Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Saturday 8/16/2025

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

Testing a Poqet PC and AccessoriesThe End of Physical Cartridges on The Nintendo Switch 2

Good morning, everyone. It is now 6.41. Today's Saturday. 8.16. So it's August the 16th, 2025. Almost just about halfway through the month of August already. They go by so fast. Today is a little bit cooler. I need to do some weed whacking weekend. So we'll see what kind of orders I have. So yesterday we did some, oh, I did a major cleanup. organization of my gaming workbench. Got my TV ready for the football season. I got a fire TV. I had gotten it at pretty cheap price

when they had the prime sale there. So I got that straightened out. I extended my desktop. I made an area just to work on my vintage computers, including my tandys. I got the big old tandy monitor out. Got to have those older computers need a certain monitor. We'll be able to test them.

So we're going to sell some tandy computer stuff. stuff down the road and yesterday I had this really cool pocket E-O-Q-E-T pocket PC that does work although the disc drive doesn't work so we were we did a live stream well I actually had a lot of people for a live stream but no way more than I only have like a handful usually and I stopped doing the live streams with the webcam because I wasn't getting anybody so I do the live streams now with my phone again vertical that's really the only time I can get any chance to get any sort of audience at all so we did that for a while I'll switch two we set that up on my big screen TV now 4k

looks so much nicer a big fan I'm definitely gonna keep my switch to split faction came in but it's weird so so weird there's no such thing as physical cartridges anymore kind of like you get robbed in a way because split faction came in but we know that from the Mario cart there wasn't even a card inside Mario card just the motherboard knew that when you turn it when you connected to the eBay I mean the Nintendo shop it had a download ready and it downloaded automatically the split faction I got it from eBay you open it up it looks just like the regular switch case but when you do you do you

you open it up inside there's no there's no cartridge it's just a little little thing in there with a code so then you have to go to the store go down into code and then the new game is uploaded the weird thing is is after i tried to play it and i couldn't go anywhere so i'm not really sure what's going on with that yet split faction so yeah no more i don't know what games come with physical codes or physical cartridge is rather or there's just every single card they call them virtual virtual cards but it's really weird but way to you want to talk about cutting costs oh my goodness that's a really way to cut a cost uh for nintendo not having to make the cartridge every time wow it's got to be a big money saver there right and the good thing stinks

because if i didn't like split faction i have no way to trade in you know what i mean that that's what kind of suck you can't you don't have that option Switch games will resell really fast. Well, at least the original Switch games, the physical cartridges is, but now you're kind of like, there's nothing you can do. Once you use a code, that's it.

It's yours forever. And there's no way to trade it. But normally for my, like, PS5, I usually just get digital games. I just try not to get that many. I actually haven't gotten in a while. Since Death Stranding 2, I'm trying not to really get anything that coming out with PS5,

to a rec team's coming out. February all right so let's see what's going on this morning but we looked at pocket PC for a while I had a pretty good audience so it was pretty excited I got excited when I get more than 20 views at a time I think it was like 45 views for a little bit then I'm saying I only say them for a few minutes but pretty cool We're excited. The overall head in the thousands. It's a little over a thousand views on and off.

They come and go quick. I don't know. I was out for about 40 minutes. Pretty fun. All right. So let's see what's going on in that little world here today. That hurricane has gotten really big, but it doesn't look like it made. Those are the ones that the hurricane error in there.

That's the kind that would come towards the East Coast right there. But it looks like it's going to hook. If it would be all right. The hooks were all right. Um, recent activity, uh, NES power reset button, fast shipper, excellent seller. So good comments here for, um, my. Etsy, no sales, no. We all going to be working on, I think it's easier to do a Shopify store than Macari.

So we, plus I can attach, I want to attach a store to my YouTube channel. eBay and I don't want me do that, but I can do with Shopify. You should be able to migrate for, a lot more migrating programs from eBay to Shopify. That we can do. All right, let's look at, um, push on. Let's see if we've got any more followers. So I'm going to look at. That's cool that's the ad though.

Better than not having it at all, right? that's all these I think so one thousand one hundred and sixty four followers now archmark and not a sole not a sale we had check any right no okay all all right so let's go to RSS feed's been quiet I've not had any downloads I got really excited that one day one held some of those three hundred fifty downloads what that was followed I wish that would have happens more often but not so much we just don't do them daily I am going to do a switch to a little podcast talking about it so I'm still learning about it so I get it pretty

much basically the same as the original switch never really much difference just newer 4k is nice all right so let's see if we had any downloads two I two download just cool that's exciting a couple days of none then I just had two 417 in the last 30 days, 1,126, all time. Like that, so let's see what we got. Ashburn, let's see that means. Says Ashburn has eight downloads. I don't know if that meant.

The last few days, Canada, Toronto, says seven downloads. Taska, something, Tasca Maya, in Indonesia, or Italy. That's my message in a bottle over the internet ocean, wherever I may go. Pretty exciting. Little Rock.

Let's some new new one, some new international one. Oh, that one, Indonesia is way out there. I guess I see a flat map. They give you a flat map with red dots, and you can see where. It doesn't specify which red dot is what, but you can kind of see where across the world to get downloaded.

That's the best part ever. The United States is 55%, Canada, 35%, Italy, 5%. indonesia 5 so it just gives you an overview where kind of things are going plus they also go to my youtube i'll go here now we always hit we went over let's see what we're at for youtube we were over 67 000 i officially had to stop it became addicting promoting videos but when i have to pay at the end of the month it's not so much fun but this is a good part so 67 238. So I've had 15,914 in the last 28 days, way more than I ever had while promoting. I've slowed my promoting down to almost nothing. But the good news is $45.1. I'm really pumped about that. It's been a long time coming. I've been averaging like $28 a month. I don't think I'll make $100 in one month.

we're getting better at it it's getting there i consistently do videos every day um and i try to keep them and i just clean my workspace up so it's a little bit cleaner wide open so we'll be able to do some more videos there um my views are 292.3k which are up my watch hours uh 1.3k which is up so it's still everything's up and I haven't really a couple videos I just did like the one with the pocket PC I would have loved to promote that but I'm not going to I'm just going to just chill out I have to show out they can't really afford it we did some videos so all those got just a few few views the huge difference between when you promote and I don't promote goes from like 10 of 15 views to 100

to thousands of views but I have to I have to break on today for this month next month I'll try to do some more just let it just settle in I think a couple promotions are still going on with those finish and then that'll be it this month all right so let's see what's going on so we can look at some if my revenues I'd like to make hundred dollars to pay some off of what i owe this month i could get at least do that it would make at least a hundred dollars a month i would know that the hundred dollars a month of promotions that i do is getting paid paid off for people watching it should at some point i thought it would my way by now balance itself off where if i was promoting i was still making enough to pay for

the promotion but not so much okay we'll keep working on it learned a lot on this i'm YouTube things so we got some some I'm subscribing now some of some new subscribers of course most of them are zeros and ones and that's all they have for their subscriptions so they're really almost like fake subscribers not really I don't get or I don't see all the big ones ones in the thousands or tens of thousands once any of those I bet you I got some in the millions but I can't see them if they hide I'm like a secret place people want to go see what I'm doing I guess I don't know at least that's what I hope so

so all right so let's end of the physical cartridges what I did yesterday for a little video quick video so break them down flash 15 seconds I do quick three minutes it's a longer video and then we do a longer video and then I flip it if it's just a one minute video I do it as a video instead of just a short so you can see the whole thing instead of it cropped I can on the whole crop thing but most people watch it on the phone so that's all right let's go to eBay at one sale I saw some weird dolls yesterday which is cool I'll take whatever sale I've been trying to put stuff up one sale two messages let's look at my sale for something good at i've had any good sales let me see some little power supply seven-pin power supply oh no cable oh you know i had those listed uh watch okay so we've looked around for cable for that see we got messages uh hey what's up i got pots everything looks good

uh i realized i forgot to add a 48 in connector you realize didn't come with one yeah yeah those great great i saw the feedback so i tried i tried to help out the added item That, however, would be a separate purchase. My I says That how it is ever Those always Cell

Separate So everyone needs different items. So all is sold individually. Everyone needs, everyone needs, everyone needs different items. So all solds individually. I have a few listed by exact ones. I saw the feedback, thank you. Try to help out with added items.

That, however. This is like $50 in most due to damage. This is like $50 at most. Okay, yeah. Understood. understood, understead, uh, no, fire had said it was a special modable one due to due to formware, which made it higher higher priced. It is, was, it was, is a special modable.

modable it is all about that it is all about that motherboard not the overall overall Go ahead. Why would you take that down more?

Probably not. All right, so we just had that one sale. So that's going on. There's a return request, but I don't want that. How would you go? So it's more $5. Overall, a pretty quiet way. pretty quiet week on here on ebay unfortunately i'm going to put some more stuff up i've listed a

lot of stuff but we're going to go on yesterday i didn't really list anything but today we're just got that one order i need to do a little weed whacking but i might save that for tomorrow look at all that pocket pc stuff that i played around yesterday you can see the videos i'll attach you to this podcast uh you can see plan around those that all that's going to get listed it's really price anything but i just can't sell anything really high price these days i'll list it for the high prices that they're that they're at uh but doesn't necessarily so you know i'll ever sell it but also i had best offers too so that that help me out so it's a bit some more that we'll work on some other oh i'm gonna do some more

Tandy 1,000 well Tandy computer stuff I had to have my monitor out which I did I made a little space for it on my workbench now so we can do Tandy 1000 stuff over there or Tandy computer stuff all right so let's get that going all right so I've got to have a little cash in my account because I'm really low now can't buy anything else for a while now because I tapped out I used that four payments on the K-L-A-R-N-A. But I did four-made payments of all these goodies I got, so I'm really strapped. But I wanted to be able to talk about new tech, right?

So I wanted to have the, I wanted to get a switch to now. If I could get that at the regular price for everything goes crazy for pricing. and I relisted my MetaQuest 3S Xbox edition, but I haven't heard anything. So it's been quiet in that. I'd like to keep it, actually, but we'll sell all this stuff. All right, so let's see. So I think that's about it for everyone this morning. It is nice and cool out, so I may do some weed whacking a little bit.

once i get motivated out there if not you guys have a good uh good weekend now you guys got the work weeks here pretty cool uh that hurricane's not bother anybody uh right now hopefully it doesn't only one that looks like it's really going to go near is bermuda so hopefully permuda will will miss it'll miss bermuda so it's cutting between like the goal post between bermuda and the east coast but you turn at any time it's you know nature you never know what's going to do we'll keep an eye on iron and then we'll enjoy the weekend go from there all right let's have a cool one all right bye