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[Maiden Voyage]

Can't wait to try this out tonight. I am going to use it to cook a steak, even though it looks like a fancy, Bluetooth dildo.

I've been cooking meat sous vide for years now. No way I'm ever going back. Even chicken breast is somehow leagues better cooked this way.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Susvara Unveiled coming in a few weeks. Let's see if the audio quality is a good as they say.

 

[Billbofet]

I've been cooking meat sous vide for years now. No way I'm ever going back. Even chicken breast is somehow leagues better cooked this way.

I tried a couple steaks last night. They were really good, but I have to adjust a bit. The cook temp was a bit high, and my sear was off as I didn't have the pan hot enough. Loved the results for my first time, though!

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Susvara Unveiled coming in a few weeks. Let's see if the audio quality is a good as they say.

I'm going to need to hear your thoughts after giving them a go.

 

[Mohonky]

Is it a complicated build? Do you a link to where I can read about this? It looks cool.

Complicated to; fiddly at times, very. Mostly just trying to reach in really tight spaces and put in a washer and then nut to do up. It feels like you need 3x kids size hands, not 2x adult hands at times. Not gonna lie, mounting the rear end, putting in the 1 screw / nut for the head to assemble and from memory one other part that I remember but eludes me now was very very frustrating. It looks awesome assembled though. I love these kind of things.

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There's another one that's more expensive but looks a bit more involved, very similar concept but this one looks a lot more parts;

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Looks like that little annoying pest from Transformers.
Cool stuff man

Haha it had occurred to me.

Speaing of which, I think I found the rest of those MU Model transformers I was after; Jazz, Wheeljack, Megatron, Shockwave and the one I really really wanted and couldn't find bloody anywhere, Soundwave. We'll see if they arrive and are the real deal, but super hopeful.

Also finished my first lil one today that I bought to practice with as I won't have any real chances to stuff up the bigger models and these smaller cheaper ones aren't as difficult and at least give me a chance to get my eye in and sharpen up on the best method to approach these as I've never done them before.

I'm kind of pedantic so I don't want to stuff it up and I want to try and keep all the penal lines sharp and free of gaps so it'l take some more learning, but this did come up ok. Only small at about 4 or 5cm tall, the mainline ones are closer to 28cm and significantly more parts.

 

[Laptop1991]

An air fryer after just buying a microwave, my purchases are getting more boring now, and still don't have a single game that will work on either!.

 

[Mr1999]

Picked her up yesterday. AWD Taurus Interceptor 3.7L. Paid 9k down cash and got a good deal i think. We walked out on the deal at first, we were honestly blind sided by their fees and tactics. We left because I did not want to put what they were asking me to put, and I thought that was the end of it.

We walked out, got in our car and headed home. Then, they called me back on my cell halfway down the road to close the deal at what we wanted, boss of the dealership okayed it. Se we turned back. Ended up getting the car for what we originally asked for.

Once we got back we closed the deal, and I ended up gettinga 4 year warranty for it which covers the water pump(I asked), tranny and motor. Im against buying warranty for cars, but I feel better for this one, I dont have to worry about it. Also, it just goes to show, dont be afraid to walk away from a car deal. If you are feeling you are being ripped off or being taken advantage of, and trust me you will know when this is happening to you, just walk away.

By walking away we saved at least $2000 and their bullshit "certification" fees. Car is awesome, super low idle hours and a dream to drive through snow. 60k miles 500 idle hours. Personally having the cash on hand helped in our favor, they were not happy we had such a big down payment, they wanted me to only put down $2500 lol , when I had almost 10K for the car, which meant lesser rates for them with a large down payment.

I guess financing is where they make all their money and they dont want to finance someone who puts down 50-80 percent of the cost. But to deny a sale because of it? That just poor salesmanship at that pojnt, glad they changed their mind.

 

[Forsete]

Edit:
Image broke, never mind. WD 2TB for my PS5.

It looks like this.

 

[LectureMaster]

Let's see if this big baby truly lives up to the hype.

 

[near]

Complicated to; fiddly at times, very. Mostly just trying to reach in really tight spaces and put in a washer and then nut to do up. It feels like you need 3x kids size hands, not 2x adult hands at times. Not gonna lie, mounting the rear end, putting in the 1 screw / nut for the head to assemble and from memory one other part that I remember but eludes me now was very very frustrating. It looks awesome assembled though. I love these kind of things.

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Haha it had occurred to me.

Speaing of which, I think I found the rest of those MU Model transformers I was after; Jazz, Wheeljack, Megatron, Shockwave and the one I really really wanted and couldn't find bloody anywhere, Soundwave. We'll see if they arrive and are the real deal, but super hopeful.

Also finished my first lil one today that I bought to practice with as I won't have any real chances to stuff up the bigger models and these smaller cheaper ones aren't as difficult and at least give me a chance to get my eye in and sharpen up on the best method to approach these as I've never done them before.

I'm kind of pedantic so I don't want to stuff it up and I want to try and keep all the penal lines sharp and free of gaps so it'l take some more learning, but this did come up ok. Only small at about 4 or 5cm tall, the mainline ones are closer to 28cm and significantly more parts.

These are so cool man, thanks for the link. I might place an order for your Cyberpunk Spider and Terminator M.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

this charmander card

i have the squirtle and bulbasaur. i really wanted this one because of the meme based on this card

also bought a couple Umbreon plushies

 

[SirKicksalot]

Lidl strikes again

This is their take on Soylent, Yfood, Huel etc. It's cheap, you don't have to buy it in 6-packs, it has 26 vitamins and minerals, protein, fiber etc.

 

[Mohonky]

These are so cool man, thanks for the link. I might place an order for your Cyberpunk Spider and Terminator M.

No probs. I love it personally, while fiddly still really enjoyed it. I enjoy working on things like this and the spider came up awesome.

I cleaned out the shelves at my local hobby store of the Transformers MU Model stuff and found the rest only; practising on the smaller less complicated models atm just to get my skills up before looking at the mainline models. Have had a look through the instructions and there's nothing complicated but definitely looks like you need to be really fastidious with folling the correct order and not missing anything; something my ADD brain sometimes struggles with with respect to focus.

So keen to get into it tho

 

[Rival]

Pulled my old rarely used Sega Saturn out of storage and picked up one of these from EBay. It's amazing.

 

[near]

No probs. I love it personally, while fiddly still really enjoyed it. I enjoy working on things like this and the spider came up awesome.

I cleaned out the shelves at my local hobby store of the Transformers MU Model stuff and found the rest only; practising on the smaller less complicated models atm just to get my skills up before looking at the mainline models. Have had a look through the instructions and there's nothing complicated but definitely looks like you need to be really fastidious with folling the correct order and not missing anything; something my ADD brain sometimes struggles with with respect to focus.

So keen to get into it tho

I'll tag you when I order my first kit and let you know how I'm getting on with them. I'm quite excited by the challenge, and if I enjoy it a lot, it will be a nice gateway into starting other kits and gunplas too.

 

[Havoc2049]

Went a little crazy on new retro games. I got the Atari 7800+ and an extra controller. I also picked up a bunch of the new 7800 and 2600 releases by Atari. I also picked up all three of the Audacity Games (OG 2600 Activision devs) games.

 

[Alex Anderson]

I spent $45 to have a hat like Iga wears.

 

[Facism]

Car insurance

 

[Rival]

Went a little crazy on new retro games. I got the Atari 7800+ and an extra controller. I also picked up a bunch of the new 7800 and 2600 releases by Atari. I also picked up all three of the Audacity Games (OG 2600 Activision devs) games.

What are your initial thought on it? I've been pretty tempted to pick one up too.

 

[Warnen]

iPhone 16 pro max
Rog Ally x

 

[Dr.D00p]

Pulled the trigger on a 1TB Steam Deck OLED.

It'll do until the ROG Ally 2 lands in the summer, assuming it comes with at least an 8in screen, OLED would be nice, but I'll take it with VRR if not.

Only really want to use the SD for emulation and old games in my library, so not too bothered about it being a bit long in the tooth and underpowered now...it's not going to be playing Cyberpunk or anything like that.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I spent $45 to have a hat like Iga wears.

I spent 100€ when on sale to get running shorts + shirt combo from ON. Laugh all you want but these are super good quality, they are almost paperweight. I will probably get their knee-high socks for winter running, I hate running with thighs.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

went shopping for stuff for cooking some spices, sauce, rice, mushrooms, onions. going to make fancy ass rice for dinner tonight! Need to buy some chicken/prawns and noodles for my other experimental dish! also i want to try make my own gravy sauce.... i love gravy but i tried one from my local chinese and omg it was beautiful. i need to figure out how they make it

currently looking to buy a 3-1 wireless charger for my phone, watch, and earphones. i currently have a charger with cables for them but it's pissing me off. i'm having to constantly plug cables in, tidy them up, unroll them, remove one thing to charge so i can charge another! so i'm looking for a good quality 3-1 charger so i don't have to fuck about with this shit anymore. i've had enough!

it's not going to be playing Cyberpunk or anything like that.

Cyberpunk has no right running or looking as good as it does on Steam Deck.

the default settings are really good. yeah it's only 30fps but for a handheld it looked better than i expected. totally playable and not a complete mess like some other (less demanding) games.

but yeah... it's great for emulation

 

[Cyberpunkd]

the default settings are really good. yeah it's only 30fps but for a handheld it looked better than i expected. totally playable and not a complete mess like some other (less demanding) games.

Tried Frame Gen already?

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Tried Frame Gen already?

i can't remember if it was on. probably. i sold my steam deck so can't check.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

i sold my steam deck so can't check.

 

[LordCBH]

I bought a booster box of Pokemon cards. Specifically Twilight Masquerade as it's my favorite current set. Didn't nab any pictures though. I just ripped right into it

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I bought a booster box of Pokemon cards. Specifically Twilight Masquerade as it's my favorite current set. Didn't nab any pictures though. I just ripped right into it

don't start me on pokemon cards.

i bought like 100+ booster packs recently and got more at xmas. waiting on another 50 packs of prismatic evolution coming in a couple weeks.

bought a fuck load of singles too. i'm not sure i will financially recover fucking pokemon cards man.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

ergonomically i like it more than the switch. hopefully Switch 2 is closer to steam deck. it seems like it will be bigger.

i'm impressed with how many games run on what is a linux OS. i hope Valve keep it up. i really want SteamOS 3.0 for desktop....

i just didn't use it much so sold it. i had the 1TB OLED. i bought it thinking i'll use it for emulation and i did but just didn't bother much with it lol.

 

[LordCBH]

don't start me on pokemon cards.

i bought like 100+ booster packs recently and got more at xmas. waiting on another 50 packs of prismatic evolution coming in a couple weeks.

bought a fuck load of singles too. i'm not sure i will financially recover fucking pokemon cards man.

I've been wanting to buy Surging Soarks so bad but I don't want to give it and spend scalper prices…I get so sad every time I go to Walmart and Target and they're just completely cleaned out of everything.

Side note, debating nabbing a Silver Tempest box next, since it's my second favorite modern set.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I've been wanting to buy Surging Soarks so bad but I don't want to give it and spend scalper prices…I get so sad every time I go to Walmart and Target and they're just completely cleaned out of everything.

Side note, debating nabbing a Silver Tempest box next, since it's my second favorite modern set.

i bought like 70 packs of surging. and maybe about another 20 at xmas. didn't pay scalper prices. get them from my usual online store.

bought the pikachu ex graded 10.

been thinking about getting terastal festival box but i'll just wait for prismatic. i did buy the umbreon sar from terastal though.

and i bought the Lugia V #186 from silver tempest.

 

[LordCBH]

i bought like 70 packs of surging. and maybe about another 20 at xmas. didn't pay scalper prices. get them from my usual online store.

bought the pikachu ex graded 10.

been thinking about getting terastal festival box but i'll just wait for prismatic. i did buy the umbreon sar from terastal though.

and i bought the Lugia V #186 from silver tempest.

I really want the alternate art logos from Silver. Debating just buying it as a single. It's such a beautiful card.

My current top 3 are it, the full art Cleffa from Obsidian Flames, and the full art Sinistcha ex from TWM.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I really want the alternate art logos from Silver. Debating just buying it as a single. It's such a beautiful card.

My current top 3 are it, the full art Cleffa from Obsidian Flames, and the full art Sinistcha ex from TWM.

i only got back into pokemon cards recently (just after TCG Pocket came out). i quickly learned it's likely much cheaper to just buy singles than chance your luck on boosters.

for example, i wanted the pikachu ex sar and despite opening ~100 packs i felt like i could open another 300 and still not get that card. so i just bought it.

also i bought the umbreon vmax from evolving skies. booster pack is about £19 so yeah.... lol totally not worth it. it was a lot to buy it single but i'm 1000% sure it's cheaper than buying packs. i ran a simulation based on pull rates and didn't get it until like 900-1000 packs.

 

[LordCBH]

i bought like 70 packs of surging. and maybe about another 20 at xmas. didn't pay scalper prices. get them from my usual online store.

bought the pikachu ex graded 10.

been thinking about getting terastal festival box but i'll just wait for prismatic. i did buy the umbreon sar from terastal though.

and i bought the Lugia V #186 from silver tempest.

I really want the alternate art logos from Silver. Debating just buying it as a single. It's such a beautiful card.

My current top 3 are it, the full art Cleffa from Obsidian Flames, and the full art Sinistcha ex from TWM.

i only got back into pokemon cards recently (just after TCG Pocket came out). i quickly learned it's likely much cheaper to just buy singles than chance your luck on boosters.

for example, i wanted the pikachu ex sar and despite opening ~100 packs i felt like i could open another 300 and still not get that card. so i just bought it.

also i bought the umbreon vmax from evolving skies. booster pack is about £19 so yeah.... lol totally not worth it. it was a lot to buy it single but i'm 1000% sure it's cheaper than buying packs. i ran a simulation based on pull rates and didn't get it until like 900-1000 packs.

Oh I know it's more cost efficient to buy the singles, but ripping packs has that rush to it.

Edit: no idea why it quoted multiple posts lol

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

I really want the alternate art logos from Silver. Debating just buying it as a single. It's such a beautiful card.

My current top 3 are it, the full art Cleffa from Obsidian Flames, and the full art Sinistcha ex from TWM.


Oh I know it's more cost efficient to buy the singles, but ripping packs has that rush to it.

Edit: no idea why it quoted multiple posts lol

yeah its fun. going forward i will still buy boosters but not as many. if there is a specific card i like i'll just buy it outright instead of trying to chase it.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Susvara Unveiled coming in a few weeks. Let's see if the audio quality is a good as they say.

Jeez. That is a serious purchase. I'd be too scared to buy some of them unheard (as it were) - even if I really wanted some 8k headphones. Do they offer a trial/return period?

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I guess financing is where they make all their money and they dont want to finance someone who puts down 50-80 percent of the cost. But to deny a sale because of it? That just poor salesmanship at that pojnt, glad they changed their mind.

Makes sense, they put the prices low so people can justify the cost but make their money on the interest. I think you probably got a great deal - low finance fees and the price you wanted to pay! Congrats!

 

[Ulysses 31]

Jeez. That is a serious purchase. I'd be too scared to buy some of them unheard (as it were) - even if I really wanted some 8k headphones. Do they offer a trial/return period?

In Europe you usually can return within 30 days, undamaged and complete in the original package of course.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

I purchased a TV for the bedroom.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Mohonky]

Let's see if this big baby truly lives up to the hype.

Did these live up to thehype? so sick of gaming headsets that are suppposed to sound good that sound like they are actually underwater

 

[Cyberpunkd]

ergonomically i like it more than the switch. hopefully Switch 2 is closer to steam deck. it seems like it will be bigger.

i'm impressed with how many games run on what is a linux OS. i hope Valve keep it up. i really want SteamOS 3.0 for desktop....

i just didn't use it much so sold it. i had the 1TB OLED. i bought it thinking i'll use it for emulation and i did but just didn't bother much with it lol.

Yes, the ergonomics of original Switch are truly terrible, no handheld ever should have flat sides .

Sorry it didn't work for you, that device saved gaming for me.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Yes, the ergonomics of original Switch are truly terrible, no handheld ever should have flat sides .

Sorry it didn't work for you, that device saved gaming for me.

the switch hurt to use but the steam deck was much more comfortable.

it wasn't really the steam deck. it's a great device for sure. i've just been struggling to enjoy games lately and i didn't need a £500-600 device which i felt like i wasted my money on. even considered selling my PC. maybe when Steam Deck 2 comes out and if I'm feeling better then I might grab one. I love what they are doing with Steam OS/Linux.

 

[TonberrysKnife]

Pulled my old rarely used Sega Saturn out of storage and picked up one of these from EBay. It's amazing.

I just learned about the SAROO yesterday. Gonna get one now.

 

[Havoc2049]

What are your initial thought on it? I've been pretty tempted to pick one up too.

The 7800+ is a solid retro system that can be hooked up to a modern TV. I had a 2600+ already, but it felt weird playing 7800 games on a 2600. Now life is back to normal, playing 7800 games on a 7800 and having 2600 backwards compatibility.

The new wireless CX78 joypads work great and it's nice not having to deal with wires.

The new games are solid, but the previous 7800 re-releases of Food Fight, Ninja Golf and Fatal Run are better games.

If you get one, also get a CX26 joystick, as many 2600 games were designed around that joystick and play better with it, instead of the joypads. The Atari 7800 Proline joystick is also nice to have, as some 7800 gamed play better with the 7800 joystick.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

new phone case and 3-1 charger for my phone, watch, and earphones.

i hate using wires to charge up my phone/watch and my watch/airpods need to use the same cable which is annoying if i need to charge both at the same time.

i know wireless charging isn't efficient and is slower but i don't care anymore.

nothing wrong with my current case but not sure it will work as it's not magsafe. so got a magsafe one.

 

[AJUMP23]

Looks like I will need to buy a washing machine today......

 

[TintoConCasera]

Pulled my old rarely used Sega Saturn out of storage and picked up one of these from EBay. It's amazing.

You did good, got 1 and love it.

Make sure to get the latest firmware, as old ones could brick the micro SD.

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Brigandier]

It's here finally!!!!