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Cage posted:Random, but the newer Doom game is a lot of fun. I'm still getting used to it though and whenever I come up to a new area with monsters my instinct is to hold my ground and shoot mans from afar, but I get wrecked and then advance and see that I missed out on a whole bunch of powerups and health. It really is so much more fun to run and jump around but its hard to get out of the military sim mindset. I just bought this cuz it was £9 on amazon but idk when ill get around to playing it cuz i cant quite pull myself away from bloodborne atm
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rdb posted:What was the date code on that tire? The tread looks great and that kind of failure just shouldn't happen. Dunno, but I bought them less than two years ago. Pictures I have up say 11/17 for the purchase date. Also echoing the Doom is great. Even on console. I imagine it's better on mouse and keyboard. I'm stuck at the final boss.
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Jun 12, 2017 18:09
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Larrymer posted:This exactly. New doom is awesome and fun. Never stop moving. Yup. No sniping poo poo from cover, get in there and gently caress poo poo up.
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mariooncrack posted:Is he just looking to cruise around? NC Miata might fit the bill. Maybe a convertible Mustang or Camaro? Pretty much, yeah. He's going to go look at a 10k mile 2013 Miata with a hardtop and the six-speed automatic today, it's listed at 21k. There is also a '98 Corvette with 38k miles locally listed for 17k. Worlds apart, those.
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Jun 12, 2017 18:23
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Doom owns but I need to get another ssd so I can finish it. I can have either 5 other open world games in my stream ssd folder, or Doom.
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Jun 12, 2017 18:41
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Doom imo
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Jun 12, 2017 18:42
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Doom is superb, the engine is so smooth and solid. I made the mistake of picking it up after Titanfall 2 though which has the superior movement system, is faster and allows you to pilot a giant robot and punch people into a fine red mist. GOTY.
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Gamechat: Just found out there's another Wolfenstein out in October. Hope it's good. My parents are in Japan this week, and took a trip to the Toyota Megaweb in Odaiba today. At the Heritage Garage cafe, my dad was showing someone pictures of his current restoration projects, and got invited into the workshop to have a chat with the old guys who do the cars there: 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Doom is superb, the engine is so smooth and solid. I made the mistake of picking it up after Titanfall 2 though which has the superior movement system, is faster and allows you to pilot a giant robot and punch people into a fine red mist. GOTY. that reminds me that I need to get back in and play Titanfall 2 some more. I keep forgetting I have it when I try and decide what to play in my limited time. Currently in progress: Fallout 3, Borderlands (1), Akham Origins, Just Cause 3, Saints Row IV, LEGO Dimensions (which never ends - they keep adding stuff), GTA V, and probably more I'm forgetting. On the shelf, unplayed: COD:BLOPS 3, Halo 5, and who knows what else in the "Games With Gold". Several Steam games on my PC, and they just opened the Quake beta back up. InitialDave posted:Gamechat: Just found out there's another Wolfenstein out in October. Hope it's good. In honor of that, BJ Blaskowicz is a playable character in the Quake Beta, BTW. quote:My parents are in Japan this week, and took a trip to the Toyota Megaweb in Odaiba today. At the Heritage Garage cafe, my dad was showing someone pictures of his current restoration projects, and got invited into the workshop to have a chat with the old guys who do the cars there: Oh, that's awesome.
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Darchangel posted:Dunno, but I bought them less than two years ago. Pictures I have up say 11/17 for the purchase date. Hello future Darchangel!  You still have those tires? The manufacturer warranty is probably still in effect, and if that's not related to the odd wear, you may be able to get a new one. If you got them at Discount and have certificates, Discount covers them for 3 years from the date of purchase. Goober Peas posted:Add me to the sick on Monday club. I woke up early this morning spraying out both ends. So far have been able to keep a glass of sprite down, anything else leads to more spraying. Oh good I'm not the only one.  Went to work for about an hour and a half before I packed it in.
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InitialDave posted:My parents are in Japan this week, and took a trip to the Toyota Megaweb in Odaiba today. At the Heritage Garage cafe, my dad was showing someone pictures of his current restoration projects, and got invited into the workshop to have a chat with the old guys who do the cars there: I loved visiting those old dudes in their workshop. Everyone should go to the Toyota vintage museum.    
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Holy poo poo, the Miata is fixed! Huge props to Mekilljoydamnit for donating parts! I owe you a beer!
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So snapped the chain on the first ride of that stance 1 I bought. 2 mile walk back to the car. Guess I learned my first spare parts lesson.
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My dad and I went car shopping the other day. One of the dealerships seemed to have a lot of cars that haven't moved in awhile. There were a lot of vehicles with rust on the rotors, some cars seemed to have more rust than not rust. That's probably not a good sign is it?
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Sadi posted:So snapped the chain on the first ride of that stance 1 I bought. 2 mile walk back to the car. Guess I learned my first spare parts lesson. drat. That sounds like the shop didn't have it set up right. I've only snapped one chain in 15k+ miles, and that was just recently... and only because I had been using my 11 speed bike on the Kickr with a 10 speed cassette over the winter. I think I flared out the chain and made it go boom. New bikes should not do that.
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Seminal Flu posted:drat. That sounds like the shop didn't have it set up right. I've only snapped one chain in 15k+ miles, and that was just recently... and only because I had been using my 11 speed bike on the Kickr with a 10 speed cassette over the winter. I think I flared out the chain and made it go boom. Probably a manufacturing defect.
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nm posted:Probably a manufacturing defect. Or that. Either way, an infant mortality failure is a sad way to start bike ownership.
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mariooncrack posted:My dad and I went car shopping the other day. One of the dealerships seemed to have a lot of cars that haven't moved in awhile. There were a lot of vehicles with rust on the rotors, some cars seemed to have more rust than not rust. Rust on rotors is meaningless, rain and a few hours is all it takes to form. A couple stops is all it takes to remove.
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Ferremit posted:Busy weekend! Got all of the ground floor walls in the shed insulated and clad! Garage is looking awesome dude
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Olympic Mathlete posted:1G-GTE is not enough engine to get these cars moving. Also the version of the car that engine comes in is the narrowbody which looks loving weird. 'standard' is the widebody on 7MGE, 7MGTE, 1JZ versions. Cheers. I'm in New Zealand. Probably not gonna go with a Supra due to the weight & also the one I found that looked affordable was a bit rusty and I already have one 1980s Toyota rust bucket in my life, that's enough for now.
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mariooncrack posted:My dad and I went car shopping the other day. One of the dealerships seemed to have a lot of cars that haven't moved in awhile. There were a lot of vehicles with rust on the rotors, some cars seemed to have more rust than not rust. Rotors get surface rust if you park overnight in a humid area; if you're in the desert they'll still rust anytime it rains or if it's parked near sprinklers when they run. Cars at a dealer will often sit for weeks at a time, maybe even months, depending on the options and dealer volume. I know my own car was built in June of 2005, but wasn't titled to the original owner until October; it also sat on a used lot for about 5 weeks before I got it. The porters aren't going to be driving it enough for the pads to remove the rust (they're only going to move it around to rearrange the cars or to wash it). You'd never know the rust was there after 1 or 2 decent stops.
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Seminal Flu posted:drat. That sounds like the shop didn't have it set up right. I've only snapped one chain in 15k+ miles, and that was just recently... and only because I had been using my 11 speed bike on the Kickr with a 10 speed cassette over the winter. I think I flared out the chain and made it go boom. It was a 2 year old used bike. I don't know if it matters but the chain unloaded while shifting down two gears. When the chain hooked I was in the middle of a down stroke and the front tire had just hit a root. Seems like kind of worst case for chain tension to me.
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The wife likes the Gorester and understands why I bought it. drat guys I think I'm doing alright.
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Sadi posted:It was a 2 year old used bike. I don't know if it matters but the chain unloaded while shifting down two gears. When the chain hooked I was in the middle of a down stroke and the front tire had just hit a root. Seems like kind of worst case for chain tension to me. It was a worn out chain and you probably need to adjust your derailleurs.
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Can we all discuss for a moment the stupidity of artificial scarcity in a given product? With the kids getting older my wife recently commented how it would be nice to get a Nintendo system to play mario/mariokart etc. Not being gamers in the least sense I looked at the current offerings which I know nothing about. I remember the Wii being cool; and Wii Sports would be perfect for the kids. Apparently the Wii U is all backwards compatible! Neat! Oh, it's discontinued; I'll look at used ones. $220! What the hell? What's the new one? A Switch? *watches brief video, blown away* sweet! Only $299! Worth it over the old model for sure. And impossible to find. Everywhere. All the time. It was released months ago, will they ever get supply up to meet demand? Are they purposely not making enough because they are losing  for every unit they sell? Explain to me, a non gamer why would they do this? Why is the Wii U still so dumb expensive? I'd probably buy a Switch even at a $500 price point if I could just walk in and buy one. Doesn't seem to be a shortage of any other gaming systems.
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Nintendo often seems to have their collective heads up their asses. Just look at the supply issues with the NES Classic.
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Rhyno posted:Nintendo often seems to have their collective heads up their asses. Just look at the supply issues with the NES Classic. Not just supply issues, but responding to the supply issues and people being unable to get them by discontinuing it despite huge demand. I'm not likely to ever bother with another of their products because of stuff like that, their offerings all seem to end up behind the tech curve or just plain impossible to get because they somehow continue to underestimate demand on everything in TYOOL 2017.
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Just ask, in TYOOL 2017, how Nintendo intends voicechat and party matchmaking to work with their fancy new console and robust *PAID* premium online service. It's so profoundly stupid that it sounds like their online service, that hasn't been launched yet, was legitimately designed to work on the Gamecube and Wii. No joke, Xbox Live on the OG Xbox was better designed I have so much more to shout about in regards to Nintendo being painfully out of touch, but suffice it to say, they're anticonsumer dickholes that I won't purchase another product from
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Imagine you had a time machine, you could go back 25 years and get a job at Software Etc. and shake your head sadly at every sweaty parent Kramering into the store hilariously optimistically trying to buy the Nintendo 64 display box on December 20th and you just chortle sadly at them and suggest perhaps Junior's Xmas present actually wanted to be a PS1 or a Sega Saturn or even a lol Atari Jaguar, all of which you have literally hundreds of, or in fact anything that isn't going to lead him down a life of being a sad and mocked Nintendonter because of that same dumbass marketing gimmick they've been running since ever.
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Artificial market scarcity is the weirdest thing to me, who does it actually help? I used to buy a lot of footwear and x company (usually Nike) would do a limited run of say 500 pairs of boots for £150 a pair. These would obviously sell out immediately and appear on ebay for £300 a pair and they'd usually all sell within minutes. So it seems to me like the only people who win in this sort of situation are scalpers, at least double the profit for just turning up to a shop/clicking things online. ...but if Nike sold 1000 pairs they'd still sell out in no time and they'd be just as popular so why not go for a decent run on them? Someone with a business head explain this sort of thing to me because I don't get it. I understand creating a buzz about your stuff being R@RE!! and I understand wanting the people who buy it to feel somewhat privileged to own a limited run but from a purely cash point of view selling more makes more sense, surely? Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jun 13, 2017 |
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Ferrari's old attitude was always correct: ONE less than the market will bear is optimum for desirability vs revenue. Remember when Renault made more Clio Williams variants, and the investment types got all upset about it? 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Artificial market scarcity is the weirdest thing to me, who does it actually help? I used to buy a lot of footwear and x company (usually Nike) would do a limited run of say 500 pairs of boots for £150 a pair. These would obviously sell out immediately and appear on ebay for £30 a pair and they'd usually all sell within minutes. Branding and value perception. If people think that some £150 Nike trainers are 'worth' £300 then, in their mind, there must be a value to any Nike-branded trainers So, even the £75 ones must be worth at least £75 to the buyer's mind and so they sell 10,000s of units. Unlike cars, where a Bugatti can be shown to have a value much higher than a Volkswagen, If people ever sat down and realised that all trainers cost <£10, then Nike would lose a shitload of money.
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lol Tony Abbott (former Australian Prime Minister and complete right wing fuckwit) drives a piece of poo poo late 90s Jaguar S-Type
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spog posted:Branding and value perception. But sell more @£150 = get more cash...? That's the bit I fall down on. Nike WILL sell whatever amount they pump out there, especially so if they're a limited run so why not double the run length and just make a stack more money selling your £10 trainers for £150 a pop? I guess at some point your company is so huge and profitable that money doesn't matter too much and it's all purely a marketing exercise?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:But sell more @£150 = get more cash...? That's the bit I fall down on. Nike WILL sell whatever amount they pump out there, especially so if they're a limited run so why not double the run length and just make a stack more money selling your £10 trainers for £150 a pop? I guess at some point your company is so huge and profitable that money doesn't matter too much and it's all purely a marketing exercise? There is a limited pool of people willing to pay £150+, compared to those willing to pay £50-100 i.e. if Nike sells 500 pairs or 5,000 pairs at £150, it's still a lot less profit than they make on the other 120M pairs they sell annually. If they sell only 500 pairs they earn £75k. If they sold everything the market would bear (5,000), they'd make £750k (using your illustrative numbers) However, the first method creates a buzz about the brand and artificially raises the brand value in the customer's mind and so the 120M pairs can be sold at £80, instead of £30/ per pair, since customers think the Nike brand is worth something. Multiply by 120M pairs and that is a huge benefit. You wouldn't get the same buzz if they merely sold 5k @ £150 or £300
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But that's the "halo product" approach, which is like selling high end cars. With Nintendo, they're limiting supply and meaning huge numbers of people who want exactly that item can't have one. They don't want the other product(s) available, they don't gain a favourable brand perception. They want that item, they don't get it, it annoys them.
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@spog ^^ cool, makes more sense to me now. I just hate when they do it. I just took a look at their sales numbers and they pulled in $32 billion last year. That's loving crazy money for some leather and bits of clothing. I'm also still waiting on those self-lacing sneaks and the general run of Mags they said they'd drop years ago. In other news whilst flicking through instagram whilst taking a poo poo at work I come across a picture about 'cleansing your colon' and in the comments an argument about whether it's required or not. One guy going full ham suggesting that your butt has old poop in it and gets blocked so you need to cleanse it. How do people not know how their butts work?
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I'm just flat out sure that Facebok is the more intelligent social media platform (like that's saying much given the volume of purestain retarded bullshit it has) and it just gets more outright loving stupid down from there. It's weeeeell past the point of just "old man yells at clouds", social media is just genuinely toxic
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InitialDave posted:But that's the "halo product" approach, which is like selling high end cars. Yeah, but the point I am trying to make is that you can have a halo product for a particular car brand by making a better car: e.g. you make Ford Focus RS with a more powerful engine and better suspension and that brings up the brand perception of the Ford Focus and also Ford in general. You can't do that with trainers because unless you cover them with diamonds, there is no physical difference between the 'best' trainers and the mid-level ones. Doesn't matter if we are talking about different trainers within the Nike brand, or between different min- top- level brands: Same tech, same build quality, same features. There is nothing you can do to justify an increased selling price. If you want to sell expensive trainers, you have to do stuff like limited editions and celebrity endorsement because there is no alternative. quote:With Nintendo, they're limiting supply and meaning huge numbers of people who want exactly that item can't have one. I always felt that this was simply a production limitation the first time it happened and the buzz it created was a happy accident, rather than clever marketing, for the console makers. A bit like how everyone mentions the 7 year waiting list for Morgans and that it must mean it is a very desirable car, rather than the long wait being caused it being made in a shed by old farts using their grandad's woodworking tools.
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