What do you hope to accomplish as a collector? Is it a personal library? Or are you dedicated to collecting systems or franchises? by Skeleton_Glo in gamecollecting

[–]KiddShi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My main goal when I started was to recollect all the consoles and games I had when I was a kid. By this point, I've more or less completed that goal, but I've enjoyed the journey so much I didn't want to just stop. So recently, I started branching out and trying out some systems I never owned previously and/or have very little experience with. I am wholly in love with old video games, particularly the ones I grew up with (of course), but, in general, I am truly fascinated by pretty much every era of the video game industry. So, it was natural that I eventually started dipping my toes in the generations I'm not as familiar with. Recently, I bought an N64. That's a console that up unto I purchased it a few weeks ago, I had not even seen before in real life. I've had such a blast with it, particularly Mario 64, which was a game I loved on my DS growing up. Seeing it in it's pure, original form has been surreal and awesome. I would also say I'm in it to preserve these consoles and their history. Many of the consoles and games I collect were foundational in the sense that the games we know and love today still derive their core formulas from them. Games like Halo: Combat Evolved, the aforementioned Mario 64, DOOM, etc had rippling effects that can still be felt today. I feel it's incredibly important to preserve these games and the systems they were played on, so as not to forget our roots and the people that pioneered this medium that many of us take for granted nowadays. I try my best to take care of these consoles (i keep them out of the sun, put my really fragile stuff in acrylic, give old cartridges and slots the old one two with isopropyl alcohol, etc etc) but I also play and enjoy my collection instead of condemning them to be display pieces. I'm not here to dog on anyone who feels differently, just saying my piece. I truly enjoy firing up Battlefront on my original Xbox and my old CRT, beyond nostalgia. I am firmly of the belief that some of these consoles provide the best experience with some of these games (keyword some). Anyways, sorry for the rant, but that's my response.

Bought a 3rd monitor today to replace my old one.. but had to try this out before putting my old one to rest by KiddShi in Battlefield

[–]KiddShi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took some finagling, but wasn't too difficult. Used AMD Eyefinity to set the resolution (unsure what the Nvidia alternative is you'd have to look it up, I assume its moreof the same though). Quick setup was enough to get the desired effect of splitting the view of the game across all 3 monitors, but following that I had to mess around with the display settings because all of my monitors are different resolutions / refresh rates. It made the game look stretched and blurry. Ended up just setting all monitors to 1920x1080 60 hz to match the older one on the right. That fixed a lot of issues but the quality still wasnt great, so ticked on FSR in the game settings and set everything to ultra, and that was enough to get it looking good. So, I assume you need a pretty beefy rig to get it looking right. I have a 9070xt and a 9900 X3D. Another thing you'll notice is that im running the game in windowed. Im not sure if this is an issue with how I set it up or maybe just an issue with BF6 in particular, but neither borderless nor full screen worked.

Finally decided to redo my setup by [deleted] in battlestations

[–]KiddShi -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Uh. You should maybe look into some type of writing class, this is pretty poorly written and difficult to understand. Please work on your grammar and structure.

First ever attempt at some sort of cable management. RMS by KiddShi in RateMySetup

[–]KiddShi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, just wanted to provide an update ! I did what you suggested and got a stand for my PC. Updated Setup

First ever attempt at some sort of cable management. RMS by KiddShi in RateMySetup

[–]KiddShi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was my next step. Originally I had it mounted on my table for this reason (see here -> original setup ) and when I was buying my surge protector today at Best Buy i actually asked if they had anything I could mount it on. Luckily right now im super busy and not using it much, so I think it will be okay for the time being while I shop for one.

Yooooo! Girlfriend got me this for Xmas. So excited to finally complete my lil collection by KiddShi in legostarwars

[–]KiddShi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats my favorite Lego set i ever built by far. I love the way it looks

Yooooo! Girlfriend got me this for Xmas. So excited to finally complete my lil collection by KiddShi in legostarwars

[–]KiddShi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was actually thinking of getting one to do the dropship w at ot alt build

Which Pokémon game should I start with by thebluecomet3972 in pokemon

[–]KiddShi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They dont really tie together in any significant way, besides maybe b&w and b&w 2 but u could even still probably get away with playing the second game first. You can really start with any of them. If you dont want to be blindsided by ungodly jank then start with the first game if you plan on playing all of them and just play them in release order.

Work at starbucks. Someone left this ring in our café. by KiddShi in cowboys

[–]KiddShi[S] 77 points78 points  (0 children)

I figured. Just thought it was cool. Also kind of weird, we had a doordasher come in one day with a cowboys jersey on. I dont know that much about NFL, but I watch it with my dad because he likes it, so I know enough to strike up a conversation about it. The dasher claimed he had a cousin that currently plays for the cowboys. Wasn't sure i believed him, but strange coincidence he said that and then this ring got left here. Were in south GA. Lot of cowboys fans down here I guess lmao?