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AusGAF IV - A No Hope, Government - Double the price, region locked and now adults
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roosters93
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Rahk said:
400 the ones I've seen.
Incidentally, this is a better link to the same deal. It forces it to use Amazon as the merchant (Only Amazon will ship them to Australia and the normal link might start switching between merchants otherwise). Shipping is $16. Mine ships later today, hopefully.HolyCheck said:
Here is a similar permalink to the console-only 160GB deal.
It's from the UK: http://www.mrshea.com/germusa/customs/hallow.htm3chopl0x said:
reptilescorpio
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Fuck I am salty. Yarn time. A few weeks back I decided on my build and went down to the local Super Billing. I had made the build on PCCG but I wanted to support the local business for making the effort.
No items in stock.
That's okay, I didn't expect them to have everything on hand down here. He says the Geelong office have it and it will be shipped down by Tuesday. Coolio.
Tuesday and Wednesday come and go. On Thursday I call him up, "What's the beef dude? Where are those bits of metal and shit that I am planning on handing a fat sack of cash over to you for?". "Try again tomorrow".
Sure enough I calltomorrow the next day. "The parts came in! Come on down after work!"
Arrive: "Oh by the way. We can't get teh 690 Adv II until some time in November. They have the white one in Geelong for an extra $20 though!"
So while I am in Torquay I trawl the rest of Geelong for a substitute case. No dice. Like, none. No store in Geelong has a mid range case between the CM Centurion 5 and the Corsair 600T. Mo money, mo problems I know.
My soul was crushed, my spirits were low. My gf and child were getting cranky and malnourished. I scoot down a street I rarely use heading in the direction of Batmans house and oh shit! MSY? When did THAT come to Geelong? Salvation! I call sanctuary! Not only do they have a 690 (as well as the NVidia edition which I withheld my gaze from) but they also had the HAF912 for $104! A bit cheaper than the 690 and all the same features I wanted! They also had most of the parts I wanted for less than Super Billing (saved about $90) AND most of the stuff was sealed! Which means I might even be able to RMA in the future which would be nice!
Enter today: Left Torquay early so I could get back and get the CPU cooler, RAM and SSD for a fun night of build-a-pc-while-shitting-myself-that-i-am-going-to-break-the-motherboard. Go to push the door to Super Billing open and I seem to have affixed myself to a glass like substance. Turns out the door was locked. A little false clock that seems to have fashioned out of paper tells me the owner of the fake clock won't be available until 9:30. I will assume that means o'clock since it is in the shape of a clock. Fuck.
If he is also taking tomorrow off I will be super duper pissed off even more. If I drive down there and he isn't open at 9:30am I will just put an order into PCCG for the remaining parts, will work out cheaper and will hopefully arrive on Friday. Like I should have done in the first fucking place.
tl;dr - NEVER SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS. ONLINE SHOPPING IS ALWAYS MUCH CHEAPER, FASTER AND OF HIGHER CUSTOMER SERVICE
Also there was a hit and run at the roundabout near my house. People do fucking stupid speeds through the roundabouts here trying to beat the traffic, not surprised that a pedestrian was hit.
Also shipping costs for the one DVD were silly since I had already downloaded all the episodes. Silly.
PLEASE DOUBLE FINE GET A HOLD OF THE LICENCE. YOU GUYS MAKE FUNNY GAMES.
Black Forest Cake incoming!
No items in stock.
That's okay, I didn't expect them to have everything on hand down here. He says the Geelong office have it and it will be shipped down by Tuesday. Coolio.
Tuesday and Wednesday come and go. On Thursday I call him up, "What's the beef dude? Where are those bits of metal and shit that I am planning on handing a fat sack of cash over to you for?". "Try again tomorrow".
Sure enough I call
Arrive: "Oh by the way. We can't get teh 690 Adv II until some time in November. They have the white one in Geelong for an extra $20 though!"
So while I am in Torquay I trawl the rest of Geelong for a substitute case. No dice. Like, none. No store in Geelong has a mid range case between the CM Centurion 5 and the Corsair 600T. Mo money, mo problems I know.
My soul was crushed, my spirits were low. My gf and child were getting cranky and malnourished. I scoot down a street I rarely use heading in the direction of Batmans house and oh shit! MSY? When did THAT come to Geelong? Salvation! I call sanctuary! Not only do they have a 690 (as well as the NVidia edition which I withheld my gaze from) but they also had the HAF912 for $104! A bit cheaper than the 690 and all the same features I wanted! They also had most of the parts I wanted for less than Super Billing (saved about $90) AND most of the stuff was sealed! Which means I might even be able to RMA in the future which would be nice!
Enter today: Left Torquay early so I could get back and get the CPU cooler, RAM and SSD for a fun night of build-a-pc-while-shitting-myself-that-i-am-going-to-break-the-motherboard. Go to push the door to Super Billing open and I seem to have affixed myself to a glass like substance. Turns out the door was locked. A little false clock that seems to have fashioned out of paper tells me the owner of the fake clock won't be available until 9:30. I will assume that means o'clock since it is in the shape of a clock. Fuck.
If he is also taking tomorrow off I will be super duper pissed off even more. If I drive down there and he isn't open at 9:30am I will just put an order into PCCG for the remaining parts, will work out cheaper and will hopefully arrive on Friday. Like I should have done in the first fucking place.
tl;dr - NEVER SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS. ONLINE SHOPPING IS ALWAYS MUCH CHEAPER, FASTER AND OF HIGHER CUSTOMER SERVICE
Also there was a hit and run at the roundabout near my house. People do fucking stupid speeds through the roundabouts here trying to beat the traffic, not surprised that a pedestrian was hit.
I still have sand in my vagina after they had a SPECIAL SUPER DUPER EXCUSIVE offer for pre-orders of ToMI where the slipcase for the collection was signed by Steve Purcell! Only $35! But then the game turned out to be mediocre. Story was bland, writing was unimpressive, none of the new characters had anything worth remembering, the artwork was bland (again, that word seems to sum up the series perfectly) and the controls were pretty bad.Omi said:
Also shipping costs for the one DVD were silly since I had already downloaded all the episodes. Silly.
PLEASE DOUBLE FINE GET A HOLD OF THE LICENCE. YOU GUYS MAKE FUNNY GAMES.
Sam & Max Seasons 2+3 were quite good though.
Give them a few weeks and I am sure they will start selling everything under the sun. Going to order some kick ass posters for the low, low price of from $7.50 inc. postage!!!codswallop said:
Marshmellow said:
You snooze you lose. Should make a script that crossposts automatically to GAF, BigFooty, Reddit, Twitter, etc.legend166 said:
Maybe they are full of shit and it really IS a mod, not Skyrim. Shamamalongadingdongholio.jpgjambo said:
I like you. You have gumption.Bernbaum said:
For some reason I recall RRP for the small HDD bundle being $249 but I may be hallucinating again.Rahk said:
CALLED EBGAMES AND MADE SURE MY PREORDER WAS STILL CANCELLED. NOT SURE IF CANCELLING TWICE WORKS AS A DOUBLE NEGATIVE AND I WILL BE OUT $109.95Omi said:
Aren't we in the same region as the UK for Blu Rays?evlcookie said:
Shit son! VERY lucky Dragona ain't around no more or you woulda been sent packing for that insult on the female lifeform!commanderdeek said:
Black Forest Cake incoming!
Really?VOOK said:
I wish it were bigger here. Dress-ups, candy and a cheeky celebration of the macabre. At its core, Christmas and Easter are kinda stupid too, but they're fun and you get to eats loads of garbage food! I'm not a Christian but celebrate both, and I'd celebrate the crap out of Halloween in Australia if we didn't just turn it into another reason for a piss-up.
I'm totally down for doing a Mexican Day of the Dead in Mexico at some stage.
roosters93
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commanderdeek said:
lol
We've had kids knock on our door on occasion. Haven't always hadmidonnay said:
Fair call. Yeah, we're good at ruining things like that. Case in point: that horse race thing this week.VOOK said:
roosters93
Member
commanderdeek said:
Oh shit I did too lol
reptilescorpio
Member
Why not both?Bernbaum said:
The League made it awesome! We could too! Find ourselves a monkey and a keg and we are all set.
Bernbaum said:
Any excuse will do!
Someones 27th birthday (not even special), someone going away to Bali for the weekend (you know to get drunk as well), got a new job, got fired. The alcoholics need not a reason, just an excuse to help legitimize their habits.
Got totally pissed and smashed all the furniture? But it was Halloween!
It's a relationship of convenience.
viciouskillersquirrel
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Not Mexican, but our family would make special tamales for the day of the dead.Bernbaum said:
roosters93
Member
Rezbit said:
frothies? = alcomohol?
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
I have just had a horrendous weekend. Spent most of it in bed, sick. Looks like tomorrow is going to be the same.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
Slutty white girls.VOOK said:
It's probably the pagan roots of Halloween that attract the hate.
Me too. I've got this insane cough with a headache to match that ruined my entire weekend.viciouskillersquirrel said:
Spent today at home and I've got a tonne of work to catch up on tomorrow. Sickest I've been all year, but I only took last Tuesday and today off. Working with this headache was absolute torture last week and I'll be going to work tomorrow regardless of how I feel.
To make matters worse, I chose against my better judgement to watch Jurassic Park 2 and 3 on BluRay. They are not good films.
VOOK said:
Hitler with a burqa
From what I gathered they dressed up like as Dracula (costume, covered in blood, had pointy teeth) but were wearing also wearing the scarf. Some think that it's not representing the religion well to non Muslims and that it' a "bad look".
I replied that it's better that they appear they're free and having fun, which might show non Muslims that y'know, they're normal people.
I'm of the opinion that only Jews are permitted to dress up as Hitler or the SS and get away with it being funny.Ydahs said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U78ImhTo8gI
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