Ha! I should store my stuff away, then progressively move it back in once we’re settled
That’s a great idea. It’s too expensive for her to leave me and my stack of CRTs now !(divorce is expensive)
She would get half the CRTs >_>
Don’t cut your CRTs in half, people 
I have this odd feeling that she wouldn’t want them.
One of my really good friends from my hometown (who also posts here but not as frequently) loves the retro scene like me. We often hang out and talk about retro games and modding. Aside from that, the rest of my friends only ever discuss retro games from a nostalgia perspective.
I have one friend who also collects and plays retro games. He’s mainly into SNES games but has a pretty big collection of all kinds of consoles. He recently bought a Super NT and SD2SNES.
Another friend was pretty big into retro games but stopped a few years ago. Still has a sizable collection but stopped buying new games. He mostly plays PC nowadays but thinks emulators are good enough when it comes to retro gaming. Naturally I disagree 
My closest friend used to play retro games but sold his collection 10 or so years ago because he lost interest. We sometimes play retro games but usually play modern games, which is fun too.
Small update on the GF front. When she first came into my place, she was dumbfounded by the number of screens. “Why do you have so many screens?” she asked. I had to tell her that this one was for the computer (21" VGA monitor), that one was for old video games (21" TV on the same desk), and that one was for watching films (massive 32" widescreen HD CRT). The last one is normally used for Wii/PS2/Xbox, but I’m suddenly watching a lot more films on it 
. Good thing the DVD player was still connected to it! The other monitors will have to wait a bit in storage haha.
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I have a lot of friends who game, and some can play some retro games with me, but none of them are in the rabbit hole the way i am.
Lets necrodance.
My friends who are into gaming are a bit particular in that regard.
One only plays ps1, n64 and game cube games. Another is more into japanese obscurities, namely sufami, PS and ps2 japanese games. Be also loves hacks and prototypes.
My last friend is a retro player 2. He doesnt collect or singleplayers, but he ends up playing every retro multiplayer Coop I own with me.
Hey my wife has been asking me this question for years 
She was skeptical when I added the big 29" 4/3 CRT to the mix. Then I plugged in the RGB modded Atari VCS with her favourite game from her youth she told me about some time before, and she became a convert.
You may keep this one.
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My girlfriend was horrified when I brought a 25” Trinitron home. But once she realised that it meant that all of my retro consoles would now move out of the living room and into the study she’s pretty happy with the arrangement.
It’s pretty rare I meet anyone into retro gaming. I have one friend I see regularly who is into it which is really nice when we are able to coordinate.
It would aslo be cool, however, to have local friend who plays Super Smash Bros. Melee but not someone from the pro scene. Just a normal dude who enjoys that game since it’s one of my favorites and nothing else scratches the same itch.
My fiance’s friend told me he’s into it, came over one time, and it was one of the best gaming sessions I’ve had in like a decade.
The problem is that he lives on the other side of the country 
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Depending on the size of the country, I believe its pretty hard when someone who plays the stuff you player livre really far. Its the only reason I ever played emulators with online (Kaillera and ggpo) and actually like the online capabilities of the Switch retro library.
Kaillera
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The word that is synonimous with desync, lag, and everything bad about videogaming with lousy network.
Lol it was terrible, but also magical.
I can still remember. Playing tweenbee with randos, por calling a friend in skype and player contra while fighting with desync. I ha vê to check it out and check if it got better. Probably netplay on retroarch is the better choice though.