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BaronVanAwesome
Sep 11, 2001

I will never learn the secrets of "Increased fake female boar sp..."

Never say never, buddy.
Now you know.
Now we all know.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey fellas, have you been disappointed by the lack of grandma gothic print underwear for men? Well then I have a treat for you.


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32935116485.html

Aw yeah, make your butt look like a grandma couch.

I...actually really like it

Especially if it has the velour texture

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Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey fellas, have you been disappointed by the lack of grandma gothic print underwear for men? Well then I have a treat for you.


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32935116485.html

Aw yeah, make your butt look like a grandma couch.

I am an elegant woman made of class and fanciness and I want these.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey fellas, have you been disappointed by the lack of grandma gothic print underwear for men? Well then I have a treat for you.


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32935116485.html

Aw yeah, make your butt look like a grandma couch.
Any guesses as to what the "tile waist" measurement could be? The rise? It's much smaller than the waist measurement.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




BaronVanAwesome posted:

I...actually really like it

Especially if it has the velour texture

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I am an elegant woman made of class and fanciness and I want these.

Of course you like them, everyone likes them. Grandma prints are the best.

taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

Hirayuki posted:

Any guesses as to what the "tile waist" measurement could be? The rise? It's much smaller than the waist measurement.

Thigh?

uranium grass
Jan 15, 2005

Anyone seen a decent price for those black round spheres that are for air layering plants? Not having much luck searching.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

subpar anachronism posted:

Anyone seen a decent price for those black round spheres that are for air layering plants? Not having much luck searching.

This? https://www.aliexpress.com/af/air-layering-plant-propagator-pod.html

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


More retro gaming:

This seems like a legit 8bitdo controller once I got it in my hands. Very nice quality. I went with the RF version as this is only for my MegaDrive setup. The bluetooth edition will work with PCs etc.


Because having a Super UFO Floppy Disk reader on my SNES isn't enough:








Humphreys fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Aug 5, 2020

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Humphreys posted:

More retro gaming:

This seems like a legit 8bitdo controller once I got it in my hands. Very nice quality. I went with the RF version as this is only for my MegaDrive setup. The bluetooth edition will work with PCs etc.

I think 8bitdo actually sell on Ali so it may be?

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


bowmore posted:

I think 8bitdo actually sell on Ali so it may be?

I thought it was, now I am fairly positive it's legit I can buy the other ones I want for various consoles

Snackula
Aug 1, 2013

hedgefund wizard

bowmore posted:

I think 8bitdo actually sell on Ali so it may be?

Yeah I've dealt with 8bitdo official and AKNES a bunch and it's all on the up and up. AKnes tend to throw in a storage pouch or something and come in at the same price as the official store.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad



https://ae-cn.alicdn.com/XVnb1jLjHDyFlNW17aT/lUGK3WkHX7waONgs1W4__hd.mp4

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33000391194.html

Brb setting up my own RAMMSTEIN concert in my garden.

(lol at one of the keywords in the title WEDDING PARTY /immolates bride in her flammable dress)

HELLOMYNAMEIS___
Dec 30, 2007

Be the king of the beach with giant inflatables!.

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

Be the king of the beach with giant inflatables!.


Does it include stick guy, or will my barrel flop to the ground dissapointingly?

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


:gifttank:I swear baby this never happens to me.

Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey fellas, have you been disappointed by the lack of grandma gothic print underwear for men? Well then I have a treat for you.


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32935116485.html

Aw yeah, make your butt look like a grandma couch.

Too late.

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

Humphreys posted:

More retro gaming:

This seems like a legit 8bitdo controller once I got it in my hands. Very nice quality. I went with the RF version as this is only for my MegaDrive setup. The bluetooth edition will work with PCs etc.


Because having a Super UFO Floppy Disk reader on my SNES isn't enough:










whoah do you also have the battlemaster keyboard?

George RR Fartin
Apr 16, 2003




HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:

Be the king of the beach with giant inflatables!.


Stick dude accidentally evoking Tienanmen Square, whoops

Moo the cow
Apr 30, 2020

Shlomo Palestein posted:

Stick dude accidentally evoking Tienanmen Square, whoops

Why would a tank evoke a memory of a tourist attraction where nothing bad has ever happened and 'hello' to the officers who are reading this and also watching my TikTok videos.

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



Absolutely in love with this aesthetic, please play Hong Kong 97 on it

bar88537
Nov 8, 2004

That and the related products look like the thinnest tent/parachute material.

uranium grass
Jan 15, 2005


These are the ones but there don't seem to be a lot of sales by those vendors.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Pick posted:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32922790695.html?spm=a2g0s.12269583.0.0.4cee13efH5LT5c

These kitchen shears are exceptional but HOLY gently caress they are serious business.



Pick posted:

We get spoiled by free shipping, even when it's kind of fake and built-in. However, I would say the shears are definitely worth it for 20 bucks total.

Ali express has been great, it has made me much cheaper across-the-board, where I was already pretty cheap. But every once in a while you do have to be willing to pay more than three dollars for something, I know, it pisses me off too :argh:

So apparently bitching about the cost of shipping in this thread actually lowers the price.

It was $8 to ship but now it’s $0.74 lol. Ordered these because the cutters I have now are kinda poo poo.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



NoneMoreNegative posted:



https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33000391194.html

Brb setting up my own RAMMSTEIN concert in my garden.

(lol at one of the keywords in the title WEDDING PARTY /immolates bride in her flammable dress)

Suddenly everywhere in the middle east being on fire makes a lot of sense.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Shibawanko posted:

whoah do you also have the battlemaster keyboard?

That is that?

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

Shlomo Palestein posted:

Stick dude accidentally evoking Tienanmen Square, whoops

I've probably told this story somewhere before on SA and it's obviously not too surprising but when I lived in China in the mid-2000's, I was discussing this event with a colleague about my same age and he had no concept it even happened, getting quite upset that I would even insinuate that.

We ended up doing a Google Image Search (Google hadn't completely bailed yet) vs Baidu - the simple phrase of Tiananmen Square on Google resulted in hundreds of the iconic photo of the dude standing in front of the tank; Baidu - mostly pictures of the Square Plaza itself.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

sticksy posted:

I've probably told this story somewhere before on SA and it's obviously not too surprising but when I lived in China in the mid-2000's, I was discussing this event with a colleague about my same age and he had no concept it even happened, getting quite upset that I would even insinuate that.

We ended up doing a Google Image Search (Google hadn't completely bailed yet) vs Baidu - the simple phrase of Tiananmen Square on Google resulted in hundreds of the iconic photo of the dude standing in front of the tank; Baidu - mostly pictures of the Square Plaza itself.

I had a similar experience in university with a Chinese classmate, except when we went "Oh, you can look at the pictures online," she started screaming and begging us not to show her so she wouldn't know anything.

Also, when I was actually living in China,

1. There was that blowup about how dare Taylor Swift name her album TS 1989 or whatever, because Chinese people were buying the TS 1989-emblazoned merch and wearing it unironically (as far as anyone would admit, of course.)

2. Before I arrived, a disgruntled teacher who had been fired by the overseas school program reported them for having a book, as in one book, in the teacher's office that had one picture of Tank Man in it. The result was that foreigners were banned from teaching history in our province for a year or so.

3. When the ability to teach history was reinstated, our boss charged his secretary with using a black marker to hide a Tienanmen mention in all the new books. Secretary isn't stupid and asks the foreigners to explain why she has to keep marking out this single sentence. They weren't stupid so they told her they couldn't say anything about it, but that if she looked it up, she should use a VPN. Dunno how it resolved, but I thought it was kind of funny at the time.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Pretty good posted:

Absolutely in love with this aesthetic, please play Hong Kong 97 on it

A very 'interesting' game




Obviously was NOT on the cart so I tracked it down. Works on the SD card and Floppy.

Pretty good
Apr 16, 2007



:worship:

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

Humphreys posted:

That is that?

Woops i meant "battletron", its a really cheap mechanical keyboard that i bought, your keycaps look the same

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Shibawanko posted:

Woops i meant "battletron", its a really cheap mechanical keyboard that i bought, your keycaps look the same

Could be a rebrand, as Kogan just rebrands poo poo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY2g0XL17gU

I got mine for $30 each with some promos, and I really like them.

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013

Humphreys posted:

Could be a rebrand, as Kogan just rebrands poo poo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY2g0XL17gU

I got mine for $30 each with some promos, and I really like them.

mine has a different base but the same keycaps, rgb also has different patterns so i guess internally its a different keyboard, i like the keys though because theyre super loud which is what i want

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad



:hmmyes:

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

drat, I'll take ten

Snackula
Aug 1, 2013

hedgefund wizard
What's happening with all those similar looking keyboards is they just use the same keycaps. You can just pop them off and replace them if you're not into the 2005 forum signature aesthetic but even a bargain set of keycaps tends to cost >$20.

Propaganda Machine
Jan 2, 2005

Truthiness!

Humphreys posted:

A very 'interesting' game




Obviously was NOT on the cart so I tracked it down. Works on the SD card and Floppy.

Have you seen the Angry Video Game Nerd episode about this game? Also, that drat soundtrack loop is stuck in my head now, thanks :mad:

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Humphreys posted:

Post your board photos, also the revision in the software. I'll make an effort over the next few days to do so aswell so we have some idea of what's going on, because mine has the RTC battery mounted off the board, but only has two wires through the DIN to the iron itself. But by magic the iron knows when I pick it up!

As requested:

Board images


No visible clearance issues, everything appears to be connected. Not so sure about sticking the RTC battery to a heatsink with a piece of thermal interface material, but I'm no engineer.

Soldering was a little sloppy though.


Firmware


Right now it just shows a very friendly ERROR which evidently could be a number of things, although I'm inclined to think it's a connection issue with the solder tip, since moving the wire around will clear it for a moment. Five wires to the iron handle, no idea how many of them are connected to anything on the controller side.

infernal machines fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Aug 6, 2020

Duckula
Aug 31, 2001

do not resuscitate


Amazingly these showed up today meaning they took 4 days to get to the UK from China which doesn't seem possible. Will post build pics soon.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Probably came from a UK warehouse.

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bar88537
Nov 8, 2004

thepopmonster posted:

If, for name-brand consumer electronics delivered in good working order (including 3rd party vendors):

Aliexpress is a 1
Walmart is a 2
Amazon is a 3.5 or so now they don't bin items from different vendors (counterfeit samsung microsd)
Newegg is a 4
Costco is a 5


This is from a few pages back, but 3rd party sellers really ruined all of these, except maybe Costco because I've only ever been in the store and don't know about their 3rd parties online. You're right that Amazon has gotten a better, but there was a time when I would go to a Walmart store for things like SD cards or chargers because somehow Walmart had better quality than what I was getting online. Of course, everyone started to mimic Amazon and every large site is garbage if you don't pay attention to who the seller is, otherwise you're just better off getting things from Ali

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