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YourFavGrandpa

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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Hawkingbird in The Mega Technology Thread - Happy 3rd Birthday!   
    Expect new foldables, wearables, and new earbuds at this event. The time listed in the image is EDT, so 8am CDT/6am PDT for our west coasters.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from misterBee in The PC Gaming Thread, no console peasants allowed   
    Let me know how the experience goes. They have some really good HDD deals that I would probably bite on for my NAS enclosure.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    Which they don't really do a lot of the time. I delivered to exactly one set of lockers, maybe two in the 36 months I worked as a delivery contractor for them.

    Amazon, for their delivery operations; hires contractors in major cities to run those for them on a program called Flex. Same bullshit that Amazon does with micromanaging warehouse employees they do to their contractors. Miss the end of your block time or arrival time to the warehouse because of traffic too many times? You get booted off the platform with no chance to appeal. Happened to me, and before I opened my business a couple years ago I'd go into Dallas/Ft. Worth a few times a month and spend all day doing deliveries. I was bringing in an extra 4k every 45-60 days because I would be doing deliveries all day long from like 5am until 6 or 7 in the evening.

    They also recently settled with the FTC over stealing tips from Flex contractors, and I got a nice check for about $1200 as a result.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Reticently in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    Which they don't really do a lot of the time. I delivered to exactly one set of lockers, maybe two in the 36 months I worked as a delivery contractor for them.

    Amazon, for their delivery operations; hires contractors in major cities to run those for them on a program called Flex. Same bullshit that Amazon does with micromanaging warehouse employees they do to their contractors. Miss the end of your block time or arrival time to the warehouse because of traffic too many times? You get booted off the platform with no chance to appeal. Happened to me, and before I opened my business a couple years ago I'd go into Dallas/Ft. Worth a few times a month and spend all day doing deliveries. I was bringing in an extra 4k every 45-60 days because I would be doing deliveries all day long from like 5am until 6 or 7 in the evening.

    They also recently settled with the FTC over stealing tips from Flex contractors, and I got a nice check for about $1200 as a result.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Hawkingbird in The PC Gaming Thread, no console peasants allowed   
    A second post to my PC Woes:

    I've been up and running for about 1-2 weeks now on Intel Z690. Amazon fucked up when I ordered my motherboard and processor and sent me a 10th gen processor instead of a 12700 like I had ordered. Ended up with a Asrock Z690 Extreme motherboard as well. Wife ended up getting me a 12600k with some of her redeemable stuff from work, and I ended up with a Aquafusion cooler from Enermax (that works surprisingly well). Now instead of being a RGB hater, I like RGB now (and the fact that I can turn it all off makes it easier).


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    YourFavGrandpa reacted to axeman61 in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    Bet he heard "13" and got hard for half a second.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from OPTIMUS124 in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'm of the personal opinion he should have been banned long ago, and I ended up dunking on him after he pulled something like this on Stu (I believe) not too long ago. I am a person capable of immense restraint in the vast majority of instances; but tl;dr Zata needs to go, and he needs to go yesterday.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from DarkSakul in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'm of the personal opinion he should have been banned long ago, and I ended up dunking on him after he pulled something like this on Stu (I believe) not too long ago. I am a person capable of immense restraint in the vast majority of instances; but tl;dr Zata needs to go, and he needs to go yesterday.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'm of the personal opinion he should have been banned long ago, and I ended up dunking on him after he pulled something like this on Stu (I believe) not too long ago. I am a person capable of immense restraint in the vast majority of instances; but tl;dr Zata needs to go, and he needs to go yesterday.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Wellman in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
    I'm picking that game up on Friday. I sat down earlier to play the demo, next thing I know two hours had gone by. Had Hyrule Warriors been like this (with a steady damn near 60fps on Switch hardware), I probably would have put more time into the game. 
     
    That being said, I'm planning on surprising my wife with a Switch for Christmas this year. Here locally, they still have the Animal Crossing special edition one, the regular one like I have, and I've seen some Switch OLEDs around at Walmart. I'm tempted to just go for the OLED out of principle, but I have no clue what I would be spending the extra $50ish dollars on versus say the Animal Crossing one or a second one like I have.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Darc_Requiem in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
    I'm picking that game up on Friday. I sat down earlier to play the demo, next thing I know two hours had gone by. Had Hyrule Warriors been like this (with a steady damn near 60fps on Switch hardware), I probably would have put more time into the game. 
     
    That being said, I'm planning on surprising my wife with a Switch for Christmas this year. Here locally, they still have the Animal Crossing special edition one, the regular one like I have, and I've seen some Switch OLEDs around at Walmart. I'm tempted to just go for the OLED out of principle, but I have no clue what I would be spending the extra $50ish dollars on versus say the Animal Crossing one or a second one like I have.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
    when she was big into Animal Crossing, that shit was on our TV all fucking day and night. So yeah, Animal Crossing model it is.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
    I'm picking that game up on Friday. I sat down earlier to play the demo, next thing I know two hours had gone by. Had Hyrule Warriors been like this (with a steady damn near 60fps on Switch hardware), I probably would have put more time into the game. 
     
    That being said, I'm planning on surprising my wife with a Switch for Christmas this year. Here locally, they still have the Animal Crossing special edition one, the regular one like I have, and I've seen some Switch OLEDs around at Walmart. I'm tempted to just go for the OLED out of principle, but I have no clue what I would be spending the extra $50ish dollars on versus say the Animal Crossing one or a second one like I have.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The Shmup Lounge   
    iirc, I have a PS4 copy on order with them but I've heard exactly nada on when it'll ship

    edit: Does anyone know if both Psikyo collections are available in NA on Switch? Looks like I'm importing both Psikyo collections from Amazon Japan on Switch, because fuck people scalping the English versions of those collections. 
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from DarkSakul in The PC Gaming Thread, no console peasants allowed   
    A bit of an addendum to this. I'm posting from her computer right now, due to the fact my CPU has bent pins on it. I've got new Z690 parts in-house, but am waiting for my updated cooling bracket from Noctua before reassembling the PC tomorrow afternoon.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from DarkSakul in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'd still bang the hell out of her, no matter her age.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Darc_Requiem in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from MillionX in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'd still bang the hell out of her, no matter her age.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from J-ride in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'd still bang the hell out of her, no matter her age.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from iStu X in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'd still bang the hell out of her, no matter her age.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from DangerousJ in The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition   
    I'd still bang the hell out of her, no matter her age.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Wellman in The Nintendo Switch Thread   
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from RSG3 in The Shmup Lounge   
    from my understanding, they could not get the game running full speed on Switch. Which is why it's on PS4 (and subsequently expensive to import, as there's only the Korean version)
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from Hawkingbird in The PC Gaming Thread, no console peasants allowed   
    She said a couple of days ago that we didn't need to buy one right away. So, I'll probably hold out for the 40 series (and wait a few months more for pricing/inventory to stabilize) before buying one.
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    YourFavGrandpa got a reaction from DarkSakul in The Mega Technology Thread - Happy 3rd Birthday!   
    I'm partial to the Samsung Galaxy series now that I have a maxed out S22 Ultra. Depends on how much you want to spend tbh. 

    For $1000 (if you're so inclined to pay that much), you can get flagship-quality phones from Google and OnePlus. Also the OnePlus 9/9 Pro definitely need consideration, as I believe they've dropped the prices on those phones now that the 10 Pro is out. The Pixel is highly subjective due to MKBHDs issues with the Pro model, although that's not an indicator of the vast majority of experiences.
     


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