Epic! 8-bitguy uses 1 weird trick to detroy rare prototypes!

[ZMOT]

I'm more okay with him having help than some others because 1: he always attributes it, and 2: he really has pulled out a lot of info (especially on the Centurions) that likely would've been utterly lost to time otherwise.

he also contributes a lot himself, even during offscreen hours, so it's not just him fiddling with stuff for youtube-bux while the "community" does the heavy lifting.

 

[TenMilesWide]

New video about terminals with guest spot from Usagi Electric.

 

[Mikoyan]

New video about terminals with guest spot from Usagi Electric.

This makes me wonder about Mr. Usagi.
The weeb obsession and his physique (and extreme covid precautions) makes you think soy left. But on the other hand he's got that cool-ass flight deck A-7 picture on his wall and now willingly hangs around the official chud of retrocomputing. Maybe he's actually pretty cool.

 

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This makes me wonder about Mr. Usagi.
The weeb obsession and his physique (and extreme covid precautions) makes you think soy left. But on the other hand he's got that cool-ass flight deck A-7 picture on his wall and now willingly hangs around the official chud of retrocomputing. Maybe he's actually pretty cool.

The man likes manly computers and the very very small range of Jap cars that aren't properly classified simply as 'jap crap'. You have to imagine he at least owns a Hi-Power or a CZ-75.

 

[quaawaa]

This makes me wonder about Mr. Usagi.
The weeb obsession and his physique (and extreme covid precautions) makes you think soy left. But on the other hand he's got that cool-ass flight deck A-7 picture on his wall and now willingly hangs around the official chud of retrocomputing. Maybe he's actually pretty cool.

Only 600 people voted for Biden in his entire county out of a population of 8000. Odds are pretty good he's based.
David is a short fat balding man who's been driving subcompact EVs since before they were mainstream. He does not come across as a stereotypical conservative, yet he is so far right that he's actually done Second Amendment Audits.
Don't judge a book by its cover.

 

[Mikoyan]

Only 600 people voted for Biden in his entire county out of a population of 8000. Odds are pretty good he's based.
David is a short fat balding man who's been driving subcompact EVs since before they were mainstream. He does not come across as a stereotypical conservative, yet he is so far right that he's actually done Second Amendment Audits.
Don't judge a book by its cover.

Love for EVs was popular with tech dudes of all stripes before it became a virtue signal. I was one of the few exceptions.

Now they're politicized.

 

[Migraine Box]

The man likes manly computers and the very very small range of Jap cars that aren't properly classified simply as 'jap crap'. You have to imagine he at least owns a Hi-Power or a CZ-75.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if he rocks a Nambu, or at least a Ruger Standard Mk whatever.

 

[Miller]

New video about terminals with guest spot from Usagi Electric.

For a second I thought he was going to dox Usagi's home as he kept filming the road.

 

[ZMOT]

This makes me wonder about Mr. Usagi.
The weeb obsession and his physique (and extreme covid precautions) makes you think soy left. But on the other hand he's got that cool-ass flight deck A-7 picture on his wall and now willingly hangs around the official chud of retrocomputing. Maybe he's actually pretty cool.

he reminds me of those old school nerds. got a mate with pretty much the same physique (down to the fucking hair) and personality. I wouldn't call them left or right because they're usually to busy getting distracted whatever they currently gush about and don't really care about all the other normalfag stuff.
he's also comes across as way too mentally stable to be another candidate for the "modern nerd" -> troon/soiboi pipeline. maybe if he would be 10-15 years younger....

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Usagi David comes off as just a guy with a deep autistic love for the things he collects, be they minicomputers, JDM oddities, or bunny rabbits. 8-bit David comes off as a jaded youtuber who goes on because he is convinced he is too old to do anything new. Usagi David will happily de-solder and clean all sorts of nasty old crap. 8-bit David knows how to do all that, but he will whine about it if it's required for his video topic. Usagi David would have the same zeal and enthusiasm if there were only two basement-dwellers watching his stuff. 8-bit David oy veys and kvetches when his videos don't make enough money.

I hope this kind of crossover doesn't become a regular occurrence or have a negative influence on the former.

 

[Fcret]

Yes it is pretty remarkable how people possess a wide range of social, cultural, and political opinions, and aren't actually just sentient versions of the wojaks you see on twitter.

 

[Ice Gun Ninja]

Is this what you guys would call a goyslop?

 

[TheDataHorder]

man david isn't aging well, he's what 50 and the gray hairs and wrinkles are making him look 60.
you know that cartoon gag where an old man looks like he's a shriveled up raisin painted to look like a human?
with how david is aging, he's gonna be a real world example of that when he's 70.

 

[seri0us]

man david isn't aging well, he's what 50 and the gray hairs and wrinkles are making him look 60.
you know that cartoon gag where an old man looks like he's a shriveled up raisin painted to look like a human?
with how david is aging, he's gonna be a real world example of that when he's 70.

whats even more alarming is that his fat is filling in the wrinkles to some degree

 

[Fcret]

Is this what you guys would call a goyslop?

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There's nothing worse than lukewarm frito pie.
Hot frito pie? Good.
Cold frito pie? Good but in a different way.
Driveway temperature frito pie? Disgusting.

 

[Kosher Salt]

There's nothing worse than lukewarm frito pie.
Hot frito pie? Good.
Cold frito pie? Good but in a different way.
Driveway temperature frito pie? Disgusting.

Cold sounds gross, and the main problem I have with driveway pie isn't that it's not hot enough. The fritos are probably soggy as fuck.

 

[Kalsarikännit]

Cow Crossover! 8-bit guy and the soyboy from Linus' Apple channel, Mac Address, collab to fix an original Macintosh:

It's funny to me that Linus would have this guy on, out of all the Mac youtubers that exist. I'd say they have a lot of the same "lets bite off more than we can chew" energy.

The first thing he says?

"Oh, you're in for a nightmare".

Why does he say that?

Because the disk drive is broken. Now, I don't expect anyone here to know a lot about these compact macs, but there's a gear inside the floppy drive eject mechanism:


That has basically disintegrated to goop on these old machines. This has happened to basically all of them at this point, and is considered required maintenance if you actually want to be able to use the floppy drive on these computers. (Which isn't actually necessary nowadays, due to floppy emulators and SCSI to SD card converter solutions).

All that said, it's a very normal and easy repair. It takes like, literally 6 scews and a special driver that costs $5 om amazon. Not a "nightmare scenario" like our friend David says. It's strange to me that he'd underplay his expertise for seemingly no reason. Compact macs in general are pretty easy to work on as far as Macs go, as long as you treat the CRT with respect. I have no idea why he's averse to working on them.

The kicker?

They didn't even have these drives. The original Mac has 400k drives. It's literally just dirty. "Nightmare".

 

[Pee Cola]

I can't bring myself to watch that video. That ginger faggot has the stink of Linus all over him.

Meanwhile I'm both surprised and unsurprised that David has nfi. This fault in particular is right up there with batteries shitting the bed and capacitors pissing their electrolytes onto the main board of later 68k Macs as far as common problems go. The disintegrating floppy eject cog is to vintage Macs what a bad PLA is to the C64.

TBH David might be good at C64 game development but he's actually a bit shit when it comes to doing anything with repairing hardware, like that time (referenced somewhere earlier ITT) where he tried fixing an arcade machine board only to give up and send it to Adrian Black. Adrian picked up straight away that one of the chips was installed backwards...

 

[Fcret]

I'm surprised that they even brought David on for that episode considering that David himself has straight-up said that he was not an Apple user during the early Macintosh era (he got into Macs during the later PowerPC era because he liked the design of the iBooks if I'm remembering the lore correctly).

They should have brought on a guy like Action Retro or even Luke Miani (although Luke was probably a no-go since his channel's content sort of competes with Mac Address).

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

New vid just dropped.