The Picard ManeuverA snapshot of heaven
bleistift2That wireless controller is a bit pointless if you’re sitting 1.5m away from the screen. Gotta give her that.
Now you can move the pizza directly in front for the perfect loading screen snack with no obstacles!
It’s called a WaveBird!
And you had to sit that close or else a cordless phone or other wireless device might interefere with the signal and stop registering inputs.
Midnight WolfCordless… phone…?
Haha you’re old! (and so am I but never mind that)
GameCube came out 20+ years ago. We’re all old down here.
Wavebird is the GOAT. Best name, best controller. Personally, I never had interference problems that couldn’t be fixed by changing the channel on the controller and even that was pretty rare.
Depends with the Wavebird. Due to using RF, the range can be pretty good. Or really bad if you live in a busy city.
Every '90s and '00s manufacturer looking at 2.4GHz
is for me 🥺?
DiplomjodlerA GameCube? What a peasant!
How else are you going to play Pokemon Colosseum?
(edit: it’s spelled “Colosseum”…?)
NegativeLookBehindWe’re playing Super Monkey Ball or you’re not getting any pizza
Everything is cool until someone whips out Melee.
Then it gets real
Smash me bro. My Link will demolish your Mewtwo or Jigglypuff. Then we can play SMB because that is also a great game for our Cube and pizza game night.
NOT_RICKThe GameCube is a great system!
YarHarSuperstarum what
GameCube is fucking rad
Also calling people peasants unironically is really gross
This hurts my back.
Neck too from when you eventually lay down to deal with your back pain.
Then tailbone, from when you try to awkwardly prop yourself up into a hybrid position.
Then neck again when you go prone.
Then back again when you hide in a box
snake? Snake?
SNAAAAAAAAAAKEE!
I Cast FistSorry, Colonel. I am trying to sneak around, but I’m dummy thicc and the clap of my asscheeks keeps alerting the guards
But at least you’ll get some nice hemorrhoids from sitting on the floor
Yaaaaay…
The only problem with that setup is the grease from the pizza box getting on the carpet.
Balance it precariously on top of a too-small box, you heathen.
wander1236A too-small box such as the GameCube.
Nah fam
Captain AggravatedYou have been unsubscribed from game night invites.
samus12345I remember reading that Nintendo designed the SNES with a hump to help prevent people from setting food and drinks on it since the NES made a great table for things to spill on. Guess they gave up when they designed the Gamecube!
First design decision was probably to improve the design, second one was when they realized that the bad design made more money when people needed to replace consoles.
I was going to say maybe it’s because you can stack flat consoles and a lot of entertainment stands are easier to access the front from than the top, but you still had to access the top of the flat GCN.
That’s why they vent out the sides, like a open air convection oven
I am a man, and I see many problems with this:
- the TV is at least two sizes too small
- WAF is a non-factor, so there would absolutely be some oversized speakers beside that tv
- my ass isn’t lying on the floor, when a couch would be far more comfortable
- the couch would make floor pizza too far away, so there would be a “coffee table”
A couch? A coffee table? OK, King Louis XIV. The rest of us will make do with a floor gaming chair.
I’m not sure you realize how much heavy lifting I’m making the quotations around “coffee table” do.
Two cinder blocks and a rough sawn plank.
That’ll do.
I think you underestimate how much construction materials cost. Ikea is cheaper.
Costs? These materials are easily found roadside or elsewhere. The blocks have chunks missing or are uneven, so a matchbook or folded cardboard helps level out the wobble for the weather-soaked grey plank.
I know as I’ve done just that.
In my first apartment I did that with stolen milk crates and found planks.
Ikea furniture is easily found roadside too…
Valid point. So I guess it just matters what you find. Make use of anything available.
I really like this philosophy and it sticks with me even today as I try to use whatever I have at hand. I am reluctant to toss anything with some modicum of useful value. I am told this makes me a packrat. I don’t mind.
You should get rid of things with a “modicum” (tiny amount) of useful value. Your space and mental energy is used up just having it there.
You have to keep track of it or it’s not useful at all. That takes energy that you could use for something else. Restfully relaxing in a clean room is worth a lot.
I don’t agree with everything you’ve said, but I hear you. Old habits die hard. I grew up with very little available to me. It ingrained this model I have now which is more difficult to shed. It is a constant battle to reduce what I have around, but then that nag of “I might need that” speaks up and it forces the internal struggle.
I have made headway there, as I now have a decision tree I push through to keep or rid myself of stuff, but the struggle continues.
Also a lot of construction sites are kind enough to leave a pile of free construction materials somewhere on the site, like they are saying, “we have extra so help yourself! 😁” I try to only help myself at night, because I’m considerate enough to avoid getting in the way of the actual construction.
I too create my own furniture out of most-empty pizza boxes
(kinda-related story time: I used to live in an apartment with 4 other gay furries [the sitcom writes itself] and we very often ordered in from dominos. Like so much so our delivery guy seemed to take a genuine interest in how we are doing. But after I spent a day making the kitchen spotless, and the next day it looked as awful as before I touched it, I stopped giving a shit. Of many factors, it was silently decided that the one taking out the trash was the one who lost the game of jenga with the garbage. So skill and precision were needed whenever you were adding to the stack that was as high as an adult (or more), as the actual garbage bin for the apartment complex was like 500 feet away and 4 stories below us. Multiple trips were necessary, even if you bothered to use trash bags to simplify the excursion. I wish I’d have taken photos, this was a challenge where boys became men.)
Lived with 2 cardboard moving boxes as coffee table for a long, long time. It was fine. Just don’t spill anything.
Ehh but they’ve got a wavebird, so you know they’re already ballin.
Or they were very specific for their birthday request
snooggumsNeah, get some milk crates and a used futon!
NO! Never a used futon. I once got a used futon. It had stains on it. After a while, I was told what the stains were.
After a while, I was told what the stains were.
“Evidence”
Just some plastic chair, table and pillows would be enough
Yes, this looks like back pain.
Clearly it is a young man’s place. A more mature man would have a second hand recliner and a bottle of alcohol to wash down the bitter taste of divorce.
The recliner would be ugly as hell (I still have a second hand one from years ago) but so comfortable that it would suck the soul out of you if you laid down in it too long.
And there’s bourbon in the chocolate milk.
Yeah, this is more like what would be acceptable 20 years ago.
MelllvarPizza and chocolate milk?
I mean I like them both, but together?
Takes me back to school lunches
Did that the other day eating lunch with my youngin at their school.
Was definitely not as appealing as I near my 40s. But back in the day that shit was fine
I just like flexing on lactose intolerant people.
I miss ice cream.
Buy a cheap ice cream maker and make your own with lactose-free dairy! It's surprisingly easy.
vaultdweller013Put the pizza in the icecream maker!
Is there a c/malelivingspace anywhere on Lemmy?