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Got scammed in CEX once when I found an FF6 Advance cart for £5.99. Thought I'd gotten a bargain but when I got round to playing it turned out to be a bootleg with a dead battery. 1997 - the greatest year in British history (besides 2012).
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Current labour voters could see themselves voting for: https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1473971684285636608?s=20 Current tory voters could see themselves voting for: https://twitter.com/shinyandnew70/status/1473974873202597889?s=20 It's not clear (to me anyway) whether 'none of these' means they would stay with their current party or not vote for anyone or a mix of the two.
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CeX is a front/money laundering establishment and should be approached accordingly
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is anyone else old enough to remember free singles/eps (same size as singles but 33rpm instead of 45rpm) given out with Kerrang etc - really flimsy vinyl. Not just music mags. Oink! - basically an attempt to make a non-sweary Viz for kids, and the first media job for people from Charlie Brooker to Phill Jupitus to Marc Riley - had a flexidisk on the front of it's first issue, recorded by Chris Sievey (better known as Frank Sidebottom) as Uncle Pigg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF6Y4ClLLAE I literally played this until the disk fell apart. Frankly it's a miracle I made it to puberty given I shared a bedroom with my brother at the time. Also occasionally computer mags would have a flexidisk of software because they were so much cheaper to produce than cassettes, but I never got a chance to try that because my record player - a Dansette I inherited from my gran that would probably be worth a fortune now - had no output but the speaker.
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Barry Foster posted:CeX is a front/money laundering establishment and should be approached accordingly Still, it's nice to know where to go when your phone gets robbed
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Just jumping into the Xmas Noncing Number One discourse to point out that The Kunts record is, of course, based on the record that the KLF based their Dr Who record on, which is “Rock and Roll Part 2” by Leading 70s Pop Nonce Gary Glitter. A fact they recognise in one the videos to accompany the song looking like a classic noncey 70s Top of the Pops. https://twitter.com/kuntschristmas/status/1473411134925459459?s=21 smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Good point, do they have any checks for ownership etc or can you literally go in with a bag full of loose, clearly pinched electronics and flog them?
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happyhippy posted:Am a Gen Xers on the end of the range, and my first vinyl was from a cover of Oink! magazine which came out in the mid eighties. Riley played bass on it (he was part of Frank Sidebottom's band, and a writer on the magazine). *Allegedly* the pitch-shifted backing vocal is Marti Pellow from Wet Wet Wet, which I always assumed was playground bullshit, but the Wets did use Sidebottom as a support act quite a lot.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is anyone else old enough to remember free singles/eps (same size as singles but 33rpm instead of 45rpm) given out with Kerrang etc - really flimsy vinyl. Not as vinyl, but I do remember the plastic flexidiscs. Re: CEX - I don't know how things stand where all of you are, but round here you pretty much have to assume that anything they sell is stolen and/or has been sold for drug money.
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ThomasPaine posted:Good point, do they have any checks for ownership etc or can you literally go in with a bag full of loose, clearly pinched electronics and flog them? I think they ask for IDs but they're probably not that arsed and I don't even know if that's GDPR compliant now
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ThomasPaine posted:Good point, do they have any checks for ownership etc or can you literally go in with a bag full of loose, clearly pinched electronics and flog them? You need to provide ID and sign a declaration that it's not stolen, which works as well as you might expect.
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How are they for old laptops if they don't come up in their online catalogue? I've got one that needs getting rid of and I can't be arsed ebaying it.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:How are they for old laptops if they don't come up in their online catalogue? I've got one that needs getting rid of and I can't be arsed ebaying it. If you're selling, shop around see where you can get a good price if you've got any local places. If you're buying, 100% avoid
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Convex posted:I mean have a look at Fire Emblem, Paper Mario or Skies of Arcadia, which seem to go for over £100. I think its partly a nintendo thing For example the late GBC game Shantae used to sell for well over £100, but the price tanked after it was made available on the 3DS and Wii U virtual console services. While it was still super expensive Limited Run Games produced a well, limited run of reproduction carts that now sell for £90 wheras an original Shantae cart will set you back £15 at most. I imagine the price may creep up again as the wiiU and 3DS version fades into obscurity though. One things for certain my Skies of Arcadia disc is going on ebay the moment a HD version comes out. It'll happen any day now sega won't keep me waiting.
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ThomasPaine posted:apparently CeX was co-founded by Charlie loving Brooker lol Lol wtf. Guess he really does specialise in creating digital dystopias
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
Acetates? I remember some Pixies exclusive one from Select magazine years back, they disintegrate pretty easy though. Oh, other people answered. Flexidiscs. Pretty sure breakfast cereals did them occasionally too.
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I haven't heard "Fairytale In New York" once this year... i always liked Kirsty's voice.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I haven't heard "Fairytale In New York" once this year... i always liked Kirsty's voice.
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ThomasPaine posted:They also had a used PS5 they were charging nearly 700 quid for, even though the RRP for a new one is only 450. Some poor naive bastard's going to buy it for their kid's christmas as well. Absolute scalpers. In a big way, especially cars. My dad bought a nice new car just before COVID and I was talking to him to see if he was annoyed at the timing. He’s not, because the price of that car second hand is still what he paid for it brand new. You can’t get them new at all, because of the chips.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I haven't heard "Fairytale In New York" once this year... i always liked Kirsty's voice. My one moderately spiced take on Christmas songs* is that that song is bad and the only reason people bang on about it being good is because it's got a naughty word in it *Aside from the fact that Christmas songs are great. I'm the one in the office who sets the radio to Xmas FM and glues the dial in place for December
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Thatcher's favourite song, apparently. Wasn't that How much is that doggy in the window?
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ThomasPaine posted:apparently CeX was co-founded by Charlie loving Brooker lol That... doesn't sound right. Maybe he's an investor, but they've been around for *ages*, certainly long enough ago that he was still doing snarky reviews of 16-bit games. e: Wow my memory was almost accurate, CEX opened in 1992, but he did work there rather than founding it, and he got his job being snarky about 16 bit games as a result of working there: quote:“So that was Music and Video Exchange, and a guy ended up going off to set up CEX so I was working there - I did some comic strip adverts for them, because when they found out I was a cartoonist they’d get me to do cartoons for them. And they’d appear in various magazines, and one of them was PC Zone which was based round the corner. from https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/gaming-made-me-charlie-brooker-part-2 goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Fairytale of New York is good actually, and not liking it is a sign of latent sectarianism.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I can't express how much I loathe Fairytale in New York. the sex ghost posted:My one moderately spiced take on Christmas songs* is that that song is bad and the only reason people bang on about it being good is because it's got a naughty word in it It's the only christmas song that people actively listen to on purpose just to see if its censored or not. Just need some Grime or Mumble rapper to make a good xmas song to replace Fairytale.
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N-word Christmas (The N-word is Nigel (the Nigel is also racist))
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Pablo Bluth posted:I can't express how much I loathe Fairytale in New York.  Only good Xmas song is Backdoor Santa, or by association Christmas in Hollis
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The only good xmas songs come from the General Bullshit annual xmas song thread.
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the sex ghost posted:My one moderately spiced take on Christmas songs* is that that song is bad and the only reason people bang on about it being good is because it's got a naughty word in it Iv'e got very fond memories attached to it.  Can't remember the last time i followed the Xmas #1 thingy.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That... doesn't sound right. Maybe he's an investor, but they've been around for *ages*, certainly long enough ago that he was still doing snarky reviews of 16-bit games. I also double checked and he's listen as a co founder on their own website so  https://uk.webuy.com/site/history/
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Mr Phillby posted:Its a demand thing too, you'll see high prices for anything that didn't sell enough units to become ubiquitous and never saw a re-release. Wouldn't that make the value tank though, so you should be selling it before a re-release gets announced? I sold my copy a few years ago, think it went to CeX of all places, maybe £60...
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You want to see expensive second hand games, just look at what Mega CD games go for on the retro Market. Snatcher on Mega CD (so the PAL version) goes for £400+. In other news I loved this tweet by Outside Xtra's Ellen. https://twitter.com/icklenellierose/status/1474091513705545734?t=WqRrB9IxHuC7W97Z1oO12g&s=19
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Just checked out the Ladbaby song for the first time, and didn't know Ed Sheeran and Elton John are in it. Wow, how low do you have to go when you have your own xmas song already out and then you have to latch onto the more popular tiktok one.
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Miftan posted:If you buy stuff online they will sometimes just straight up send you a worse product than what you paid for. In store they sometimes misrepresent how durable/well kept the items are. I've had good experience with them in the past, but some really bad ones and it's not worth the hassle imo I think in general you get the same experience as buying from a fence, often literally because I think that's primarily their business model.
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Also xmas songs: I find it helpful to learn a few of these because you can sing them along to the music they play in stores, and it is a blessed anodyne to the incessant false cheer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rflsHvtTTGw (also carol of the bells definitely fits these lyrics more, loving weird song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_AvJzkPqQ8 OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I were a lassie singles were on vinyl. We had quite a few because that's all our pocket money would stretch too (if saved up!). Albums cost about a month's pocket money. First issue of Kerrang I bought came with this: https://www.discogs.com/release/657858-Various-Search-Destroy-The-History-Of-Punk-Volume-1 which was actually pretty cool.
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OwlFancier posted:Also xmas songs: I find it helpful to learn a few of these because you can sing them along to the music they play in stores, and it is a blessed anodyne to the incessant false cheer. 
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Marmaduke! posted:Wouldn't that make the value tank though, so you should be selling it before a re-release gets announced? I sold my copy a few years ago, think it went to CeX of all places, maybe £60... Also you were robbed by charlie brooker to only get £60 for it, they sell it for £95, the prices on ebay are even crazier someone's listed the box (without disc) for £45 lol
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I liked CEX as I got my Xbox from them after trading in a bunch of old games I had which in my opinion were bought for ridiculous trade in value. They gave me £20 for Super Mario Sunshine, which is far far more than it's worth. And other games went for similar amounts.
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Fairytale of New York is good you freaks. Plus any prog musician should appreciate Carol of the Bells, because humming it is an easy way for your brain to remember a 2-against-3 hemiola (polyrhythm)
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