I won right to buy the PS4 20th Anniversary Edition, What should i do with it?
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The plan was for Egmon83 to have two grey anniversary PS4s - one to use and one to preserve to sell at a later date for Crazy Money. He agreed with his cousin that his cousin would win an Anniversary PS4 and swap for Egmon83's current, normal, plain, vanilla, black PS4. Thereby his cuz would get a free PS4 and Egmon83 would get his two grey PS4s. But the cuz was a thievin' back-stabbin' deal whincer so Egmon83 missed out on one grey PS4. Which, considering all he did was run around with a paper bag on his head where other people had to go to great lengths to get their anniversary PS4s, is probably fair.
Now it all makes sense. OT: just sell the gray Ps4 at a cray price anyway, technically it's just a Ps4 with a paint job...
Good summary Shifty Geezer!
I'll maybe buy a second one to play on once they drop to 600-700 euro. But come to think of it, I'm used to the CEH-1200 noise levels so now I probably can never enjoy the 20th anniversary. Should have bought the grey headphones to cancel out the noise
I'll maybe buy a second one to play on once they drop to 600-700 euro. But come to think of it, I'm used to the CEH-1200 noise levels so now I probably can never enjoy the 20th anniversary. Should have bought the grey headphones to cancel out the noise
I'm still confused.
You should take over from Morgan Freeman doing narration work. Or at least write for him.
Read that in his voice and tell me it doesn't work.
You can't.
The chronicles of Eggman's extra ps4 that never was
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The paper bag was to hide the shame................the confusing thing is why would anyone buy a PS4?
Actually the outfit was hidden under my vest until the last moment, as to not attract the mass of participants when I was homing in on the target. I chose the outfit because the event rules stated that you could not walk around with your face covered up, because of laws in the country. This meant I had an excuse to walk around 'normal', the vest was also allowed because of the cold weather. I just rolled up the white coat under it so it would be safer to ride my bike
The ultimate irony was at family Christmas dinner (my cousin was not attending because he was with his girlfriends' family) at one point everybody was talking about my cousin being super clever as he won a super rare PS4 which could be worth thousands of euros..
If I ever do an unboxing I'll post it here!
The ultimate irony was at family Christmas dinner (my cousin was not attending because he was with his girlfriends' family) at one point everybody was talking about my cousin being super clever as he won a super rare PS4 which could be worth thousands of euros..
If I ever do an unboxing I'll post it here!
Did they not know you won one 'also'?
Well it is a little bit more than a paint job! It has the number, the finish underneath has a metal strip and of course the O, Square, Triangle, X is imprinted on the paintwork (as well as the touchpad on the controller). Plus it's having that bit of history in your hands...can't really put a price on that.
Talking of the 20th anniversary stuff, I seem to be adicted to buying it...I now have PS4, extra controller (have left proper one and camera in box), headset, steelbook, wallet, keyring & phone case...and probably more stuff I forgot lol
I just saw the word "cray" somewhere here. Now I want to die.
It was before I was able to brag about my victory
told my mom about it when everybody left her house. She had to laugh hard though. She even said: "don't you have enough PlayStations?" (I have boxes of PlayStations stored at her house in the attic )
Only when you've learnt how to read and are well practiced in it. Your brain then does sufficient pattern matching with expected results. It'd be impossible to learn to read with messed up material like that*. Nor could you successfully read some other language. eg. try to read this (don't have to understand it, just need to pronounce it)
* Okay, not impossible if you had enough people giving lots of examples of reading mixed letters. You'd learn to recognise them eventually, only making your life a hell of a lot harder! However, you'd have no means to learn new words, so when presented with a scientific term like hxorontdphynhyleyeal, you'd never be able to interpret that as hydroxyphenylethanol which is otherwise a doddle to read because it conforms to the rules of English phonetic construction.
Teaching of English went very "whole word" for a long time, and it was crap. Now we focus more on phonetics and it's much better, although whole-word recognition is still part of reading strategy (it's natural after all, as per your example of how we can use image recognition to read gibberish).
When in correct form, it's parsable and you could get something out that a French speaker might be able to understand.
* Okay, not impossible if you had enough people giving lots of examples of reading mixed letters. You'd learn to recognise them eventually, only making your life a hell of a lot harder! However, you'd have no means to learn new words, so when presented with a scientific term like hxorontdphynhyleyeal, you'd never be able to interpret that as hydroxyphenylethanol which is otherwise a doddle to read because it conforms to the rules of English phonetic construction.
Teaching of English went very "whole word" for a long time, and it was crap. Now we focus more on phonetics and it's much better, although whole-word recognition is still part of reading strategy (it's natural after all, as per your example of how we can use image recognition to read gibberish).
Talking of winning stuff and it 'going wrong', back in the day of On Digital I went to a presentation (on behalf of Currys) - there were 4 of us and we all agreed if we won anything we'd split it 4 ways. Anyway, turns out the event was like a TV sales show where on stage Sally Meen (GMTV presenter at the time) went through why On Digital was so great. During the show she kept on saying to pay attention because someone would win a 'top of the range £2000 w/s TV'.
Anyway, at the end of the presentation she asked for 4 people form the audience and I put my hand up - we went on stage and then found out we were to have a quiz - so it turned into a kind of game show with TV audience...we stood behind these buzzers and it was essentially first to buzz in and answers correctly gets a point. Adrenalyn kicked in and I got the first 5 off the bat, I never looked back and won with ease.
Of course this was not what we expected at all - and I needed a new TV so I told the guys I would give them £50 each (at the time I was skint and had 2 jobs - the Currys job was my 2nd job so I could afford the bills) I figured it wasn't like a lucky dip - I did all the work and either one of them may have tried and failed so whilst I felt a initially guilty after talking it through it felt fair enough under the circumstances. 1 guy got a bit silly over it and threw his toys out the pram, but the other 2 were over the moon.
The TV turned up but it was just a bog standard £500 TV lol. So I complained to On Digital who said I was lying, said they had watched the tape back (but for some reason wouldn't send me a copy - would have loved to watch it back!) then they complained to my manager - who lent on me to accept the lesser TV. I told him that I would if he wanted me too but that I wasn't lying, they had made a promise and On Digital expected me to sell their product so...you know, not a great impression. Next day On Digital called me asking when I could accept my £2000 TV
It was one of the Philips 32" widescreen tube 100Hz jobbies, top of the range - I was well chuffed. The guy who was a bit upset did apologise eventually, I couldn't blame him - I'd be upset too but sometimes it's hard to do the right thing - especially when money is tight.
Anyway, at the end of the presentation she asked for 4 people form the audience and I put my hand up - we went on stage and then found out we were to have a quiz - so it turned into a kind of game show with TV audience...we stood behind these buzzers and it was essentially first to buzz in and answers correctly gets a point. Adrenalyn kicked in and I got the first 5 off the bat, I never looked back and won with ease.
Of course this was not what we expected at all - and I needed a new TV so I told the guys I would give them £50 each (at the time I was skint and had 2 jobs - the Currys job was my 2nd job so I could afford the bills) I figured it wasn't like a lucky dip - I did all the work and either one of them may have tried and failed so whilst I felt a initially guilty after talking it through it felt fair enough under the circumstances. 1 guy got a bit silly over it and threw his toys out the pram, but the other 2 were over the moon.
The TV turned up but it was just a bog standard £500 TV lol. So I complained to On Digital who said I was lying, said they had watched the tape back (but for some reason wouldn't send me a copy - would have loved to watch it back!) then they complained to my manager - who lent on me to accept the lesser TV. I told him that I would if he wanted me too but that I wasn't lying, they had made a promise and On Digital expected me to sell their product so...you know, not a great impression. Next day On Digital called me asking when I could accept my £2000 TV
It was one of the Philips 32" widescreen tube 100Hz jobbies, top of the range - I was well chuffed. The guy who was a bit upset did apologise eventually, I couldn't blame him - I'd be upset too but sometimes it's hard to do the right thing - especially when money is tight.
Great that you still got the promised TV! It's wrong that they complained to your manager though, especially given that they were in the wrong.
I once won a "Blu Ray movie box" through Sony a few years ago. Turns out it was only 2 movies :-0 I'm still happy that I won but the disappointment was pretty big
I once won a "Blu Ray movie box" through Sony a few years ago. Turns out it was only 2 movies :-0 I'm still happy that I won but the disappointment was pretty big
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