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I never said it didn't Just said it wasn't always a straight forward process. Its not something that just works out of the box yet, so you've gotta make sure you are on certain versions of browsers and dependencies to get it working. It can be done, and relatively easily, its just not a click a few OK's and you're watching. Its still a little more involved.

I've been dual booting Linux since about 2004 on all of my desktops. If you're just browsing the internet or are able to use the open source alternatives for stuff its great.. You will run into issues getting things like Netflix and Amazon Prime video streaming working. It can be done bit it isn't always straight forward to get these things working in Linux yet. I always kept an install of Windows on my machine for gaming and for Netflix though.

Been a lot of give aways lately. Pretty awesome!

I just recently got back into CAD and 3d modeling. My current gaming rig does a decent job but given its only an i5, its not the best for that kind of work.

Both versions look pretty sweet! Would be interesting to see how quiet they are in person, if they are that silent, would be the biggest selling point for me.

I've beat Super Metroid way too many times to count. I really wish I could erase my memories of that game and play through it for the first time again. Not very many games have given me that sense of exploration before. I'll give Unirally and The Lost Vikings a shot, I haven't played either of those. I own Stunt Race FX, lots of childhood memories with that game!

Figured you guys might appreciate this. For newer games I much prefer PC gaming, but I grew up playing the SNES and I have a ton of nostalgia for it. For a few reasons I wasn't able to keep my SNES or games from when I was younger. About a year and a half ago I started watching speed runs of Super Metroid and it made me want to start playing that game again since it was and still is one of my all time favorite games. I tried a ton of different emulators and none of them felt right, they all felt laggy and numb. Bought a SNES and it played amazing but looked like crap so I decided to do some research to see what could be done. Through some reading I found that an RGB modded SNES Mini hooked up via SCART(had to get a SCART to HDMI converter so I could actually use it) yielded the best video output, so thats what I did. On to the pictures! Got the RGB amplifier off of ebay for something like $6 shipped. Soldered it onto the SNES following the tutorial on retrorgb's site. While I had it apart I wired up an LED as well since the SNES Mini's don't have them by default. Decided to paint my SNES white to see how well it looked. Was pretty happy with the results. Mine, once it was complete! I own a few games now, but buying the carts themselves gets really expensive. Decided to try a flash cart, which works well and keeps the wear and tear off of my actual carts. A friend of mine really liked how mine turned out and asked me to put one together for him as well. Decided to go a different route with the paint. I thought about sanding the texture down so it would be more of a mirror finish, ended up deciding against it in the end though. Final thoughts, if you're playing a game thats really twitchy or sensitive to input lag, you'll want to get one of the fancy expensive upscalers. I've tried an XRGB2+ and a Framemeister. Both work amazingly well, and have very very minimal input lag. I've also tried a $50 SCART to HDMI converter and if you tweak the settings it works decent, though it still induces a lot more input lag than either of the expensive ones I've tried. Also, the $50 one didn't give scan lines, which is a surprisingly nice touch when playing on a 50" TV.

I played a ton of Super Metroid and Castlevania Symphony of the Night as a kid. They've completely lost their nostalgia from how much I still play them haha. For Super Metroid I've even gone so far as to get a SNES mini and solder on an RGB amplifier so I could get the best video quality I could out of it. Crazy how much of a difference straight RGB video out is over composite!

Its not so bad if you have a lot of different things you get to work on. Its only been pretty recent that I've been getting bored with Java. I have had the chance to work on online banking software, interfacing with cash dispensers, building a loyalty system that handles several thousand transactions an hour, forecasting software for estimating and alerting on when fuel tanks at gas stations are going to run out based on previous sales, and dealing with an api that does satellite communication with truck drivers in the past few years. Using one language across a lot of different types of projects is a bit less stressful than one project with lots of languages I've found.

Java has been my main language for the past 7 years since thats what all of the companies I've worked for have used. I'm kinda feeling like I need a change of language though as 7 years is a long time in one language..

I recently went from an 1100T Black Edition to a 4690k and am quite happy with it. I haven't gotten around to overclocking the 4690k yet, but at stock clock its still a pretty nice bump in performance over my 1100T overclocked.

Found LTT in kind of an interesting way. Helped my roommate build his new water cooled rig and decided to google "overkill water cooling setup" and found the ULTIMATE "Overkill" Water Cooled build and have been hooked since. Wasn't that long ago, but really really dig the content!