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Arsenic Hipster

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  1. Worst I've gotten was a neo geo motherboard & cartridge from interstate. The cart was plugged into the board and the whole lot just shoved in one of those big paper envelopes. Not the ones with bubblewrap or some other padding just one of the heavy paper ones. A big circuitboard about 12" square and it wasn't mounted on anything for support yet the twit of a seller didn't see the need to bother with a box or any other form of packing to protect it apart from the envelope. He could have billed me for the box I would have been happy to pay an extra few dollars. Didn't even put a return address on it. When I got it the envelope was partly ripped open and it had clearly taken a beating but I couldn't see any damage to the board and it worked fine when plugged in.
  2. I know, figured it was worth a try though. Add some citronella and watch for the reaction as they realise it isn't just water.
  3. It'll be interesting to see how it works, I had actually asked the ranger about something like this but she had no idea about them. I did get a cheap dog whistle but a quick test with our dog had him pelting down the backyard straight at me and barking.
  4. Pretty sure the capsicum spray would get you into more trouble than you want. I vote give up the mail as a new dog toy. If they complain you were afraid when the dog/s charged and needed your hands free to ride away. As I mentioned before: http://cameras.shop.ebay.com.au/Video-Cameras-/11724/i.html?_catref=1&_fln=1&_ssn=buyitnowservice&_trksid=p3911.c0.m282 The MD80 clones are about the size of your thumb and the keyring ones a packet of Tic Tacs. Video quality is pretty average but will do the job, given the MicroSD card you put it in is worth more than the camera there isn't much to lose. Look around there are heaps of sellers on ebay, I can't remember which I used but I got 2 keyring ones and one of the others for about $24 shipped.
  5. Thing is I don't want to run over it, even being prepared doesn't remove the risk to me. I figured saying I will would surely get through to her, silly me. Our dog has no road sense either and on the few occasions he has gotten out tends to run at cars so we make sure the gates/doors are closed or he is on a leash. This woman gets fired up over the smallest thing but won't even make that small effort to stop it. Unfortunately for her dog at this point I'm just looking out for myself & my bike if it happens again. I've done what I can and I've documented it, combine that with her tendancy for crazy off topic ranting I'm covered in terms of the RSPCA etc getting involved, it'll just be a matter of how much damage she can do before the cops arrive. I considered getting out my old hockey sticks, It'd be like a new form of polo. :o
  6. Oh no, dogs and bikes. It really is the owners who need a smack in the head. I've had trouble occasionally with a neighbours dog, a vicious little Jack Russell thing that would come running out onto the road and run along with it's nose about 6 inches to the left of the front wheel. The owners never kept it on a leash and usually left their front door open, on most occasions they stood there watching it run after me and every time I tried to speak to them they'd tell me "It's fine, she's not on the road now" or "What's your problem, just get over it". We live in a court so I can't avoid going past their place and I'd tried to explain to them the dog could get hurt, I could get hurt, that motorcycle repairs are expensive even low speed accidents. Eventually I just told them I'll run it over on purpose, that way I'm ready for the bump and only one of us will get hurt, even that didn't get through to them. All I wanted was the dog on a leash and kept off the road. On the third visit to the local council I made another complaint then handed over a written copy detailing everything for the ranger and asking to be contacted about it. Next day the ranger called to tell me they'd visited the owner and she seemed to understand for the moment (she's not exactly stable). If it happens again I just need to write it down, get a stat dec and send that with my written complaint, then they will see if a fine helps it sink in. It seemed to work, we hadn't seen the dog for a few days when she turned up at the front door carrying on about reporting me to the RSPCA, I told her to go ahead if I hear from them I'll pass them on to the ranger. She switched to just screaming abuse and random nonsense while refusing to leave until my sister was on the phone to the cops (she was about to take our dog for a walk when it happened). The best bit was when her screaming set our dog off and she says "Are you going to set your dog on me now?" my reply was "No, see he can't reach you because he's on a leash like yours should be". 30mins after she left, 2 cops knocked on the door looking for me, she had gone home and reported me as being abusive (apparently she really hates it when you point your finger, like when you tell someone they aren't welcome and to get off your property. Apparently "it shows I'm abusive just like all men"). The cops were understanding and had dealt with her on other occasions, they didn't even want to see the video my brother took of her carrying on. They also told me the dog shouldn't be on the road and not to swerve and risk an accident, just run it over if you have to. They even agreed when I said in that case I would put the bike in the shed lock the gate and call them to notify the owner because I've seen her go off before and wouldn't be knocking on her door or stopping to check on the dog. The next day I called the ranger just to let her know what had happened and she said the same thing. On the up side I haven't seen the dog for months now, she must have learned. If someone else ran it over I'd have probably gotten another visit. My advice is since you've reported it, keep a copy of any photos and make a note of the details, along with any further encounters. Just in case it happens again. If it keeps happening you can get small helmet mountable cameras off ebay for under $15 shipped. I figure I just need video of the dog coming at me once and I'm covered if anything happens. Wow, first post in ages and I make it long one.
  7. I've occasionally considered building one or getting one of those small Atom 330 based things instead of a digital STB, replace that the VCR & the DVD player in one hit. But one thing I come across is almost everying has just VGA & HDMI as a video output. Problem is my TV is still an old analogue one (no intention of getting a new TV when this one works just fine) so I'm pretty sure I'm stuck with just composite for the video. What options would I have other than go larger so the motherboard has a PCIe slot for an old videocard I've got laying around?
  8. I had a look into it earlier in the year and thought the cost of the box set was a little extreme even for GW given the rulebook is outdated, you'll probably make your own board if you get into it and you only have 2 base teams of some pretty ancient miniatures. The blocking dice are the only ones you can't buy from any games shop for a few dollars, but they're just D6 with a special layout. Everything else you can either download & print out or bodge together from some paper/cardboard to get you started before investing in the miniatures. That said I've seen sets on ebay pretty cheap but they were missing the miniatures & blocking dice. games-workshop.com Look for specialist games then under blood bowl resources for rules although I can't remember if thats the most current version of the living rulebook. Another place worth a look might be boardgamegeek.com. Their picture galleries have some fantastic home made boards. Although I believe GW have occasionally set the Inquisition on them resulting in a purge of almost all downloads releated to their games including things like user created counters, and rules summaries of the specialist games stuff that is already available from their own site. I resorted to trying out the DS version of BB to get a feel/idea of what it's about but I haven't really taken to it. I believe it also uses the previous version of the rules. There is also Vassal a program for playing most board/tabletop games on your computer over the internet. It's not same but it seems to have modules available for almost any game from traditional board/card games to Warhammer, 40k, Warmachine etc. It basically provides you with a chat room, a top down version of the board, markers for things like counters, miniatures etc and tools for rulers & dice. You still need your own rule/source books though since it doesn't actually implement or enforce any of the rules. I have used it to sit in as a spectator on other peoples games and see how it works. There is always the chance they'll update Blood Bowl like they did for Space Hulk, but that had a pretty limited release despite it's popularity so I wouldn't hold my breath.
  9. They seem to have left out some bits of the process. Step 1: Decide to give it a crack. Step 2: Obtain machine. Steps 3 - 467: Lots of screwing around with camera and machines, while beating the record. Step 468: Put up with 2 creepy weirdos turning up at your house while you're not home and hassling your family until they're allowed inside to disassemble your machine. Step 469: Travel to/across America to do it again in front of more weirdos because they don't believe you. Step 470: Lose title when an old lady turns up and delivers a grainy videotape that obscures the score at the moment it ticks over and Billy Mitchel beats your record. Step 471: Realise how shonky the whole thing is and go have fun playing games. King of Kong is definitly worth a watch. I understand there is more to it than what the movie shows or how the movie shows it but it's amazing how bitchy and clingy some of those people were over the whole thing. Billy Mitchell/his mullet seems like an absolute jerk and his fan club, that Brian Kuh guy was just as bad. The film really needed a shot with: Kuh - "Hey just letting you know there is a potential Donkey Kong kill screen coming up!" Random person - "Can't you see I'm playing ____? Piss off wanker!"
  10. They called one time and mum handed me the phone to see what they plan was since at the time we were still on dialup. The lady told me the cost of their base plan they wanted to start us out on then when I asked about excess useage being billed or the speed capped she quickly ran off the price then continued telling me about all the benefits. Since I was doing some homework and had my calculator in front of me I did some quick sums while she prattled on. When she got to the end and asked if we wanted to proceed with the connection I pointed out that the based on our current dialup useage the excess charges would be double the monthly cost, probably more since the increased speed will lead to increased usage. She didn't miss a beat and just started on how after the first month we can increase our plan. "No thank's we're not interested" and hung up. 2 weeks later dad answers the phone and agrees they can send us a starter pack and shitty modem despite my telling him we don't want anything to do with Telstra. When a box labeled Telstra arrived a few days later I called them up to see what address to return it to they insisted that we should: "Try it for a month then you can return it if you aren't happy" "No thanks I've looked over your plans, we aren't interested. I have no intention of opening the box, where do I return it?" Same reply so I hung up, later while I was down the street I dropped into the Telstra shop. Plonked the box on the desk and told them "This is your. We aren't interested and the person on the phone wouldn't tell me where to return it." They've never called back.
  11. HAHAHA! Mind blown. That would be awesome. Hell Disney/Pixar could churn out a whole series or even just the really successful ones like Cars. Aside from the already mentioned problems of limited market and changing fads the problem with some things like TMNT or Transformers is that there have been different versions over the years, some better than others. They'll never pick the right one because they'll never please everyone. Transformers for example would probably have been a movie tie in (Michael Bay dropped his matchbox cars in a blender) rather than one of the animated series. Even doing an animated series would have been a minefield. Which series? Beast Wars, Armada, G1 one of the others (I remember G1 and that's about it). They'll all have their fans and nostalgia buffs who'll love one and hate the others. A combination of them all would probably be a mess.
  12. Jaycar, it's Dick Smith with less toys and people who actually know something. They've moved back out to their old place, corner of Ring road and Sturt st
  13. I'm not sure about in mame, I haven't even updated it a version that runs CPS3 (Street fighter 3 mainly). You might have to try out other emulators or even Dreamcast ones. I did try out nullDC a while ago for Ikaruga and it was playable but on the second level it wasn't drawing some of the bullets, which made it pot luck unless you've remembered the bullet colours/sequences from somewhere else. I'm sure it's been updated since I last used it but I don't know if that has been fixed. Not long afterwards I picked up a cheap Dreamcast so I wasn't really concerned with emulation. I think the nullDC people moved onto a Naomi emulator (arcade hardware based on the DC) so there may have been progress with the arcade version instead. Someone here was keeping tabs on it. Try doing a search of the forums or google.
  14. Too bad it doesn't apply to anyone they've bought out. We joined up with Netconnect years ago when they were based here. If anything went wrong I could just walk into their main office and start asking questions. Although we rarely had a problem. Since then they've become Chariot Netconnect and their only office is somewhere in Adelaide, their website proudly states they are wholly owned by TPG and I absolutely refuse to deal with either company again. If anything goes wrong Dad can sort it out with them and he has no idea. Our connection got progressively worse over about a month I'd called them early on and they had me adjust some modem settings but it didn't help. Eventually it reached the point where every day it would drop out 5 mins either side of 6:30pm and continue dropping out and reconnecting every 2 mins or so until around 2am. In other words it was useless for 1/3 of every day. This went on for a month, I spent hours on the phone going through it with their tech support, repeatedly explained the router works fine for the local networks both ethernet and wireless it's the adsl thats disconnecting. "No, it's not the OS (XP, Vista, and Linux) the problem occurs regardless, I've updated the firmware and tried every combination (the 2 phone wall plugs in the house, with and without the phone connected, 2 different filters, even bought a different brand modem, every possible combination). Nothing fixed the problem. At one point they tried to claim the street lights were causing the problem (nearest one is half a block away), or a TV station (I'm pretty sure RF interference strong enough to screw up what's in a copper phone line is going to knock out the whole block as well as TV, radio etc). On one occasion the first thing I told the person on the phone was that it was a repeat problem, it was clear they were unable to help me and I'd like to talk to a supervisor or level 2 support or whoever fixes the problems they can't, 45mins on hold then I got to speak to someone who just spun me a load of lies and BS. When I called the TPG head office number on the netconnect website and explainted they had been no help I wanted to speak to someone there the secretary just transferred me to the same call center retards I'd been dealing with. At one point they told me their equipment shows our modem is connected and working normally and has been for the past 2 hours. I then pointed out that it was some sort of miracle since the modem was sitting on the kitchen table in front of me and hadn't been plugged into either the phone line or power for the last 45 minutes. 4 times they were supposed to arrange for a telstra tech to come out and check the line and every time they cancelled it the following day claiming there was no problem. They just didn't mention that until you rang up, went through the whole troubleshooting process again and asked what the results from the telstra tech were. We eventually called Telstra ourselves and were told they'd had no contact from netconnect about faults on our line for over 18 months. 8:30am the next morning telstra sent someone around who fixed the problem (bodgy, corroded connection outside the house) after I called to see about a refund/discout on the last month of disruption netconnect told me I'd have to wait and observe the connection now that they had fixed it. I pointed out I'd already spent over a month waiting while they did nothing and we were the ones who called telstra and had it fixed. They insisted that couldn't be true because telstra won't do anything unless they contacted them with a fault report despite the fact she had just admitted they had cancelled all the reports and never contacted telstra. It was like talking to a brick wall, so I gave up on the refund and was all set to change providers (That Whirlpool search thingy is great) to one with a local office I can get stuck into face to face if I have to. Similar plan too but dad insisted we wait and see: "What if the problem is still there when we change?" "Well they can't be any worse trying to fix it, besides if we pay a month up front they'll accept cash instead of a credit card. If it stops working we stop paying. Simple." But no, he insisted. So were still with them and instead I've handed him all the passwords and keys to the modem & network and refuse to have anything to do internet access problems. We've since had the occasional problem that is fixed by turning the modem off for 30 sec but I refuse to even do that. "Not my problem, you wanted to stay, it's your credit card, if it stops working I stop paying my share." Worst case I'll take my laptop and go down to the local library. Wow! That did end up being long, then again from the first sign of a probem to giving up on the refund was nearly 2.5 months. Too long, didn't read version: Avoid Chariot Netconnect and probably TPG since they own them.
  15. Romantic vampire crap, werewolf? *Remembers the rubbish that seems to have filled bookshops lately* Did you just suggest some sort of Twilight pinball machine? I think you did. Doing stuff like that you'll end up wishing pinball was dead. *Point's to door* You can have a head start. *Racks shotgun*
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