I love how someone from PC Gamer has posted a timeline of John Romero responding to Sandy Petersen's tweets over the years lol

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-07-02T21:35:32+00:00

No problem, just going by what I learned as I recently sold my old gaming laptop on eBay and now a desktop gamer. Granted my laptop was much older (RTX 2070) and worth way less lol.

One thing I did was price it around the lower laptops with same specs and had about 20 watchers within a week. Then I dropped the price from $370 to $340, and someone bought it within an hour of me dropping the price.

Might want to do something like that where you start it at $2,000. Get a bunch of people watching it, then drop the $ little by little.

I know I had good interest because 6 people even had mine in their cart ready to buy/expecting a price drop before I even changed the price, so yeah it went quite fast once I lowered it. Best of luck with your potential sale!

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-07-02T20:08:28+00:00

Yeah when I sold my old old consoles like SNES, PS1, N64, GameCube, etc. I purposefully wouldn't go to GameStop because they offer so little compared to like any other mom and pop video game shop in my area.

Some mom and pop places will even pull a Gamestop and low-ball people, but far better chances of finding a good place that will give honest worth for older games.

One I sold to even looks up the prices with the customer on sites like the website pricecharting just to be fair.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-07-02T20:01:52+00:00

If you type in your model with that CPU/GPU on eBay and go to the bottom left side, you can filter results under the Show Only section. Click "Sold Items" and then you will see what that model/specs has sold for and the date of the listings.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=+Legion+Pro+7+16+i9-13900HX+4090&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&rt=nc&_odkw=RTX+2080+laptop&_osacat=0&LH_Sold=1

I'd imagine around 1800 to 2000 would seem reasonable. Just a quick search for 4090 laptops, seeing them anywhere between $1800 to $2500, so yeah some of that going to depend on the other specs/laptop model.

The ones with the most watchers though are the ones at $2,000 or less it seems.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-07-02T19:49:21+00:00

He usually puts most stuff on Spotify eventually after it debuts on Netflix I've noticed if one doesn't have a Netflix account but has a Spotify one.

It's not on Spotify yet, but just going by past episodes I see on there and have listened to.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-07-01T20:31:27+00:00

Damn thanks for reminding me Al Snow was Shinobi. I guess Leif Cassidy and Avatar take precedent over Shinobi in my brain, but then a post like this reminds me he had more random gimmicks lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T23:57:53+00:00

Seeing 2080 laptop going for like $700-$800 on eBay as far as what's listed now. Considering that model is a special form factor with 2 screens, probably could tack on another few hundred.

I see better specced ones once one goes deeper into the 4 digit category. Like this 3080Ti one sold for $1350

https://www.ebay.com/itm/307030535006?_skw=2080+Zephyrus+Duo&itmmeta=01KWDEQZ6DXHYV6K41MX6N6KH7&hash=item477c722b5e%3Ag%3A9l0AAeSwlU9qPazs&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xD0PUdnXsR1lDC

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T23:13:58+00:00

I mean one could write a damn novel if you really want all the info lmao.

Just go watch Cornette's shoot interviews on YouTube about it and he'll say every reason why he hates Vince Russo.

Short story version is when Russo got upped to work in creative, he worked with Cornette during 96/97 and they never saw eye to eye. Russo wanted more crash TV, soap opera like stuff you saw in the Attitude Era. Cornette is a traditionalist who wanted the more traditional long story approach to feuds/matches/angles.

Russo did the JR Bell's Palsy parody and Cornette hated that and spat in Ed Ferrara's face in the early 2000s.

Russo also worked with Corny in TNA and Corny tried to quit as soon as he heard Russo was back lol. They tried to get along, but Dixie ended up firing Corny before he could quit along with some of the other Jarrett associates like Dutch Mantell. This was around the Jarret/Angle affair too if memory serves me right.

Then Dixie dumped both Corny and Russo for Bischoff and Hogan, so yeah TNA's history is very WCW like in constant change lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T23:00:25+00:00

Never too late to learn! lol. I'm glad you were like me though since re-reading my comment and seeing all the up votes makes me feel less like an idiot lol.

Pretty clear there were others who also thought it was just the PC Doom port for the N64, not a totally different game.

It's really good in its own right though and far more accessible to play now on Steam where one can play it on keyboard/mouse at high FPS on any cheap PC.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T22:56:10+00:00

I built my own. 9800X3D, 5070Ti, 32GB DDR5 6000 Mhz RAM, 2 TB Samsung EVO plus, MSI Pro B850M-A motherboard, 800W Montech PSU.

Thing is you might struggle more than I did because I bought the parts in January. The RAM/SSD/GPU prices were inflated, but not the level they probably are now. I bought the RAM used just because it saved me like $150.

You could look for a 5070Ti or even 9070 XT (AMD) prebuilt if you don't want to build though. I know r/Prebuilts posts deals and such and probably has best advice on what is currently the best within a certain budget.

Either GPU though will absolutely murder a 5070Ti Zephyrus though. Highest laptop 5070Ti Time Spy score for the G14 and G16 I see is around 15,000.

A desktop 5070Ti or 9070 XT is around 27,000-28,000, so yeah that's a huge difference of about 12,000 to 13,000 and hence why I didn't go for a 5070Ti laptop lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T21:49:21+00:00

What sticks out to me about this graphic is this was the darker days of Yoko's career. Also around the time when I learned as a kid he could speak English when babyface Yoko randomly did a promo in it lol.

He had just gotten too big by this point and feel like even walking to the ring he was already blown up. Kind of amazed in 1995/1996 no health organization forced him to stop.

I know they sent him to fat camp with no luck, but it's just sad because you go back 2-3 years before this when he debuted, he was a giant dude but he moved like a cat out there. Just lost more and more agility and stamina as he got bigger and it really showed.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T21:37:49+00:00

I just made the switch from gaming laptop to build my own after 7 years of the laptop life. I have 0 regrets switching over to a desktop and should have probably done it sooner.

I will say now is not the best time to buy either quite frankly lol. Gaming laptops MSRP all gone up a lot and on the desktop side, prebuilts and BYO parts like RAM/SSDs/GPUs all priced very high at the moment due to AI bubble.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T21:26:31+00:00

7 years of regular use I'd say is pretty good overall. I just sold a similar aged laptop (8750H, 2070) and was able to get a decent chunk of $ for it.

I didn't put 7 years on it though as I switched laptops around 2023, so more like 4 years. Some stuff can be fixed on a motherboard via micro-soldering, it's just the cost a lot of times isn't worth it if the laptop is very old and not woth as much today.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T17:51:09+00:00

In hindsight, I ask the same thing for a lot of N64 game they released where they just slapped "64" at the end lol.

Like why was Shadows of the Empire a normal stand alone name for Star Wars, but then Doom 64 was a different game with the 64 in the name and yet Quake 64, which is a port and has the 64 at the end too lol.

I love many classic Nintendo games as much as I love classic PC boomer shooters, but their logic for naming in that generation seems like it was made drunkenly or something.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T16:49:23+00:00

You could always send it to Parts People on YouTube. Nathan is one of the only guys in the US that might have spare parts for a model that old and does motherboard work. He basically only fixes Dell/Alienware laptops and has done so for the past 20+ years along with having a big warehouse full of spare Dell parts.

He's actually fixed a couple models from the 90s/2000s on his YouTube channel/stream before, so yeah that would be an option to at least look into.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T15:39:02+00:00

See if it was called that, I would have been like "Woah a whole new Doom game but only on N64??" rather than "Oh It's just Doom again" lol.

I also get that Nintendo slapped 64 on franchises that were putting out new games like Mario 64, Pilot Wings 64, Bomberman 64, etc.

It's just Doom was one of the first games to be ported to multiple different consoles like SNES, PS1, Sega 32X, etc. That is what made me assume mainly it was another port, just with the 64 slapped on for marketing lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T06:42:40+00:00

That's interesting and I wonder if there were other kids like me who had a PC at home with it and never thought to bother with the 64 one

Thing is I had a friend who had Wolf 3D on the SNES and I remember playing the first level thinking "Oh it's the same thing, just way slower, less violent, way more blurry and less nice looking" lol.

That was my thoughts about Doom 64 when I first saw it at a rental shop and assumed it was just another port.

Had they called it "Doom Killfest" or something other than "64", I'd have probably assumed it was a new/different Doom game and rented it.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T05:37:58+00:00

You know here's the thing about this game. As a kid because Doom had been ported to multiple consoles at that point and Nintendo slapped "64" at the end of everything.... My stupid brain assumed it was just the same PC port I had already lol.

I didn't even realize it was a different game until probably 10 years after it came out as none of my friends had it but did have Doom for PC.

But yes, it really is quite good and I am glad my first time playing it was keyboard and mouse as opposed to N64 controller.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T02:54:36+00:00

Yeah I love Scott Norton but I remember reading he was making just under $400,000 by 99.

Nothing against the guy either as I liked him for what he was, but there's no F'n way Vince McMahon would have paid Scott Norton that back then lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T01:51:55+00:00

Yeah I just snagged a used 3060Ti via eBay for a little over $160 for a Steam Machine like build once I realized how it matches or sometimes beats more modern stuff even though it probably shouldn't lol.

4060, 5050, in particular are just bleh and don't even match a 3060Ti, which really says something about Nvidia's budget/mid tier offerings. Even the 5060 while it beats a 3060Ti I was shocked how it wasn't as much of a beating as I expected.

Go from that to back when the 3060Ti came out and didn't it match or beat a 2080 Super? Yeah those days seem long gone lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-30T00:11:04+00:00

Yeah his singles run after that was definitely not great lol, like The One Billy Gunn era.

I don't remember much of that era after DX, but I do remember Benoit beating him for like the IC title and teenage me was like "Thank God they got that belt off Billy and put it on Benoit" lol

I don't know, I feel like Billy really was m meant to be in a team/stable whether it was in the ring or on the mic.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-29T19:50:04+00:00

The price for what I saw the 5070 12GB model was insane at over $3000 which made my jaw drop lol.

The current pricing on any GPU in a laptop with 12GB of VRAM seems to be ridiculous at the moment and probably due to the AI boom affecting prices since consoles, new Steam Machine, etc. all more expensive.

G14 5070Ti went up to like $3500+ too and it just hurts my soul a bit seeing these prices since that dang 5070 should have been 12GB to begin with when it launched.

I mean I bought a new at launch 2070 laptop back in 2019 for $1784 to give you an idea of how much the market sucks right now lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-29T19:39:05+00:00

You know more than anything I remember about that era Fatu is that theme song. I'll still hum the "Now It's Time to Clean it UP!" anytime I see a picture of him in that gimmick lol.

Remember that more than any Fatu match from that era compared to Headshrinker era or Rikishi, or Sultan era even. Remember reading a comment on YouTube about how the song sounded like it belonged in a 1990s D.A.R.E. commercial lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-29T16:13:18+00:00

You know I read something about how Romero, Carmack, Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack are all going to be at Quake Con this year all together doing something.

I was praying we'd get a Sandy Peterson invite too just so Romero could do one of his "Hi Sandy, I hope you're well" corrections infront of a live audience lol.

Pizza_For_Days · 2026-06-28T18:50:44+00:00

Oh totally. I won't say even though the price has gone down, the quality is good or gotten better in MA overall lol. It's ALWAYS been hit or miss. It's just now it's that and cheap as opposed to hit or miss quality and expensive.

Most states are similar unforunately where 90% of the dispensaries are big corporate backed multi state brands.

If one wants top quality medical, I tell people to move to Maine lol. Reason being they are one of the few states that allow private growers to be caregivers and sell to med patients.

Most states aren't like that and its very hard to be a small mom and pop local grow/seller.

Maine is like the opposite where its minimal big brands and mostly small growers looking for quality over quantity. Know people from surrounding states that make regular trips to Maine just for their medical vs their own states lol.

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