MrShankles @ MrShankles @reddthat.com

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Yeah, but that's like... almost a 100 years ago. Completely different. SlashEs

Full-disclosure... I found it online and am about to re-watch it. Loved it as a kid, but does it hold-up? 23 minutes will tell

Edit: It... oddly holds up for me lol. Just as weird as I remembered, but kinda sweet (I truly thought when they sang "Honoli" they were saying "Harmony". It's been a long time)

Idk how obscure, but "Puff the Magic Dragon" was definitely a weird one for me. Kinda glad it got lost (probably thrown out, who knows). Almost feels like a fever dream, so much so, that I had to double check the movie even existed

With a little practice, you can do it yourself!

Pizza? Not lasagna?

There are copper IUD's as an alternative too

It could be that if vaccines can be attached to a "cup-like protein" and given through the skin, than maybe insulin could too. Just less needle sticks overall

The softmod is pretty easy, especially if you have one of the exploitable games lying around (I had Splinter Cell). The flash drive-to-controller port converter-cable and a compatible flash drive (listed on that website) is all you need.

Just write down your EEPROM number after you softmod, for the love of god, even before trying to zero it or back-it up. That was when mine froze, restarted and the disk drive failed, giving me an "error code 7"... which not many people knew could be due to a dead disk drive, because it can be due to several things. A TSOP flash (if you have a version earlier than 1.6) allows you to run without a disk drive, and an unlocked HDD. It makes it pretty much brick-proof

I had no soldering skills when I tried it, so I was very intimidated too. But a $15 RadioShack soldering iron got the job done... the TSOP flash technically only has to work once. I even "lifted the pad" on my second xbox, but there are alternate points you can use a jumper wire on, if you fuck up the first attempt. .

For a $30 xbox at a thrift store, it might be worth your time to try. I say this from the other end of doing it, but it was also my first mod, first soldering job, and I was terrified I would fuck it up. Turned out, the soldering was the least of my problems after my disk drive failed lol

But either way, good luck! It was one of my favorite projects and is still in use as a balling emulator. The thing has a lot of potential once you get into it!

Unsolved Mysteries with the silky smooth voice of Robert Stack is the background noise for my nappings

What sucks is when they quickly drive away after you pull-in. You'll always kinda wonder

I have an umbrella with a Bluetooth speaker. It even allows phone calls while using it. No idea why it's a thing, but I found it could be fun to use as a rave-toy thing. Just gotta add some LED lights and choreography!

I SWEAR, I'M A PERSON!!!!!

the bugs are the size of house cats

Lmao, I feel that in my soul

When I first moved to south Louisiana, I encountered a giant (black and orange) grasshopper. My first thoughts were along the lines of, "Wtf kind of grasshopper is that!? Did I move to fucking Jurassic Park or something!? Fuck!"

It was very jarring to see insects so big (milipedes that excrete some kinda fluid when touched, ground spiders, thunker af orb weavers, wood roaches flying)... now that I actually type it out, it still seems like Jurassic Park almost 20 years later lol; but I'm not much bothered anymore by most of them.

But the electrified tennis racquet for killing mosquitos... that shit is priceless. Wish I could find the $5 walmart ones still, because I would dual wield them and have extra for guests. I've gone from mosquito prey to predator, and it's a joy

I wish there was an active OG Xbox community on Lemmy. The subreddit helped me get through my journey of doing a hardmod (TSOP flash) on my 1.0 version; I had an unfortunate disk drive failure at the EXACT wrong time (after the softmod), and it made things a LOT more complicated lol. But I also learned wayyy more than I anticipated, and have flashed 3 more since then without any issue (except for finding a roach infestation inside one of the cases, but I still salvaged the hardware and flashed it)

But regardless, you can message me too with any questions. I've never installed a chip to hardmod, but I can TSOP flash the hell outta them now. And if you're able to hardmod, I highly suggest it mainly because of how much more stable it becomes

Edit: This wiki also has pretty much anything you'd want to know about modding the Xbox https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Original_Xbox_Mods_Wiki

Fisher pricemen

Cod Stewart and Tuna Turner

Does the added "amp" do anything more in the function? I'm the curious, not (entirely) dumb type

Decoy keyboard inside a box, next to the screen?

Do you still use 15-20% of the cost, or something more flat-rate? Tipping for tattoos surprised me, because factoring in a tip% can really change how much money I need for a more expensive tattoo, especially when it's cash only.

That's how it feels when I have to drive through Mississippi; the state line can seem like night and day in regard to the roads. It sometimes goes from feeling like your off-road driving to smooth as butter