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Discussion in 'Video Game and Fantasy Football Board' started by Jeffrey Lebowski, Dec 21, 2012.

  1. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    Delivered into my neighbor's open garage. The digits in our addresses are not similar and the dipshit driver skipped the signature part
     
  2. jplaYa

    jplaYa CHAMPZY/SMOLTZY/CHELSEA
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    Glad you found it. That would be terrifying
     
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  3. ButchCassidy

    ButchCassidy Well-Known Member
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    whew, as long as you received it. That's still a shitty/stressful situation.
     
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  4. PeterGriffin

    PeterGriffin Iced and/or sweet tea is for dirty rednecks.
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    Very presumptive, what if the neighbor is a huge asshole?
     
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  5. jplaYa

    jplaYa CHAMPZY/SMOLTZY/CHELSEA
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    He told him right?
     
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  6. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    Nah he walked into his garage apparently and was like "uhh what"

    The driver just hit "confirmed ID" for the signature or something instead of actually having someone sign
     
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  7. PeterGriffin

    PeterGriffin Iced and/or sweet tea is for dirty rednecks.
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    Enjoy the new machine!
     
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  8. ButchCassidy

    ButchCassidy Well-Known Member
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    My PS5 was dropped on my doorstep. No bell ring or signature required. Luckily I was home and watching out the window the whole day.

    Would have been pissed if they just dropped it at the wrong house without making somebody sign.
     
  9. Det. Frank Bullitt

    Det. Frank Bullitt God Bless Texas
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    some packages have tracking which creates a notification upon delivery (amazon for example, sometimes I even get a photo of it sitting on my porch)...but the fact that they don't bother ringing or knocking is confusing.

    Not everyone has the app or has notifications turned on... seriously just ring the doorbell, even if you are running back to your truck.
     
  10. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    The cable management looks nice but it just took 25 minutes to untangle this shit to add my ssd
     
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  11. jplaYa

    jplaYa CHAMPZY/SMOLTZY/CHELSEA
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    Looked*
     
  12. Det. Frank Bullitt

    Det. Frank Bullitt God Bless Texas
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    Even famed consumer friendly retailer Monoprice is getting in on the gauging.


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  13. Det. Frank Bullitt

    Det. Frank Bullitt God Bless Texas
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    TBH, I would guess a manager etc overrides this. Surely they won't attempt to price like this.
     
  14. Killy Me Please

    Killy Me Please I lift things up and put people down.
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    To my dearest love,

    It's been thirteen days of business full since I last spoke of exuberance whilst purchasing the most pleasant computational machines known to mankind. As the joyous tears shed down my moonlit skin that fine evening, whomst among the present could muster a thought troubling our spirits. But alas, I must admit a touch of trepidation in the face of catastrophe. Grit withering like your dandelion wishes flurrying into the blue skies those lovely saturdays on your fathers farm. Oh how i cherish the memories of your scolding remarks of doubt in my late purchases. But I shall see this thru. Stand firm if you will. Against all odds good or foe, i must hold composure still. For the battles waged with superior resources could turn the tides of war.

    I must go now and return to my chambers to tell a thumper to the lads. They musn't learn of this distress.

    Your love, Killy
     
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  15. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    144hz is the shit and I should have bought one of these monitors years ago
     
  16. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    Yeah it rules
     
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  17. Andy Reocho

    Andy Reocho Please don't get lost in the sauce
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    CIV 6 is on big sale on Epic if anyone needs/wants
     
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  18. Odin

    Odin social distancing since 1990
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    i keep having mouse problems. my THIRD logitech g502 have problems with left click having issues sending a constant signal after a few months of use. any idea if there's a fix for this? any recs for a mouse with at least 5 side buttons?
     
  19. Doug

    Doug Skeptical Doug-o
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    I've been using the g600 for a few weeks now and really like it.
     
  20. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    I've had one for about 5 years with zero issues
     
  21. BlazingRebel

    BlazingRebel Dog Crew Founder Migraine Connoisseur
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    Had my 502 for about 2 years no issues, that sucks man
     
  22. One Knight

    One Knight https://www.twitch.tv/thatrescueguy
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    Finally broke down and bought Disco Elysium today when Final Cut released.
    Excited to get into it.
     
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  23. jplaYa

    jplaYa CHAMPZY/SMOLTZY/CHELSEA
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    Ive watched Cohh stream it the past 2 days and the VA is incredible. It’s hilarious and disturbing and enthralling and you can’t look away. Kudos to ZA/UM as they hit it out of the park with the VA
     
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  24. One Knight

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    Yeah, some of my favorite games are that way because of the VA, Supergiant games as a good example.
    The VA is definitely what drew me to the game, that's the main reason I waited for Final Cut.
     
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  25. BlazingRebel

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  26. One Knight

    One Knight https://www.twitch.tv/thatrescueguy
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    How are you liking this system?
    My rig will be 5 years old in June, need something new and want to build but don't think I want to wait for GPU issues to resolve themselves.
     
  27. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    I had to activate windows without a key, which should have been done on their end, but it was really simple. Performance-wise, build quality, all that's great. The brightness of the rgb fans is kind of obnoxious but it doesn't bother me really
     
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  28. ButchCassidy

    ButchCassidy Well-Known Member
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    You should be able to download some software to change the RGB stuff. My fans are corsair, do you know what you have?
     
  29. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    Whatever came with the machine. The port on the motherboard labeled "rgb control" didn't have anything connected to it so o figured I couldn't do anything with it. It's not a big deal, it just looks kind of gimmicky
     
  30. One Knight

    One Knight https://www.twitch.tv/thatrescueguy
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    Is it even possible to get regularly-priced GPUs these days, like following Twitter accounts for stock drops, PS5 style, or are they all price-gouged to hell everywhere?
     
  31. ButchCassidy

    ButchCassidy Well-Known Member
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    Newegg has gone the GameStop route and offers them as bundles. Will have to get really lucky to find one at MSRP.
     
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  32. One Knight

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    Figured that was the case, thanks man, didn't think about the bundle thing, will check NE
     
  33. ButchCassidy

    ButchCassidy Well-Known Member
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    When I looked they were mostly selling them with motherboard. Maybe you could re-sell the board? The only thing that wasn't sold in a bundle was a 3060. Nobody wants that! lol
     
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  34. lazy bum

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    More difficult than PS5 I think. You can get a 3070 or 3080 in a premade computer from I buy power/Dell/etc that may ship in June or July but you get the rest of their components to try to sell off (unless you want them) and try to decrease your overpay...but you’re still going to come out paying significantly more than MRSP.

    I just lucked my way into getting a 3070 from someone I know locally who went that route with a Dell and has now found themselves a 3080. Now getting the rest of my stuff together to rebuild. My regret for selling my 1080TI last fall when I thought I’d be able to order a 3080 when I decided to rebuild is high.
     
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  35. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    :idk: my 3060 has been great for 1080p
     
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  36. lazy bum

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    I’ve been running my laptop that has a 1070 and it’s still fine for 1080p, but it’s struggling with 1440p and really showing it’s age with my ultra wide 1440p monitor.

    But if you’re still using 1080p monitors the 3060/3060ti would be plenty I’d think. But still difficult to get. Hell, you can’t get a 1000 series easily these days.
     
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  37. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    i have gigabit internet now. the wired connection is fine and more or less as advertised. the wireless signal is comically bad. the room where the cat5 cable comes into the house is one wall away and maybe 15 feet total from where my pc sits. i already bought a signal booster and tested that, no change. sometimes i get like 100mbs wireless, sometimes less than 10. average probably 35-40. extremely frustrating.

    where do i go from here? buy my own router i'm guessing
     
  38. Jeffrey Lebowski

    Jeffrey Lebowski Obviously you're not a golfer
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    is your router broadcasting and does your wifi card support 802.11ac? Connecting on 5ghz radio?
     
  39. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    Run a wire ffs. If you don’t do that get a mesh wifi.
     
  40. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    Yes and yes. 5ghz vs 2.4ghz doesn't explain the speed drop off over 15 feet. When I set my phone physically next to the router I get like 600mbps on wifi

    The connection strength on 5ghz is consistently worse also
     
  41. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    That would require me to drill a hole in the wall, which I can't really do

    or run it along the floor which kind of looks shitty

    I don't think mesh would help much because the issue isn't too many devices and I'm already literally 1 wall away
     
  42. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    Run a wire along the floor who cares
     
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  43. Name P. Redacted

    Name P. Redacted I have no money and I'm also gay
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    I have a wire running along a wall right now for about two feet between rooms
     
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  44. Odin

    Odin social distancing since 1990
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    if youre that close to it a powerline adapter will probably work well
     
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  45. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    basically i want to know if there's some obvious thing i'm missing before i go drop $150 on a router that may not even fix my problem
     
  46. Odin

    Odin social distancing since 1990
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    it could certainly be the wifi in the pc. is it a separate card or in the mobo?
     
  47. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    one of those little usb sticks but the motherboard wifi is even worse so i don't think it's that either
     
  48. Odin

    Odin social distancing since 1990
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    can you use a phone hotspot the check how well the pc connects to it in various locations? a poor connection to it while the phone is by the router would indicate its not a router problem.
     
  49. Butthead

    Butthead narmas, narmas

    the signal to my phone degrades to more or less the same as my pc when it's sitting on my desk
     
  50. Det. Frank Bullitt

    Det. Frank Bullitt God Bless Texas
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