Recent content by devwild

Several times actually. Amazon plays a lot of games with their shipping to cut costs, and that results in errors and delayed shipping fairly often. In this case after talking to them, they admit they chose the wrong warehouse and region to pull and deliver the package. But since they've handed...

I got the deal, the promo code, and thought I was golden to receive everything today. Then I find out my memory card and games got mis-shipped to Ontario - I live on the west coast US! To make matters worse, Amazon does their expedited shipping by dropping it off at the local UPS with their own...

No, it is a major scam, been going on ebay for some time, not to mention largely useless if you want to use xbl properly. I would suggest any of these sort of deals just be barred from this thread so as not to clutter it with crap.

FWIW, regarding ear damage, it is mainly the SPL - pressure level - at the ear canal which causes damage. The scale we use for that measurement is in dB. The issue with headphones isn't that they alone cause more damage, but that the way people usually use headphones, they get cranked well above...

I think torchlight went up at three different price points last year through the sales. Lots of grumbling about that, though most agreed it was worth it at any of them :)

*grumble*, I was just looking at DMC 4, and it jumped to $10 now :(

Sure it is, but there are only two ways to make a statement on an internet forum - say something, or say nothing. You'll note I've been on this forum for a while, but have opted for the latter. I had a moment of weakness this morning. And as for your other point, I'm always long winded when I...

Personally I'm rather tired of reading all the whining about the whiners. Sure, it's annoying when people go off about how "lame" some deal is just because they happen to already have it, or it appeals to a genre they don't care for but may be equally useful to others, but there are also times...