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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 30, 2016, 06:20:47 pm »

Question: When we get our goodies, do you want us to post our pics here, or in another thread?

Another Question: I plan on opening mine when I get it so my wife doesn't get me some of the same stuff (she knows where my wishlists are on the computer). Would anyone be offended? And if not, is it okay to post the pics early, or should we wait until Christmas to do so?

Every year some folks open it early anyway. We usually create a separate thread for the pictures in case some people don't want to see them before Christmas day 

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: November 29, 2016, 09:20:30 pm »

So why is this considered a bad Sonic game?

I was just playing it again, and was having a blast with it! I love the twist on the original special stage. And it feels and plays like an original Genesis entry in the series.

I can see that the graphics probably could use a little more detail in the textures, but that really seems like a minor complaint, to me.

It's fun to play, and that's what should really matter.

It's considered bad? It's been sitting in my wishlist for years since I don't buy digital often, but it seemed fun to me.

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 29, 2016, 12:31:30 pm »

I didn't wrap the games this year, but I did add a card and a little something-something extra to the package.

I heard that you sent a pretty awesome package last year, I'm sure this years' will be pretty swell too 

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News / Interactive figures/cards categories revamp

« on: November 28, 2016, 08:56:56 pm »

Hello guys!

Yes, you're reading that right. The long-requested, long-discussed (http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,5444.0.html), long-awaited change is now finally here!

Most people felt like it made more sense to classify these figures and cards by their game category rather than by region, and it does comply more with our overall way of doing things.

So lo and behold, the categories are now as such:

Interactive Figures and Cards

• Amiibo Cards
• Amiibo Figures
• Disney Infinity Figures/Power Discs/Play
• LEGO Dimensions Figures
• Pokemon Rumble U NFC Figures
• Skylanders Figures/Traps/Vehicles


Thank you all for your patience with this! If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please feel free!

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 28, 2016, 03:12:46 pm »

I will update this soon. Worked 35 hours over the last 3 days and am not thinking about much atm.

That's pretty intense, I hope you have a long enough break now at least 


On another note, I finally shipped my package yesterday! I wrapped it up in the cheesiest wrapping paper I could find, because I like doing that. 

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: November 27, 2016, 12:07:25 pm »

Hopefully they're just as good as they were, can't hurt to try.

Yup, if your warranty is still valid you'll have your console back and working in record time, and for free! If your warranty isn't valid anymore though, you'll have the same great service but will have to pay for it. I sent them 2 faulty consoles (a 3DS and a WiiU) and had a console back in under a week in both cases.

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 22, 2016, 07:31:30 pm »

...the response I got was "That doesn't happen"

Right. And I'm the new queen of England.

Hello your Majesty 

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 20, 2016, 08:15:34 pm »

I wanted to ship the package today, but it was raining cats and dogs... I'll just go tomorrow 

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2016

« on: November 06, 2016, 02:13:46 pm »

My gifts are either in my hands or on the way! Almost forgot how fun it is to shop for games. I haven't done it since last year's Secret Santa 

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General / Re: Interest for Secret Santa 2016

« on: October 14, 2016, 03:09:13 pm »

Just a friendly reminder that Tootsie Roll bags will be used as gift wrap. So don't just throw those out and act all high and mighty afterwards.

I hope you're my secret Santa 

Also candy corn is great

also I'm so late

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General / Re: Interest for Secret Santa 2016

« on: October 04, 2016, 02:55:16 pm »

Life happens; no one will be upset if you can't participate. However, if you do participate, show some respect and follow the adage, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

Insisting on this as well. If you cannot afford to participate, please don't. Do it for the others, but for yourself too; if you can't spare that money, don't spend it. I'm sure we've all had moments where money was tighter or big expenses arised all of a sudden. It's okay.

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General / Re: Interest for Secret Santa 2016

« on: October 01, 2016, 05:43:59 pm »

I'm in, and I'll give a range of 30 to 50 dollars.

EDIT: And while I didn't mind, because my giftee was AWESOME, I would prefer to not have to ship to Canada again. It really bumped up the cost of things. I wanted to add more to the gift but the shipping rate would go up even more.

Not as awesome as said giftee's gifter 

I'm also in for this year, $30-50 makes sense to me! With our still superb exchange rate, I don't think I can go much higher though.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests

« on: September 28, 2016, 11:02:31 am »

Putting this here to see if anything happens.

Interactive Figures and Cards
Amiibo Cards
Amiibo Figures
Disney Infinity Figures/Power Discs/Play Sets
LEGO Dimensions Figures
Nintendo e-Reader Cards
Pokemon Rumble U NFC Figures
Skylanders Figures/Traps/Vehicles

The script was all complete and ready to roll, and then I moved so I didn't have time, and then my computer crashed and I lost my latest version... I still have a halfway through version that I'm working on finishing again. But it's coming! Thanks for all off you guys' patience on this.

Also yes that was the consensus that most people who participated in the thread agreed on.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests

« on: September 23, 2016, 09:01:30 pm »

Regarding splitting the PC category as is still under evaluation. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have one category for the floppy disks and one for the optical discs? I mean, there was a time when PC games game delivered both on 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks in the same box (this might also be true for CD/DVD). Would it perhaps be easier/better to structure it something like this:

Split PC [NA] into:
- PC 3.5"/5.25" Floppy Disk [NA]
- PC CD/DVD-ROM [NA]

Split PC [EU] into:
- PC 3.5"/5.25" Floppy Disk [EU]
- PC CD/DVD-ROM [EU]
- PC - Digital Download [EU]

Since the majority of the existing games within the PC [NA] and PC [EU] categories are CD/DVD releases, just rename these categories to PC CD/DVD-ROM [NA] and PC CD/DVD-ROM [EU] and let the users move the floppy versions of games over to the new PC 3.5"/5.25" Floppy Disk categories over time.

I find this idea to be very interesting, especially since you're saying that floppies often came in the same box. That would definitely limit the confusion as to where these items go.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: September 23, 2016, 07:55:03 pm »

So I got a spam email from eHarmony. I'm a happily married guy, so I go to click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. I'm told that I'm not allowed to do that because I'm not a member of their group.

...WTF?! So now I'm going to keep receiving eHarmony emails, being married, and my wife is just going to get all suspicious if she sees that. Or I sign-up with an eHarmony just to unsubscribe?! Yeah, because that's not gonna make my wife suspicious. Great. This kind of shady crap shouldn't be legal.

Uhm, that's extremely weird... Do you use gmail? If so, you can set this address in your spam filters and you'll never receive the emails in your actual inbox.