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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Does anyone rent out Xboxes/PS4s? I have a PC but want to play some NHL/MLB games since I played them as a kid, but I don’t own the console. All the google results are from places like Rent a Center, but I’m looking more like how Blockbuster used to rent consoles. You can stream playstation 4 games on demand to your PC, if you want to go that route. I'm not sure if those specific titles are available or not. https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/services/playstation-now/playstation-now-on-pc/
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Trastion posted:Edit VV: I figured he was saying to buy it and return within 90 days. That IS retail fraud if you are doing it for the sole purpose of "renting" it. ah, you're thinking of "return abuse" which is sick as hell, not illegal, and sticks it to the companies that would throw their employees in a grain thresher if it moved their bottom line a dollar in the right direction
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CzarChasm posted:Media Player Classic is a pretty basic player that will handle most formats. Windows Media Player made me look up the keyboard shortcut for play/pause because for some unfathomable reason, it's not space bar. And its scrub forward/back functionality is complete trash. I'll give MPC a go, thanks.
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Spokes posted:ah, you're thinking of "return abuse" which is sick as hell, not illegal, and sticks it to the companies that would throw their employees in a grain thresher if it moved their bottom line a dollar in the right direction Yeah, gently caress that quisling bullshit. You can even return apps on iOS in the same vein. Though that’s a bit less blameless if it’s something from a small dev without a large catalogue.
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uwaeve posted:You can rent any game system from Walmart, they charge $0 for a 90-day period. Game systems are 15 days, not 90 Also didn't Costco enormously scale back their return policy because people were abusing the hell out of it
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I have a friend who wants to get into using LEDs in a scale modelling project. It's his birthday, and I wanted to get him a kit or bunch of bits with which to experiment with this kind of thing. Looking on Amazon, however, I am bewildered the stuff that comes up. I assumed there would be a hobbyists' starter set or something like that. Can anyone recommend a source to go and learn about this stuff, or a supplier brand that does starter type sets?
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Jun 2, 2018 16:13
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I get all my electronic components from Chinese eBay sellers. Dirt cheap and you get a shitload of them.
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ineptmule posted:I have a friend who wants to get into using LEDs in a scale modelling project. It's his birthday, and I wanted to get him a kit or bunch of bits with which to experiment with this kind of thing. Looking on Amazon, however, I am bewildered the stuff that comes up. I assumed there would be a hobbyists' starter set or something like that. Some electronics stores have a hobby kit section, or just small bags of resistors/LEDs/switches. They're way more expensive (meaning you'd pay $5 per little bag, vs something measured in cents in bulk) than ebay or even Digikey but they have the bonus of being able to ask the dude in the store what you'd need. If you want to go the Ebay/Digikey route you'd need LEDs, appropriately sized resistors, and a power source of some sort. Here's a calculator from Digikey
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If you get canned products with ground beef in the them (chili, pasta etc) the beef usually has kind of a spongy puffy texture. What are they doing to it to cause that? I assume there is some process of making a tiny piece of meat appear bigger like with cheap chinese food.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Game systems are 15 days, not 90 I stand corrected, thanks. It's been a while since I looked.
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veni veni veni posted:If you get canned products with ground beef in the them (chili, pasta etc) the beef usually has kind of a spongy puffy texture. What are they doing to it to cause that? I assume there is some process of making a tiny piece of meat appear bigger like with cheap chinese food. Probably just waterlogged from sitting in sauce for however long.
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Jun 3, 2018 02:09
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I've got a mini fridge that hasn't been turned on in 8 or 9 years. Will it still work just fine?
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Jun 3, 2018 03:57
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've got a mini fridge that hasn't been turned on in 8 or 9 years. Will it still work just fine? Possibly, but if it's been stored on its side it might take a day or so for it to start cooling again.
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Jun 3, 2018 04:59
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How do I get Comcast to stop sending me bullshit junk mail? I've unsubscribed with their website at least three times in the past six months, and I've contacted customer service. I own no Comcast services and haven't for over a year.
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Jun 3, 2018 05:00
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PRADA SLUT posted:Possibly, but if it's been stored on its side it might take a day or so for it to start cooling again. As long as it's not going to blow up or go on fire or release noxious fumes or just plain not work.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:As long as it's not going to blow up or go on fire or release noxious fumes or just plain not work. It might plain not work, but you' should be able to figure that out on your own.
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Jun 3, 2018 06:25
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PRADA SLUT posted:How do I get Comcast to stop sending me bullshit junk mail? I guess you could move to one of the US regions where comcast and surewest or whoever it is have non-compete deals, but then you're just getting a palette swapped version of the same thing.
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I feel like there’s a law somewhere that companies can’t send you junk mail if you’ve explicitly told them to stop.
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We get mailers for AT&T about once a month. The first couple times I called, they said they'd remove us from their mailing list, which would supposedly take up to 90 days. After that time passed, the next time I called the phone mook told me they are not able to remove me from their list. It wasn't clear if that was for legal or laziness reasons. I just want them to stop wasting so much paper!
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Junk mail is so bad for the environment and I've done a few things to minimize what I receive. The FTC has some useful info for getting off direct marketing lists. Following their suggestions, I have gone to the Opt Out site and filed the request to be permanently removed from any offers to do with credit, which seems to have worked very well. This does need to be done for each individual at your address who receives the offers, though, or you'll just keep getting junk mail credit card offers. Next, I went to DMA Choice and requested to receive no mail on any subject, which has also reduced if not eliminated junk mail addressed to me. That cost $2 and was easy to do. These sites may not catch local-ish advertisers and companies. I get off those lists by saving the junk mail they send and calling them directly to be removed. It's worked every time so far. Sometimes you gotta hunt for phone numbers and navigate phone trees to talk to a human but I haven't been foiled yet, and the results have been pretty good (i.e., a mailbox way less cluttered with trash). Some junk mail has fine print indicating the actual company responsible for it. If you look at the coupons stuffed in your mailbox, they're probably from Redplum. Since requesting to be removed from their list I haven't received anything from them. Comcast still sends me the occasional mailer but I haven't even tried getting off their list yet.
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A couple of years ago, I bought something online using Paypal and within a day or two, someone placed a fraudulent $1000 charge on my credit card for plane tickets. After dealing with it through my credit union, I had alerts placed on the card to email me whenever it was used. And good thing I did, because it happened to me again last Friday. On Thursday I made two purchases online using Paypal (one on ebay from a top seller, one on Yesstyle.com) and on Thursday night I got an email saying my credit card had been used to buy something for $0.22 at “Vinyl OFFICE,” which I didn’t recognize. Called my credit union, turns out someone had tried to place a $1000 charge to “Crystal Travel” and it was declined (because ~luckily~ I forgot to pay off my credit card in May, so the charge went over my credit limit), so then they must have tried a much smaller fraudulent charge to see if it would work. My credit card has been canceled and a new one has been issued, and I’ve changed my Paypal password. I thought Paypal was supposed to be secure (and my password was unique and strong), so I’m wondering how this happened? The fraudulent charges don’t appear on my Paypal activity list, only on my credit card statement. How could I determine where in the payment process the security breakdown could have occurred? (As in, where could the weak link in the chain be—Paypal, the ebay seller, somewhere else?)
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Rabbit Hill posted:A couple of years ago, I bought something online using Paypal and within a day or two, someone placed a fraudulent $1000 charge on my credit card for plane tickets. After dealing with it through my credit union, I had alerts placed on the card to email me whenever it was used. Odds are someone got your credit card number in some unrelated manner and used it coincidentally after you used it — way better odds than PayPal being compromised. If someone had access to your PayPal they couldn’t see the full number, and the eBay seller wouldn’t even get any whiff of anything.
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If there is a horse racing thread somewhere someone point me that way please. I have a question about parimutuel betting. I get that the winners divide up the money the losers bet, but what I don’t know is how separate the pools are. For people that place a show bet, are they only splitting the money that other people who placed a show bet put down? What about for exotic bets like trifectas? Are they only splitting the money other trifecta betters bet? If that’s how it works then I guess figuring out what a show or place bet will actually pay is really difficult and can’t be done directly from the regular odds you see, which are for win bets correct? So a show bet wouldn’t necessarily be X% of what a win bet would’ve been?
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Conventional wisdom is that food usually shouldn’t be left out at room temperature for more than a few hours. Growing up with an immigrant family, we would make a stew or soup or whatever and leave it in the pot for one to three nights and we never seemed to contract food poisoning from it. We would reheat it before eating it again, but I understand that heat doesn’t remove harmful waste products from bacteria. Were we safe? Was it just a game of chance and we got lucky? Is it the kind of thing where it brings the risk from 1/1000 to 1/700 where it’s significantly more dangerous but still unlikely? Forgive my 1800s understanding of food safety.
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Take this with a grain of salt because it's just my personal opinion, but people are giant pussies about food and "the danger zone". Although I've definitely never eaten anything that sat on a stove for 3 days tbh. I dunno I've never had a problem eating sketchy poo poo and I've never had food poisoning (knock on wood) while people who won't touch raw chicken without a hazmat suit seem to get it every month. I think people are just mental about that poo poo. Trust your nose/taste.
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Eh food safety is mostly common sense at home. You can leave a pot of something on the stove, add a little water the next day and re-heat/stir it up and you'll be fine. The better way would be a crock pot at a constant low heat. There are kinds of hunters stews and old world soups that are sorta meant to always be added to and never depleted that roll for years. Pork and chicken and ground meats you want to make sure are thoroughly cooked. Steak I traditionally always eat a little raw slice while prepping, but I wouldn't do that with wild game steaks or anything non USDA. The way it was explained to me was something like this, the bacteria need oxygen, a food surface and a ripe temperature to flourish. At room temp bacteria and air will slowly work through the exposed cell walls of a steak, that's why you store it at temps bacteria doesn't like and external heat kills what little does grow, sear the outside and eat as pink as you like. With ground meat the exposed "bonding sites" as it were for air and bacteria go from being the surfaces of the steak to every little globule of ground up meat, so the risk of exposure to bacteria is significantly greater coz it's all jumbled around and flattened, and why more people are hesitant to have rare burgers, which heated from the outward -> in, might house bacteria in the red center. Chicken and pork are prone to different bacteria which don't follow the same rules as beef because the parasites/bacteria tend to grow in the tissue of the meat. Fish apparently not being mammals makes a lot of bacteria not crossover to us when eaten raw google says. Kevin DuBrow posted:We would reheat it before eating it again, but I understand that heat doesn’t remove harmful waste products from bacteria. revolther fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:If there is a horse racing thread somewhere someone point me that way please. The specific horse racing thread got archived. Which is a shame because 99% of the posts were from 1 guy who bet on tons of stuff, it was amusing. You can try the general fantasy forum and maybe someone in another betting thread also knows horses https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=248
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What's a good way to deodorize sneakers?? I was on a medication recently that caused (and still causes) my feet to sweat more than usual, and combined with being on my feet for the entirety of my day at work my relatively new sneakers are already starting to smell. I'm going to look into getting a prescription antiperspirant for my feet also, but what's a good way to get rid of the smell? I tried some of those bamboo charcoal shoe inserts that are supposed to help but so far they ain't working.
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fun things to do in NYC if I'm there for a few days? definitely thinking of checking out Central Park, and some museums. other than that, I'm all out of ideas. general cafe chilling, but that's a little boring.
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There are enough museums and they’re big enough that you could probably occupy a few days doing that and not even see all the good ones. Metropolitan Museum of Art MOMA Brooklyn Museum Jewish Museum The Cloisters Frick Collection Guggenheim Whitney Museum American Folk Art Museum NYPL Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Museum of Natural History NY Botanical Garden Tenement Museum Ellis Island And more! Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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I don't want the entire trip to just consist of museums though, I wanna get as much variety in as possible
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ServoMST3K posted:What's a good way to deodorize sneakers?? I was on a medication recently that caused (and still causes) my feet to sweat more than usual, and combined with being on my feet for the entirety of my day at work my relatively new sneakers are already starting to smell. I'm going to look into getting a prescription antiperspirant for my feet also, but what's a good way to get rid of the smell? I tried some of those bamboo charcoal shoe inserts that are supposed to help but so far they ain't working. I haven't tried it myself, but I've seen the suggestion to wrap them up in a plastic bag and toss them in a freezer for a day or two, which will kill the warmth-loving bacteria you sweated into them. Another idea I've run across is to fill a sock with kitty litter and stuff that into the shoe to dry the gently caress out of it, but again, I haven't tried it so I can't really say how well it works.
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ServoMST3K posted:What's a good way to deodorize sneakers?? I was on a medication recently that caused (and still causes) my feet to sweat more than usual, and combined with being on my feet for the entirety of my day at work my relatively new sneakers are already starting to smell. I'm going to look into getting a prescription antiperspirant for my feet also, but what's a good way to get rid of the smell? I tried some of those bamboo charcoal shoe inserts that are supposed to help but so far they ain't working. I don't have unusually stinky feet but for this I use what's called a "shoe tree" -- they look like this:  and you can get one made of a nice-smelling wood like cedar that should help with your problem.
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ServoMST3K posted:What's a good way to deodorize sneakers?? I was on a medication recently that caused (and still causes) my feet to sweat more than usual, and combined with being on my feet for the entirety of my day at work my relatively new sneakers are already starting to smell. I'm going to look into getting a prescription antiperspirant for my feet also, but what's a good way to get rid of the smell? I tried some of those bamboo charcoal shoe inserts that are supposed to help but so far they ain't working. Buy a second pair of sneakers. If you alternate, it gives each pair time to dry out and stop the stinkiness.
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Qubee posted:I don't want the entire trip to just consist of museums though, I wanna get as much variety in as possible What do you like to do when you travel? Theater is always a good choice in New York, either Broadway or Off-Broadway or one of the million tiny theaters that are everyfuckingwhere. Music of all kinds. You can do some cool hikes within the city limits if you get bored with Central Park. Shopping, there's all the shopping. I have never done one of those cruises around the city (Circle Line and Skyline are both reputable companies) but I hear they're fun.
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I hats GBS , fyad BYOB? How is something awful organized ?
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ServoMST3K posted:What's a good way to deodorize sneakers?? Cram them really tight full of newspaper and let sit overnight (or longer I guess). Not sure how it works, but I have had miraculous results doing this, even on some serious funk, like bordering on foul odors. Though if you're continuing to sweat bullets in them, I'm not sure it'd last long enough to not become a big pain in the rear end by having to do it too often.
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I put those charcoal inserts in my climbing shoes and they smell fine. I've started using them for all my shoes without problems. If they're already smelly though, you might be hosed.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I put those charcoal inserts in my climbing shoes and they smell fine. I've started using them for all my shoes without problems. This. If you want to keep your shoes from getting gross they can't be gross in the first place. Buy a new pair, stick some odor eaters in them and replace them every 1-2 months and they will fall apart before they smell bad.
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