I recently learned how to setup an HDD to work with my PS2! It took me about a week total but IN REALITY it took me MONTHS to get the darn thing set up!! The guides online suck and apparently always reference an old tool that is considered obsolete, plus most of the homebrew apps have really bad documentation, so I was fighting for my LIFE to get it all working. Now I can sit back, relax, and play The Sopranos: Road to Respect without a care in the world...

I'm procrastinating on a written guide to softmodding a PS2 as we speak! I want to make it really comprehensive so nobody has to suffer the way I did.

EDIT: I actually FINALLY finished it in case anyone is interested in something like that! Read it here!

Does it work for the slim models as well? I just skimmed the article you linked so apologies if it's in there and I missed it.

I used to have the official HDD on my original PS2, but I stupidly traded that for one of the slim models which didn't support it. The only thing I used the HDD for was installing the Resident Evil Outbreak games because otherwise the loading times were atrocious, but I'd still like to go back and play those.

I prefer 12-hour time because I prefer analog clocks over digital.


Frogs or turtles?

It feels silly to get so nostalgic over ads, but old commercials are the best. I used to have TV Land as a kid and they would play actual retro commercials during the breaks, like this classic.

It made watching Bewitched and Happy Days feel even more authentic getting to watch period-accurate ads.

I also love it when the Cinema Snob includes old commercials in his videos, and all of the Nostalgia Critic episodes dedicated entirely to commercials.

Dotmidi coming out swinging with the hard questions!

I have to go with Korn. I like both but didn't get into Limp Bizkit until more recently. Nu Metal gets a bad rap but I'll always love it.



Piano or guitar?

I recently learned barnacles are actually related to shrimp, not molluscs. Pesky crustaceans.

I love PBS Eons. If you're interested in paleontology or prehistory, it's worth a follow.

Can I change my answer?

The best thing I ever bought is actually my poncho. My family thought it was weird but as someone who spends most of my time at home and works remotely, I wear it constantly. It's not appropriate for video meetings or going out in public, but as lazy-wear around the house it's perfect.

I have never had a clementine. Now I need to track one down and try it.

I actually prefer Pepsi. There is a very subtle difference. Pepsi has kind of a cinnamon flavour to me.

And another obvious one to get out of the way...

Cats or dogs?

I'm a huge fan of DBZ! I can't even describe how much this masterpiece means to me. Nothing else on this earth is as cool as Dragon Ball!

It's a testament to the human ambition and our need to break free from our limits. We may be just small and fragile human beings, but our inner world is greater than the universe

I had an unhealthy obsession worth DBZ all throughout school. I got in trouble for drawing Piccolo on my desk in grade 8

I was a Toonami kid, so I still have a soft spot for anything they played.

I feel like I better contribute an actual AMV, so have this too-perfect Gundam Wing/Danger Zone mashup.

I remember this from an old forum I used to visit.

One person asks ____ or ____ and the next person says which they prefer, and then asks their own ____ or ____.

So since I'm going first...

Snakes or spiders?

One of my favorite is AMVs is this DBZ x Mortal Kombat Theme song. Used to watch it on repeat. Good memories!

I love this! Some of my first websites were Mortal Kombat and DBZ fan pages on Angelfire.

I personally think if a game is good already, there is no need for a remaster or remake. I don't really care much about fancier graphics as it doesn't really make a game special to me.

This is how I feel about the upcoming Dead Space remake. The original game still looks and plays great in my opinion. The graphics in the remake look like they've lost all sense of style. The lighting is more realistic, but less cinematic. And making the whole station seamless just reminds me of all the games that went open world because it's trendy and not because it actually adds anything.

I wonder if this is because cultural values are still changing, or actions are finally catching up to beliefs.

Good point. Whenever people defend things like racism and sexism in the past or from older people, they'll say "it was a different time" or "they grew up in a different era," but there were people 100 years ago who knew racism and homophobia were wrong, even if they were in the minority. It's not like these things suddenly became wrong. Most people just were wrong.

I don't think what is "good" changes (without getting into the subjectivity of human morality). Just the number of people who are good changes.

I have plenty of my own knee-jerk biases based on past negative experiences with members of one group of people or another, but I try to recognize it's a bias, recognize that a bad experience with one person should not reflect on everyone who resembles them, and not let myself express or act on those biased impulses. And when I find something someone else does to be icky, I recognize it's okay to feel that way because it's not for me while recognizing that it's fine for someone else to do those things if it's not harming anyone.

I never got Tumblr.

Same here. It seems like an evolution of LiveJournal or maybe MySpace, but I was never into those either. The only blog service I ever used was Blogger, but I think Tumblr is more community focused? Instead of creating an isolated blog for your thoughts each post is public in a way, like you're having a conversation instead of a monologue. Or maybe I'm way off.

I would create the infrastructure that everyone needs to live well without the use of money. At the bare minimum, free food, clothes, and shelter for everyone in perpetuity. No questions asked and done as sustainably as possible.

I think you nailed it in the first reply. Infinite money would totally destroy the economy so there should be no one wanting for necessities. Scarcity would still exist though so maybe it'd just result in infinite inflation rather than utopia

In less literal terms where money doesn't lose all value and going fully selfish, I'd buy myself an island and retreat from the world.

Remember back when people were so paranoid about this that they used Flash to create a clickable email link within a small container? Then Flash became the biggest vulnerability on the internet.

I wasn't following the topic this was spawned off from, so apologies if anyone already said that. I just thought it was funny.