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FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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ChairMaster posted:

Hey so I looked up the price of a PS4 on Amazon a week ago and it was $449, but then the next day it was on sale for $399 and it said they were out of stock and they'd have some back soon. So then today I look it up and it's back in stock but they're back up to $449.

It told me I had the option to place an order for one when they were out of stock and they'd send me one when they had some and they'd only charge my card at that point. If I did that would they have only charged me $399 for one or would they have been like "hey those are in stock but they're $449 now we just had that other price for when we had none so do you still want one or what"?

Is it Amazon selling it at the $449 or is it a third-party seller?

EDIT: It looks like it's the two different bundles, the $449 being the Destiny bundle and the $399 being the stand-alone console edition.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 19:34

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# ¿ Dec 15, 2025 06:04

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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ChairMaster posted:

I should have mentioned that this is Amazon.ca (everything costs more money in Canada even when our dollar is worth as much as yours), not amazon.com.

The bundle in question was The Last Of Us remastered bundle, and it was being sold by Amazon.

I imagine they would've charged you the $399 in that case. I know the US site has the pre-order guarantee that the price you order it at will be the price you're charged so I don't see why it'd be any different in a situation like this.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2014 19:42

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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When did AA batteries start selling as a consumer good?

# ¿ Oct 17, 2014 14:06

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Okay, so what would happen if someone who wasn't eligible for President of the United States won a presidential election with a write-in vote? Like if it was Ozzy Osbourne, who was born in the UK or Optimus Prime who is a fictional character AND born outside of the United States, were the winners of the election. Would the 2nd-place person be given the position or would they hold another election? Would the votes for ineligible people just be voided?

# ¿ Nov 4, 2014 14:55

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

In my political theory courses back in undergrad, we had to take intro to political thought class. There was one dude who's work was basically protecting the minority from the majority. One key part was something like: "even if the minority is wrong, there are still benefits, one example being that the majority must now rationally explain their stance". Or something like that. Who was that and what was the work?

John Stuart Mill Maybe?

John Rawls.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2015 22:21

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Baldbeard posted:

Does anyone know of any literature or documentary that focuses on how two strangers learn each others completely foreign languages?

I've always been fascinated by the idea of early traders/travelers who had to learn new languages with zero resources. Specifically the point when they could move beyond pointing to things and using single words to articulating abstract ideas.

Maybe even a novel that has discovering a new language as a central theme?
Thanks.

You could always try the novel Shogun. It's about an English guy who crashes in Japan and has to learn the language there. There's also an old TV Mini-series based on the novel that's pretty good too.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 16:55

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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midnightclimax posted:

Looking for a good book that explores the black death and its effects on politics and society of medieval Europe.
Maybe with less focus on its biological properties, because that seems to be changing all the time.

Barbara Tuchman's book called A Distant Mirror is about the whole 14th century and covers the wars and the plague and the politics and all of that kind of stuff.

http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirro...+Distant+Mirror

That's an Amazon link to it.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 17:00

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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I'm going across the country on an AmTrak train tonight and I was just curious if there were any little things I should be aware of while either in the stations or on board. I've never been on a train before, so I'm a little nervous, I guess.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2015 18:50

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Gobbeldygook posted:

Why are you taking Amtrak instead of Greyhound? Amtrak will usually take as long or longer even if nothing goes wrong but jokes on you they will literally ALWAYS run several hours behind schedule and cost more than a comparable Greyhound route.

I'm not paying for it, someone else did. Even if I wanted to take a Grayhound, the ticket for the train is already purchased and it leaves tonight. It looks a helluva lot more comfortable on the train than a bus too. Regardless, even if it takes a little longer, I'll be on the train playing on my PS Vita and/or using my computer with the Wi-Fi, which is exactly what I'd be doing at home. My time is completely worthless.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2015 19:38

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

What's the best way to find reputable painters to paint a room in my house? I don't know where to begin to look and I'm incompetent and can't do it myself.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2015 16:29

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

Mister Macys posted:

I don't care how stupid this sounds, but...

What's that pop song that has, "woooo ooh OOH (higher pitch) ooh..."? It's relatively slow for rock, and starts with guitar, and everytime it's on the radio I never hear the artist's name.

It's not "No Rain" by Blind Melon, is it? It starts with a slow guitar and the "Wooo ooh OOH ooh" matches...

# ¿ Oct 6, 2015 16:46

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Captain Bravo posted:

I'm pretty sure you've mixed up the individual and family names. Japanese structure theirs the opposite of the Western World, the family name is first. So Kojiro Hongo should be a man named "Hongo" who comes from the "Kojiro" family.

This is assuming, of course, that whoever translated the credits from japanese into english didn't also reverse the names, which I admit is a possibility.

The names are in Western order here. Akira, Kojiro, and Kyoko are all given names.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2016 01:53

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

I just saw a strange thing in the sky when I was letting my dog out. It looked like a flame moving very fast horizontally and then it just disappeared. It didn't look like a shooting star, it looks more like the end of a lit cigarette or a large piece of flaming debris from a fire pit. It didn't have a tumbling motion like you'd expect from an ember though. Just curious as to what it could be. I don't think it was lights on a plane or a helicopter, especially since it just disappeared while I was looking at it. Any ideas what it could be?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2025 01:37

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Yngwie Mangosteen posted:

A slightly larger meteor that had broken up, I've seen them once or twice before when camping in the middle of nowhere. It's cool as heck.

That makes sense. It would explain how it just kinda fizzled away while I was tracking it. It's just been a while since I've seen something that made me go "What the hell is that?"

MyronMulch posted:

It might help to say where you were and which direction you were facing, as well as the time, and maybe someone could correlate it with a rocket launch, for example.

Central Alabama, I saw it like five minutes before my post, and I was facing south. I don't think many rockets are going on in southern Alabama. Huntsville is to my north and they do rocket stuff but I don't know if I'd be able to see anything from there even if I were facing that direction.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2025 02:11

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but I'm trying to figure out what this little ceramic figure a buddy of mine has. It has a stamp on the bottom that says it was made in Japan. It looks like a little marshmallow monster pushing his eyes up and down, so my first thought is some sort of yokai? Any ideas?

# ¿ Apr 29, 2025 18:28

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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rear end science rules

# ¿ May 15, 2025 19:01

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Slimy Hog posted:

I had a pcp I'd never met do my vasectomy... So I guess strangers?

I know angel dust causes people to do wild things but this is something else!

# ¿ May 17, 2025 03:53

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

Flies add flavor bombs to toast though.

# ¿ May 23, 2025 19:38

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

Is there a way to mend big holes in some pants that isn't very noticeable? My dog just chewed some holes in my wife's pants and I can't find another pair to replace them. This is the big one that is on the thigh.

Am I screwed or is this possible?

# ¿ Jun 19, 2025 00:51

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Tao of the Machine posted:

How much trouble are you in?

I'm not in trouble but I want to hopefully make her feel better and also let her wear her new pants.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2025 01:19

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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HopperUK posted:

I agree with what Czar said. You *could* fold the edges and ladder stitch it with matching thread but it'd still show and be a little pinched place. A patch might be the way to go - I wouldn't try to match, I'd go cute, like a patch with a fun shape or colour. That's too ragged to fix invisibly I think, that'd be 'ask a professional tailor' time.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. The pants were inexpensive enough that it's probably not worth the cost of a professional to repair it. I volunteer with some women who have sewing talents and they said they would take a look at them so we'll see what they can do. Thanks to everyone who gave their advice here, I appreciate the help.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2025 03:19

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

Ironhead posted:

Do you have any friends that work in theater?

My wardrobe girls have fixed tons of poo poo for me, as long as I keep the candy bowl full during tech week.

One of the real nice older ladies real quick stitched up the crotch of my pants that I blew out in the middle of a show, while I was still wearing them. She charged me a high five and some snickers.

Unfortunately not, but I have surrounded myself with plenty of retired housewives who treat me like a grandchild for whatever reason, so there are many excellent sewers (...is that the right word?) in that demographic. They've offered to look at it this weekend when I'm volunteering, so we'll see what happens there.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2025 03:58

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

Ironhead posted:

We call them Stitchers, although I have no idea if that's a theater thing or a real world thing. Good luck bud!

I gotta say, Stitchers sounds like a cyberpunk gang.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2025 04:01

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

There's always the option of the Saints Row series too. I started playing Saints Row 2 for the first time last night and I've been having a blast with it. It's not GTA but it scratches a similar itch.

FrumpleOrz fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jun 21, 2025

# ¿ Jun 21, 2025 19:11

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Shrecknet posted:

Saints Row 3 and 4 is GTA minus the cringey edgelord "jokes" like naming the scooter the Faggio and plus actual jokes like the Alien Conqueror interrupting Sublime's "What I Got" on the radio to sing along with it. Saints Row 4 introduces Orb Collecting from Crackdown and is all the more awesome for it.

I haven't played much of GTA5 but I remember being kinda surprised by how much swearing was in the opening hour or so. Really turned me off of the game. I know it's about criminals and murderers but it made me realize I had kinda aged out of that game's audience. I don't think I'm much of a prude but that was one of those eye-opening things about how I viewed myself. Maybe I really am an adult now.

EDIT: Well, I just found the septic truck missions in Saints Row 2 and am laughing at that stupid thing so maybe I'm completely full of poo poo.

FrumpleOrz fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jun 21, 2025

# ¿ Jun 21, 2025 21:29

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

The best thing about Saints Row over GTA is that you don't have to hammer the A button to run like you're playing a Track & Field game.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2025 01:00

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

I'd imagine there would be perjury charges if you testified too.

# ¿ Jun 23, 2025 00:58

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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alnilam posted:

I think legally speaking, the court is required to play Alex Trebek saying "This! Is! Jeopardy!” when jeopardy activates, so that would be a good timing point to use

That's Johnny Gilbert's line!!!!

# ¿ Jun 23, 2025 01:22

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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Why in the world did Dyson give their Ball line of vacuums that name? The Dyson Sphere name is right there.

# ¿ Jun 26, 2025 21:00

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Is there a reason why bags of Tostitos are minimizing the word "tortilla" on their bag? I bought a bag of the Hint Of Lime flavor today and the bag calls them "Hint of Lime Flavored Triangles." It does say "tortilla chips" in small print in the lower left of the bag's front. Why emphasize the shape rather than what the chip is made out of?

Hyperlynx posted:

Is there any actual real substance which usually gets stored in barrels and explodes violently when shot?

It's funny, my wife had paid absolutely no attention to video games before I came around and she was so confused by all of the exploding barrels that existed in gaming. It was something I had never even thought about until then. One of those bits of shorthand that doesn't make sense if you weren't already immersed in the medium.

CrazySalamander posted:

I suspect the closest thing you will find is tannerite which is used to blow things up for fun by shooting it. I�m sure that there has been some festival where they have put in barrels so people can blow them up.

A buddy of mine used to empty out these Wolfgang Puck scented candle cans from the dollar store and fill them with tannerite to shoot in the woods with his friends. A bit dangerous for my blood but he seemed to love it.

# ¿ Jun 28, 2025 22:10

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

QR Code Geass posted:

Isn't that whole area a little iffy?

I'm not sure what you mean here. What is iffy?

tight aspirations posted:

what was the first video game with exploding barrels? commando? desert strike?

Does being able to shoot the fuel tanks in River Raid count? There's also this video about exploding barrels that Ahoy made. I watched it a while back and thought it was pretty good though I don't remember many details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMYEE8lvlvA

# ¿ Jun 28, 2025 23:07

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

QR Code Geass posted:

Is it nice under that rock?

This is the reference, btw

As a huge early Simpsons fan, I am disappointed that I didn't catch that. I even like season 8!

# ¿ Jun 29, 2025 00:10

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Paladinus posted:

I don't think it had anything to do with copyrighted content, your screen is just dying.

It's this. Lights are dying inside. Happened to me last year.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2025 19:12

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

It's not quite the same but Jonathan Davis from Korn co-opted a friend's abuse story for the song "Daddy" and it took a while for people to figure out it wasn't actually Davis' story.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2025 17:23

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

I drive my car from the back seat just like in the recurring nightmares I have that are in no way a metaphor for how I view my life.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2025 00:22

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

alnilam posted:

MY OTHER CAR IS a strange open air bus wildly careening around windy cliffside roads and I'm holding on for dear life and constantly almost falling out into the abyss

And when you finally reach your stop, it's at the high school you've been skipping class at all semester and it's test day!

# ¿ Jul 13, 2025 05:28

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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You can go there for too much fun.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I used to have dreams that my middle school discovered that I never took the health class they offered, and somehow my entire adult life was invalidated until I went back there, crammed my rear end into one of those tiny desk-and-chair arrangements, and sat through a class surrounded by children.

I didn't use to have those school dreams until the last couple of years but I've been getting them fairly often now. I was getting similar dreams where I had forgotten to upload the inventory files for the Amazon and eBay accounts for the job I left a decade ago. I'm sure there have been plenty of studies about it that I haven't read but I find it fascinating how universal those dreams. At least I assume they're universal, though I imagine they'd take different forms in the Global South. The curious state of existence and all that.

# ¿ Jul 14, 2025 02:35

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
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DildenAnders posted:

There's a more specific answer here, skinheads arose as a working-class alternative to hippie culture in Britain (ironically enough heavily inspired by Jamaican immigrants and explicitally anti-racist). The short hair was a signifier that they worked industrial jobs (need to keep it short or it'll get caught in machinery, though I'm sure there was some military influence as well). Not sure exactly how, but the skinhead movement got co-opted by neonazis and white supremacists, became highly visible, and spread the skinhead aesthetic around as a symbol of white-supremacy and hatred.

This fact always makes some old ska and two-tone songs a strange listen. "Skinhead Girl" immediately comes to mind, where the narrator of the song is talking about how he loves his skinhead girl with her hair cut short and her boots & braces; all stuff the Skrewdriver and later white power bands stole from that whole ska scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wzt2ywYSrI

A lot of the shift towards Nazi stuff for skinheads originated in the UK because of working class men struggling during the various crises that happened in the late 70s and early 80s, which made them easy targets for the far-right parties like the BNP and National Front. The British white power bands like the aforementioned Skrewdriver established the skinhead look elsewhere as their music was distributed worldwide. I suppose it's just like any other music subculture that spreads in that sense, it's just, y'know, the evil version of all of that. It probably didn't help that a lot of punk bands who weren't racist used Nazi imagery and iconography as shock value, which was misinterpreted by others to be serious. There's the fairly famous outfit Sid Vicious wore that was the red shirt with the swastika in the middle. I don't know what Sid's views on any of that stuff but I doubt he had any coherent political believes. He was a little too dumb and way too fond of heroin. That punk shock stuff was a lot like the "ironic racism" that was popular online in places like 4chan and here, for better or worse.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2025 12:50

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Silver Falcon posted:

Also, sometimes bands play a different version of a song live than what they have on their album.

A very specific example is AC/DC's "The Jack." Completely different lyrics when they play it live vs. what's on the album.

If I remember right, Nirvana would have different lyrics for the song "Tourettes" whenever they played it live.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2025 17:04

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# ¿ Dec 15, 2025 06:04

FrumpleOrz: Feb 12, 2014; Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Shrecknet posted:

I've always understood it as the mix being 5.1 when most people have at best a 2.0 soundbar so the audio from the left and right (where the actor are standing) is clipped off while the explosions, front-and-center get max volume treatment.

If you have an actual 5.1 setup the issues disappear

Absolutely not the case. I don't have the highest end sound system but it does not solve the general mixing issues.

# ¿ Jul 19, 2025 14:17

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