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Off Topic / Re: How do you deal with getting older?
« on: July 07, 2025, 05:46:31 pm »
I recently had a birthday which puts me in my late 30s. I understand I'm still not old, and by conventional standards I'm not even middle aged yet, but one thing that has been on my mind a lot over the last year or so is how people deal with getting older.


it's a strange thing coming out of your late teens, 20s, and even your early 30s and most things are more or less as you remembered them, but then you realize one day they're not. Your relatives you've had in your minds eye as being around a certain age most of your life are now several decades beyond that, you start to hear more and more about people you knew personally dying, and even you aren't the same person anymore. You don't have the energy you once did, your body has all sorts of random aches and pains you never used to have, and you could have sworn you were just renewing your plates or paying your taxes a few months ago, when it's actually been a whole year already. I guess the passage of time and the reality of how much time has passed is starting to finally catch up with me. Does anyone else have feelings like this or have you dealt with this and somehow come to terms with it?



I think about it every single day when i'm alone. Damn... this hit the feels for me.  I actually been feeling sort of out of body lately. Almost existential crisis.  Like sometimes I just sit there and realize how finite life is...  it feels like yesterday was y2k.  Like monday was ps2 release date. it feels like Majoras mask. Where it's a game, all n64 and life as usual but then you look up and death is just there.  When you start the game. That moon is far away. Easy peezy.  No urgency or fear. You're a kid! But once you near 30, 40, 50 and I imagine especially 60 and 70.  That moon is not exactly where it started anymore.  And the reality of that is jarring.  And it jars you the more you look up.

And things have radically changed with the advent of internet dependency. Which has not helped matters. It makes us lead very centralized and introverted psuedo lifestyles of speed. I find myself saying "these kids today" like an old grandfather and i'm not even 30 yet lol.  It just has changed.  Complex stuff like learning how to work a check book.  Even something as simple as looking out the window every 30 seconds for a pizza guy.  The excitement.  Now we have an app to track it. Why wait at a mom and pop store. Amazon will do it quicker. Better. Theirs no effort required so I think life speeds up when theirs less to do. Less to see. It all feels like around 2010 or 2012. We all died at the same time. And everything after 2013 is just a bizarre dream. And this is a new life. Thats how different it is.  But I know thats not the case.


Idk if anyone else feels this but does it seem like time moves faster as you age?  Seemed like days were 2 days when I was younger.  Now it seems like no matter how much time I make. Plans I cancel. It's just wake up. And then its bedtime right after.  Theirs this sense of too quick. Idk.   Where it comes from.

I guess we just gotta focus more on what is changeable.  The quality of the life not the quantity.   I know death can only bring us the answers of whats next. But its human nature to ponder it.   

Sometimes the quote "dont be sad its over. Be happy it happened" make me feel better.
mostly this altough time does realy feel to go by faster and faster the older I get.

and hoenstly i hate getting older  if I had the option to stay 20 for 20 years  and then die i would take that over getting to 80.

the sad reality is that you cnat change it

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News / Re: Official Fallback Forum
« on: July 03, 2025, 05:14:36 pm »
saved the link in case I ever need it because this one is down

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Site Feedback / Re: Site issues slow any issues?
« on: April 15, 2025, 04:47:05 pm »
honestly the people behind those ai systems are  assholes.  I didnt gave them permission to use my data  for their own dirty gains and especialy soemthing as terrible as ai.

I get that ai in itself isnt bad  but its just like guns it will be used for bad stuff.

the issue is though that bad parties have the monopoly on ai  and it wont be long till you cnat believe ANYTHING  anymore ebcause of it.

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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 17, 2024, 12:00:00 pm »
I just wish I knew if demo counted or not.

@dhaabi at what number of games am I now exactly? I cna use that number to find out if the demo does count or not  since I have 32 umd movies  so I should take that number you cna give me add the umd movies and compare to the current displayed number

I don't have that kind of back-end information to know specifically if Demo items count toward the badge total, so wait until an Admin can reply.

considering they are count seperate don't think they do, that being said in this case the demo's wouldn't get the guy over the 4K mark.

umd video's aren't demo material but they ain't games either so also not counted
that sucks wel at least I know now

You wouldn't know from sworddude's comment. They have no idea how the back-end of the system operates and can only speculate.

With that said, I've confirmed Demos type items have no value toward the badge total. Only Games and Games - Digital types items do. Why the badges function like this to begin with is something I've wondered about for some time, though.

thanks relay appreciate you checking and finding this out for me

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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 17, 2024, 11:08:45 am »
I just wish I knew if demo counted or not.

@dhaabi at what number of games am I now exactly? I cna use that number to find out if the demo does count or not  since I have 32 umd movies  so I should take that number you cna give me add the umd movies and compare to the current displayed number

I don't have that kind of back-end information to know specifically if Demo items count toward the badge total, so wait until an Admin can reply.

considering they are count seperate don't think they do, that being said in this case the demo's wouldn't get the guy over the 4K mark.

umd video's aren't demo material but they ain't games either so also not counted
that sucks wel at least I know now

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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 17, 2024, 11:00:01 am »
ok I thought you kew since you mentioned my number before  but that was an while back and i got some new stuff since then  so thats why I asked

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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 17, 2024, 09:49:44 am »
Badge levels are determined by the total of Games in one's collection and not total item. At this time, I believe your current count of Games-type items is 3,968.
sorry for the late response I forgot to keep track but hows does that work exactly since I only add games anyway i dont add systems merch etc at all.

For each sub-category, their respective items have a specific Item Type which members can see outlined in the Collection Breakdown section on About pages. Here is your page for quick reference. As you can see, you do not only have Games-type items added to your collection. You have a small number of Accessories added, but the the main reason you've not reached the 4,000 Games total is due to PSP UMD Video items added which are classified as Home Videos. I'm not sure if Demos serve toward the badge total count or not, which I also mention because you have a few added.
yeah I figered that out myselfthe psp at elast I do hope the demo counts since I have only 1  which was  soemthing you needed to buy.

for me this is actualy a god thing I was so sad my 4000th game as just an random one now I have an 2nd chance to make it memorable

I just wish I knew if demo counted or not.

@dhaabi at what number of games am I now exactly? I cna use that number to find out if the demo does count or not  since I have 32 umd movies  so I should take that number you cna give me add the umd movies and compare to the current displayed number

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and rejected edits 2024
« on: November 17, 2024, 09:09:33 am »
I just now noticed this one

https://vgcollect.com/item/263967

back then I am sure to have amde an error since  I noticed an psn game while i dont list those so I checked and found i accidently created this one eaperently in the past so this one can be deleted


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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 17, 2024, 09:07:01 am »
Badge levels are determined by the total of Games in one's collection and not total item. At this time, I believe your current count of Games-type items is 3,968.
sorry for the late response I forgot to keep track but hows does that work exactly since I only add games anyway i dont add systems merch etc at all.

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Site Feedback / didnt get the 4k badge
« on: November 13, 2024, 02:36:44 pm »
title says it all recently i went over the 4000 games but i didnt get the badge for it I saw on someone else profile it did escist though

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Modern Video Games / Re: Playstation 5 Pro
« on: September 13, 2024, 03:55:00 pm »
Yeah. There's no way in hell I'm buying a PS5 Pro. Even here in the States (we're not united anymore so no point in putting that part in), it's $700 which is paltry in comparison to the $880 expected from those living in the EU.

1. No disc drive. (seperate cost of $80) 120 euro in europe which is another 133 dollar to givve an comparison
2. Devs can't even max out the PS5 as it is.
3. Little to no discernable difference in visuals.
4. Few games of interest for the entire generation.
5. No games in the pipe that are must haves.

No thanks Sony. Take the PS5 Pro and shove it up your greedy asses.

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General / Re: Is there any hope for this site?
« on: August 19, 2024, 12:32:30 pm »
I'm sure we're all aware of how dead VGcollect has been for the last few years with it seemingly getting worse and worse over time. It seems like we're pretty much down to a dozen or so users that regularly post on here. It's not uncommon for me to not see a single new post in an existing thread for a few days. As for new topics, it seems like one pops up every few weeks if even that, and for a while half of them were troll or delusional rambling posts by a certain user.


This genuinely bums me out as VGcollect has probably been my favorite online forum community since I joined this site about a decade ago. Everyone here for the most part has been super cool, laid back, and friendly, which is a rarity in online forums and even Facebook groups. Speaking of Facebook, while I do belong to a few gaming/collecting groups there, it just doesn't do it for me the same way that good old forums like this do. I want to see this site become a vibrant place for gaming discussion again, however it doesn't feel like VGcollect has been that for 5 or 6 years now, and even then it was a fraction of what it was like when I first joined.


Is there anyway to make this forum lively and fun again, or has pretty much everyone moved on, never to return?
verry doubtfull considering how the staff treats people who  try to start an inigitave or something. honestly unless that changes drasticly i see no hope for it becomming verry active agaian.

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ok screw it I will reply once more

first off the rude people here are actualy the mods who where rude from the get go.

also  explain to me how you collect  digital games while  the servers for the store are permanently down?

honestly it was so oblius I cnat believe  I have to explain it. sorry if expecting an bit of common sense is too much.

also i wasnt rude to snyder at all  if mentiong the list ist complete and saying I couldnt care less about digital games is considered rude already  I honestly dont know what to say.

this isnt kindergarten I would think.

sworddude  at least get why I am so pissed about this.

but I am most pissed about myself for wanting to do something fun and nice here.

I should have known better

so yeah i was an idiot  but at the evrry elast its not an mistake I ever make agaian

also this WILL be my last post here on this topic.  I have said my peace

I want to thank the peope here who have been nice or constructive etc though  shoutout to them

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There's a full list of 3DS games on Wikipedia that can be sorted by region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games
first off its NOT complete 2nd of all it also has digital games  I couldnt care less about

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it has been called the pal region for literly over 25 years at this point. I checked your link and i dont see how thats relevant I am not asking for an history lesson.



so to make it clear I am not saying your wrong I am saying its totaly irrelevant

btw at this point can this topic just be deleted.

I wanted to do something nice  and fun the whole thing is soured now so I rather just see it gone entirely

I know I am an idiot for even trying orr wanting to do it here though so thats on me

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