Random Thoughts Thread III

enetric · Post #961 » by **enetric** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:37 pm

I am not paying scalper prices to sit upstairs. I wanted to be there...but not top level prices for garbage seats. I would have paid $300-400 for a pair of lower bowl to ticketmaster for opening night. I see it would cost $400 to sit in the corner of the lower bowl (section 28 row 19) for another game I tried.

Hilarious that is how much a pair of tickets that arent even great seats will cost now face price...lol.

Well...that's the DOWNSIDE to becoming a major attraction.

Post #962 » by **NyCeEvO** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:41 pm

They gotta be holding back tickets somehow. There's noway the tickets sold out within seconds.

therealbig3 · Post #963 » by **therealbig3** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:39 pm

I've given up trying to go to the first game...it's $200 per ticket for upper level sideline seating on StubHub...and it's not like I'll be the only one going, it'll be me and my family (3 other people), so it would be $800 (plus taxes and shipping) for us to get a nice view of the game from the upper level. That's pretty crazy.

I'm looking to see what other games I can go to. I know that for some games, those same seats are like 50 bucks a ticket.

Post #964 » by **jerseyjac** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:10 pm

enetric wrote:I am not paying scalper prices to sit upstairs. I wanted to be there...but not top level prices for garbage seats. I would have paid $300-400 for a pair of lower bowl to ticketmaster for opening night. I see it would cost $400 to sit in the corner of the lower bowl (section 28 row 19) for another game I tried.

Hilarious that is how much a pair of tickets that arent even great seats will cost now face price...lol.

Well...that's the DOWNSIDE to becoming a major attraction.

What did you think of my calculation...I mean I thought it was going to more than double, but we're talking more than triple the face value...

Post #965 » by **Rich Rane** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:42 pm

So...if the Google Nexus 5 is real, I'm going to go to Bellvue, Washington and keep throwing money at HTC's North American headquarters until I get it.

Post #966 » by **jerseyjac** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:08 am

Rich Rane wrote:So...if the Google Nexus 5 is real, I'm going to go to Bellvue, Washington and keep throwing money at HTC's North American headquarters until I get it.

http://www.starkinsider.com/2012/09/goo ... splay.html

:nod:

Post #967 » by **NyCeEvO** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 2:47 pm

But on Verizon though?

They botched the last Nexus by including some bloatware and more importantly, not doing the JB update till now.
Sprint got the Nexus 6 months after Verizon, had no bloatware, and got the JB update quickly (way before Verizon).

I heard El Goog was pretty pissed with Verizon about that.

EDIT: Hey JJ and Rich, if you find any cool tech info, can you also post it in the Tech Thread in the Media Lounge. The more posts we generate, the more likely we can get it turned into another forum.

vincecarter4pres · Post #968 » by **vincecarter4pres** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:19 am

NyCe, Rich, I'm going to take the plunge by the weekend and root my old piece of **** phone I think.

I will be asking for help here every 3 to 8 minutes when I finally decide. Don't brick my ****! :lol:

No but seriously, I'm going to have questions starting sometime tomorrow. I know there are forums for this which I will certainly use, but it's easier to ask some stuff from people you know.

Post #969 » by **NyCeEvO** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:07 pm

^^You know what the #1 disclaimer about the process is, right?

If you brick your phone trying to follow instructions, you can't pass the blame back to us lol. :lol:

enetric · Post #970 » by **enetric** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:08 pm

jerseyjac wrote:
enetric wrote:I am not paying scalper prices to sit upstairs. I wanted to be there...but not top level prices for garbage seats. I would have paid $300-400 for a pair of lower bowl to ticketmaster for opening night. I see it would cost $400 to sit in the corner of the lower bowl (section 28 row 19) for another game I tried.

Hilarious that is how much a pair of tickets that arent even great seats will cost now face price...lol.

Well...that's the DOWNSIDE to becoming a major attraction.

What did you think of my calculation...I mean I thought it was going to more than double, but we're talking more than triple the face value...

Yeah. Ridiculous.

Born_Ready · Post #971 » by **Born_Ready** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:56 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci5_erIN2Vk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

therealbig3 · Post #972 » by **therealbig3** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:48 pm

Really digging Lupe's new album.

deVINdiesel · Post #973 » by **deVINdiesel** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 2:33 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg4UIc4K ... _embedded#!

freeeeeeee

vincecarter4pres · Post #974 » by **vincecarter4pres** » Mon Oct 1, 2012 4:45 am

The Rebel's hyperbole makes me blush and that's saying something.

pikalou · Post #975 » by **pikalou** » Wed Oct 3, 2012 3:50 am

Somebody needs to remind me not to set up a custom fantasy basketball schedule every year :lol:

Took forever but it's finally done, you play everyone in the league once and two non-division teams twice (was probably a way to make it so those two extra games were against division teams, but I'm not about to re-work the schedule now :lol:

)... 2 rivalry weeks this week as opposed to one... With about 5 groups of people involved who mostly don't know each other that was also a challenge...

Born_Ready · Post #976 » by **Born_Ready** » Thu Oct 4, 2012 5:00 pm

Anyone cop NBA2k13 yet? I'm contemplating on getting it this weekend. Just wanted to hear from the talking heads if it's really worth the purchase. Thanks.

Post #977 » by **NyCeEvO** » Thu Oct 4, 2012 11:02 pm

beast m0de wrote:Anyone cop NBA2k13 yet? I'm contemplating on getting it this weekend. Just wanted to hear from the talking heads if it's really worth the purchase. Thanks.

I got it on launch day, but I haven't had the time to really play it.

In fact, I played in Best Buy more than I did at home.

My biggest complaint last year was about the fact that the ballhandler would lose the ball super-easily and the passing system was horrific. It basically made the game unplayable for me.

Even in the short time that I've played the game, I've found it much better.

Also, you should probably check the Gamers Lounge forum and/or the Knicks forum cuz I'm sure they'd have a thread about that. There are a lot more people who have the game and can voice more qualified opinions than I can at this time.

Post #978 » by **NyCeEvO** » Thu Oct 4, 2012 11:03 pm

This pic is so funny:

Post #979 » by **jerseyjac** » Thu Oct 4, 2012 11:49 pm

NyCeEvO wrote:
beast m0de wrote:Anyone cop NBA2k13 yet? I'm contemplating on getting it this weekend. Just wanted to hear from the talking heads if it's really worth the purchase. Thanks.

I got it on launch day, but I haven't had the time to really play it.

In fact, I played in Best Buy more than I did at home.

My biggest complaint last year was about the fact that the ballhandler would lose the ball super-easily and the passing system was horrific. It basically made the game unplayable for me.

Even in the short time that I've played the game, I've found it much better.

Also, you should probably check the Gamers Lounge forum and/or the Knicks forum cuz I'm sure they'd have a thread about that. There are a lot more people who have the game and can voice more qualified opinions than I can at this time.

I had already made the switch in 2009 from Live, looking forward to buying NBA2k13...just saw this:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/27/ ... 3-canceled

Born_Ready · Post #980 » by **Born_Ready** » Fri Oct 5, 2012 3:31 am

NyCeEvO wrote:
beast m0de wrote:Anyone cop NBA2k13 yet? I'm contemplating on getting it this weekend. Just wanted to hear from the talking heads if it's really worth the purchase. Thanks.

I got it on launch day, but I haven't had the time to really play it.

In fact, I played in Best Buy more than I did at home.

My biggest complaint last year was about the fact that the ballhandler would lose the ball super-easily and the passing system was horrific. It basically made the game unplayable for me.

Even in the short time that I've played the game, I've found it much better.

Also, you should probably check the Gamers Lounge forum and/or the Knicks forum cuz I'm sure they'd have a thread about that. There are a lot more people who have the game and can voice more qualified opinions than I can at this time.

Appreciate the feedback. I'll go check the gamers lounge as well.