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Thanatosian posted:I'm visiting my parents and trying to get rid of some old stuff. Is there a quick way to sell some old video game stuff (Original NES, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo 64, all heavily used, but with original boxes), or is it even worth the time? Is there a better thread to ask about this in? Are you looking for the most money or for the quickest sell?
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Thanatosian posted:I'm visiting my parents and trying to get rid of some old stuff. Is there a quick way to sell some old video game stuff (Original NES, Super Nintendo, and Nintendo 64, all heavily used, but with original boxes), or is it even worth the time? Is there a better thread to ask about this in? Yes, those have value, especially with their original boxes and especially if they are working. Collectors want stuff to be mint, but even if they aren't mint, if the systems still work, I'm betting that you could do well with gamers who just want to play their favorite old games again. Take a look at the completed listings on eBay; working systems sell well for non-trivial dollars, and even broken systems sell well for the parts. You might consider selling the boxes separately from the systems; collectors want those, but gamers maybe less so. And if you also have games for them, do good research before selling, because while some games go for just a few trade-in dollars, others command serious prices. The fee structure on eBay is really good for sellers, in my experience. I haven't used SA Mart (but it sounds like I should look at it.) You really sure that you want to jettison them? [insert wry smile here since I've never managed to give up a system]
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Dec 4, 2019 22:38
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TofuDiva posted:Yes, those have value, especially with their original boxes and especially if they are working. Collectors want stuff to be mint, but even if they aren't mint, if the systems still work, I'm betting that you could do well with gamers who just want to play their favorite old games again. Take a look at the completed listings on eBay; working systems sell well for non-trivial dollars, and even broken systems sell well for the parts. They have literally been sitting unplayed in my parents house for the last 15 years or so. The emotional part of me wants to hang on to them, but the coldly rational part says they're just stuff, and stuff I'm almost certainly never going to use again.
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Dec 4, 2019 22:44
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What's a vacuum manufacturer that makes quality poo poo AND has decent support, in case the quality poo poo breaks? I've had this Kenmore canister for the last 8 months and today part of it broke. It's supposedly still under manufacturer's warranty. Even ignoring the regular crap that comes with contacting a noisy call center with the world's worst connection, these motherfuckers kept hanging up on me. They'd ask for me info, say they couldn't find me in the system, then I'd say, "I purchased it through Amazon," and they'd be all, "Oooh, that's different, I need to transfer you to whatever department." Then five seconds later the call would end. Could be an accident, right? Well I kept calling them back, and every time they found out where I bought the vacuum they immediately said they had to transfer me, and then hung up. Right as my blood pressure was spiking through the roof I decided to try Amazon, just in case. They offered to let me do a return. I guess that's one upside of dealing with a bazillion-dollar company. But now I need a new vacuum, preferably one that can handle mountains of dog hair.
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Dec 4, 2019 22:48
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What does it actually mean to get a key to the city? I'm watching the Mr. Plow episode of the Simpsons, and Homer just got the key to the city.
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Dec 4, 2019 23:35
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Leavemywife posted:What does it actually mean to get a key to the city? I'm watching the Mr. Plow episode of the Simpsons, and Homer just got the key to the city. Afaik it's just a symbolic honor. I don't think there's an actual lock to the city. Haven't ever seen it happen in real life, but Mayberry gave the key to the city to some rando in the old Andy Griffith Show, and the honoree stole everyone's watches when they shook his hand.
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Dec 5, 2019 00:16
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If you put the PS1 CD for Tekken 2 in a CD player, will the soundtrack play?
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Dec 5, 2019 01:48
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Leavemywife posted:What does it actually mean to get a key to the city? I'm watching the Mr. Plow episode of the Simpsons, and Homer just got the key to the city. In medieval Europe and the UK, cities were walled and had gates which had actual keys. So giving a trusted and honoured person the key meant that they had the freedom to enter and leave the city whenever they wanted as well as other perks. These days it's just a symbolic way to honour someone.
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Dec 5, 2019 01:52
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I figured it was something like that, or maybe that they were like, welcome anywhere in the city for their service or something.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:31
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artsy fartsy posted:What's a vacuum manufacturer that makes quality poo poo AND has decent support, in case the quality poo poo breaks? I've had very good luck with my Dyson Animal, which is designed for handling pet hair. As long as you keep the filters and roller brush clean, they're pretty trouble-free. Mine is 10 years old now and has handled the hair of several longhaired cats, and a fur monster of an elkhound that blew coat at least twice a year. In all that time, I've only had to take it for service once.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:50
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Thanatosian posted:They have literally been sitting unplayed in my parents house for the last 15 years or so. The emotional part of me wants to hang on to them, but the coldly rational part says they're just stuff, and stuff I'm almost certainly never going to use again. Gamestop actually has vintage games in their database now and the actual value is taken into account. So, while you'll get robbed in that they will give you about 1/3rd of the actual value, you won't get uber robbed or anything. You can check values on the site. Obviously you'd probably get the most selling via ebay but GS is the no effort route. SA Mart is actually great and it's worth at least doing an interest check although there's a decent chance that no one will bite.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:57
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Blood Nightmaster posted:You could always pick a random starting point in this 10 hour video of the screensaver, watch it on full screen and just pretend it's 1998 again: Check out the crazy inside this video's comments  And then it goes on for like a trillion pages of timestamps (seriously) mostly to places where I can't even see what they're talking about, and then  
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Dec 5, 2019 04:22
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Check out the crazy inside this video's comments What the gently caress
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Dec 5, 2019 14:09
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I thought he was crazy but check out 1:08:52. That's definitely a teapot.
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Dec 5, 2019 14:17
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That is indeed a teapot I still think it’s crazy to scour a 10 hour video and catalogue every teapot
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Dec 5, 2019 14:23
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Whoops, wrong thread
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Dec 5, 2019 14:28
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ineptmule posted:That is indeed a teapot I like how they said "teapots that may or may not have been discovered yet" implying that, real or not, the commenter believes that others are rushing to find the teapots.
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Dec 5, 2019 14:43
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The Sean posted:I like how they said "teapots that may or may not have been discovered yet" implying that, real or not, the commenter believes that others are rushing to find the teapots. Check the link, the teapots are definitely real.
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Dec 5, 2019 15:49
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The Sean posted:I like how they said "teapots that may or may not have been discovered yet" implying that, real or not, the commenter believes that others are rushing to find the teapots. Scroll through the comments and between the people making jokes about procrastination are people excitedly timestamping a new discovery.
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Dec 5, 2019 16:28
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What are those plastic strips called that are in the doorways of industrial freezers to keep the cold air in when the door is open? Looking to buy some for a dog house
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Dec 5, 2019 17:49
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regulargonzalez posted:What are those plastic strips called that are in the doorways of industrial freezers to keep the cold air in when the door is open? Looking to buy some for a dog house Here's some https://smile.amazon.com/Barbella-Plastic-Curtain-Thickness-Warehouse/dp/B07WT1B698/
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Dec 5, 2019 17:53
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Human Tornada posted:If you put the PS1 CD for Tekken 2 in a CD player, will the soundtrack play? Not usually. Most of the PS1 games had a black disc which would not always get recognized as anything by a CD player. Some games even put a little message that a CD player could read that basically said "Hey, this is not a CD, this is a playstation game. You need to put this in a playstation to get anything fun out of it." Pretty famously the Castlevania SOTN disc had the voice actor for Alucard give that message if you put the disc in a CD player and then play a short remix of the main theme. And of course someone on OC remix made some eurobeat song around it. If you are looking for the soundtrack you might have better luck putting the game in a CD drive on your PC and see if you can find any data files, but most likely they are going to be in some proprietary format that windows won't recognize natively. That doesn't mean it can't be done, but there are easier ways to get a game soundtrack
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Dec 5, 2019 19:07
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What's up with stock-market betting/investments? What are examples of common reasons for choosing something? Looking at it from a Bayesian perspective. Observations leading here: - Technical-analysis/chart analysis appears to have no supporting evidence [for being better than random] - Stock pundits etc appear to have no supporting evidence [for being better than random] - The information you can glean from balance sheets/reports etc aren't meaningful enough. - Arbitrage etc opportunities and other exploits are taken quickly by professionals - It's possible good strategies exist, but they're probably specific/fleeting, and by nature, they wouldn't be published. A strategy that could provide even a slightly-better return than average could be exploited/leveraged into a huge profit through various techniques like derivatives. I'm quite heavily invested in US index funds and leveraged index funds, and use the reasoning "It's been consistently averaging a ~10%" return over random intervals over the past few decades"... but that doesn't mean it's going to keep doing it, so you could still reduce this to wishful thinking/gambling. My leading theory is it's much like casino gambling, where folks think they have an edge due to something other people don't see or don't recognize as valuable, aren't critical about it, and think it's fun / what adults are supposed to do. My own strategy probably falls into this as well. Overall: I see serious-sounding news articles, participate in serious conversations etc, and get the impression people take this very seriously, but it seems... questionable? Unrigorous? Maybe not unlike why Astrology's (etc) so popular? If you poke, folks will tell you it's "just for fun", but something else's going on psychologically. Dominoes fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Dec 5, 2019 21:28
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The stock market always goes up. It will slide sometimes but in the long run, it’s only ever gone up overall. I invest in index funds for this reason - if I can expect a similar return as the NASDAQ over a long enough term, I don’t need to bother myself with paying any attention throughout most of the year.
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Dec 5, 2019 21:44
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Dominoes posted:I'm quite heavily invested in US index funds and leveraged index funds, and use the reasoning "It's been consistently averaging a ~10%" return over random intervals over the past few decades"... but that doesn't mean it's going to keep doing it, so you could still reduce this to wishful thinking/gambling. If you're talking about broad-market US index funds maybe it is wishful thinking? You're betting on the country doing better. If your fund values drops significantly enough to come anywhere close to wiping you out the last thing you or anyone else will be concerned about is money, because it would require something bordering on societal collapse.
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Dec 5, 2019 21:49
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Slimy Hog posted:Check the link, the teapots are definitely real. I meant if the other people looking were real, not the teapots, but this addresses it, wow: Tesseraction posted:Scroll through the comments and between the people making jokes about procrastination are people excitedly timestamping a new discovery.
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Dec 5, 2019 22:30
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It's not exactly my choice of entertainment but I find it somewhat quaint.
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Dec 5, 2019 23:59
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Human Tornada posted:If you put the PS1 CD for Tekken 2 in a CD player, will the soundtrack play? Following on CzarChasm's post: Many of the earliest PS1 games would - Track 1 was the data for the game but all subsequent tracks were the game's audio in normal CD audio format. You could pop them in a CD player and listen. Here is a list of games with CD Digital Audio soundtracks - it appears that Tekken 2 only had the credits as CDDA. Note that the Wipeout series, which was famous for its soundtrack, was CDDA all the way through. Later games stopped doing this for two big reasons: CD audio takes up a lot of space. 44.1Khz, 16-bit CD audio is about 10MB per minute, and a CD could only store about 700 MB, so every minute of CD audio you were using was chewing up space that could be used for data. Better to use the PS1's native, MIDI-type audio and save your space. Second, the use of a CD audio format limited your ability to have audio that reacted to a situation - you can't smoothly transition to a different tempo or track when your choice is "Track 2" or "Track 3" without doing some clever software tricks, at which point you're probably still better served by using something other than CD Audio.
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CzarChasm posted:Not usually. Most of the PS1 games had a black disc which would not always get recognized as anything by a CD player. Some games even put a little message that a CD player could read that basically said "Hey, this is not a CD, this is a playstation game. You need to put this in a playstation to get anything fun out of it." Thanks for the info (also to SIHappiness). It's likely I'm thinking of playing Wipeout in the CD player, and conflating that with the various copies and versions of Tekken discs that were always floating around as a kid.
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Dec 6, 2019 04:31
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Speaking of SA Mart (on this page) I have a bunch of old board games (circa 2008-2015, nerdy not basic) that I want to sell off. However, I only have experience shipping small items in basic pre-set size USPS boxes. The boardgames are often heavy or oddly-shaped. I want to sell the games at a fair price but don't want to lose all of the gross income on paying for expensive shipping. Any tips would be appreciated. I do have local and popular game stores but they're hardcore about not letting you advertise sales.
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Dec 6, 2019 04:47
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The Sean posted:Speaking of SA Mart (on this page) I have a bunch of old board games (circa 2008-2015, nerdy not basic) that I want to sell off. However, I only have experience shipping small items in basic pre-set size USPS boxes. The boardgames are often heavy or oddly-shaped. I want to sell the games at a fair price but don't want to lose all of the gross income on paying for expensive shipping. Any tips would be appreciated. Craigslist is a good place or your local city's SA/reddit thread. But also realize that you're not gonna get close to msrp for them. I've seen too many people list their $60 msrp game for $50... I'd rather spend an extra  and get a complete game.Shipping board games is really expensive. Another option is to send them to me for $0 and I'll make sure they have a good home.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Here's some Thanks but holy poo poo at the price. I don't like my dog *that* much
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Dec 6, 2019 14:39
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How much are they? It won't tell me because I'm in the UK and none of the sellers ship internationally so it doesn't show me any buying options. I suppose it's useful in a way but I'd prefer if Amazon gave me an option to say "I know I can't buy it, I just want to know how much."
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Dec 6, 2019 14:49
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Tesseraction posted:How much are they? It won't tell me because I'm in the UK and none of the sellers ship internationally so it doesn't show me any buying options. $80.00
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That's odd, it was offering me a 'cheaper' option for $82 that it apparently would deliver to me. Funny definition of cheaper I guess.
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Stupid question inc: I noticed something interesting. In the past week, I've cut my nails once as they grew quite long. But I removed a bandage around my middle finger (I sliced the tip off last week) and I noticed the nail had barely grown. It's exactly the same length as my freshly cut nails. Does the body stop things growing fast near open wounds?
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Dec 6, 2019 18:07
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regulargonzalez posted:Thanks but holy poo poo at the price. I don't like my dog *that* much If you are handy, I found some similar material (floppy rubbery sheets) at my local Habitat ReStore for $5 in the flooring area. I cut it into strips and sandwiched the tops between 2 boards to make something similar.
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Qubee posted:Stupid question inc: I noticed something interesting. In the past week, I've cut my nails once as they grew quite long. But I removed a bandage around my middle finger (I sliced the tip off last week) and I noticed the nail had barely grown. It's exactly the same length as my freshly cut nails. Does the body stop things growing fast near open wounds? I've noticed this before too, but my guess was that it had to do with the nail being covered up/damp all the time rather than wound proximity. You could do a science, bandage your other middle finger and compare/contrast nail growth. Then we'll know for sure. Don't forget to take notes, you'll need them come publication time
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Dec 6, 2019 18:57
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owlhawk911 posted:I've noticed this before too, but my guess was that it had to do with the nail being covered up/damp all the time rather than wound proximity. You could do a science, bandage your other middle finger and compare/contrast nail growth. Then we'll know for sure. Don't forget to take notes, you'll need them come publication time The difference between loving around and doing science is writing down the results
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owlhawk911 posted:I'm 12 and what's this? It's the latest completely unhelpful dismissal of a huge population based on broad, ignorant generalizations fueled by dang kids your age with no respect for rhetorical arguments.
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