That’s funny, I’ve actually been playing through it for the first time recently. I played NEO 2 years ago and loved that, and I definitely love the og game too.

Really cool and creative game, both from gameplay and story. And mate, the music, its fucking art. Like the rest of both games, yeah.

Oh I just saw that sale, that’s pretty cheap. Have fun with your light as well!

Just 10$? That sounds almost too good to be true. Are they of the same quality?

What do you mean with better batteries? Just ones that are of higher quality than the supplied one?

A light like this does seem useful for power outages and the likes. I don’t have a backup bag or anything, but now that you’re talking about it, I probably should. Maybe not for 72h, but something smaller can’t hurt. I guess I’ll start looking for some other equipment that could be of use.

And yes, the lowest setting is really good. According to the manual, it can last for almost 21 days. And it’s definitely useable at that brightness, too.

Nice to hear that yours still works after 2 years. This thing feels really nice, I hope it will last for decades to come. The battery should indeed never be an issue.

Yeah it looks pretty nice. More or less at least. I would have gone with the green version, but I just couldn’t pass this one up. Just look at it!

It is also rather small, yes. Really a great light for my next adventures.

Yes, KV-21FX20D to be exact.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that think that Trinitrons are the only CRTs worth going after, but slot masks can look just as good if not even better in my opinion.

This is a really cool project. Looks pretty convincing at first sight

Yeah, actually starting and going through with it is half the work

Yeah, its absolutely not a space problem. The Samsung S10e has a headphone jack, a SD card slot, and has a 5.8" display. Its way smaller than the vast majority of phones today, yet it has all of these features.

I think we all know the reason apple removed it was because they can sell you the worse product for more.

Having the reader on the back was easily the best spot. The only thing I miss from my old phone.

Maybe give the universal android debloater a try. Its a pretty useful tool.

Oh, I know what you’re talking about. I got a “new” phone a few months ago. Was thinking about either the pixel 4a or Samsung S10e, and went with the latter.

The cool thing is that both of these phones have LineageOS support. I didn’t try it yet, but LOS sounds pretty awesome, I hope that I won’t be disappointed.

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn’t need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

That’s so cool! Will you make a post about it when you’re done?

Awesome to hear that it works on real hardware. It’s so cool to play new mods on decades old consoles.

Valid concern. I made a little visual inspection from the inside of course, but didn’t find anything. Now that I think about it though, I didn’t check below the PCB.

Another person also mentioned that my soldering work isn’t that clean, so I will probably open the thing again and check for bugs and redo my the cable.

Yes you’re right, it really isn’t the cleanest soldering work. I’m still practising a lot.

It is probably fine though, I tried pulling the cable apart where I soldered with quite a bit of force, but it didn’t loosen a bit.

The TV also only consumes 52W according to the back label, so it should be fine.

On the other hand through, this really is a connection that needs to be really solid.

You’re right, I should probably revisit it. I’ll see when I have time for it.

Well, I guess there are some people that really think that the few grams of copper inside the cable is worth something. Most people see CRTs as worthless today anyway, which is pretty sad.

Thank you :) I’ll see how many hours it was used once I get the remote for it. It’s probably not too much, since the tube looks pretty bright.

I see CRTs pretty rarily on the street. It’s probably because they’re getting rarer? But yeah, I know the feeling of seeing one and not being able to take it with you. I mean, I have already seen a few that I just didn’t need, like 100hz sets or just rather low quality TVs. I don’t have that much space so I never picked these up, even though I also didn’t want so see them trashed. With this one, I just couldn’t leave it there. It’s a 21 inch CRT, so I somehow made space for it at home.

And yes, this was also my first time working on a CRT. It would have probably taken a few more years for me to build up enough confidence to open one, but finding one that needed repairs greatly accelerated it if that makes sense. I still don’t really feel comfortable touching the electronics inside because every just tells you about how dangerous they are, but I hope it gets better for me in the future so that I can possibly do some more difficult repairs if needed.