RickR

I know a lot of people like you that love the hot sauces.  But sadly, I'm what you'd call a wuss-mouth.  The hottest I'll go is the old standard Rooster Sriracha.  At my age, the hot stuff almost always causes pain a few hours after consumption  
 

Can't say I do.  I've never been much of a fan of adding hot sauces to my food.  But I don't like food to hot or spicy either.  

So I'm just curious does everyone here enjoy hot sauces? If so what is your go to hot sauce that you need to always have a bottle of? 
Mine has to be valentina (black label) but lately I've really enjoyed El Yucateco's green habanero sauce. 
Now when it comes to other hot sauces. How hot do you like them? Long story short I think I have been eating too much hot sauce lately and I cant feel any heat from the normal hot sauces or even the "XXX" hot sauces. So I have been watching "Hot Ones" on youtube (great show if you havent seen it) 
And I just bought a couple of the really insane hot sauces that I saw on the show off amazon. DA' Bomb came first in the mail and I had to get some friends over.  DA' Bomb has a scoville level of 135,600. In comparison a regular bottle of Tabasco is 700 scoville units. So we grilled up some chicken and tried it out. This is definitely not your normal hot sauce! My tongue was on fire! It was hot but still I wasnt screaming and running around like all my friends were. So I felt I needed more. 
So today in the mail I got Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage. This one comes in at 500,000 Scoville units and maybe this one will give me the sting I need. Probably gonna get everyone together again this weekend to try it out. I'm gonna have some milk on the side ready to be used!
 
So again this is one of my things i love and I'm just curious about everyone here. Do you like hot sauce? Do you not? If so how hot have you gone before?

Yeah man, that complete set is really cool.  PS - I still haven't found my Laser Blast patch
 

105,500.
This is an awesome game!  It's one of those "I just have to see what's next" type of games.  Different weapons, different enemies.  Just pure old-school fun. 

I finally have some free time tonight.  I'm going to give this a try on real hardware.  I've never played it before either.  Looks like fun.
 

105,500.
This is an awesome game!  It's one of those "I just have to see what's next" type of games.  Different weapons, different enemies.  Just pure old-school fun. 

I finally have some free time tonight.  I'm going to give this a try on real hardware.  I've never played it before either.  Looks like fun.
 

The house closed on 7/31. We got 9 offers  in a weekend and ended up selling to a friend.  She wasn't the highest, but she was ballpark and considering this is a divorce sale, we both wanted the house to go to someone we care about.  It was super stressful prepping everything and my ex-wife's move was way more chaotic than it needed to be.  But we made it! 
The house was the last big thing between my ex-wife and I to put a period on the divorce.  We'll always have our daughter but she's (fortunately) grown so with the exception of college graduations, weddings and funerals, I imagine contact will be fairly limited.  15 years is a long time and its amazing to me how much time and energy it takes to unwind the legal entanglement that is marriage.  Its been over a year since everything started unraveling.  It will definitely be a consideration for relationships moving forward.  
I've spent the last year largely on self improvement and work.  I've dropped 50lbs and I'm back to what I call my rock n' roll weight - a number that hasn't been seen since 2004! I've started exercising regularly, cook almost everything, cut back on drinking and limited eating out.  I've also simplified my life and got rid of a lot of "stuff."  I've been playing music with friends again and we rent a "lock-out" studio in an industrial space to practice.  Maybe we'll actually get to a point where we want to gig... 
Anyway, this will probably wrap this whole thread.  I appreciate all of the support from my fellow atari.io forum folks.  This stuff is tough and sharing it has really helped! Thanks to all who commented or sent messages of support.  
To infinity and beyond!
By Grapthar's Hammar...
Live long and prosper.  

Better late than Never, but here is my Full Set of Patches
 

Ok just hooked it up and It looks like it works! Dang it's hard to take a good pic of a crt tv screen

Ninja Spirit
TurboGrafx-16
Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE
Difficulty Level: PC-Engine Mode (Press Button I)
SINGLE LIFE RUN: Achieve high score using only one life to win challenge
Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔
Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST August 14th, 2019
 
 
OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between August 1st through August 14th, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor!
 
ELIGIBILITY: Anyone can join in. All players are welcome!
 
PLAY RULES: Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed.
 
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Press Button I to begin PC-Engine Mode. In the PC-Engine Mode, you begin the game with five energy points and three lives. In the more difficult Arcade Mode, you begin the game with only one energy point. We are playing the game in PC-Engine Mode.
 
SINGLE LIFE RUN: You are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge.
 
FAIR PLAY: Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater.
 
MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/
 
MESSAGE: Welcome to our 66th Squad Challenge! This time we're playing Ninja Spirit for the TurboGrafx-16! Ninja Spirit was released as a HuCard (TurboChip) for the TurboGrafx systems, and was included as a pack-in title with most TurboDuo game systems sold in the US! I think you'll find that Ninja Spirit is one of the stand-out titles among the US releases for TurboGrafx. It's a fun game with powerful jumps, different power ups and some serious ninja strategy. This has become my go-to game when I'm craving a ninja game. I should also apologize to you guys for posting this Squad Challenge five days late. I always try to post these on time. I have been absolutely swamped with work and have been distracted from the site and from playing games for the past few weeks. I'm here though, and this is going to be a great game for those of you just discovering the TurboGrafx-16. This is a SINGLE LIFE RUN Challenge, and you are only allowed ONE LIFE to achieve your high score in this Squad Challenge. ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing!
 
NOTE: Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for Atari 7800. Be there!
 
 

 
 
 
Ninja Spirit.pdfNinja Spirit.pce

I will also say that upgrading to a new PC was a lot less painful that I thought it would be.  I keep all my "data" on the D : drive (HDD) (pictures, music, etc).  So my weekly backup of of the D drive and "My Documents" covered my 99%.  Once I restored those, it just took a little time to re-install programs.  The only issue I ran into is that I can't find my Office 2013 license key.  So I'm just going to go with free OpenOffice instead.  
And it also reminded me of the humorous quote that's so true -- that the only purpose for Microsoft Edge is to download Chrome or Firefox. 
 

It is possible that they "change the curve" so that the newest PC's don't exceed 100% on the main 3 values.   That probably explains why your CPU went down a little. 
 

What?  No, man.  I think you're computer is fine.  It looks like a nice balance of gaming performance.  Moore's Law died several years ago. 
The only reason I upgraded is that my old PC was overheating, and nothing I tried could fix it.  New thermal paste, new heatsink/fan.  I upgraded very reluctantly.  I kept my old video card because I have no problems running the games I play with it.  Saved a few bucks that way. 
 

Congratulations RickR!
 
Congratulations @RickR on your ULTIMATE score! I want to thank EVERYBODY for participating in our little event this year, and for celebrating the life and works of Howard Scott Warshaw who went for so many years without recognition, carrying "the blame" for the video game crash. I hope doing HSWDAY once a year is a fun way to break out these old games and appreciate them for what they are. I hope everyone had a good time playing Ultimate Yars!. Congrats to @RickR @greenween @atarilbc @TrekMD @kamakazi20012 and @Atari Creep for being among the most elite Yars' Revenge players! I'd like to encourage RickR to post his new high score on the Scoreboard, and maybe this Challenge can continue on! 
Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be for the TurboGrafx-16!
 
 
 ULTIMATE YARS FINAL STANDINGS 
 
1   RICKR                                     216,578
2   GREENWEEN                         212,454
3   ATARILBC                              109,885
4   TREKMD                                   67,007
5   KAMAKAZI20012                   49,420
6   ATARI CREEP                          37,092
 
 

Here is the stuff I added to the box. 
Dang it, I meant to take that N64 wrestling game!  Oh well, maybe next time. 
Thanks everyone. 

Whoops!  Chas10e let me know that the manual for Blip football was hiding in the Skiing box.  He's the master at efficient Tetris packing.
 

Here is what I took.
First of all, I feel that this Elmo's 123's was put in there specifically for me by NSG.  If so, THANK YOU.  It looks good next to my Elmos' ABC's.  And it reminds me of my oldest child when he was a toddler.  Priceless.

 
And here's the bulk of what I took.  I feel like the PSP games were in there for me, and I thank you, mystery giver, for them!  Does anyone else collect for PSP? 

I really agonized over the Wico 5200 stick.  It's so cool, but I feel selfish for taking it.  At the same time, it took up a lot of real estate in the box!  NSG or Willie, if one of you would like it, I'm happy to ship it to you separately. 
The football homebrew is so cool!  It's a 2600 version of the Mattel handheld football.  In case you don't know, I'm the weird gamer that really loves sports games.  So that game and the SNES baseball will be played a lot. 
I also hogged the 2600 games, figuring Willie and NSG probably already had them.  The boxes are a little rough, but I really dig the price tags.  Activision Skiing is a game in which I earned the patch, so having a boxed copy is really nice.
Oooh, and an NSG card pack.  I'm hoping for a few Oregon Duck players in there!
Below is some stuff I took mostly to get the space for more games in the box.  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if anyone wants any of this, I'm happy to ship it separately.  Given that, the Star Trek book will be read and enjoyed, I promise.  And I really like the ESPN movies.  And the multi-system cable is handy.


Lastly, I want to say THANK YOU to all of you.  Especially NSG for hosting the box.  It really is a lot of fun. 
The box is stuffed full again, and I'll get it out to Willie as soon as I can. 

Sorry for the delay.  I'll have pictures up soon.  I'll be honest...I could keep every single item in this box.  It's that good this time.  Really nice job, guys.  Reluctantly putting a lot back now. 
 
 

👌  It's an awesome touch! 

Arrived today.  It's hard to see, but the dot-matrix address label is a nice feature from chas10e!

I'm slammed with work, but I'm going to try to get this out on Wednesday.  Willie is next I think.
 

Hey Hey Hey!  You got some nice stuff to play. 

 

That is a really cool item right there. 

I just got back from Pinburg 2019 sorry for delay ( no I didn't win any tournaments this year ... mebbe next year )
I put in
a Sears Pong controller multi console AV cable GB games: Super Mario 2; Yoshi; Dr. Mario GBA games: Series of Unfortunate Events; Super MArio Advance; Finding Nemo; Mamco Museum; (think) Midways Classics? ; Yoshi's Island; Mario Kart Super Circuit DS game Mario Kart DS Atari 2600games  Skiing cib Mouse Trap cib ( could have been nibbled by a mouse :P ) Synth Kart; Blip Football a Wico stick for 5200