Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Thursday 5-8-2025

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

I am shelving all Live Feeds on YouTube for a while. All seem to go nowhere. Too Hot now at night for my Project Journey Man. Try again the fall. I also learned this about Wii U Gamepad Batteries the Hard Way sell my first set on eBay. Selling Gaming Parts is Extremely Difficult.The standard Nintendo Wii U GamePad battery typically lasts between 3 to 5 hours on a full charge. This duration can vary based on factors such as screen brightness, use of features like the camera and microphone, wireless communication, and ambient temperature .en-americas-support.nintendo.com+1en-americas-support.nintendo.com+1For extended playtime, Nintendo offers a high-capacity battery (model WUP-013) with a capacity of 2550mAh, which can provide up to 8 hours of gameplay .

Good morning, everyone. It is now seven oh five So I slept in a little bit late again this morning Of course went out and did all my buddies first because they've been waiting for me to get up It's best my little guinea pigs there. They it was like a bomb hitting a little Double widen there all night from not getting any attention So I gotta get to them first thing make sure they're all completely clean spray some stuff down there clean it up wipe it up And then we start nice and fresh form fresh food water the whole thing same my bird and my little hamster there Alright, so let's see what's going on today is

May 8th 2025 We are on Thursday And the weather was really nice yesterday, but I was doing some videos What did I do yesterday? Oh, I worked on my computer Like to open some stuff from that I had gotten in And I upgraded my so I had a successful Industrial style compact flash to use as an IDE as a solid-state drive for the IDE to compact flash converter

Whereas the commercial or retail compact flash converter, whereas the commercial or retail compact flash no go. But I think I can use those maybe for as a removable disk, because I have one more kit I got. So we're going to try to set that up as a removable disk so I can get some drivers onto my so I successfully put Windows 98 back on my Dell XPS T500 and that also has an upgraded slot one 800 megahertz CPU in it. It's pretty awesome.

So and of course again like I said it's gonna be Windows 98. Next one I'm working on is my compact evo 510 That's gonna be XP. That's a cut. So We're going up a notch to Pentium 4 so I should have the same results I'm hoping and unfortunately my other Dell Optiplex GX 100 something went wrong and the GX 100 something went wrong and the CPU upgrade so now it doesn't work at all what works, but it can't turn it off and I have no

No video so we'll have to figure out what happened. I hope maybe maybe the memory card or something, but I'm not sure All right, so let's see the news So not really fall off basketball, but Celtics are down to 0-2 against the Knicks that's pretty interesting basketball to me just seems like it lasts like the whole year it's like that in baseball I can't get into them although usually the same team doesn't win again so maybe the Celtics will get swept out early this year. You can always see that. I can see that happening. They're already down 0-2 at home, two at both home games, so what's gonna happen when they go to the next? Be interesting to watch that one.

Again, I won't sit and actually physically watch it, but I'd like to see the the review of it the next morning. It's about as much as I can watch it and baseball the same thing I don't want to hear anything about baseball until maybe into the World Series even that I really don't care baseball just have should have like 16 week series. That's it same with basketball. Sure. I'll be like football That would be more fun. I think I don't know. Maybe that's just me So, let's see what we got going on Tom Brady and the Raiders oh that's about zombies dawn of the vampires is a movie coming out on Disney interesting Interesting. Zombies 4.

Alright, something going on there. I've had a couple orders in Etsy, but they've been just the Nintendo Gamecube screw sets. Complete inside and out. So I've sold a few. So I've had three orders in the last few days, so I've made a couple bucks. It's about how se rolls I'm gonna add some more stuff today. I Have a program or an app or website that I was using I finally cancelled it But I got some more time with it. So I'm gonna See if I can add a few more things to Etsy and we'll just leave it for now

Because that way that website was costing me a good amount and I wasn't really using it I just kept forgetting to do it and So there's an extra X amount a month that I didn't really need Didn't want it. I can't afford it. Okay. Let's see what's going on my RSS feet. I've had a few downloads here This is one of the websites. I do keep because I like to do it each morning and eventually I will do some stuff midday But we are And Then I decided probably last night was my last nightly project journey man for a while. It's just getting too hot

It's hard for me to sleep now, so no I didn't have any zero downloads So we'll we'll'll shelf that for a while I did like 30 or so episodes pretty cool lots of cool ideas I learned how to use Raspberry Pi 5 a little bit I'm still gonna use it for other things but maybe maybe once a month I'll do it or something I was doing it every night it's pretty cool set it up neat I was gonna get a brain scan thing, but then the Cell I never shipped it out, so I finally just cancelled that after a week. They hadn't even been shipped yet, so We're not gonna do that for a while But well in the fall when it gets when it gets warmer

I mean cooler out then we can we'll go back to it a little bit. Maybe it just do it once a week or something Okay, so let's go to YouTube I did a little bit video so we've significantly we've gone up another notch of subscribers yeah 36,000 190 subscribers so if I promote my I did my life in a double shave that's always really a good View so I've got 1.7 K views in the last few days So that really usually increases I had 16 views for my nightly project journeyman. I did have one time one night though. It was 3,000 I was like, oh that was still like that. I would have kept it going even in the hot weather, but It just kind of fizzled out a little bit

Trying to make it exciting and fun, but you know it's like anything else either works or doesn't We'll go back to later Well, I have the idea is still there. We'll keep it going it but friend I was just too hot now at night sitting soon right behind my head there if you watched any of any of the time while I was sleeping. There's a big thing right behind my head there if you watched any of any of the time while I was sleeping There's a big thing right behind my head and that's the air-conditioning and it just happened to put it there before I had a My loft bed where it is and it all happens to be in the same place It's a real pain to try to sleep with that thing the air-conditioning blasted on you

I only have it really low anyway, so it doesn't slow isn't it mostly it's just fan I don't really use the air-conditioning just to move the air in that corner because all the heat go right in that corner So it's nice and warm there and where I sleep in the summer in the winter But in the summer it gets really cool. I'm really hot rather Alright, so revenues still going down 24,000 I mean to have you that would be phenomenal $24.79 at this point. I feel like I earned

$24,000 But it's only $24.79 So that's a bummer and I decided this morning or that I'm going to just Nick all live feeds for a while Because they're not really doing anything at all. I don't really get many people watching them So we'll just kind of fizzle out a lot of live feeds for a little bit I was doing significantly lots of them every day Maybe some of my workbench it may go try the webcam again Go that get go that route see if we have any luck there, but it seems to be really no interest

So we just gotta mix it up can't keep repeating the same things expecting different results isn't that the definition of insanity I believe it is so I try not to do that all right so let's see but the ones I promote and the ones that I talk about stuff and I am gonna go back to doing I'm gonna bring my buddy Zippy in haven't done that in a while as my co-host and we'll do some more mid-afternoon Systems because today I only I had no downloads so maybe we can Concentrate again back on to my podcast which I enjoy doing Maybe I can do a little bit more with that As opposed to and we can talk to Zippy about anything pretty much and we got

some new things that I have an STE development board I want to learn about raspberry pi 5 which I have been working on so we can talk about that and So I get some some step Motors in to help I want to learn how to use those even even if I don't do my project journey in for a while I still want it's kind of what I wanted it for but we'll just maybe learn how to just Tie in a motor to the development board So alright, so let's go to eBay. Let's see what's going on development board So alright, so let's go to eBay. Let's see what's going on See a

Couple of things a few orders yesterday Helped out a buyer with a couple things. I'll help anybody out and try to be as best seller as possible This I have one buyer here. He wants me to tear down my PS3 fat the original motherboards the C ok-001 So he can find and that's the Motherboard that has the EE chip PS2 EE chip on it therefore making it a true backwards compatible as Yes to each ship on it therefore making it a true backwards compatible as opposed to the e which is a co k-o

O2 which is does not have a use emulation some like So he's looking for a chip that has says minus 31 first time somebody asked about that Let me So we're gonna I'll do that video alright and the next question Hi, I know it says they're tested charge, but also Also tested last oh my two batteries are an issue is Ah, my two batteries are an issue is Sure they were

Really working I Can't ship two more As needed I Would not I would not have run them I Would not run them for a long time So they say he's saying they charged for a long time. Let me know. So, another issue.

Darn it all. First time I sold one of two of these batteries and he's saying that they're not lasting. Let me know what you want to do. to. Each fully charged I would not I would not know how long each can last as each can be so different. I wouldn't have known that so that was a mistake again. Batteries are hard to sell.

The first time I sold any sort of battery in a while. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna sell them at $10. Bummer I've just had a lot of issues lately. Things are just, I wouldn't have known about, other than my debacle for the heat sink. But I did get another order for another heat sink, so we're going to make sure we put it in a bigger box and we'll pack it a little better, because that was totally my bad. Twice I had a problem. One buyer was cool about it, the other buyer obviously ended in negative feedback, so that

wasn't too much fun so let's see a couple orders here let's see what those are so so some days waking up to eBay can be a bummer I Don't like issues Things plus there's things. I just didn't even think about the battery not lasting long. I know they charged I kept them charged I'll have to put in I'll have to take the listing down and then do it differently then Because I don't know if there's no way I can't sit and watch a battery differently then because I don't know if there's no way I can't sit and watch a battery uncharged every time there's no way I could do that I mean there is a way I can mean I can do that but I'm not going to I just assume that they charge

and then that was it which is called a day but if you're running it for two hours and it's dying I don't know so I got two orders a five pin power supply which somehow I made a mistake on order another thing we just talked about a few times I haven't ever made a rookie mistake like that a long time where I there's a five pinning for the PS1 power supply for the PS ones and then the original 1001 has a 7 pin. Somehow I sent the buyer a 7 pin. I didn't even notice it. So I'm going to refund him today.

Actually, I'm going to do that first thing. And then I also have a 3 pin for the Xbox 360, the better fan, the NIDEC. You find them because they're just black for labels. There's no white sticker. So if you don't see the whites of the eyes through the grill, you know you have one of those better fans. So I sold one of those.

I found a couple more too. And then one power supply. So just a couple things I sold. I do want to refund this one guy. Normally, I will refund as things get shipped out just to just to clear the board I have two refunds one guy already shipped it so we'll get him out get him done and then the other one is for two GameCube lens assemblies he said both of them didn't work, which to me means that the

laser board he was testing them on didn't work. I don't think the odds of both of them not working, both of them should work first of all. So I don't know. But that guy hasn't shipped that out yet. Once in a while I get a return and then the buyer never ships it out. I think a lot of buyers just assume that once they open a return I'll just give him his money back, but I don't do that if you're gonna tell me I shipped you something that didn't work I want to get back of course. I have to eat the shipping round trip anyway And I want to see what were you talking about if you tell me if anybody tells me I made a mistake I'm sure like everybody else someone tells you no, it's not what you said it was

Of course I want to get it back and I want to make sure it has my sticker on it and it's my exact my the ones I shipped and Find out why if I thought it ships Working and now it doesn't and what happens a lot of times is Most of the stuff that I get, not most, I'd say a quarter of the time I'll get things back that weren't even what I shipped. Or I'll get back something that has nothing even to do with it.

The best example of that is I got screwed once, literally, two power supplies for the original Xbox 0105. The guy returned them, or Open to return I should say. And when I got them back I got a big bolt inside the box. I have a video of it. And I literally got screwed. He sent me back a screw. Just to be funny I guess. I'm not sure. So things like that have happened. But most of the time when I get things back that people tell me don't the time when I get things back that people tell me don't work when I get it back and then I retest it it works as I

test it that's the other thing because I would have put it on a correct laser board or something so you never know but I always want to get it back and I have my YouTube so of course I want a video either if I did make the mistake or when I test it it does work and then sometimes if I'm really into it. I will send a video that video to the buyer showing that hey, you know next time make sure you return correctly because No, yes, these do work So I was looking I'm looking forward to those lens assemblies coming back so that we can figure whether I've made a mistake or not Because buyers that buyer opened up as an issue so therefore that goes against my account so that's another little little tweak against my

account so again I want to justify when it comes back whether yes you are correct somehow I made a mistake or no you shouldn't have opened it that way you should have tested them correctly but there's no way that I can fight it on eBay I can't there's no way I can say the buyer was wrong they just assumed the briar returns incorrectly but it's not true at all I'd say 90% of the time it's there's nothing wrong with the ones that I ship but sometimes things go wrong or they're shipping damage I just had recently this one saying the batteries only lasted two hours. I have no idea. They actually do last two hours. I don't know And it was two batteries, so he's telling me both batteries only lasted two hours

Actually, let's see while I'm still on let's go to my buddy Zippy for a minute chat GPT let me ask him I think about always use my buddy Zippy when I can get him in here while we're still on here let's ask how how How long can a Nintendo Wii U game pad battery last on one charge I'm gonna get three to five hours full charge so this is the I says three to with the capacity of 2550 for extended play alright so let's send that guy Let's send that guy. Okay. Alright, so this is what chat GPT says. So will. So we'll send them. This is the standard Nintendo Wii jitter typically lasts between three to five hours at full charge

Duration based on the focus of the screen brightness. Yeah, so so yeah So yes Seems these used ones were less I Just would have no way, have no way to know at all, at all on each exact one. I am taking down the listing

it with this in mind. My intent as sold was fully charging batteries. Sorry if I If I somehow failed with my details and item, I just had no idea. I just had no idea. Right? I just had no idea right It's about as honest and straightforward as I can be I I can't tell you any better than that I just put have no idea that two batteries We're gonna cause that problem It's the only ones I've ever sold and I have a whole bunch of them. I was like, oh cool So I don't have some to pro lot. So I'm sure either I don't even return them or

figure out so that's what that is so game cube let me read that again I think I read it the standard Nintendo game we game Wii U gamepad typically lasts between three to five hours on a fully charge. The duration can vary based on screen brightness, features like camera, microphone, wireless communications, temperature. For extended playtime, the Tendo offers a high capacity WUP-013 with a capacity of 255mAh which can last up to 8 hours. of 255mAH which can last up to eight hours. So the ones I sold were not that. They were the original ones. So I'm going to put that, I'm going to take the listing down now. And of course if something causes me a problem that happens often or it'll be something I don't know if there's different variation of something. And I only find out when a buyer returns

something they're like oh this doesn't fit and I'm like what do you mean it doesn't fit and I'm like oh crap there's two different variations to it or more than one that's how I learned and usually once I learn once it'll never happen again this is the same example I've learned something I didn't even think about I've sold some Nintendo Switch batteries over the years, used ones, but I never had anybody call me out and say that they didn't last that long, but they're used. Again, I don't know each, I don't know, I wouldn't know, there's no way to measure how long a battery will last unless they physically sit there and watch it. And as I, if I'm gonna have a battery charged

and then let it run out that's using the battery more right so then I really wouldn't want to do that either so that kind of leads you in a real pickle there that's a good word for the pickle for this puts me in a pickle because I wouldn't have known it so we we're going to take that down. Because obviously this is going to be either I'm going to have to ship more, but I still won't know the ones I ship. Can they are they are used. So there's really no way out of it other than return or partial refund one of the two.

Or I can ship more I can ship more but if we come I don't want to have the same problem again right so we're going to first get rid of that listing because I does say they fully charged because I thought they did I made sure that they were charged but we're gonna take those down because I can no longer do it that way because if it's the first time I've sold one and I've already had an issue and I've been again I may not even sell darn things I may put them all one big lot and say they charge is what it is and then just leave it at that it's probably what I'm

gonna do now I gave up on doing that because it's gonna cost me potentially a bad feedback negative feedback or neutral feedback and it's gonna be to something I had no idea about right which is a bummer when the only intent was just to try to get you to fully charging batteries that's all I was doing all right so well I'll come back to that. It's something I will... I always like to talk about the good and the bad, so this is one of them. I'll make a short, a little video out of it once I hear what the other buyer has to say

about it. And then we'll go from there. Alright, so you guys have a good afternoon And the evening and all that and we're almost almost on to the weekend So that's cool to me every day is basically the same, but they all kind of blend in together But you guys have a good one. I'll talk to you later alright. Bye