Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Christmas 12/25/2024

Episode Date: December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas. EveryOne Enjoy your new Presents and Gifts.

Good morning, everyone. Merry Christmas 2024. I just woke up. It is now almost 6 o'clock. So we slept in a little bit. So let's see what's going on. Yesterday I spent most of the day in my room trying to clean some stuff up.

And so, but I still had some orders here and there. And I actually, the mailman came, I don't know, around 2. And I still got orders out for people, even on Christmas Eve, all the way until around 2 o'clock. So that was exciting. Good for all my buyers that need their items shipped out. Usually I'll keep shipping things out as long as I can until either the post office is closed or the mailman doesn't come anymore. I used to go a lot to the post office, but because I had to cut back on some stuff, I don't really go that often. Unless I have really big boxes and I'll go.

But I used to go two or three times a day to drop things off as quickly as I could. But now I've just... When the mailman comes at the end of the day, I just pack everything up. It's in the mailbox. I have like an oversized mailbox that I had for a while. All right, so let's see what's going on. Quantum Research shreds new light on how cells communicate. It's pretty cool. So we're always trying to figure out

more about our cells and stuff. NVIDIA fixes its nasty performance issue. Let's see if there's anything else going on here. Omega Millions winner, drop drawing. One billion dollars, I don't think it out. Now I don't think anybody got the Mega Millions. Let's see. So I'm not really seeing nothing. I'd like to do a quick scan of

overnight news or anything breaking or anything. They had that big thing with the American Airlines delays piled up after technical issue. One thing goes wrong and then everything just went down crazy. So. Oh. I wouldn't want to be flying anywhere.

Basically. Freak that. Alright, so let's go look at my Etsy. Check my Etsy this morning. Because again, even though it's Christmas Day, you know, we're not really doing anything different. I got a card from my mother. And then I went yesterday early.

We have a CVS here in town, in Rhode Island. And I took some SD cards. I had lots of photos of my dogs and stuff. So I made a little collage of photos to put in the card. So that's my little Christmas present. It's basically just really simple. But fun stuff. So nothing on Etsy. Let's go to my RSS feed here.

Oh, I did a Christmas story last night. I did two of them. Three. Three Christmas stories. Just quick ones. It was less than 20 minutes. One of them somehow was short. The story just kind of ended on me. But it was fun. I did about Santa getting ready for

Christmas Eve. I put those up yesterday. Santa getting ready for Christmas Eve. So. Put those up yesterday. Let's check my analysis here. On my RSS feed. I got some new dots though. I only had three downloads. I had some new dots on my map here.

Germany was one of them. And somewhere else too. I got some from India. There's one way out in the ocean. There's a dot way out in the ocean. I don't know which one that one is. And there's a map here that I can see like where a download is done.

I mean, I don't have a lot of downloads, but it's pretty fun. Germany, I don't know where the other one comes from. All right, so let's go on to YouTube. Let's see where we're at this morning here. Quantum teleportation has begun to change the world.

Quantum teleportation. Interesting. Lots of fun fun exciting technologies coming Alright so YouTube Christmas stuff going on Oh I put my old photo From my Christmas

When I was really young It's a really cool picture Oh I'm at 5903 My Christmas when I was really young. It's a really cool picture. Oh, I'm at 5,903. For my subscribers. I don't use the word subs anymore. It sounds disrespectful. And I went down again. Gosh darn it all.

I'm at $32.41. Why do I keep going down? It's kind of a bummer. I remember being interested in these. I have one comment. Let's see what that is. It says, I remember... Oh, the Texas Instrument.

So this is a comment I got. I remember being interested in these when I was a kid, but was totally turned off by how the company treated outside developers. The company insisted on being a closed system instead of being the sole

purchaser of all the hardware and software. It wasn't until they cut prices to the bone on the systems that they changed their tune on how they treated outside developers. But by then, it was already too late. Texas Instruments pretty much alienated the very people

that could have made this computer a real hit on the market. I don't care how hot your product is. If you dump on the market. I don't care how hot your product is. If you dump on the developers that you help you turn this computer into an actual platform, your product is essentially a boat anchor. Wow. Wow.

Wow, you got some anger. Wow. This is... anger. Well, you needed to vent that after all these years. I said, wow, you needed to vent that after all these years. All right, so subscribers going up. I cannot get past $33. It's so funny. No, it really is funny now. Luckily, I'm not depending on YouTube for any cut income at all.

And I try to talk about it as much as I do, but it's just kind of comical now. $32.41, so I almost went down like a whole dollar. I was at $33.20, I think. So there's some sort of a minus of monetary. My average duration overnight was 12 seconds. So that doesn't help any. But I can't really reinvent myself I just keep plugging along

I did a couple Christmas stories I have been doing a lot more podcasts just because they're fun I enjoy them live feeds vertical on my phone try to wide out the screen a little bit seem to get a little bit more views

for that let's fix something a little bit. I seem to get a little bit more views for that. Let's fix something. So I always have to go back to the next day after doing a live feed and put a thumbnail other than the photo of my main

YouTube here. So we'll do that. So we'll just change it. Oh, we don't want the green screen on it. A lot of times my big head or big body's in the way. So we'll do that one. That's fine. Alright, so now I think it's about it

for YouTube this morning. 5,903 subscribers. Let me just check my community here. Let's see if there's any replies to some of these other messages. Are you that, this guy? Let's see. I don't see anything that's been replied to, okay,

oh, hold on, I want to check one thing, so I like my messages now, I mean, my feedback, it's been pretty cool, nothing, oh,

of a weirdness, all right, so let's see, yesterday I actually had some pretty decent sales. On eBay. Some bigger stuff. So that really helped me out. Some things.

I sold at a good price. Not expecting anything overnight. So I have three. Three things popped up here. Let's see what we got going on here. Oh, there's just three sales. That's cool. Sometimes three means just three

messages or three could be some sort of an offer. Let's see what these three things are. Anything fun? Super fan-com cartridge slot. Yeah, I got a lot to them. Another metal frame. I did a metal frame the other day.

So I have another metal frame. And my last spindle for GameCube. So that's pretty cool i'll take those before i do that so so i got three orders here let's see my feedback i'm at 10 504 feedback since I've been starting this. 10,000 was hard to get to. I've had over 27,000 parts sold, so it's not even half of

all of the ones of the feedback of the things I sold. So, oh yeah, all my 128 darkened keys came in. I didn't know how to describe. described shipped very fast. Top spring cover and a sturdy box. Then also my Commodore 128 motherboard which had the Jiff that had no RF or audio video and the buyer put on a seller shipped quickly exactly as stated only one bad chip on the entire board I was expecting more very trustworthy thank you I would have no idea which why it wasn't working

so he fixed it really easy. And then the other Commodore 64 motherboard. It says item as described. Happy with purchase. So pretty fun. That's what I'm all about. I always say just positive and fun. I don't get into anything negative and neutral.

And all that other yucky stuff. I'm not into it. But I have to deal with it sometimes. Because sometimes I make mistakes. Or there's just some weird thing going on. One of the two. It's been pretty pretty good lately.

Which I'm really excited about it. It's been nice and quiet. On the not positive side. I even hate to say the word negative or neutral. Looks like I jinxed myself so yeah so we sold a couple

other things oh I sold my 32 times um oops oh my 32 times Oh, my 32 times... Sega... Genesis attachment.

As far as I know, I believe it worked. But I wasn't sure. I can't remember. So I just took a lower offer on it. And it came with the Star Wars game. 32 times game. Which does work. Because I knew that's not on the other one I had.

And then I sold. I sold. A mouse. For. What the heck is that called? One of my systems has a really. A special mouse. It was kind of expensive.

But I sold that. So that helped me out. So I've been trying to kind of rely on not getting a lot of small little sales. So if I get a couple of bigger, a little bit bigger ones, it helps pay for the bills. So basically, like I said, I'm not a money guy at all. I don't really have any interest in money at all. Except I just need to pay my bills. Pay off my debt, my debt consolidation, mortgage and stuff like that.

So I'm just trying to get some way to... I was hoping that YouTube would help me. Or maybe this podcast at some point will help me generate a little extra income. Because again, I work from home, so I don't really do much else. But I do this all day long. From the minute I get up

to the minute I go to sleep, I'm doing something gaming or now podcast-wise. It's a full-time job basically all right so we did that so we'll print out the three i have so it's christmas day everyone's probably getting up for their packages and all that fun stuff that's always exciting i still can remember so i put that photo up because it reminded me of being a kid. Today I have a bunch of really vintage, early, like Magnavox, the original Magnavox, more Pong-dedicated systems.

So we're going to play around with those as a flashback to when I was a kid, some of the stuff I would have gotten for Christmas. So I spent the yesterday in my room cleaning out my way back corner. I pulled out, oh, and also I pulled out is all my steering wheels. I got a whole bunch of steering wheels and gas pedals for gaming systems like PS2 and I got the white Xbox 360 steering wheel. I got lots of those things I got way back when. They're really, big and bulky. To try to. Ship. But some of it's actually worth some stuff. So I pulled all those out on a corner.

In my back room. Put them in a couple bins. Because I get a bunch of. A couple of the ones are really good ones. Oh and then I found my. I have a GameCube wheel. Steering wheel. It's purple. It has a purple handle on it. I found that too.

So in the next few days that one I kept for now. I'll set up my GameCube with my little mini screen and see if that steering wheel works. I think I have a drive game. Driven or something.

I think I do. Not positive. All right. So, that's another metal frame here. So, yeah. Lots of steering wheels and all different brands, too. Some of the good, like, the Thrustmaster ones. Really good stuff.

So, we'll... And I have more downstairs. too. Some of the good, like the Thrustmaster ones. Really good stuff. We'll and I have more dances. Another thing I have a lot of is guitars. Guitar heroes, guitars, but I only have really one good dongle. Funny word, dongle.

I find that word really funny. And I've kept that dongle and I hopefully haven't lost it. Because the dongle is worth the money. Just like when I sold those Wavebird dongles the other day. They didn't want the controller, they just wanted the dongles.

The dongle is a receiver, a plug-in, and it communicates with the controller or guitar hero Without that you really have just a you know a broken guitar So same with the controllers Without the dongle you can't do anything So we will so I ended up selling the dongle separately

I wasn't gonna want to sell the whole thing, but Kind of needed the cash so I went for it Then I have a whole bin of dongles That I could just sit down there's lots of little stuff I have That's worth something, but it's just a time to sit and take each little thing and research it and do all that. But I got my dongles in a little box, and people always look for dongles.

So at some point soon, I'm going to do some little listings of little stuff that could be worth a few bucks. Again, I'm not going to do anything. That's going to be like $10. It's not worth my time. Now I'll throw all the dongles in a lot. Because I wouldn't be able to test them.

Because I don't have the other end. The controller or whatever it's for. However. I might though. Because I have so many other. Off brand controllers around and all other kinds of fun off-brand stuff that I've never tried to list

yet. Alright, so let's see where we're at here. Alright, so we're about at my 20 minutes. So if you want to enjoy their Christmas and their presents and all the fun Christmas dinner we're going to have some chicken for later

for Christmas I took a little video of my dogs getting their little bones yesterday with my mother on the couch like I said you gotta cherish every Christmas moment because you never know how many you really have left

so I try to do that as best I can especially as things are getting changing around here a little bit. So alright, so everyone enjoy the Christmas and then New Year's. Be safe for Christmas and definitely

for New Year's. New Year's will be here before we know it and it'll be 2025. President Trump will be in. And then things will get really interesting. That's all I'm going to say. It's going to get really, really interesting in 2025. Hold on to your hats. That's all I can say about 2025.

Something big is really coming. And I still think it's going to be like a game changer. But maybe I'm wrong. I can just feel it. It feels like just something huge thing coming. So, that's my little thought for today.

We're still going to do some stuff later on. I'm going to play around with all my Pong systems. They're pretty fun. They're all the original dedicated systems. Some of them are Coleco. Some of them are other kinds. We'll play around with them a little bit.

I don't really have a power adapter for most, but I might have one that might fit many of them. And then for a boot process, I think we're going to go to PS2 I think today. We'll see. Alright, you guys have a wonderful Christmas. I'll talk to you later.

Alright, bye.