the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

there are people on here who we appreciate a lot and yet never talk to because starting conversations is Hard and i don't want to Bother People
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Well, we just learned something unpleasant. Apparently, with the current state of the ACA, we would be able to get basic health insurance for free, but we can't because we didn't make enough money in this year. If we had made more than $15k this year, we would get free health insurance. But since we didn't, it'd be $500 a month.

Wasn't the point of this to make health care more affordable to low-income people? Why would it cost *more* if we can't afford it?

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and of course, since Ys I&II is probably the most well known game on the entire system, it commands over $100 itself
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apparently $150~$200 for the NA-region console itself, which isn't bad

the turbo-cd seems to be harder to find though, and i believe that's required to play ys i&ii on original hardware
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honestly a turbografx would be pretty neat to have

i wonder how expensive they are these days
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one of these days we should play the TurboGrafx-16 version of Ys I&II

it's apparently considered the definitive version of the game(s) by some, since it actually combines them both into one game like they were originally envisioned
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oh huh, apparently romancing saga 2 and 3 got switch remakes that released in the west

will need to get those later when we can afford it, for Collection Purposes
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@frostclaws it's bugging me a little bit that you set your display name to canines when one of you is a canid but not a canine x33
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it seriously has no advantage over just using regular old wire and indeed the signal sent over toslink out of a device that supports it is *exactly* the same as that sent over that orange RCA jack labelled "digital out" that's next to it

but optical fibre is Cool™

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I appreciate toslink because it's an entire industry standard created purely because optical fiber is cool
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why do region locks exist anyway
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Good morning. First time fronting much in a few days. How has everyone been?
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Lagoon would be a great game, the only problem is the entire story makes zero sense and the gameplay is bad and the music is mediocre at best and the visual style is bland as hell and so if you just change literally everything about it it'd be great

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oof

feeling like i'm constantly fucking up talking to people today, three separate incidents in the span of like two hours
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fun fact: when castlevania symphony of the night came out, several reviewers complained about it being too short

...they hadn't realized that killing Richter wasn't the true ending

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How do they make those vinyl records with pictures on them anyway?
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Goodnight, all.
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a vectrex would be pretty neat to have, but they're not exactly cheap
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