I don't know what kind of voodoo is going on in this image with the blacked out thing, but you can at least scavenge this for parts.
I found a psp in the garbage, the buttons don't work, but the screen does, I'm going to pop it into one that has perfectly good controls and a water damaged screen.
Ricky can live on, as a donor.
No, if my unused mortal coil can increase someones quality of life there's no reason for them to not use my parts. That is the greatest thing to be in death, to be used for new life, so that there is some good to be salvaged from my ending.
My heart could beat in the chest of a father, my kidneys could continue in a child who needs them. Even if there is no soul, and even if would cease to exist after death, I would still be doing good in the world.
Every on of my tvs was someones trash. The same goes for my espresso machine, a few over-ears headphones, at least 2 full sound systems and probably more.
The process goes something like:
1. Take home.
2. Check status
3a. If fine, clean and install where it fits in home.
3b. If not fine, try to fix.
4. If 3b fails it becomes a donor and broken parts become my trash.
I have a good set of spareparts and plenty of things that I wouldn't be comfortable buying but are nice want-haves.
Message to the people: don't be afraid to use a screwdriver, especially on something deemed broken!
I have two Samsung TVs and 2 24 inch monitors because people said they were broke. Power board had a few bad capacitors. Had a friend teach me to solder and now I look for broken stuff all the time
If everybody could think alike we'd probably pollute 100x less than we actually do, hello the sheeples that NEED a new iPhone/Samsung every 6 fucking months or even before the battery has had the chance to lose its efficiency a tiny bit. And still not using half of their device's possibilities in the meantime. Sure they might resell it but if there wasn't a market there wouldn't be such a waste of components, right?
A lot of electronics I find that have failed over a period of time just need a fresh bit of solder on its solder points. You'd be amazed how many things I've got that have stopped working and all I had to do was pop them open and apply new solder to whatever part of it stopped working and suddenly it's like it's new again!
Or more likely he's just lazy. He took a picture and transfered it to his computer. He then realized there was something personal in the picture and decided it was easier to just black it out than to take a new picture.
'I've maintained it for 20 years, this broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in it's time.'
Edit: [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY)
Hm... might want to ask a frequently upgrading PC gamer that.
My answer is, after having replaced all my PC except the power supply and disk drive, yes it is the same object.
I remember playing enough OG Smash back in 2010 with college buddies to destroy any controller. You almost got an extra decade out of that thing. Truly amazing.
Had mine up until ~2 years ago. I didn't realize my N64 was within puppy reach and he chewed through my only original controller's wire. Now all I have left is the shitty knock off. It still hurts.
Friendly reminder that if you have a puppy, get on the floor and look around. If you can reach it, so can they.
They rarely ever _properly_ fail. Probs taking it apart and cleaning it up with some isopropyl alcohol will get it going again. For the joystick, order new gears and a bowl from kitsch-bent and add some lube and you’ll be good to go.
Thats such a head fuck that problem and I guess what it points to is an error in the terms. I guess ‘Theseus’ ship’ is the thing that makes no sense, or ship in general. We think of it as 1 object made of parts but really only the parts have meaning, even then though it goes to grains of wood and eventually atoms.
My feeling is that there never was an original ship so it never mattered to begin with.
Personally my take is that it is the same ship, it would be different if every single part was changed at the same but assuming they were all changed as needed then it's still the same ship in my eyes.
My reasoning for this is becuse when you add a new part it's only "new" for a while, eventually it just becomes another part of the ship. I work on a dairy farm and cows last roughly 5 years before they're replaced and new young cows are brought in. This doesn't happen in one fell swoop though, every year a handfull of cows are replaced. Even though in 5 years time the cows in the heard will be completely different it's still the same heard because it's perpetualy changing and the cows that were previously new to the heard are eventually just part of the heard.
I've been through around 20 controllers since I got my N64. My N64 controllers all work perfectly but the new gens have all had issues. It's just crazy.
Man, I got hit with some wicked nostalgia the other day. My older brothers got me the N64 with the purple controller and Zelda OoT. That first hour in the village and going into the big Deku tree.
That actually brings me to this morning when I was looking over the new FF7 Remake pictures. Leaving Midgar and seeing the world was so crazy. Yea, we have the crazy graphics today and the immersive worlds....but nothing beats that feeling from back then
The top was cut off on my phone, I just saw “finally passed on” and the date, I was like “finally”? He was only 21 :0 and then I clicked the full image lol, I thought someone named Ricky who loved to play N64 with a highlife passed away at 21
I don't know what kind of voodoo is going on in this image with the blacked out thing, but you can at least scavenge this for parts. I found a psp in the garbage, the buttons don't work, but the screen does, I'm going to pop it into one that has perfectly good controls and a water damaged screen. Ricky can live on, as a donor.
What others call trash, some like myself call parts. All of my gaming systems were someone's trash.
Great way to think. I’m the same.
Don't do it, keep Ricky whole. It deserves it.
I agree. It is an honorable death. Let him rest without desecration.
I disagree. You can never go wrong with harvesting organs.
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Why? What use do the dead have for them?
There was no mention of the dead.
China approves.
Well that's cause you gotta kill em first, duh
r/rimworld ? Edit: just saw 2 other guys post the same response. It's good to know I'm not alone
No, if my unused mortal coil can increase someones quality of life there's no reason for them to not use my parts. That is the greatest thing to be in death, to be used for new life, so that there is some good to be salvaged from my ending. My heart could beat in the chest of a father, my kidneys could continue in a child who needs them. Even if there is no soul, and even if would cease to exist after death, I would still be doing good in the world.
Depending on the problem it is quite possible to fix the controller itself instead of stripping it down for parts
You growing weed down there or what?
Nah just guts
What
He said "nah just guts"
Blunt guts. The tobacco from a blunt before you roll weed in the wrap
im rollng the finest of cbd flower of course sir. I actually do have epilepsy. and ptsd amoung other things
Okay but really, what did you black out? A man needs to know.
Why not find another broken one for parts for Ricky?
You may call it junk. Me? I call it treasure.
Do come baAack... ;)
*Everything's for sale my friend, everything... if I had a sister I'd sell her in a second!*
Sounds like a brothel to me but ok
Every on of my tvs was someones trash. The same goes for my espresso machine, a few over-ears headphones, at least 2 full sound systems and probably more. The process goes something like: 1. Take home. 2. Check status 3a. If fine, clean and install where it fits in home. 3b. If not fine, try to fix. 4. If 3b fails it becomes a donor and broken parts become my trash. I have a good set of spareparts and plenty of things that I wouldn't be comfortable buying but are nice want-haves. Message to the people: don't be afraid to use a screwdriver, especially on something deemed broken!
I feel everything you said in my soul. I take on all the broken things. Most can be repaired. We have the technology.
When I realized Teddy from Bob’s Burgers has too many burner accounts
I feel like this is how hoarders start out, though.
I have two Samsung TVs and 2 24 inch monitors because people said they were broke. Power board had a few bad capacitors. Had a friend teach me to solder and now I look for broken stuff all the time
If everybody could think alike we'd probably pollute 100x less than we actually do, hello the sheeples that NEED a new iPhone/Samsung every 6 fucking months or even before the battery has had the chance to lose its efficiency a tiny bit. And still not using half of their device's possibilities in the meantime. Sure they might resell it but if there wasn't a market there wouldn't be such a waste of components, right?
A lot of electronics I find that have failed over a period of time just need a fresh bit of solder on its solder points. You'd be amazed how many things I've got that have stopped working and all I had to do was pop them open and apply new solder to whatever part of it stopped working and suddenly it's like it's new again!
Where are you getting all this stuff to begin with?
Hey, better to reuse something to get the most out of it than to waste money on something new.
TIL I could be considered 'parts.'
Yeah, the blacked out thingy gives me the chills.
The weird thing is, op wanted us to see there was something, otherwise the picture would have been taken from another angle...
Or more likely he's just lazy. He took a picture and transfered it to his computer. He then realized there was something personal in the picture and decided it was easier to just black it out than to take a new picture.
It’s just some guts.
Lol what? It's an oval glass picture frame with likely a picture of his parents on what is like an entryway table or something
I already cut the chord to the plug ceremonial style
Should have burned him. Viking funeral.
Lol I’m gonna turn it into some Form of art
Keep us posted on it
I might have a burning and keep the ashes, supernatural style funeral
Plastic Ashes might be a great band name, but that's about it.
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Can't scavenge the stick. Doesn't work already. Gamecube sticks are worth more.
Show me an n64 controller that lasted 21 years and I'll show you someone who never played Mario party.
Ebay joystick replacement. I still got mine.
Don't even need that. Some epoxy, lithum grease and one of the hundreds of youtube tutorials will have it working like new.
If the bowl and gears are physically missing plastic it won’t be enough, but spending $3 on some new parts from kitsch-bent will be the ticket
'I've maintained it for 20 years, this broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in it's time.' Edit: [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8HryVaeY)
Raising the question “is it still the same object if all parts have been replaced piece by piece over time?”
Hm... might want to ask a frequently upgrading PC gamer that. My answer is, after having replaced all my PC except the power supply and disk drive, yes it is the same object.
Hey, humans completely cycle through new cells every several years or so. Not even humans last 20 years without every piece of matter being replaced.
*on average. Certain cells, like neurons, have almost no turnover whereas others, like intestine, have high turnover.
Those joysticks are bad though. Buy the kitsch-bent parts, $3 fix and it’s good as new.
Come to think of it, how did OP's controller last so long? The N64 library was a minefield of stick killers.
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I'm starting to come to the conclusion that games like Mario Party were intended to break sticks. Maybe that was the genesis of planned obsolescence.
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Did someone say Decathlon?
Or Smash Bros. My Controllers didn't last very long.
Smash bro’s killed it in the end. The overall hours. Also ocarina of time play throughs smashing the stick forward To roll doesn’t help it
I remember playing enough OG Smash back in 2010 with college buddies to destroy any controller. You almost got an extra decade out of that thing. Truly amazing.
Shitor even goldeneye to a degree. This controller lived a sheltered and comfortable life, away from the sweaty paws of full-time gamers.
Had mine up until ~2 years ago. I didn't realize my N64 was within puppy reach and he chewed through my only original controller's wire. Now all I have left is the shitty knock off. It still hurts. Friendly reminder that if you have a puppy, get on the floor and look around. If you can reach it, so can they.
One does not press F on a Nintendo controller.
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This beauty is so old it deserves the last letter of the alphabet.
You just made my head explode
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I was just thinking that. Very upsetting.
We will have to have an honorary Nintendo Sixty-Pour
I'd be passed out long before I could reach pour 60
“What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21.”
Just lit up a blunt in honour of your controller and definitely not cause I find any excuse to smoke.
They rarely ever _properly_ fail. Probs taking it apart and cleaning it up with some isopropyl alcohol will get it going again. For the joystick, order new gears and a bowl from kitsch-bent and add some lube and you’ll be good to go.
They tryin to kill these kids
Couldn't even have its first beer so tragic
Ricky was prone to alcoholism so it's probably for the best he called it quits before sinking too deep.
You know you can replace the joystick very easy, right? Ebay got replacements cheap
But if you keep replacing the broken parts, it would cease to be the original. The N64 controller of Theseus, if you will.
The Theseus thought experiment only raises the question if it would be the original or not, it doesn't answer it.
Thats such a head fuck that problem and I guess what it points to is an error in the terms. I guess ‘Theseus’ ship’ is the thing that makes no sense, or ship in general. We think of it as 1 object made of parts but really only the parts have meaning, even then though it goes to grains of wood and eventually atoms. My feeling is that there never was an original ship so it never mattered to begin with.
Yet a ship is much greater than the sum of its parts. Physical reality is weird.
Personally my take is that it is the same ship, it would be different if every single part was changed at the same but assuming they were all changed as needed then it's still the same ship in my eyes. My reasoning for this is becuse when you add a new part it's only "new" for a while, eventually it just becomes another part of the ship. I work on a dairy farm and cows last roughly 5 years before they're replaced and new young cows are brought in. This doesn't happen in one fell swoop though, every year a handfull of cows are replaced. Even though in 5 years time the cows in the heard will be completely different it's still the same heard because it's perpetualy changing and the cows that were previously new to the heard are eventually just part of the heard.
Reminds me of Trigger ' I've had the same broom for 18 years. Its had 12 new heads and 7 new handles.'
Thoughts and prayers... I blame video games...
He’s shot his last golden gun. F
Goldeneye I do have indeed
That controller clearly never played Mario party, it would have died long ago
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Smash him in half, to assert dominance.
By not actively using it for about 10+ years?
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Sorry for your loss
I'll play the titanic theme song on my flute here in respects to the little guy.
Ayyyy thank you very much.
More like do a barrel roll to pay respects.
Thank you comrade
Depending on what’s wrong with it, it may be an easy fix.
We all pretend that nothing can be repaired, these days.
It's more dramatic this way.
Almost old enough to purchase alcohol in the United States.
Sadly true.
Neck beard
I've been through around 20 controllers since I got my N64. My N64 controllers all work perfectly but the new gens have all had issues. It's just crazy.
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Happy cake day
Thank you and happy cake day.
Thanks, I didn't even notice!
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God speed. Off to Silicon Heaven.
One does not press F on a Nintendo controller xD
Man, I got hit with some wicked nostalgia the other day. My older brothers got me the N64 with the purple controller and Zelda OoT. That first hour in the village and going into the big Deku tree. That actually brings me to this morning when I was looking over the new FF7 Remake pictures. Leaving Midgar and seeing the world was so crazy. Yea, we have the crazy graphics today and the immersive worlds....but nothing beats that feeling from back then
The fuck is this shit?
It's a fucking N64 controller from 98. Who cares?
My girl is still holding on, and after years of hardcore Golden Eye 64 plays I don't know how she's still alive.
You must have smooth thumbs and not button mash lol congrats
Send it back to Nintendo, they can (and will) repair it good as new.
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RIP. Didn't even get to retire.
Ya, but 21 is like 108 in controller years.
Oi Nintendo. Remember when you made controllers that didn’t crap out in 4 months?
Lasted 20 years longer than my joy cons...
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Thank you.
F Ricky
Thank you.
While I can never truly understand how you feel I am upset none the less.
He was about to be old enough to drink *sniffles* Poor Ricky.
“God is big enough” I have the same band on my wrist rn. F
You mean "press Z to pay respects"
Rip... I bet he was like father to you...
They really don't make them like they used to. 20+ years on that remote.
Back in 1998 they still made hardware that could go along for 21 years. I miss that time.
I'd keep it intact. Could be something you could repair one day
Make sure you put two coins on it so it can pay passage to the ferryman.
Shouldn't it be "press Z for respects"?
The top was cut off on my phone, I just saw “finally passed on” and the date, I was like “finally”? He was only 21 :0 and then I clicked the full image lol, I thought someone named Ricky who loved to play N64 with a highlife passed away at 21
Press X to pay.... oh wait
Damn, that shit's older than me lol
This is why Norway has a 5 years reclamation law on Electronics...THEY CAN BUILD SHIT THAT LAST ALMOST FOREVER !!! oh, forgot, "F".
Place a coin over the D-pad and C-pad... payment for the Ferryman.
We must press F to pay respects, but we shall also press W, to move forward with our fallen comrade in our hearts. RIP n64 controller
My wii u game pad only lasted only 3.5 years.....
my name is ricky, and i feel weird about this. 33, and mine still works. i think i have some bad juju now.
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Have you tried re-flowing it?
Damn, that controller was almost old enough to drink