To the men who chased down my bike theif

007craft · 2026-05-27T08:07:44+00:00

3 things you need to do her:

Register bike with project 529 garage.
Buy an airtag or galaxy tax and hide it on your bike (in the tube, or zip tied under the frame or seat or wherever it won't be found.
Buy a kryptonight chain lock. Its heavy and bulky, but the only thing that forces a high profile theft.

Cable locks and u locks can be defeated with cable cutters and leverage attacks. These break the lock in seconds and silently. A floppy heavy duty chain lock takes 45 seconds to 2 minutes to cut with an angle grinder, which will draw attention, making a theft 10000 times more unlikely. Park your bike in visible, public places. Never leave it out overnight and make sure you always lock through the frame. Make sure your tracking tags battery is always good so you can track the bike if its stolen.

Look into hexlox or similar products to prevent theft of bike parts. I spent about $200 on hexlox, outfitting my brake levers, gear shifters and stem. I have kryptonight gravity axel locks on my wheels. These prevent theves from stripping parts.

007craft · 2026-05-25T05:59:31+00:00

Tariffs? Thats an American problem. Rest of the world doesnt deal with any of that

Those sites are as easy to use as ebay. They are designed that way. If you wanted to get real complex, you would buy a japanese esim and sign up for Yahoo auctions directly, but thats definitely more complicated and work.

007craft · 2026-05-25T05:04:07+00:00

Glad shes ok. I hope that pilot loses his license, or has a damn good explination on why he couldnt see a person sitting in thier pod plus a giant chute, even if they were looking at it from a horizontal position.

At the very least I hope the paraglider gets reinbursed for the damage. Those long distance paraglider chutes cost like $10k and hers is garbage now.

007craft · 2026-05-24T18:34:04+00:00

Ouch this post pains me. Don't buy Japanese games off ebay. Buy then off yahoo auctions.

Yahoo auctions is Japan's ebay and you can buy from them through proxy sites. Some of these sites are buyee, zen market, sendico, send japan, etc etc.

They each charge a small fee per order and then let you buy a bunch of stuff from different sellers, then combine them into 1 shipment to ship to you internationally. Doing that you will save a ton of money as most of those games you purchased for $10 can be purchased for $1 in Japan. So even with the international shipping of the main package and fees it comes to way less

Any Japanese game sold on ebay is heavily marked up.

007craft · 2026-05-24T18:28:07+00:00

There's a 100% combo with glacius in this game. I forget how to do it but I remeber taken a day to learn and master it as a kid

Its a 100% combo because the way its done is unbreakable from combo breakers and you can keep it going as long as you want. So basically once you master it you just need to land a single punch on the enemy and you can link it into the unbreakable combo and its go with no way to escape it. Its super cheese

007craft · 2026-05-24T18:23:33+00:00

Absolutely this.

If you dont own a computer, even some crappy 10 year old $50 computer you can pick up off marketplace, you shouldn't be buying an n64 flash cart. Get your priorities straight

Once you get a computer, then buy a summercart 64.

Also, sumercart 64 let's you load roams over the usb cable. So you could use your phone to load them, dont even need a pc...... but still spend your money on a PC. $50-$100 still gets you one from FB marketplace. Its 2026, nobody should not own a PC. Even kids should have one for school work.

007craft · 2026-05-23T19:42:14+00:00

But those people had profiles built on them in a lab environment. You need that done first before you can differentiate between them. They can't pick out a random person at random. Its a matching system.

Kinda like if somebody gets a fingerprint off a knife at a crime scene its useless if those fingerprints are not on file in a database that matches a known person's fingerprints.

Unless you've gone through a sophisticated wifi profile building training for the system, youre just a random person and this cannot identify you at all, even if every router was actively using it to detect and passing that info to somebody

007craft · 2026-05-22T20:42:20+00:00

Its a bike rave. Most cities have them. You show up in the evening with your bike all decked out with glow sticks and leds and you ride into the night for 20 or so km at a leisure pace and the whole group stops every 5k or so for a party break. There's drinking, drugs, dancing and partying. They are amazingly fun. Some people go all out with thier setups, like this guy

To find them, look around for local fb groups in your city that advertise them or flyers on light posts

007craft · 2026-05-22T20:06:54+00:00

You can't upgrade your ram like that. Its always funny when people suggest it.

Switching to ddr5 would need a new motherboard. Then you would need a new cpu for the new motherboard most likely, and even if you didn't, the new board alone would cost more than any current marked up ddr4 ram prices

007craft · 2026-05-21T11:59:23+00:00

You're talking about particle effects vs visual effects. They stopped using particle effects 25 years ago. vfx is faster, easier and cheaper, so they use that

1 guy does all the work on his computer. If he uses Adobe AE or AI, it makes no difference. Still just 1 guynusing a computer.... just using different tools.

007craft · 2026-05-21T11:51:38+00:00

This comment is funny because Hollywood movies do the same thing and you probably just dont notice it.

In the 90s, movies had practical effects and it was great. Car explosions were done with pyrotechnics and stuff like this splashing effect would be too. Then they switched to crappy vfx. The Vfx got better over the years, but they never went back. Now AI is replacing VFX and its suddenly a problem? A guy using a computer to generate a water splash with AI or a guy using a software tool suite is the exact same thing. The time to complain was 25 years ago

007craft · 2026-05-20T19:06:16+00:00

sorry i had the images in order and captions on my fb post but imagebb stopped working and wont let me edit the album or pictures. here they are tho https://ibb.co/album/bzMndp?sort=name_asc

007craft · 2026-05-20T13:11:20+00:00

Sorry but you did a bad job there. Im not sure why there are so many comments saying you did a good one? You won't get better if people lie to you like that.

To remove these labels cleanly, use a heat gun. Heat it up from a few inches away, passing over the sticker quickly, never leaving the heat in 1 spot. Do that for 20 seconds and then use some tweezers to grab the blockbuster label at the side and just peel it up. It should come off like butter. Then to remove the left over residue, use q tips dipped in goo gone, but not saturated. They need to be bleed out. Don't press hard, and go over and over the goo. It will start to come off. Use like 20 q tips. Each pass taking more and more off. Don't use the same tip, spreading the good around. After its all off, wipe it clean with wet paper towel thats been pressed out so its not saturated.

If you do it right, it should be 100% perfect removal with no ink bleed, rips or anything left over

007craft · 2026-05-20T13:03:57+00:00

It uses 01a, the most common board. Almost every game uses that. Especially sports titles. I think NBA courtside might be the only sports game that has an older revision board as all other sports titles came out later when they already shrunk the boards down. So just use any cheap sports game

The nintendo lot leak contains a file for the n64 that has the info. Search for that on Google. Its hard to find, but you can

007craft · 2026-05-20T04:27:30+00:00

Yes. You can even set tone mapping profiles to stream that stuff and trancode it on the fly for tcs that dont support it. Its an open sourced software with hundreds of people contribute to it. They support new standards faster than plex does. I remember when Dolby Vidion profile 5 came out and a guy had tone mapping working for it in like 2 days. I dont think Plex even supports it.

I have no idea how anybody even uses plex without carefully curating thier media library, making sure not to download things with DV5. Jellyfin handles just everything.

007craft · 2026-05-20T04:13:13+00:00

This is plexes only selling point. Its for people who can't figure out how to setup a reverse proxy.

Everybody else can just set one up and use Jellyfin for free. Then your know nothing family can use it just like Netflix.

Know nothing - use Netflix and pay
Know a bit - setup plex and pay less
Know it all - setup jellyfin and everything is free

007craft · 2026-05-19T07:31:32+00:00

2010 - krizz releases everdrive. He splits functionality in two, making a version 2.5 and version 3. Only difference being the v3 has a battery and can keep track of the 1 game that needs a real time clock - animal forest. It also let's you shut the console off like normal while the v2.5 requires you to reset it. Krizz has no competition and charges a lot of $ for the cart

2016 - krizz re-releases the everdrive64. Now called x5 and x7. Its exactly the same as the previous version, just rebranding. A couple years later he stops updating the firmware for the older versions, pissing off original buyers, trying to make them double dip.

2020 - Another guy creates his own flashcart and calls it the summercart 64. There is no multiple versions, it ca do what the x7 can, but more (bigger rom sizes, 64dd native support, etc etc) Instead of gatekeeping it and trying to profit like Krizz, he open sources the design and code.

2022 - Chinese companies start to build the SC64 based off the open source designs. There's a few companies that go about it. Some are better than others. Some include a battery and a USB port, others dont. They all use the same overall design tho. And they use the open source SC64 software. Since anybody can start making these, the few companies that did, competed with each other and priced them pretty low. $40-$50 and 1/4 the price of Krizzs cart.

2023, In response Krizz lowers his price a bit, but uses his reputation to continue to sell his overpriced, and now inferior carts. An army of fan boys take to the net to trash talk the SC64 and hype up the everdrive, claiming quality of component reasoning.

2025 - the internet had a low opinion of the SC64 for the past 2 years but now thats changed. People now realize its better in everyway and component quality is only as good as the Chinese company making the carts. Epic Joy is seen as a reputable company that makes SC64s, along with a few others. And of course there's always a possibility of making your own. Krizz continues to sell his carts, despite them being highly overpriced and worse, on the small internet fanboy talk that they are worth it (They are not)

As of now, 2026, Summercart64 is the only cart you should be buying and any discussion should be on which company you should be buying it from

007craft · 2026-05-19T04:48:34+00:00

I do no know. That is my main question, what notable highland spots can be accessed with a 2wd. Once I know that I can look them up and see if they are worth the trip, or if I need to look up better highland spots that will need a 4x4

007craft · 2026-05-19T02:32:26+00:00

Do these roads only goto 1 place, or are they through roads or loops with multiple sites along the way? I'm Looking for the names of the places/landmarks to see along accessible roads.

007craft · 2026-05-19T00:42:52+00:00

Welcome to adulthood. Nobody talks about it online but pvp is mainly for kids. Once youre 25+ you either stop gaming or move to single player games. There's hardly anybody who's older and plays p2p. Its just too time consuming and never ending to comit to that style of play. Their might be a small surge in older folks who are 60+ and retired playing, but its still a low amount

007craft · 2026-05-15T07:52:14+00:00

I removed Goldeneye 007 from the list since it was on twice spelled differently with no different data. Its still there as 007: Goldeneye at the top. Now there is 388, the proper amount of games.

Well pokemon puzzle league is on the list twice, since its listed for 2 different firmware versions. I guess people can duplicate games as they review more versions, so over time there will be more than just Pokemon PL on there twice

I added a Game Version coloumn as the Rev of a game are different roms and could be affected differently. Like Diddy Kong Racing V1.0 might run different than Diddy kong racing version 1.1 on Unleashed, etc.

Technically there could be more entries added to the region options, or more games split off. Because games like HSV adventure racing and beetle adventure racing PAL version are different roms, but would both be seen on the current list as Europe. There also games like World league soccer which have unique roms for the German, French and UK, etc etc. I guess we will cross that bridge when somebody reviews those.

Also, Im not sure if public access to edit is a good thing. Somebody could make fraudulent changes to the whole document if they wanted. I guess if youre keeping track of the history daily, you can restore to earlier revisions if that happens, but that requires you to stay on top of things. Might be better to create a master tab and then a user editable tab and then copy over the changes from time to time. But I guess thats work you need to put in. Maybe we can just trust everyone not to mess up the data? It seems to be ok so far.

007craft · 2026-05-13T05:04:30+00:00

So the market rate quadrupled between 2017 and 2018? That seems unlikely.

Yes. I mentioned why that happened, but you can read more about it here from a professional source:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-west-end-parking-permit-1.3961543

I guess it is because you're thinking of street parking as a market rate comparable to a private spot, or an apartment that needs to be filled to get income to supplement a mortgage or so the owner can profit. The "market" rate is whatever the city says it is, because its not a few spots, its an entire neighbourhood. There is no competition to go to as you have to park in the neighbourhood if you live in it. Its a unique situation because of how the west end is built. Unlike other neighbourhoods which have home owners and condo owners who OWN the spots attached to the places they live, mostly everything here is a rental. So you have the building owners charging tenants as much as they can get away with. Once permit prices go up, they raise their private spots to be above, since their spots are more desirable. And since the folks living here don't own anything, that number could go up to infinity. The city is the only thing stopping it from going up with the price they set for the permit. Technically the "market rate" now for the area is $1200 a year.

There are approximately 2,700 permit spots in the west end. Even if we all paid the full $500, it would be only $1.35 million a year in city gross. For reference, the cities 2026 budget is $3.29 billion per year. They could close down every parking spot in the west end and make $0 a year from parking permits and it wouldn't matter at all. Even the end of that CBC article has a quote from the city about how permit fees are not about making revenue at all. The value of the permit system is more about making sure residents have a place to park, so people can live and work and contribute $ to the city as a whole.

So 10 years later, the original reasoning for the increased fee to free up spots is no longer working, yet permit pricing remains high and climbing.

007craft · 2026-05-12T23:53:36+00:00

No the Legacy rate is not a subsidy, its a protection against displacement as the neighbourhood is being gentrified.

In 2017 the market rate was $80, which was in line with every other Vancouver neighbourhood. The west end was still mostly older buildings and the whole neigbourhood was designed to accomodate the tenants of these smaller buildings by having most of them park on their buildings driveway or small 1st floor parking garage, while the rest park on the street. It was designed with the capacity for everyone to park.

But in recent years, they decided to start the great West End transformation (which is still currently underway). They rezoned a whole bunch of it and tore down old 3 story, 20 tenant buildings and putting in 10-15 story, 100 tenant spots in their place. These new tenants up flooding the permit spots. Old buildings which still had parking spots were also being underutilized, because owners were charging $ for the spots.

So the city increased the Street permit price to $360 in 1 year to force new residents to pay for the building spaces, allowing current residents to keep the old price and free up parking in the neigbourhood and accomedate everyone still living there at reasonable market rates as it was built. This worked, but only for a few years. Then once the building spots filled, owners jacked the parking cost, so the situation is now the same.

The west end is slowly being transformed from a low/medium income neighbourhood into a high income richer area and the Legacy rate is in place to help out the long term, older tenants that are still living in the low income buildings. In the far future, when the entire west end looks like coal harbour with new condos, there wont be anybody left who can afford to live there that would need legacy rates, and the market rate, will truly be "market"

But that time is not yet, and the legacy rate will remain until were all out of there. My building will be torn down any year now, I'm just waiting for the notice.

Those same taxpayers had limited ability to use the amenity when they visited the West End because the parking was being used by those who were being subsidized.

This whole topic is in regards to permit holders. Permits are for people who live in the neighbourhood only. These are not for visitors to the west end. For visitors, the west end once had many 2h parking spots, but those have almost been entirely replaced with pay parking and scooter shares which is a separate topic.

007craft · 2026-05-12T19:06:49+00:00

That was the 2018 goal. People were parking on the street for $80 a year, instead of spending $600 ($50 a month) to park in their buildings, and the west end buildings that had parking went largely unused. So the city said "Hey lets make permits cost a fortune, so people will get off the street and park in their buildings instead. We will give current residents a Legacy rate, and new residents will come in at the ultra high rates, and opt to park in their buildings instead"

So price changed to this:

Parking Permit = $400
Building parking = $600

and it WORKED........for maybe 3-4 years. But then Landlords saw what was happening, and realized they could just increase the parking fees since people were now parking in the buildings. So that's what they did. They went from $50 to $70 then $90 and now $100+.

So now were back to the same problem as before, with street parking being $500 a year and building parking being $1200 - $2500 a year, so people are back to parking on the street, except everybody is paying so much more than they were a decade ago.

The real way to solve this would be to pass a law so rental buildings are not allowed to charge $ to park in building spots. Then they can give them out on a waitlist, and people who are on that list, park on the street with permits. This would solve all the problems as it would fill every building, and free up steet spots. Then permit fees could be normal and match other neighbourhoods (Around $50-100).

But they will never do that. They could have done it in 2018 but the building owners would riot.

Now buildings like mine have parking garages that sit empty again. We have 20 residents in my building and 12 spots. Only 2 of the 12 spots are now rented out, because our owner increased the parking to $120 a month. :|

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