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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #2252
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,758 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I don't want Nintys vision of the future!
    I want...
    Flying time travelling DeLoreans.
    Automatically lacing up Nikes.
    Some of those auto fit/dry clothes.
    Mr Fusion.
    Hydrators in every kitchen.
    Doc Browns great 2015 dress sense.
    and
    Hoverboards (this one in every important)!


  • #2253
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    That the next gen of consoles are getting region locks slapped on 'em is fine by me. Its like they're trying to make console modding and firmware hacking into a mainstream part of gaming.

    And if they screw up badly enough it'll pay very nicely into the hands of consoles like Ouja, distribution channels like Steam & pay what you want bundles, and crowd funded gaming on Kickstarter, RocketHub etc.

    Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft losing even a little market share sounds like a good thing to me. Between 'em they've given us
    • a handheld without a power cable, in our region only
    • one of the most incompetently managed responses to 77,000,000 people's personal information getting stolen imaginable
    • legal threats directed at the same guys whose Kinect hacks were the reason people stopped calling Kinect a dodgy EyeToy knockoff


  • #2254
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    @ Retr0 - do you use a stepdown with your NTSC Snes, or can they be powered by something common like an MD1 adapter etc?


  • #2255
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    EnterNow wrote: »
    @ Retr0 - do you use a stepdown with your NTSC Snes, or can they be powered by something common like an MD1 adapter etc?

    My imaginary one? :)

    I use a stepdown for my Virtual Boy which has the same adapter, can't tell you what voltage it takes but pretty sure it takes the same as the PAL one just has a different connector. Doesn't MMMonkey have a mod for the SNES adapters?


  • #2256
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    My imaginary one? :)

    I use a stepdown for my Virtual Boy which has the same adapter. Doesn't MMMonkey have a mod for the SNES adapters?

    Sorry I meant NES :o


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  • #2257
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Can't wait for my night in with Nigella Lawson tonight. Talk Italian to me baby!


  • #2258
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Sorry I meant NES :o

    The US NES is working off a PAL NES power supply, which is the same as the PAL SNES one. Works perfect.


  • #2259
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Can't wait for my night in with Nigella Lawson tonight. Talk Italian to me baby!

    :confused:
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    The US NES is working off a PAL NES power supply, which is the same as the PAL SNES one. Works perfect.

    Sound as a pound, cheers


  • #2260
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Nigella Lawson is on BBC 2 tonight. I cannot imagine a sight more heavenly than Nigella cooking italian food.


  • #2261
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Bought something on ebay there over two weeks ago. I was sent a tracking number on the 11th, & thirteen days later, the tracking into is still at "electronic shipping info received".

    Surely by now there should have been a change in status. The seller maintains they contacted USPS & was informed it was a glitch & is under investigation by USPS. The number is invalid on anpost.ie still also.

    It could well be genuinely lost/missing, or the seller could be looking to bide time as buyers have 30 days only to raise a dispute/claim.

    Hmm, what to do


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  • #2262
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Nigella Lawson is on BBC 2 tonight. I cannot imagine a sight more heavenly than Nigella cooking italian food.

    Sera will be will impressed with this post


  • #2263
    DinoRex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Sera will be will impressed with this post

    Only a 30 year age difference with her competition...


  • #2264
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Only a 30 year age difference with her competition...

    And yet still 'no sight like it'

    Ooooh, someones in trouble


  • #2265
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,912 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Nothing beats home cooked real Italian food.
    Mmmm, hungry now but it's French food for tonight.


  • #2266
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    If national cuisines were Top Trump cards, Japan would be the top most trump. Indeed most Asian countries are forces to be reckoned with. Italy would be pretty good, certainly able to fend off most competition from Europe and Americas (would put up a good fight with Mexico though). Irish food would be that dud card that doesn't beat anything, except maybe countries consistently ravaged by famine and food borne illnesses.


  • #2267
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    If national cuisines were Top Trump cards, Japan would be the top most trump. Indeed most Asian countries are forces to be reckoned with. Italy would be pretty good, certainly able to fend off most competition from Europe and Americas (would put up a good fight with Mexico though). Irish food would be that dud card that doesn't beat anything, except maybe countries consistently ravaged by famine and food borne illnesses.

    The Hipsters Guide To Culinary Delight

    :D


  • #2268
    a5y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Only a 30 year age difference with her competition...

    The phrase "mutton dressed as lamb" springs to mind.


  • #2269
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Call my tastes simple, but there are days when you can't beat a hot bowl of Irish Stew or something with Irish bought potatoes :)


  • #2270
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Irish food has one trump card in it's deck - A full Irish breakfast. The greatest meal known to man.


  • #2271
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    On the topic of food, saw this earlier and had to pop into the bathroom for a quick dry retch afterwards. A true culinary abomination. Reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons where Homer ate all those packets of cheese.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdyxd0LsL1I


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  • #2272
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    Any of you guys into Mexican? It's a tie between that and Italian with me.

    I'd murder a Burrito right now.


  • #2273
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    There are few foods better than a burrito from Boojum in town. So ridiculously good.


  • #2274
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    I always see that place when I'm going into Cactus Jacks. Looks a bit hipstery to me to be honest!


  • #2275
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I don't give two ****s how hipstery a place is when they do the best chicken fajitas, loaded with jalapenos and hot sauce, for just over a fiver :pac:


  • #2276
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    Hah! I googled 'Boojum hipster' and this is what I got, serious, I didn't make this up. Looks like my hipster radar is working just fine :D

    360yf9.jpg


  • #2277
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I think over the last fifteen years I've destroyed my tolerance to Mexican food...if I even look at it these days I get heart burn :o

    Recently For take out:
    Chinese Curry {Hong Kong Kitchen in Dundrum is biblicaly nice}
    Chipper {Macari's in Blackrock is equally biblical}

    Recently For eating in:
    Jimmy Chungs isn't bad for an all you can eat slop fest
    Princess Gardens in Lucan have the worlds nicest chicken balls


  • #2278
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Hah! I googled 'Boojum hipster' and this is what I got, serious, I didn't make this up. Looks like my hipster radar is working just fine :D

    But all that image proves is that Boojum is mainstream, therefore no longer hip! Therefore we can all enjoy their delicious budget burritos with great enthusiasm.


  • #2279
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
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    I did the exact same thing with Chinese food that you did with Mexican - can't even look at the stuff anymore. When we were growing up in my house, it was the only take away food we ever really got. I've eaten enough chicken balls and beef in black bean sauce now to do me a lifetime.

    Burrito's and Blues is one I'm starting to frequent a lot lately.

    Oooh, another thing I love is Falafel. Iskanders on Dame Street can't be beat. Then for added obesity, walk down the road to Shakes and have an After Eight milkshake. :D


  • #2280
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,458 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    But all that image proves is that Boojum is mainstream, therefore no longer hip! Therefore we can all enjoy their delicious budget burritos with great enthusiasm.

    I must try it sometime, always looking for good restaurants around the north side, they're few and far between!

    Only ones I go to on a regular basis are Cactus Jacks and Yamamori.


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  • #2281
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Have actually been looking for a good falafel place, had one away recently and have now got a hankering for more. Must check that Dame St. place out, as I was surprised to discover Zaytoon don't serve them.


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