Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Tuesday 3/4/2025

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

The Official Warming up of Spring Starts today.

Good morning everyone it is now 709 I Slept a little bit in took care of my little buddies first Of course I got my hamster my guinea pig and my bird Get they get all new fresh water as soon as I get up and clean the cages out fresh food So then they're all set for the afternoon. So I did that takes a little bit about a half hour to do it Each one of them so we get all that done for them. So they're all good to go for the morning.

And then now, over here. So yesterday I worked on PS2 Fats. That was fun. I've got three good motherboards, three good power boards. Worked on that for a while. Good hour, so I put in on that. So that came out pretty cool.

And today we're gonna look at some other things that came in. I have my other Windows 98 desktop, an older Dell. I wanna take another look at that. I gotta find the original drivers for it and stuff like that. We may look at that. And I also want to do some

Atari stuff. I got some other Atari 78 motherboards and stuff to go through. So let me look at some Atari today. I got lots of Atari games everywhere. I got them. So we'll go maybe go to the Atari a little bit today. We'll mix it up. We always to mix it up try to do something else fun plus also whatever my orders are we'll figure that out in a few minutes So that always steers my direction Depending on where it goes So I've been really into playing Silent Hill 2. I've gotten pretty far now. I think I'm at 66% done It's pretty fun. I got out of the apartment. I'm back into another part of town. I have a female companion now that

follows me around. Never was never a fan of having someone follow you around. I just couldn't get into it. I never have. Never will. I like to go solo with a third person. There we seem to be awkwardly in your way and also she was awkwardly talking about it because I smashed every window. That's the fun part of the whole game of Silent Hill 2 is smashing all the windows and finding stuff. So she always gets nervous when I start smashing things. So pretty fun. But yeah I've been into that. I bought the new Monster Hunter Wiles a couple days ago

Totally not into it at all. I'm gonna try to get back into it. But if I can't fight the monster In any easy way then I don't want to do it. The story is pretty cool though So I also give up on things really fast And I spent a lot in that game, but we'll see what I can get back into it. Alright, so let's see. From what I'm hearing in the news, the government's going crazier every day. So that's just a given for the next four years at least. If we make it that far, we'll see what happens.

SpaceX has got that big Starlink. The last one blew up so let's see if this one actually gets off the ground. It's gotta be a better way to get ships into the... instead of using a giant rocket. It has to be a better way. To be able to manipulate gravity in like a anti-gravity tunnel that goes straight up and then you just put your whatever your object is in there you turn on the anti-gravity and it just goes up and into the atmosphere it's gotta be a better way to do it than the way we do it I

always silly blasting the biggest giant rocket you can just to get out of the space must be an easier way I believe is, but I'm not a scientist or a rocket scientist. So I often wonder about that. You know, you see all the movies where ships just kind of lift off the ground and then they go up and then they go into the atmosphere. Why can't we do that now? Why are we still having to put 7,000 million pounds of fuel on the bottom of a rocket just to get it up into the air. I don't get it.

Seems like we're missing something. And of course I'll always be the one that says that we've never been to the moon. There's not many conspiracy theories that I believe that there's no way we've ever been to the moon. Well, we'll see. Maybe we'll get there this time. And I'm also a fan of Mars. I'd like to go to Mars. It'd be my last expedition. I would volunteer to go to Mars. One-way trip. Set it up and just kind of do my thing and end my life there.

As ever it would. I'd end my life but just kind of get it all set up and just kind of... I would do that. I'm into it. So, I'm volunteering myself to go to Mars As a one-way trip be cool Alright, so let's go to Etsy this morning. I had a guy asking about what gets more couple orders. Oh Had a guy asked me about all the Sega Dreamcast port

They all need a repair kit eventually oh Sega Sega I sold those game gear oh cool gotta find them now three battery charge cool and I sold some ports so yeah so Sega game Sega dreamcast there is The port and that's causes lots of issues It'll cause weird power issues sometime So you got to replace all the components by the little kit and just replace the components even I can almost do it I've done it, but it doesn't come out great Especially the battery you need to replace But this buyer said he had some other kind of weird issue that that wouldn't fix it And he was looking for another port port but I did not have one so

I couldn't help him out but I did communicate with him of course anyway soon as someone asked me a question and as soon as I wake up I always reply to those first so this morning on Etsy I have a Nintendo Gamecube front port cover and little flaps. I can renew that. I got some models. So we'll renew that. And also we sold three battery packs for the Game Gear. They don't work.

And so that was a big purchase there. That's pretty cool. So we'll get those printed out. Let's look at my RSS feed. Let's see where we go. Try to keep my routine the same as I always do. Therefore, that's why we call it Groundhog Day. Just ends up being what my podcast is, but I try to keep as much gaming as I can

related to it, because everything I do revolves around gaming. I had two downloads, pretty cool. Oh, another one from Melbourne, Australia, and two from UK. Oh, I always like to hear... And Sweden, I had some from Sweden. Oh, real nice. I appreciate all the people from the other side of the world. Again, my podcast is a daily message in a bottle across the internet ocean. So the first time I was Ashburn. No, Ashburn has always been

there. So Ashburn has been my reliable download every single day that I think I've ever had to download. So I appreciate that. But this morning it's all about the United Kingdom and Australia and Sweden. Very fun. That's really exciting. All right, so let's, again, you can always go to my YouTube page because I've got videos I do every day. Just did a nice long video yesterday

doing the PS2 Fats tested them tore them down they were all the 015 motherboards so there's tons of videos to watch if you want to segue over to to there I appreciate it I'm over 20,000 subscribers and actually now while we're talking about YouTube, let's check it out. See where I got to Well, yeah, just I keep I'm promoting videos still but only really small five bucks Five bucks for my longer videos. So it gets me some views If I don't promote anything I get maybe five views If I don't promote or anything I get maybe 5 views of like no maybe more 12-14 views of a long video.

If I promote it with at least $5 I can get up to a few hundred. Let's see if any comments. No more hamster mafia. Kind of quieted them down. So I'm at 20,703 subscribers. My revenue, of course, is $26.49. Let's see what that last video got me. So 242 views when I added $5 as a promotion.

So it really doesn't matter how many subscribers you have. when I added $5 as a promotion. So it really doesn't matter how many subscribers you have. Most of them are just, I think they're fake anyway, or they're just, they just come in, I'm not sure why there's so many. Most of them I can't see, so I have no idea who may or may not be in there. But when I see new ones, I subscribe to them. Doesn't give me the option of an auto subscriber. Auto subscribe which I would love to do. It

seems only fair. You subscribe to me I'll subscribe back. So when I see I've gotten 700 new subscribers even in the last couple days but yeah I only see maybe six of them that I can auto subscribe back to so it's really weird people hide their subscriptions for whatever reason I Guess I get it, but I guess I really don't honestly alright, so let's go to Let's go over to eBay that right yeah Let's see what we got going on with eBay. I put a couple things up yesterday. PS2 related, I got some motherboards listed, power boards.

I had, oh, I played around with the, I played around with the, we'll call it yesterday. Oh A time crisis really funny and I have a bunch of guns and some Japan Time crisis one and two games. Alright, so let's we got some messages here first, let's AE. What else do I have anymore? I should, I'll take that, it's fine. This is the side plug for the PS3 fat.

It does not have the little teeny square, so therefore it makes an official AE or B. So we'll take that, just a or B. So we'll take that. Just a few bucks, but we'll take it. Let's see what my messages are. I think I had two messages I think I saw. Two, yeah, two this morning. First one says, this is all about the PS, I'm sorry, this is all about Nintendo GameCube.

Hey, I was thinking of a person's spindle. I know you posted you said spindle. Really have an issue with spindle. I think it's causing the laser. I think it's causing the laser. I have a POT in charge. My cap works fine. I had to probably go down.

Best bet always is to have a fully working lens Assembly That you can swap Spindles to be sure If you have a B laser laser board Those almost

Always Do not Make the spindle spin. At the end of the day, end of the day, end of the, at the end of the day, the laser board

is 99.9% of the time. Alright, so best always is to have a fully working lens assembly that you can swap spindles to be sure. If you have a B laser board that almost always does not make the spindle spin. At the end of the day, the laser board is 99.9% of the time of the issue. Alright, so thanks. I straightened it out after a few seconds with a heat gun and now we're okay. Cool. So this was the queue. The cute oh great that sounds like the that I sold it for sound it sounds like the I'm glad it worked out for you. So it's a happy buyer. That's cool.

That's why I like happy buyers. Now my Panasonic Q work looks awesome again. So great. That sounds like the best approach. Glad it worked out for you And I didn't sell that cheap either and I have the whole box of all the other parts But so cool I'm glad that worked out for us. What else we have here a couple orders. Let's see what my Cool all looks positive

Again, I'm all about positive and fun. I say that all the time It's I mean, we only got a short little life here and time is going by so fast And things are gonna probably significantly change for me soon and Sooner than probably later Alright, so fast shipping just as described cool that's for the Panasonic Q. Arrived in great condition no bumps or damage looks good and ready to be installed that was the Nintendo Super Nintendo cartridge slot sold lots of those I don't have that many left though party's almost over with

those that's I say when I guess I run a lot of stuff And I'm not really buying anything else so at this point So I have two orders plus I took that other order Says there is an order respond. Let's see what this is Respond to offer and see that. $25, that's fine. So it took a power supply for the PS3.

So I'm just trying to drum some business up here, so I'm taking some lower office I do often take a lower office and then other times. I don't just been done Where I'm at? I've got lots of bills coming up. So again my eBay here is my lifeline so I Need to keep it going So I'm going to continue to list a lot more new stuff I just haven't. All right, so that's... All right, open it up. PS, I got some more PS2 fat stuff to list. And then we'll do some other thingies here and there. What else did I sell?

Oh, I sold something that looks like from... Oh, let's see, I sold two orders. Oh, I sold a motherboard. The two-port motherboard. Exact, original motherboard, the two port motherboard, exact original motherboard for the Atari 5200. Call that the big boy. As far as I know it fully works, just the RF switch in the back needs to be replaced. They're all no good anymore. But once you put it into the right position, three or four, and just leave it there, then it's fine. But if you're moving it back and forth, you're gonna have, it's gonna get all crinkly

on the screen, as I call it. So let's see what else we got going on. So that's two orders there. My YouTube's looking pretty cool. Always trying to put new fresh stuff up. Can we do some, oh I did a serious XM home kit yesterday. Put that up for sale, and then I put all that time crisis stuff for sale too.

Not cheap though, because those are going for a lot, just even just for one gun, and one game was a lot. So I have four guns in three games so I went a little bit higher and then I just go from there you know we start you know we start out high and then you work your way down and most of the time no matter what price I put for a listing everything everything is best offer and most of the time I get guy buyers that will half off me, try to get it half off or even more. I'm like yeah. I just you know every once in a while I get really annoyed with really

low offers and I just block the buyer. I mean we're talking about something that I had an offer I had a phone for $60 he offered me $2 and then went to $12 and then $12.50. So once he put in the 50 cents, I was like, yeah, I'm done. I don't do change in an offer. So I just blocked him. It wasn't going anywhere. Sometimes buyers need to be schooled a little bit. I do low offers. I admit it. I do and when I'm a buyer, I act just like a buyer and I'll do them but I usually do it as low as I would because I know as a seller and usually you can tell after that and I have no auto sets for for a certain amount I just

personally enjoy declining really low offers if I can't get anything out of it I'd like to personally at least enjoy it. So that's what I do. Every offer is either accepted or declined directly by me. I'm not going to set each thing. It's a great way to do it, but I don't do it. It's just part of my process of the daily grind of selling gaming parts is the highs and lows and one of the lows is the best offers. It's a real pain in the buns but it does work out and I will take stuff if I feel like it and if I don't or if you come at me with the other day I had a guy, he wanted $2 off of a $13 listing. And I just declined it.

And within a minute, he sent me a message. What is this, a joke or something? And then we went back and forth. And long story short, I blocked him. And he was happy to be blocked. So that worked out. See, again, some buyers need just to be blocked so that worked out see again some some buyers They just be schooled especially if you jump right on my back

Because I declined two dollars off of a $13 offer And you put it in there. What is the joke? So we I made it into a joke basically So pretty funny It's kind of like again. I always say that selling gaming parts over the years is hardening my soul So that's just how I am It's a grind But normally most buyers are happy just not not everything goes well perfect And I try to make everything as perfect as possible, but it's not possible alright, so that's my morning guys and girls

Glad to see you come in, and hopefully I'll get some more people from overseas. That'd be awesome. Again, go check out my YouTube, because there's tons and tons of videos and all other kind of fun stuff I'm always doing there. Or you can come over to my eBay if you wanna buy something. I sell overseas too, international.

Alright, so you guys have a great day, and I will talk to you tomorrow. Alright, bye.