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    Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    God I miss you guys! Omg where do I begin. Well first of all, a lot has been going on with me. I work two jobs and goto school now, so my schedule is swamped. Ace'ing all of my classes and mind blowing away my professors at my coding skills lol. Plus I've been spending a lot more time with my girlfriend who I've been dating for 4 years now. We just recently got engaged. Then a few days ago, she finds a PS3 that someone threw away, so I took a whack at trying to fix it. Even after applying new thermal paste onto the chips, it still gave me the yellow light of death. So I gave up at 4:15 in the freaking morning. Then she wakes me up at 9am and says "lets get a PS3!" So now we got a PS3 with a bunch of games, and obviously been playing that. I know I'm all over the place. Like I said I had a lot going on with me. With all the money I've been making between both jobs, I've been doing some game chasing for retro games on my time off (which is literally only half a day all week), and my game collection is now at a frightening rate. I now have 105 NES games, with two of them being extremely rare. And recently been trying to collect Sega Genesis games. Been doing some hardcore C++ coding lately (using VB 2013 Professional) with my latest project being an improved NES emulator from my VB6 predecessor. Sadly the only time I can code is super late at night for like an hour before I goto bed, so my projects go slow. I also am trying to stream live on Twitch with my channel called Jake's NES Adventure using not an emulator, but a real NES using my Elgato composite capture device. But due to a lack of time, its pretty difficult to squeeze some streaming in, and I can really only do it late night, which means less views. Its 2 am now, and I'm super exhausted. I just wanna let you guys know I'm still around, and that I didn't forget about you guys.

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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Glad things are going well... but god man.. paragraphs!

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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Roman View Post
    Gelato composite capture device.
    Yeah, fun, artistic and tasy, all in one simple package.
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Glad to see you back JR. The game programming forum just isn't the same without you.
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Chit chat aint the same without me

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    That's true. All this time we've been calling it Chat-Chit. It's good that we can go back to the old ways, now.
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    Since you left we've moved to the General Developer section, the fun is all there now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dee-u View Post
    Since you left we've moved to the General Developer section, the fun is all there now.
    I will post in that thread and completely forget that it's not in the chat-chit section. A moderator should probably move it
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    I've been expecting that one thread to be moved any DDay now.
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Jesus i been in vbforums for 10 years. This is my anniversary post. How ironic o.o

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    God you're old!
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Hey Jacob

    I'm here for 12 years , and like you I'm way too busy, i visit the forum maybe once a month...

    Life has changed a lot for me also, the main change for me is that now I have a 19 month old son and every day I can't wait to finish work, so I can go home and see him I miss him every day! I am with my girlfriend for almost 9 years, but I don't plan to get engaged/married...
    You and your girlfriend are together for 4 years, and you got engaged; I bet she wants to have a baby?

    This is my new hobby, and it is a lot of fun: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...own-as-Drones)
    Now I have a reason to get out of the house

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    JR reproducing? Is the world ready for that?
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    The past couple of posts reminded me of the song:
    "Is this love, that I'm feeling?"
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    I've been expecting that one thread to be moved any DDay now.
    It should stay there, I think it is funky.
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    JR, I have been wanting to ask you if you have heard of the game DayZ

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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    No not really. I'm mostly a retro gamer / collector.

    But I have a question. What do you all think of my new Twitch logo?
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    It should stay there, I think it is funky
    I assure you I've got nothing to do with it.

    JR reproducing? Is the world ready for that?
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    What do you all think of my new Twitch logo?
    I thought it was funny that you're wearing a muscle shirt in this picture and you were also wearing a muscle shirt in your last picture as well.
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    Re: Hey Everyone, Long Time No See.

    Quote Originally Posted by dday9 View Post
    I thought it was funny that you're wearing a muscle shirt in this picture and you were also wearing a muscle shirt in your last picture as well.
    I love the Power Glove. It`s so bad.

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