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I fell off the face of the earth for a while, but I'm still technically alive. Is everyone still hanging in there?Applebees Appetizer posted:Anyone have an Xbox 360 they want to get rid of? My controllers are a bit hosed up, but I have one of the black ones with the HDMI port MomJeans420 posted:Speaking of black friday deals, I think someone in here was posting before that the really cheap black friday tvs, etc are actually made cheaper and are lower quality than the typical non-sale models. I'm assuming this doesn't apply for things like M12 batteries and tools? The Milwaukee reps say no, for whatever that's worth
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MomJeans420 posted:Speaking of black friday deals, I think someone in here was posting before that the really cheap black friday tvs, etc are actually made cheaper and are lower quality than the typical non-sale models. I'm assuming this doesn't apply for things like M12 batteries and tools? I hear this a lot but I have a hard time believing that they skip steps or deviate from the plan, considering that making things as fast as possible in as large a quantity as possible is the best way to get the price down. I mean, the black friday things are still warrantied, right? I think they just take a hit on the margin because tons of extra tens is better than the regular amount of twenties. Also the concept of a loss leader is not exactly new - If you get someone in the store they're more likely to buy something regardless of the sale item. On the other hand, I have had experience with regular poo poo I buy at walmart being of lower quality than the same thing at other stores. I do think that in some cases they mass produce items like socks and shirts at lower quality specifically for walmart's terrible negotiated prices. Also my daughter pulled off a pretty good Mathilda for halloween: 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Anyone have an Xbox 360 they want to get rid of? Pulled mine out of the closet after years of sitting and it was red ringing when I went to trade it in a couple months back. Went to the electronics recycling instead. What old rear end game do you play? Suburban Dad fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Sweet, then I'm buying a M12 ratchet come black friday.
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The Door Frame posted:My controllers are a bit hosed up, but I have one of the black ones with the HDMI port PM sent Suburban Dad posted:Pulled mine out of the closet after years of sitting and it was red ringing when I went to trade it in a couple months back. Went to the electronics recycling instead. Call Of Duty 3  A bunch of us played it pretty regular, so we're all just switching to the Xbox. Apparently there's way more people playing on Xbox too so it should be fun.
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LloydDobler posted:I hear this a lot but I have a hard time believing that they skip steps or deviate from the plan, considering that making things as fast as possible in as large a quantity as possible is the best way to get the price down. I mean, the black friday things are still warrantied, right? I fully expect Walmart to be able to get cheaper goods by virtue of how much volume. Cutting corners won't actually save enough money on a small run to be worth it, but can be on something you're still running in the millions. Also, the decontented / lower quality Walmart specials, in my experience, have unique SKUs / model numbers that only Walmart sells, whether it's all year round or BF only. By comparison I'd bet all the Milwaukee power tools sold in a year would be a rounding error to Walmart. It'll be in the same box, with the same label, with the same tool inside as the rest of the year.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:PM sent Can't believe people actually play it still considering there's a new one every year. Surprised you can find matches, etc.
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Humphreys posted:My anxiety is acting up again and I'm probably going to ruin new relationship! Yay for my stupid brain! I think I mentioned in the other thread, I'm waiting on results on that myself. Had a deeply suspicious mole cut off the other day.
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LloydDobler posted:I hear this a lot but I have a hard time believing that they skip steps or deviate from the plan, considering that making things as fast as possible in as large a quantity as possible is the best way to get the price down. I mean, the black friday things are still warrantied, right? Never heard about the Black Friday thing, but Wal-mart absolutely has lower quality crap made pretty much exclusively for them. They can pretty much command that a manufacturer sells to them a certain price, thus forcing them to make lower quality goods. Although this does tend to backfire for the manufactures. See Wal-Mart and Vlassic.
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Sgt Fox posted:I was wondering if I could get some help from some international goons. While November mostly means thanksgiving for US goons, in commonwealth countries, November is a time to remember our veterans, with Remembrance Day on the 11th, signifying the end of the Great War. Except for NZ and Australia, where we have ANZAC Day on April 25th, marking the first landings at Gallipolli, when British officer incompetence and naivety lead to ANZAC troops being landed in the wrong place, delivering them to a slaughter. This and other events of WW1 led directly to the growing independence and stronger national psyche of both nations. It’s rather spooky when you drive through rural NZ, and you notice every single tinpot no-horse town has a war memorial dating from WW1, with a sometimes chillingly long list of local boys and men who died. Per-capita losses were huge, some of these towns clearly lost most of their males. Remembrance Day is still a thing, but mostly restricted to small formal events at parliament, RSA’s (equivalent to Aussie RSL, American VFW and the like) and military ceremonies. ANZAC Day is the big public holiday. Still with the poppies though.
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Liquid Communism posted:I think I mentioned in the other thread, I'm waiting on results on that myself. Had a deeply suspicious mole cut off the other day. I've got more to go too. One of the tradeoffs growing up a beachbum in Australia.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:PM sent I was stunned to discover that the 360 NCAA '14 servers still work also and me and a couple friends who had an online dynasty that was 4 years deep (in game time) that got abandoned because the Xbox One came out have resumed it.
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I just had a much needed night out with two of my best friends. Ate some special cookies, went to a barcade and sipped on some cider while we people watched and had a great time. Some dude really wanted to fight and one of my friends talked the guy down and got him a cab home which made the end of the night feel really great. Life is pretty good.
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Sgt Fox posted:I was wondering if I could get some help from some international goons. While November mostly means thanksgiving for US goons, in commonwealth countries, November is a time to remember our veterans, with Remembrance Day on the 11th, signifying the end of the Great War. Aussie one on offer here. Emailed.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Based on advice on last month's thread I spoke to my physio about lifting and he said just don't do anything with the bad arm but go nuts with everything else, he thinks every man women and child should do weights, I laughed.
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Rhyno posted:I just had a much needed night out with two of my best friends. Ate some special cookies, went to a barcade and sipped on some cider while we people watched and had a great time. Some dude really wanted to fight and one of my friends talked the guy down and got him a cab home which made the end of the night feel really great. Life is pretty good. Rhyno posted:Wooosh, ol' Rhyno can't handle the devil's lettuce like he used to. That character arc.
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Suburban Dad posted:Can't believe people actually play it still considering there's a new one every year. Surprised you can find matches, etc. It's a good game. WW2 based, simple setups, simple maps, no hackers. Each match everyone starts at zero, no crazy custom weapons and poo poo like that, you get a B.A.R. with a .45 and some grenades. There's a core group of people that played on the PS3, I'd say about 30, and then random players as well. But yeah, during the week sometimes there would be no matches going on but then it would blow up over the weekend. Apparently Playstation had shut it down once before years ago but people complained and they turned it back on, so I guess this time everyone is like gently caress it, we're gonna switch and have even more players. Ether Frenzy posted:I was stunned to discover that the 360 NCAA '14 servers still work also and me and a couple friends who had an online dynasty that was 4 years deep (in game time) that got abandoned because the Xbox One came out have resumed it. There's still quite a bit of old games still running. There's another game that was a download only game called Battlefield 1943 (I like WW2 games) that a shitload of people still play. That's one is pretty good too but COD3 is my favorite.
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InitialDave posted:Anyone else playing The Outer Worlds? I tried to like it but in the end i just hammered through the main story missions to see if it ever got better. (it didn't) mechanically it feels like a 10 year old game. Everything else feels like they pinched from other 10 year old games. It's like some stupid mass effect/bioshock/borderlands mash up that doesn't do anything as well as the game it ripped off. I just don't get why every big game has to fit the same mold. searching dead bodies for poo poo, shotgun/pistol/rifle/machinegun, you're here to save the world/galaxy/universe, dog/bug/human enemy types, fetch quest/fetch quest/fetch quest
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InitialDave posted:Anyone else playing The Outer Worlds? I have my brother's PS4 while he has my switch, he bought the game and shipped it to hopefully arrive today. I still need to finish Horizon Zero Dawn, probably need to do that first so I can delete it and make space.
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Ether Frenzy posted:I was stunned to discover that the 360 NCAA '14 servers still work also and me and a couple friends who had an online dynasty that was 4 years deep (in game time) that got abandoned because the Xbox One came out have resumed it. Iirc that's the last NCAA game and people continue updating rosters every year because it's the latest one. Might change now with the NCAA finally realizing they can't keep players from profiting anymore.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Except for NZ and Australia, where we have ANZAC Day on April 25th, marking the first landings at Gallipolli, when British officer incompetence and naivety lead to ANZAC troops being landed in the wrong place, delivering them to a slaughter. This and other events of WW1 led directly to the growing independence and stronger national psyche of both nations. It’s rather spooky when you drive through rural NZ, and you notice every single tinpot no-horse town has a war memorial dating from WW1, with a sometimes chillingly long list of local boys and men who died. Per-capita losses were huge, some of these towns clearly lost most of their males. In Canada, November 11th is Remembrance Day and a public holiday. If your town has a war memorial, there is a ceremony there. Most people wear poppies. Canada is almost identical to the ANZAC nations in that participation in the Great War changed its view of itself as more of an independent nation rather than a colony with benefits, though Canada's sigil memory is the Battle of Vimy Ridge. It is one of the very few battles on the western front that was a decisive victory, and it was accomplished by Canadian troops under Canadian leadership. Living in Newfoundland adds an extra dimension to the Great War. Before joining Canada, Newfoundland's great war memorial was "over the top day", on July 1st, in memorial of the Newfoundland Regiment. In the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the regiment was annihilated in the battle of Beaumont-Hamel, taking 90% casualties. The sad thing about this (on top of all the other sad things) is that this was not exceptional; it was in fact a standard narrative all along the front. I also mention the Regiment as it was the only North American unit to participate in Gallipolli (lucky us.) The day is rolled into Remembrance day nowadays. Oh, and Canadian goons, if you want to read a good book on Canada and World War 2, Six War Years by David Broadfoot. It was written in the 1970s, but was well regarded enough that you still may find it in your local public library today. It's an oral history collection from people who lived through the time. I learned a lot from it (if you've never heard of the Zombie Divisions, that's reason enough to pick up the book, I hadn't before I started), and if you are curious, I was even putting up chapters in the old milhist thread for awhile.         
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Except for NZ and Australia, where we have ANZAC Day on April 25th, marking the first landings at Gallipolli, when British officer incompetence and naivety lead to ANZAC troops being landed in the wrong place, delivering them to a slaughter. This and other events of WW1 led directly to the growing independence and stronger national psyche of both nations. It’s rather spooky when you drive through rural NZ, and you notice every single tinpot no-horse town has a war memorial dating from WW1, with a sometimes chillingly long list of local boys and men who died. Per-capita losses were huge, some of these towns clearly lost most of their males. Where I hail from, the southern part of Jutland in Denmark, it's the same thing. That part was German from 1864 to 1920, so a lot of Danish males were conscripted to fight for Germany in WW1. Not that they particularly wanted to, mind you, but they were not really given a choice. One of my great grandfathers didn't make it home, died in a train accident somewhere on the eastern front. The other grandpa was taken POW, sent to England, then eventually repatriated. But exact same thing, go to the tiniest of towns and you'll find a memorial with a couple of dozen names on it, many of them being in their very early twenties when they died.
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LloydDobler posted:On the other hand, I have had experience with regular poo poo I buy at walmart being of lower quality than the same thing at other stores. I do think that in some cases they mass produce items like socks and shirts at lower quality specifically for walmart's terrible negotiated prices. This is absolutely how a lot of manufacturers handle Walmart, especially electronics. You can look at the model numbers and see that no one else has that exact same model, and sometimes has fewer features, like fewer inputs on a TV. Also let’s Walmart get away with not price-matching certain things if no one else has that same model. Just on my experience, I’d say same is true for some clothing items. For example, the Hanes boxer briefs and socks I bought there a while back in a moment of weakness do not seem up to the standard I’ve had with the brand previously. I quote] Also my daughter pulled off a pretty good Mathilda for halloween: [/quote] That is pretty good! Applebees Appetizer posted:Call Of Duty 3 I should fire up my 360 and go play that a bit. I started with COD2 as I recall. It’s nice to go back to the much simpler basic load outs/no perks/no Uber bullshit “pure” game. COD Black Ops 4 has a “basic” mode that strips a lot of the special bullshit (perks, a lot of the fancy weapons, attachments, and carried items) and it’s a lot more fun to me than the regular mode. Basically why I usually play Battlefield instead. They’ve stuck a lot more to the basic load outs, though it’s still got creeping feature-itis. Lately been pirating in Atlas, which is essentially Ark: Survival Evolved crossed with Sea Of Thieves. I mean, you have to work up to building your ship before you can even go pirating. It’s literally by the same folks who made Ark, so the mechanics are pretty much the same, but sailing, too. I play mainly because a bunch of my friends do, and it’s pretty good with a group. The constantly having to do the survival thing where you have to worry about heat, cold, thirst, hunger, and even nutritional balance can be annoying, but it’s not terrible. Does add an element of risk to everything.
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InitialDave posted:Anyone else playing The Outer Worlds? Not yet, but I’ve got it on Xbox Game Pass, so definitely will at least start it. Probably soonish.
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Darchangel posted:Not yet, but I’ve got it on Xbox Game Pass, so definitely will at least start it. Probably soonish. Yeah, i got pc gamepass for a dollar this month so i've been going ham on the games i missed. I played F1 2018 for a bit with my G920 and it made my arms hurt 
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Darchangel posted:I should fire up my 360 and go play that a bit. I started with COD2 as I recall. It’s nice to go back to the much simpler basic load outs/no perks/no Uber bullshit “pure” game. Yeah that's why I like it and play it the most. I've tried the newer games like the Black Ops games but they are just full of hackers and/or players with crazy experience "points" that gives them better weapons and poo poo so it's no contest and not even fun. COD3 is enough to be challenging, but not frustrating because other players have unfair advantages. Everyone is on equal footing, so it all just comes down to skill and teamwork.
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Took a nice drive in the S2000 to look at an MR2 Spyder at a dealer, which then turned out to be a complete basket case that needed a transmission and had been violently rear-ended. None of this was mentioned on the dealer site. Then after the boy and I got home we took his RX7 out for a drive. I guess he likes 7,000 rpm and huge flames   
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Weather in the 50s today, so I was driving with the windows down, and... Holy poo poo. It's ping city on the Subaru even while cruising. Never noticed with the windows up. I know the PO ran with a dead O2 for who knows how long (long enough that they put tape over the CEL), so it's gotta be carboned up to hell. Gonna fill it up with supreme tomorrow to help with the pinging (I have about 1/4 of a tank of regular in it now), and when I get paid I'll seafoam the hell out of it at a friend's house. The owner's manual also lists two heat ranges for the spark plugs; I have no idea what plugs are in it now, but I'll go with the cooler of the plugs recommended in the manual. Suburban Dad posted:Can't believe people actually play it still considering there's a new one every year. Surprised you can find matches, etc. Look at the original Counterstrike. There's still a (small) handful of servers up and running. Same with Counterstrike:Source - I can pull up over 1000 servers easily, though that used to be in the tens of thousands. LloydDobler posted:On the other hand, I have had experience with regular poo poo I buy at walmart being of lower quality than the same thing at other stores. I do think that in some cases they mass produce items like socks and shirts at lower quality specifically for walmart's terrible negotiated prices. This is very true - particularly with clothing, but also with TVs. They do stuff like leaving out an HDMI port or using a lower quality screen that they normally wouldn't use in the same model TV sold elsewhere; usually the model # is the same with a letter added on. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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LloydDobler posted:Also my daughter pulled off a pretty good Mathilda for halloween: drat Zoomers really seem to have cool Halloween costume ideas. So the new Cawaduty is worth playing? I'm thinking about buying it because most of my friends are getting it. Does it support cross-play? I just got back from Clearwater Florida for a work trip. Lots of Scientology buildings and cars with loud pipes. Saw a Lamborghini Countach on the road for the first time. All and all a pretty good time.
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STR posted:Weather in the 50s today, so I was driving with the windows down, and... Annnnnd just realized one reason why after a quick check of thermostats on Rockauto. OE thermostat opens at 170. It runs at a steady 195 as reported via OBD2 (even with the rad fans running), so it probably has the wrong thermostat in it. Gonna go ahead and order a new Aisin thermostat (and a thermostat housing, just to be safe, since it's plastic). May as well toss in the $5 Subaru "cooling system conditioner" while I'm at it. Until I can get the thermostat replaced, I'm gonna run premium in it to help reduce pinging.
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My eyes have looked upon glory, and I have tasted Heaven. I just had the Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich and it was worth the wait for it to return.
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Does anyone know if Toyota is pumping engine noises into their cars? My Corolla is really quiet but sometimes it's louder than I would expect. I had a rental Ford Fiesta a few months ago that played engine noises over the speakers when you had it in sport mode.
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The Avalon definitely does, Toyota admits to that, but I haven't heard of the Corolla having it.
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