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[Anomnomnomaly]

On 1/3/2020 at 6:52 PM, handymanshandle said:

I guess it's official: I'm collecting Gran Turismo obscurities, starting with the First Preview demo of Gran Turismo 4.

I haven't played a GT game since the PS2... can't remember which one. But I do remember entering a GT tournament for the original PSX game and coming second... the only races I lost were to the guy who went on to win. We both exclusively used the green Mitsi FTO you could win. 

[Anomnomnomaly]

Bought this a few days ago

 

I'd had a price alert set up on camelcamelcamel for when it dropped below £60 and it did just that at £57... I've since received price drop alerts each day as it goes down further... it's now sitting at just £50

 

It turned up today, so this evening I got it out.. plugged it in... and it's DOA. 

 

 

So back it goes... and by the time I get a refund and order a replacement... I'm betting the price will have rocketed back up again.

 

 

Typical of my luck.... I ordered two pairs of moccasins last week (I wear them around the house and for driving)... they showed up Friday, went to wear a pair today and on one a lace snapped (crappy leather one, not a proper lace and I recalled I had to swap them out on an old pair too) and the second pair were the wrong colour.... navy blue instead of black.

 

So tomorrow I have to arrange to send back two items... and order some new laces.

 

 

Not a great start to the year... but at least I got an extra Toblerone, which is nice.  (It's a tradition, my mum buys me a toblerone every xmas, this year a friend of the family also got me one)

[MEC-777]

Additional ram for the NAS.

 

[PhantomJaguarr]

When you finally have a rig to play the game and it's during the same time a Netflix adaption of the beloved character is released. 

 

 

[Ross Siggers]

Google gave me a 100% discount code to get one of these. Technically its still a purchase though  

[Lady Fitzgerald]

43 minutes ago, Ross Siggers said:

Google gave me a 100% discount code to get one of these. Technically its still a purchase though  

Oh, you paid for it (in losing any semblance of privacy you ever had).

[Beerzerker]

1 hour ago, Ross Siggers said:

Google gave me a 100% discount code to get one of these. Technically its still a purchase though  

 

Yep - Have to agree he paid for it and will continue doing so for as long as it's around.

 

To me it's beyond odd that something that's long been proven as bad is now the "In" thing.

That something being Alexa.
Alexa has been known for a very long time now as spyware and was created for that purpose, still serves as such and yet it's now what's being touted as an acceptable if not desirable feature with all this "Smart" stuff.

 

Proves with good marketing you can sell anything.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, Beerzerker said:

...Proves with good marketing you can sell anything.

No kidding. Remember the Pet Rock?

[Ross Siggers]

I use Google assistant on my phone all the time for basic questions like currency conversion, and playing music from my Google music account, I would have the same sort of use case for this. And when I'm not actively interacting with it I'd probably switch off the mic. 

 

But hey, way to be passive aggressive and talk about me, as if I'm not literally getting notifications. Clearly you're better people than I am. 

 

This thread is to look at, and appreciating other people's purchases, not to shit on them. 

 

 

[PlayStation 2]

Meh, might as well take advantage of a free one of these fuckers while I have it.

And considering that mine was made a year and a half ago, it's easy to understand why it was free.

[Bitter]

Details about  EVGA 650 GQ, 80+ Gold 650W, Semi Modular, ECO Mode, Power Supply 210-GQ-0650-V1 with a missing molex (who needs molex anyway?!) for $75 shipped for my friends budget gaming PC build. It's all shaping up to be a decent PC, unlike the last one I built her very cheaply but with all new parts. $400 build vs a $500 build but used/open box parts carefully picked for best value vs what's cheap and new because I don't know much better. What a difference a decade makes, eh?

[Guest]

 

Recent purchase dump.

[Tonberry]

My CPU block and an additional pair of Quantum Torque 90 fitting just arrived.

In real life these fittings are bigger than I anticipated, they're fat.

[Retro_R]

A week or two ago, I bought myself a hue light strip so i can sync it up with my pc via aura sync (Which kinda works, although its a bit off and flat out doesn't work with certain modes, particularly the music mode which I was hoping would work well). I also went to nyc where I went out and bought a pair of Airpods Pros at the 5th Ave store, or the cube (Which are soooooo much better than the regular airpods imo). I also popped on over to the Nintendo store where I got a copy of breath of the wild and a Mario pin.

 

Light in pic provided by hue lightstrip

[PlayStation 2]

Fuck. I think I'm actually trying to become a Gran Turismo collector. Blame the First Preview demo, the Southeast Asia release of GT3 and the GT3 Replay Theater demo I'm bidding on for this.

I'll let y'all know if I win it.

[Derkoli]

Small backstory behind more audio crap.

 

I work as a surround sound mastering engineer, and I've decided to start to work from home, I do have a 7 channel setup right now at home, but I need atmos, and I want atleast 9.2.4, so my 11 channel processor and 11 channel amp just were not cutting it, Hence more audio gear, also another power conditioner as I don't have enough outlets, And yes, the new processor gives me 32 channels of audio, fully and properly processed, no upscaling.

 

 

 

 

 

Yay more stuff to setup

[PlayStation 2]

welp

$33.89 later, I decided to buy a Gran Turismo 3 demo. Fucking finally.

[DildorTheDecent]

A whoosh and some  zoomy bois.

[Chrizl1990]

On 11/6/2017 at 6:49 PM, FloRolf said:

Got these new suckers! Bought them used but only half a year old from a total audiohead. 

It was actually a total pain in the arse to get them in my rather small car so my brother in law had to come get them for me and he drove them home to me an hour, lol. 

 

Anyways, they are freaking huge (TV is 60") and the base is incredible, so much that I don't need a sub anymore for my home theater. 

 

I also got the RP440C Center speaker with them but it isn't installed yet, as my TV stand is too small, Kek. 

I love the thrustmaster Wheel and what looks like T500 pedals set

[TVwazhere]

On 1/1/2020 at 7:43 PM, Anomnomnomaly said:

FFS, do NOT sit on it then. 

On 1/1/2020 at 7:44 PM, jasonvp said:

I've stood on it.

 

On 1/7/2020 at 2:16 PM, valdyrgramr said:

Had it on XBO awhile ago, but sold that off earlier this year.  Got a GOW PS4 Pro for cheap, and my fiancee wanted the exclusive edition on PS4.  So, second Valentines day gift to her.

DLC in two weeks!!

[Derkoli]

Seen as I'm starting to work from home, I decided I needed a new DAW, so here it is. Thanks to @boggy77 for the help with the components

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/XtzcMc

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor  (£719.99 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H150i PRO 47.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£149.97 @ Amazon UK)
Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1 3.5 g Thermal Paste  (£6.74 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£284.95 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£421.61 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£229.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card  (£1190.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2 ATX Full Tower Case  (£236.51 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: BitFenix Formula Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (£92.99 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  (£48.00 @ Amazon UK)
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster AE-9 32-bit 384 kHz Sound Card
Monitor: Samsung C32HG70 31.5" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£459.99 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: Samsung C32HG70 31.5" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£459.99 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: Samsung C32HG70 31.5" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor  (£459.99 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Logitech G213 PRODIGY Wired Gaming Keyboard  (£92.99 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Logitech MX MASTER 2S (Black) Wireless Laser Mouse  (£95.32 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £4949.02
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-10 16:39 GMT+0000

 

Yes, it has a sound card, Needed a Microphone input, and that was the easiest way.

 

Also, new network switch:

 

[FloRolf]

2 hours ago, Chrizl1990 said:

I love the thrustmaster Wheel and what looks like T500 pedals set

It's a T500RS wheel and pedals as well as the TH-8A 7-speed Shifter. Love it but I don't use it enough and only for Project Cars 2

1 hour ago, Derkoli said:

Also, new network switch:

 

Why do you need a 50 port switch at home? lol

[Derkoli]

4 hours ago, FloRolf said:

It's a T500RS wheel and pedals as well as the TH-8A 7-speed Shifter. Love it but I don't use it enough. 

 

Why do you need a 50 port switch at home? lol

Honestly, I don't, I need about 20, but the price was decent, and I like NETGEAR stuff, I should've got the 24 port version, but I guess if I ever get more stuff, I've got the capacity to facilitate it.

[MEC-777]

Ordered the ram for my new build. Wanted to get it before prices supposedly go up as some are predicting.

 

[ProfBrown]

Ordered a Samsung 860 evo 1tb m.2 today on amazon for 120 usd. My Crucial MX500 1tb m.2 failed on me after under 8 months. It fell victim to intermittent communication issues with the system (seems to be a somewhat common issue) which required it to be re-seated every time it stopped talking properly. Only way crucial would help me out was an RMA, and their way meant they would need to receive the drive, check it out, then send me another if it met their requirements... not about ready to sit out for a month for them to gander at a broken part. Bit the bullet and got a better one. Seems it was on sale too, so I guess silver linings? 
 

This is my mass storage drive, for all my games and whatever else for school or what not. So no gaming till Sunday late at the earliest but more like money. Gotta re download over 300gbs or games. Darn you crucial lmao!