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1. My large but rather old Trinitron KV-27XBR55 miraculously manifested a very large picture in picture of static that is currently taking up almost a third of the TV screen. I don't have the remote, and there's no way to manually turn off PIP (that I know of) using the buttons on the TV--it's just stuck there. It's way too annoying to deal with, so I can't play console games until next weekend when I can get the remote from my parents' house. :(

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, I knew you'd be posting this.

Fancy a wesnoth?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah nice one

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I was actually pondering that when I was getting baked in Prospect Park today. I think this inauspicious PIP is God's way of telling me to take a break from console games. Wesnoth is go.
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― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

2: As mentioned in another thread a while ago, my near-100% Super Mario World save is still wiped, and I haven't re-completed the game. I don't know when the next time I'll be able to bring myself to play Super Mario World again after that tragedy will be.

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Are we just bitching here? I had an Xbox for two days before it stopped reading discs (circa January) and I'm apparently so lazy that I still haven't sent it back for repair.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

4. My Gyruss arcade cabinet has a burned-out monitor and could definitely use a replacement joystick as well. Will I ever get around to doing anything about this, or will I be forced someday to throw the poor thing out on the street? Sure would help if I knew anything about machine restoration...

5. My PC is too slow to run Counter-Strike: Source. Is this a blessing in disguise?

― Chris F. (servoret), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

6. The Nintendo Revolution will not available until next year.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

6a. The (nintendo)revolution will be televised, making Gil Scott Heron a liar.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

7. our tv being busted

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

isn't that the same as no.1 ?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

6b. The Revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.

6c. The Revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

6d. The Revolution will not get rid of the nub.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

8. i trashed the windows boot partition on my fast pc the other day (installing gentoo). all those thing i said i need to have another look at (tron 2, homeworld) are going to have to wait until i can figure out how to get it back.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"sadly, no trace of COZEN was ever found..."

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 15 October 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

4.5 million clients! Blizzard should spinoff a managed securityservices business. That's a fucking impossible deployment.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

no way!http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000049619.JPG?0.4913797508965584

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

haha there is no WAY that is the 360's standard AC adapter

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

That's totally a dev kit--also note the ugly vents on top.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000050574.JPG?0.8896506086707162

haha they're saying it's not

― c7n (Cozen), Monday, 24 October 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

9. My Yoshi's Island saved games all erasing themselves.

When this happens, does it mean that the battery is toast for all time? Should I bother starting over or will this just happen again?

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Noooo :( This is what happens to my Super Mario World.
Surely it's possible to replace the battery, right? SNES carts have those awful screws though. I remember hearing someone call them torque, or Torx, or something.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Replace like THIS

Sounds easy-ish...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

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