Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Sunday 12/29/2024

Episode Date: December 29, 2024

I started working on my own New Comic and Space Universes with help from my AI Author Zippy.

Good morning everyone. It is now 6 o'clock in the morning. Sunday, 12-29. Only a few days left of the 2024 year. It's been a good year. I had a good year of 2024. Got a lot of stuff done. Been busy. So 2025, I don't know. Worried about it.

But it's coming we'll see what we get lots of major things going to be happening in 2025 but the first thing is Trump presidency will start

so that's going to be craziness right there and then everything else that falls after that we'll see so a few more days of 2024 and a little bit of calm before the storm here in 2025.

So yesterday I got a lot of stuff done. I just took a whole day and just pumped out more listings. It took me all day to do only maybe like 10 listings. So it takes a lot of work. But I'm starting to add more vintage computing to my ebay store because just gaming parts is just not cutting it anymore and i got lots of fun vintage computing stuff so i worked on the texas instrument yesterday all day trying to get a bunch of little different parts up so long as i get even if i get some parts

up then that opens a conversation where if some buyer doesn't see something they'll say hey do you have this also so that's another reason why i try to get as many things as i can get up listed per item in the uh in the real in the in the best case scenario, I'd have every part for every system listed. But as I always say, it's not possible. It just takes way too long to do them. Although now eBay is offering some sort of a send us photos and AI will make you a listing kind of thing. So that's potential for the future. But I can't have too many things because then all of a sudden I can get overloaded with orders.

And then I wouldn't be able to keep up. So that wouldn't be fun either. So I'm kind of like in a pickle. But I just kind of pick and choose where I'm going. I'm going to continue. I've got my Atari 800 XL. To retest again. And get some boards and keyboards and stuff up for those.

Keyboards are the ones i sell the most of oh my camera 64 i sold all the motherboards already uh i sold a few of the keyboards my 128s i sold the keyboards and the motherboards so there's lots of potential everyone likes the vintage computing stuff it's really fun i think i like vintage computing more than actual early uh gaming systems i think i'm more of a fan of that and i have a little bit i have my whole series of tandys i haven't touched any of that yet i really don't want to sell any of that i probably will though because i don't need i use a candy 1000s i have a whole bunch of those I actually have a couple extra EX and an

HX for the Tandy 1000 those are fun so those are going to get listed soon there are parts for the Tandy 1000 EX listed I did sell the motherboard for that I think I sold the keyboard too I think oh no maybe I still do

have it. So, lots of fun stuff. Oh, and then yesterday, I was taking some chat GPT zippy time. My creative mind was going crazy, as it always is. So we did lots of fun things with my new Green Brick Road series with Elo. Elo is my little character that's going to walk through exact motherboards. So I can learn where the voltage is at each stop. It didn't quite get me what I wanted, but it was kind of fun. Made a little story out of it so we went

way back to the original Magnavox Odyssey which gives me really simple analog motherboard and at some point I'd like to try to make some sort of a video game or a walkthrough that way I could see exactly every component and what's going on exactly at that point so the whole purpose of all of it is to learn how the motherboard works and then troubleshoot from there for Me to be able to easily be able to troubleshoot motherboards better to find out I've got so many broken ones of every system so I don't think I could probably troubleshoot the really complicated newer ones but the old ones i might be able to and then after that later in the day i said there's something that really bothered me that i'm like so dc comics and marvel comics

uh how many times can we do batman or spider-man or superman it just seems like it's so overdone and now with chat gpt i'm like let's make a new universe a new comic universe so i had lots of fun with uh i come up he came up with some really good ideas i kind of start the idea and then he goes with it and then I add more to it. So I started there and then I also same with Star Wars overkill. Oh my God. If we do another Star Wars movie movie would be cool, but any more Star Wars Disney stuff,

I think I'm going to throw up. I've watched some of them, but I just couldn't get into any of it. So I like, so let's make a new space universe so i started working on that too so i got some really fun ideas uh for both comic guy comic and um also for space so something i will work on further Going down the road here Actually I'll talk about it later My comic idea came up pretty cool

It's pretty It's a little bit deep I guess you could say But fun So let's look at football scores Oh poor Patriots 40-7 They got beat up so bad It's terrible.

Broncos lost again. The Rams won again. The Rams are hanging in there. Yeah, the Patriots. I don't know. I'm glad Bill Belichick's not around anymore, but I don't think what's going on is going to last because it actually will end up the same...

Only three wins. It started out good. The first game, remember, they won. They beat the Cincinnati, and he got a. He got a Gatorade bath. For winning the game. The first game.

And then everything went down. I loved that. I was so excited. I was like. Hey. This might actually work. Alright. So let's go to Etsy.

So I've had a few orders. Not in Etsy again. Nothing. Bummer. I haven't had time to add new stuff. So I've had a few orders. Not an Etsy again. Bummer. I haven't had time to add new stuff. But I've got to get to it today I think. I've got to try to bulk up Etsy. With some bigger items.

If I can. So no orders there. So I'm still in the negative. Let's see what I'm negative on Etsy. I've never been in the positive since I've reopened it. Because I made a mistake. $54 in negative. That's a bummer.

So we're going to go to my RSS feed. So I did a fun podcast yesterday on my new Green Brick Roads with Elo. So it's pretty fun. I'm going to continue on that. The problem is I don't know if actually Zippy can actually know the exact, all the setup for a motherboard.

Like every single component is where I really want to go through. all the setup for a motherboard. Like every single component is where I really want to go through. Because if you look at any motherboard, there's like a million different things going on on the motherboard. I want to know why. Why does it need all that stuff just to get from point A to point B.

So that's the whole purpose of it. But I want to do it in a way that's simplified for me and it but I want to do it in a way that's simplified from for me and then anybody else that might listen I had five downloads pretty fun see if I get anybody new look for my little dots most of them are coming from the US oh yeah I see another dot. Out in the ocean somewhere. It doesn't say where it's coming from. Windows.

Android. Apple. Computers. So pretty fun. I'm already up to over 100. Podcasts now. Because I'll do at least two a day. Sometimes I was doing three. But three is a little bit more than I can do.

But I just get lazy at the end of the day. The only way I can really do one at night before I go to bed is to do it in my bed, and it's really difficult to do it that way. But we might. Maybe we'll do another one. So that's that one. Let's go to...

I always do my Groundhog Day in the morning because I'm doing stuff anyway. So I'll look through the news too. I breathe the news really quick for anything that's other than the Patriots getting beat up really bad. I didn't even know they were playing yesterday

and happened to look at MSN and I clicked on the score and I was like I ain't definitely going to watch that. I'm not into the Patriots at all anymore. Or really, can entanglement particles communicate faster than light? So I'm really into entanglement. It's

quantum computing. So that's one of the things I'm really into. And it doesn't sound like it's that hard to understand. But I could be wrong. From what I've read about it, it's that hard to understand. But I could be wrong. From what I've read about it, it's pretty cool. It'll be the next phase of computers, I think, in my lifetime.

Depending on how long my lifetime goes, none of us have any idea. So, let's go to YouTube let's see where we're at here I put a bunch of so when I do listings for eBay I have a new routine it's a lot longer for me to do it but I'm gonna continue to do it is I do a video a 60 second video that video will go on it goes on to the listing on eBay and then I also put it as a short so I'm at six thousand five hundred and seventy eight subs subscribers excuse me I gotta correct myself on that. Subscribers.

I don't like to use that other word. Because it sounds disrespectful. So. And I went up to $36.80. For my estimated revenue. Bummer. My view times have gone up. My watch hours have gone up.

And my subscribers have But it has no reflection on Any sort of revenue at all Zero really Actually usually a few days here I've gone negative again Meaning I went from $36 down to like $35 So every day is like a few

It's not even a dollar. Per day. It's in change. So I go change up or change down. Per day. Interesting. Alright so let's go to the drum roll. Let's go to eBay.

See if we got some action going here. Something can help me out here. I got a couple. so when I first come on I see a couple offers let's see let's go to offers I got a check $30 offer for slim yeah I'll take another one of those that's what I gotta do I gotta put some more of my slim motherboards up. The slim 9000 model. Oops, sorry. Now it wants to cancel off. Oh, come on.

Now I have a guy who ordered it. Oh, he doesn't want that. All right, so it's the same guy. So I just got to cancel the order. Okay, so it's the same guy. So I just gotta cancel the order. Okay. So he's gonna... I was gonna take the offer, but now he says he doesn't want it. So...

Okay, cool. I thought it was the other one I shipped out. So let's cancel that. Let's decline it. And... Look, I read that. But what I will do... Is tell him I do have a 7901.

Alright, so I declined it. So let's go back to that guy now. And so... Okay. So, okay. I declined that offer. Which is for the 9000 model. This is the PS2 slim I do

have 79001 motherboards which is the ones that are you need the power adapter not yet listed so again I'm trying to keep the buyer with the offer of what he was looking for I do have motherboards

not yet listed port outs yeah yeah SD7901 is nothing like a 90001 this has a internal internal power supply unit 7901 too many 0's does not

he was just saying the port's different a lot of those other than the 9000 9001 the there's the 7001 and there's a 77001 75001 and there's a 70012 and then the 79001 all ps2 slim motherboards but different and lots of the times it's the back of the port that's different the 79001 was the smaller uh board inside of the ps2 slim before uh it went to the 9000 model which was the last model and that model has a power supply in it so the 79001 still had the

power adapter just some fun facts there so I declined that at first because I had it in somebody else now there's another message here. That's what I realized. I would like to. Okay.

So he replied. So it's six o'clock in the morning. From wherever he is. Somebody replied to me. All right. I will. Get some. Listed. Really this. I will get some listed early today.

So we'll do some PS2 motherboards as a project today. My day always goes wherever eBay kind of takes me. So I can see where I'm going here just by this. Because maybe I can make a sale off of it. Okay, I'll make some lists. I will get some listed early today. Okay, I will let you know with a link later. Okay, so communication you have to. No with a link. Later. Okay. So.

Communication you have to. Every message as soon as I get up I have to reply to them. Especially if it's any sort of damage control. Mistakes or. Speaking of damage control. Let me see if I have any feedback. Good or bad. Just a thumbs up.

I'll take a thumbs up. I had two orders. Let's see if it's anything of just a little guys little offers fan so I sold the three pin fan which is the but it's the NIDC fan for the Xbox 360 fat. Those are the better, quote unquote better fans. And then I also, it's supposed to be quieter, but they don't sound quieter to me. And then I also sold the number 4 heatsink

set for inside of a Xbox 360 fat as well. People replace the bolt modded ones and they go back to the original and it's the ones with the fins on both and then the overhang fin on the for the heat sinks cool so so those two so those are just two orders and if i work on the other thing later

Maybe I'll get a couple of orders First I gotta get something So I've had sales of some other stuff So that's about it for today let's see we'll get that going do my two orders here so you get to see the process every morning of that's why i call it groundhog. Because it's basically the same thing. But there's other stuff going on. So that's always the fun part. It keeps it fresh.

Because even though I'm doing. But you never know what. Because I try to have such a variety of stuff listed. The more variety the better. You can't just concentrate on one thing. And I've been trying to get to some more PS2 stuff. But today I may do that

now. I may skip the computer stuff and go to PS2s for a little while. I'll do the 790. I don't have that many. I have a few motherboards. But I have to test them. So, we'll do that. And then I will see what the day brings me from there all right so that's my morning pretty interesting so far always something going on that's a good thing about what I do is not only can I just get out of bed and turn my shop on, there's always something going on.

And it'll... And it'll take me all the way through until tonight when I go to bed. That's really the key to life, is just having something to do the minute you get up to the minute you go to bed. If you always got something to do, then days just go by quick.

Unfortunately, they go by too fast, but, uh, at least you're doing something. I always have to be doing something. I can't just, like I said,

I can't even just sit and play a video game or watch a movie. Hardly ever do that anymore. But, I will. So, I think if I put all the hard work in now. In the next couple of years.

Then I'm going to really need some help. God forbid sometimes my mother. And then I'm going to be financially in a much difficult place. So I'm trying to build everything up now. To help survive later on my own. Completely on my own. That is. So.

Therefore I don't really spend much time just hanging out. I like to though. I find now that when I play video games I can only play for a little while and I start getting ill. I don't know why that is. I just it's fun for a little bit.

I used to be able to play for you know like 4 or 5 hours at a time but now I can't do that maybe I could play for a half hour maybe an hour but there are some really good games coming Death Stranding 2 and Subnautical 2

are my two most wanted games next year so alright so that's my morning I'm going to stick to it My two most wanted games next year So, all right, so that's my morning I'm gonna stick to it So and then we'll um, I'll get some fun stuff this afternoon. I'm gonna go on another Green big road with Elo We'll pick another system maybe and I still have other systems to do the boot process as well So we may do that to one One or the other, I haven't decided yet.

All right, so I'll talk to you guys later on. All right, have a good afternoon. All right, bye.