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[W3H5]

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Also got a new pair of Merrell walking shoes but they are too small and I've already sent them back

Dat hat doh. 👍

 

[INEEDNAWZZZ]

This week’s Blu-ray pick ups:

 

[Aerocoupe]

I've officially turned to the dark side.

And for once I'm older than my car.

 

[Cowboy]

Made the jump from a i7-9700k to an i7-12700k, as well as better ssd storage.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

I loved the Super Mario Bros movie when I saw it a couple weeks ago and happily bought this.

Also, Justice League Unlimited on bluray. Still a goat for Superhero cartoons imo.

EDIT:

Oh right, these are the last 2 Ebbro scale model cars I bought.

2000 Raybrig NSX

2003 Woodone Tom's Supra

 

[Populuxe]

It's Wednesday. You know what that means... Comics!

This week with added commentary! (Mostly because it's slow at work.)
Last issue of Batgirls, which is a shame. It's been one of my top 10 favorites over the last year or two.
Betsy Braddock tries to save the world, keep her girlfriend happy, and ignore all the low-key sexism around her taking over the mantle of Captain Britain from her brother who is now Captain Avalon.
The Betty and Veronica comics are back catalog items, recently scanned by Archie Comics. They are releasing two a week. These two are from late 1994.
Catwoman is sporting a variant cover by Terry and Rachel Dodson.
Camp Pickens is another in the Archie Horror series. Hard to believe that wholesome Archie is one of the best horror comics publishers now.
Hellcat is one of the most fascinating characters at Marvel. She started life in the late 1940s as a teen model/romance character. The title ended around 1965, but the character was brought back in the 1970s as a superhero. Now she's twice divorced (once from the son of Satan himself), demonically-powered, and besties with She-Hulk. Her early romance comics are now retconned as being within the Marvel Universe, comics written and drawn by her domineering mother.
Pretty Deadly is a gothic western by Kelly Sue DeConnick. These are issues 2 and 4 from the five-issue second series. I somehow picked up 1, 3 and 5 but missed 2 and 4. Now I have all five and can finally read them.
Loving the Scarlet Witch series, which guest stars Darcy from the Thor movies and WandaVision tv series.
Vampirella vs The Superpowers expands on Dan Abnett's Superpowers world he's created for Dynamite. It's a clever concept, well executed.
Wonder Woman #800. It's been a long, strange trip.

 

[Dennisch]

Combined with adapter plates for the Panda, should be an easy install.

 

[omgsean1]

Made the jump from a i7-9700k to an i7-12700k, as well as better ssd storage.

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I had that Noctua NH-D15, but it goes with my 5 years old Ryzen 7 2700 non-X OC to 4.1 GHZ.

 

[sesselpupser]

@INEEDNAWZZZ the first time I saw Police Story 3 I thought I was just getting more Police Story and Police Story 2, I had no idea what I was getting into. Didn't even know Michelle Yeoh was in it and she definitely adds, great film.

 

[Sonygamer455]

Got this in the mail today!

Been a fan of Gravity Kills ever since I got Test Drive 5 for the PS1 as a kid and after getting 2 of their albums for my 30th birthday recently, I decided to take it a step further and get Manipulated as well. Like their first album, I used to listen to it often in my teen years and occasionally in my adulthood, but I never actually owned the album, so I felt it was time that finally changed since I liked the band so much. Listened to my favorite song on it already and I like it! And to think I only paid a few bucks for it. 😎 (ignore the price tag, this was an eBay offering that just happened to have that)

 

[SPhilli911]

Got a PS Vita many years ago and pretty much never used it. Randomly decided to get GT PSP 😂

 

[Sonygamer455]

Since me and my family are on vacation again, I got to go Player’s Choice in Myrtle Beach! While last years was very disappointing, this year was the complete opposite!

Liked Destruction Derby 1 on my PlayStation Classic and I had read here on GTP the sequel was even better, so I got this one. Not much to say about the Gameboy games other than just struck me as interesting. Funny enough, I contemplated getting Frogger on this system nearly 20 years ago, but never did, until now.

Must admit, I already had Battlefront on PS2, but I still wanted to get it on Xbox because I think it has extra content and emulating the PS2 version on Xbox is weird. Haven been pleased with PGR1, it was only natural I got the sequel, especially at that price. And lastly, not only did I really want a new PSP game, but I liked the ATV games on PS2, so I got this one.

Spent more than I think I ever have there and I don’t feel like I am going to regret it.

 

[Roo]

Since me and my family are on vacation again, I got to go Player’s Choice in Myrtle Beach! While last years was very disappointing, this year was the complete opposite!
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Liked Destruction Derby 1 on my PlayStation Classic and I had read here on GTP the sequel was even better, so I got this one. Not much to say about the Gameboy games other than just struck me as interesting. Funny enough, I contemplated getting Frogger on this system nearly 20 years ago, but never did, until now.

Must admit, I already had Battlefront on PS2, but I still wanted to get it on Xbox because I think it has extra content and emulating the PS2 version on Xbox is weird. Haven been pleased with PGR1, it was only natural I got the sequel, especially at that price. And lastly, not only did I really want a new PSP game, but I liked the ATV games on PS2, so I got this one.

Spent more than I think I ever have there and I don’t feel like I am going to regret it.

I loved DD2 when I was a kid, it's close between that and Grand Prix 2 for which game I played the most. Chalk Canyon in Stock Car Racing mode and the Death Bowl in Practice mode were my favourites. Listen out for Indycar commentator (at the time) Paul Page providing the sound bites, and if you go to enter a championship, enter "MACSrPOO" as your name, then back out to the main menu, and it'll unlock all the cars, tracks and modes.

Edit: the soundtrack also introduced 10 year old me to thrash metal, and I've been a fan ever since. The whole game for me is nostalgia in CD form.

 

[Darla Starch]

Game on Steam wishlist at 75% off, can't pass up $4.

Song.

 

[RogsR34UK]

I have gone a little OTT on the guitar front over the last couple of months!

 

[NotThePrez]

I went a little overboard, so I'm gonna go ahead and call these my pickups for July.

I got Kaido Battle 1 & 2 just over a week ago, and picked up Lunar 1 from my local game shop earlier today. In the US, we got Kaido Battle 1 as Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift, however Kaido Battle 2: Chain Reaction was only sold in Japan and Europe, never making its way to the US market. For those who played/beat TXRD, I can confirm that the AI is just as janky in the NTSC-J version.

As for Lunar, I had briefly borrowed Lunar 2 from a friend a while ago, and actually ended up enjoying my short time with it way more than I anticipated. As such, I got Lunar 1 because A) I didn't want to spoil the story by continuing to play 2, and B) it's not quite as prohibitively expensive as Lunar 2.

 

[Populuxe]

New comics day:

 

[TB]

Two tickets to see these guys in Winnipeg.

Now I need to figure out the rest of our itinerary.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Two tickets to see these guys in Winnipeg.

They are good, saw them a few years ago. In terms of replicating the classic album versions of tracks we've known for years they were spot on. I've seen both Gilmour and Waters live now, doing Floyd stuff, and though excellent, it's good to hear them being performed as they were originally recorded.

 

[W3H5]

I thought I was back in the Funny Pics thread for a moment

 

[Populuxe]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano is my favorite manga, bar none. I discovered YKK around 2000, right in the middle of its 1994-2006 run. I bought Kodansha’s Afternoon” magazine at my local Kinokuniya bookstore and learned to read hiragana and katakana and bought a Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, just so I could follow the story. So imagine my surprise that it was being published in English and I didn’t even know it. So I immediately ordered the first two volumes that are already out. It’s being published in big, thick omnibus editions of 250 pages each.

The title translates as “Yokohama Shopping Log” or “Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip.” It’s the story of a female android (technically speaking, a gynoid) named Alpha who runs a small cafe on the Maura Peninsula. There has been a massive environmental disaster, but it’s never explained. The oceans are slowly rising, and humanity is slowly dying. There’s no villain. Just mysteries and quiet days. It’s the most peaceful apocalyptic story I’ve ever read.

 

[Sprite]

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano is my favorite manga, bar none. I discovered YKK around 2000, right in the middle of its 1994-2006 run. I bought Kodansha’s Afternoon” magazine at my local Kinokuniya bookstore and learned to read hiragana and katakana and bought a Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, just so I could follow the story. So imagine my surprise that it was being published in English and I didn’t even know it. So I immediately ordered the first two volumes that are already out. It’s being published in big, thick omnibus editions of 250 pages each.

The title translates as “Yokohama Shopping Log” or “Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip.” It’s the story of a female android (technically speaking, a gynoid) named Alpha who runs a small cafe on the Maura Peninsula. There has been a massive environmental disaster, but it’s never explained. The oceans are slowly rising, and humanity is slowly dying. There’s no villain. Just mysteries and quiet days. It’s the most peaceful apocalyptic story I’ve ever read.

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Sounds ripe for anime adaption by Studio Ghibli.

 

[Populuxe]

Sounds ripe for anime adaption by Studio Ghibli.

There have been two two-episode OVA adaptations. The second one is subtitled “Quiet Country Café” and I own that one on DVD, thanks to a friend who lived in Japan for several years.

 

[kowalski__1]

I didn't know they were shipping from China,..you'll notice the tonque is stitched to the body...there like a slipper with a runner bottom tread...thankfully i ordered a bigger then normal size...i will say they are comfortable ,just not sure how long they will last,definietly don't want to get them wet.... lol

 

[Aerocoupe]

95% satisfied with it now as the hardware has been able to handle all of the games I've thrown at it thus far (granted, nothing too intense, but it hasn't throttled or given poor performance). For its age the 1080 has done remarkably well, though the basic blower cooling design has led to it getting warm on a few occasions which isn't helped by the middling air-flow of the case, and newer game releases are starting to exceed the 11 gigs of VRAM this thing has. Plan is to eventually replace it with an open-air design AMD 6800XT since it's reasonably priced and an upgrade spec-wise. Also unsure about holding onto the case long-term; bought it because it was heavily marked down on Amazon and from a brand I had heard of before, but it has some cons which include:

• Aforementioned airflow deficiencies
• Excessively large for being an ITX/DTX only case (roughly the size of a mid-tower, if not bigger in some dimensions)
• No external access to I/O on motherboard or GPU, which is a rather flagrant design oversight from a company that produces both boards and graphics cards . This also meant I had to find video cables with a 90-degree plug, which...there aren't many of, at least if you're looking for quality options and not alphabet soup brands on Amazon.

Case related issues have now been rectified; after doing some research I settled on the Lian Li Lancool 216 which should give me the airflow and internal space I'm looking for. The non-RGB model was only $100 at Micro Center, so it was hard to beat what it offered for the price.

Should also soon be in the position to order the GPU mentioned above, and I plan to also order an additional support bracket to prevent it from sagging. I've seen a few eBay listings of the specific card I'm looking for (Sapphire Pulse, since the brand is considered AMD's AIB equivalent of EVGA) at a $100 discount compared to Amazon, but I'm willing to pay the extra to just have it new with a warranty and everything. Side note: really wish Micro Center would ship their GPUs (and other components, for that matter) purchased online. I'd totally buy more from them if they did, but unfortunately the 2 hour drive to the Chicago location is a bit far for me.

Also knocked a chunk of games off of my Steam wishlist with their current summer sale going on. Probably add a few more next week too since the promo goes through the 17th and there's some pretty steep discounts.

 

[TB]

Got the kid moved into his apartment and realized that the papasan cushion smelled horrible and is releasing a Tony Montana-esque white substance, it was time for a replacement.

 

[Mr Grumpy]

Case related issues have now been rectified; after doing some research I settled on the Lian Li Lancool 216 which should give me the airflow and internal space I'm looking for. The non-RGB model was only $100 at Micro Center, so it was hard to beat what it offered for the price. View attachment 1270061

Should also soon be in the position to order the GPU mentioned above, and I plan to also order an additional support bracket to prevent it from sagging. I've seen a few eBay listings of the specific card I'm looking for (Sapphire Pulse, since the brand is considered AMD's AIB equivalent of EVGA) at a $100 discount compared to Amazon, but I'm willing to pay the extra to just have it new with a warranty and everything. Side note: really wish Micro Center would ship their GPUs (and other components, for that matter) purchased online. I'd totally buy more from them if they did, but unfortunately the 2 hour drive to the Chicago location is a bit far for me.

Also knocked a chunk of games off of my Steam wishlist with their current summer sale going on. Probably add a few more next week too since the promo goes through the 17th and there's some pretty steep discounts.
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I just picked up gtr2 as well (well the whole mega bundle), automobilista ultimate edition & assetto corsa ultimate edition. Automobilista don't work (potato laptop) think I need to buy more ram, assetto corsa avg 45 fps & I got constant ffb loss with all the simbin titles every time I change a ffb setting, leading me to alt/f to reset the ffb every time I hit the track.

Oh the joys of getting back into PC gaming, it's going to be a long, slow & expensive process but I've grown a bit sick of console companies not supplying me the goods I know my SX can run.

Edit: just picked up Game Stock Car Extreme from steam sale as well, this classic rabbit hole is starting

 

[Populuxe]

New Comic Wednesday:

 

[NotThePrez]

I went a little overboard, so I'm gonna go ahead and call these my pickups for July.

At some point I'd love to get my hands on a physical copy of Gran Turismo HD, however given its price point, that's a lower-priority item currently.

I got very lucky on eBay and was able to get a copy of GTHD for wayyyy under its normal going rate.

With that, I now have every GT game that I actually want.

 

[Michael88]

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