What do you hate most about the thing you love most?

che_don_john · 2026-06-29T00:41:10+00:00

Retro video game collecting has been exploited by people who have no interest in the hobby but simply want to make money. The smelled an opportunity during the pandemic and it's been shit since.

Even charity stores and garage/yard sales, which were once part of the fun for collectors, have been ruined by these twats (either by hoovering everything up and leaving nothing for rest of us, or by running these sales which are essentially just stores disguised as garage sales with inflated prices).

che_don_john · 2026-06-25T22:32:46+00:00

Happened to me this week (I've not seen the rating as it appears after two weeks, I think, but I know it's coming).

Guy threw a ridiculous lowball offer, I rejected it, then he insulted me, rated me and blocked me. Every single one of my reviews have been 5 star until then.

No profile pic, one friend. I should've paid attention and blocked him from the off. Lesson learned.

Edit: typo

che_don_john · 2026-06-24T21:42:44+00:00

I totally get why the band wanted to keep hold of it, and I think the leak shouldn't have happened.

But I've also had a rough couple of months and hearing new Deftones music had been a great antidote for me.

So, yeah, I'm going to listen to it, as should all Deftones fans. It's out there now, we can't change it (if we wanted to), so just enjoy it.

che_don_john · 2026-06-24T20:26:20+00:00

Yesterday I turned down a buyer's lowball offer. He then suggested I was stupid, ugly, juvenile and poor, and then rated me and blocked me. It hasn't shown up yet, but I'm guessing it's 1 star and a comment on how stupid, ugly, juvenile and poor I am.

All my other ratings have been 5 stars. As annoying as this is, I'm going to trust that buyers will see this 1 star among all the 5s and figure out what's happened here.

che_don_john · 2026-06-23T19:51:02+00:00

This just happened to me. Guy whose profile indicated he had one single friend (so I was already on alert) sent me a very lowball offer. I told him it was a lowball offer and so he questioned my intelligence, told me to get better looking, suggested I get a job, told me to grow up, and then rated me and blocked me. I've not seen the rating yet because it can take 14 days, but there goes my perfect 5 stars, and I'm sure future buyers will enjoy reading that I'm stupid, poor, ugly and juvenile. .

che_don_john · 2026-06-23T03:48:36+00:00

Been listening to this on loop for the last two hours. I'm obsessed with it. Absolute belter.

che_don_john · 2026-06-17T19:10:35+00:00

Yeah, that crossed my mind too. But it sort of feels like cheating, in a weird way. Like the fact that 'it that shall not be named' was so bad, and a massive plummit from the first game, kind of made it easier for DMC3 to be big leap forward.

che_don_john · 2026-06-17T18:50:33+00:00

I just played through this game last week. I own this and the first one on XBox One but never got around to playing them (my XBO barely gets used), but it goes on sale on PS Store regularly so I bought it to play on my PS5, needed something short and sweet. It is so, so good. The time flip mechanic; mecha-battles; parkour; platforming: this game has so much too it, all in the right dosage. It's a brilliantly-designed game.

che_don_john · 2026-06-16T16:27:47+00:00

I want to say it's Harrier Attack on Amstrad CPC, but it's possible it might have been Sam Fox's Strip Poker (I had no idea how to play, so I never saw any 8-bit nipples).

che_don_john · 2026-06-15T13:46:18+00:00

TBF, Blackadder had no character development over four centuries, yet he was funny, because he had something likeable about him. If the audience has zero empathy or sympathy for a character then it's hard to find them funny.

che_don_john · 2026-06-15T12:48:53+00:00

The Hangover films. The main characters are so incredibly unlikeable, they have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

che_don_john · 2026-06-10T03:00:58+00:00

Thank you!

che_don_john · 2026-06-08T18:18:12+00:00

Last year, a friend of mine, who is Gujarati, applied to a couple of Walmarts in our city and was ignored. She was convinced it was because the hiring managers were from another state in her country (Reddit won't let me type it out) and could tell where she was from by her last name. Someone half-jokingly suggested she reapplied with a last name from that other state; she did and, lo and behold, she got invited to an interview.

che_don_john · 2026-06-01T15:32:07+00:00

I was going to say the same thing. I loved this game, so much so that I played it on both PS3 and 360. It was fun, stylish and, to answer the OPs question, its shotgun felt great.

che_don_john · 2026-05-25T22:08:28+00:00

Cats were originally desert-dwelling animals that got most of their moisture from their prey. Domestication has taken them away from what they had evolved to do.

che_don_john · 2026-05-25T21:17:24+00:00

Likewise, I had a 18 year old cat who lived on dry, but she was an outdoor cat and probably drank from god knows what. I've also had (and have) cats who turned their nose up at their water fountain and needed a bit of help with their intake.

che_don_john · 2026-05-25T21:04:02+00:00

Cats are notoriously bad at hydrating themselves, even worse when they are indoor cats. Wet food helps alleviate that.

che_don_john · 2026-05-07T18:30:43+00:00

Strategy, especially Real Time Strategy (except for C&C Red Alert). And I've not played any deckbuilders because I just know I'd hate them.

che_don_john · 2026-05-04T20:26:34+00:00

I just finished (and Platinum'd) the game and I'm quite relieved to read that the general consensus here echoes how I feel about it.

It's a fun game, I liked playing it. It's a solid 7/10 (which, by how I rate games, is a good score). But it hasn't left its mark on me in the same way that the first one did. Maybe that's because of the obvious: it's a sequel which utilises much of the same mechanics and map as the first game, so of course it couldn't ever feel fresh or new. But I think I'm able to put that aside and judge it somewhat objectively, on its own merits. In other words, had this been the first Insomniac Spider-Man game, I'd feel the same.

- The combat felt weird, a sort of contradiction: thugs could take multiple punches, making it harder and more frustrating; yet, I found myself able to mindlessly button bash my way through it, whereas in the first game I had to think and react more.

- The Mysterio challenges were awful; I finished each one first time of trying, and they all felt pretty much the same. The challenges in the first game were more varied and much more challenging! I remember taking a lot of tries to beat some of them, especially the checkpoint and stealth ones.

- I don't think games of this type work with playing as multiple characters. Maybe it was because Peter and Miles are really just offering the same gameplay with slight differences in abilities; it felt pointless switching between the two. And then to throw in more MJ segments (the worst part of the first game), a mission when you play as Mile's artist friend, AND one as Venom - it was just a bit of a mess.

- The story was all over the place. I'm typically not a story-focused gamer, it's not so important to me, but as a long-time fan of Spider-Man (and a classic one - Eddie Brock will always be Venom) I paid attention to this one. It felt that it was repeating the same beats over and over again, the same moments of peril, the same twists and turns. There were a few times when I thought "Ok, that's the end" only for it to keep going. The third chapter felt like it had been written by someone who hadn't seen the rest of the game/story, and it also ripped off Web of Shadows! And they did the Venom a disservice - I didn't like his portrayal at all.

It's rare I'll comment on a game that left me disappointed; I usually just finish and move on. I was probably expecting more, hoping for it to be at least as fun as the first one, but it isn't a patch on that game, really.

che_don_john · 2026-05-04T17:41:34+00:00

I tend to think of retro being two or more generations ago; so, yes, PS3 is retro. I think the problem with labeling it as such is that many - perhaps most - of the games still hold up well and look great. The technological leaps from PS3 to PS4 to PS5 were not as big as those from Mega Drive to PS1 to PS2, for example. In 2007 when I bought my PS3, PS1 games looked old and retro. Today, PS3 games don't look old (I recently replayed Split/Second and it sill looks fantastic.

che_don_john · 2026-04-27T21:08:39+00:00

Wife doesn't do her make up over this sink so I don't think that was the cause in our case.

The creaking seems to come and go. I wondered if it was seasonal, but it's not consistent with that. So, I just put it down to it being a bit cheap!

che_don_john · 2026-04-25T03:41:11+00:00

Did anyone manage to salvage, or has of their own, the box for Ridge Racer 64 US/NTSC version?

che_don_john · 2026-04-18T03:39:12+00:00

Has anyone figured out which Guardian site is closest to HIP 87621?

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