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Massacre in Fable Land

Before reading this, you might want to know ungsunghero was really really drunk.

DISCLAIMER: This conversation in no way depicts how we act in real life. Neither of us has multiple wives nor like beating women. I do have a sword though… hmmmmmm. Decapitating someone does sound extremely fun…

Krunk4Ever: i’m married to 3 woman right now.
ungsunghero: hahaha
Krunk4Ever: one in each village
Krunk4Ever: though i want to get rid of one.
ungsunghero: being a b!tch?
Krunk4Ever: well
Krunk4Ever: just wanted a way to dump one ;p
ungsunghero: kill her
Krunk4Ever: that’s mean
ungsunghero: you’ll get like -60000 alignment
ungsunghero: punch her around
ungsunghero: flirt in front of her
ungsunghero: eventually she’ll hate it
ungsunghero: and leave you
Krunk4Ever: she’ll hate em?
Krunk4Ever: me*
ungsunghero: yes
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: right now
Krunk4Ever: all i get is
Krunk4Ever: i’m the luckiest girl in the world
ungsunghero: damn
ungsunghero: she must really really like you
ungsunghero: i know
ungsunghero: lower your attractiveness
Krunk4Ever: and i do flirt and do arm pumps in front of her
ungsunghero: raise your scariness, if you can
ungsunghero: are you flirting with her? or other girls?
Krunk4Ever: oh u want me to flirt w/ other girls
Krunk4Ever: well
ungsunghero: yes!
Krunk4Ever: i did that too
ungsunghero: give other girls gifts too
Krunk4Ever: and now all they ask me are for wedding rights
Krunk4Ever: so i dont bother
Krunk4Ever: flirting anymore
ungsunghero: punch her then
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: that’s mean
ungsunghero: look
ungsunghero: you want her out of your life, right?
ungsunghero: oh i know
ungsunghero: the #1 easiest way to do it is
ungsunghero: sell your house
ungsunghero: w/no house, she won’t stay
Krunk4Ever: i dont think u can sell the house
Krunk4Ever: once u marry
ungsunghero: damn
ungsunghero: i think you’re right
Krunk4Ever: i was looking for tha sign
Krunk4Ever: but it disappeared!
ungsunghero: i know
ungsunghero: can you have her follow you out of town?
Krunk4Ever: what happens then?
Krunk4Ever: take her to a place w/ monsters?
ungsunghero: have her get killed by an enemy
Krunk4Ever: and get her attacked?
ungsunghero: hahahah
ungsunghero: yes!
ungsunghero: dude
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: try it!
Krunk4Ever: interesting…
ungsunghero: worst case scenario…it doesn’t work
Krunk4Ever: when u have the follow me on
Krunk4Ever: does guild seal
Krunk4Ever: take them elsewhere too?
ungsunghero: i believe so
ungsunghero: if not, just walk
Krunk4Ever: i was wondering what happens if she follows meto another city where i have a wife
ungsunghero: catfight!
ungsunghero: man
ungsunghero: you got me thinking
ungsunghero: lady grey once told me, after we were married, that if i even thought about flirting with another woman, she’d cut her head off
ungsunghero: hmmmmmmm
Krunk4Ever: haha
…
Krunk4Ever: i feel bad now
Krunk4Ever: my wife just gave me a chainmail
Krunk4Ever: when i met her
ungsunghero: dude
ungsunghero: at that stage in the game?
ungsunghero: what a crappy gift!
ungsunghero: off with her head!
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: boo
ungsunghero: no luck?
Krunk4Ever: teleporation didnt work
ungsunghero: what about just walking out?
Krunk4Ever: and i dont feel like walking the whole thing
ungsunghero: go to oakvale
ungsunghero: if you have a wife there, the first city out should have enemies
Krunk4Ever: nope
Krunk4Ever: wont leave the city
ungsunghero: eh
ungsunghero: just shoot her with an arrow, dammit
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: and run away?
ungsunghero: guild seal
Krunk4Ever: so i decapitated my wife
Krunk4Ever: with an arrow to the head
Krunk4Ever: 2000 secs tho
ungsunghero: 2000 seconds?
Krunk4Ever: or was the the price i have to pay
Krunk4Ever: if the guards catch me
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: just stay away from the town for a real long time
ungsunghero: how much alignment did you “lose”?
Krunk4Ever: actually
Krunk4Ever: i’m still 100% good
Krunk4Ever: and i just gave a wedding ring to another woman
Krunk4Ever: in another town
ungsunghero: haha
Krunk4Ever: bowersstone
ungsunghero: you man slut
Krunk4Ever: and now she wants a house
Krunk4Ever: but i already have a wife already
Krunk4Ever: hmm
ungsunghero: too bad you didn’t marry lady grey
Krunk4Ever: coiuldnt get a man to like me tho
Krunk4Ever: so i could marry him
ungsunghero: i wonder what that says about MY character
Krunk4Ever: couldnt*
Krunk4Ever: so to kill my wife in bowerstone
Krunk4Ever: i’d have to punch her huh?
ungsunghero: hmmm
ungsunghero: i guess you can’t
Krunk4Ever: haha!!!
Krunk4Ever: i got her to divorce me
ungsunghero: by beating her?
Krunk4Ever: i just kept punch her
Krunk4Ever: yah
ungsunghero: then what happened?
ungsunghero: does she actually say anything?
Krunk4Ever: so i find out my wife can take a beating
Krunk4Ever: i think i’ve thrown 30+ punches and kicks
Krunk4Ever: even when she fainted
Krunk4Ever: she starts yelling and stuff
Krunk4Ever: and says
Krunk4Ever: what are u doing?
Krunk4Ever: stop this imemdiately
Krunk4Ever: and then the screen shows that she divorces me
Krunk4Ever: and now is renting my apartment
ungsunghero: haha
ungsunghero: i gotta try that
Krunk4Ever: i lost a block of good alignment tho
ungsunghero: wow
ungsunghero: oh well
ungsunghero: i’m not saving
ungsunghero: so i don’t care
Krunk4Ever: hehe
Krunk4Ever: so u do get ur hosue back
Krunk4Ever: if u kill ur wife ;p
ungsunghero: dude
ungsunghero: i can’t kill lady grey
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: and all the guards are on me
ungsunghero: but she keeps saying “i’ll divorce you!”
Krunk4Ever: well
ungsunghero: and my other wife died after like 5 punches
Krunk4Ever: wow
Krunk4Ever: i guess my wife could take a beatingthen
ungsunghero: bwhhahahahaa
ungsunghero: stupid guards
ungsunghero: they were trying to shoot me
ungsunghero: and they killed lady grey
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: so at any time did the ring icon disappear from your wife’s head?
Krunk4Ever: yeah
Krunk4Ever: when she divorced me
ungsunghero: damn
ungsunghero: i can’t even get that
Krunk4Ever: and beat her in the private of ur own home
Krunk4Ever: where no one else can see u
Krunk4Ever: cause no guards were on me ;p
ungsunghero: i did that
ungsunghero: and she died!
Krunk4Ever: i c
ungsunghero: hmmm
ungsunghero: since i didn’t kill lady grey
ungsunghero: apparently i only get assault
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: this game is not very well written
ungsunghero: do they realize that their mayor is dead???
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: im the mayor
Krunk4Ever: so they dont really care ;p
ungsunghero: lucky you
ungsunghero: i’m reloading
ungsunghero: time to try again
ungsunghero: maybe i should start a barfight
ungsunghero: notice how quickly the demeanor of your wife changes with one punch
Krunk4Ever: hmmm
Krunk4Ever: i did realize
Krunk4Ever: i did nt give her a chanceto speak
Krunk4Ever: i was trying to kill her
Krunk4Ever: didnt* realize
ungsunghero: oh oh
ungsunghero: after like 3 punches
ungsunghero: now i got her pissed
Krunk4Ever: hehe
ungsunghero: lol
ungsunghero: she just said “i can run off with the innkeeper”
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: dude
ungsunghero: she won’t divorce me
ungsunghero: i killed her again!
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: that’s it
ungsunghero: i’m hacking away at the bar
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: oh my
ungsunghero: apparently it’s 2000 gold per guard you kill
ungsunghero: and i’m killing them with one stab
Krunk4Ever: it’s 2000 gold
Krunk4Ever: per person u kill
Krunk4Ever: not just a guard
ungsunghero: oh
Krunk4Ever: well
ungsunghero: haha
Krunk4Ever: my wife cost 2000
Krunk4Ever: though im pretty sure it’s per kill
ungsunghero: and i have a life augmentation on my sword
ungsunghero: so any damage they inflict on me
ungsunghero: i heal pretty quickly 😛
Krunk4Ever: hehe
ungsunghero: the guards don’t stop, do they?
Krunk4Ever: um..
Krunk4Ever: i guess they will
Krunk4Ever: if u kill all of them right
ungsunghero: nope
ungsunghero: they keep spawning
Krunk4Ever: interesting
Krunk4Ever: what i want to know
Krunk4Ever: is what happens if u kill the innkeeper
Krunk4Ever: or the blacksmith
Krunk4Ever: do they regenerate?
ungsunghero: nope
Krunk4Ever: the next time u come into town?
ungsunghero: oh
ungsunghero: maybe
ungsunghero: not that i’ll ever be allowed back 😛
Krunk4Ever: just wait 3 mins
Krunk4Ever: ;p
ungsunghero: interesting
Krunk4Ever: and no one will remember a thing
ungsunghero: as you kill civs
ungsunghero: you can buy buildings
Krunk4Ever: really?
Krunk4Ever: wow
ungsunghero: i just bought the bar
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: the weird thing is
ungsunghero: i killed everyone
ungsunghero: why should i have to buy it?
Krunk4Ever: can u kill those game ppl
ungsunghero: yeah
…
ungsunghero: and at the rate i’m going
ungsunghero: i’m buying the whole town
ungsunghero: booooooo
ungsunghero: the shopowner hid all his goods!
…
ungsunghero: time to cause trouble at bowerstone
Krunk4Ever: haha
Krunk4Ever: south or north?
ungsunghero: damn
ungsunghero: not sure how to kill the guards w/o a sword
Krunk4Ever: they locked u out?
Krunk4Ever: ah
Krunk4Ever: punches.
ungsunghero: lol
Krunk4Ever: the wife that i couldnt kill
Krunk4Ever: was in bowerstone south
ungsunghero: she asked for a surprise gift
ungsunghero: i gave her one
Krunk4Ever: who’s she?
Krunk4Ever: ur wife?
ungsunghero: lady grey in this case
Krunk4Ever: i thought she died…
ungsunghero: i reloaded
Krunk4Ever: ah i c
ungsunghero: finally
ungsunghero: i got divorced
ungsunghero: now to kill her
Krunk4Ever: haha
ungsunghero: wow she can take a beating
Krunk4Ever: she’s probabl an important npc
ungsunghero: but she got killed before
ungsunghero: albeit not by me
Krunk4Ever: hehe
ungsunghero: lol
ungsunghero: the only way to kill her is to have a guard do it
ungsunghero: or hire an NPC
Krunk4Ever: ha
Krunk4Ever: ah*
ungsunghero: wth
ungsunghero: you can kill someone
ungsunghero: pay the filne
ungsunghero: fine*
ungsunghero: get tossed from the city
ungsunghero: and come right back in???
Krunk4Ever: yah
Krunk4Ever: u payed the fine already
ungsunghero: that’s freaking funny
ungsunghero: lol
ungsunghero: no cutscene when you marry a guy
Krunk4Ever: hahahahaha
ungsunghero: you can bet what i’m trying to do next
Krunk4Ever: not too sure
Krunk4Ever: kill the people in the guild?
ungsunghero: marriage…
ungsunghero: house…
ungsunghero: bed…?
Krunk4Ever: hahahaha
ungsunghero: OMG
ungsunghero: it works!
Krunk4Ever: does he go YES! YES!
ungsunghero: lol!!!
ungsunghero: “that’s quite nice!”
ungsunghero: “oh gosh!”
Krunk4Ever: hahaha
ungsunghero: and then he finishes with “i can see why you’re a hero!”
ungsunghero: bwhahahahaha
Krunk4Ever: “i’d think a hero would’ve had a bigger *beep*”
ungsunghero: nah
ungsunghero: no insults here
Krunk4Ever: awww
ungsunghero: all compliments

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Fable on my new 24″ LCD

So I didn’t really get a chance to play Fable this weekend. Surprise? Haha. Though I did want to see how it’d look on my new screen. I tested with the following resolutions:

1280×720
fable

1280×768
fable

1280×960
fable

1360×768
fable

1360×1024
fable

There was 1600×1200 and 1920×1080. At 1600×1200, my screen would be all black. Not too sure which was crapping out, either my monitor or my video card. I’m guessing my monitor doesn’t want to support 1600×1200 or maybe the resolution’s a bit too high for my video card to handle for the game. Since my monitor could only support up to 1900×1200, 1920×1080 was beyond the range of support, so it immediately threw an error. The 1360 resolutions were actually set to 1900×1200, but the image wouldn’t stretch to fill the screen but had black borders around it. The 1280 resolutions were the largest resolutions to stretch the entire screen, and the screenshots don’t really do it justice. Try stretching it to 1900×1200 and you’ll see what I see. Though I just realized 1900×1200 is a really odd ratio. 19 to 12 and there’s really no other resolution with that ratio. Also as artemyst noted, my butt’s on fire in both the 1360 resolutions.

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Game Night!

So Tekman invited me to game night last night. It was really fun. I knew a couple of them from previous poker games, but it was fun meeting new people. We broke off into 2 groups because there were 11 people and most games didn’t sustain that many people, plus if it did, it’d gone rather slowly. Half of the group went to play Puerto Rico, while the rest of us played Zendo. Zendo is quite an interesting game, but because it was moving rather slowly, I think people didn’t enjoy it much. It’s a game involving pyramids of different sizes and colors and the “master” has to think of a rule and the rest of the group has to guess what the rule is by making structures and having the master tell us if it fits his rule or not. You can read more about it at the link I provided above.

Afterwards, we played Oh Hell! It’s a game similar to spades/hearts/euchre, where it’s a card game and you have to take tricks and there’s a trump suit. It’s quite intriguing because of this rule: With 7 players, the hands are: 7 cards, then 6,5,4,3,2,1, then 2,3,4,5,6,7, for a total of 13 hands to the game. A game should take approximately 45 minutes. So at the beginning of each hand, you have to bid on how many tricks you’re going to take and you try to take that amount, no more and no less or else you don’t get the bonus points. I won’t get into the scoring and there’s multiple ways for scoring to work. You can read about it at the link above. Lets say I was suppose to lose, but because of how the bidding works, the suppose to be winner’s wife force her husband to lose by forcing him to bid something he didn’t want to.

Afterwards, poker was decided to be the game played next. It was a very bad day for me. I lost $20, pretty early in the game too! So I ended up being dedicated dealer since I didn’t want to lose any more money. But I’m still up considering I won $87 the 1st time and $3 the 2nd time.

It was a blast and I had a lot of fun last night (excluding the losing money part). One of the funnier moments of the night when was when Tekman was talking about vocabulary words and he’d say, “so I dict it and…” Everyone just stared at each other and then started cracking up. It’s like when people say “I google this, I wiki that.” Dict is short for dictionary and there’s both a command line based program and Firefox supports it too. If you still don’t understand why it’s so funny, try saying “i tried to dict this new word.”

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Fable – Mature Audience Only

So you can chat, flirt, and even marry people in Fable. They actually have a cut scene that shows you getting married and some narator telling you that for one day, you don’t have to worry about any problems. Welp, according to ungsunghero, it turns out you can have sex with them too! You don’t see anything, but you hear the wife scream “YES! YES!” I personally haven’t gotten it to work. According to ungsunghero, I have to give the wife presents and gems and stuff. I gave a few, but gave up after a bit because it just wasn’t worth it. Supposedly after the sex, you get gold or items, but I’d rather spend my time training than trying to convince my wife to have sex with me. Also I found out through ungsunghero that you can have a wife in each town that you have a house in. I currently own 2 houses and have 2 wifes. I wonder what’ll happen if I try to marry another woman in the same town. There are two beds… ;p

After reading that, I pasted this article from /. to ungsunghero: Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions. He thought we were still talking about Fable, and I could clearly see how the title could be misleading after a chat about Fable. NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2018 and later on to Mars. But a round-trip mission to the Red Planet would probably last at least 30 months and carry six to eight people. That would be a hotbed for intense crew relationships, says a report by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). … Palinkas says long-term space missions may be similar to extended periods in the isolated and confined environments of Antarctic research stations. He says crews in those stations often pair up in “bachelor marriages” that last the length of their stay – or less. “If there are instances of sexual conflict or infidelity, that may lead to a breakdown in crew functioning,” he told New Scientist. 30 months w/o sex. Someone on /. commented on how anyone can remain healthy and functional w/o having sex for 30 months. Another person responded that as a married man, he could tell you it’s possible.

Random Crap:

The Million Dollar Homepage (from MS distribution list) – some kid needs money for college tution and puts up this site selling ads. This guy’s made BANK so far. Read about it @ the I4U Review.

A Taste of Home Turns Bitter Over Mall Project (from ungsunghero) – I have no problems of new stores trying to come into Monterey Park. In fact, I was in support of that new mall project they were going to build in the southern parts of MPK. Though what I’m not in support of is governments abusing their power and using the eminent domain clause to take land and property back from owners so they can in turn sell it to the bigger franchises so more taxes can be generated.

Wal-Mart heiress in cheat probe returns diploma (from CDMCC) – Elizabeth Paige Laurie’s name was on a sports arena when a former University of Southern California roommate alleged the Wal-Mart heiress paid her $20,000 to do her homework. Now it isn’t even on a USC diploma. $20,000 to do one year of homework… worth it?

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Fable on Steriods

So I’ve played several more hours of fable today. It’s so good! I’ve actually been itching to play since I woke up this morning. Probably even in my dreams too, but I don’t remember it anymore. My 24″ LCD is coming in tomorrow!!! YAY! I’m probably going to set up my Philips external sound processor and Logitec X530 5.1 speakers. Fable on steriods is going to be awesome!!!

Random Crap:

Water Bridge (from deadlock) – The photograph displayed above is one of a real structure, a kilometer-long “concrete bathtub” water bridge over the Elbe River in Germany that joins the Elbe-Havel canal to the Mittelland canal near the eastern town of Magdeburg. Pretty amazing since this is indeed real.

Here’s my pya! flood:

(video) ミミック – Pranks – I literally laughed out loud seeing all the people jump back.
(img) ＯＮ – 40% ON! – I guess Off is out and On is in.
(img) この中に一匹怖気づいてるやつがおる！クマー – Smart Bears – why bother trying to catch food, when food will jump into your mouth.
(img) ガリガリ君 – Lion Tamer – Always feed your lions and make sure they’re full before you put on your act as a lion tamer.
(img) ピットイン – Pin the Wheel on the Race Car – Guess donkeys aren’t popular enough anymore, but F1 race cars are!
(img) 木製PC – Wooden PC I wonder if it’s real.

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More Fable

I lost so many hours to Fable this weekend. It’s already 4:15am Sunday night. I think I should go to sleep. And who said games aren’t educational? One of my quest required digging around the jetty on the west beach. What the heck is a jetty? According to answers.com, a jetty is a structure, such as a pier, that projects into a body of water to influence the current or tide or to protect a harbor or shoreline from storms or erosion. Who would’ve known! I actually minimized the game and searched the definition online. haha. I also learnt that a spade was a shovel. Now it makes sense why they’re called spades on a deck of cards!

So that’s all for tonight. G’nite (-_-x)zzZZ

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Poker Game

So I went to play poker with my fellow colleagues again. Met some new friends. There was 7 of us all playing and the blinds were $0.05/$0.10 and no limit, which as you remember I liked over tournament style. Poker was rather slow today. Not many great hands. Not that many all-ins. I was up $15 at one point, but I only ended up winning $3 in the end. For the last half hour, I was basically trying to stay above my buy-in, so I was extremely conservative. Guess luck just wasn’t with me today. Logan on the other hand was up $67. Thank god that wasn’t my money.

So who was I talking to about never seeing catfish on a restaurant menu? Welp, we went to an Irish/Cajun restaurant after the game, and Blackened Catfish was one of the items on the menu. I think it was Vandel which said freshwater fish were hardly eaten and practically never shows up on any restaurant menu. I think the 2 examples of freshwater fish we came up with was trout and catfish. I argued that catfish was common at Chinese restaurants and it was in fact one of my favorite dishes that my mom makes. Welp, I ordered the catfish at this place and I’ve gotta say, it wasn’t as smooth? slippery? (滑 – don’t really what the correct english term to describe food is) as I expected. It was good, but my mom’s catfish is many many times better. Though they did have this excellent sauce I dipped it in. Dunno what it was though.

Random Crap:

I found this very cute music video: Fatboy Slim – The Joker. The video for The Joker is, as you’d expect for Fatboy Slim, very special indeed. Jon Watts returns after the success of his Wonderful Night video to direct hundreds of kittens in a rights of passage tale…it has to be seen to be believed. Tons of cute kittens! Though they are indeed cute, but they will one day become evil!!!

Online Retailer Skips Sales Tax? You Might Sue (from ungsunghero). Like many shoppers, attorney Stephen Diamond buys lots of stuff online. But unlike other consumers, he sues retailers that don’t charge him state and local sales taxes — and is making a profit doing it. … Mr. Diamond’s first eight suits were filed against such retailers as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Office Depot Inc. and KB Toys Inc. He has netted about a half-million dollars already, from some retailers. Because of settlement agreements between the retailers and the attorney general’s office, the state’s judges have agreed to keep the names of most of the retailers and the settlement amounts confidential. More than 80 suits are pending in Illinois, and Mr. Diamond has made forays into other states as well. This man is going to speed up the process of getting some internet tax law passed. What’s the phrase where one man wins and everyone else loses?

pya! images/videos/games will have to be links for now until I find a way to integrate my scripts with wordpress. Do note my English transations may not correspond literally with the Japanese because sometimes those titles just don’t make sense.

(img) 景気が落ちました – Jumbo muffin crushes car
(img) 旗上げゲーム – Cute bunny playing flag game
(img) ＨＥＥＥＥＹＹＹＹ　ァァあァんまりだァァアァ – Tree/Skeleton hybrid art
(img) 配送車 – Coke can delivery truck
(flash) 狙うは豪邸 – Mansion Impossible – a fun little game. quite easy to win though.
(img) 乗り込めない – Lego battleship
(img) 右？左？- Right? Left? – which way are the hearts spinning?
(img) あむあむ – Cute puppy sucking on finger
(img) どっちやねん！ – Coca Cola tags on top of Pepsi cans – コカコーラ = Coca Cola in katakana.

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Fable for PC / Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW

So I purchased my first game from the Microsoft Company Store: Fable: The Lost Chapters. I’ve been hearing rave reviews about this and I’m a strategy and RPG guy. Love those 2 genres. So I finally installed it today (got it yesterday, but I was really tired last night). Game’s been great so far, though I’ve only played for like 30 minutes. Runs well on my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, though at best settings, it does get choppy sometimes, so I lowered the quality a bit.

So I pulled the trigger today. There was a deal yesterday or the day before where Dell was selling the 24″ LCD (Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW) for $744 + tax + shipping, but it required a $35 coupon. I said, if I could get my hands on that coupon, I’d jump. I did eventually get my hand, but the original deal had already ended. So I was like, oh well, I saved myself $800. Today, the deal comes back and I still had that $35 coupon. Welp, I did promise myself. So yah, I’m out $812 (tax and shipping included) this month on this LCD. But it’s going to be so awesome!!!

My pictures and link queues is getting pretty full. Still trying to figure a nice way to insert them into my blogs and I no longer have my pya script installed, so that’ll have to wait until I get the chance.

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Selling a 14″ LCD

got tons of toys today! ungsunghero claimed how his toy came today also. i was VERY EXCITED. (if you know what toy he was talking about, you’d be excited too! don’t worry, you’ll find out what my toy is later on). UPS came by around 3pm-ish. they actually rang the bell, but no one heard, so they left the packages on the floor. thank god! or else i’d have to wait another day!!! well, got 2 boxes. 1 small and 1 GIGANTIC! opened the small one first and i got my IBM Optical Scroll Mouse. it was $5 after rebates and i was getting pretty mad @ the normal 2 button wheel mouse i was using. it’s like what they say, “Once you go optical, you can’t go back.” plus the wheel is always a bonus. get to scroll down those forums faster now. hehe. now time to open the mystery box! this was a 22x13x13″ box. Open it and i find… TONS OF PEANUTS!!! lol. Time to dig for the treasure. Way at the bottom I find… ATI ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON™ 8500. (thought i was gonna say “more peanuts” huh?) hehe. it’s another Christmas present for me! I’m sorry i’m unable to disclose the price nor store I bought it at since i promised my friend to keep it a secret. but just say that i got it at a very cheap price. ^_^x too bad i won’t get to use it for another 18 days (yes i’m counting) cause my computer is back at the apartment. this is so SWEET!!! now i can have 2 TVs running on my computer simultaneously with 2 remotes. *drooooooools*

harrybons dropped by later in the afternoon. brought over my No One Lives Forever 2 which i asked him to help me buy @ Fry’s since it was only $5 after rebates. he came over leech my Hikaru no Go collection. episode 7-60 (6gb worth of anime, actually more since he borrowed some of them on cds). hehe. i also found out my firewire enclosure could act like a hub. it has 2 firewire ports in the back. i connected one end to his laptop and the other end to my sister’s computer and BOOM! XP detected a network connection and before you knew it, the were talking to each others computer transferring @ ~8MB/s. not exactly as fast as firewire speed as we hoped (sustained ~20MB/s), but it was good enough.

then of course, there was ungsunghero’s near death experience. he got to experience his power supply blow up right in front of him. mines blew up last year too, but i was in the shower when that happened. his computer automatically shut down and pushing the power yielded nothing. however the diagnostic LED was still on. so he was the cellphone with me while we tried to diagnose what was wrong. little behold who knew what was going to happen next. KABOOOM! the power supply blew up in his face. now he swears he’ll wear goggles and static wrist-wrap whenever he works on computers again. welp. problem found. now for the solution… which brings me to my eBay story:

i was auctioning off my sister’s 14″ LCD because my dad recently got her a 17″ LCD. the auction ended today on Sunday @ $167.50, however the highest bidder emails me and states that Best Buy is having one on sale for $150 and asks me to be fair and lower my price (including shipping) so it would be fair for him to buy it. i mean this is ridiculous. here are transcripts of the email the went through:

BUYER:

Hi <insert my name>, thanks for the response. I will try for the first time to pay through paypal but I have a simple request as a fellow student told me that in Sundays paper local Best Buy was seeling 14″ lcd’s at $149. instead of $199. I guess after the christmas they have reduced the price especially 14″ are not that popular as opposed to 15 or 17″. Further it is safer to buy locally but since I have made the bid I will prefer to buy it from you if you kindaly as a fair person reduce the price as I will be paying shipping in addition so it does not make sense to buy for lot more and then pay the shipping or I have no objection if you want to contact the next bidder and he is interested in buying for $165 and then I will send you the difference of $ 2.50. Please consider and let me know, thanks and have a nice week !

ME:

Hi,

I never caught your name, but I’m very sorry to hear that you would like to break your contract. As quoted from eBay:

Your bid is a contract – Place a bid only if you’re serious about buying the item. If you are the winning bidder, you will enter into a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller. Seller assumes all responsibility for listing this item. You should contact the seller to resolve any questions before bidding. Auction currency is U.S. dollars ( US $ ) unless otherwise noted.

As a fellow college student myself, i can understand that money can become a problem. But that’s why I wouldn’t bid on anything I believe I would not buy at the price I bidded at. I’m sorry but I won’t be able to lower the price for you. I’ve already contacted the 2nd highest bidder. If he/she responds and is willing to take the offer, all will be great. Or else i’ll still have to hold you to the price you bidded.

Sincerely,
<insert my name>

BUYER:

Thanks <insert my name> for the consideration but you did not get my point on fairness if something is available for less. Technbically you are right but I asked you on a moral basis if you would be fair and that I would not object to your selling to anther person because it is much easier to just buy cheaper locally. Please let me know what the next bidder says I will pay you the difference. Thanks and have anice day

ME:

Hi,

How can I be fair if you’re the one that’s trying to get yourself out of this contract? Unlike some stores that has Lowest Price Gaurantees, eBay sellers do not unless stated otherwise. This has nothing to do with morals. I would like to ask you think if you were in my position and what you would do if someone who just won your auction asks you to be fair and lower the price for him cause he can get it cheaper somewhere else now. Now it’s my turn to ask you to be fair. Because if you’re trying to get out of this contract, I am screwed out of my eBay fees which is $7.43. I mean if this deal went through successfully, I’d be more than happy to pay those fees, but because you’re UNWILLING to complete your part of the contract, I lose that $7.43 to eBay with no compensation! I am now asking you to ask yourself if what you’re doing is morally justified.

Have a nice day. Maybe yours will be much better than mines.

Sincerely,
<insert my name>

BUYER:

Hi <insert my name>, you are a very fine man in that you have honored me by explaining your sitaution with Ebay instead of getting mad and I do not want you to lose any fee to Ebay. Please remember I honored you too by explaining that the monitor was now selling cheaper and it is only fair since you have used it to lower. Is it fair to pay more price and on top of that pay another $17. for shipping. No matter what I will pay your ebay fees and if you can be fair to come to the fair market price that will be nice and I will just buy or you can just pay the shipping that way we split.

I cerntainly like to trust you with respect to the good condition of the monitor. I just got a note book that does not have charger and the arrow keys do not work while the seller put on the ebay that it olny needed operating system. There is another man who has not sent me the cpu ven though got paid in october; these are additional reasons for me to think that sellers on Ebay are not really fair in many ways and it is better to just buy locally.

Please be fair and let me know how we can work it out so that you do not feel bad that I cost you any loss and I do not feel bad that I paid $ 34. over the local price. You be the judge and let me know. Thanks

ME:

Hi,

I agree it’s more beneficial for you to purchase it at Best Buy, but I do not agree that it’s fair to break a contract. It is a smarter thing to do, but it is unfair to me that you bidded on something that now you’re unwilling to pay at the agreed price. it is not fair for me to lower the price for you because there were other bidders who were willing to pay just a little bit less than what you bidded for my LCD monitor. it is unfair that you cheated the other bidders from what they could’ve gotten. I’ve decided to relist this item and will be going through the Non-Paying Bidder process to get my $5.23 final auction value fee back.

I’m sorry that you’ve encountered bad sellers on ebay and had unhappy experiences. but sellers are also afraid that bidders will go back on their word and not pay. unfortunately, you’re the first bidder I’ve had this problem with.

Once again, there is nothing i’m being unfair about. The price you agreed on is higher than a price you find locally now. Being unfair is to charge an unfair shipping price. Being unfair is to ship a dead item or an item different from the description. You paying the agreed price has nothing to do with unfairness although you may feel bad for paying extra. Like I said above, I’ll be relisting the item and will be filing a non-paying bidder form to obtain my ebay fees back.

You may be read up more on Non-Paying Bidder here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/bidders_overview.html
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?NPBComplaintForm

Sincerely,
<insert my name>

welp, the story ends there for now. well, why did i introduce you to this story. well, it’s true that part of it was for entertainment, but the real reason was because i found a buyer! he said he needed it asap and wondered if i can ship it out overnight and he’ll pay the extra. i was cool with it. supposedly it was for her girlfriend who was coming back tomorrow and he wanted to give it to her. i was cool with that. OfficeMax has this $10 off coupon for shipping through airborne express so i went to the one in Pasadena… (wait rewind!) I called up ungsunghero and asked if he would like to go with me. i insisted that i’ll drive him to PC Club to buy a new power supply for his system. knowing how it feels to be without my computer for 2 DAYS made me pity his situation. after arriving @ OfficeMax, the lady quotes me $60 for Express delivery. i was airborne.com only quoted me $47. she says we’re sorry, but our systems do have differences and i can’t do anything about it. i took my package and left the place. decided to go with UPS or FedEx. called up my brother and asked him to find when the fone # of FedEx in City of Industry so i can find out when it closes. he was unable to locate the service center. thanks to ungsunghero’s cuz psychobreed, he told us FedEx closes @ 7pm. we were like cool! but the traffic on the 210 was nasty. it a lot better on the 605 and 60. got there @ 6:30 and found out that Overnight delivery ends @ 5:30. b00000000000. well, the fastest delivery to TX was by Thursday and hoping the buyer would find that acceptable (since there’s no delivery service on 1/1 new year’s). we then went over to PC Club and looked around the power supplies and the cases. ungsunghero was going to purchase a Allied 250W for $30 when the sale clerk pointed that they were having a promotion on the Allied 300W for $20. he was like cool bought 2! went home and now his computer boots! w00h00! ^_^x

wow, this has been a long entry. hope u didn’t fall asleep halfway reading it. hehe ;p

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Christmas Shopping

was suppose to goto Disneyland today, but that got postponed to Jan. 1st because ladydevilot had a dentist apartment. welp, instead chung, jenny, ladydevilot and i went Christmas shopping. more like me just hanging around. although i’m still missing some presents, i wasn’t able to find what i was looking for. boooo. that malls were so cramped today. luckily we had good parking karma and found a parking space in no time. guess who we see when we enter the Macy’s in Santa Anita mall? good old mmouse! i’ve been asking why mmouse hasn’t been invited during the car ride and ladydevilot just said she forgot. after some peer pressure, we got mmouse to ditch his mom and join us. evil huh? hehe ^_^x. actually i think his mom was more than happy to get rid of him into our hands. so we walked around the mall just hanging around chking out stuff. i actually bumped into jenny (my neighbor) and kelly (a long lost friend who i recently caught up with last year when i went to visit UCLA). jenny was working @ the cinnabons place and kelly was working @ robinsons may. *thinking really hard on what else we did* oh yeah, just like what GAP told me, Disney had this mean old lady telling me photography was not allowed within the store. BOOOO! oh yeah, finally it came time for dinner. while we were waiting for ladydevilot to round up all here cute guy friends, we were roaming around the bookstore (forgot it’s name, but there should only be one in Santa Anita mall). we bumped into Byron!!! who was sitting there reading with 2 new pairs of shoes and a dress (wonder who that’s for *wink* *wink*). he claimed he was waiting for his mom to finish shopping. welp, then along came Derek (different from mmouse). he’s my roommate’s ee40 partner. and i’ve only met him about 3x. supposedly he lives in Pasadena. what a coincidence!!! chatted for awhile and mmouse was very surprised that there was another person with the same spelling of his name!

ladydevilot finally decided that we were going to olive garden for dinner. we met up with mike and Chris there. (remember me mentioning that she was rounding up all her cute guy friends – i wont go into too much detail of them since i believe going there is forbidden). when we were eating, i believe we saw Adrianna. well derek confirmed, i just noticed that girl looked extremely familiar. while leaving, we met Robert (a year before me and i’m known forever to him as Stonehenge Jackson – some war general i screwed up naming during those calculus after school nite study sessions and from that point on, i was marked). chatted for awhile and talked about how he was doing way better than high school and how is gpa is so high. (krunk looks @ his gpa. krunk starts crying… )o; ).

ladydevilot then decided that we were going to AI (Arcade Infinity?). didn’t play anything. i got a blast just outta watching. hehe. especially the para para paradise. i couldn’t stop myself from laughing.

there’s a new album with 6 pictures. ladydevilot looks funny in the last one. plus i also have 2 movies (each ~9megs) if you’re interested in seeing:
movie 1
movie 2