We Hit 1,000 Miles (Day 3750 - 3/1/20)

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Today, Stephen went to Player's Choice to trade in some duplicate games. Yesterday, he and Mallory were organizing the games in the Wii collection and found all the duplicates games they had. Stephen says that he also found 4 Wii games that he hadn't checked off his list. He says that they had a lot of duplicates since in the last mail video they got a lot of duplicates like 3 copies of Luxor 3. Stephen says that it was weird that they got 3 copies of the same game in the same mail video since the Wii library is so large.

Stephen went through the Wii and Wii U section at Player's Choice. He says that they already have a lot of Wii stuff, so there was a small amount of things that he could pick up. He ended up getting a few Wii U games and 2 GameCube games. Stephen says that he already finished collecting all physical copies of the GameCube games, but he's still trying to get the Player's Choice variants. There are also GameCube manuals that he still needs to collect. He comments on how the GameCube section is pretty full now compared to the time he was focusing on collecting GameCube games. When he was focused on getting GameCube games, Player's Choice wasn't able to keep GameCube games in stock for long because he kept clearing them out.

Then, Stephen talks about how there are currently a lot of good and rare GameCube games at Player's Choice. For example, Eternal Darkness and Digimon World 4. Additionally, there are some big first party title games like Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, The Legend of Zelda Double-Disc set, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Brothers Melee. Stephen mentions that Time Splitters 2, Future Perfect, and Trigger Man are rare games that are hard to find. He recommends going to Player's Choice if you're ever in the area.

Later in the car, Stephen films the odometer of the car which is at 1,003 miles. He had wanted to show it changing to 1,000 miles, but when he looked down while driving it was already at 1,001.

Back at home, Stephen talks about how he never thought that they would get to 1,000 miles on the new car in less than a month. They only drive about an average of 100 miles per week. Stephen says that they just use the car to go get groceries twice a week, go to Lunch Bunch, and a store here and there. The other day, Stephen had talked about why they reached 1,000 miles so fast. He says that they probably won't be putting anywhere near that many miles on the car in the immediate future because they don't really travel unless it's for a trip. Stephen talks about how they don't live in a city where you can easily walk or bike to places, so you have to have a car.

Then, Stephen gives a shoutout to the Patreon producers. He says that it feels weird that it's already March. They've had the car for less than a month, but it feels like they've had the car for forever. Stephen says that it might've felt like that because last week felt like multiple months and years to them since time felt like it was passing by slowly after Sagan's passing.

Stephen talks about how he's still adjusting to the new car, but it's been great. He mentions that Mallory still hasn't driven the car yet. Stephen says that she doesn't drive a lot, but she's a good driver. When they still drove the Ford Escape, Stephen did most of the driving because he likes driving. Mal will choose not to drive if she doesn't have to. But, she will drive if Stephen isn't feeling well or if he didn't have enough sleep the previous night. Stephen says that Mal will drive the car at some point, so that she can get a feeling for it just in case something happens and she's forced to drive it.

He then talks about how they have about 700 Wii games and have about 500 left to collect. Stephen mentions that they also have about 60 Wii U games which is over 1/3 of the Wii U library. He mentions that someone had asked him why there were still GameCube games displayed on the shelves. Stephen explains that he only took out as many GameCube games as he needed to in order to put Wii and Wii U games in. So, all the GameCube games from A-L are boxed up. Stephen says that he will eventually have to box up the remainder of the GameCube games as they get more Wii games. He talks about how he's trying to finish the Wii library by October and they are collecting the games at a good pace. Also, they still have mail that they haven't opened yet.

Then, Stephen talks about how they will be going on a road trip at some point this year. But, it won't be a long road trip like the one 2 years ago when they drove to Maine and back over the span of 3 weeks. Stephen says that this road trip will only be for a week or less. He says that they might drive down to Florida and hit up some game stores in that direction in order to increase their Wii collection. Stephen says that he appreciates all the people that are helping them collect Wii games by sending it to them in the mail. He says that the Wii library is huge, so it is due to the group effort that they are able to collect all these games quickly.

Stephen says that they haven't opened the mail from January yet. They will also need to open the mail from February soon. He says that they will try and do both as soon as possible. Stephen explains that balancing things in general is difficult and that they were also dealing with Sagan's passing. So, it led to things moving a bit more slowly than usual. But, he knows that the viewers understand. Stephen says that cleaning up the games helped their mentality a lot, but the room is still a mess. So, they will have to clean the rest of the room some time in the future.