Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Saturday 3/8/2025

Episode Date: March 8, 2025

Tonight, we Spring Ahead our Clocks forward an hour to gain light hours at the end of the day. Someday the Daylight Savings setback will be abolished.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6 17. Tonight we set our clocks ahead so tomorrow it'll be 7 17 this time. But then we'll back to our normal where the sun stays up later. Daylight savings time usually doesn't really affect me pretty much. I always have my clock set back to ahead anyway. So when I look at the clock in the morning It's always an hour earlier until we switch back to tomorrow, and then my clock will be back to normal So I just leave it that way it just makes more sense to me Then I have to worry about the daylight savings time doesn't again. I don't need it really for anything So let's see yesterday worked on Apple. Oh no not Apple. Yesterday was a Radio Shack TRS-80 day. Fun. I pulled out all my stuff. Well, some of it. All the TRS-80 model 2. Some floppies that I've never tested.

I took them and opened them up. Of course, I always want to open things up, look inside, see how it works while it's on. Seems like all three drives are not reading. So it says I'm going to get some rubbing alcohol and some, I actually for sure already have any, and then some little cotton swabs and see if I can clean the heads off of these drives to see if that does anything. So we went through, I ended up just doing that. But I got lots of other TRS-80 stuff. I have a pocket. I also have a micro TRS-80. And then I have the TRS-80 model 2 on my desktop.

But I also have a model 1. And then I have something fun coming in, which should be in maybe tomorrow. Oh no, probably Monday now, because we're going into the weekend. Is the original TRS-80 26101. I have two of them. I had to get a second to get the power supply, because it's like a six-pin power supply or something. And then I have an original monitor, which is a 26102,

I think it is, 1201 1201 one of those two but mine I had the it's not holding the screen in so I can't see it's flickering so I went out and purchased a second one all the way from Oregon so and it's untested other than powering on so hopefully doesn't have my same issue I'd be really bummed out But we'll find out when it gets here so I can test the two ones and both of those 26-101 1001s have some sort of a mod to them, so there's not the original 4k That's what those were only 4k

my Model 2 here is 64k. So we'll see. And then 16k is on the model 1. Things I never had and wanted to get. So, pretty fun. So we'll look at that. Oh, and I did a quick little review on some games that I've been playing. Review for the games that I like.

It's not a review for everyone has their own style of games. So you can't just say this is the review and this is how the game is, because that's silly. I never listen to reviews ever. I don't care what, movies, anything, it doesn't really matter because I'm going to go see it. So why do I care what you say? That's the way I look at it.

It doesn't really make a difference to me. Makes no sense that way. But I just did it as what I liked for me playing games. So the reviews are a little different. But most games are pretty fun. Although one of the games, The Devil in Me, I got stuck. I just deleted it because it was asking me for the control arm to turn on the control panel.

The arm to turn on. And I no longer had it. And I couldn't find it. I know I picked it up so it's some sort of bug because I looked online and some steam players were having was we're having problems with that so I must have hit it just right where I couldn't do anything any further so I gave up as I was doing that I can't get any further in a game and I just deleted it oh I'm playing which we'll call, which I like.

House of Ashes is really, really cool. That's a lot of fun. I've been playing that one. It's pretty freaky, I like that one. That's my best one of the Dark Pictures anthology. And they're all super massive games, which are always really good. And these, those games, the choice- base games have come a long way so

let's see what's going on in the news oh so a second starship blew up yesterday goodness me it's two in a row and those things are just giant imagine the money lost between those two exploding like that and all the debris, it's terrible. It's just too big, we're just trying to put too big of a rocket, we gotta come up with a different idea on how to get things into space. Just packing more explosives and fuel under bigger and bigger rockets

just now cause them to just blow up, it's just stupid. They should just chill out on that and do something different I say that they make a tunnel find a way to manipulate gravity and make a gravity tunnel that'll just enough to bring a rocket size like that or hang some kind of string from the International Station and drop it down pull something up from the International Station and drop it down Pull something up from the ground from that way. There's gotta be a different way to do it and then just blast and It's a silliness. We're just go we're going nowhere. We're never gonna get the moon. We've never been to the moon

That's what that's one my only conspiracy theory that I'm gonna stick with that we've never been there just because it just doesn't make any sense if we still can't get there now and 50 60 years ago when you know computers were ancient and we were made it then Makes no sense and at this rate with these big giant rockets keep blowing up on ever gonna get there forget Mars We can't even get to the moon. It'll be 2050 for we like maybe we're on maybe we're on moon by then unless we come up with some other way to get big rockets into space that's my opinion all right so I don't see anything else the news besides that

yesterday I was bummed to see the second one blow up but luckily nobody was on it so that's a I wouldn't be wanting to be on the neck on one of those things because you gotta get usually you get one that blows up every once in a blue moon, but not two in a row. That's not good. Again, that's billions of dollars just, pshhh. But then we've always talked about money, money does grow on trees, so money really is not relevant.

So it's just the work to put in to get it done. Alright so let's see what's going on this morning. So I had a little bit of ramble here this morning. So let's look at Etsy. I had lots of orders yesterday. Orders have been a little bit better. Not extreme enough to pay the bills. Again I always say I live order by order pretty much. Nothing on Etsy. Etsy's quieted down on me. I was doing good for Etsy a little bit. Nothing. Let's look at my RSS feeds. Yeah, so I did a second podcast midday. I haven't done one in a while. Just doing some quick reviews on some stuff. Gaming. I tried to think of gaming stuff and that was just some games I've been playing lately.

So I did that one yesterday. I'm up to 225 podcasts since I started doing this, which has only been... I had three downloads. In a few months I started doing a podcast. It was an additional option to add to my YouTube, so I said, well, I definitely need to add to my YouTube so I said well I definitely need to add that so I started doing it and it's my message in a bottle to work over the internet ocean as I always say it's kind of fun for anybody out there and we had some UK Finland Canada Ashburn Ashburn's always there I appreciate Aspern there's no way for to get either way, so I just say thank you.

And I got lots of red dots on my map here, so from around the world, so that's really fun. Really appreciate that. It doesn't get me anywhere, I don't get anything out of it as of now, but maybe in the future. I will, hopefully it'll pay off at some point. I do have it connected to like Apple podcasts and all them, but I haven't seen anything that's, again, I only get a few downloads,

so it's not like I'm getting hundreds and thousands of downloads or anything, but still fun. All right, so let's go on to YouTube. Let's see, we were growing, we're always growing on YouTube YouTube but then I'm at the same time I'm always promoting five dollars, down to five dollar promotions and they add up after a while. So we have 21,626 subscribers. Pretty fun. A comment, I spent hours going through eBay, let's see what this comment is. I spent hours going through a small version via the metal showing through the vents. I spent hours going through eBay, look this is all about the VA3, VA4 Sega Genesis. Looking for the smaller board version via the metal showing through the vents.

Found one, grabbed it quick, I hope it sounds better than the VA3 I have. That is terrible. They're all terrible. All Sega. What, what, what? All, all Sega. Oops, Sega. Sega, oops Sega, gen genesis motherboards are bad are low cost cuts after the original high def graphics graphics graphics

I spelled that wrong low cost cuts versions low-cost cut version low-cost low-cost version cuts after the original high def all right so I had one comment there. Pretty cool. Alright, let's see what we got for... Oh, my matching... I got a lot of views on my matching...

When I added some more circuit boards to my desktop, I think I did $10 for that one because I thought it was fun as I was expanding my desktop just for fun while I was doing it. So I got a lot lots of views in that my views overall have gone down of course my revenue is gone in the tank now I'm $24 so and I'm gonna make $25 this month it's a bummer and I've significantly been doing lots of videos but it just it just all matters and what people want to watch I did another podcast yesterday. My circuit board one was pretty fun. So it doesn't matter the amount of views you get or the amount

of subscribers. It's just a matter of people staying and watch. And I just don't have retention at all. But I can only do me as I always say just do you so I just gonna continue to do me and then just assume that this is just the best it's gonna get but I enjoy to do it though all right so let's go to eBay again that's my lifeline see we got here okay Saturday right okay Saturday all right? Yeah, today's Saturday. All right, so we got some action going on here. I can see right in the top right corner, this red number tells me there's something going on.

Sorry about that, Lola. Sorry about what? Oh, what, never mind. I didn't see the YouTube channel. Oh, I'm sorry about that, Lola. What happened? Straight up, I'm gonna replace the boot. So I already left feedback on the PS4 I got, of course.

The good news is that it makes... I mean, I was not even sure that it's Power Slide. Sure, it's the Power Slide because apparently bugs like to run. Hey, can you perhaps pop the head off and show the critters now? But yesterday I received a project Almost never a power supply Never a power supply Unless unless as you said

Bugs in it But on then right off is 99.9% of the motherboard. No power with bugs might be the power supply unit. Almost never a power supply issue. Almost never a power supply issue, unless, as you said, bugs in it. But on the right off is 99% the motherboard no power with bugs might be the power supply really want to switch me see this so I can get to review here that is earnings that's about so see if we got any orders oh sort of a new updated earnings.

They don't show you how much the eBay takes expenses that they take out. Refunds, expenses, ouch. So if I sell $10, almost 8 is gone now, meaning it's going everywhere but to me, that's how bad it's gotten. So it's a real bummer. So I had to up things by a dollar. So my minimum order now is $13. But I still have best offers, and I will take them still.

For a couple, I'll get down to about 11, but that's, I've been taking some $10 ones. Distrib came, so a few feedback. But again, like I said, if I'm taking it for it for 10 your offer you get a door-to-door service I usually ship the same day So you get an extra service and then I end up making a buck or two It's kind of hard to swallow after a while and if you get really weird about it or something then I don't even deal with it So super fan come motherboard excellent. Thank you

So, Super Fan Com, Motherboard, excellent, thank you. Three buttons, another one for the Super Fan Com. So, I ordered a Super Fan Con game, just one game. Of course, it's a Zelda game, I'm not sure which one it is, but... And when it comes in, I have some to retest, because I know I have some Super Fan Coms that work. And I have a box of Super Fan Con games somewhere, but I don't know where it is it's buried So I want to test the rest of the ones I have Because I know some of them work, and I've been just shipping them out as either working or not so

Let's check out. Oh, I want to see what my I got a couple of things. I'm waiting for Some fun things let's see what those are so I go to my oh, and then this other guy who was supposed to for And still nothing all right so my TRS 80 26 1201 Monitor where is it? It's not here yet that now. Okay? It's in Idaho oh What you do granted? It was in Wyoming It's in Iowa. No. It's in Iowa now, so we won't see that for a while So that's gonna be fun when it gets here. It's taking quite the journey Hopefully it'll make it here. Oh and then I have the...

Another thing I shipped from Oregon is my Pentium 3. I didn't realize there's a slot 1 processor. So I'm gonna upgrade my Dell XPS but it has a 500 megahertz. I'm putting in an 800 on del xps fielders but it has a five million records and put in the eight hundred with fan on it so pretty fun not that you do it is a cash to the extent but there's pretty cool so

will long wait for that to come in also in or gone maybe get a couple things come in today i was the orders for this morning. Three orders. What do we have today? Also metal for the PS1. The bottom metal. The plate and the metal underneath. A couple of them have metal underneath the port so a metal set replacement another Super Nintendo

port that you take off the cartridge slot rather yeah so the cartridge slot, I sold lots of those. And then I have one Xbox 360, Xbox One side slide-on thing for, it goes where the grill is, so you can push in the button. It's a sync button, it's a piece. So I sold those three things. So just a few little orders, but I had some other stuff. Yesterday I also retested all my my two Apple duos the 210 and the 230 both of those are gonna be easily probably fixed

I didn't realize I maybe I didn't know I had forgotten that both of them are basically the same The 210 actually came out the year later than the 230 Duo power book these are according to my buddy Zippy. So that's pretty cool. And so I had to ship them out yesterday so I wanted to retest them. One powered on and you can barely see the screen but you can see enough to see that the icon is at a question mark. So therefore probably a hard drive problem maybe.

And then the second one you can see the screen a little bit better, yet when you boot it, the logo starts to come on for the OS and then it shuts off. So maybe one good one out of that. And they're duos, so they're meant to go into a dock. So if you put them in a dock, you'd be able to see them on the TV, so you're gonna need the screen so So really good news for that guy. I saw I gave it to him really good chase good deal for that Now that I see what I could have easily Played around with those, but wasn't in the mood so we just send them on their way

All right, so that's my morning. Let's see what else we got going on here You see about to do about a 20 minutes them on their way.