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It's August in many parts of the world, so here ya go.. this August is looking good for me (plus, it's my birthday).
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It came with a $50 giftcard from TRU. GF got it for me this past Saturday for our 1 year anniversary which was on 7/11.
So, what did you get?
Isn't the 360 suppose to have a price drop in a couple of days, or does that 50 dollar giftcard count?
Count? I did some calculations and what basically happens is my gf pays $4.13 more than she should've (tax on a $399.99 unit is obviously higher than tax on a $349.99 unit) and I got a giftcard from TRU. I'll use the giftcard for the B2G1 free sale they have every year. So no big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by nameless_one
Have you watched Hot Fuzz yet? I very much enjoyed Shaun of the Dead so if is anything like that I will pick it up.
my baby back :DQuote:
Originally Posted by aren
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Haven't seen it yet. I loved Shaun of the Dead, and I have heard very good things aobut Hot Fuzz. I was gonna get the HD DVD version, but if I am going to be forced to pay extra for the DVD version, I'd rather just buy the DVD version. Fuck HD DVD/DVD combos.Quote:
Originally Posted by nameless_one
It's a little bit more serious, but it's still hilarious. Like "Shaun of the Dead," it's a well-executed genre picture paired with a brilliant comic script.Quote:
Originally Posted by nameless_one
thing is with zombie movies you dont really need to set up a story, this ones a pseudo crime drama comedy, so a lot of the asskickingly hilarious moments we all want dont happen untill the climax of the movieQuote:
Originally Posted by nameless_one
its an ok one, but definately not a shaun of the dead.
Will be picking this up myself later today. For those interested, Target seemed to have the best price for HD versions. Kinda pissed that HD doesn't get any of the cool extra shit like a helmet or cards that some places are giving away with the regular DVD release.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
I really want to pick up 300, but I don't want it on normal DVD. Oh PS3, why can't you be more affordable. :(
BT the x264 version. :tu:Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
Anyone who doesn't pick up 300 this week, let alone today, needs to be slapped in the face. I finally watched this movie and by god if it isn't movie of the fucking year.
Blu-Ray 5.1 PCM the kick to the chest sounds like Jesus came to your house and slapped you in the mouf.
Preach on brother!Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
Popeye Collection Vol1
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300 HDDVD
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Picross DS
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BT delivered right to my HTPC last week. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
I prefer to not see movies in the theater. Movie theaters are overpriced, have jackasses working there, and I hate when I have to sit next to fat smelly people. I much prefer to buy/rent movies and enjoy them on my 56" 1080p set and surround sound system that I can turn up as much as want. Fuck movie theaters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
PIRATE!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Black Dhalia
Crank
Lucky # Slevin
Clerks 2
(for $20)
I can't wait until thursday when I can finally watch this. 300 will most definitely be my first Bluray movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
Sounds like you need to go to a theater that doesn't stink.
300 @ imax was teh win
I just prefer to enjoy a movie for the first time at my house on my couch where I can be most comfortable. No better way to watch a movie IMHO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Basically what I'm getting at.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
Shit, I want that. I heard the final boss track on Myspace.
It is the hotness. I've enjoyed every track immensely, but the MetalMan and Aquaman tracks make the CD worth it by itself. It's only $11.50 on www.rahmnation.org
300 is amazingly goofy and definitely isn't anywhere close to movie of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
Bleach vol. 20
One Piece vol. 15
Superman: For All Seasons
Anyone who didn't see 300 when it was out in theaters needs to be slapped in the face.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
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Originally Posted by Nash
Sorry, don't go to the movie theater. Movie Theaters are for hookers and fat people.
Then you had 2 reasons to see it in theatres.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
My eye patch didn't give it away??Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
And occasionally for some teenage mother's 3 year old crying Toddler, that somehow manages to get into non-PG films with their parents for no apparent reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
Oh, and backseat dwellers.
No wonder Artie Lange is always at my movie theater.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
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Retrousb.com just put them back on sale and I jumped this time. They've been going for too much on eBay and I've wanted to play this for a long while now.
wtf is that?
You're not serious are you?
Reproduction of the 1990 Nintendo World Championship cart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dyne
noob
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
300 was an awesome movie, but definitely not movie of the year. With that said, anyone who didn't like it should kill themselves.
Yes. I'm not really in a hurry to see it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsubaki
Okay okay we get it 300 sucks or is awesome now stop posting about it in the haul thread, thx.
I purchased a new hat today, it's fucking bad ass.
I need a new hat. :(
No one cares about your hat. More 300 talk!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff-chan
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Originally Posted by ElCapitan
This hat >>>> 300
Lies!Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff-chan
EDIT: I'm not much of a hat person unless it is my Indiano Jones style hat.
pics or it wasnt purchased.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff-chan
edit: snap, beaten.
We can discuss both!
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Anybody wearing that in Cleveland will probably get robbed by a group of lyndhurst midget whitey thugs.
lol @ the thought of thugs in Lyndhurst. (even midget whitey thugs)
I know, me and some boys for college were out at the Boneyard on Mayfield and like 5 Lyndhurst fags (all under 5'9, what is it with that part of the city?) started fucking with some hillbillys from mentor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
Hillbillys 1
Thugs 0 and arrested and they lost their girls to us
I guess one is "looking for me" lol and the funny part is I ran into the dude at BW3 with no intention of even talking shit and he ran out like a bitch, those dudes are hard yo. His "girls" are whores
Always good times at the Boneyard. /beat chicks
Massive Confirmage. Want hot white chicks? Go to lakewood.
Galaxy Force II: Special Extended Edition arrived today.
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$25 shipped from yesasia.com (only took 5 days to arrive). Best deal on the internet.
The game is awesome by the way. The new "Neo Classic" mode is great.
I have to go get some discounted MS points today at the game store.
I might pic Galaxy Force up as well.
But I'm going to blame TNL if I hate it.
...Another "last haul for a while" for me.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1185935820 + http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1185935820 + http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1185935820 + http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1185935820 + http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1185935820
Ewwww. High-capacity CF cards. Have fun when one dies on you and you lose hundreds of pictures. I had a thing about never shooting on a card higher than 512 for safety sake. That shit saved my ass on multiple assignments at school. CF cards have a tendency to shit out after a while. Make sure you keep that in a good plastic case and not handle it much, if anything.
i could read what the hell it was, i had to google what was on it. so you bought time trials.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xeno G
ryan, get to posting more in the photo thread.
i have a 1-gig and have never come close to filling it. (actually its a micro sd in an adapter). then again i dump my pics from the camera after every shoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Wish me luck! My camera would only fit about 50 photos on a 512MB card >_<Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
I shot on a Nikon D70s, for reference, and a 512 held 130 or so photos on lowest compression and largest resolution for JPEG. I blame some of the card failure on the fact that it was high school equipment handled by a few idiots, but the card I had exclusively to myself only last 7 months. I made it a habit to shoot an assignment on at least 2 cards so that if one died, I wouldn't be left with nothing for an event I obviously couldn't document again.
Most of the pros I met and dealt with over 3 years shot on 256 or 512 cards. A few of the more studio-type kept large capacity cards, but the newspaper sports guys? 256. It's not just me, I promise, other people are paranoid too :(
That's why god invented hard drives.
HDs don't mean shit when you're on a 5-hour assignment and it's a one-time deal. If a card dies on you and there's no backup, you're fucked, plain and simple.
I guess but what are the chances of it happening? I mean getting a 5-hour assignment is pro level stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Eh, I did it in high school for newspaper and yearbook. 3 hour concerts, 4 hour talent shows, JV then varisty football back to back, three soccer games in one day... That type of job was commonplace for me. I obviously don't know his situation, but even family outings and holidays can leave you away from the convenience of dumping a lot of just-taken photos onto a computer. I don't want to risk important assignments that can't be made up, or important photo memories, you know? I'd rather swap cards once or twice than risk losing everything on one card. You don't get those chances back.
Also, as a side note, I don't have a lot of personal experience with the Canon Rebel XT(etc) series. I have no idea if they're better or worse when it comes to card read/write errors than the Nikons. Some of our data loss problems were strictly card related, but I swear to god the older D70 used to eat cards that worked fine in the D100 or D70s.
Losing pictures of my family would be a bonus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Nomi, how many times did you have cards fail on you? I'm hoping that me being the only person handling it will be a bonus to its lifespan.
I don't know why you need a DSLR for high school newspaper pictures... kids these days.
Well, it's a mixed case, since it was not my equipment and yeah, irresponsible idiots handled them. I once came to class to find that the other 512 CF card was dented so badly you could see it, and the card from then on registered as a 128 (worked, haha).Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkRyan
That said, I had at least 10 cases of total card wipeout. One card was irreversible ruined, the others continued to 'work' and die out at random. The other photographers had a few failures, but I did the majority of the work, so I had far more cases of it. Maybe 20ish total over 3 years. One card we threw out since it died a few too many times, the others we just put up with since we didn't have the school funding to go buy more. My publications teacher usually bought new cards with her own money to keep the newspaper and yearbook going.
Of the one I had personally, it failed on me once. Nobody ever touched it outside of me and I kept it cased or in the camera at all times. I can't think of anything I did wrong. We would routinely reformat the cards as suggested by a few professionals the school worked with to wipe lingering data off of them and start fresh. The damn thing just crapped out and deleted 112 pictures once.
Maybe it's CF, maybe it was bad school equipment, maybe it was just a string of bad luck. I would be curious to see if the school switched to SD media as she had talked about my senior year, to find out whether or not it was more reliable. Maybe it's just Nikon dooming up perfectly reliable storage, who knows.
Either way, good luck. Please go buy a backup 512 just in case, keep it in your camera bag. It couldn't hurt and shouldn't cost you much at all these days.
Haha, it was a pretty serious publications program. Adobe CS all the way and pretty skilled design and layout training for some high school brats. We got one Nikon D100 as a gift from a photography studio the school had a senior picture contract with, and the pub teacher noticed how wonderful it was for student photographers. You can see your mistakes with digital; on film you'd shoot an entire important game or dance on bad settings and not know until you got the film developed. Digital is a great confidence booster and learning tool. You can mess with settings and learn as you go to make sure you get some viable shots. Honestly, DSLRs are perfect for high school publications. Easy, instant availability for the layout crew and fantastic for new photographers.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
My teacher bought a D70 herself and donated it to the publications department (ie, her department) and the D70s was partially paid for by a grant that was earned through winning a publications contest in NE Ohio. I had four highest-ranking sports photos during my two years entering the contest. :) I like to think that I may have helped the school earn the equipment, but it was mostly from our layout editors making some kick-ass spreads.
I miss that equipment. Shit, that Nikkor 70-200mm lens... Absolutely gorgeous. I've been dying to get my own camera since I graduated but I think I'll settle for a point and shoot, the Canon S2/S3/S5 or something eventually.
If the Canon Rebel was good enough for Andre Agassi, then I'm sure it will be good enough for MarkRyan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
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We had one at my high school too. It was ridiculous but it made photo assignments incredibly easy for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Watched it, and I loved it. B Ri is right when saying it does have a lot of build up, but I loved the slasher/mystery theme that took up a good chunk of the movie. It really makes the end that much better when the shit hits the fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by nameless_one
Marathon
Taiko No Tatsujin 3 w/ Drum.
I purchased a black matte skin for my 360 hd dvd drive and the triumphant
Nintendo Wii with:
Resident Evil 4
Zelda Twilight Princess
Super Paper Mario
Kororinpa
*-neo
Lose.Quote:
Originally Posted by neoalphazero
WIN!Quote:
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Originally Posted by ElCapitan
I originally thought kingoffighters posted this, and an image of Harrison Ford chasing Short Round yelling "Give me back my hat!" popped into my mind.
On topic: My desire to obtain 300 on blu-ray last night was DENIED.
I went to one Target, and called four others. All were sold out.
Cunts.
No way. Kororinpa is awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand X
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Originally Posted by Nash
Buckets of truth right there. 300 in iMax was a spiritual experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_N_G
The wife stopped on the way home and got...
+ Picross DSQuote:
Originally Posted by ElCapitan
+ DVD Breakfast at Tiffany's
Wouldn't mind getting one of these for completion, but I have the real deal so no rush. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Xeno G
Cleaned up at the gamestore today:
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Where, geographically, was that game store located?
Nippon.
I got me a Nikon D70s. My uncle sold me the camera long with a brand new SanDisk 1GB CF card. Hopefully that wont die on me. I get almost 600 images on that card. Was thinking of getting either a 2GB or 4GB but I dont even fill up the 1GB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
I purchased a 70-200mm lens on ebay for $98 shipped. It was a spur of the moment purchase as I wasnt expecting to win. I played with my coworkers lens (he has a D40? or was it like a D50?) and his lens fit on mine. I fell in love with his 70-200mm so thats why i bidded on it. He even said that I can borrow his if i needed it.
I want to get a flash but its so damn pricey and I'll probably hardly use it so that I will definitely borrow from him as hes a photographer.
I want to get a Lowepro Sling Bag but they are so damn pricey!
Placed the order today:
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Football Outsiders is my favorite site on the interwebs not named TNL, and I greatly enjoy Mark Millar's run on UFF.
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I bitten the bullet :p My Bday present i guess.
Now about that HD tv lol
Lies.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I signed up for a student checking account (my bank has no ATMs on my college campus and I was tired of fees) and will get an iPod nano free in the mail in the next few weeks. Not bad, since I was going to open an account anyway. Free shit to sell is always nice.
They have requirements like having to stay with them for 2 years or whatever it is and having a certain amount of money in the account consistenly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
Wartech and Fight Night Round 3.
Nope. No fee, $5 minimum balance, I can cancel after 6 months. Credit card has no annual fees and I was flat out told that I don't ever have to use it. Online enrollment was free. I had a $50 initial deposit, that was it. Great deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit
Checking accounts with no payouts on balance are for noobs.
bbobb, just out of curiosity/masochism, what did those shmups run you?
It's a student checking account simply for me to hold spending money in. I keep my main account for bills and loan payments and all the fancy shit, but I wanted a new account since Charter One has no ATMs at BGSU. This will work fine for the purpose of separating my leisure money from my 'real' money.
True. All my money is in savings (money market)...interest = free money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biff-chan
All my money are in junk foods and bonds.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit
