Had to hit pause on it this week, but recently I have been working through Final Fantasy IX, the PC remaster on Steam w/ Moguri Mod. Started my playthrough in early September, and I just got the boat and entered the grindy minigame hell portion of the game.

I dunno that it's going to make vinyl less popular, but it's definitely going to be less accessible. Charging fees on shipping costs is wild.

Athens is a little bit outside my normal range but having lived in Appalachian Ohio my entire life I can say you see the same attitudes everywhere here.

if it's worth 2100 miles and a border crossing to you, you can have it, haha

Oh hey, we got the old.lemmy front-end. What are the chances of a lemmyBB front-end, then?

My old house from the early sixties has electric radiant heat in the ceilings as the sole heating source, a large sun room running the length of the house, and almost no insulation to speak of. I'm in Ohio.

Incidentally, when we moved in, the inside doors of the cabinetry were all wallpapered in newspaper clippings about the 1970s energy crisis. I can't imagine why!

I had the same thing happen a couple days ago, trying to upload an image to lemmy.ca from this account.

my home instance is hosted by sdf.org, a 30+ year-old non-profit org that is sustained entirely by voluntary donation (as in membership is free). You should look them up.

That's very similar to the point I made! To one of the folks I was talking to, any x86-based machine wasn't 'vintage' but a Commodore 64 might fit the bill - sure, the C64 entered the market a decade earlier, but it was on the market until after the introduction of the P5 Pentium.

Someone on the SDF Mastodon got bent out of shape because I suggested a computer with those specs might be considered 'retro', haha.

Right now, the only retro machines I have accessible are my Tandy 1000TX and my C64, but my actual preferred machine for most things retrocomputing is one that I built out of a bunch of my spare parts:

Biostar M6TLC Slot 1 Motherboard PGA 370 Slotket 500MHz Mendocino Celeron PGA370 CPU 128MB of 168 pin SDRAM Sparkle SP5200 RIVA TNT2 Vanta AGP Soundblaster 16 CT2940 ISA 3Com Etherlink III ISA 1.44MB FDD, DVD-ROM, 20GB HDD Running MSDOS 7.1 (stripped from Windows 98SE)

The only picture I have of it was taken in the dark with a Mavica, so I won't bother posting it, haha.

Ridge Racer the first one already came out, how can you follow up on perfection?

4 > 1 > 5 > 7 > 8 > 3 > 14

LoZ4 is still my favorite, but the original and SNES ALttP are right behind it.