Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Saturday 12-21-2024

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

Both Pieces to Commodore 64 sold in VT.

Good morning, everyone. It is 6 o'clock, 12-21-2024. Oh, we had snow yesterday. The forecasters got it wrong. Two storms kind of collided together and gave us some snow. So we've had our first snow. And also I had said that my sump pump finally started coming on, and I added an anti-clunker to my sump pump so it doesn't clunk now at the end. Normally when the water stops, it clunks because the water goes back down, and there's a blocker, but I got an anti-clunker, so it really helped. So we got, I don't know, maybe an inch of snow.

Nothing major, but it wasn't supposed to be snow we've had a lot of rain lately so normally we had a really bad drought this year so my sump pump usually starts going off in november and then it never stops 20 it goes you know 10 20 times a day uh because of the drought it just just came back on and later on i'll do a video i'll show it because i put a new sump pump in there just recently uh it's preventative and i added the anti-clunk uh thing so it's a little bit quieter now i can hear it from my room when it goes on and off which is good so that way i know it's going on and off because it has to go on and off because i have water i've always had water under uh my basement some sort of a spring or something so i must rely on

a sump pump forever so even when i go away and someone else gets this place they have to take care of it and there's two sump pump poles i've got one uh i use closer by my bedroom and there's one down further it's a backup all right so let's see what's going on this morning yesterday was a day of just podcasts i didn't have time to do any videos. I was trying to get some things listed. I did some bigger items. I'm going to finish up. I'll try to finish up my XL

600 and 800s. All those motherboards are going to get listed as parts. Some of them work. And then I have Coleco to go back to yet I have the original Atari 400 and

I have one 800 so I'm going to double back to those at some point and then tons of other fun stuff alright so let me see what's going on here just waking up here again just getting out of bed Alright, so let me see what's going on here.

Just waking up here. Again, just getting out of bed. Ready to go to work. Pretty much. But I like to scan everything quickly. Which is the news. This is my first scan here. What if the universe is conscious?

I kind of think... If you look at the universe as a big giant brain it kind of makes more sense. It shows the universe kind of looking like a brain. So that makes more sense. Technically we're just in some sort of a multiverse. I believe anyway.

That's why things can come and go and we can't figure out why, because, it's, kind of like the matrix, I believe, something like that, not quite sure how,

but, it's one thing that makes any sense, so we could go, so far into space, and never really figure out anything, because it's really, there's really nothing there, it's just an illusion,

that's what I believe, that's why we're not really meant to leave where we're at. Because I mean, we can do it in space movies and all that, but theoretically, I don't think we'll ever really be flying around in space. Maybe a hundred

years from now, but I don't think we'll be around a hundred years from now. So I think it'll just be a reboot and be something with something new china is building an army of our robot dogs that's pretty cool they're pretty neat looking pretty scary but robot dogs china so those are things i kind of look look at that kind of catches my eye can i I use MSN unveils Spiral Robot Cop for advanced AI and facial recognition. Some kind of a rolling Spiral

Robot Cop. So this thing is going to change significantly. Fantastic 4 First Steps. I can't believe there come out another fantastic four and as i've said marvel comics dc comics uh we've just rode those guys to death uh i'm gonna actually sit down my ai and see if i can come up with a new um new comic

characters as well as some sort of new Star Wars, Star Trek kind of thing. So we'll do that for fun. Physics found an entirely new way of measuring time. Yeah. As I get older, I'm all into that kind of anything that's...

I did that really fun podcast yesterday. That was a fun one. Two of them, actually. With the NES. I did an NES and Super Nintendo N64. And then after I finished my boot up one, I went and asked, I corrected AI and said,

no, N64 does not have a region lock. It goes to the cartridge lock. And it corrected itself. To say, yes, the cartridge lock and it corrected itself say yes I was correct and it was wrong so that was fun all right so I got to turn off power here I see an order on Etsy that excites me because I'm still negative on Etsy but we're getting a couple more orders now. At least I hope it's an order. It is. Oh yeah, those.

I have some more of those. It's the Sega Dreamcast power buttons. Trying to plug my computer. printer on alright so Sega Dreamcast the power button cable cool I don't think I'll wrecked on the amount of cost but it might have helped I guess

but not really anyway so let's print that one out stop there I've got a few more of those I know what those are so that's cool same with Etsy minimum order is $12

$11 however I do have discounts and I have best offers on Etsy but Minimum order is $12. $11. However, I do have discounts. And I have best offers on Etsy. But I haven't been getting any best offers on Etsy. Unlike the guy yesterday on eBay. eBay is always like really weird drama. And all kinds of crazy stuff going on. I saved that for last. Because I have to prepare for it.

Oh, shit. Sorry. Yesterday was just like craziness. With that buyer from Canada and all that. And then I had the other guy with the lens assembly

part I'm sure I'm going to hear more about that today when I go on there so I'm kind of prepared anything goes on eBay I never know what I'm going to get hit with or what's going to happen I just try to sell parts

it's pretty simple but it never ends up that way most of the time it does, I can't say never sometimes it gets just way crazy I sell parts. It's pretty simple. But it never ends up that way. Most of the time it does. I can't say never. Sometimes it gets just way crazy. But we'll get there. Alright, so that's one order.

Let's see if I'm on negative. Let's see if I'm still... I'm pretty sure I'm still negative. But I think maybe by next month I'll start getting to the positive because I reopened Etsy I shut it down we are still negative $66

so that means at the beginning of the month I'm going to get hit with $66 first store I opened and I sold four things. Bummer. That's kind of really blew up on me for a little bit. Team presents first demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy internet cables. Quantum teleportation. Because there is a thing.

I was reading yesterday. We were talking about quantum tunneling. So I'm really going to get into that. As I get more AI information. And I want to learn how to simulate it. So I can learn about qubits. Another first look at a new Superman. That looks weird.

Although I do like James Gunn though. He's fun. For a director. Alright. So let's go to RSS feed. I had a few people yesterday. The main thing I like to look at. Because every time i finish my podcast

it automatically goes up there gets uploaded to the rss feed this was a whole process i had to learn how to do to do these podcasts it's not that easy um it took it takes it took a subscription to rss feed took some other stuff to get there, to learn. I needed to have a mic. I needed to... Luckily, I just invested in one. So then the analysis I always like to look at. Ooh, I had 13 uploads.

So I've had 133 in the last 30 days. 169 all time since I started doing it which is maybe about a month or so it's pretty fun, India I'm getting lots of water off of somewhere so India is cool because there's a lot of people in India

that'd be great if I can get lots of people from India, I'd appreciate it that would be fun mostly United States some India so very exciting there and then we'll this will get uploaded so let's go now to YouTube too fast as YouTube. Too fast as spinning pulsars contain quirk matter. Quark matter.

Seeing that, I'm really just thinking that my brain's pretty much wide open now. I can pretty much learn anything, I think. I don't think I'm, I'm not like super smart or anything, but I think I have the, now with AI, I can just sit and just pick one thing like I'm really getting and want to get into, as I did yesterday, is, uh, the ones and zeros on CPU, the manipulation of electricity to make computers. That's where I'm starting.

I still haven't quite, I'm going to try to simulate it with some of these programs that zippy gives me which is just amazing also just just just prints out some sort of a program or an algorithm whatever you're like whoa that's so cool I just have to take that and put it into the Python program which I have just free Python i think it's called all right so let me see what we're at here so now we're on youtube all right so i don't have to really breathe actually i went that's weird that's i went down so i went up my $5,447. So I went up another few hundred. My revenue went down.

Oh, man, you're killing me. Estimated revenue. Now I'm at $32.93. What the flip? That is a bummer. I didn't think it would go down. How did I lose, how did I lose my $32, $33, oh man, I don't get this eBay, YouTube thing at all, again, it's not like I just

am doing one video, I'm doing videos all the time, but it's again,'re just duration again there it is right there duration is 15 seconds most of my things are 42 40 people just don't like my stuff basically oh well but i just thought even with that little amount because i had so many more subs that would be 15 seconds that's how I got to 4,000. Actually, for how I got to 3,000, you had to get to 3,000 and then to 4,000 was I couldn't get a lot of watch time, so I just put a crap load of videos on

because I was doing stuff anyway. And that's how I managed to get those hours. And I started doing open live feeds and the vertical live feeds and stuff. So I would assume. That once I got to the monetized part. That even though. I didn't expect to get this many subs.

So that's unexpected. 5,447. But I thought. Even a short duration. Of even 15 seconds. It would generate something. But it doesn't. Alright so we're on there so now i'll take my deep breath here here we go we're going in uh ebay yesterday was a battle sometimes i just don't feel like dealing with it

i put some big big items on yesterday really high end items I don't think I'm going to sell them at that price So let's see Buyer returned Item Which buyer is that Let's see I can't do that right now Oh that's the guy with the So he already returned it

$50 3DS Exact the so he already returned it uh fifty dollars 3ds exact i'm not gonna do that i'll just keep that i think although i could use fifty dollars but i'm not gonna do that so i have a 3ds it's got some tops crack screen really really hard to fix that. Top crack screen. But it has Zelda four swords on it. And it's the 3DL XL. I have it for $200.

I'm not selling it for $50. Because I don't want to. A lot of times I just want to sell something. Because I just don't want to. And it's something I could keep. Let's see. Alright, so I need to do some financial stuff here.

I've got two orders right now. Some other offers. Cool. I need to get that in there. So, I've managed to be able to keep up with the bills that i have again i have debt consolidation through national debt consolidation i've been doing for two years

and i still about two years ago but now i'm down to just paying all the things we negotiated except for one one more thing so now i'm just paying x amount per month just as if i were paying it anyway but there's no interest in it i'm just paying to pay it off so therefore that's the advantage of doing it through a debt consolidation but i have no no credit at all but in order to do all this fun stuff And to have everything I have And to learn everything I've learned I had to invest in stuff Like going to college It's basically like going to college

You said that here What's this Uh I remember you sold me This trip It was the wrong call and you said you'd take a few bucks off Are you willing to do that here okay yeah sure i remember that um i remember sure just make

just make a best offer because i gave the guy the wrong color. On the PS2 Slim. The top. The PS2 Slim. Has the strip that comes off. On the top. Except for the 9000 models. Just best offer.

A few bucks off. There is also already a coupon and percent off so usually if someone if I did something wrong i'll try to say hey next time i'll help you out sure just just just do it to your best offer a few bucks off so communicating uh messages it's very you have to do it especially for me because i'm doing things one-on-one most of the time so if i can get an order if i help out a buyer or something so i never can miss a message so i obviously i sleep at night so i don't see him but as soon as i'm up i'm ready i have to reply to those first very very important good or Damage control is another huge one. First thing in the morning, which ends up making my day yucky. Where are we going? $30 to... Vermont. Oh, yeah, that's fine.

I'll take $30. That's fine. So I sold my top cover for the Commodore 64. I just sold it for $30. So we had that big debacle yesterday with that guy from Canada that was trying to get it for $10. I told him I would sell it. I had it for $45, which I wasn't going to sell it for that. And keyboard.

Oh, and he wants a keyboard too. Oh, cool. So it's two different things to the same guy. So then, yeah, that's easy. Then that makes life a lot easier. It's the same guy twice. Oh, cool. So, yeah. that's easy then that makes life a lot easier it's the same guy twice oh cool so yeah so we'll take both offers and i'll sell him the keyboard uh and the top cover for 30 and 25 so that's

awesome so see that's why i wait like you see so this guy's like oh you're never gonna sell that yeah so i'm gonna sell it something comes along when it's right i'll sell it and i just did and it's only in vermont so both of those pieces in a box are like pretty nothing shipping so that's awesome i've got more actually i have three more top covers and i have three complete uh commodore 64. for somebody's coming toodore 64, it's really, really popular, I sold all the motherboards, uh, so that's awesome, so the other guy shipped out that, so let me just give him his money back, normally I'll just refund right away, which I'm gonna do now, and I'm sure he'll give me some kind of weird feedback.

Hold on, let me see. Let me just check feedback. Hold on, let me check that. Because that's another thing that comes out of nowhere. Unless I get pummeled or something. I'm sure this guy's going to... No, just as described was the last one. That's from the Apple Macintosh PowerBook 5300C that I sold.

$545. $545 I got a good deal on that one because those are expensive to find and the old Apple is just worth money it's hard to sell it with anything really high end I have a couple things now that are up there but that's what they're selling for

but will I sell them for that? Probably not. But at least I got them up. So the same. I go by the same. I up my game. On selling stuff. Meaning I put.

A video for 15. For 60 seconds. That I can put on my listings on eBay, but it also goes on YouTube, and then I attach the listing links from eBay onto the YouTube shorts, because I can't make money on YouTube in any way possible. And now I'm losing money. So at least if I can try to direct people back to YouTube. Seeing the video. Then maybe it kind of helps me out. See what I'm saying?

So I'm still trying to make it be worthwhile. Although I enjoy doing YouTube anyway. It doesn't really matter. But I really need that as a long term. I need that as a financial backup here. need that as a, another financial backup here. Because I won't be able to afford this myself. Just in case something happens to my mother, I'm going to be in,

I may have to sell where I'm at, and get something small. Because I don't think I'll be able to afford it. Unless, I'm diversifying more of my eBay now. I'm doing computer stuff. I got lots of computer stuff to do other stuff so we're opening that up which has already helped me more as opposed to just doing gaming parts because it just doesn't work anymore it just doesn't uh so I have a Corona motherboard

so this is an Xbox 360 E15 38 defective donor Corona motherboard only no power at all issues so somewhere I have that, alright, so, so that's one done, alright, yeah, so I've got lots of major life changes, probably

sooner than later, so I've been trying to prepare for it. And try to. Because you know it's just me. And my dogs. And besides my mother. So I need to get myself situated. Where I can take. Financially support myself.

Doing all the stuff I do now. But I just need a little bit more. I don't want to make a million. I just need to make enough to pay X amount. However, in about two years, I'll have all those payments paid off.

And therefore, that'll give me all that extra money I'm dumping into that, back towards the house and other bills. So my mother's always like oh i gotta live a couple more years i don't go anywhere on me i don't want to go anywhere anyway but um but that's just the way it is. So, all right, so that's that one. That's cool.

I gave that guy his money back, the lens guy there, knucklehead. Said it was supposed to come in metal. I'm like, what are you talking about? It's just a lens assembly. All right, so this is the Microsoft Xbox. It's not the same guy, is it? Hold on.

The bottom. Xbox 360 S. 1439. Top two-piece grill and frame. I sell those all the time. The little pieces on the top, or the bottom, and then there's the other ones on the bottom.

So those I sell often. Actually, I have lots of those. But they're little sales. You know, they're like $12, but again, after I do my shipping and eBay fees and all that, I make like three bucks.

So those are like $3 sales. And I used to be able to do lots of those kinds of sales. So therefore, I was always running around every day filling lots of orders. But it was covering my bills and stuff. But now they're only limited the amount of, even little orders. Just because things, just more people are selling stuff the same way, so.

Therefore, when I first started doing gaming parts, especially for Nintendo GameCube, I was selling tons of game parts, but not anymore. So we're diversifying.

And we're also. Doing podcasts. Hopefully maybe that will help me out. Eventually. And my YouTube. I have TikTok as well. But I'm still waiting to hear what TikTok is going to do. I opened a TikTok store. I haven TikTok as well, but I'm still waiting to hear what TikTok is going to do.

I opened a TikTok store. I haven't put anything in it yet. But I would like to use it. That could be definitely a place to sell stuff on TikTok store. Because I bought something. One thing I bought on TikTok store was my thing that holds the phone. It's pretty cool, so,

we're going to mark this one, so the two, so now I'm down in my third order, because I only had three orders, however, it's the bigger order, for the guy who ordered both, the Commodore,

Commodore C64 keyboard, missing a few keys. And the top cover. So today I'm definitely going to put the bottom cover on. Which is next. And I'm also going to put a couple more top covers. Because I have three more. One has a broken clip on it. The back locking clip. It's a little clip. One has a broken clip on it. The back locking clip. This little clip.

One's broken. But. So. Alright. So this is going to be three pounds. The keyboard and all that. I can't even say four pounds. It's only going to Vermont.

So this shipping is super cheap. So therefore that's another bonus. It's a crapshoot of where people order from. I'm in Rhode Island. If I get an order in California, it's a lot more expensive to ship it there. Texas is real expensive for me. Arizona, New Mexico.

All those states states the highest price Even if it's a little item So it's crapshoot. So if I get something in Vermont and I'm like, oh, it's cool, Pennsylvania, Maryland. Those are all easy. That's cheaper Things that go along with selling gaming, selling anything really. Alright so that will give me those two. That worked out pretty cool. Alright so that should be it for today. So eBay was pretty easy today.

It's always my battle. And it's really my lifeline so try not to battle too much or it really affects my overall store so I think that's it for today so later on today I'm going to go back

uh we talk about the N64 it doesn't have a lock and then I'm gonna do gamecube boot and i'm gonna do uh wii probably you too i'll just throw them all in there i think and then that'll be for nintendo for a while and then we'll go back to oh xbox that's what i want to do 0105 xbox maybe i'll do that next we'll start out with the original xbox boots see what they're all about all right so i'll see you guys i'll talk to you guys later on all right have a good day all right bye