<$25 ideally but i’d push that up to <$50 at this point
my budget is “i open my wallet and moths fly out like im a cartoon character”
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Paging @LaurelSoup for recommendations for cool Michigan/Detroit stuff, as you once acted as my tour guide
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Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum was always my SBer first choice and they just closed down to move to a new spot.
Traditional spot wise I’d hit the Detroit Institute of Art, the Henry Ford/Greenfield Village, and the Motown Museum.
John King is a multi story used bookstore in an old glove factory building on the edge of downtown.
Buddy’s Pizza or Shield’s (or Cloverleaf if you for some reason end up in the suburbs) if you’re into pizza. Lafayette Coney currently has a rat issue, so American Coney is kind of the defacto spot downtown, or there’s Duly’s if you want to be Bourdain about coneys. I’m more of a National Coney chain fan since I’m not really into hotdogs though.
The Heidelberg Project is a neighborhood-sized art installation. Arsonists burned a couple of the buildings recently but they incorporated that into the site since.
Speaking of other oddball sites there’s also Hamtramck Disneyland and I just got tipped off about Davidland in the northern suburbs and I was meaning to check that out next time I go to microcenter.
As far as events go, let me know when you’re coming through.
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Oh and if you’re really looking to nerd out and will be near Ann Arbor, their engineering library has a pretty wild video game department with a wide range of consoles hooked up to period accurate TVs.
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Ty for this. We’ll be there in a couple weeks Saturday June 14 to wed 18. I think eastern market is one place we want to go to
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Eastern Market is great! Bunch of cool murals. Right across the bridge from a small but very cool record store. There’s an arcade that just moved over there.
And wow that’s soon (it’s June already!?)
I’ll sniff around and see if there’s anything going on in that window. Nothing on my calendar.
Oh and speaking of arcades, 666 Selden in midtown (a short walk from the third man plant) has a PlayChoice 10 standup cabinet with Zelda.
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I am thinking of a web game I stumbled upon in 2012-ish, but can’t remember what it is. I think the creator had made a bunch of games with many of them very similar to each other or about a similar character. This was a short adventure game where you are invited into a carnival tent, and you are told the story, I think, about a young pet that lives in a house and ends up becoming something like a fantastical adventurer. It has a similar premise as the intro to Ultima IV. I think there is a Jack in the Bean Stock scene, and a scene where you are scaling or moving around your sleeping owner and doing puzzle adventure things. The story is memorable to me because I think a wizened dog is telling you it. The ending is melancholic, I think it is one of those types that goes something like “Life is short and wondrous, and it all comes to an end much too fast,” and it shows this pet passing away at the end of a long life, and then the character leaves the circus.
I can’t remember what it was or find it online. But I think of it sometimes and it makes me sad! Maybe I even asked about this once, but I’m not sure.
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I have a DS Lite I got with a flash kart, and the battery life seems way shorter than it should be. Should I get a new battery or is the the flash kart pulling too much current for whatever reason? Didn’t really have this problem with my old DS and it’s GBA Flash Kart, and the stuff I found seems to indicate it doesn’t pull that much more current, but I guess is there a battery dx I can check? or failing that where’s a reputable battery source for a DS Lite?
id guess the battery is old. i have the same issue except i had the same flashcart over a decade ago and the battery time was unaffected then
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i’d throw Cranbrook in the museum bucket
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Which flash cart is it? If it’s the DSTwo or another cart that has a processor, that’s why.
October 22 I bought an Xbox Series S for $250 on sale at Target (discounted from then-MSRP of $299). Stuck it in the closet, said “I’ll play with this sometime next year when soon-to-be-born daughter is a little older.”
That never happened and now I have a PC that I think is about equivalent or perhaps more powerful, which I impulse bought after my laptop died.
I’m disinclined to give Microsoft any money for BDS reasons so multiplatform games are definitely being purchased elsewhere. Xbox exclusives seem practically non-existent anyway. Are there even any? Maybe I’d want to replay some old Xbox Live Arcade games through backwards compatibility but I guess I can just try to emulate those.
Can anyone think of a reason I still want this or should I just turn around and sell it for $299 now that the MSRP has jumped up to $379? I’m leaning strongly in this direction but I guess FOMO makes me second guess this. I guess I just want someone to tell me to sell it.
Of course the instant I do the new PC will also blow up, I’m resigned to this.
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it’s the acekard2
if you havent used it for several years it might be on an old firmware. idk anything about xboxen, but with other consoles older firmwares are sometimes more sought after because they are easier to hack. not sure if thats still a thing tho.
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Xboxes are pretty locked down due to the nature of the OS and anything you’d want to do with a system that isn’t piracy can be done openly on a console without having to jump through a lot of hoops
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That will drain the battery while it’s in unfortunately.
le sigh