What have you bought recently?


That SSD for my PS5 that I ordered off of Amazon still hasn’t shipped yet. I have a bad feeling.

Edit: The main page for it says that people who order now will get it January 7th. I wonder if I got my order in early enough to beat the rush, or if mine’s coming after Christmas too.
 
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Added five more games to my PS5 backlog yesterday.

Yooka-Laylee
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Cyberpunk 2077
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
 
My mother gave me some money to buy myself something for christmas. Here's what I purchased.

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Darn it, Null, there is more to life than Hololive. There is also eating, sleeping, and s****ing. So buy yourself a Hololive lunch box, a Hololive body pillow, and most importantly, Hololive TP.
 
Well, it happened. The SSD for my PS5 that was supposed to arrive tomorrow is now scheduled for December 7th. Let’s see if this holds, at least.
 
there is more to life than Hololive.

 
I’m not sure if I should keep posting all the PlayStation games I buy here, because I collect the things like candy. I’m building up a backlog worthy of Steam. PlayStation is great because it has achievements like Steam, but the games actually run on my hardware. I suppose if I had a good computer, I’d still be collecting Steam games.

From yesterday’s End of Year Deals and PlayStation Indies sales:
The Turnabout Collection: Phoenix Wright Trilogy and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Planet Coaster: Console Edition
Sonic Colors: Ultimate
Castlevania Requiem: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
A Hat in Time
 
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A few Gifts for my Niches :
- 2 Books and some collor pens
Some Gifts for myself:
- A Iphone XR Transparent Case as my Old one is now kaputt .. (only the Case, the Phone is still fine, expect a few tiny scratches on the Screen)
- 2 5 Packs of Work Glows, the same as i use since 10 Years,
- and a Merino Cap, allthough i still wait for it to arive..
and a new Hoody but not whit Merino Whool..
 
More PS5 games today:
Death Come True
Sable
House Flipper

I still have about $24 credit left, in case anybody wants to make a suggestion. Edit: Never mind, went with Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove.
 
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The Hoody isn’t Merino , but the Cap (Beany? )
Dit arrive this evening , I’m currently wear it to test and it’s pretty awesome , feels great, it’s allready quite warm , I think I will make some pictures of my last buys on weekend ..
 
You remember that I restored the audio player and speakers some time ago? So, well, I decided that I will buy some CDs if they will be cheap in a flea market.
The good thing is that I have a complete information what I like, so I know what to look for, so I bought a dozen of CDs. And here is what I learned:
- There are two kinds of CD sellers in these markets. Those who specialize in CDs have it usually in good shape, but much more expensive. Those who sell in bulk, with lots of other junk from emptied attics and basements, may have literally everything, even very rare CDs, and they will be much, much cheaper (like, quite rare 1990s Gothic metal band from Sweden, CD bought for 1/15 of the average price in specialized CD sellers). On the other hand something usually has to be done with them - casing has to be fixed or dampened cover restored.
- While these CD sellers may offer a few genres for different prices, these "junk peddlers" may have totally unexpected things and it costs per piece. Like literally a pile of CDs from an old film studio, containing everything from soundtracks, generic melodies for ads, a 400 CD set of sound effects, to a nice dark ambient, which I had no idea it was ever released on CD. Yes, I bought the dark ambient.
- There are, but rarely, original CDs in envelopes with information like "Demonstration purposes only" or "For promotional use, not for resale". These have been usually played and re-played so many times that the data part is almost transparent and may be hard do play on older player. Loosely estimating hundreds, of not thousands of play hours, causing thermal decay of the layer.
- There are various CDs of the same band and title. And they differ. The cover may be the same. The CD may look the same. The more-or-less reliable thing is the code in the inner ring of the CD. But it may not be at all.
- There are also 1980s and 1990s CDs released in Post-Soviet countries. Some are considered pirate, some not. Usually these totally pirated copies have significantly worse CD quality and no cover, cover combined of the original one and track list, or xero copy of cover so they are easily distinguishable. And there are also things looking like a strange editions of originals - I found out that the thing with these was MUCH more complex than ordinary piracy. For example, I found the doom metal CD which had a proper quality version of all songs... but with frequency characteristics like tape mastering version. Definitely not a cassette rip, but made from different original "matrix"! And I think the story is really interesting.
So generally in these countries piracy was de facto legal, but many western publishers tried to sell there after the fall of USSR by dealing with small, one-person publishers. However, the post-soviet law stated that up to some number of copies put to market it is totally OK for a small one-person company to do, but selling more CDs required the license to be made not between the western studio and eastern one man publisher, but through the national "Artists association" (there were different names for it in Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine or Latvia). So even when there was a west-east deal, the eastern side could not press more than some number of CDs. Then, usually the eastern one-man publisher signed a deal with Association. That could be worse or better for them - some music was even subsidized by the association. However, having such deal with Russian national association signed by western company was treated in the market like signing a pact with a devil, so they rarely signed the deal too. This caused an interesting situation - eastern publishers could press as much CDs as they wanted, and western publishers could theoretically get gains from it through Association, but then their respect would be then lost so much that they may not get any new artists in the west.
- There are also mostly late-90s Turkish pirated copies which really look like originals. The noise analysis returns MPEG compression-like characteristics in about 50% of them. Can be distinguished because publishers of these put their contact info or shop address somewhere in the back cover, usually with small, 8 or 9 point font.
 
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