FINALLY, A MAME CABINET!!!!!

😲 A $90 MAME cabinet with 2000 arcade games on it?!?!?! 😲

😲 I got $332 of stuff on Temu for $210, saving $120! 😲
🛒 Months of cart filling emptied out! 🤸‍♀️

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💵 $332.49 of merch 🛒
➖ $ 75.00 of coupons 📋
➕ $ 15.44 of tax 😿
➖ $ 5.00 of late credits 🕥
➖ $ 25.35 of price adjustment refunds 💰
➖ $ 35.87 in returns 🚫
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== $206.71 🤑(37.8% discount)🤑
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Can you accept my Temu invitation so I can get free shit?
The link is: https://temu.to/m/u7e5a2z9z5c
GAMES:

🎮$90.83: PORTABLE ARCADE GAME CABINET! … holy shit a 10-inch 32g 20K-game MAME cabinet with real arcade joystick/buttons/PS2-like controller?!?!? WOWWWWW – i went on to purchase the much larger 20-inch 2-player version for $250 (on sale from $420) on 2/12/2024 because i was so satisfied with this one

🎲$2.59: The Game Of Life Adventures [card game variant of Life board game]

👿$1.55: plushie: DOOM!: Cacodemon (3.15″) 🤣

🃏$0.51/ea * 2: double-deck-sized playing card holders

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AUDIO/MUSIC:

🎸$3.85: bass guitar strings

🍗$3.24: drumstick covers – another 2 pair so guests don’t break my new drums

📺$1.84: RCA cables, 3.5′ (2pcs) – too lazy to go into my attic and get one from my collection – gonna use this to hook a chromecast to a 1989 TV-VCR with an HDMI-to-RCA adapter 🤣

🔉$0.80: breakaway speaker wire connectors (20pcs) – our kitchen speaker falls down every few years and i have to resplie the speaker wire every damn time, a breakaway connector might help.

💩$0.00: drumstick bag that attaches to large tom, $3.50 refunded for WRONG COLOR. Grey is not brown.

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CLOTHING: PINS:

👿$1.02: DOOM: Cacodemon

☢$0.37: Megadeth logo

😻$1.29: Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy holding annoyed Ren

🥛$1.19: Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Master Shake

🦉$1.17: The Owl House: show logo

👸$0.99: Adventure Time: Lumpy Space Princess

🙀$0.93: The Simpsons: TV set with Itchy & Scratchy Show on it

🐭$0.72: The Simpsons: TV set with Itchy & Scratchy Show on it

😈$0.87: PowerPuff Girls: HIM

🥼$0.76: Dexter’s Laboratory: Dexter

🤡$0.72: In Living Color: Homey Don’t Play That!

📺$0.69: Adventure Time: logo

🥼$0.57: Breaking Bad: Walter White in lab suite being weird

🦃$0.56: The Simpsons: Bart Simpson: Crow-version from Treehouse Of Horror

🐼$0.50: Avatar:The Last Airbender: Aang riding Appa

🤖$0.00: Futurama: Robot Devil — arrived with pin on back broken tho, so got my $.87 back 😢

👶🏾$0.00: Family Guy: Stewie – but lol he was black instead of white? Refunded 92cents for inaccuracy but don’t let Temu know I secretly love Black Stewie, it’s like a misprint that I feel has more value than the original! 😂 that return was like, the most racist-feeling return ever, but if i know a way to get my money back, i’ll take it 😅

🧉$0.97: “Let’s Start A Cult” Kool-Aid man

🐛$0.48: Hungry Hungry Caterpillar

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STICKERS:

😁$1.23: Ween car decal

💀$1.11: Misfits car decal

🧷$1.11: Dead Kennedys decal

🏃🏾‍♀️$0.00: D.R.I. decal, was missing from my package, got my $1.18 back

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HOUSEWARES:

🔌🌌$2.15: electrical: outlet cover: trippy galaxy nebula

🔌🧙‍♀️$1.56: electrical: outlet cover: witchy: skulls/pentagrams/black cats/ouija/moons/crystal balls

🔌⚰$0.00: electrical: outlet cover: coffin – got my $2.14 back (tho it was $5 before price adjustment refund) money back because it was missing the installation screw [though in truth, I may have lost it?]

🔌🔌$1.53: electrical: outlet shelf — to put phone on when charging. May or may not work with our situation.

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KITCHEN:

🥘$3.96: pan: with 4 separate circular areas for pancakes/eggs – i probably shouldn’t have bought this, but i’m a sucker for divided pans, and this is the first pan i’ve ever bought new, at ‘full’ price . A lifetime of hand-me-down/yard-sale pans. Never even knew what a new one was like until 2020 when I got some or free for product testing. But this is the first time i’ve actually “truly” bought a pan, i think.

🥣$3.69: collapseable silicone bowls – 3pcs set [for camping actually]

✂$2.45: scissors: heavy duty food scissors

💩$0.00 disputed from $16.33: 💩 defective 💩 folding 💩 camping 💩 table 💩

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HARDWARE: MISC:

🎨$1.98: art: LCD drawing pad, 8.5″. Blue. This is like my 5th one. I like that the color gradients are horizontal and not vertical, but prefer red in the middle not blue. There’s so many variations in these things, I really love them.

🔌$4.99: power: Laptop power supply adapter set (like 30 different tips for power supplies) – I thought a “plug kit” would come with a plug, but no. Two plugs is useful. Two sets of adapters is not. I got refunded for the 2nd set but got to keep both.

💩$0.00: med: Pulse Oximeter – DEFECTIVE! [$1.34 returned]

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HARDWARE: USB:

🔌$5.75: USB wall-charging blocks: 5-Pack (2.4A) (3-ports on each) – so much shit these days is cheaper explicitly because it comes with no power supply, and it’s a great way to re-use the old charging blocks from your old phones that you never use, but if you get enough USB-powered shit, eventually those run out

🔌$1.32/ea: USB voltage meter (3 of them) – no more wondering if that cable is charging or not, display the voltage in realtime!

🔌$1.22: USB cable with 10 different ends – for camping emergencies

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TOOLS: MARKING:

🥇$0.82: marking: metallic markers!!: 2 gold + 2 silver

🖊$0.72: marking: paint marker: pink (12) — yes, a dozen of them?! For the same price i paid for 1? Huh???

🖋$0.69: marking: paint marker: rose red (1)

✏$0.69: marking: paint marker: white (1)

🖊$0.76: marking: paint marker: purple (1)

🖋$1.16: marking: paint marker: white (1) – WAY BETTER THAT SILVER SHARPIES

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TOOLS: MISC:

🐀$3.63: pest control: mouse trap: bucket lid trap (bucket not included)

✂$0.79: cutting: wrapping paper slide-cutter

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HARDWARE: HDMI:

📺$16.00: HDMI cables, 10K/8K, 15′ (2pcs)

📺$ 6.79: HDMI cables, 10K/8K, 3′ (2pcs)

📺$ 8.12: HDMI-to-DisplayPort adapter – a beast of a conversion that apparently requires additional USB power, so it’s a VERY strange looking adapter

📺$ 1.46: DisplayPort-to-HDMI Adapter

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TOOLS: HANGING:

🧥$3.76: hanging: coat hooks (2)

🔧$0.93: hanging: socket made to screw in the specific hooks we like to screw into our wood paneling!! Holy moly! (“butterfly bolt hex shank socket adapter nut”)

🤐$0.66: hanging: zip-ties, 100, multi-color

📼$0.29: hanging: tape: double-sided hanging tape (3.28ft)

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BEAUTY:

💅$0.64: latex nail polish barrier – proably a dumb purchase

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TOYS:

🔝$0.00 disputed from $0.66: electronic spinning top that plays Axel F, but i’m unsatisifed with its performance compared to a previuus one

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[Listed prices are what I actually paid, but without tax]

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RAW DATA FOR SEPARATE ORDERS:
$125.29 – $25 coupon + $6.02 tax – $2.84 price adjustment refunds – $ 1.34 disputes = $102.03
$ 75.31 – $15 coupon + $3.62 tax – $6.85 price adjustment refunds – $10.05 disputes = $ 47.04
$ 59.75 – $15 coupon + $2.69 tax – $7.39 price adjustment refunds – $23.56 disputes = $ 16.49
$ 72.14 – $20 coupon + $3.12 tax – $5 late credit – $7.20 price adjustment refunds – $ .92 disputes = $ 42.14

sorry about the 2 cent discrepancy, i’m not perfect 😂
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Can you accept my Temu invitation so I can get free shit?
The link is:
https://temu.to/m/u7e5a2z9z5c
(New users get $100 worth in coupons)

 

VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: The FP (2011)

VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: The FP (2011)

Clio: 4.4/5 stars, 7.6/10.
Carolyn: 3.6/5 stars, 6.6/10.
Native ratings: 2.9/5 stars Netflix, 4.7/10 IMDB.

This movie is perhaps best summarized as Idiocracy meets Rocky meets 8 Mile meets the videogame Dance Dance Revolution.

“In a post apocalyptic future, two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park by playing “Beat Beat Revelation”, a deadly version of Dance, Dance, Revolution(tm).”

Yes. An incredibly ridiculous premise. As soon as I read the summary, I KNEW I had to see it. I love Dance Dance Revolution, and I love post apocalypstic futures… Though I gotta say, that part of the summary was mis-leading. It doesn’t look post-apocalyptic. It doesn’t look apocalyptic. It doesn’t look like the future either. People drive around older cars and use payphones. Things are obviously bad, and people talk in a very different, stupider way … But it’s not really made obvious that there was ever any apocalypse. It’s a bit dystopian, that’s all.

But that’s a very minor complaint. This was one of those bad movies that is hilarious. Carolyn was somewhat annoyed at the dialogue, but it was still pretty funny. And they were doing that on purpose. Talking like fucking idiots. So much slang. Like the education system has collapsed and street talk has taken over the world… Yet people are still civilized enough to have Dance Dance Revolution machines at clubs and party spots.

The opening scene had someone dying from DDR.

This was awesome. And so unique and ridiculous. It may as well have been a cartoon. Fuck yeah.

Written & directed by Brandon Trost (mostly a cinematographer and special effects guy) & his brother Jason Trost (Hatchet 3, Crank 2, Scream 2), who played JTro.

Main characters JTRO and Stacy aren’t actors that have been in anything we’ve seen. But other stars included:
Art Hsu (Crank 2, uncredited role in Pirates Of The Caribbean 3) as KCDC.
Clifton Collins Jr. (Crank 2, Star Trek (2009), Traffic, uncredited role in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World) as CC Jam. DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM.
James DeBello (Detroit Rock City, Dorm Daze, Cabin Fever, Scary Movie 2, American Pie 1) as Beat Box Busta Bill. Recognized him.
Nick Principe (uncredited role in Hatchet 2) as BLT.
Sean Whalen (A Midsummer’s Night Rave, Charlie’s Angels, Hatchet 3, Twister, Waterworld, Men In Black, The Cable Guy, The Bold And The Beautiful) as Stacy‘s Dad.
Dash Mihok (Sex & Death 101, I Am Legend, The Day After Tomorrow, Sleepers) as henchman Cody.
Michael Sandow (usually a camera guy) as henchman Jody.
James Remar (Harry Morgan in Dexter, Django Unchained, X-Men: First Class, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Pineapple Express, Ratatouille, 4 eps of Justice League, The Girl Next Door) as Narrator.

LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1296373/combined

 

VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Unicorn City (2012)

VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: Unicorn City (2012)

Clio: 4.4/5 stars, 8/10.
Carolyn: 3.4/5 stars, 7.4/10.
Native ratings: 3.5/5 stars Netflix, 5.5/10 IMDB.

“You are who you pretend to be.”

Sadly, Carolyn didn’t like this one as much as me, despite also being a gamer herself.  This movie certainly doesn’t REQUIRE any knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons, or fantasy roleplaying……… But it helps!

This is basically a comedy movie about a guy with a blank resume who tries to get a job with a gaming company by creating a real-life utopia for gamers in the middle of some woods. He does this because his DungeonMaster is a real dick, and wanted to start his own guild. Take tabletop gamging to the next level – LARP’ing.

Sounds geeky? It is.

Now throw in a romantic subplot – the SUPER-hot Jaclyn Hales is crushing on the main character, and he’s never really looked at her as a real woman before. She is the typical geek-girl role in a movie: A super-hot chick with her hair up and wearing some glasses. As if that’s going to fool us into thinking she’s not hot. I’m sorry, but it’s impossible for this girl to not be hot. Check her out yourself: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1213771008/nm4076403

This was a fun movie. It has a unique plot, a great deal of comedy, tons of characters (though only 2 are developed past 2 dimensions), enough guy-girl interest to keep the romantically-inclined entertained, and enough wackiness to keep it memorable.

Cast-wise, this movie is mostly full of bit players, but the main bad guy is played by Jon Gries, aka Uncle Rico from the great Napoleon Dynamite movie, and the mediocre Napoleon Dynamite animated series.

Multiple actors from this movie are in some endeavor called Gary The Unicorn. I can’t view this as coincidence.

LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1734589/combined

 

VIDEO: MOVIES: CARTOONS: VIDEO GAMES: REVIEW: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

VIDEO: MOVIES: CARTOONS: VIDEO GAMES: REVIEW: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Carolyn: 4.6/5 stars, 8.6/10.
Native ratings: 4.2/5 stars Netflix, 7.9/10 IMDB.

I defer to Carolyn’s rating for this one. I kept falling asleep. I definitely still followed everything that happened in the movie, but it lost it’s potential for full effect on me. I could tell it was awesome, but I just wasn’t SURE it was awesome. I’m not even going to rate it because I don’t even know how I feel about it.

But hey! Carolyn loved it! A lot of people loved it! I’ll be watching this again someday, 7 years from now.

LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772341/combined

 

VIDEO: MOVIES: REVIEW: The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008)

VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008)

4/5 stars, 7/10 from both of us.

A real D&D movie! That’s actually funny, too!

Super low budget though. I wouldn’t even call this a b-movie, I’d call it a c-movie.  The acting is quite often bad and stilted, but you know what? We still enjoyed it a lot anyway!

Major nerdgasm this movie was.

LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447166

 

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Pretend You’re Xyzzy

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Pretend You’re Xyzzy

Finally, an online Cards Against Humanity!

LINK URL: http://pyx-1.socialgamer.net/game.jsp

 

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Black And White [Android]

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Black And White [Android]

An Android multi-player Cards Against Humanity clone.

If you play with me in person, maybe we should try online sometime?

[If you’re an iOS fag you can google “evil apples” for an Apple version]

LINK URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cs.blackandwhite

 

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Pretend You’re Xyzzy

GAMES: Cards Against Humanity: Pretend You’re Xyzzy

A web-app clone of Cards Against Humanity.

LINK URL: http://pyz.socialgamer.net

 

GAMES: Creators of Dwarf Fortress make losing fun

GAMES: Creators of Dwarf Fortress make losing fun

Dwarf Fortress: The most complicated game on the planet. Interview with the creators. Their life sounds kinda cool.

LINK URL: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2013/apr/06/kitsap-creators-of-dwarf-fortress-make-losing/#axzz2PmsSwwXy

 

SOFTWARE: Ultrastar Deluxe – Singstar(R) like game for your PC

SOFTWARE: Ultrastar Deluxe – Singstar(R) like game for your PC

Open-source karaoke supporting up to 6 singers? Don’t mind if I do.

How did I hear about this? Bronies, of course.

LINK URL: http://ultrastardx.sourceforge.net

 

VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: Joysticks (1983)

VIDEO: MOVIE: REVIEW: Joysticks (1983)

7/10 from both of us (IMDB rating is only 3.2/10!). 3/5 stars from Carolyn, 4/5 from Clint (Netflix rating is 2.7/5, with a prediction of 3.0 for us.)

OMFG this was a TOTALLY RIDICULOUS cheesy screwball unrealistic 1980s comedy about a video arcade. Think FOOTLOOSE, but with video games instead of dancing.

Get a chance to see Larry’s always-silent, other-brother-Darryl from the 80’s Newhart sitcom — not just in a speaking role, but also sometimes in drag!

This also stars Uncle Rico from Napoloeon Dynamite, as a video-junkie punk – “KING VIDIOT” – who just wants to hang out at the video arcade with the snobby cool kids. Yes, you heard me right: The snobby cool kids (and topless chicks) all want to hang out at the video game arcade.

NOT UNREALISTIC ENOUGH? Ante up! Dude takes 2 girls back to his private office where he has a strip video game, and they have a threesome while playing the videogame.

Carolyn liked it better than she thought it would. She was resistant to this movie, yet I had to tell her that I observed her laughing and laughing and laughing out loud over and over many many times through the movie — as did I.

This exceeded my low expectations and is actually funnier than a lot of A-movie comedies out there.

LINK URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085764

opening theme / beginning of movie: