Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Wednesday 3/12/2025

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

I had a Very Important Comment today on YouTube about the struggles of Lifes Choices and the aftereffects.

Good morning everyone, it is now 5.40am. I'm back to my normal sleep pretty much I think. Yesterday, what did we do yesterday? Yesterday we did a lot of fun things yesterday. I was working on my Dell Dimension XPS T500. I learned all about a slot one CPU. I went from a 5Mhertz up to 8 megahertz From the 5 the 8 megahertz is a copper mine

So the cache is right on the chip itself As opposed to the other one where it's not and it's only half the speed so a significant upgrade from there. I had some other So a significant upgrade from there. I had some other AGP video cards to try but I couldn't get the two that I had they were I think too much For the for that computer, but I did find another Dell that may be a little bit newer And it may fit one of those two because I want to test Those are expensive. I learned video cards that I have. Led Tech is one of them. Windfast and the other one is a Nvidia of some kind. G-Force or something. But I did order a very basic upgrade of a video card from the one I have in my Dell XPS.

So that'll be coming in soon and I'm waiting for compact flash so we can turn that into a hard drive so lots of fun stuff to do with that one and then I came across and then I pulled out my Dell Inspiron 53 53. So Dell Inspiron 531S. Again, this is something I had at random. I don't even know where it came from. But I think it's a little bit newer. So we're going to look at that one later on and then also yesterday FedEx dropped off my Monitor which is for my TRS 80 the original TRS 80 26-1001 4k computer I Have two of them and I have a power adapter and I have an original monitor, which is the 26 1201

Yeah 1201. Although when I did videos with it I couldn't get the screen to come in. So I invested in a second one. This one came all the way from Oregon. So this morning I'll go out into my front kitchen here and we'll do an unboxing. I have like a strap I put all around my shoulders hold my phone so I can do some live-action Opening up stuff when it's a bigger box instead of trying to stick it on my desk here. I'll do it out there It's a little bit easier, so that's the first thing. I'm doing this morning. It came last night, but

I didn't feel like looking at it yet so will see that for the first thing this morning here also see what's going on in the uh... yes it's a little work on that smoke computer stuff uh... to check out my orders didn't really have any origin in one oh no i have a second order that from that see yesterday

uh... three sets of screws screw sets for the Nintendo Game Cube so I gotta get those those take a little bit to get it's a complete set so it takes a little bit to get those together all right let's see we got going on in the government oh I got my that's pretty cool I don't think it's mine I don't think it's mine. But anyway, it's pretty fun. And then oh, I did, yesterday I did a live in a double shave, but I did it back to the original way, which I want to go back to keeping it now. Where you can see me front view while I'm talking and stuff.

The other way I had it as a live stream from the back. So you can see me shave my head. while I'm talking and stuff. The other way I had it as a live stream from the back. So you can see me, she shaved my head, but I can't promote live streams for some reason. So now I'm back to the other way. So I did that. So you get my life in a double shave. I did it marching, marching into spring 2025, pretty fun.

Try to come up with some good words if I can think of it. So that's up. So I words if I can think of it. So that's up. So I can just, I kind of like talk a little bit, say what's going on, where I'm at, and just talk a little bit about the overall world. But I try to keep it all as positive and upbeat as possible. Nothing really doom and gloom because we see all of that every day. We don't need to hear more of it from me definitely

So it's the last thing I want I barely watch news or anything at all a little bit not too much Okay, so let's see Let's see anything. I've got some other little things coming in. I want to test those video cards I have. So I've got lots of... oh, he's got fun. And again, I really kind of... oh, Metal Gear Solid's coming out. A Delta Snake Eater. That looks interesting. And also my favorite game ever, Death Stranding. Death Stranding 2 has a release date, but I haven't quite found it yet Sinking City 2 which I just learned about which is very exciting I played a little bit of the first one this one looks more like a Reds and Evil As opposed to the first one was more to go around and talk to questions, and then there's like a three phase

View to try to figure out something. It's pretty cool. First one, big fan. Never, never really. I only probably played like a quarter of it. If that like to download, I have it so I can easily download it and we stop playing again. I may, I may pull it out. It's fun. All right. So let's see. let's go to my morning. Yeah, so basically the games I could play are unlimited. From earliest games, the Tariis are even earlier, to PS5 games of now.

Yeah, I hardly play any games. I really don't play any sort of retro games. I sell lots of stuff and I have lots of stuff and lots of games but it's just hard for me to sit down and play something a lot older. I can though if I really wanted to. Um, oh I had no download yesterday. That's my first no download. And well, guess what can happen. I appreciate anybody that comes around. I had lots of dots though, so that's cool So no download yesterday, but I've had four hundred forty 447 and last three days at 81 so I appreciate anybody that comes in try to keep it fresh each morning

And I'm kind of come up with some more stuff All right, so let's go on to, plus he's also going to my YouTube page, so it helps, gets that little extra thing. Alright, so I haven't, and then it goes to like Shopify and some other places. Doesn't really get me anything, but it's just fun to do it. Let's see, left very helpful, very fast shipping.

So that's feedback on my Etsy. Yay. Replaced all my screws for the childhood GameCube which is awesome and then I have one order from Etsy. So Etsy has been kind of paying off for me a little bit now. Oh cool. So all ins screws and all the parts for the purple Nintendo Gamecube Distort parts and buttons I sell those a lot not often but sometimes Can both so all my orders from Etsy have been? Game cube which again as I said many is my number one part seller by landslide. I think Dreamcast maybe comes in somewhere second but so many parts I've sold and lots

of them now are just screw sets and stuff but those always give back so I still make a few bucks off of those and I help people out who need screw sets and stuff so I'm not I can't say I have an endless supply, but I have a lot. Because GameCube's overall, I think I've had at least 1,300. Now I'm down to just screw sets and things like that. So I get some motherboards that don't work and things, some Japan motherboards maybe. But most of it's like I've got got a whole stack I mean if you think of people that have stacks of bearkins and the back on their wall as some sort of a

decoration I can I have a stack of empty broken like just a little teeny piece broken off Gamecube bottom cases I got I must have a couple few hundred of them because if there's one little chip on I can't really sell it although. I have been clipping off the ATI Sticker I sell them three for a shot or the bottom stickers too Also, I can sell them so even though it's broken. I can still sell I found ways to sell other parts off Which is the real goal to keep trying to sell stuff off of things as you're getting down to nothing.

All right, so let's look at YouTube. We were plugging away yesterday. Oh, I added my Life in a Double Shave and I was able to promote it, which again, promoting goes from a few views. So I'm at 23 three thousand five hundred and two subscribers I'm going up significantly 500 five thousand four hundred and eleven in the last 28 days

My view hours have gone up. Of course my revenue is twenty three dollars and seventy one cents Which I just I just can't get the concept that it just doesn't go up anywhere. Oh Couple Oh, yeah, see someone's talking about being sober. Oh, oh Yeah You got it working. Oh yeah. I have a few more fun things yet to do with this. Coming in soon.

So this one guy here, he talks, he's often messages, and I often say that I've been sober since 2011, and basically saved me. I don't think I would have made it otherwise, at all. And like, it also, then once I got sober, then I got my mental health into, into balance, as best I can for everyone who has their own thing going on. So, and this is, so I'll, when I do my life in a double shave yesterday I briefly mentioned being sober since 2011 and then I have a A

Comment here about it said I need to get sober like you man. I'm 37 been drinking since I was 23 All I can say... I don't know what to say. I don't know how to advocate for being sober. It's really hard to do that because everyone has their own thing. Yeah, actually I'm gonna write that. It is so hard to advocate. So with the word advocate, what does that mean? I need to make sure I write this right. It's so hard to advocate for another human being's sobriety. This is what I wanna write. It's so hard to advocate for another human beings human beings

sobriety Is that the word I want? Have a key Is someone who publicly supports yes ideas yeah, I'll go I advocate It's It is such a personal choice or addiction by their own. So it's so hard to advocate for another human, for another human being's sobriety. It's such a personal choice, no, not an addition,

personal choice or addiction. Addiction by their own life experiences. I can say, I would not be here today if I finally found today If I Finally found a way To This is really personal for me, so I

Can say I would not would not be here today if I finally found a way to be free and open to all my past mistakes. Seeing life now clearly is very difficult. is very difficult daily without the blurring of a substance. Sub-substance. But, making something, making something

Is the ultimate Reward So I put in it is so hard to advocate for another human beings, uh, sobriety. It is such a personal choice or addiction by their, by their own, by their own life experiences, by their own life experiences. I can say I would not be here today if I finally, if I, if I finally found a way to be free and open to all my past mistakes, seeing life now clearly is very difficult without the blurring of the substance, but making something out of it is the ultimate reward. I may just leave it at that actually.

I think I like that. Alright, so that's my comment on that. It's very personal. Alright, so 23,505 subscribers. So that's good. So we've significantly gone up again as always. Every day now when I go here I check to see if I have new subscribers. I subscribe to them. And as I said always, there's no auto subscribe so I can't do it.

And most of the people who subscribe, you can't see them so you can't even Manually subscribe to it's kind of a pain But so I just go through I click them all as thank you you subscribe to me. I'll subscribe to you But eBay needs I mean at eBay YouTube needs to get some sort of order subscribe going on so subscribe going on. So, alright. So, oh, so my rise of my turtles, that my, my, I rebuilt it, built it up again, and broke down, and then got ready for the box. So I got 2k views on that, that's pretty cool. 1.4k views on my other, my other one when I first rebuilt it, when I first built it. So, I did a lot with that. I got it, um, and I made

use of it. Trying to mix up stuff from my, from my YouTube, uh, other things, and it seems that's, what seems to be the direction I need to go as opposed to just doing gaming and computing that's just not cutting the cut. So we'll continue. I was doing that anyway now that summer's here I'll do stuff outside and we'll do lots of fun. I'm going to try to do some videos outside I don't know why yet. Maybe do some stop motion outside. Stop motion I can do it because it's something I can do on my own. It's easy and he's sort of trying to do a look at film or some sort of a short film or something I would need other help and I just don't have anybody else it's just me just doing this world alone pretty much so I have to come up with ideas where I can do it within my own ways I can do it pretty much all right so let's look at eBay this morning. I didn't

have any orders yesterday. No no no I did have one later on in the day. Of course I got it out. A couple things. I had no pop ups at all yesterday. Let's see what we got going on here. I see a $5 order. Colecovision exact motherboard. So $30 light sixer for... That's fine. Okay, yes, that's fine. I'm gonna need to make a few bucks now. I sold some stuff, so.

Sounds cool to me. Using it for a project, harvesting it, so. So that's cool. Let's see what the second one is. Defective donor, board, no, I'm not going to do that. I think those work. I'll swap them back into the other ones. So we're not taking that one. So if you're going to get way off, I'm not even going to bother. I'm pretty sure those work.

I'm gonna take that down actually. K Pro. Oh, there's a K Pro. I've had that forever. I might take that. I'll take the K Pro. It's a motherboard. It probably works.

I can use the cache. So we'll take that. I was just looking at that the other day too. So I took two orders there. I'll take that. I was just looking at that the other day too. So I took two orders there, I'll take those. Sometimes I just take orders just so I can pay the bills. Because as I always say, I live pretty much by Did you try cleaning, switching, desoldering it? Sorry, this is about the Kleco.

I do not do any board work or no electronics. I test in detail. This, the best I can. So, he wanted to know if I did any work to it. No, I didn't do anything like that. And then I have it all for $5, which is a heck no. I'd actually say the other word, but I'm not gonna, I try not to do anything. So a heck no on that,

because that means I'd have to pay him $3 to ship it. Because as we always say, even though it's a few little parts, you would think, yeah, yeah, just some door hinges and stuff. I'll give you five bucks, sure, no problem. No, not if I have to ship to you door to door, because that, it's's like you take five bucks I always say take take five dollars and go to the store and see what you can buy for five dollars

But for me in order to get to the store, I have to pay eight dollars to get there So my five dollars, I have to pay eight. That means I'm negative three So when I get to the store, I have negative three dollars. And then I obviously can't buy anything. So it's the same concept here. If you offer me five dollars, it's going to cost me eight dollars just to ship it to you. And that's with the eBay fees and the shipping costs, because shipping costs are almost going up to five bucks, depending on where you are for me in Rhode Island now. And I have

discounts on the eBay so that's a heck no I wish it was a way I could have that pop-up anytime somebody puts them that low but I haven't seen it and then I get annoyed if you come back then once I'll have a buyer offer me six dollars I'll decline I always I don't do counters because it doesn't waste your time it's certainly not gonna waste mine Especially if you're way down there even even the fact that you just initiated a five dollar offer means I really don't want anything to do with you honestly But you some once in a while get somebody to six dollars

And then then they'll do like 650 and I'll just get I'll just keep declining it and then sometimes the viral also I'll get a message like like a 911 message what's going on I could be not taking my offers and then I'd usually let them have it and then I never hear from again because I just tell them how it is dude I'm not negative doing anything the fact is I need to make a few dollars per order, right? Or then why am I doing it? If not, I mean right now like I said they're down to three or four dollars. Some words are only two dollars or one dollar. Although I have stopped selling anything lower than, really I don't want to sell anything lower than thirteen dollars. I'll take some eleven dollar offers once in a while, but that's about it. It's not worth it anymore

And then I just just keep declining and they go away. Oh, yeah, so I did yesterday I did my life in a double shave with my razor that's Killing my head. It's a cord one. So yesterday I went out and found myself a new wall a less than 30 bucks cordless so it'll be easier for me to maneuver my razor on my head while I'm doing a video so it's an upgrade so it's awesome I'm real excited about that all right let's see what else we got going also I think it's about it for this morning I got a couple orders I will have a video up just a little bit I'm gonna get all my buddies up clean and ready to all freshened up and then we're gonna strap on my phone

Around my shoulder and we're gonna open up my box From my monitor keep always from Oregon and I'm in Rhode Island. So I've had a few things come from Oregon So so we'll do those in a little while So yeah, come over and check out YouTube or you can always see what's going on here on my eBay or Etsy page, stores rather, and yeah, and we'll be back tomorrow. Alright, you guys have a great day. Alright, bye.