The Summer of Chuff - Chufftober 2014 - PBJ'S Moldy Meat

[ChadTower]

How many of those will still be shrinkwrapped in 18 months?

[Vigo]

The way pbj is going, he is probably gonna buy a shrink wrap machine for $0.56 on amazon, then can play the games and cash them back in at Walmart when done.

[pbj]

Right now, I've got about 4 or 5 retail new games I haven't opened.  Another 3 from Gamefly I haven't touched.  I'm trying to force myself to complete one before I move onto another one.  So I worked my way through Infamous, and now I'm a couple of hours into Tomb Raider.  I was pleased to see Lara Croft evolve from a cartoonish pinup to somewhat resembling an actual woman (despite that boner killing accent) but I've been surprised at how disturbing I find her graphic deaths. 

Diablo 3 is exempt from that rule, of course.  There's been probably a dozen couch multiplayer sessions and I'd estimate about 10,000 chickens gave their lives to supply us with wings.  Probably beaten that damn game four times over by now.

Anyway, the glowsticks and hedge trimmer showed up last night.



 

[pbj]

So I trim my hedge...



And the UPS guy shows up.  Latest loot haul:




Examine how amazon packages one set of felt car battery washers:



 

[pbj]

 

[HaRuMaN]

Damn dude.  Seriously.  What's your secret?

[yotsuya]

Ancient Chinese secret.

[pbj]

Not only was this one free, I beat Amazon into a price adjustment...



Another sealed game goes into the drawer...

 

[jdbailey1206]

Ancient Chinese secret.

And I now feel like a bonehead for ignoring this thread.

[yotsuya]

I picked up my first SSD yesterday to mess around with. I set up Windows 7 64-bit on it, planning to use it on my gun cab project and...

HOLY ---fudgesicle--- DOES IT BOOT FAST!!!! 

[yotsuya]

Just got a good deal on another one (a 256 GB one) for about $100 shipped. That one is going into the jukebox.

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

Just got a good deal on another one (a 256 GB one) for about $100 shipped. That one is going into the jukebox.

Just for shits, install Crunchbang and clock the startup.

Well, I just got handed an old laptop with a dead HD and I know what I'm installing on it now....

[yotsuya]

Tempted to get a few more for my MAME projects.  They're done, so no writing to them needs to be done.

[Louis Tully]

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[yotsuya]

Won't work for my juke,  but I might throw it in something else.  Thanks for the link.

[Louis Tully]

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[rovingmind]

downloading it now, but i'll toss it in a vm first.

[pbj]

Seems to be super download packages adventure thus far.

Anyway, on first "vacation" in 14 months.

 Finally did this:



Got this rigged, too:

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

Alright, I guess.  I've never really used linux and yet here I am posting from the damned thing.

Cannot get mame going no matter what I do.  Help there appreciated.

[yotsuya]

Got my FireTV Stick today, delivered on a Sunday, 12 days early.

I think I'm gonna create a new Chuff thread for the holidays. It'd be fun to see your loot, gift ideas, and so on.

[pbj]

Finally did some finishing work on the cabinet that shall not be named:



Yep, finally got the front end marquee to match the custom ROM.



My god, I can finally hear it.  This obviously needs a speaker grill and slight touch up.

Proof positive you shouldn't let the BYOAC naysayers get your enthusiasm down
 

[Slippyblade]

Naysayers?  Never!  We are a happy-go-lucky bucket of positiveness!

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

You still rockin' that DIY spinner? I canned mine.

Oh yeah, that thing is long gone.  This is from an Arkanoid.  Think I paid $12 for it on Ebay. 

 

[yotsuya]

You still rockin' that DIY spinner? I canned mine.

Oh yeah, that thing is long gone.  This is from an Arkanoid.  Think I paid $12 for it on Ebay. 

 

You got any cat food tins lying around...?

[pbj]

You got any cat food tins lying around...?

Nope.  Put the cat down.

[Le Chuck]

Is that just MALA set to scroll through the marquee images only?  I hadn't seen that before, looks like a pretty clean way to do selections on machines with smaller lists. 

[pbj]

It's Atomic FE using some vertical layout.  I honestly cannot remember at this point if it was a layout I created, downloaded as is, or heavily modified.  It works pretty well, but it does hitch up a little if you scroll through the list quickly (it's some bargain basement PC in there).

The only thing I truly dislike about it is some of the marquee images floating around out there are very poor, even squashed down to this size.



 

[pbj]

The mead and prison wine debuts tonight.  So now it's time for the December edition of "will this kill me."

Step one, get cheap pork at the kosher grocery store:



Step two, cover it in salt, put in a bowl, drain the fluid twice a day:



(Angrily suspect your store is injecting meat with saline, too)

Step three, wash it off with wine, cover in paprika and cayenne pepper:



Step four, let rot for a month:



 

[HaRuMaN]

 

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

I may actually unseal this one

[yotsuya]

I don't have your refined palate,  so tell me, what the hell are you doing with that meat?

[Louis Tully]

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[Vigo]

Sound like capicola. You add any curing salt to that, or going completely medieval on your recipe?

[Vigo]

Btw, love the vintage kool aid pitcher.

[pbj]

Sound like capicola. You add any curing salt to that, or going completely medieval on your recipe?

You are correct.  I packed it in pickling salt twice a day for three days (I lost some every time I poured the fluid out of the bowl).  It was amazing how much this thing shrank.

Btw, love the vintage kool aid pitcher.

Thanks, I am quite proud of that.  Kook aid points redeemed for it 25 years ago.



Shadow of Mordor plays waaaay better on ps4 vs 360.  Glad I sprung for it.

[pbj]

Three pounds of jerky:





And this may be my crowning achievement:



14 cents from the gift card balance, overnighted from Las Vegas.