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Well, as far as I am aware its only an online thing (so far) so still no reason to actually visit a Gamestop when eBay exists and is better for that sort of thing. Not sure of the point of game rentals in most cases either, wait a year and in most cases it will be down to five dollars used to own it forever. Just in case you end up actually liking the thing, you know.
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Cliff Racer posted:Well, as far as I am aware its only an online thing (so far) so still no reason to actually visit a Gamestop when eBay exists and is better for that sort of thing. I think the point is that you don't need to wait a year hth
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5er posted:If gravity takes over too much though, I expect WD is going to funnel them money or tech to keep them from entirely capitulating, as I'm sure they'd prefer to have one lovely competitor rather than get broken up as a monopoly. This is basically what's happening with Intel and AMD. While Intel is eating some serious poo poo in the mobile chip market thanks to ARM and cheap as hell Qualcomm chips, they're absolutely crushing AMD in the x86 market, which is a problem because there's really nobody else making x86 chips but Intel and AMD. AMD is also losing ground badly to both Intel and nvidia in the GPU market (nvidia for discreet GPU's, Intel because their onboard CPU graphics chips basically made GPU's obsolete in the low-end & laptop PC markets). Intel is afraid more than anything of AMD going under, because it means they'd be the only x86 game in town, which would set them up for monopoly busting. They're already under scrutiny for their ludicrous market share over AMD. So they've been funneling money to AMD for years to try and keep them afloat.
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Happy Bear Suit posted:speaking of games, is Zynga still alive? Ya online gambling is still pretty big
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Houle posted:I'd actually be an EBGames/GameStop customer if they had rentals. It was great to rent a game at Blockbuster knowing it is just a short campaign with the bare minimum of anything else attached to it. No need to spend 80CAD on something that is just the latest yearly instalment with ported over assets and minimal new content or scenarios attached to it. Especially with modern games, since your save is on your actual system so if you decide to buy the game later you can pick up where you left off, and not some crappy battery-backed memory on the cart. I remember renting Zelda when I was a kid  , and leaving a note in the box begging some stranger not to delete one of the save files since I was on the 4th dungeon or something. That was my first lesson in 'hell is other people.'
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JnnyThndrs posted:That was true until the RX-8 motor, unfortunately, Mazda blew it trying to eke out a few more HP. The old carbureted 12A's and N/A injected 13B's were very reliable. My previous car was a carbureted RX7, engine ran great 30 years into its life. However I decided to sell it because finding parts was more trouble than it was worth and also ~gently caress carburetors~
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Happy Bear Suit posted:speaking of games, is Zynga still alive? Zynga's still around and treading water, despite their attraction to draw in expired game developers who have utterly lost relevance, and a marketing executive who had a big hand in loving up the XBox market share. reallivedinosaur posted:Ya online gambling is still pretty big Yeah, you'd probably have to put effort into loving this up, if you've already got something running and pulling in money.
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Houle posted:I'd actually be an EBGames/GameStop customer if they had rentals. It was great to rent a game at Blockbuster knowing it is just a short campaign with the bare minimum of anything else attached to it. No need to spend 80CAD on something that is just the latest yearly instalment with ported over assets and minimal new content or scenarios attached to it. You already can get free rentals from them by buying a used game and returning it within a week for full refund.
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IIRC GameStop also bought/merged with Babbage's and Software Etc, which were the poo poo for late 90s/early 00s PC game purchases because they had the old "7 days, no questions asked, even if it's open" return policy right as CD burners were really becoming a big thing. Also nicer employees and sometimes a better selection. Now every mall in America that had one of each has a million GameStops because god forbid GS ever close a store. There's three of the drat things within two blocks at one of the malls where I used to live; one in the mall, one in a shopping center less than a half mile away, and one inside a Barnes and Noble down the street (Barnes and Noble owned GS until 2004). Also I'm pretty sure there's a GameStop in a strip mall within a quarter mile of every Walmart in Texas; it's probably just coincidence but it's pretty convenient if you can't remember where the GameStop is.
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Sydin posted:This is basically what's happening with Intel and AMD. While Intel is eating some serious poo poo in the mobile chip market thanks to ARM and cheap as hell Qualcomm chips, they're absolutely crushing AMD in the x86 market, which is a problem because there's really nobody else making x86 chips but Intel and AMD. AMD is also losing ground badly to both Intel and nvidia in the GPU market (nvidia for discreet GPU's I, too, like to buy the sort of graphics card that doesn't tell me SO what sort of porn I watch 
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TheKennedys posted:IIRC GameStop also bought/merged with Babbage's and Software Etc, which were the poo poo for late 90s/early 00s PC game purchases because they had the old "7 days, no questions asked, even if it's open" return policy right as CD burners were really becoming a big thing. Also nicer employees and sometimes a better selection. Now every mall in America that had one of each has a million GameStops because god forbid GS ever close a store. There's three of the drat things within two blocks at one of the malls where I used to live; one in the mall, one in a shopping center less than a half mile away, and one inside a Barnes and Noble down the street (Barnes and Noble owned GS until 2004). I had that as well. There used to be a Funcoland, a Babbage's in the mall, and a gamestop in a shopping center nearby. Then there was 3 gamestops within a 1 mile radus. I miss my Funcoland and Bbabbage's.
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PassTheRemote posted:I had that as well. There used to be a Funcoland, a Babbage's in the mall, and a gamestop in a shopping center nearby. Then there was 3 gamestops within a 1 mile radus. I miss my Funcoland and Bbabbage's. Gamestop/ebgames bought funcoland/babbages didn't they?
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reallivedinosaur posted:Gamestop/ebgames bought funcoland/babbages didn't they? Technically Babbage's bought Software Etc, then Barnes and Noble bought both Babbage's Etc. and Funco and merged them, then Funco was renamed Gamestop. B&N sold off Gamestop, now containing all the gaming stores in one monster shitpile, in 2004. e: Gamestop sucked up EBGames a year later, they're still technically their own brand but they're fully owned by GS now.
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Cubey posted:also ~gently caress carburetors~ no, gently caress you 
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Bonzo posted:Flikr now charges you to upload. No, they don't. They charge you to use their uploader tool which is this thing that sits down in your system tray, looks at the directories you tell it to monitor, and whenever it sees new photos in those directories it uploads them automatically. So basically they're charging you if you want to use Flickr to bulk-upload and backup every photo you take. If you're not doing that, if you don't set it up to automatically upload everything you stick on your PC as an archive, you can just upload the same way you always have through the browser without using the uploader tool.
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Phanatic posted:No, they don't. They charge you to use their uploader tool which is this thing that sits down in your system tray, looks at the directories you tell it to monitor, and whenever it sees new photos in those directories it uploads them automatically. So basically they're charging you if you want to use Flickr to bulk-upload and backup every photo you take. If you're not doing that, if you don't set it up to automatically upload everything you stick on your PC as an archive, you can just upload the same way you always have through the browser without using the uploader tool. Lol isn't that literally Google Photos
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Lol isn't that literally Google Photos Yes lol
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vyst posted:Yes lol No lol, because Google Photos downsamples and resizes every photo, similar to what Facebook does, and therefore isn't suitable as an archiving method. It's not actually storing your originals. If you rely on it as a backup and your hard drive crashes, your originals are gone. If you want Google to store the actual original files, then that's what Google Drive is for, and at $9.99/month for a terabyte vs. Flickr's $35/year for a pro account, well, they're not the same thing. Flickr's keywording and organization capabilities are at present a lot more flexible than Google Photos. Also, no nudes on Google Photos, they're just not allowed. The thing that Flickr has consistently been loving up for years now is not doing a real stock photo thing.
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Phanatic posted:No lol, because Google Photos downsamples and resizes every photo, similar to what Facebook does, and therefore isn't suitable as an archiving method. It's not actually storing your originals. If you rely on it as a backup and your hard drive crashes, your originals are gone. If you want Google to store the actual original files, then that's what Google Drive is for, and at $9.99/month for a terabyte vs. Flickr's $35/year for a pro account, well, they're not the same thing. Flickr's keywording and organization capabilities are at present a lot more flexible than Google Photos. Also, no nudes on Google Photos, they're just not allowed. how much is Flickr paying you?
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Phanatic posted:No lol, because Google Photos downsamples and resizes every photo, similar to what Facebook does, and therefore isn't suitable as an archiving method. It's not actually storing your originals. If you rely on it as a backup and your hard drive crashes, your originals are gone.  Also the Google thing is $9.99/month for a TB but $1.99/month for 100GB and if you have more than 100GB of photos you a) probably aren't using your phone to take photos and therefore b) probably have any of a million other photo upload/storage services that aren't Flickr e: I just checked and I'm at 5.85GB of usage of which 2.06 is files on my Drive, 1.81 of which is Gmail and only 1.97GB is Photos, and I've been backing my photos up automatically for a couple years now. Also that proves another point; Google's storage by volume may be pricier than Flickr's but it's about a million times more versatile Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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*Free* option on Google Photos only allows images up to 16MB in size and downsamples everything. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 01:39 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Phanatic posted:*Free* option on Google Photos only allows images up to 16MB in size and downsamples everything. It only downsamples if the photo is larger than 16MB which begs the question why the gently caress would you be using a phone-based backup service to store photos that big Like I don't know if Flickr is your real father or something but drat dude, it's a dying brand that's offering a service that Google does for free for 95% of people, and dozens of other sites have been offering for cheaper/better/more reliable for years. I dunno why you're so die-hard over it being so great. Flickr was poo poo even back in the old days anyway, good riddance
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Keep jerking off Flickr you faglord
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Coming in on the Gamestop thing, I'm pretty sure the store near me is some sort of lab rat for re-branding solutions. Recently-ish, they rented out the building next door in their strip mall for a month, and tried to organize all sorts of gaming events there like, they had a pokemon swap meet and a card game tourney. They did events for two weeks, got roughly zero attendance, and just let the extra space sit empty for their remaining two weeks. They tried to circulate some sort of rare games auction as well, the basic gist being that when you buy rare games online, you have no guarantee on the condition of the game. So bring all your collectibles to Gamestop, where underpaid teenagers will provide expert verification, and trade away. I got really curious and went down, there was one guy there trying to sell the N64 Mario game and who was looking for some PS2 game I had never heard of. Gamestop themselves brought their own finest to the table, showing off a whole collection of the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games. I never saw anyone that looked even vaguely like a manager, so maybe the employees have just gone feral.
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We have a chain bookstore here, Hastings, that changes it's primary business practices every few years to pretty good results. They started out as a music and books store in the 80s, then added VHS and videogame rentals in the early 90s. Then they expanded in to selling movies and games used and new, by selling off rental stock they had used up the time/usage contract on. Then they branched in to carrying a lot of collectibles and toys when they removed a lot of their magazines from the shelves. Then in the early 2000s they got heavy in to selling used consoles and peripheries, as well as boardgames and T-shirts/hoodies from games, shows and movies. Then for a bit they got heavy in to low priced TVs and tablets from unknown manufacturers. Then when Amazon got really big they stopped fighting them and really doubled down on carrying a lot of expensive nerd collectibles and buying up old comics in bulk auctions, to turn around and flip on Amazon while using their stores as warehouses for shipping them out quickly while not paying any extra for storage, becoming one of the larger Amazon sub-vendors. Now they've started carrying a lot of newer comics and pushing their image as a comic shop while also buying up old vinyl records and flipping those on Amazon, as well as carrying a ridiculously large amount of those Funko vinyl toys that people seem to be collecting now and hosting meet and greets with different writers and musicians on tours in their local stores in smaller towns. They've even started getting a lot more DnD and table game poo poo in their stores and hosting big game nights that they cater while having small sales on the related merchandise. I'm always pretty impressed with how incredibly fluid their practices seem to be.
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Booblord Zagats posted:We have a chain bookstore here, Hastings, that changes it's primary business practices every few years to pretty good results. They started out as a music and books store in the 80s, then added VHS and videogame rentals in the early 90s. Then they expanded in to selling movies and games used and new, by selling off rental stock they had used up the time/usage contract on. Then they branched in to carrying a lot of collectibles and toys when they removed a lot of their magazines from the shelves. Then in the early 2000s they got heavy in to selling used consoles and peripheries, as well as boardgames and T-shirts/hoodies from games, shows and movies. the last time i went into a hastings they had a palm reader at a table by the entrance
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Booblord Zagats posted:We have a chain bookstore here, Hastings, that changes it's primary business practices every few years to pretty good results. They started out as a music and books store in the 80s, then added VHS and videogame rentals in the early 90s. Then they expanded in to selling movies and games used and new, by selling off rental stock they had used up the time/usage contract on. Then they branched in to carrying a lot of collectibles and toys when they removed a lot of their magazines from the shelves. Then in the early 2000s they got heavy in to selling used consoles and peripheries, as well as boardgames and T-shirts/hoodies from games, shows and movies. These type of local businesses are an important means of employment for hot spooky emotionally damaged alternative girls a couple years older than you allowing you to meet them and then lose several years of your young life in a haze of angry sex and arguing before she dumps you and then suddenly ages really badly
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Kallev posted:Coming in on the Gamestop thing, I'm pretty sure the store near me is some sort of lab rat for re-branding solutions. Gamestop was really counting on that used game bullshit Microsoft had originally planned for the Xbox One taking off. Now they're hocking $3 warranties for games even if you damage it.
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My current employer, an eye bank. I've only been there 6 months, but I put in my resignation because it's obvious they have serious issues. My last day is next Friday. A former coworker put up a review on Glassdoor today, and it was pretty negative. He ended up taking it down (it was obvious who wrote it), but our executive director obviously saw it as well, and sent out an email to the whole staff to encourage them to write good things about the organization on there so people who are applying will see that (apparently a few interviewees have mentioned that they have looked at reviews on there). She of course left me off the email which was sent to everyone else in the organization, probably because she realizes I would trash the place. It's unfortunate, because it's a cool non-profit which does some really amazing work, and has decent pay and amazing benefits, but the work environment is so toxic and everything about how the place is run is so bad that everyone is miserable. I wouldn't be surprised if the place was taken over within the next year.
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I actually came in to post about Hastings too. They still rent games and movies which owns. If it weren't for a cool local game shop, Hastings would be my favorite in my town.
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i heard Turbo Snake is past the drain and digging for wads of hair and crud in the pipe
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Booblord Zagats posted:Hastings There was a Hastings around where I lived in the mid-late 90s. The guy who ran the music department kept it stocked with tons of weird, obscure poo poo that you couldn't find anywhere else. I used to love going there to buy music. I went back there a while back and it was totally different. Pretty much nothing but video games and movies. The music department was almost nonexistent. Kinda sad. Bought a handful of used Japanese horror movies for like $1 each, though!
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sometimes you need a lot of eyes at once and need to take out an eye loan
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Vastarien posted:There was a Hastings around where I lived in the mid-late 90s. The guy who ran the music department kept it stocked with tons of weird, obscure poo poo that you couldn't find anywhere else. I used to love going there to buy music. Yeah, I've been told the one here used to have half the store as the music dept and now it's just a small corner. Most of the space it had supposedly went to comics, board games, custom skate boards and NFL merc
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swims posted:The gently caress is an eye bank? you know that part in blade runner with the asian in the refrigerator.
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Sydin posted:It's not a public company but Spotify is probably going to eat poo poo in the next year or two. It was one thing when they were losing money hand over fist as the only game in town, but now they're losing money hand over fist and Apple Music is stealing all their paying subscribers.  gently caress I love spotify
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Irradiation posted:If you listen to anything on NPR other than the actual news and Car talk then you are what's wrong with white people. I listed to that saturday NPR cooking show and they talked about how awesome some moldy rear end tea was for like an hour.
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