PYF Bootleg/Knockoff: When God Whre Me He Wsust Sherngshu

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Takoluka: Jun 26, 2009; Don't look at me!

Smoke posted:

At least they kept the Angel Interceptor name.

well, they wanted to insure a liken new appearance in definitely

# ? Apr 28, 2019 18:25

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# ? May 10, 2024 18:00

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

My favorite line from the entire series, 'to insure a liken new appearance in definitely'

# ? Apr 28, 2019 19:10

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Here have a 2 part effort post on knockoffs I got from ebay/wish today:

First poo poo:

Needed a HDDVD to check if my Xbox360 HDDVD Drive actually worked before selling so $5 HDDVD from ebay seemed ok!

First off I bought this drunk and completely forgot that HDDVD was completely dead far before Harry Brown was released:

Ooooh gotta love that knock off label on an inkject printer:

And lovely disc:

Front

Back complete with disc rot!

I probably caught some disease from that disc. Bonus is that it won't even read on a DVD drive! So I can't even watch a poo poo rip of a cool movie!

Revenge of the Shittening:

This was a crafty little scheme from wish.com! Multi-layered far more than I expected (one layer of deception). I needed an NVidia GPU with CUDA support for some GPGPU stuff (Photogrammetry):

Wish.com had a GTX 1060 for like $90. I figured these are going to be completely burnt out mining cards or at least a BIOS swap GTX 980. A notable scam.

Nope, they doubled down at this point and there was the usual "buy with 'brad' now for $x less only in the next few minutes". I'm getting scammed - wish are really good with refunds (if slow), I'm all in! So what happened when I clicked on that 'buy with brad' link it sneakily swaped the card out to a GTX780!

Well there goes any chance of even a GTX960. Contacted support and got the usual 'please wait until delivery' and take photos. Fine.

Today is the day!

Ouch - took a few hits!

Open box and behold the generic china CD-ROM that has all sorts of viruses. This won't be touching my computer:

Confirmed direct hit, your best guess on how it bent that bad!

OK unbent as well as I could but a fantastic sight to behold - the fan stickers removed, and the very generic twinfan/heatsink combo found in dodgy GPUs:

Flipped it over - hmm 'GTX780Ti' indeed, maybe things are legit enough to swap out a GTX1060 to a GTX780Ti which for my purposes is enough power.

I risked it and put into my PC as a secondary. For the viewers playing at home feel free to spot the difference from a legit GTX780:

So, who has some answers? Yup, CUDA cores, the type of PCI-E and speed, Memory amount, and of course GPU-Z with its updated fake spotter!

So what is it? Obviously this has some BIOS fuckery going on and not much can be trusted here. So at least lest see what Chipset it physically is, can't trust that sneaky BIOS:

Cooler off:

These bent fins are from factory and are like speed holes:

Well so it IS a GF116-200-KA-A1:

I'm no expert but cehcking this repository of information there isn't a single GPU with that Chipset variant with 4GB:
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-gf116.g88

Wow, at it's best it's a GTS 450 Rev. 2

And no luck with my cursory search of the memory modules simply labeled 'E109CBAW9401' with no branding. There are 4 on each side of the PCB however.

Anyway, my name is Humphreys and I bought some knockoff poo poo that I have now got refunds for. Stay tuned for more poo poo!

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:35 on Apr 29, 2019

# ? Apr 29, 2019 13:32

Blaze Dragon: Aug 28, 2013; LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

Man, they really went all-out on that GPU. That's an impressive(ly lovely) bootleg and I'm glad you got a refund for it.

# ? Apr 29, 2019 13:47

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Blaze Dragon posted:

Man, they really went all-out on that GPU. That's an impressive(ly lovely) bootleg and I'm glad you got a refund for it.

The hosed up thing is that it WORKS and as a passive GPGPU card it will actually at least do what I need (slowly). If I was to be a kid all excited I can play whatever BR game is coming out- - I would be pissed off.

# ? Apr 29, 2019 14:04

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

Ha ha drat, that's a step up in terms of bootlegs. Even if that thing worked just fine I wouldn't have even bothered with how bad the end bent and the grotty cum-stain remnants of the stickers from the fans.

I can also only imagine the quality of the media on the disc with the rot, let alone the actual movie it would've played despite the box and front print :allears:

# ? Apr 29, 2019 15:30

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

EorayMel posted:

Ha ha drat, that's a step up in terms of bootlegs. Even if that thing worked just fine I wouldn't have even bothered with how bad the end bent and the grotty cum-stain remnants of the stickers from the fans.

I can also only imagine the quality of the media on the disc with the rot, let alone the actual movie it would've played despite the box and front print

I'm about to double dip.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3X-Grap...&frcectupt=true

Not only is it going to be a fake card. But the UBI shipping and 'Botany' as location is a HUGE tell that its a scam and not from Australia.

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 10:41 on Apr 30, 2019

# ? Apr 30, 2019 10:37

hexwren: Feb 27, 2008

Humphreys posted:

But the UBI shipping and 'Botany' as location is a HUGE tell that its a scam and not from Australia.

As someone who's never seen Australia apart from on a screen or in a book, why?

# ? Apr 30, 2019 11:26

Croccers: Jun 15, 2012

You wouldn't be using UBI to ship within Australia.

# ? Apr 30, 2019 11:52

Lizard Combatant: Sep 29, 2010; I have some notes.

And Botany is right next to Sydney airport, which makes sense for a depot.

# ? Apr 30, 2019 12:37

cyberia: Jun 24, 2011; Do not call me that!
Snuffles was my slave name.
You shall now call me Snowball; because my fur is pretty and white.

hexwren posted:

As someone who's never seen Australia apart from on a screen or in a book, why?

It's close to the airport so presumably a location used by people who are re-shipping things delivered from overseas. I often get packages that have been mailed domestically by the vendor slapping a new address sticker over the original one that shows the package was sent from China to a commercial address in Australia.

# ? Apr 30, 2019 12:41

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

https://i.imgur.com/ZrEnzVe.jpg :nws:

I have a lot of questions.

# ? May 2, 2019 12:48

DrVenkman: Dec 28, 2005; I think he can hear you, Ray.

The Lepin subreddit has a great guide for the best sellers to use, both on AliExpress and elsewhere. And whatever you want chances are someone has built and taken pictures so you can check them out first.

Also, there's a ton of Hasbro knockoffs that are genuine improvements over their official counterparts.

# ? May 2, 2019 13:36

KataraniSword: Apr 22, 2008; but at least I don't have
a MLP or MSPA avatar.
I am my own man.

Pastry of the Year posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZrEnzVe.jpg

I have a lot of questions.

So do they, from the looks of it.

# ? May 2, 2019 13:37

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

DrVenkman posted:

Also, there's a ton of Hasbro knockoffs that are genuine improvements over their official counterparts.

Waiting for the fake improved Jabbas Sand Yacht thingo

# ? May 3, 2019 11:09

Chitin: Apr 29, 2007; It is no sign of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Pastry of the Year posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZrEnzVe.jpg

I have a lot of questions.

SABER

# ? May 6, 2019 10:17

Greblin: Mar 12, 2008

Chitin posted:

SABER

# ? May 6, 2019 16:11

The MSJ: May 17, 2010

# ? May 11, 2019 04:21

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Chitin posted:

SABER

I think it's "sabor", which means flavor or taste in Spanish.

But unless that just translates into "tasty", I think that's just as weird

# ? May 11, 2019 04:39

Desperado Bones: Aug 29, 2009; Cute, adorable, and creepy at the same time!

Pastry of the Year posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZrEnzVe.jpg

I have a lot of questions.

Haha. They would sell this in Cancun, and in any other vacation place, back in the 90's.

There's the skeleton version and another one with iguanas. Who designed those? I have no idea, but they were popular in my country back then.

CzarChasm posted:

I think it's "sabor", which means flavor or taste in Spanish.

But unless that just translates into "tasty", I think that's just as weird

Don't take the meaning literal. In this context is just and exclamation to imply something is sexy hot. (It's also a catchphrase that singers shout in cumbias/tropical music). :shrug:

# ? May 12, 2019 11:35

Snowy: Oct 6, 2010; A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense

There used to be a shitload of weird simpsons bootleg shirts in nyc back in the late 80s/early 90s. I wish I had kept a few.

Not Simpsons but this one always comes to mind

# ? May 12, 2019 21:51

Pentaro: May 5, 2013

Time is a cycle.

https://twitter.com/gabirotcho/status/1125047860939186177

# ? May 13, 2019 15:16

The MSJ: May 17, 2010

# ? May 20, 2019 10:06

Screaming Idiot: Nov 26, 2007; JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

The MSJ posted:

That mask is kinda cool, and it was certainly ultra vogue a while back.

# ? May 22, 2019 03:02

Gann Jerrod: Sep 9, 2005; A gun isn't a gun unless it shoots Magic.

This might be my favorite gang cartoon shirt:

# ? Jun 3, 2019 01:52

Peanut Butler: Jul 25, 2003

Screaming Idiot posted:

That mask is kinda cool,

# ? Jun 3, 2019 02:07

Screaming Idiot: Nov 26, 2007; JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Peanut Butler posted:

Person of indeterminate gender, can you not read? The packaging clearly says it is a cool mask. Why would they lie to us like that?

# ? Jun 3, 2019 02:14

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Screaming Idiot posted:

Person of indeterminate gender, can you not read? The packaging clearly says it is a cool mask. Why would they lie to us like that?

It's not just vogue, it's ultra vogue.

# ? Jun 3, 2019 06:25

Forsythia: Jan 28, 2007; You want bad advice?

Anything is okay if you don't get caught!

... I hope this helps!

Beautiful.

# ? Jun 7, 2019 19:54

Blaze Dragon: Aug 28, 2013; LOWTAX'S SPINE FUND

Mizuti posted:

Beautiful.

FFVII Remake is looking really good.

# ? Jun 7, 2019 19:59

RoboRodent: Sep 19, 2012

# ? Jun 7, 2019 22:18

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

I like that it�s a shirt purposely designed to cross Hanson/Nirvana for jokes that�s then been ripped off by a Chinese printer who has no idea who either are.

# ? Jun 7, 2019 22:26

Rollersnake: May 9, 2005; Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.; Unlockable Ben

Mizuti posted:

Beautiful.

To add another layer to this, Rapid Reload is a real, officially released PS1 title, but rather than being a ripoff of Metal Slug, it's a ripoff of Gunstar Heroes.

# ? Jun 8, 2019 05:30