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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 22, 2016 8:46:19 GMT -5
Going tv shopping tomorrow lmao, gonna ipgrade in size i think. Found a 44 inch for $299 AU but might go bigger not sure Keep in mind the size and layout of the room you're putting it in. Obviously everyone has personal tastes about optimal view experiences and some folks just want the biggest TV they can get regardless (my Brother is like that - has a 70" TV in a 10 foot by 10 foot room - I personally think that's way too big for the room - he loves it though), but a giant TV in an average sized room can be overpowering, especially if you're going to be sitting less than six feet or so from the screen. Generally though, you're probably good in the 35 - 48 inch range for just about any room.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 22, 2016 8:35:27 GMT -5
Never EVER buy a TV on black Friday and expect it to be of any quality. The reason they can sell those things so cheap is because most of them are made with the cheapest parts they can find. My Brother used to work the electronics department at Sears and talked to loads of reps from various manufacturers over his years there. Those deals might seem enticing, but you really do get what you pay for when it comes to Black Friday deals. FYI, if anyone's in the market for a TV, the three best brands you can buy are Sony, Samsung, and Sharp. Those three are generally considered your top tier televisions. LG and Panasonic are just a notch below those and you really can't go wrong buying either if you can't afford one of the three top brands. Vizio isn't bad if you're on a budget, but you should probably spring for something better if you can. Most of the lesser known brands are pretty well trash. Yeah, they might work fine for a bit or be great for a guest room TV, but the quality difference will definitely be noticeable. I do believe that black friday deals are not the best value items but they are cheap. I've purchased Samsung tvs and Westinghouse on Black Friday and those work fine with out any issues. Would you say the PS4s and Nintendos and Xboxs sold on Black Friday are also inferior products? Well, I should sort of take back what I said a bit. Didn't mean to dissuade anyone from taking up a good deal on a TV on Black Friday. Only meant to infer that they won't be of the same quality as if you bought the same TV in July. You're still gonna be totally alright with a Samsung, Sony, Sharp, LG, or Panasonic at a super sale like that. It's the inferior brands to begin with that go even cheaper, often reusing parts from TVs sent back for being defective. Actually the best time to buy a new TV is in either March or the weeks leading up to Black Friday. New models are introduced at the International Consumer Electronics show in January and usually start going on sale right around April, which means that lots of stores will start to have blow-out sales on last years model TVs in March in order to make room for new inventory. Kind of the same principle in effect during early and mid November. Stores wanting to clear shelves in anticipation of Black Friday inventory needing space. Nope. Not at all. Black Friday and Cyber Monday (the Monday following Black Friday) are excellent times to buy a new video game system. And they're the same quality systems you'd get any other time of year. Generally, video game companies don't make a great deal of money on systems themselves. It's the games where they make the money (and lots of it too). The reason they sell those systems so cheap on Black Friday is because it means there's more people that will buy games, usually multiple games. More users equals more games sold which equals more money. For what it's worth, there's a real simple trick to getting a video game system to last longer (particularly modern ones). Just unplug it when you're not using it. I've done this since the NES days and never had an issue with a game system dying on me despite very heavy use. Of course, unplugging it every time you switch it off isn't always possible depending on how you have things set up or if you use it a lot (I tend to play sporadically - playing a lot for a few weeks, then not using it at all for a month or so). And with the advent of modern systems being more of an all-in one set-top box with streaming movies, internet, and whatnot it's not always practical to unplug all the time either. I'd highly recommend unplugging older, game system only style consoles when you're not using them, but with the modern PS4 and Xbox One systems, they're kinda made with the idea to be on all the time.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 21, 2016 22:25:06 GMT -5
Anyone have an idea when the new mystery minis will be out? No official word yet. I'd suspect sometime in August or September.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 21, 2016 11:10:33 GMT -5
Do SDCC Hot Topic exclusives eventually make there way to stores? Their site has them for sale, but I don't want to order any if I can hunt them later. Should be in stores starting... like, now.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 21, 2016 3:34:56 GMT -5
What Brand Tv was it? I bought an Element brand tv at Target for black friday once. No more than 6 months later and it broke. I was lucky in the sense that since it broke no more than 1 year since it was manufactured the warranty on it was still good so it was replaced. Never EVER buy a TV on black Friday and expect it to be of any quality. The reason they can sell those things so cheap is because most of them are made with the cheapest parts they can find. My Brother used to work the electronics department at Sears and talked to loads of reps from various manufacturers over his years there. Those deals might seem enticing, but you really do get what you pay for when it comes to Black Friday deals. FYI, if anyone's in the market for a TV, the three best brands you can buy are Sony, Samsung, and Sharp. Those three are generally considered your top tier televisions. LG and Panasonic are just a notch below those and you really can't go wrong buying either if you can't afford one of the three top brands. Vizio isn't bad if you're on a budget, but you should probably spring for something better if you can. Most of the lesser known brands are pretty well trash. Yeah, they might work fine for a bit or be great for a guest room TV, but the quality difference will definitely be noticeable.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 19, 2016 23:08:58 GMT -5
You know this is done on purpose right? Modern technology gadgets are specifically made to fail after so long in order to get you to buy a new one every so often. Could they make them last longer? Absolutely. But, if they did that, you wouldn't have to buy new ones and they'd make less profit. Why make something you'll only buy one of every ten years when they can make it so you have to buy two or three of them in the same time frame.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 11, 2016 23:57:19 GMT -5
DVR all the way. Can't stand to sit through that many commercials.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 10, 2016 22:55:48 GMT -5
Love Stephen King. Actually have an almost complete set of his books in hardcover (everything but The Dark Tower series, which I wasn't able to get into back when I tried the first one, but have been meaning to try again). Been thinking about converting to paperback editions for them in the interest of saving space (because I plan on living in a tiny house one day and don't want to just get rid of my Stephen King books).
Say what you will about Mr. King - he's a bit wordy at times and doesn't diversify his conversation descriptors enough IMO - but nobody knows how to tell a story quite like him. I actually just finished reading the Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercades, Finders Keepers, and End Of Watch). Not quite as good as his classic stuff, but still miles better that most of the crap that passes for fiction these days. Some of my favorites of his are...
The Stand The Tommyknockers Bag of Bones The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Under The Dome Dolores Claiborne Gerald's Game Misery The Shining The Green Mile Just about any of his short story collections
Film and TV adaptations have been largely hit or miss, but I've really enjoyed The Stand (TV mini-series), The Mist, Misery, Carrie, Dreamcatcher... And, of course, The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile are both absolute classics.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jul 1, 2016 22:37:06 GMT -5
Thanks guys. So if I select First Class when listing on eBay, I will be able to print the shipping label through PayPal? Is First Class available for larger packages? Is it always considerably cheaper than Prioroty? First class is anything under 13 ounces. Nope. They changed that earlier this year. It's up to 15.9 ounces now.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 30, 2016 23:48:38 GMT -5
First class is available for any package up to 15.9 ounces in weight. And yes, it will always be cheaper than Priority (at least it has been in my experience).
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 30, 2016 8:45:21 GMT -5
Gah! That's how you're gonna end the season!?! Curses and expletives!!!
Seriously, Netflix should do a season every six months. I'm totally reinvested now. Kinda lost me in Season 3, but Season 4 definitely brought me right back.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 28, 2016 22:51:42 GMT -5
I was so disappointed in Season 3 of this show. Got four episodes left in Season 4 and am happy to say that it's already way better than last season.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 15, 2016 8:51:37 GMT -5
I don't want to be "that guy".....but does anybody else just HATE Showcases and historical matches? I'm sorry, but I just don't get any thrill or enjoyment out of replaying matches from history that I lived through, watched, and know how they end. It's not even like you get to make your own choices, like maybe they have you reverse history and have Undertaker defeat Brock Lesnar and save the Streak.....but to just go through the motions of a match that has a set outcome....might as well just pop in the DVD because the player literally has no bearing on the outcome. In my opinion, they need to go back to having original storylines where what the player does actually has an impact on the story. And I know some people are going to be like "that's what career mode is for"....yeah,you're right, but I want to be a WWE Superstar, not a CAW. I want to be able to be my favorite wrestler and have matches and be put in situations where I don't know the outcome. That would be like buying a baseball or a football came and they make you replay a previous season where you already know which games you won or lost.....how is that fun? Anybody else have any thoughts on this? I simply could not agree with you more. So tired of the replaying history stuff. I loved the original stories they had for a few years running back in the SmackDown vs RAW days. Hell, I even enjoyed playing the yearly John Cena story in those (and I'm definitely NOT a John Cena fan). They were fun and original. Far better than basically killing time with a few moves until the next quick time event while basically watching a past match. If I wanted to watch classic matches, I'd log on the WWE Network.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 15, 2016 8:30:09 GMT -5
Like most here, I don't particularly care for the idea of two major events each month. However, it could work IF they make danged sure that each brand offers something unique. RAW can be the more traditional sports entertainment style of WWE, while SmackDown could be far more wrestling focused (much like NXT or ROH with WWE production values). Giving them each a unique visual aesthetic would be a great idea as well. Basically, they need to make sure fans don't feel like they're watching the same show each time. Just having different faces on the screen isn't enough.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 13, 2016 21:09:46 GMT -5
I've seen things in life I can't explain through modern scientific "fact". Seen enough of them to know that there's something going on in life and death that we don't have the ability, desire, or need to understand completely. At least not yet. There's a lot about this world (and I'd imagine other worlds out there in the universe) that simply can't be explained with the scientific knowledge or religious faith we have. And it's not really meant to be understood by us lowly humans. At least not yet. Maybe someday in the distant future we will. That is, assuming we don't destroy ourselves or our planet beforehand.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 3, 2016 19:00:17 GMT -5
Sad to see so many people naming Sheamus as one of the worst MITB winners. I firmly believe they had plans for him and a title run later on, but Rollins getting injured forced their hand and they scrambled for something... anything ...to make Reigns a true face champion. Sheamus was nothing more than bad timing with an injury to a top star.
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Post by Quazimoto on Jun 3, 2016 15:19:43 GMT -5
About damn time, they've needed a uniform overhaul for 15 years now. Kinda like the old logo better I think (not that this new one is bad at all), but the Panthers definitely needed a uniform reworking. Overall it's a nicely designed jersey. I'm assuming the pants will be the dark blue like in the shield...
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Post by Quazimoto on May 30, 2016 17:41:33 GMT -5
Having any superstar, champion or not, appear on both shows means this brand split is doomed from the start. Why bother with the brand split at all? It didn't work back in 2002 and it won't work now. If you want two rosters to have different feels, which is frankly the only reason to do a brand split at all, you need to have two champions. It needs to be run like two different companies most of the time (ie aside from the occasional jointly hosted event, ala ROH and New Japan's War Of The Worlds.
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Post by Quazimoto on May 26, 2016 7:38:40 GMT -5
Totally jealous! Those three playsets are on my wishlist... someday I'll find the right combination of spare funds and good price. LOL. Eyeballing the shark that's 100% for 70 ish. I'm slowly chipping away at what I need. I'm just not looking forward to the laser beasts. Those are averaging $40-50 a pop. If you got the funds, grab that Shark set for $70. I rarely see any of the playsets that are 100% complete, especially not for under $100. I know right... I'm not even going to bother with the Laser Beasts myself. Just out of my budget completely. Some of them can easily hit three digits each.
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Post by Quazimoto on May 25, 2016 22:40:16 GMT -5
Got a beetle playset that's only missing the double barrel gun. Not bad for $50 Totally jealous! Those three playsets are on my wishlist... someday I'll find the right combination of spare funds and good price. LOL.
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