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anyway op, i simply purchase the items i need from the store without issue
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Cat Face Joe posted:anyway op, i simply purchase the items i need from the store without issue same
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dividertabs posted:Do you think there could be an element of anxiety? Like "I have never used a hand saw, what if I do it wrong in the middle of the store"? how do you get to be an adult in a "physically making things" major and never have used a saw i guess it's not impossible, it's just always surprising to me i am an EE, and even in my junior level classes, this is college not high school, there were people in my labs who had never used a bread board and didn't understand how they worked. same idea i guess i don't mind teaching people things, but i always wonder how you even get into a program like that without having the curiosity to play around with that stuff in your life until then
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Raluek posted:i don't mind teaching people things, but i always wonder how you even get into a program like that without having the curiosity to play around with that stuff in your life until then because they see it as a career that is supposed to make a lot of money, not because they’re genuinely interested in it. you see it a lot in software too.
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Raluek posted:how do you get to be an adult in a "physically making things" major and never have used a saw hyper-overachiever kids who get shoved into engineering because they're good at math yet have never touched a screwdriver
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The_Franz posted:hyper-overachiever kids who get shoved into engineering because they're good at math yet have never touched a screwdriver pushed into it or see it as a path to wealth, one or the other
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my balls are in stock in fact they’re on sale hoping on someone buying them soon need the money
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i built a brand new pc with stuff all at microcenter, except my video card, because they didnt have any 4080s in stock at the store (but it was in stock elsewhere)
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Raluek posted:im surprised microcenter even still exists. they've been gone from the bay area for at least a decade they frequently beat amazon/newegg/etc on prices, their tech dweeb kids actually are fairly knowledgeable, the shelves are pretty well stocked, and their maker/solder aisles gave them a big shot in the arm when radio shack folded i honestly dont see em going anywhere, every time i go in here it's loving packed
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like 5 years ago i specc'd out a machine on newegg and was about to order, said, "gently caress it, lets see what micro center has" and not only did they have it all in stock for in-store pickup, it was like $300 cheaper overall. i would've paid $300 extra to just get it all same-day, but saving it? that's whats up.
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the weirdo nerd guys who want to help you are ok, but i just tell them "slap whatever sticker you have on here and leave me alone" and it's a good exchange. my last pc build i wandered in there and let him go fetch my poo poo but i still feel awkward around those nerds because im embarrassed for them through the transitive property.
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stuff is in stock in 3 places: 1. amazon. delivery in 2 days 2. the home depot. not your local, the one that is like 30 miles away across 2 toll bridges 3. ace hardware. the price is double but you can have it now
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true value #1
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ohh we're talking about electronics. yeah those aren't in stock anywhere. just order it online and pray
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ooh la la "i live near a ~~*~microcenter~*~~, my life is sunshine and lollipops"
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yes i am jealous 
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gently caress microcenter, we got jameco 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:ooh la la "i live near a ~~*~microcenter~*~~, my life is sunshine and lollipops" i can walk to it even
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rotor posted:pushed into it or see it as a path to wealth, one or the other alas, no one is getting pushed into ID as a path to wealth when i was in id college, we kept a couple handheld jigsaws in the shop patio area for us to use surreptitiously during shop off-hours. i used them a few times, but it still kinda horrifies me. tbh tho, the only time i ever got hurt during college was from a fuckin tsquare.
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DELETE CASCADE posted:gently caress microcenter, we got jameco yeah you can just get poo poo right there at will-call
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:the weirdo nerd guys who want to help you are ok, but i just tell them "slap whatever sticker you have on here and leave me alone" and it's a good exchange. there are two kinds of nerds those of use who are nerds but largely ashamed of being so and those who embrace it with their whole being
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:ooh la la "i live near a ~~*~microcenter~*~~, my life is sunshine and lollipops" lol DELETE CASCADE posted:gently caress microcenter, we got jamesco james is spelt with an s so i fixed it
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Beeftweeter posted:i can walk to it even  echinopsis posted:lol bless
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DELETE CASCADE posted:gently caress microcenter, we got jameco ...and not much else. weirdstuff: gone HSC: gone excess solutions: gone anchor: still hanging in there, but for how much longer?
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that woodworking kids a wuss, i used to take my christmas tree home on the train when i lived in sf. the only thing muni operators bat an eye at is live animals, and even that they'll let slide if they think you've got the nerve to kill the animal in front of them to get on
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the closest microcenter is like a thousand miles away. i miss fryes
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OMGVBFLOL posted:that woodworking kids a wuss everyone agrees with this
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there was a time in the mid-late 2000s in canada when amazon hadn't really taken everything over up here yet and it was often prohibitively expensive to get stuff shipped across the border - we had memory express and ncix. memory express was great because the store was literally just a concrete warehouse with metal shelves and a checkout counter, no money spent on making it look nice, so the prices were often cheaper than ordering online + shipping. if you were buying a whole computer's worth of components, they would mount the cpu, heatsink and ram for free which was cool. it probably avoided a lot of damaged returns.
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Hell yeah. I love poo poo like that. my dream weed dispensary is a bare concrete room with a scale and two 55 gallon drums labeled HOMEWORK WEED and COUCH WEED and one of those scoops like they have in the bulk peanut/oatmeal aisle in the grocery store
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goin down to the weedmart, it's new drum tuesday. gonna get those good ones off the top
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rotor posted:everyone agrees with this adding my voice to the din
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Jonny 290 posted:Hell yeah. I love poo poo like that. lol that would be loving amazing
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echinopsis posted:my balls are in stock I’m not buying something with a lien on it.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:ooh la la "i live near a ~~*~microcenter~*~~, my life is sunshine and lollipops" all you need to do is move to philly and a delightful assortment of electronics cheessteaks and tastykake will be open to you friend
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Jonny 290 posted:Hell yeah. I love poo poo like that. add SLEEP WEED to that list and i'm sold. and preemptively couch weed is not the same as sleep weed as is my extremely technical method of choosing weeds is to stand in the weed store and look at the names and then determine which names are best and weight them by indica vs sativa vs hybrid. the worst is when the person behind the counter is like "you should smell this weed" and i just sort of sniff it and go "why yes that is weed, ty"
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lol, yuuuuuuup and btw if you want some sleepy stuff, just buy a bag and put it back. i didnt do it on purpose, but i found a bag of weed from 2018 last month and i been smokin on it at night. it got incredibly CBN heavy and thats the sleepy part.
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Zlodo posted:actually we're in 2022 op what now bicth
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what now bicth Cat Face Joe posted:anyway op, i simply purchase the items i need from the store without issue
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I haven't bought computer bits anywhere but microcenter in years once Newegg started their marketplace stuff I stopped buying from them, and amazon is just terrible plus if you go to microcenter you can just have the thing right then instead of waiting for your prime 2 day shipping that gets delayed and now it's 5-7 day shipping but what are you gonna do about it
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