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Is Minecraft actually fun in anything beyond a Gary's Mod style of play? Are there servers where you can play it like a Rougelike too? If it's anything beyond a "building machines out of pistons" right off the bat, if you need to add that functionality by going on certain servers/installing certain mods, or if it's only just the building of machines.
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Lord Jigger posted:So on Tuesday I sent a friend $200 through PayPal for some goods, but for some dumb reason I marked it as a gift. Two days later PayPal limited his access to his account, and took the $200 away from him. Is there any hope to get my money back? If so, I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. I can't dispute it with the "Item dispute" option, since I marked it as a gift. You will get it back, it just takes time. Paypal doesnt keep money, just holds onto it for a while like assholes.
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Jul 10, 2011 03:30
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Bojanglesworth posted:You will get it back, it just takes time. Paypal doesnt keep money, just holds onto it for a while like assholes. Well that sounds great, but how exactly do I start to go about getting the money back? I cant file a Item Dispute, and I doubt that they'll buy a Unauthorized Transaction dispute, since I've sent money to him in the past.
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Jul 10, 2011 03:37
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feedmyleg posted:Is Minecraft actually fun in anything beyond a Gary's Mod style of play? Are there servers where you can play it like a Rougelike too? If it's anything beyond a "building machines out of pistons" right off the bat, if you need to add that functionality by going on certain servers/installing certain mods, or if it's only just the building of machines. I'd like to know this, too. I've thought about checking it out, but I'm honestly too boring of a person to actually come up with stuff to build; I need some kind of goal or something.
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Jul 10, 2011 03:39
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Lord Jigger posted:Well that sounds great, but how exactly do I start to go about getting the money back? I cant file a Item Dispute, and I doubt that they'll buy a Unauthorized Transaction dispute, since I've sent money to him in the past. Patience. If they limited his account they will just give you your money back. If you are impatient you can call the customer support number and talk to someone that may be able to make things go faster.
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Jul 10, 2011 04:04
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feedmyleg posted:Is Minecraft actually fun in anything beyond a Gary's Mod style of play? Are there servers where you can play it like a Rougelike too? If it's anything beyond a "building machines out of pistons" right off the bat, if you need to add that functionality by going on certain servers/installing certain mods, or if it's only just the building of machines. No. Any type of PVP style game is terrible because the net code is so poor. I know there are/were free for all servers like Goonimati but that's basically "Garys' Mod Style of play only people blow your stuff up". Lord Jigger posted:Well that sounds great, but how exactly do I start to go about getting the money back? I cant file a Item Dispute, and I doubt that they'll buy a Unauthorized Transaction dispute, since I've sent money to him in the past. It's not your money to get back. If it's really your "friend" he owes you whatever you bought from him. It's his problem. Schweinhund fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jul 10, 2011 |
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Jul 10, 2011 04:15
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Schweinhund posted:No. Any type of PVP style game is terrible because the net code is so poor. I know there are/were free for all servers like Goonimati but that's basically "Garys' Mod Style of play only people blow your stuff up". drat, I like the look of it and some of its ideas so much I was hoping. Maybe I'll try Dwarf Fortress with one of its fancy graphical or 3D mods. I guess I basically just want 3D Dot Heroes but don't want to buy a PS3 
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Jul 10, 2011 04:25
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Schweinhund posted:
You don't have many friends, do you?
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Jul 10, 2011 04:32
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I recently spilled some laundry detergent on my hardwood floors and didn't notice until it was dry. The stain turned out medium-brown and the area is fairly small -4 inches in circumfrance but oddly shaped and not filling the whole area. Over the past few days I've tried various home remedies over the past couple of days (vinegar, cider vinegar, baking soda, Murphy soap oil) but nothing's really worked, or it's worked so little I haven't been able to tell the difference. I have continuous hardwood floors throughout the apartment and want to know if there's any way I can do this without sanding the entire room/apartment as the Home Depot guy suggested. Even if I could rent a small hand sander and only sand the area then go over it with polyurethane that would be great - though keep in mind I have no experience with anything like this. I heard maybe getting mineral spirits could work? I'm willing to try pretty much anything at this point. Is there a way I can take care of this myself and not lose my (significant) deposit? I'd totally be up for calling in a professional, especially if they were here for a short enough time for the landlord not to get wind of it. Or would no legitimate professional work without the landlord's explicit permission?
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Jul 10, 2011 04:40
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Besesoth posted:I continue to be flatly astonished that a bank charging a non-customer a fee for cashing a check drawn on that bank doesn't violate some kind of usury law Apparently you have no clue what the word usury means then!
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Jul 10, 2011 04:57
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hooah posted:I'd like to know this, too. I've thought about checking it out, but I'm honestly too boring of a person to actually come up with stuff to build; I need some kind of goal or something. The YogBox mod compilation includes a mod that adds NPC villages with villagers that you can trade with and help build new buildings. It also adds a bunch of other fun crap like airships and an insane kung-fu skeleton that murders you during lightning storms until you become so paranoid you hide in a bunker every time it rains.
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Jul 10, 2011 05:47
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 Does anybody recognize this brand logo? It's on the side of a leather sofa/lounge suite. Australia, if it matters, but could easily be a foreign brand.
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Jul 10, 2011 08:01
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Wagonburner posted:edit: river city ransom avatar. nice. Shmorky made it for me for $5. He's got a thread in SA Mart where you can request avatars, but I'm not sure if he's still making them. He's made hundreds of the drat things.
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Jul 10, 2011 08:48
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Jul 10, 2011 08:54
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Lord Jigger posted:Cause he linked me to this screencap It sounds to me like your friend has two paypal accounts, one of which had a hefty negative balance associated with it, and PayPal took the money you gifted him in order to pay off his debt. Am I reading this wrong?
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Jul 10, 2011 09:22
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Zero Gravitas posted:Plus, does anyone know of a site that randomly generates maths problems? I'm out of practice with calculus and need some practice. Have you tried skimming homework help sites for problems first? Tons of kids posting calculus problems online expecting people to do their math homework for them.
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Jul 10, 2011 10:10
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How does pay and banking and stuff work in the US anyway? I'm from Denmark where checks are pretty much exclusively a novelty and everyone has a bank account. When I get hired I just tell my employer my Social Security Number and my full name and with that they can find my bank account and set up a direct transfer of pay to my account. I can also access my account from the Internet and pay bills and make transfers to friends, without any fees. Also I get a credit card tied to the bank account for no cost except overdraft fees. How much of this is commonplace in the US, and what are the alternatives you use? And why are checks still something you have to deal with?
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Jul 10, 2011 10:44
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feedmyleg posted:drat, I like the look of it and some of its ideas so much I was hoping. Maybe I'll try Dwarf Fortress with one of its fancy graphical or 3D mods. Play on the lost shard (look at the private game servers forum too), we have castable magic/a skill and economy system/pvp stuff.
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Jul 10, 2011 11:17
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feedmyleg posted:Is Minecraft actually fun in anything beyond a Gary's Mod style of play? Are there servers where you can play it like a Rougelike too? If it's anything beyond a "building machines out of pistons" right off the bat, if you need to add that functionality by going on certain servers/installing certain mods, or if it's only just the building of machines. hooah posted:I'd like to know this, too. I've thought about checking it out, but I'm honestly too boring of a person to actually come up with stuff to build; I need some kind of goal or something. I'm not much of a gamer and I enjoy Minecraft. I'm not creative enough to build stuff most of the time, but I really like exploring and trying to gather resources. Getting stuff seems to satisfy some sad little collector part of my brain. Even though the stuff I build isn't very interesting, it's still kind of neat to finish it and feel like an awesome architect. I should go outside more (I also have "mobs" turned off so I don't have to worry about getting killed except when I fall into lava)You can play the web based one for free, so you might as well try it. Tip: when you spawn for the first time, punch down a tree & collect the wood. Then make a pickax (check out minecraftwiki.net for recipes) and go in search of coal. Then you can make torches & dig other stuff up. I didn't know that at first so I just dug the dirt a bit and said WELP THAT'S BORING and stopped. BonHair posted:How does pay and banking and stuff work in the US anyway? I'm from Denmark where checks are pretty much exclusively a novelty and everyone has a bank account. When I get hired I just tell my employer my Social Security Number and my full name and with that they can find my bank account and set up a direct transfer of pay to my account. I can also access my account from the Internet and pay bills and make transfers to friends, without any fees. Also I get a credit card tied to the bank account for no cost except overdraft fees. An awful lot of people don't have a bank account. Paychecks can be deposited directly into people's accounts if they fill out a direct deposit form with the bank name, account numbers, SSN and all that. Paying bills online and making transfers sometimes means fees; it depends on the bank & your account level. Credit cards are so hosed up here that I'm not really sure how they compare. Often you can get a debit card that draws directly from your account though. Checks are still used for people who don't have bank accounts, for transactions between people like rent, bill payment (though this is increasingly possible online), etc. They're discouraged for things like restaurants & shopping purchases and a lot of places refuse them. That's mainly because they might bounce, though, and not so much because they're a hassle.
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Jul 10, 2011 13:30
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tractor fanatic posted:What is the origin of the term "inscrutable Japanese" I feel like this could be traced to The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, one of the first anthropology books to be written about the Japanese. A lot of it is crap, but a lot of popular conceptions about the Japanese can be traced back to it as well.
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Jul 10, 2011 13:38
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What's the name of that old cartoon where a present day family falls in a time warp and ends up living with cavemen and fighting dinosaurs? I'm pretty sure it was a Hannah-Barbera cartoon.
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Jul 10, 2011 14:47
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tractor fanatic posted:What is the origin of the term "inscrutable Japanese" From The things they say behind your back: stereotypes and the myths behind them by William B. Helmreich (1984)      
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How far is it to yesterday?
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Gravity Pike posted:It sounds to me like your friend has two paypal accounts, one of which had a hefty negative balance associated with it, and PayPal took the money you gifted him in order to pay off his debt. Am I reading this wrong? I think that is pretty much it. Is there any hope? Lord Jigger fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jul 10, 2011 |
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Jul 10, 2011 16:42
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kapalama posted:It will also work if you simply hold a cable near the plug on the back of your TV set without touching. How do you explain that? Because signal leaks out, man. Actually on my TV set that doesn't work anymore because they shut off analog signal, but if I do the same thing to my digital cable box I'll be lucky to get any channels at all on it since the signal will be far too weak and with a decent bit of interference, and if I try that with the cable modem I'd completely lose connection. No that's actually completely false. Again, this is because some signal will leak out but it's coming from the core of the cable. And air is actually a rather poor insulator for electromagnetic waves, mate. Like if air was a good insulator against electromagnetic radiation, it'd be practically impossible to broadcast anything. Are you getting confused with how keeping an air gap insulates against electrical current, a different thing? Again, not an insulator against electromagnetic waves, well, not the ones we use for broadcasting at least. Yeah, uh, I think you've really misunderstood some physics lecture at some point.
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Jul 10, 2011 16:48
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Zero Gravitas posted:Plus, does anyone know of a site that randomly generates maths problems? I'm out of practice with calculus and need some practice. Randomly? Maybe not. But if you want tons of problems/quizzes and lecture refreshers etc., I suggest you check out the SAP Online Resource Thread over in Science, Academics and Philosophy, specifically the multidisciplinary resource list and the mathematics resource list; there are many different sites that might be able to help you. In case you weren't aware, SAP also has a thread for asking math questions and a thread for finding free goon tutoring if you need.
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Jul 10, 2011 16:49
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kapalama posted:How far is it to yesterday? an hour and fifty one minutes over here (edit - contrary to what the time stamp on the post says) Question: Can anyone tell me what's happening here? Tineye's got nothing. 
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Jul 10, 2011 16:51
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Bojanglesworth posted:Yeah, because I am going to pay a fee just so some whiny baby doesn't cry about their job later. First off, it isn't your money so who the gently caress cares, second the fee is bullshit to begin with. Not to mention that saying, 'do you mind waiving the fee for me?' is all it takes, its not like I am showing up with a dozen roses. Right, but the teller doesn't control the bank. The teller can get in trouble, however, for waiving every fee for every oh so polite customer who comes to the counter. Not every bank charges for this kind of thing. As for those that do: just open up a bank account of your own somewhere and you can have all the free checks cashed you want! Simple! Besesoth posted:I continue to be flatly astonished that a bank charging a non-customer a fee for cashing a check drawn on that bank doesn't violate some kind of usury law. Not every bank does that. The banks who do may have huge account goals to meet or something. If you open an account with them, they'll deposit that check with no fee. It sucks, but so do account goals. SnowblindFatal posted:Yeah, from my experience, all bank fees are pretty much bullshit. They make their profits from actually holding the money, and everything besides that is just unnecessary milking. The big customers don't have to pay a cent for services, you can count on that. You're right, most of the fees are gigantic bullshit and it's a shame. I'm just saying it doesn't mean you should hassle a teller to make your day easier. As a teller, I'd love to waive more fees but I need a source of income. I don't get why people just don't open their own bank accounts somewhere so they don't have to worry about originating banks and bullshit like that.
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Huntersoninski posted:
I have several bank accounts at two different banks. The point of cashing a check on the bank it was written on is so you can either have cash, or in my case can deposit cash into my own bank. I have direct deposit for both of my jobs so the only case where I am going into a different bank to cash a check is when it is for freelance work.
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Jul 10, 2011 17:00
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Yeah there's good credit unions almost everywhere which you should join if you don't have any account. You usually get almost no fees and such. Banks will charge a fee to cash checks without an account because if you have an account with them and the check ends up not clearing (even if it's from the same bank), they could take the money they gave you right from your account to make up the shortfall. If you have no account of your own, they have little recourse to take the money from you if you knowingly passed a bad check or you unknowingly gave them a check that was written from an account who can't cover, so they'll charge the fee to cover their rear end.
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fishmech posted:Yeah there's good credit unions almost everywhere which you should join if you don't have any account. You usually get almost no fees and such. Do you have any examples? I checked with a couple of credit unions and their fees were pretty much the same as the banks.
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Bojanglesworth posted:I have several bank accounts at two different banks. The point of cashing a check on the bank it was written on is so you can either have cash, or in my case can deposit cash into my own bank. I have direct deposit for both of my jobs so the only case where I am going into a different bank to cash a check is when it is for freelance work. Your bank won't let you cash checks there  That sucks!Also: fishmech has it right on the money (ha). A QUESTION: I'm looking for some decent yoga instructional videos. There are so many tons of them out there: which one would be good for a beginner looking to get into yoga? My parents swear by the P90X yoga and have offered to lend it to me, but I'm not terribly flexible due to an injury and P90X seems to be all about kicking your rear end all the time.
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Jul 10, 2011 17:26
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Huntersoninski posted:Your bank won't let you cash checks there It all depends on how much the check is, I am not talking about a $25 check from my grandma for my birthday.
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Huntersoninski posted:A QUESTION: I'm looking for some decent yoga instructional videos. There are so many tons of them out there: which one would be good for a beginner looking to get into yoga? My parents swear by the P90X yoga and have offered to lend it to me, but I'm not terribly flexible due to an injury and P90X seems to be all about kicking your rear end all the time. Rodney Yee's A.M. and P.M. Yoga are very good for beginners. They're 20 minutes though, so look into his other longer ones if that's too short. He guides you through stuff pretty clearly and he doesn't throw too much of that corny yoga talk into it like other people sometimes do. ("just feel your soul opening up with every movement") e: Oh, and I personally think the P90 yoga is crap. Jeffrey Colon fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 10, 2011 |
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edit: ^^^ Thanks! I'll check them out!Bojanglesworth posted:It all depends on how much the check is, I am not talking about a $25 check from my grandma for my birthday. Ok, i get it, you have a lot of bank accounts and you make a lot of money. I'm sorry you have to pay fees to carry the cash you want it totally sucks.
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Huntersoninski posted:edit: ^^^ Thanks! I'll check them out! I don't make a lot of money, you are jumping to retarded conclusions. I also don't carry any cash, I already clearly pointed out that I cash checks at the bank its written on so I can deposit cash into my bank account. If I get charged $5 so be it, I was just saying it is retarded.
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Bojanglesworth posted:I don't make a lot of money, you are jumping to retarded conclusions. I also don't carry any cash, I already clearly pointed out that I cash checks at the bank its written on so I can deposit cash into my bank account. If I get charged $5 so be it, I was just saying it is retarded. Wait, I don't get it, why aren't you just depositing the checks to your account?
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Spermando posted:What's the name of that old cartoon where a present day family falls in a time warp and ends up living with cavemen and fighting dinosaurs? I'm pretty sure it was a Hannah-Barbera cartoon.
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fishmech posted:Apparently you have no clue what the word usury means then! Wikipedia posted:Originally, when the charging of interest was still banned by Christian churches, usury simply meant the charging of interest at any rate (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change). Apparently my use of the term was obsolete. Oh well.
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Lord Jigger posted:I think that is pretty much it. Is there any hope? Oh, you're just trying to get your money back? I thought that the idea was your friend thought that PayPal made a mistake, and you were trying to get the money to him. Honestly, I don't know if you're going to be able to convince PayPal to refund a gift. However, I'm with the other goon who got called out for being anti-social. You paid him the money in the format that he asked for. It really ought to be his responsibility to either deliver on the goods or provide you a refund. It is 100% not your fault that his "bank" took money deposited into one of his accounts in order to pay off an overdrawn balance. It's his, for having the overdrawn account in the first place. Am I further misunderstanding, and this "friend" is just kinda shady, and isn't playing ball?
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