving algorithm that is overweighting high-price outliers. And you could couple all of that with whatever the population/volume of BIN listings are and their distribution, so that people have a clear "top end" reference for what is immediately obtainable without negotiation or shopping around. EDIT: as an example, go look at how TrueCar shows sales price distributions 2nd EDIT: for how upset people are about this -- an all seriousness, if somebody web-savvy is sufficiently familiar with the data-scraping that populates the price information, I would be happy to talk further about how this information could be presented better than what GVN is doing. 3rd EDIT: is the idea that GVN is monetizing click-through to eBay sales? What is their actual business model?

We had a member on NAge, other than archon, that had the full set of gold box games. He'd have been a great resource of this. Great find, BTW. Always loved the aesthetic of these game releases.

The entire scenario, on both sides of the equation, was a "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" type of scenario.

Need to watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure again, first, but from everything I've read, I'm looking forward to the final installment.

And he never would have been in harms way in the first place if his dumb-ass hadn't been there in the first place as an idiot kid with a firearm he had no business being in possession of. Irrespective of any successful self defense claim, I wouldn't be surprised if there could be successful civil suit over the negligence of both his parents and his friend's (who supplied the rifle) parents, since ultimately they should be responsible for their minor children.

You're right that apparently he claims he got the gun from a friend in WI, rather than bringing it with him. But the exception in WI for 16 and 17 year olds with rifles and shotguns is for hunting purposes, so I think his defense is bogus, but we'll see. Whether the murder charges stick around, or not, the kid is a total idiot with a clear lack of judgment to put himself in that situation. And it is totally piss-poor parenting to let your 17 year old go open-carry a rifle at a protest. So no, a 17 year old from another state should NOT have been there in the first place.

Kid from IL that killed people took a rifle across state lines illegally as he's a minor... There is no reasonable justification for the dimwitted kid to have put himself in the situation where he needs to plead "self defense" in the first place. And in a world of these things being a matter of perception to the parties involved -- it gets tough to square who things they were defending themselves from the other (in terms of the group trying to disarm the minor that was shooting people with a firearm that he couldn't legally possess in that situation)

Great movie. Great performances from everyone.

Well, SPG is certainly the best in their sector, but unless there is a total paradigm shift, malls are going to have headwinds for a very long time. (and frankly, ATT, at this dividend, could be flat forever, for all I care, as long as they pay it ) AAPL, at $100 post split is a 20%+ drop. I'd almost certainly buy back in at that point, I just think the current pricing is driven by a bunch of kids on Robinhood that buy memes and got excited about the split. (but the reality is, at current weighted values, AAPL is at least 5% of pretty much every SP500, large cap, and total market ETF out there -- cutting back my explicit exposure isn't REALLY reducing my total exposure to them all that much in the greater scheme of things) $150 is them at $600 pre-split. I'm not saying that people aren't crazy enough to push it there... because look at the crazy around Tesla's absolutely absurd valuations... but I was happy to make very hearty gains at the level I sold and see what happens with the rest of my holdings post-split. It isn't going to hurt my feelings to miss some more from them in the short term. Penny stocks I have no interest in though. More power to you if that is your thing.

I'm staying away from SPG. I get that they are "special" in their sector... but that sector is going to continue to suffer a lot of abuse, for years to come. I'm into some other fairly high dividend REITs, though. Did decide that AAPL had gotten a little too nutty ahead of the split, so took my gains on 2/3 of my position. (and right there with you on AT&T)

For how many hit the market, the Aladdin Deck Enhancer find had to have been multiple pallets.

Yeah, there was a train derailment that evidently lost an entire box-car of artwork.

Yeah, that was a genuine tragedy of losing one-of-a-kind originals.

I'd bet that some older houses have coal basements or root cellars, and I wouldn't be surprised if some misguided people over the years have either finished them or used them as storage space. I live in coastal VA, and my house had a "basement" (really an unfinished coal pit for the original furnace the house had in the 1920's) until I filled it in to crawl-level to cut down the cost of my flood insurance premiums. It wouldn't surprise me if there were houses in that region that were the same way, despite the obvious risks.

To each his own, I guess. When I replayed the game as an adult, I thought it was a surprisingly well implemented map, given the limitations they had to work with.

Nobody in that part of the country should have a basement gameroom, or a finished basement at all.

What part was causing issues? It is a couple of inter-connected rings, and the background is always the "inside" of the ring that you're on.

The map isn't that bad... it just takes some getting used to.

Do all of those sites allow cross-listing in their T&C's?

Yeah, as a kid, Friday the 13th was terrifying, at least if you only ever played it briefly at a friend's house, with no instructions, in the dark at a sleepover But as an adult, it is actually a really interesting game where you are managing a surprisingly complex situation (juggling 6 player characters with different skills, saving kids, finding clues, not getting lost in the woods, and killing Jason).