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  2. Posted

    i'm being too trusting im sure but just posting what I would think if I came across the auction and it was some games I didn't have and wanted I would think for $10 and $15 shipping I would get these game CDs

     

    Tribes 2

    - Thief 2: The Metal Age

    - Commandos 2: Men of Courage

    - Earth 2150: Lost Souls

    - Future Cop: L.A.P.D.

    - Driver

    - Hidden & Dangerous

    - Heretic 2

     

    and the first disc of family guy season 2.

     

    so, what did you get?

     

    lemme guess...

     

    the games but no boxes or manuals?

     

    and the first disc of family guy season 2.

     

    Just to clarify, you feel that inside the box should have been (aside from the Family Guy DVD) 8 complete games (i.e. retail packaged, etc.) or just CDs?

  3. Posted

    If you had checked the feedback, you would have known that he was gonna send you copies of the games (probably in sleeves). :ponder:

     

    EDIT: Sorry, posted before reading your entire post. LOL

     

    All I'm going to say is that they weren't copies. They're real. I'm just interested in what everyone thinks they should see when they opened the package had they won.

  4. Posted

    A little thought experiment here. Without any details from me (other than the obvious fact that I won the auction), take a look at this auction and tell me exactly what you think the seller is offering, full details. Don't make any assumptions as to what I got in the mail, nor whether anything illegal was going on here. Just posit what you think you should find in the package once it arrived had you won. I'll explain later.

  6. Posted

    You're talking about Bill Alexander. He never said "happy little trees." Your memories are getting mixed. It's happened to me too.

     

    Ah-HA! William Alexander. That was him. And he did use "happy" quite frequently (one cite here). I rememered this because to this day I've never seen Bob Ross paint anything, which is why the whole "happy trees" thing triggered the memory -- I thought it was the same guy. After further research, this Wiki entry for William Alexander shows that Bob Ross was one of his disciples, so it looks like Ross got his whole "happy trees" thing from Bill.

  7. Posted · Edited by Mindfield

    Once again, if it looks legit, check the links! (Hover over them or view the raw text of the E-Mail to see what the links really point to) These spoofs will usually have an embedded link (usually the most important link, such as "open dispute panel" or "click here to go to your account" type links) that does not go to PayPal, or has an address that starts with "www.paypal.com" but when read will look like "www.paypal.com-whatever.info" which, for anyone who knows their domain structure, is simply the sub-domain "paypal" on server "com-whatever.info"

     

    Wherever humanly possible, do not click ANY links found in the E-Mails. Go to PayPal yourself and corroborate (or debunk) the claims of the E-Mail manually. For eBay phishes, ANY E-Mails sent to you from eBay will have a copy in your "My Messages" folder in your "My eBay." If you get an E-Mail that is ostensibly from eBay, go to My eBay yourself and check your messages. If the same message isn't there, it didn't come from eBay.

  9. Posted · Edited by Mindfield

    "Happy trees" was BR's most famous slogan. It even carried over into a runnin MTV gag. He died about 15 years ago, maybe his replacement tried to steal his schtick.

     

    This is a genius license if it ever comes to light. BR is the best character to stir press attention for a painting game.

     

    Actually, the guy I remember ran his painting series in the early 80s (we're talking '82-84 or so here). He'd knock out a complete nature scene in one half hour episode using various brush and pallette knife techniques 'n stuff -- he was actualy quite good (apparently as good as Bob here), but the guy i'm thinking of is, as I said, a balding European guy, German I think given that he spoke with a pronounced accent. An older guy, probably in his 50s or 60s at that time. My dad used to watch it all the time and I usually watched it with him (for no better reason than that he had the cable converter). I just recall that all his "happy little" descriptions of things he was painting at the moment.

     

    Buggered if I can remember his name, and I couldn't begin to figure out the proper Google Fu for this.

     

    EDIT: Alexander! His name was Alexander. Not sure if it was his first or last name, but I'm thinking first.

  10. Posted

    Slightly OT:

     

    Okay... why the hell is this guy noted for his "happy little trees?" I've been hearing that for several years now, and every time I hear it I think of a similar painting show they used to show on WNED (a Buffalo PBS station) with another painter, some balding German(?) guy whose name I can't remember, and his schtick was always "Happy little trees" and "a happy little stream" and so on.

  11. Posted · Edited by Mindfield

    Yeah I did that about mid-way through the auction, which was apparently too late because it didn't take. That wasn't an option the last time I tried to sell something there, so I didn't know about it. Stupid me, I guess.

     

    Well, hopefully the second highest bidder will take the deal -- or one of them will anyway, so it won't be a total loss. Fortunately I haven't gotten anyone whom I thought was completely clueless about what I was selling, but just to be on the safe side I repeatedly, explicitly, lay out in simple English anything I feel is an important point to make so that it is abundantly clear and there can be no arguments when the item arrives. I do this more for my own sake so I have written records in case there are problems -- then I have something to show PayPal as proof that the buyer's a dumbass. :) (I realize you did, too -- but some people just don't undestand basic concepts or the language they're written in, so there's really no help for it but to try and salvage what you can)

  14. Posted

    Not to worry Adam. I for one at least was more concerned with your disappearance and the possibility that my package was lost in the mail. I really didn't even consider the possibility of being scammed or anything like that. It was just unusual of you to disappear without a trace for so long, so I had to assume something that happened which had caused you to disappear from the 'net for a few months. It's good to see that you are back ... you've been a solid member of the community for quite some time so I can't see anyone holding a grudge. Shit, as they say, happens, and sometimes it is of our own making. All we can do is get out the pooper scooper and start bailing. :)

  15. Posted

    You ought to go into your preferences and check off the box that states you will not accept bids from anyone outside your accepted shipping regions. That way even if they wanted to your listings will reject their attempts to bid. (It's located in the same place in your preferences where you also deny bids from anyone with less than 0 feedback or more than 2 bid retractions in the past month)

  17. Posted

    Wow! welcome to today's edition of 'this 'ol thread' where we find there actually is someone with a random 2600 rom generation tool (of sorts.) How awesome :-) Now if only we can get the monkeys interested....

     

    Just tell 'em we're looking for a version of Donkey Kong Jr. that doesn't suck. :D

  19. Posted

    I've used 60/40 rosin core without any problems -- both for reflowing cracked joints and removing/resoldering entire ICs. I can't be bothered with silver + flux. Too much work. :D

  21. Posted

    I guess that brings up a question: Is there any kind of secret to picking locks? I break more damn lockpicks trying to secure all of the pins. I'll get three secured when, sho 'nuff, the fourth snaps 'em all back into place, breaking yet another freakin' pick.

     

    My character's skill at it has been improving fairly steadily, but I just can't seem to discern any useful rhythm or pattern.

     

    And just how do you pickpocket? Use the "grab" function to try and surreptitiously lift a belt pouch or set of keys?

  22. Posted

    And I certainly can't buy any (even assuming I can find a shop that has any) because the damn shopkeeps won't deal with me -- evidently I scare the shit out of anyone I try and talk to.

    You need to feed some to restore a more human appearance to yourself. Find some sleeping victims and have at it. Feeding won't kill them ;)

     

    Okay... then that brings us back to how feeding works. Is it a spell? Drain health or something?

  23. Posted

    Bugger me, but curing vampirism is a major pain in the ass. Fly all over the bloody country hunting down clues only to end up at a witches house who tells me she wants four greater soul gems in order to give me the secret of the cure. Four! I've never even found one! And I certainly can't buy any (even assuming I can find a shop that has any) because the damn shopkeeps won't deal with me -- evidently I scare the shit out of anyone I try and talk to.

     

    I appear to be doomed to be a blood-sucking night owl 'til I can scare up four of those damn gems.

     

    Wottapain.

  25. Posted · Edited by Mindfield

    So how do I know when I'm completely one? My stats tell me I've been a vampire for 3 days. Does that mean I am one or it's been 3 days since I became diseased? If so I'll have to drop by the church and get me some benediction. Skulking about at night might be fine for thieves and killers and stuff, but generally speaking shopkeeps don't much like doing business in the wee hours.

    Yeah you should be plenty "vampire enough"

     

    Another (in the long list of) really cool thing in Oblivion - don't feed for a while as a vampire and see how hideous you become in a few days!

     

    ...feed? To the best of my knowledge I haven't fed yet. (I don't know how!) I did notice my face was starting to get all Portrait of Dorian Gray, but I chalked that up to just being a vampire. Right then. Vicar!

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