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Lol @ that fish game
I really like the fish games.
It has the boss explosion slowdown, I don't know about any other instances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I ordered True Swing Golf for DS using some Amazon credit.
Picked up "Galaxy Fight" off of PSN this morning, still pretty neat! Basic-basic movesets, but the infinite scrolling and animation are super-nice. I think the character Juri may have the first butt-jiggle in a video game!
We had an electrician install some stuff in our house, so I finally have an outlet in my office for my TV and older systems. So I picked up the HD remake of X and X-2 so I could have something new to play in there.
I fucking love FFX. It is so choice. Now if they would go ahead and do XII for PS4 I would be so happy.
Didnt you play zodiac on emulator? I dont think it needs to look better than that.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...6&d=1267143081Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Why the gif?
Even I know how to wire in an outlet you fucking homeowner.
We didn't have some dead outlet.
I had a wall that only exists because of the remodel and had no wires in it whatsoever. For $65 this dude climbed in the attack, hooked wires up to something up there, ran them the length of the house, dropped them down into the wall, cut a hole and installed everything to code and cleanly.
He climbed into the attack?Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
is IP logging in as opaque now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
That was clearly stated in the post, yes. Problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Birthday wishlist happiness!
I got Mario Kart 8, Ratchet & Clank Full Frontal Assault, Kirby Triple Deluxe and Mario 3D Land. Probably going to nab Game & Wario and Pikmin 3 from Club Nintendo tomorrow when it's back up.
I've also got a whole lot of reading to do. Birthday book stack includes a few books on generating ideas and the concept thereof, a book by Debbie Millman full of interviews with prominent designers, the first 2 George R.R. Martin Wild Cards books and trades of Skullkickers and that Thrilling Adventure Hour book.
No, I would have flipped the breaker and installed the plug end myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
buttplant ain't afraid of no attack.
It's dangerous to be an electrician, son.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Would you have found wherever it is you connect fresh wiring to in the attic, ran the wire through the while length of the house, dropped it into the wall, cut a hole in the dry wall, installed the box the outlet is mounted to and then installed the outlet all without any prior training or electrical knowledge?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I can't undo the past, so no, I don't suppose I could remove my prior knowledge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
But you could learn.
But learning is for fags, I guess.
This is why TNL is awesome.
For $65 this guy supplied everything, used tools that cost significantly more than the cost to have him install things and all of his work is insured. Assuming it took me just two hours to buy what I need and teach myself how to do the outlet install from scratch, he already saved me money. The risk and frustration of doing electrical work completely from scratch is not worth me losing money over. TNL has zero general contractors or civil engineers to my knowledge, and my family has four, who all said this guys prices were bonkers amazing and wanted his card.
I actually really enjoyed wiring up the basement at my old place. There is comfort in signal flow.
That's right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Yeah, it was crazy low. And being ignorant of how to wire a house, you could go up into the attic and look at his work, and assuming he didn't do it with reused vcr power cords ducktaped together, you wouldn't have any idea if he did the job right. You could stare straight at it, but because you are ignorant, you are blind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
But whatever. I'm not going to bother with the normal book length post where I poke and annoy you in hopes that you might get better at one more thing, making yourself gain a little bit more skill and depth as a person. If I wrote it up, I'll get back a bunch of "But muh time" or "but muh money" or "But I donnawanna" and finally "but its hard. Its so hard. Learning is harrrddd. Its not fun. Its harrddddrdddrdrddrd"
I like to learn. I like building new skills. I like to understand and know what is in my walls, my attic and my basement. Others do not. And I don't feel like wasting my breath on convincing you otherwise if you're just going to double down.
Do you cook all your own meals?
All of them. Every lunch. Every dinner? Do you make your own clothes? Program your own games? If not it's the same thing. Having someone else who specializes in something do it for you better, cheaper and faster than you can probably do it yourself is not always a bad thing.
Lets pretend that eating at McDonalds because I only have an hour lunch break is like you being ignorant of how most of the things in your house work.
I'm not ignorant of how they work. I rebuilt my pool filter and maintain all the chemicals, I'm installing my own fence and I've ripped out no less than eight bins of greens every week I've lived there. Built my shed in the back. We hung our own window covers, ran sprinkler lines, dug up a section of the yard so I could could replace a broken pipe on my pool return. I maintain our cars, build my computers and cook almost all my meals.
Not knowing the thing you know the most about is not being ignorant of my house. It's not knowing a thing, and based on possible risk and money savings, it didn't make sense to do all this myself. The worst case scenario of me wiring something wrong (he did a lot of work not just the outlet) outweighed the personal satisfaction of doing this particular thing myself.
As opposed to your spelling and grammar? It must be easy to see the wiring in your glass house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Actually on topic, I found this on clearance at Target:
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This thread got special pretty fast.
Alright handyman, where was this guy's profit? He ran wire from across the house, down a wall, to a new outlet. How far did he have to drive to get to your place? What did he use to cut that hole? cut the wire? Connect the leads?Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
so for $65 you got what?
15-20 feet of quality house grade wire
a new outlet with box, screws to mount it to the wall frame, wall plate etc
his fuel costs
whatever % this job will play into his tool costs
+lots of other jobs around the house
Lets hope he didn't wire your house with some old wire from the scrap yard and a wall outlet from his last job.
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Originally Posted by MechDeus
Let's hope McDonald's didn't feed you literally shit?
You could cook your own lunch the night before. The only reason you don't is because the value isn't there for you. Your ability to empathize with someone with a different skills set and values is impressive.
The real joke is you're comparing the necessity of eating to having a wall outlet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
No, I'm comparing doing work yourself to doing work yourself.
If anything you are right though. Eating is so much more important than electrical work. It's ridiculous that you don't prepare all your own food and take care of your body better, but you'll spend the time to wire outlets, which are so much less important. You're always right. Your priorities are clearly the right ones and anyone else doing anything different is straight retarded.
How much is time worth? I know how to do electrical stuff, but for what Opaque had done I would pay $65 to have it done by a pro any day. Believe it or not, I pay people to do game mod and repairs sometimes too since the money I pay them is less valuable than the time it would take to do it myself.
Don't be so hard on him, Opaque. Not believing in services and doing your own electrical, automotive, barber, medical, etc. work must be exhausting. I'm sure he's just tired.
That's my biggest thing. I know exactly what my time is worth and between my time and material costs, not all jobs are worth it to do myself.
I work my real job instead of doing everything myself. I do things myself when they are worth the money. I could hire a pool guy and spend twice as much a month to have my pool be the same condition. Or I could spend ten minutes a day checking it myself, save money even with my time investment and have people ask who my pool guy is because everything is so fucking perfect and feel awesome when they do. Some jobs you do yourself and it makes sense. Some you don't. No one on this forum makes their own clothes and builds all their own furniture. It's wierd that this electrical thing is such a hot button.
Or if Steam card are involved. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Sometimes I really like you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
You got me.
It's not a hot button, though. No one thinks what you did was incorrect except Cheeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I can't wait until evolution eliminates whatever is in our DNA that compels us to keep arguing over nothing with him.
We all do it, though we all know better.
I think we all want to be the guy that finally fixes him.
To be that guy, the pride that would come with it. If I spent as much time studying electrical engineering as I've spent arguing with IP I totally would have installed that outlet myself.
its because you enjoy itQuote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
electrical engineering doesn't teach you anything about wiring a house. It just teaches you how and why the electrons flow through the wire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I learned how to do house wiring from my dad. Who learned it from a book and by doing it.
I learned how to appropriate time and money all by myself.
Cheeks was just advocating for you to know enough to tell if he did a good job and used good materials. I think.
I'm impressed with your ability to appropriate time. What is it like to be a God?Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
You have no idea what appropriate means do you?
tumblr teaches me a lesson on it at least 3 times a day. Its a very popular word these days.
Look at y'all arguing over electric outlets and shit. I got Astro Warrior (complete) for the Master System and you guys are fighting over McDonald's and wall outlets.
FUCKING ASTRO WARRIOR.
Get some perspective, fellas!
Remember who you're talking to
everyone here likes to argue. Don't pretend like it is one person. Dealing with me is as easy as not replying.
Of course I read reviews and watched as he set up, including opening a fresh plastic wrap box, wire box, fan brackets and outlets.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I went with somewhere around the fifth electrician we looked into.
I find it tough to remember what's what in this. Like, there's nothing about a Goomba that signifies "rook." Should've been a Thwomp or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
But the pieces smell really good.
the smell is important
A year or so ago, I happened across an NES that I was positive was NIB, but I couldn't prove it and the box was a little beat, so I sold it as used in box.
But when I first popped open that styrofoam, the smell that hit me sent me right back to when I was a kid opening my new Master System or Turbografx.
It's a shame modern electronics don't have that smell anymore.
What causes the difference in smell, the type of plastic?
If you got your receptacle installed and wire fished with labor for $65 you got a pretty smoking deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I've seen a lot of fucked up shit from people who think they know what they are doing from reading about it at Home Depot. Burning your house down because your too cheap for a pro is pretty damn dumb.
You chose wisely.
my guess is changes in manufacturing as time passes. All electronics from each period have their own smell. The inside of a Sega Master System smells different from the inside of a tube radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Its the parts.
and magic
mostly magic
no you haven't.Quote:
Originally Posted by SamuraiMoogle
electrical house fires are rare. And when they do happen, its normally old bare aluminum wiring from like the 20s.
Lastly, who the fuck figures out how to wire their house from home depo? There is so much shit online about wiring a house. And if you're building a house, shit still has to pass code.
Fuck, Josh can wire a basement, and it took me years to teach him how to balance a speaker load. What are you even talking about?
also, I just made coffee.
Where do you think you're posting again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I bet you didn't even bother growing, harvesting, or roasting the beans yourself.
What a rube.
That was something feasible to do in a couple of weeks. Shit, a couple of months, I probably would.
You're talking to a guy that doesn't have furniture in all of the rooms in his house because he either wants to build it or buy something just 'so' and at just the 'right' price. I'm not as big of a hypocrite on this as you might smugly assume.
I'm hiring Josh to do all my wiring and cheeks to do all my cooking. I expect great things.
Who said anything about building a house? It's the shit that people add later that's messed up. Who inspects that? If the shit turns on and works it's fine right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I'm not going to say it is ok to do a slock job. Don't try to backend me into the wrong side of the argument.
You're trying to say that there is only paying an expert or doing a horrible job by yourself. Thats not the case. You can in fact research something well enough to do a good job on your own.
This idea that only experts can do a good job might be the biggest thing I hate about my generation and those that came after. No one believes in themselves anymore. People all secretly think of themselves as stupid. Only experts can do. Those magical 'other' experts out there.
The difference between you and an expert is time and damns. How much time and damns have you given. And most things don't even require expert skill. Anyone can can wire a light or fix a sink.
There is also knowing that a professional is offering a price that makes their service better than DIY.
Yes, I agree 100%. The burning down the house thing is way extreme, but people can get easily hurt by doing a shit job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
My $5.99 Call of Duty: Ghosts arrived. Not bad for free shipping.
BC is straight up fronting here.
little money, but lots of time and damns mean it's not a good dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Chux
GS gives $25 for it. It's a win/win.
Tracking says mine got to my city yesterday and was handed off from UPS to the USPS. New expected delivery date? The 24th.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Also they sent me a $10 off $20+ coupon for ordering Ghosts and I used it to get Battlefield 4 for $18.
Nice.
WAIT
Did Astro Warrior get a solo release in the US? I thought it was always lumped in with Hang On.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
I have seen the solo one way more often locally than the Hang On combo.
found some games I got on the road while going to that mvpa thing a few weeks back.
cosmo tank -gb
Last Battle - gen
shadow dancer - gen
R type - gb
hyper lode runner - gb
Stinger - nes
all for 20.40
Is the Shadow Dancer complete? That alone goes for $20 nowadays.
It's also awesome.
Speaking of hauls, I got a 120 in 1 mvs cart. Between it and the 161 in 1 that allows me to play the majority of all the neo games I want without having a bookshelf full of carts. Neat.
Pirate pirate pirate!
Wtf is a pit pot?
nah, just all cartsQuote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I still collect cds and the occasional home cart but I give exactly zero fucks about mvs collecting these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
An overhead view action game where you smack enemies and collect treasure. It was a card release in Japan shortly after launch so it's one of the more simplistic titles on the system. PAL countries got the combo cart with Astro Warrior.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
That's basically what I've been saying for a few years now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
ON TOPIC: I got Abyss Odyssey on 360. I quite enjoy it.
I got Garden Warfare while it was on sale with my fakebucks. I like it so far.
From the Best Buy 3DS sale:
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Yoshis New Island
Mario Golf
Disney Magical World
My equivalent:
http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/170777b.jpg http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/170772b.jpg http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/803390b.jpg
$130 - $60 in sales - $8 for GCU - $25 in Reward certs = $37
Spyderco P'kal pocket knife and a new key clip.
Got a SUPER FANCY variable wattage electric cigarette after I sold this dude my Provari.
Variable wattage? Like for different countries or what?
The atomizers have different resistance. There are fixed and variable voltage cigarettes. Wattage = voltage squared divided by resistance. Variable voltage means you do math. Variable wattage means I don't have to do any math to get the power level that produces the best flavour from whatever liquid I'm using.
Exciting stuff, huh?
It's interesting! After I made that post I thought that it would probably tie into the strength being put out.
Mario Golf & Kirby Triple Deluxe for $35
http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/170847b.jpg http://www.gamestop.com/common/images/lbox/170846b.jpg
This is the type I use, can't even go back to the single voltage ones, it's pretty slick. 3.8 for when you want that flavor, 4.3 for when you want that burn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
My waiting finally paid off! I always wanted to try BattleBlock Theater but decided to wait for a sale (since every game seems to be getting a sale recently), and this month it's free!
And I did buy Magic 2015, $10 ain't bad.
Also blu rays: Ender's Game steelbook and Ted.
Copped Zelda LBW and Kirby from the Best Buy deal
My Best Buy was ravaged. Only Mario Party was left. No pro controllers, either.
People must have done in-store pickup orders right when the deal went live, because I had to strategically pick which of about seven locations around here to hit. The rest didn't have right combination in stock when I searched at about 10 this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
edit: Unless they (likely mistakenly) are trying to use the sale as a loss leader, I don 't understand the point of being short stock the minute they open on the first day of a sale.