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| Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 08:55 | |
Jayenkai
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Paid For...What's the dumbest thing you've ever paid for? The other day we got a "postage not paid, pay £1.50 for delivery" thing from Royal Mail. I paid, and it got delivered today.. > Reveal 🔎 -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 10:19 | |
cyangames
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Probably some bits of Computer Equipment. While I was building the kids PC I mistakenly bought the wrong socket mobo (1156 instead of 1155) and subsequently had to buy a nicer PSU for their Graphics Card. I now have a box full of spare puter parts that I need to use of sell sometime soon. Although most of the things I buy haven't got Intelligence built-in I guess. Looking forward to getting into some Raspberry Pi action though! -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also! |
| Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 12:20 | |
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When I had no Internet I had the tv on a lot. There were those home shopping channels. I bought a toothbrush from that which used the static electricity of the finger to whiten the teeth. You had to put one finger on a metal plate. The brush was worn out after a few months. The brush cost me 50 bucks! A number of years ago I learned the person who does/did those tv shopping channels is a convicted fraudster. Oh, and I called a tv game one time. That show had fraud written all over it and I only called once. It cost me 15 bucks with only one call! I stil see people who hosted those games on tv in other programs and I still see them as bad people.
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| Fri, 19 Mar 2021, 13:58 | |
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cyangames
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Ahhh, that reminded me of my stag do when I prank called one of those adult tv lines. That was a bad call, although it was fun shouting random stuff down the phone at them, it took a month or so for my number to be removed from their auto-call lists..... I guess also, making a mistake purchasing £300 worth of 7digital shares in september 2020 was a mistake, they're only worth £150 now. Just gonna hold them over until I can break even / make some profit I guess. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also! |
| Sat, 20 Mar 2021, 03:28 | |
rockford
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I've purchased sooooo many things that I later regretted. One of them stand out though. Many years ago I did a pc, GP2X and Canoo remake of a GBA game called Guru Logic Champs - View on YouTube It's a fantastic puzzler and my version actually won me a few hundred Euro in a Spanish coding comp. But I digress. Guru Logic was never released on any other system and only had a limiited run in Japan. I still question why! Anyway, the game did eventually get a make-over and release on the DS, but.... US only and not available on cart (it was an eShop title, meaning download only). I decided, in my inifinite wisdom, to to buy a US DS to allow me to finally play the game. I scoured eBay and finally found a brand new US DS for something like £30 + shipping, which was an absolute bargain, nbut understandable as the 3DS had been released and DS was now deadi-sh. Anyway weeks later my postie handed me a silver card saying that import duty had to be paid. OK, not so bad 20% of £30 was still only £6+ £8.00 P.O handling fee (fucking P.O. extortion fee, more like). Still a bargain DS. Um nope. The seller had declared the value of the DS as $200, not the actual purchase price. So 20% of $200=$40 <>£35 + £8. More than the total cost of the 3DS AND posting from the US. I told the Post Office to shove it where the sun don't shine. I wanted the machine, but I was not going to pay that kind of money for old tech for just one game. So I guess they returned it to the seller. I did eventually buy a US DS (for a bit more than that one, but no import duty etc.), and the game, but it was crap compared to the original. 
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| Sat, 20 Mar 2021, 05:14 | |
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Jayenkai
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It doesn't count as "paid" if you get a refund, but I sure as hell made sure I got a refund for what was easily my most disappointing videogame purchases. Space Channel 5 on the Dreamcast. Issue 1 : The polygons lagged behind the background by approximately 1 single frame. This wouldn't have been an issue, had the game not been a game chock-full of camera switches, and every single time, it was 1 single frame out of sync. Every god damn fucking time.. And as a music game, where 99% of the gameplay is about PERFECT TIMING, you'd have thought they could've damn well sorted their own fucking timing out. Issue 2 : The music throughout the entire game was essentially the exact same tune, remixed over and over. Which, if I were downloading a soundtrack to a movie or something, would be more or less ok. But as a music game, where 99% of the music has to be melodically interesting and entertaining, the fact that it was essentially one single track for the whole game, was quite frankly out of line. Issue 3 : It took me about 30 minutes to "complete" the game. That can't be right, surely?! I checked online, hunting for unlockables and different music tracks and.. .. Nope. That's it. 100%'d in 30 minutes. I took back Space Channel 5. I swapped it for Worms Armageddon. Worms Armageddon, though a port of a game I'd already had on PC for years, by that point, was still infinitely better than God Damn Fucking Space Channel Bloody 5. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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