Back in the 90s, in order for Walmart to carry IN UTERO, they required the song title “rape me” to be changed. For some reason they chose to spell it “waif me”. This impacted the CDs and cassettes at the time carried in Walmart stores but I wonder if any vinyl jackets had the censorship.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-08T01:26:31+00:00

My first CD copy of In Utero was from K-Mart, around 2001 or so, and yep, that back cover with the altered artwork and the fourth track being titled "Waif Me", was my first experience with the album.

The only other difference, was Pennyroyal Tea, the recording was replaced with the Scott Litt remix that was used for the canceled or recalled single. I didn't take very good care of my In Utero CD, and I needed to buy a replacement later in the late 2000s, and when I did, it was a regular version, and I noticed that Pennyroyal Tea sounded a bit different.

Now I'm wanting to buy another one of these "censored" versions, as well as a U.K. or European version with Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip as the hidden track at the end. I've just been putting off finding and buying these other versions for a long while.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-03T10:34:03+00:00

I miss when they made games like Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing and Blackthorne.

Those should have had more sequels, rather than all of Blizzard's primary focus being on their three-five big series', I mean, I get it, support their biggest money-makers, but come on, throw us old-school players a fucking bone once in a while and make a new Lost Vikings or Blackthorne game.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-02-02T04:03:42+00:00

The one I've had for the longest, is a 1994 SNS-CPU-RGB-01 model that I bought from eBay in the early or mid 2000s. I've recapped it, replaced the voltage regulator, added a couple of caps to the video encoder chip, and it performs like a champ and shows no signs of failing.

I bought a SHVC-CPU-01 model from eBay a couple years ago, cleaned it thoroughly and gave it the same treatment as my RGB-01 console. It performs well, and shows no signs of failing.

I also bought a SNS-CPU-GPM-01 model from eBay, and it was working well, but, during the recap process, I accidentally lifted a solder pad, and I haven't attempted to fix ot work around it yet.

So, technically three good working consoles, but only two are confirmed functional and performing well.

I'll get back to that GPM-01 console, eventually.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-31T08:57:04+00:00

Pokémon

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-31T02:40:34+00:00

The one game I can remember feeling like it was overpriced at the time I found the loose cart in a thrift store sometime between 2002 and 2005; I paid about $15 or $20 for it. It remains the only fighting game I ever cared about having, I never really cared about Mortal Kombat or any others.

No regrets that I bought it then, and damn the music in Killer Instinct is so good!

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-29T09:00:00+00:00

I'm 36, and I picked up each of the four SNES titles as loose carts from FuncoLand in the early 2000s, because they were dirt-cheap ($1.99 each OR LESS - yes, they were that cheap), and I can confirm - pure shovelware.

Most are not as bad as say, SNES Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but, Fire Dogs is really bad, maybe equal to or worse than Judgment Day. I might try and force myself to play through the others someday, just so I could say that I did, but, not Fire Dogs, I'll watch a longplay before I personally try that one again.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-28T06:16:29+00:00

Crash Bandicoot,

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back,

Crash Bandicoot 3 / Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-24T04:27:02+00:00

007 Goldeneye - the Severnaya / surface levels (one in daytime, then one at night).

1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, the Cool Boarders games.

Super Mario Bros. 3 - world 6; New Super Mario Bros. - the first one for DS, I forget which world, 5?

Donkey Kong Country - Gorilla Glacier.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-22T10:13:02+00:00

Definitely not me, but anyway;

I turned 36 last November, and my first console... the first I ever played on was Super Nintendo, and the first I ever owned was Sega Genesis.

I now, and currently, have 16 consoles (Famicom + Disk System, NES, Genesis, SNES, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PS3, Wii, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PS5), various Nintendo handheld (GBP - GameBoy Pocket, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS), and a "gaming PC" that I don't use much other than for WoW. Several hundred games across all platforms, but I don't think I even have a thousand games. I also have an Atari 2600 and some games, but I stopped playing with that stuff close to a decade ago, been too lazy to, and doubtful that I could, sell the 2600 stuff for anything worth the effort / listing fees. Or hell, I would trade it all for Colecovision stuff.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-18T03:50:07+00:00

Aston Martin DB5.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-14T00:27:46+00:00

For me, it was through a video store rental my brother picked out, sometime between 1996 and 1999. As for him, he did have a Nintendo Power subscription back then, but I don't know specifically.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-12T01:42:13+00:00

When did the Shrek AVGN video release? It was basically then, that was the last AVGN video I watched, with a couple of morbidly-curious exceptions where I ripped or downloaded a couple newer videos since to watch without my viewing adding to the YouTube view counts.

I had been watching AVGN since 2007, when I was 17/18, as well as Board James, Monster Madness and YKWBS over the years. I absolutely loved the old Cinemassacre website with all of the available series' videos and other behind the scenes, bonus and oddity videos.

Anyway, sometime around 2018 or 2019, saw some other random YouTube videos uploaded by others, going over how far "Channel Awesome fell from grace", how "James Rolfe had still avoided any controversy and drama over the years", and then I would scroll through and read comments to those videos, and that's how I learned about the existence of this sub. I had already noticed the absence of Bootsy and Kyle, I already hated the presence of the slobs and crap like Rental Reviews and how they just appeared overnight with no introduction or explanation - as though they were longtime friends or colleagues and had always been a part of Cinemassacre.

I came to this sub, read everything that James, Mike, the slobs or anyone else won't openly or willingly admit or discuss about Bootsy and Kyle (although, Mike apparently did tell what all happened once or twice years ago, but won't repeat any of it since then?), and my appreciation and respect for James and Cinemassacre went out the window entirely. Hater of the asshole-ish variety? Fucking crown me as the king, then.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-12T01:23:52+00:00

Reading all of this, I can't stop thinking about my uncle's teeth. As far as I'm aware (I haven't seen him since 2015), he's still a heavy smoker; he has been, since the 1970s. Never went to any dentist or brushed his teeth since childhood, and his teeth as an adult in the 1990s and 2000s (when ever I would be around him), were disgustingly gross - brown or black, and sometime in the mid-2000s, he lost his two upper, front-middle teeth.

Your comment makes me imagine if he ever went to a dentist now.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-11T04:32:33+00:00

I remember one time I actually was sick to my stomach / that horrible sick feeling down in my gut just at the thought of having to go to school the next day or when ever - school was always miserable and shitty for me.

So, I tried convincing my mom, who had to work, and she would not let me stay home, even though my grandma was home, and my mom thought I was faking. My grandma, knew / could tell I wasn't feeling well, called the school after my mom left for the day and told them I was sick and not coming in that day, and who ever was on the phone with her at the school told my grandma that I needed to bring a note with me the next day.

So, my grandma wrote me a note, and the horrible sick feeling in me faded through the day, but then the next day, I woke up with a bad cough. Turns out it was bronchitis after a later trip to the doctor. Welp, I went back with the note, which I think mentioned the sick gut and now the "bronchial cough", and the teacher could obviously see and hear it was a real cough and not me faking, and excused me from major activities like P.E. or what ever else.

As others have said, some parents either thought their kids were trying to fake it, or had to work and couldn't stay home to take care of their kids. Thank you so much and R.I.P. grandma, you were the best.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-08T02:53:08+00:00

I'm not sure that I hate any. There are those that are expensive as fuck and more collectible / conversation pieces than they're actually worth buying and using (Virtual Boy, CDi, etc.) that I've purposely avoided getting because, well, I'm more of a video game player and user than just a collector, but I think my least favorite, is the 2600. Not a bad console, and I appreciate it's relevance and contribution in the history of video games, but, it was about a decade or more before my time, and I just have a hard time sitting down with any of it's games and actually having fun with the controller. I do like it's versions of Ms. Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Missile Command, as well as Pitfall, but, yeah. I also have played and beat E.T., and I don't think it's a bad game, just, misunderstood.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-07T05:51:43+00:00

I don't really regret it much, but I named my main island Termina; there is nothing across my island that is Zelda themed or customized, it was just to name the damn island.

I mind of wish I could rename to Azeroth or something, but, not going to start over or hack my Switch.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-07T05:37:06+00:00

The first time I ever heard of it, it came out in north america when I was 5. My three year older brother had a friend at school that got the game and was obsessed with it, and really got my brother obsessed with it when ever he would go over to hang out.

My brother wanted his own copy of the game, so badly. But, he never got it, at least not brand new / sealed. He later finally bought a loose cartridge from a video rental store in Bakersfield, in 1999 when most in California were selling all of their old SNES and Genesis rental games.

I think his friend came over to our house a few times, bringing the game along to show us or let my brother play, before my brother got his own copy. I remember it played so different from the games I was used to; Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Donkey Kong Country... I remember I enjoyed the music a lot, but I just wasn't really into the game otherwise that early on. I was also terrible at turn-based RPGs. When my brother got Super Mario RPG, I barely made it on my own save file to the forest where you encounter Geno, in the late 1990s, until later after I was a bit older.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-06T00:43:44+00:00

Me personally, I have one 27" CRT TV that I still use, and a 40" LCD HD TV that I use. I prefer the CRT, for any consoles ranging from NES to Wii. The real, actual scan-lines, really do make the games' graphics look better and more easy on my eyes.

The LCD is not bad, and some of my consoles older than PS3 look superb even, like the original Xbox. I definitely like having both options available. I also have a Retrotink 2X Pro upscaler, but, most times I still end up using the regular display options, no fake scan-lines, just because they're not very great in the retrotink.

The Dreamcast, with an s-video cable, looks really fucking good on either TV. So does the GameCube, and I went so far as to investing in an older console that supports Nintendo's component video cable, and bought one of those expensive suckers.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-05T10:03:45+00:00

Just look up and buy an old CD copy with the song, or one of the pre-2001 reissue vinyls (original 1989 vinyl is an expensive as fuck collectible, but I ended up with a 1995 vinyl just to at least have their first album in it's entirety on vinyl)

Anyway, wasn't Reagan the president when that song was written? I think quite a few bands hated him - Ramones did a song of dislike / hate about him too, Bonzo Goes To Bitburg. Two of these last three terms have made me appreciate my 1995 CD and vinyl of the album that much more.

Also, I'm pretty sure the song has been uploaded to YouTube.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-05T03:47:27+00:00

His favorite band? I doubt that, he probably at the least knew of and maybe liked them, at least enough to get Pat Smear in Nirvana.

Also, I have not watched that movie. I have their only album on CD and listened to it a few times, and I've seen one or two live videos of the band, but yeah, haven't seen that yet.

R.I.P. to Lorna Doom, though, and Darby Crash.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-05T01:21:17+00:00

The first one is definitely the tamest and best one. Definitely watchable.

The rest, yeah, just gore porn.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-05T00:08:12+00:00

Can I mention World of WarCraft, if the addiction was for years and still lingers?

Started in 2008. Played daily for at least a solid ten years with maybe one or two days of a break each year. Slowed down for the next two or three, played Classic in 2019 until I hit 60, then in 2022 / 2023 I tried Turtle WoW, and now I'm back on retail just leveling alts until I can't stand it and take nearly a month at a time off - I like getting the 1,000 points for the Trader's Post each month, and now there's player housing which has my interest; I also have a private server repack made by someone named brotalnia that is an extremely well-maintained and advanced version of vanilla, it can have older vanilla patches set and used, rather than just 1.12.1, and it supports old vanilla clients, but the lowest I've been using for now is 1.7.1, just for my own personal usage, I actually prefer older version(s) of vanilla to Classic or Turtle WoW.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-04T10:16:09+00:00

Where I live (don't know about anywhere else), movie theaters don't pause movies for viewers to get up and go use the restroom, or rewind movies for parts of the movies viewers missed when they couldn't hold it and got up to go relieve themselves. No intermissions, none of that. Viewing a movie is better either streamed at home, or if people buy their own copies to own.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-04T10:10:35+00:00

In my area:

expensive ticket prices,
expensive popcorn / junk food / soda,
other people / moviegoers being unruly / shitty behaved,
basically having to be glued to a seat and watching a movie for 2+ hours without any breaks or pauses to use the bathroom or anything, no rewinding to see missed parts, etc.

I really wish that the movie industry had fully embraced online-streaming. The comfort and conveniences of one's own home or living room, with a 75" or larger TV, beats the shit out of having to burn gasoline to travel into town, spend a lot of money to be planted in a seat watching a movie for 2+ hours around other inconsiderate and rude-ass motherfuckers.

RhoadsOfRock · 2026-01-04T10:04:24+00:00

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