The Oasis Double Shot Weekend: Keeping The 2000s Alive, Collage, And A Semester With The SEGA Dreamcast

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again and I been wanting to talk about this and well here it is. So to start this, think about your stereotype collage student living arrangement. Now go back to about say 2009 ish, and you got the best idea on how I am living. An old 720p Viso TV, A broken Xbox 360, Mid 90s Bose radio, an Ispiron 3668 Dell PC, VA1 Dreamcast, one of them VHS/DVD combo player things, and a tower of blank CDs. Throw in some twinkies and ramen noddles and you have a party.

    Yes it a hell of a way to live but it works for collage, but you cant ask for anything better in my humble opinion. It is funny to think it the same story if you look at it from different years, it the rite of passage for every collage student to go through. Sit back on a Friday night, turn on the Dreamcast and get onto internet superhighway, log onto Quake and get some frags under your belt. That is what I feel is the beauty of the Dreamcast in a way, it is the perfect system for collage in my opinion depending on who you are.

    Now your millage is going to vary as well, If you are used to arcades and those style of games then it is perfect. I look at the Dreamcast as a what if case, an if everything went good for SEGA what could of happened? Not to forget the built in dial up modem that can still hook up to now private run severs. Speaking of online gaming there is something really for everyone from the sports, MMOs with Pantasy Star Online, and the best of PC shooters with Quake 3 and Unreal Touerniment 99. Then you look over to the east and the selection gets better with most of Capcon’s fighters that had online built it for multiplayer matches. Throw in all the arcade ports from all the big names at that time, and the Dreamcast looked unstoppable.

    Sure it did not last long on the market once the PS2 came out and drove the stake into the Dreamcast, but I do feel it looks pretty decent on a 720p screen and hey it had VGA output so there is that. I feel I should do a more informal post about why I love SEGA’s little white mechanical JFK some time in the future. Alright that that will be it for right now about the Dreamcast, I do want to touch on about the whole living like it’s the 2000s.

    It is the idea of simpler living and not having as much distractions, almost like making this space where your mental thinking is more clear. This is what the idea of digital minimalism is, cutting back on technology. In this case of mine, living like it the 2000s, with of course with a less crazy way of dress and less emo to boot. Another I feel benefit is less dependence on the mobile phone, and more utilization of desktop and improving troubleshooting skills. I will at some point talk on this at leangh it’s own post.

    Well time to cut the chase short then. This is all I got for this weekend folks, now here is out ending tradition. Here is Live Like There’s No Tomorrow By Slaughter from their 1995 album Fear No Evil. I will see you folks around like every post, this is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off and saying good night.

Happy Few Days Late One Year Anniversary to the Oasis!!!! And Im Still Stuck In The Past

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again, and damn it is now 2025. Looking back at the year it been a wild one but a good one. I in truth would never thought of sitting here celebrating a one year in the bag of some random blog I shoot up last year. Now yes it more of a digital diary then a blog of me just talking about random ass shit that really don’t matter, but hey nice to have an outlet. So I been having some ideas and it been a pain in ass to get working such as the guestbook, that you can see on the side (Or not if I deleted it). Now most people would just say ”Just get on X and you can have all the people you want listening and sniffing your own farts”.

    Now to that I say, I don’t because I am stubborn and there is to many people and it sounds like a damn hen house with someone who left the TV on that is blasting the View on a 24 hour loop. Yes I could make an account to market this place, then say something that pisses someone off and get doxed. Ok sure that was an extreme example, but you never know and I don’t have as much cool shit to tinker with on social media. On Twitter you cant have GIFs everywhere or have an embedded jukebox that can play music videos from YouTube. I wonder if I could have flash here oh wait that was killed off. (Why don’t we have the cool stuff anymore?)

    That’s what I feel keeps coming up, there is no freedom on the big sites. It all sanitized to hell and back with no user control. But that’s life I guess, it starts as a small town with a side of anarchy and lax rules then everyone and their corporate bootlickers move in and you know the rest. (Insert the Irony of a blog on Google’s servers) If I heard right MySpace had more freedom then the sites nowadays. Let not forget sites are not made for the desktop anymore. What happened to that anyway? In the 2000s there was a computer in almost every home in the USA, and was it taught in schools. Now it all overpriced phones that get this, cost more then a high end PC. How the hell did that happened?

    Anyway how about some good news, I found a good idea for a sort of chat box thing, and I could start up a BBS forum of sorts or a IRC. Not sure if it would be used but hey a nerd can dream. Other then that should be it so lets end it here with our tradition. Here is Congratulation Song By Corrosion Of Conformity off their 2000s album America's Volume Dealer. Well that's all folks until next time.