Found this over the weekend for about $10 and I felt compelled to pick it up as a card-carrying Final Fantasy XIII defender
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Some good finds in the realm of the mortal enemy of videogames today.
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Went to a country thrift store outsid of Yakima WA. For $12 I got all this:
- minty ps2 controller
- Minty Xbox duke
- Xbox 360 wifi adapter
- Wii remote with built in motion plus and original strap (black)
Now Iām looking at offerupā¦ mostly to find a CRT locally.
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Good finds I recently found a ps2 slim with 2 controllers at a thrift store that appears to be very low use. I finally will get to play the first drakengard game one I get a crt to play out on.
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Some of yāall would love thisā¦
JVC AV-27F577 manufactured 2006. Only $19. Has component input. At habitat for humanity ReStore in ellensburg Washington
#JVCGANG
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Found one of those gameboy 4 player buses for three bucks. These always seemed really common at thrift stores and usually in near mint condition haha. Theyāre still kinda common I guess 
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Bae already has an old retron for her SNES cartridges so I figured Iād pick up this genesis on a chip or whatever it is to match until I get some authentic consoles for the setup at her apartment. Found in the toy section at a local thrift.
Also this is their pricing for an Atari 
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that AtGames genesis has 80 games built in. I donāt know what they are, but that could be fun to find out.
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The AtGames Genesis is weird. The sound on it is way off and some games donāt run at the right speed. But it certainly will do in a pinch.
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I found a Sonos PlayBar for 50 dollars at a thrift store. I built up my stereo for music not realizing that other media is going to sound like trash through it. It kind of comical when watching a movie and a song comes on. Itās like my speakers were asleep and suddenly decided to wake up. I feel like a poser having a soundbar but Iām not building another system up just for movies that Iām barely paying attention to. Now I just have to wait until I find a Sonos Sub at the thrift store.
Why is that? Do ānon-musicalā genres of music that rely on, say, soundscapes or field recordings also sound worse? Or does it have more to do with the format of the audio/differences in expected speaker configuration than the actual content of the audio? I donāt know much about film audio at all, so excuse me for asking the dumb questions
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From what Iāve gathered itās a combination of issues. I have a friend that has worked audio in the NY film industry for about 20 years and his main complaint is that audio recording has been pushed back over and over to be the least priority part of the shooting process. His team has hardly any time to mic the sets and work out bugs. Everything is expected to be corrected and added in post. Thereās a lot of mixing in post production to push certain frequencies that smaller home theater speakers are good at reproducing, especially when you have 4 or 6 of them, a center channel and sub. When you try to push all that through a 2 channel system, you end up washing a lot of the detail out. Itās very muddy and flat. The largest complaint is that it washes out dialogue if anything else dynamic is going on in the scene. Watching old stereo movies is fine as long as the audio hasnāt been remixed for 5.1 systems.
Iām not an expert and there could be other factors and I could be flat out wrong as itās not a settled debate.
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My first experience with that was when I tried to watch The Expanse on my TV.
I donāt have a soundbar or anything. Iāve always just used the built in speakers. I didnāt expect a cinematic experience but I at least expected to understand what was being said. I legitimately questioned my ability to hear for a second. I watched 10 minutes of the first episode and I didnāt understand a word they were saying because the dialog was so low in the mix. I havenāt watched that show until this day because of it.
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TV speakers in particular have been short changed since the move to flat panel tvs. I have LG G series OLED tv and the speakers are as bad as the terrible westinghouse tv I had in the mid 2000ās. The CRT tv I recently bought is totally fine with dialog. the state of default home audio is the worst.
Also the expanse was particularly bad. I had to watch it with subtitles until I finally fell off it.
There was an electronics grab bag at the restore made for me. It had a mini RF antenna, this bootleg vcd disc of 300 games, a gba sp charger and a usb runner come container with no text on it whatsoever
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Looks like it is 150 games short.
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150 is a bakerās 300
I very much enjoy that Mario Bros. is listed as Mr mary.
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