Thank you!

I’ve had a great time trying these out, and finding the one which will stick with me. You’ll have a great time with this, and while it is in the post you can start getting, building and curating your music collection! :P

(which color will you opt for?)

I love the shell!

The word ‘junk’ on Buyee/Japan’s online marketplaces doesn’t mean what it does elsewhere. It can mean anything:

• Not having a charger on hand, so it can’t be tested
• Literally just dusty
• They don’t know how it works
• …all the way to actual issues (which typically I’ve found are things like muck in the power switches which isopropyl alcohol fixes right up!)

Junk absolutely doesn’t mean they’re broken! Listings tend to go into a little detail on what is wrong with the consoles :)

I’ve bought a TON of handheld consoles through Buyee. DSi’s (I got a great DSi LL in box with all the bits, barely used for $52 AUD), GBA SPs, I even got a launch Switch to jailbreak from Japan!

I actually wrote a article on a ‘junk’ PSP from Japan, you can read more on it here:

https://gardinerbryant.com/i-bought-a-junk-psp-from-japan-heres-how-it-went/

It was the design on the back battery cover. Technically Vader is the black part!

And a PSA for anyone who has a terribly dead or spicy pillow battery, OSTENT make great batteries which do an even better job than the originals. I opt for the 1,400 mAh ones, which give you more capacity with the same size!

No better time than now to pick one up!

I went from being amazed that anyone would opt for native hardware for older gaming (I am a huge fan of retro handhelds!) to being amazed anyone would not want one. There’s something to be said about the original games on the PSP, it just feels ‘right’.

And they’re relatively inexpensive (if you buy from Japan) to get one in nice shape these days. I’ve got another on the way from Tokyo right now:

I did the same long ago, but I did go back to reddit. I wish I’d learned my lesson at the time -__-

• Removing the messages option and instead replacing it with their stupid DM chat system, even for modmail

• Stating that later this year they’re going to introduce walled off paid sub-reddit

• That live stream nonsense they had a couple of years back

• Their A.I. answers integration

• Censoring users who mention ‘eat the rich’ and the name Luigi

• No longer allowing moderators of their own sub-reddit to change a sub’s status to NSFW (after the protests, obv), now requires admin to do this for them if the deem it appropriate

…who’d have guessed that these decisions were shit. Not the community who told them each time, again and again, right?

Fuck you, Reddit

I enjoyed my time there immensely. I loved fostering a community, and helping people, I wrote guides and news posts, I helped other users via messages and overall felt like it was a nice place.

But over time Reddit got greedy, and for me to do the work for free (moderate), and then provide their content for free (my posts)…with how they treated us and will continue to?

My time is better spent on the fediverse. Here and Mastodon. I’m far happier here now.

Here’s an article about the plan for paid sub-reddits, on arstechnica. It was reported about a month ago

Their other plan is removing their established messages system and sunsetting it completely over the next 3 months. Instead every message including modmail will be done with their horrendous instant chat system - those stupid DMs they have there.

I left moderating some significant subs back when with the 3rd party app protests, but did return to Reddit after that to start my own.

But now, since early December I’m done-done.

My account has been deleted (as with Discord), and I’m all in on the fediverse. Seeing the proposed changes (the concept of a paid sub that Spez is so adament about?), I just had enough. And the more news of Reddit I see, the happier I am I did.

Most of my daily time now is spent on Mastodon, but I am here every few days trying to share a post or two.