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Sealed Kinect games. Gonna get a complete set soon enough. Oh God there's so many though and they're all trash. I could be buying fewer, but better, games instead...
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Yeah Kinect really was shovelware central for the 360, maybe 30% of the games that supported it were any good. Still, if you're going completionist...
 
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Sayer of the N-Word said:
Only one is needed, but what if I need another and have to have it shipped from England again? Then I'd have to pay for shipping twice!
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Weird af actually. Asia to basically everywhere is cheap, but USA > Europe and opposite is expensive.
And the governments whine about people buying crap from Asia, when lowering shipping cost across the pond actually would have an positive impact.
 
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Vingle said:
Weird af actually. Asia to basically everywhere is cheap, but USA > Europe and opposite is expensive.
And the governments whine about people buying crap from Asia, when lowering shipping cost across the pond actually would have an positive impact.
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There's an endless stream of container ships coming in from China so you have a lot of space to ship anything you want. There are fewer such ships coming from Europe. Also, the countries in Europe aren't 100% dedicated to undermining every American industry with loss-leader pricing on anything you can think of, so their trade is less free, sometimes distractingly so.
 
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Almighty Space Duck said:
Toshiba N300 8TB. After a lot of messing about I now have Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Readarr all set up and mapped and might have gone just a little bit crazy so now my server is rapidly running out of space. I will likely pick up one or two more 8TB NAS drives on Black Friday if there are any decent deals on Seagate or Toshiba 8TB+ drives.
Not Western Digital though. Fuck Western Digital after the whole SMR thing.
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Aaaand it’s already dying (:_(- 8 Reallocated Sectors so far. Tried different (new) SATA cables and plugging it into my PCI-E SATA card and it’s still throwing errors in unraid. Bought an 8TB Ironwolf which arrives tomorrow. Hopefully I can rescue the 2TB of data I’ve written to it before nuking the fucker and sending it back for refund/replacement.

I’m pretty gutted since it’s not even 2 weeks old and yet theres other drives in the server with 10y power on time that have never skipped a beat.
I guess I’ve been lucky seeing as the last time I had a drive failure was an 40GB IDE Maxtor back in the XP days.
 
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I paid $76.23 for this since the box set is long out of print and it was the best one that I could find in good condition on Ebay
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ScooterL said:
Learner, easily. One of those mass-produced German things from the 60s, picked up for very little money.
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What made you go for it? Zithers seem like such difficult instruments, though the keys on the autoharp must help immensely. I own a ukelin, but it's only a conversation piece.
 
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Sayer of the N-Word said:
What made you go for it? Zithers seem like such difficult instruments, though the keys on the autoharp must help immensely. I own a ukelin, but it's only a conversation piece.
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Partly impulse, partly opportunity. I thought of getting one for a while, had messed with other people's before, and had an opportunity to get one in decent shape for a good price. You're right about the keys, it's possible to get a decent accompaniment out of it very soon after picking it up.

I've never seen a ukelin in real life, but it looks a lot trickier.
 
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ScooterL said:
Partly impulse, partly opportunity. I thought of getting one for a while, had messed with other people's before, and had an opportunity to get one in decent shape for a good price. You're right about the keys, it's possible to get a decent accompaniment out of it very soon after picking it up.

I've never seen a ukelin in real life, but it looks a lot trickier.
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I'm glad it worked out for you. A lot of people who buy instruments on a whim usually go home, look at the thing, and say "what the fuck was I thinking?!"

The ukelin is an odd instrument. It's meant to be played with a bow in one hand while the other hand plucks strings, but it was such an obscure instrument even when it was being mass produced that there isn't really a well-established "right" technique despite the manufacturer printing instructions. I don't even own a bow so it's all moot.

It's cool to look at, though! I especially like the rows of rings on each side of the body, which are like substitutes for a tailpiece for the melody strings, but which also create grooves that guide the bow when playing. I don't think there are any other instruments out there which have a feature like that.
 
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