Viewing Thread:
"Eye Toy"

So, I gave in to temptation and bought one.

It's slow (free) delivery from ******, but cheaper than sr.

It's kind of lame though. I was buying a book from them, noticed the free delivery for orders over £25, and ended up spending another £30 to save £3.
Oh well, I'd have bought it eventually anyway.

I just feel like a big lamer.

But I have the eyetoy on the way.

Maybe I should have put this in the ps2 forum.


Ah well, while we're here, short rant:
Bah. When I first came here sr's formula was 'sell the membership, discount the games'. Now it's more like 'sell the membership so they can win stuff, discount sod all'.
Last time I bought a membership I only did it so that I could win gads. I bought TS2 as well, for the free gift (notice a pattern of buying expensive crap just to qualify for minor freebies). Cube extension leads, and I've never used them. I did win one gad in that time too though.

I wanted to be a loyal customer, but there's just no incentive to buy from SR when they can't do competetive prices.
Plus I've had trouble with their customer services.

I now feel more loyal to p***.com - they sent me a free ps2 stand, completely out of the blue. Twice. The second time I didn't bin it and it now holds my ps2 up. Now that's service.

Now i would call that queer.

Just noticed something else. 200% sure.

******.com
Returns Department
2 South Block
The Maltings
Sawbridgeworth
Herts
CM21 9JX



SR Sawbridgeworth Address:
2 South Block, The Maltings, Riverside Way, Sawbridgeworth, Herts.

http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/shops/sawbridgeworth.php

I'm now 100% sure SR know about them too, and I have reason to believe why.

Belldandy wrote:
> More interestingly I found
> a certain site, which seems to imitate the entire Special Reserve
> site - with no membership and they don't charge until they send, and
> even is in the same place as them, Sawbridgeworth. Obviously I can't
> say where, but I wonder if SR know about them, or indeed are them...


Ooh I know that place too. Noticed it when they had one of the items available that SR claimed to be 'exclusive' to them.

Belldandy wrote:
> Dr Duck may also find the free delivery from XXXXXX isn't as slow as
> it suggests,

*hopes*
I did order one book, but I don't think it was all that heavy :^)


> Obviously I can't
> say where, but I wonder if SR know about them, or indeed are them...

Hmm. It'd seem like a fair possibility, Mr Rainbird spreading his.. um, wings.

Like Dr Duck, I've had bad experiences with SR and now I only bother with membership for GAD to be honest, I've had 4 in two years so I'm happy, but every time I order something always, without fail, goes wrong. Right now I'd love to get House Of The Dead 3 and the lightgun from Xbox, and it's a good price here, and it is in stock, supposedly, yet if I check out the availability of the light gun by itself then there is no stock, whilst there is stock of the game by itself.

I will bet money there are no light guns in stock, and that availability of the bundle is based on just one of the items being in stock. Hence, should I order it, I'll probably be lucky to see it this month.

Dr Duck may also find the free delivery from XXXXXX isn't as slow as it suggests, if I have the same site in mind. I usually wait to order until there are a few books I want as well, that way the weight of the books makes XXXXXX sned your parcel on Parcelforce 24, for free.

SR used to be cheap, but they aren't now. More interestingly I found a certain site, which seems to imitate the entire Special Reserve site - with no membership and they don't charge until they send, and even is in the same place as them, Sawbridgeworth. Obviously I can't say where, but I wonder if SR know about them, or indeed are them...

For AI coding, maybe a pool game could be a good demo?

Fairly simple graphics, 2D calculations for ball movement shouldn't be that tough.
That just leaves the AI for shot selection, with plenty to get your teeth into -
Which ball to play, position for a next shot, whether to try to snooker instead of pot, trying to open balls trapped on the cusion and stuff, trying to sequence a dish (run of all the balls left on the table).
Maybe a tad late for the interview though.
And it would need Rhino dentists.

:^)

Tiss ok!

Been busy as the past couple days trying to get this demo to a reputable state.

Kinda there now.

Well, at least you have to do something in the game now!

Not the games ultimate goal, but it is something to demonstraight a few things!

:)

*Gets out Bus Stop album*
:^D

I'm looking forward to it anyway. Me, Jack and the Eyetoy.



Cooky, got cut off from msn the other day, then couldn't reconnect. I wasn't trying to be rude!
We *think* the dial-up doesn't work whenever there's a message on bt 1571. Otherwise the socket is busted.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Eyetoy's guff.
>
> It's fun for the first few hours, after that it's just crap.
>
> Playing it on your own is in the same category as getting drunk on
> your lonesome. Completly pointless and oh so sad.

I second that.