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DinoRex

Jack burton wrote: »

I'm pretty sure debt collectors wont go near anything if its under €1000, apperantly between fees etc. its not worth it to them. I cant comfirm how true this is but id say a safe bet is even anything under €500. You'll get a phone call or two but thats it usually. One of my friends bought a engagement ring and had it posted over, they rang him for vat and fees and he just didnt answer his phone and they stopped, that was a few hundred quid aswell.

Plus if they just left it at your door then just say you never got it and it was stolen

Yeah. Debts aren't dealt with in the Small Claims Court, so it costs them €1270 just to take you to the district or county court.

CiDeRmAn

A word of warning though.
Unpaid debts could wind up affecting your credit rating.
You may not be pursued on the matter but it could get reported and mess you up next time you need a loan.

DinoRex

Only financial institutions can affect your credit rating. So you're talking about unpaid bank loans and credit card debt being an issue there.

That's in Ireland though. Think in the US almost any company can feck up your credit rating.

CiDeRmAn

That's the chance you take though, you never know where it might pop up.

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

A word of warning though.
Unpaid debts could wind up affecting your credit rating.
You may not be pursued on the matter but it could get reported and mess you up next time you need a loan.

Thats not true,
Thats like me handing you a made up invoice and you not paying it.
then me affecting your credit rating.

I've ignored them at least twice in the past no problems and I've ignored parking tickets from private car parks loads of time :D

Doge

Thread needs to be changed to..
General Anarchy and Repo: Insert Subpoena

K.O.Kiki

Big blow for PAL SNES emulation

SNES preservation project "dead" after $10k of games lost in the post

A Nintendo fan's project to digitally preserve every SNES game has ended in defeat after the US Postal Service (USPS) lost a package containing 100 cartridges.
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The parcel contained between $7500 and $10k worth of vintage games, which were en route to amateur archivist Byuu.

o1s1n

Jesus that's terrible

Wouldn't it have been easier though just to post a Retrode to people and have them dump their carts rather than them having to post thousands worth of games to him?

Doge

o1s1n wrote: »

Jesus that's terrible

Wouldn't it have been easier though just to post a Retrode to people and have them dump their carts rather than them having to post thousands worth of games to him?

No because people are too lazy to dump their proto carts!

K.O.Kiki

Oh gods, looks like actual theft now

Linoud

Damn. I'd legit cry if I lost 10k of games ;_;

Inviere

They're PAL games though, I'd allow about 12% more time for them to arrive. They should fit through the letterbox easy enough though.....




/runs

Tom Mann Centuria

OK, ordered myself a spectrum deelie in kit form, that will involve soldering. Don't know my arse from my elbow with soldering, so, I've got some pointers from a nice bloke on a facebook group about what to buy, and couple of tips on soldering.

Any advice from the experts here would be welcome on kit to buy, how best to practice, YouTube vids to watch etc.

The components for the thing I'm buying are through hole, which is apparently a good thing?

Apologies if there is somewhere more suited for this question, and mods feel free to move/delete if so.

CiDeRmAn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlU60vGRVHc

CiDeRmAn

Remasters of the PS1 Crash platformers incoming, for €39.99 link
I have to say, I'd get the third one, maybe the second one, but the original always felt a bit limited, even compared to Spyro, never mind Mario 64.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Remasters of the PS1 Crash platformers incoming, for €39.99 link
I have to say, I'd get the third one, maybe the second one, but the original always felt a bit limited, even compared to Spyro, never mind Mario 64.

I'll be picking it up down the line but the millennials spouting how they are better than the likes of Mario 64 can get ****ed.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'll be picking it up down the line but the millennials spouting how they are better than the likes of Mario 64 can get ****ed.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless you're in Ciderdude's age bracket you're probably a millennial yourself :pac:

I always preferred Crash 1&2 to Mario 64 back when they came out. Just seemed more fun.

Digital Solitude

o1s1n wrote: »

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless you're in Ciderdude's age bracket you're probably a millennial yourself :pac:

I always preferred Crash 1&2 to Mario 64 back when they came out. Just seemed more fun.

Are Millennials not just wanker's under 25y/o or so? Cideys not even old

o1s1n

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Are Millennials not just wanker's under 25y/o or so? Cideys not even old

I thought so too until I did a bit of reading on it recently. The millennial generation is just another name for generation Y, which started in the early 80s.

So unfortunately us early thirty something's are lumped in with the iPhone/Facebook kids :eek:

Digital Solitude

o1s1n wrote: »

I thought so too until I did a bit of reading on it recently. The millennial generation is just another name for generation Y, which started in the early 80s.

So unfortunately us early thirty something's are lumped in with the iPhone/Facebook kids :eek:

Huh, I was under the illusion that it was the generation that grew up with readily available internet access. Which would be people born after 1990 I guess, wasn't it around 1995 it took off as a normal person thing?

Anyways, I still prefer to see Millennials as people I don't like instead of most of the people I know

CiDeRmAn

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Are Millennials not just wanker's under 25y/o or so? Cideys not even old

I love you now and forever

CiDeRmAn

Let's make the new definition of millennial to be "An individual who believes the world owes them happiness, and who also think Crash Bandicoot is great"

The Last Bandit

Urban dictionary sums it up nicely

"Millennial
Special little snowflake.

Born between 1982 and 1994 this generation is something special, cause Mom and Dad and their 5th grade teacher Mrs. Winotsky told them so. Plus they have a whole shelf of participation trophies sitting at home so it has to be true.

They believe themselves to be highly intelligent, the teachers and lecturers constantly gave them "A"'s in order to keep Mom and Dad from complaining to the Dean. Unfortunately, nobody explained to them the difference between and education and grade inflation so they tend to demonstrate poor spelling and even poorer grammar."

TechnoFreek

Really looking forward to the next bitmap books book.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

I always preferred Crash 1&2 to Mario 64 back when they came out. Just seemed more fun.

Im in shock...

Retr0gamer

One for Ciderman

DF retro covering Need for Speed

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-df-retro-the-need-for-speed

Digital Solitude

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I love you now and forever

Well... That old

:P

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Really looking forward to the next bitmap books book.

Holy **** :eek: that one totally slipped under my radar.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Im in shock...

PS1 4 Lyfe, yo!

In retrospect, Mario 64 is clearly a better game, but for 12 year old first stepping into 3D gaming properly in the mid 90s, the more linear, higher textured areas of PS1 games seemed a lot better and more developed than the empty spaces you could roam around in N64 3D games.

Bracken3000

Ah I think mario and crash where a bugsie wanna be

Doge

Loved crash 1 and 2 back in the day, Mario 64 doesnt appeal to me either besides loading it on my wii briefly and running around i havent really played it.

And from watching gameplays i dont really get the appeal either.

Spending most of your time just running around the place?

The two d games are Mario for me. At least in Crash theres always a bit of action going on.