Live music is the best! Festival season is almost here!! I’m sure that show will be amazing. Enjoy.
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The other day I had a sense to check my email… The subconscious is awesome! I look in my Spam folder. I see an email from CastleMania Games, The Retro-Fighters D6 game pad is released. That email was sent on the 6th.
I then try to order from CastleMania games… Tried 2 credit cards and both would decline. Probably not enough of a reputable company that the charge looked sus… So I ordered directly from Retrofighters.
There was another controller I was raving about a couple years ago. It was a SEGA Saturn styled controller with 2 hall effect analog sticks made by Retro-Bit. But it would go out of sync if you held the wrong buttons together. Maybe I need to reassign the buttons in the game options to avoid that.
Anyway. The new controller should be shipped within a couple days to a week. I’ll post again after I get it to see how it handles!
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Got the thing.
I’ll keep this short n simple.
I don’t like the pad.
The button travel distance seems shallow, the d-pad feels tight like it needs to be broken in. But worst of all? is that the d-pad doesn’t have a center pivot so you can mush down all directions at once.
$50 bucks down the toilet.
Either that or I’ll need to get used to using it.
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Can’t you return it?
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I can return it… And I might… Or I might keep it and open it up to see if anything can be modified on it.
It uses Kailh® micro switches… Similar to switches in computer mice. I think if they used a lever on the switches to make the downward press a couple more mm it might feel better.
While I love the idea of a gamepad using switches for the buttons and d-pad, they obviously botched this one. If I ever open it up, I’ll be interested in seeing how they mounted the switches. Are they soldered to a board? Or are they mounted with wires going to a central control/circuit board? When I say “mounted”… if you’ve ever seen the inside of an arcade controller you’ll know what I mean.
At any rate, I went ahead and ordered another controller suited to 2D fighting games. It uses the standard silicone contact membranes. So I hope that not even one button wears out and I have to put yet another controller in a bin.
Aren’t these very warm for summer?
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I guess so, but ill probably mostly wear them on trips to a coastal town or a trip to the forest. Not as a casual everyday things.
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Coastal town attire sure, but forest footwear?
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We have the Women’s Euro in Switzerland this summer. I tried to get tickets early on for England - Wales. No luck a few months ago. Today out of the blue I got a notification that there are a few tickets going on sale for all the matches again. So tried it again: And now I bought four tickets for this match. Really looking forward to this!
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I bought some merch from the anime gaming con I went to. A Persona 5 badge, a Persona 5 figure of Joker, someone’s art on an A5 acrylic of Aigis from Persona 3, a mystery bag of dice, someone’s homemade card game called The Necrohamster, and pins of art of Tangle and Whisper from IDW Sonic.
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Cuuuute pins 
Nice haul! Hope you enjoyed the con
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Bought a new pair of Vans, this time the Skate Old Skool.
Love the look of my old pair vans, but the normal version is brutal on my feet. I’m not 20 anymore and they become so uncomfortable after a day of walking. Luckily I heard and read great things about their Skate Old Skool line. So i’ll give them a go in all black, so they fit with my office goth style (Plain black tshirt, black/grey levi’s and shows).
and a couple of films that arrived early April
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Hey hey, Nico! Its your cousin Roman, wanna go bowling? 
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Vans skate shoes! Reminds me of the Geoff Rowley days. I always sucked on a board but I had to have Vans b/c Geoff has em.
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