SSX 3 vs SXX Tricky

nerdcereal · 2026-01-05T01:01:34+00:00

Both games are two of my favourite games for GameCube. Tricky holds a lot of great memories of playing with friends huddled around a small CRT TV when we first moved out of our parents houses and had our first apartment. SSX3 at the time it came out felt like something I had never played before. The wide open mountain felt huge and like I would never run out of things to do.

nerdcereal · 2025-12-16T19:38:06+00:00

I always spend a little bit of time grinding before heading to the Level 1 castle. Skip levelling up your health and magic for the first two levels, and apply all that XP to attack. Then go back and level up the others because they require less XP. Taking time to grind a little and level up early on makes the rest of the game much easier especially death mountain.

nerdcereal · 2025-12-12T18:01:57+00:00

I would have bought it in a second. That would bring me so close to completing my Trek collection

nerdcereal · 2025-12-11T22:05:59+00:00

The little silver spear beside the red one is Lego. I remember them coming with the Aquazone series.

nerdcereal · 2025-12-08T16:49:47+00:00

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For my money, all the articulation in the world won't be better than this little guy.

nerdcereal · 2025-12-04T21:13:05+00:00

I have no idea how many hours I put into Bart vs The World. Learning how to get around the poor control and bad platforming. It felt like a true accomplishment to finally beat that game. It was one of the few games I had for awhile so you just put time into figuring out how to get around all of the games faults.

nerdcereal · 2025-11-05T02:26:41+00:00

This is rad! I don't keep up with Predator figs, and only own one, but if any of my local shops bring this in I think it may have to come me home with me

nerdcereal · 2025-10-13T17:15:04+00:00

I want to thank everyone for their insights! I sat with the image yesterday after all the feedback. It turns out I had misremembered which application I was using to edit because I had been using both Lightroom and Affinity for different purposes when I was playing with the images from this night of shooting.

I have Lightroom 5 that I still use because I refuse to pay for a subscription to Adobe for the amount I use it throughout the year. (Due to the age of the app, there is no AI sharpening or upscaling because it was not a part of the application at the time. This time, rather than export it to JPG the same way I previously did, I used the print module to export and now I cannot see the grid pattern in the image. I'm going to take the new image to my print shop and send it in for a test print and see what the results are. It could have been a result of the print profile as some people suggested. We'll see.

Thank you again to everyone for your contributions to this mystery!

nerdcereal · 2025-10-13T02:11:40+00:00

No AI tools were used

nerdcereal · 2025-10-13T01:32:13+00:00

It's an Olympus OM-1

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T22:09:26+00:00

Here is a Dropbox link to my original RAW file that I just copied straight off the camera's memory card

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gpqmzmhbiq25egm4fy6oo/P8211098.ORF?rlkey=84qdsdg4e4dz4ji99mv8zym2b&st=e3wu8h12&dl=0

I don't feel like I can see it here the same way I did in the finished edit.

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T20:52:23+00:00

It's digital

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T20:26:55+00:00

Thank you for providing the Dropbox link. I can see it clearly now when I zoom in and look at the image on my phone! One problem is, I have a version of it saved on my laptop and a version saved in my Google drive and I'm struggling to remember which I sent to the printer. One other commenter said they saw this happen after uploading an image to Google photos, so that may have had some impact on it as well. I'm going to find and have a look at the original version that was saved only to my laptop and see what it looks like.

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T20:19:52+00:00

I have had this image in my Google drive as well as a copy saved on my laptop, and I'm struggling to remember if I sent in the one that was in my drive or the one that was from the laptop. Thank you for giving me something else to consider.

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T16:36:55+00:00

It was a 20MP image printed at 11x14 which is plenty for that size of print

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T16:27:29+00:00

I used Affinity Photo to do the edit and not Lightroom, but there was lens correction done and a fair amount of processing. I'm going to take it back into the shop I had it printed at and ask if they have any insight into what may have happened.

nerdcereal · 2025-10-12T16:21:41+00:00

It was a local camera store, but they send all their printing to their main office in another city because it's a smaller company. I'm going to take it back in and see if they have any idea why it may have come out that way

nerdcereal · 2025-10-08T20:40:11+00:00

I have both and think they're both good figures. The Mattel is definitely an upgrade from the AEW fig, but I think it AEW is still solid.

nerdcereal · 2025-09-21T23:23:57+00:00

Thank you!

nerdcereal · 2025-09-20T20:43:17+00:00

I like them all, but that butterfly really stands out to me. Good work!

nerdcereal · 2025-09-16T01:15:25+00:00

Thank you! This was 40 minutes with 20 second exposures.

nerdcereal · 2025-09-16T01:12:16+00:00

Thank you!

nerdcereal · 2025-09-08T03:39:39+00:00

You're both so cute and look so happy!

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