My Two Cents on the Nintendo Switch (UPDATE)

Nintendo has been in a little bit of tough spot these past few years. With Microsoft and Sony surging ahead with the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, Nintendo's Wii U is looking pretty obsolete these days and the only thing that seems to be churning out the most success for the underdog of the Big Three is the 3DS. Nintendo has had a new console codenamed NX in the works for while now and it could supposedly be their ace in hole to put them back in the running against Microsoft and Sony, but not much  has been said of it... until now. Say hello to the Switch.

iMac G4 Optical Drive Replacement & Autopsy

Vision problems.

As I noted in my review of the iMac G4, the optical drive was not working. Essentially what occurs was the drive would try to read a disk for about 30 seconds and then spit it back out. This can be one of two things, one is that the lens may be dirty and needs cleaning; this can be done with some specialized products. The other is that the drive may have just flat out shit the bed for some undiagnosable reason. Because the replacement I found wasn't much more expensive than a drive cleaning kit, I decided to do the extra labor for something that's guaranteed to work; plus I get to see the inside of the thing finally. Lets get started!

Nerf Rival Atlas XVI-1200 Review (9/10)

Twice the pain. All the fun.

I've covered most of the new Nerf gear already, the ones I haven't touched yet being the Mastodon, since it's so expensive, the Tri-Strike because it's pretty lame, and then there's this; the Atlas. This blaster been quite elusive to me for quite a while now and I just now found it after bouncing between several stores in search of it over the past month or so. This is the Rival line's first shotgun type blaster so lets see how it performs.

SBNC is Quitting Nerf

So long and thanks for all the foam!

I just found out about this today on Reddit and sad to say that Rob who runs a rather well known Nerf blog out of Australia known as Southern Brisbane Nerf Club is throwing in the towel. SBNC has been my go-to blog for Nerf news and whatnot ever since the big three(NM&R, Tactical Tag, SG Nerf) have ceased operations. I didn't have time to watch the full video but apparently Rob's leave is due some serious personal matters and I think it will better for me just to link the video below rather than try and explain things myself. I hope everything works out for him.

You can check his blog out here.

Apple iMac G4 Review

Grab life by the neck.

I typically give Apple a lot of crap for a number of things, namely their general lack of innovation and their attempts at breaking standards but I've always held a curiosity for their old hardware. You know, before missing headphone jacks and shitty laptop keyboards. Apple's old hardware was strange, yet they we're very capable compared to the hordes of terrible Windows machines that existed back in the 90's and early 2000's. One particular model caught my eye in particular, and to satisfy my curiosity on the matter I drove an hour out of my way to pick this up: an iMac G4 and to say the least I've never used anything quite like it.