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@drinkingpony The customs office will send it back. I'd like to know what this random person from Donguang China has sent me. Lying and commit a fraud is not worth my time and the risk.
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@adiwan Orrrr, you could just lie your way into seeing the contents and then getting the right reciept... Or not if you do not think the content is worth it.
But I know you are not comfortable with that.
( Oh, another possibility is that the sender got the adress wrong and you actually do not have a reciept ) -
@adiwan Man post offices in Germany are weird.
What are they going to do, send it back to China ? Just wait it out :) -
@drinkingpony I'd like to but without knowing the *exact* contents and a PayPal or Bank receipt (or similar) the customs office employee refused to hand it over. I don't want to commit a crime for cheap electronics and faking a receipt. Also I have to give the exact content description prior to opening the package and I cannot do that.
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@drinkingpony Oh, right, the punchline. At one point this guy ( the one who repeatedly went "DEBATE ME ! DEBATE ME !" ) had to admit that the movie just was not that defendable, or even good. But then he said "But you are still going to get the blueray/dvd right" and was promptly laughed at in a "Haha, but why tho ? We dislike/hate the movie"
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@adiwan Fans are gonna fan, untill something happens that makes them not want to be a fan anymore.
I remember reading about some guy who had made a MCU-Wall, containing the DVD cover for every Marvel Superhero movie ever released, complaining about how he did not really like one particular movie but was still deadset on getting the thing for his wall since else his collection would be incomplete ( this was years ago )
Extreme fans gonna extreme fan I guess.
Hell, kinda reminds me of this 2 hour long thing of some guy who was harassing a movie critic on Discord for a debate for his opinion on a movie was SO WRONG he simply had to correct the narrative, or at least attempt to, it was a total fail and is probably one of the best examples of how to learn from other people's mistakes ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/875292 ) Its quite humorous at times, but I am not sure if I can recommend it unless if you got 2 hours to waste.
( Such as when on CCTV monitor duty at work at night)
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@adiwan Can't you just show up with a random reciept from whoever send it ? I mean it is's not like they are actually going to check if there is actually prismatic doomsday ray refactor plating in there.
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I just woke up and read something so incredibly stupid that it would be best to just ignore it while shaking my head and repeat the mantra "How can anyone be this naive ?" untill something shinier comes along and I forget all about it. with my luck, should be about 5 minutes and a good glass of misery liquid.
Monday, 04-Nov-19 09:50:18 UTC from web -
Regarding the mysterious packet that I didn't order and is at the customs office: I cannot get it because I lack a confirmation of purchase. So I will never know what exactly was in there. It'll haunt me until death.
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@drinkingpony It needs a lot of self-hate to buy a sports game and doing it repeatedly.
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@adiwan I can explain. Somewhat.
1. People own all these games because just the roster updates to them are worth buying the game all over again. This has been a hot-button topic in the hardcore-gameosphere ever since ( and no doubt before ) CoD became an annual franchise. FIFA just started to really stand out because unlike CoD it did not had different guns, an engine, or even more polygons ( with only 2~3 exceptions that I know of ) and you simply can not have the old game play online because everyone migrated to the newer game. And couch-co-op back in the day, well you would not want to be the cheapass amongst friends would you ? Think of the shame.
The reason that they are now on flea-markets everywhere is because FIFA has joined the league-of-anti-hong-kong ( in an attempt to remain buddy buddy with China and keep access to the market no doubt )
Surely you heard of the Blitzchung Blizzard thing ? Well, it is like that, only soccer-juicy. Kinda. -
Today at the flea market was frustrating. Everywhere I looked FIFA games. One seller had all FIFA games from 2006 onwards to 2015. I don't understand the dedication for this.
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One of my IRL buddies
"Who cares about Battlefield V, Battlefield 2021 is coming out !"
Yeah do you know when, because I know for when they got it planned
"Yeah, fiscal year 2021, so we probably get the game somewhere october 2020"
No, 2021
"No 2020"
Fine... don't believe me, but if I win you got to shave off your stupid mustache
"But If I am right, then I get a case of beer"
Your mustache versus a case of beer ? You are on, But I thought you thought more for your mustache.
And while being anointed in a lot of swearing because apparently calling it a cheap stupid mustache was over the line, another stupid bet was made.Sunday, 03-Nov-19 20:09:27 UTC from web -
To think that back at E3 2017 Nina Struthers ( Mahria Zook ) walked on stage as the Chief Synergy Officer and proceeded to call everyone in the gaming industry dumb. And that now for the year 2020 people are planning to dub it the "Year of No Cow-Excrement" in the hope that it will become better is sort of clashing in my head as a... Weird symbolicisation... perhaps best explained like
2017 : waking up
2018 : coffee
2019 : taking a shower and then the hot water suddenly stops so it is now cold AF
just before 2020 : realisation moment "OH GOD THE GAMES INDUSTRY IS ON FIRE AND WE HAVE TO EXTINGUISH THE FLAMES !!! Quick lets call 2020 the year of no bullgrape or something, lets see if that works !"Sunday, 03-Nov-19 18:14:34 UTC from web -
@adiwan Ehmm, no ? I have a list of terribly bad good movies ( Machette, Iron Sky, Kung Fury, Hobo With a Shotgun, Sharknado, Surf Nazi's Must Die, Hercules in New York, Poultrygeist : Night of the Chicken Dead, Batman ( Clooney ) & Robin, Face/Off ) that are filled with "haha, oh my, I can not believe they did that, haha"
I can only guess that is what you mean with 'not very excelling but like them nontheless"
I also have a list of Terrible Terrible movies ( Troll 2, Birdemic, Laserblast, Cool Cat saves the kids, the frEd movies, The Last Airbender ( M Knight ) foodfight ) that make me point at the screen and make horror faces like that one scene from Body Snatchers, you know the one.
I mean, unless if I tone down 'like' to 'could watch it again instead of playing video games'. Then you get movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Police Academy, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Naked Gun, Die Hard ( Best Xmas movie ), Fifth Element, Starship Troopers, Liar Liar, and Wreck it Ralph -
@drinkingpony I have a soft spot for the film. I cannot help myself. Probably you have some films that are not very excelling but you like them nonetheless.
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Supplementary and hilarious video regarding Ross Marquand http://rainbowdash.net/url/875289
Guess who he is voicing. Just saying. He probably knew a little boatload more about acting like Han Solo.
Probably the Seawise Giant, the largest boat in the world after a quick google search.
Do not take anything in this post/dash/rainbowpost serious or use it for anything other than a reason to smirk, laugh, or something like that.
Saturday, 02-Nov-19 19:33:12 UTC from web -
@adiwan Solo was mediocre at best, but lets agree to disagree. You are right regarding being too close to TLJ though. But then again we are pretty much talking about the mother of all cataclysmic events that drove the fandom in twain.
If the people were not so split on TLJ like they were, then things like 'fandom fattigue' never got invented and we probably would not have much negative stuff to say about Solo.
Well, other than the directors of Solo being fired at 90% completion of the movie over 'creative differences' and the thing going out of budget by several dozen millions. The 'news' that comes out later to patch up that hole seems awfully convenient to say the least where actors speak out against the fired directors.
But hey, those are in the same category of people that said that Alden Ehrenreich needed on site coaching how to be more like Han Solo. I call out Nepotism. I reckon you would not have had this problem if you hired Ross Marquand ( I am kidding, a bit ) -
@drinkingpony Solo was good. It just had the misfortune to be released so close to The Last Jedi and had its reviews affect Solo. Solo had issues but it was fun and I enjoyed it.
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Star wars news : Cnet made an article called "Star Wars has never been better, thanks to Disney". But if you read it there is an entire section of the article that do nothing but praise things that either just came out or are still in the pipeline.
Then you read the comments and the most upvoted one just JUMPS at the opportunity to say "Oh [editor], I just love your article. [ ... ] I just love how all the toxic comments prove your point"
Meanwhile all I can think of is. The failure of Solo. The total halt of Star Wars Story movies. Creative freedom was being called to a complete halt by LucasArts. Toy Sales are down the drain. Galaxy's edge is effectively 'empty'. Ryan Johnson did not get his trilogy. D&D told no to Star Wars in favour of Netflix. Rise of Skywalker is STILL being worked on. And I am not even going to touch the whole 'Star Wars Adventures' thing while making Leia a 'woke woman'
But wait, I think it is a Disney Shill Plant, after all, it is Cnet. And who owns Cnet ? -
@drinkingpony It was an Amazon Marketplace item and only shipped by Amazon. So I had to contact the seller first and the seller had two days to reply. I waited a few days longer and contacted Amazon and they solved it immediately.
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@adiwan At least that story had a good enough ending, even if it took a week for Amazon to step in and pimpslap someone who deserved a pimpslap.
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@scribus Water is wet, sun shines, grass grows, and the moment we find a way to harness the power of stupid for energy production we will never have energy production woes ever again for as long as there are fandoms of THAT caliber.
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Aaaaand my CNC is dead. It coughed up magic smoke. A resistor blew up while trying to troubleshoot the problem of the non-moving and squealing Z Axis. It turned out to be a coil that squealed. The motor was conveniently behind the mainboard so I misinterpreted that as a faulty motor. I bought stepper motors for nothing. I can reuse them for something else. Like making a 3D printer from scratch but it won't be anytime soon.
I contacted Amazon support and they offer a refund. So I bought a new one. The marketplace seller was uncooperative and didn't answered after a week of silence.
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@drinkingpony Haha. No death ray. The most perplexing fact is that it was sent on October 30th. A few days ago, from China via express shipment. I looked at my bank account and nothing was out of the expected. The last thing I ordered from China were 3D printer board (that I've received) and a plushie for a relative's birthday (that I've also received). The customs office letter says that I have to bring a bill, purchase contract, or something that verifies its value and transaction. If I do nothing until the end of next week it'll be sent back. My curiosity is big enough to go to the customs office and see what it is.
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@adiwan We all have a friend that recieved something double, for some reason all of the times I heard my friends 'brag' about it it was about rather powerful video cards.
Probably going back at least 10 years or so.
Maybe it is your lucky day. Ehmm, actually, I do not even halfway think that a PCB could cost that much unless if the name of the device is rather unknown, obscure, or less than legal.
You are not building a death ray again are you ? -
Just got mail from the customs office for an item I can't remember. I tried to cross reference with my emails with the given shipper information but I cannot find what it is exactly. In the content description are only vague notes like "PCB" or "Development Board" but so far I got everything I ordered.
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@scribus Finally got my way 'round to see it. I like it. Though I hope you are prepared to cringe at the influx of people who say that it looks like Undertale ( especially with the reference of the big knife ) since I already found one person who told me that whilst looking over my shoulder.
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Some mentally young person was all in tears because he found out that Rick and Morty are going to be on HBO Max. I just said nothing, making it more awkward.
I wish I was making that up.
Also, no, it was not a child.Friday, 01-Nov-19 21:34:23 UTC from web -
@scribus Last time I trusted a book I ended up summoning Cthulhu in power armour...
Never again. Books are evil, the more words the eviller.
