guyrocket

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 3 months ago

I own a couple actual vintage arcade machines and paid less for them than this. If you shop around you can find deals.

I also have one of these 1up cabs and it is definitely not like vintage. Software may be the same but it is using a modern monitor not a CRT. I think I paid around 300 for it several years ago. Not full size.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 15 points 3 months ago

Thank you, Nima!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What age do you have to be to get this joke?

Kids probably think its a sexual reference.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Its all yo momma's fault!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 3 months ago
[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not exactly an expert so please research all of this further, but my understanding is that you have a few options. In no particular order:

  1. COBRA. I know it's expensive ($800 / mo or more) but you're still getting the "group" discount your employer gets. Cheaper than buying insurance on the "open market" without getting your employer's group discount.
  2. Major medical. This is health insurance but only covers major incidents. No preventative care. Shitty but better than worst case medical problems bankrupting you.
  3. Open market insurance. Just buying straight from a health insurance company. Very expensive. Try Obamacare first.
  4. Obamacare. This has different names in different states. Tiered costs based on income. You'll want to research how it looks at income because this might inform the timing of leaving your job/current health insurance.
  5. No insurance. Terrible option, but you can go to the emergency room and they have to treat you.
  6. Other insurance. I believe some places like Costco (Sam's club?) offer health insurance for businesses.
    The whole thing is a confusing mess and no options are perfect.

Have you talked with other small business owners? Do you have connections to the business community that could explain what they do? If you don't have anyone to network with about this, FIND some people. Even just by walking into their business and telling your story. Many communities have business incubators or other networking for startups. At least one mentor could make a HUGE difference for you.

Is starting the business and ramping it up for some time THEN quitting possible? This could make sense for a lot of reasons, not just health insurance.

If nothing else, you could work long enough to save up 6 months or a year of COBRA and then quit to do your business full time.

Best wishes!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did you mean to link to a creative commons license?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin SHUT UP!

We don't want to give those MS assholes ANY ideas.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Degoogle instead.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 17 points 3 months ago

IDK much about it, but this exists:

https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Beautiful.

How to get more absolute shit from Goog?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 21 points 4 months ago (18 children)

If you consider hardware functionality, IDK why people buy consoles at all. The sky is the limit for what I can do on even a low end PC and there are significant limits to functionality on consoles. Not to mentioned the walled garden you're forced into with consoles.

Make money from software, there's little profit in hardware.

 

I would like to recommend Vector Pinball to anyone with even a passing interest in video pinball or video games.

I find this game to be very impressive, even more so as a free app on F-droid. I need to send this dev some cash, I have probably put >200 hours into this game and I am really enjoying it.

Things I like:
Physics are perfect.
8 boards
Each board plays very uniquely.
Great depth of play, the boards are complex and take some work to unlock/see everything.
Addictive.
Some boards are very difficult.
Unique look with vector graphics. Reminds me of Tron.
Pretty good music.

Things I don't like:
My phone doesn't have pinball buttons. Doing that on the screen is a bit awkward. Workable but awkward.
The ball can pass between your flippers with no chance to hit it. Often normal for pinball, this always annoys me. I think I should always have some chance to hit and save the ball.
Show me my score and high scores as soon as I finish a game. I should not have to press a button or wait for the scrolling to see these.

9/10

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