The Soulja Boy Poop Out of Mouth Out - Atari Zombie Inside (or maybe not)

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Did someone mentioning cleaning lately?

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I haven't cleaned my lounge room for a year :rolleyes:
There's stuff everywhere atm too... I'm using a few milk crates to elevate some hardware above the semi-organised mess :pwacko:

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

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I have a cat inside all the time, she loves it. Plenty of places to ambush myself or the dog :P

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

And I should get off my arse and contact a few local guys about offloading some games I have.
Could probably prune a few tubs full at least.

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I've been trying to dump off some of my unused junk lately. Cleared out a few dozen books I had read and some sequels I didn't intend to read.

Had a package arrive today. Decent size, maybe around the same as PS3 boxed but package was a little lighter than that.
Purchased this 4 days ago (on a Sunday) and it travelled over 2700km from the west side of the country way over to the east side where I am :doink:
I didn't pay extra for express postage. Nope, not courier service. Just standard auspost parcel with tracking.

nice. wish our shipping services were that good again.

Well it's not usually that fast here.
I didn't ask but I guess the seller went straight to the PO early Monday morning and it shipped out that day via air, straight to Melbourne.
Then sorted and sent to nearby city sorting centre, takes another day to get to me after that.

So yeah, lightning fast... I'm blown away by it :lol

Think the seller paid around $15aud postage for that box.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

nice. wish our shipping services were that good again.

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The population there is under 1/10th of ours :wacko:.

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Think the seller paid around $15aud postage for that box.

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that's pretty cheap

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

The population there is under 1/10th of ours :wacko:.

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maybe something should be done about that :pwacko:

Packages not going around in circles or getting abused would be good enough to make me happy :wacko:.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

The population there is under 1/10th of ours :wacko:.

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It's a very large country with less people. You would think shipping costs would be more expensive here than over there ;)

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

Packages not going around in circles or getting abused would be good enough to make me happy :wacko:.

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that would be nice. a package shouldn't have to go through 4-6 different facilities in your own state just to get delivered.

I thought your population was well over 300 million?

We're only about 25 million.

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Originally Posted by Grouch

that would be nice. a package shouldn't have to go through 4-6 different facilities in your own state just to get delivered.

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It should really only go through 2 sorting centres in your state.
The main one (usually at state capital) and then the nearest city to you with a sorting centre for the surrounding region.

Anything beyond that is just a disorganised mess and most probably just wasting money. Maybe that's why your costs are higher? :wacko:

Recent episode of Halo was pretty good :)

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

It's a very large country with less people. You would think shipping costs would be more expensive here than over there ;)

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I was thinking about the load difference in terms of number of packages moving around at a given time.

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

It should really only go through 2 sorting centres in your state.
The main one (usually at state capital) and then the nearest city to you with a sorting centre for the surrounding region.

Anything beyond that is just a disorganised mess and most probably just wasting money. Maybe that's why your costs are higher? :wacko:

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The post office closed a bunch of sorting facilities. I think it was around a decade ago when it happened. I don't know about Fedex, UPS, and couriers but they've all got their issues.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

The post office closed a bunch of sorting facilities. I think it was around a decade ago when it happened. I don't know about Fedex, UPS, and couriers but they've all got their issues.

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Couriers can be unreliable here. Too much "address doesn't exist" laziness, also leaving shit next door. I fucking hate them.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

I was thinking about the load difference in terms of number of packages moving around at a given time.

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Think about higher fuel costs (more expensive here) and large empty spaces to move packages around with a smaller amount of people paying for services.
Yeah there isn't much cost involved moving a package around inside one state capital, but moving from one state to another is costly.
Most stuff I get isn't in my immediate locale, in fact way more then half would be interstate.

The only major cities we have are the state capitals.

They reorganised sorting here a few years back too.
It can be kinda dumb sometimes since a package sent from rural in my state goes to Melbourne first before coming to the city close to me, even if the sender's location is actually closer to me than Melbourne.

But I understand why they did it. It's cost cutting and improves efficiency of processing.
Some package arrival times can be longer compared to the old days as a result, but moving stuff all around the country is generally better overall.

Prices went up a tiny bit I think start of this year. They also automated detection of underpaid postage in sorting centres.

You can still send a DVD case (game or movie) by using letter post here for less than $3aud, as long as it's only 1 disc and under a certain weight. Also thickness (can't remember what that is now). Then it bumps up to around $3.50 or something. Both of those are untracked.

The lowest amount... can't remember what it is now, but I think it's for letter under 5mm. It's less than $2aud (close to $1 iirc). People use that for sending like game manual only, or a couple of slim manuals.

The minimum for first class is around $3.xx now or something like that. About 10 years ago it was under $2. I'm not sure on the cost of letter mail but I think it's over $1 now.

I used to be able to roll shipping into the cost when selling for most items but now it's gotten too expensive.

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

The minimum for first class is around $3.xx now or something like that. About 10 years ago it was under $2. I'm not sure on the cost of letter mail but I think it's over $1 now.

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So what's second class? :wacko:

Yeah some people here just have free postage for some items. But it's less common now.
Pre-covid there was loads of free postage, even from Japanese sellers :(

I rarely look at Japanese sellers now, but when I do all I see is ridiculous prices on ebay atm. It's like all the good sellers moved to another platform :shrug:

Federal election this weekend :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

So what's second class? :wacko:

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First class is anything under a certain weight and isn't letter mail.

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Federal election this weekend :rolleyes:

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Do they run smear ads over there?

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Originally Posted by Slacker Magician

Do they run smear ads over there?

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Well yeah (doesn't that happen everywhere?) but idk if it's as bad as the US.
Mostly saying the opposition is incompetent for whatever reasons, not getting really dirty like "this guy is a sociopath" or "this guy has dementia" :pwacko:
Leaders for both the major parties aren't ancient anyway. Having old people running a country would be plain silly :revwacko:

was in the mood for some duke nukem but wanted to play the expansions but can't run them on dos box. I looked and found out that the megaton edition had them all(all but "the duke zone") so I went sailing:wacko:
the carribean one is fun I haven't had this much fun playing nukem since I first played AE on pc years ago.

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This is what happens when your dragon eats too many spicy burritos!!!!

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Originally Posted by Zaladane

This is what happens when your dragon eats too many spicy burritos!!!!

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Or maybe some Mexican adventurers? :wacko:

Help, need frost dragon friend for anal relief!

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Or maybe some Mexican adventurers? :wacko:

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

Help, need frost dragon friend for anal relief!

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:lol

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Originally Posted by deadlegion

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:lol

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I just can't really get into Breath of the Wild.

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Originally Posted by LeftyGuitar

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I just can't really get into Breath of the Wild.

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Yeah it can be tricky - there's just too much empty space in my opinion. I have fun when actually doing something. I'm at 20 hearts with only doing the first creature dungeon thingum so guess I should plow through the main stuff at some point. I kinda fizzled out on this game a few months back.

Aww damn :(

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Missed out on a Toshiba C-5xx