Awesome stuff you've just bought (+pics please)

[DadouMibaire]

[dcharlieJP]

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New Haswell 4800 Alienware 17 inch laptop - with improved/3D screen and 780M GPU.

Everything is flyyyying. <3 <3 <3 #PCDAD total

[Drachenherz]

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New Haswell 4800 Alienware 17 inch laptop - with improved/3D screen and 780M GPU.

Everything is flyyyying. <3 <3 <3 #PCDAD total

So, how's Ibara in 3D?

[Stormwatch]

Fuck my life. Spent $76 on the official Dreamcast arcade stick, and the damn thing is defective. One of the buttons keeps dying. And since this is BR BR HUEHUEHUE, it'd likely be more expensive to send it back than it cost in the first place.

[CIT]

It shouldn't be too hard to replace the buttons. And you'll end up with a better product for it.

[rapoon]

Brainwavz M2 (photos from headfi. thanks headfi!)

~$60. Free Shipping and they came with a free FiiO E6 headphone amp. I'm using the E6 with
my AKG's. significant difference w/ vs. w/o on iPod (can't push full size cans for shit).

I rarely compliment a retailer/manufacturer. It's easier to bitch and hiss.
Brainwavz and the respective seller, MP4Nation, are fucking awesome. MP4Nation and headfi have
an excellent rapport which translates into weekly deals and the occasional "here's some free shit" deal.

Every 6 months or so, I'll pick up a new pair of IEM's, always in the tier 2-3 range. This time it was a
toss up between the M2's and VSonic GR06's. I was sold on the M2's because they can be worn in a
traditional manner or over the ear (GR06's are over the ear only and I'm a bit burnt out after wearing
the Brainwavz R1's for months) and a free amp.

The construction of the M2's is awesome. I've come to love aluminum IEM's after using meelec's and dunu's.
I'm a bit rough with IEM's, particularly at this price point. I don't swing them around like a lasso, but
I don't baby them either. The cabling is amazing. This is where they really shine in terms of construction.
It's twisted SPOFC. Nice and flexible, doesn't get tangled. No issues with memory so far.

I vehemently believe that an accurate sound review of headphones isn't possible until proper burn-in.
Besides, there's plenty of reviews.

Unfortunately, many of the reviews (outside of headfi) will lob ".... for a Chinese company" at the end of
their compliments/pro's. It's fucking absurd. Many of the most detailed IEM's are from said Chinese companies.
I have my reservations and biases, i.e. I'm only interested in German or Austrian full size cans but anything else
related to audio gear, specifically components is one place the Chinese hifi brands easily hold their own in.
.... had to bitch about something.

[colour_thief]

Been looking forward to this one.

[moh]

dem spinners *-*

[scrilla4rella]

Here's an interesting book that I found. It's titled, 'Gradius 2 Bible' and basically it has some text about the story and (coolest part of all) has level design documents and other sketches. The sketches are then compared with actual screenshots of the level.

sorry for the crappy pics

[opt2not]

Dat book *-*

[DadouMibaire]

Finally, oh my god, Teddie is SO cool!

[RaidenViper]

GPU upgrade. GTX 770



Damn... this thing is huge!

This Phantom model from Gainward has a really cool fan removal solution. for easy cleaning

[rapoon]

nice card Raiden. the initial benchmarks have been a bit disappointing but they're all running launch or pre-launch drivers.
performance per $, it's an awesome card.

[AweOfShe]

Finally got 'em!

[system11]

Another thing to go tick tock on my wrist.



More modern than I usually look for, but nice throwback deco stepped lugs.

[Engineer]

Raidou to watch over me as I get my ass kicked in SMT IV :3

[caincan]

bios, rock'n roll trips, 80's stuff, vintage videogames (spectrum /commodore64), cyberlip neogeo, .. and a masterpiece of art from Lego, the monorail 6990



that's nearly nothing compared to my pal.. future jedi . WTF unusual stuff and a real challenge, FOUR players at starwars racer @home ! ? never seen even a picture of someone who dared this. as he has 3 pinballs starwars +2 starwars arcade machines, .. it nearly (because if even they only have ONE starwars racer, they have the australian pinball & the cockpit..) equals the "arcade" stuff of the "rancho starwars" ...massively financed by georges lucas & co...

[caincan]

it's not the price , ~9€ with some coupons, for a vivid solid 80x60cm, but the feeling of nostalgia for theses repros

[Vexorg]

If I recall correctly, that Monorail set was $150 back in the 80s when it first came out, which made it by far the most expensive Lego set anyone had ever seen. Of course, $150 Lego sets are nothing these days...

[Stefan_L]

it's not the price , ~9€ with some coupons, for a vivid solid 80x60cm, but the feeling of nostalgia for theses repros

http://www.pixhotel.fr/sites/default/fi ... ters-2.jpg

Space Gun has a MobyGames watermark

[jasoncslaughter]

Recently picked up a Sony Trinitron 20" from craigslist. I've been looking for a small crt to replace the crappy rf only one I had. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it has a component input. Apologies for the crappy iPhone pics - the picture quality is superb in real life. It gave me an excuse to hook up the old PS2 and play some games I haven't touched in quite some time:



Small size is super easy to tate:



Fast bullets + slower than molasses ship = endless frustration



Something is clearly wrong here...

[Jockel]

Glad to see the Japjac fingering still exists.

[beatsgo]

This puppy arrived on my front porch today and already put into good use. Gonna get that stick replaced soon and maybe a change in color scheme

[spadgy]

a masterpiece of art from Lego, the monorail 6990

Big!

I still have mine from childhood. The best Lego set of it's era!

[Icarus]

I think I'm returning to my old artbook-collecting habits again (expensive times ahead if that's the case), but I couldn't resist picking up a couple of fresh copies of Japanese artist redjuice's works as they were on offer for a reasonable price at Tokyo Otaku Mode. I've always absolutely adored the style and attention to detail in his works, which has a similar feeling to the works from my other favourites Tomoyuki Kotani and Tachikawa Mushimaro, so I'm pretty chuffed to have a couple of hard copies for my library.

Need to track down the rest of them now, heh.

[Stormwatch]

Got a 17" CRT monitor (LG Flatron T710SH) for $13.40.



Having it next to an LCD is enlightening... it shows how absolutely terrible older/cheaper LCDs are when it comes to color.

[CIT]

There' a maniac on the loose in my Super Famicom. A Sword Maniac!

[gabe]

I never thought I'd be one of the dudes posting a time piece in this thread...

[shmuppyLove]

http://gabes.in/img/dc_watch.jpg

[Stormwatch]

Phew, got my DC arcade stick fixed. A friend suspected it was just a bit of dirt inside the switch, so he poured a few drops of isopropyl alcohol into it and pressed a few times, now it works fine. And... even though it is a good controller, I understand now why people suggest modding it. The buttons do feel a little flimsy and weird.