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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 1d

In second place as the guest Brit in my NFL fantasy league. Had Skattebo and Wandale playing in the Thursday night game.

Four touchdowns between them.

The constant jokes about me not knowing the rules or expecting games to end 0-0 seem to have stopped. Weird.

two wrestlers on a stage with the words " and you can 't teach that " below them

ALT: two wrestlers on a stage with the words " and you can 't teach that " below them

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 2d

If you’re one of the four people outside Japan that has that Sharp CRT with the built in SuFami, then do I have something for you…

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 2d

Absolutely. My team has work out how to fix a thing today and if we can't do it, ten people from other departments will likely be laid off by the weekend cos the company will be in a hole.

That's stressful.

"Maybe I won't get a console I don't need on day one" is a minor itch on my ballsack.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 2d

Aye, and I’m not stressed about it.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 2d

Xbox Ally launch is a mess. Currys are exclusive on preorders of the X, but only had about 6.

I’ve had to preorder and pray from Amazon France, who are either lying or have tons of them.

Accessories don’t seem to be available anywhere. Is there a new dock? No idea. Premium case? Can’t order it.

Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 2d

Thinking that ‘I couldn’t get tickets for a thing for a few minutes’ is stressful in any way is my absolute life goal.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 3d

The Aphabhai-Heers had "6,568 clothes" between 5 people. Decluttered 40%.

The Buftons had 1,239 books. Declutttered 50%.

The Clarkes' 3 kids had 4,017 toys. Decluttered 50%.

STACEY FIXED THEIR LIVES BY GETTING THEM TO DO HALF A THING YAY. What a strange article.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stacey Solomon helped us declutter. Here's how we did it

Three families share the realisations that enabled them to declutter and transform their homes and lives.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 4d

Aye, I bet it's terrifying knowing that there's something else that can generate mind-rotting slop.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 4d

It’s not like Gary Neville is wrong.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 4d

Was *this* close to giving up all my physical games and shifting to emulation, keeping just the PC, PS5 (FC/NHL) and ROG, then a company I work with told me they’ve sent me a toploader NES and a box of loose carts that they found kicking about.

Now I’m all turned around.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 5d

Was looking at ROG Xbox Ally stuff. Watched 1 minute of a video from somebody who just hates Microsoft/Xbox.

Every single time I load YouTube now, I get stuff like this. Doesn't matter what else I watch.

Not difficult to see how these algorithms are turning simpletons into dangerous simpletons.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 6d

You’re not helping with this decision, Steam.

Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 6d

So, I've got a decent work/gaming PC that I never game on. I'll have an ROG Xbox Ally. Two machines that can emulate everything up to the Xbox 360 all but perfectly.

My brain is doing that thing again.

But I'd have so much money and so much space for...like... activities.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 6d

Wait wait wait. I can get Under Defeat and Sayonara Wild Hearts on Steam? And a bunch of shooters? And pinball games? And that’ll work on the ROG Xbox Ally?

There’s a decent chance I may have a LOT of Switch games for sale soon.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 6d

I took SuperKMx Japan (now slightly upgraded) into the new Challengers thing for a laugh.

19 goals scored in 5 matches. 0 wins. 4 insulting messages. The sheer sweat and rage of the opposing players was pure hilarity. Pure P2W teams…and they’re in Division 7 struggling to beat a silver team. 😂

Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 6d

Could be, I guess. Just pisses me off that seemingly every time I want to play it, it loudly says NO THANK YOU as if I haven’t asked nicely enough.

Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 7d

Sat down to play my Switch 2. Unplugged it from the mains two hours ago and put it in my bag. Apparently, being in sleep mode in a hard case is difficult, so the battery is now dead.

Preordered a ROG Xbox Ally instead of playing. Might flog the Switch 2 and keep my OLED. Piece of shit.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 9d

Gotta be honest, I’m genuinely enjoying playing offline squad battles with my silver team.

Which is handy, because every online game with my ‘good’ team ends with me scoring a billion goals and still losing.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 10d

Fuck.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 11d

Oh hey...turns out to get back in to Bluesky all I needed to do was get a brand new phone.

I can't work it out either.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 16d

Paid £29.99. Disc was loose in the case, which has a sticker saying how much he paid for it.

Needed the Hail Mary process, but OH MY BROTHER, TESTIFFFFYYYYYY.

(It works.)

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 18d

I have some vinyl that has the battle scars of being sold by Amazon. In fact, every piece of vinyl I’ve bought from Amazon does.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 19d

I also have stadium shadows and player shadows turned off. Good to see that setting does literally nothing.

I guess I just have to play however they want me to.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 19d

The goal is horrible from me, but the weirdest thing about this clip is that I recorded on my PS5, is that I have no commentary when I play. Have crowd sounds but no commentary. Can’t turn it on. Checked every setting.

Yet it’s in the clip.

Work that one out.

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Dr. Kenneth A Barnes III @superkmx.com · 19d

People, as a wise man once said, can be dickheads.

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