I like him even more now
I know right? The Dreamcast was awesome.
I still remember how exciting it was to see/hear the boot-up screen 😄
Piracy was rampant on it though. Kind of feel bad having contributed to that but I was a poor teenager.
There’s a non-zero chance that Tim Walz still has his VMUs.
They still working though? Battery damage? I can’t imagine the next scandal, lol
I found a couple of my old VMUs a while back… Luckily the batteries didn’t leak and they worked once i found batteries to try em with! The Dreamcast really was awesome 😌
Pretty sure all my Chaos from Sonic Adventure are long dead by now.
Same, lol. I thought this was a post to make me think he was more relatable and cool. Cause that’s how I felt after reading the first paragraph. When I realized who was making the post and his take on it, all I could think was, why is this guys face so small relative to the size of his head!
Exactly. But the reality is the republicans would attack whatever side paints him in a negative light. If Walz was attacking video games the republican spin would be “first they’ll take your guns, THEN they’ll want to tell you how to spend your free time!”
Walz likes video games? Like a third of the entire planet does? What a weirdo, so unrelatable.
188.9 million Americans are gamers. What a stupidly broad attack.
Walz is the guy who will join your 3 man group in Phantasy Star Online at 2 AM to go take down Dark Falz.
Walz manages to save your quarter from getting stuck behind the frame for the top display of the arcade cabinet, and lets you have next.
If “I was born in the 80s” were a comment…
Born in the 80s is more the NES and SNES times. That’s gotta be born in the 70s.
What? I was born mid-80s and spent a lot of time in the arcades growing up.
But how much time did you spend at the drugstore?
“Back in those days, we called quarters ‘arcade tokens’, and they had pictures of Pac-Man on them! ‘Gimme five Pac-Mans for the arcade’, you’d say.”
Damn those were the good old days… Setting up my PC as a run through to fool the Dreamcast into thinking my DSL was dialup internet. I played PSO and Shenmue so much my family hated it.
DSL
I did some shenanigans back in the day to fake a local network for my xbox 2001, so we could ‘LAN’ with others over the internet, mostly 2v2 deathmatches. I remember you neede cross-over UTP cables, and we had to learn what that meant. What did your DSL/Dialup switcheroo give you ins PSO and Shenmue? Just regular old multiplayer?? or something like pokemon trading over the link cable?
XBConnect! I 'member!
I did similar for the Xbox lol, and I live in the states, so everything worked fine in both DC games for me.
I was surprised it was that simple, because these days it wouldn’t be as easy. I remember being super safe trying to avoid the save corruption called NOL.
For anyone reading not sure what NOL’ing was:
When the code is enabled, you withdraw a certain item from your bank depending on which slot you want to target. The victim’s character then reloads as one of the game’s NPC characters. NOL is NPC 00, so she was the default chioce and thus became the generic name for all NPC overwriting. The victim would then have to turn off his Dreamcast to avoid having his character destroyed permanently, and doing so would instead cause him to lose all his unequipped items, since he didn’t save.
Auto-save NOLing could either be accomplished by waiting to NOL somebody until he had already entered a teleporter, so that his game would automatically save at the end of the loading screen and destroy his character permanently on its own, or by combining a NOL code with a teleportation code that would forcibly send the victim to another floor after overwriting his data. Once the save is complete, the victim has to delete his character and start over, since his class, level, and inventory are forever replaced by that of the NPC. It was quite common on Oberon, which is why most people would play in locked teams on other ships to hide from the people who used those codes.
Various other codes were also created to improve the efficiency of NOLing other players, such as the “bank reach” code that allowed you to merely face the direction of the bank counter and press the A button to access it, which would allow you to immediately NOL other players after entering a team, instead of having to spend time running from the Hunter’s Guild to the Check Room. Other codes would allow you to load your character data at the Telepipe locations instead of the Hunter’s Guild when joining a team, so that you would be closer to the bank and not have to run as far.
Dunno where op was but in the UK at least it wasn’t possible for the longest time to get the Dreamcast to use a flat rate dial up because Sega did a deal with British Telecom. This made multiplayer pricey af… I know this because my dad was not amused at the £230 phone bill I racked up in the first month of PSO 😅
OMG yes. I loved PSO.
Ultimate Dark Falz was one thing (3rd form putting your buddies voodoo doll in its mouth so damaging it damaged the player), but Ultimate Olga Flow, yeesh. My brother and I loved that first form, then that second one was always rough.
Walz the kind of VP to join the ARMA 3 session and play medic
ig man, I lived that game. maybe I should return to it at some point
My god, you have incited my urge to pick up that game again
Been emulating it on the Steam Deck all week. :)
Hell yeah! That’s how I have it set up
The fact that’s it was the Dreamcast of all consoles puts so much respect on it tbh.
you just know this man was up all night playing phantasy star online with that wide ass dreamcast keyboard
I remember being a teenager PC gamer in that era and going, “I really want a Dreamcast to play games with a mouse & keyboard”. I was a weird kid.
Getting all the unlocks in MvC2 and Power Stone, also too many games of Lucky hit.
Hi, Ryo!!!
Hi, Tom. Do you know where sailors hang out?
Exactly. That lets me respect him more. With a more common answer of x-box or playstation, I would have thought “okay, who cares?” And move on. Now I think, man this guy has taste.
That Charlie thought the Dreamcast was something to be ashamed, they just don’t grasp that it’s a badge of honor
You have no idea
The republicans really, really do hate being called weird, don’t they.
Conservatives value conformity; they think they are ‘normal’, and that being ‘normal’ is by definition good. Pointing out how fucking weird they are hits them where it hurts
this is much more concise than my comment. and i edited out a couple paragraphs.
they’re trying so hard to turn it around. just listen to anything they say nowadays; it either involves calling democrats or leftists weird, or calling what they do normal.
this is why this word is more potent than anything you could say about them. say they’re fascists and draconian, they wear that as a badge of honor. fascists love being feared, fearsomeness is the refuge of the pathetic.
but they can’t handle being called weird. the entire conservative mindset is about how a set of nonsense beliefs and traditions are “normal” and everyone who doesn’t align with that is degenerate. that’s what they’re conserving after all, the “normal”. once that’s turned around and everybody agrees that they’re the weird ones they lose their fucking minds.
so now they’re trying to call everything the democrats do weird. they’re so desperate.
This guy gets it.
They took “deplorable” as a badge of honor because “deplorable” is a term a high school teacher would use to describe the cool kids who smoke and hang out.
“Weird” is a term the cool kids would use to describe Barbie Bible and her farm boy buddies.
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while i generally agree, I’d argue that calling conservatives weird means less “stupid” and more “creepy”.
it’s not that they’re stupid, though they have a tenuous relationship with reality either due to ignorance or deception…
but they’re fucking creepy sex obsessed weirdos. that’s what weird is about. they’re always thinking about people’s genitals and who’s fucking who, who uses what contraception and what they do with their body. they think about trans people more than trans people think about trans people. they’re fucking creeps.
Yeah it’s one of the elements of the authoritarian personality, and it’s fucking weird. It’s weird like someone in the bushes outside your bedroom.
Problem is most leftists embrace the weirdness because we’re proud of being unique. Right wingers are the ones who want to be clones.
Wow! They’re really struggling to attack him! He’s gotta be squeaky clean if this is the best they can do!
My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.
(My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).
And they say this while ignoring that their guy dodged vietnam because of made up bone spurs.
Trump is absolutely the weirdest and they want to be just like him
I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he’s using Twitter’s AI to make fake images of himself being popular.
Glad being called “weird” is enraging them this bad, though.
No charlie, that’s not that weird. In fact it happens all the time.
With normal people at least.
Also there is so little context to this. What counts as “addicted”? Was she just mad, that he wasnt spending enough time with her? Was she maybe just generally against playing video games? Or was he actually addicted? We will never know and its also completely irrelevant information.
Bingo! Rich people don’t need games, their lives are a fucking game. The rest of us use them to relax and escape.
Also there’s like good weird and bad weird. This is good weird. Bad weird is having your name on Jeffery Epstein’s flight logs.
Dude… he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.
Every attack they try just makes Walz seem cooler
We call this the Hunter’s Dick Effect
Well, not anymore.
I’m really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn’t that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
I overheard a probably-55 yo guy saying something about playing Assassin’s Creed this morning. Games are for everybody.
My dad is 72 and builds amazing stuff in Cities and Skylines
Games like Cities: Skylines are perfect for middle-aged and older dads. It fits right into things like fixing up and old car or building some wooden stuff.
But also any games for any people. I’m a 43yo dad who just got my kids interested in hotseat Mass Effect (they don’t enjoy doing the combat so much).
hotseat Mass Effect
This sounds like a great way to spend time with your progeny, my sister and I used to do that with Actraiser. She’d do all the city building and answering prayers, and I did all the combat acts.
The family that plays together stays together.
My dad was a city contractor before he retired and several bridges and roads locally built by his company. When he retired he got really listless and started drinking way too much. So I updated his PC to something reasonable and got him a ton of city builders from Simcity2000 all the way to Cities and Skylines II. Completely turned his time around. I mean he still drinks, but a lot less and he and I always have something to talk about.
I was watching youtube yesterday, and some elderly 72 year old gamer actually came up… https://www.youtube.com/c/GrandpaGaming
So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years… People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I’ve met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful… They’re literally normal people
I bet people said the same thing when baseball just started pro leagues.
‘It’s a children’s game, they’ll grow out of it as they mature’…
God yes…
Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by “yes men” his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room…
What he was saying at the time really wasn’t that hilarious honestly…
And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a “special guest” was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol… None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she’s worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she’s a gamer)
Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
☝️🤓 akshully sportsball bad
That wasnt their point and ya damned well know it. Ya aint being quirky youre being obnoxious.
Agreed
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Depends who’s finger
I don’t find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he’s weird to be creepy and fucking weird.
But that’s par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.
Meh, I wish they had done this with George Santos before he got elected. Being scrutinized is part of the process of running for office. That these are nothing burgers is a good thing.
Yeah and they don’t realize that latching on to these nothing issues just shows they don’t actually have anything and are grasping at any straws they can see.
I agree with you that scrutiny for public office holders is a necessary part of the process.
However, the angle of scrutiny is what is strange to me. I understand their position in that they definitely are grubby little terminally online weirdos but desperately want to escape being characterized as such and so they’re looking for ways to squirm out of it…but their attempts are also weird.
This just makes me respect him more.
Dreamcast was a fantastic console, but it didn’t have much success in the US due to poor marketing decisions.
The fact that Waltz recognized its value back then shows good judgement IMO.
thps was best played on the Dreamcast IMO.
I wonder who his favorite skater was and why it was Kareem Campbell
It’s thinking
Uhm… I suck. Nevermind.
Imagine:
You enjoy your hobbies. And you have a good enough relationship with your spouse that you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.
What a weird way to live!
you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.
Not only that, but also to have a sense of humor and understanding about it.
Oh, so Gwen Walz hiding Tim’s Dreamcast so he’s not tempted to waste away a Sunday playing Powerstone is normal?
But then Mike Johnson having his son install an app on his phone to sound an alarm when the Speaker of the House looks at porn is weird?
Pretty revealing double standard.
All politics aside, one of those scenarios in today’s America is objectively fucking weird. I see no double standard.
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Wonder how Kirk and weirdo conservatives feel about women who play video games a lot?
Do you think their heads would explode? What if they’re voluntarily childless, have a cat, and play video games?
“Angry bitter pathetic woke feminist betraying the white race by refusing to grow up, who actually wants to have kids but is too ugly to attract even a beta cuck”
God I feel filthy just writing that, I can’t imagine how people are okay thinking things even a quarter as nasty as that.
It’s a slow slide into that nastiness for them. And the entire time the only thing they’re really concerned about is themselves. They’re pathetic losers
Women don’t have rights in their America so I guess they would make them turn if off or send them to the camps.
What if they…have a cat
If they have a cat, they must pay the cat tax. That is the law of the Internet. This is why we all need to protest Kamala and get her to pay the cat tax as she is breaking the Cat Tax law.
That’s not just weird, it’s borderline grooming.
On the scale of “weird shit”
Being addicted to videogames<fucking couches
Playing games on the couch: normal. Playing games with the couch: weird.
Playing video games while you’re on the couch: weird
Sitting on the couch over the split of the cushions you just splooged into without cleaning it up…
…that’s just a Thursday evening for Vance.
