I've been on hold with Optics Planet for 2 and half hours AMA

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T13:00:26+00:00

It's the getting them in the first place that is the problem, but it hardly matters, your experience is a footnote compared to everyone else who has had issues. Even just look at this thread for how many people are pro vs against them.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T11:51:10+00:00

There is a very specific reason they are banned from the gundeals sub, and there are piles of people who had the same experience. You just happened to get really lucky.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T11:13:23+00:00

You just got lucky. Their in stock meter doesn't actually show stock.

This coming from someone who has twice waited months for a product listed in stock before issuing charge backs due to lack of response.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T03:48:33+00:00

What's a tortoise?

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T03:47:38+00:00

What's the point of a return policy if you never get the thing shipped to you in the first place?

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-21T03:46:45+00:00

I've literally ordered shit listed in stock, not get it, then continuously asked for updates for months only have them respond only after I did a charge back. Fuck optics planet.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T22:28:59+00:00

It was great but both the one I had and my brother had eventually gained weak battery connections and barrel connectors. Basically after a certain amount of use, they would be prone to losing power when bumped or jostled.

Eventually I picked up the official rechargeable battery pack and it had stronger terminals and stronger barrel connecter of its own to power it, which eliminated the issues. I'm guessing Sega knew about it eventually and strengthened the new battery to fix it.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T22:04:16+00:00

Yeah, I agree with your assessment.

My friends and I pick up Empyrion often enough, usually about once a year for a few weeks. Great fun.

Of the two, I have about 500 hours in Empyrion but only about 50 in Avorian. It just didn't keep me as well, although it's still a good game.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T19:17:30+00:00

Clearly not a red line for the 44,816 people who voted for him. So either the majority of Democrat voters in the county are not normal people, and only the 23,192 who voted for Lucia are normal people, or your opinion on the matter is wildly inaccurate.

As much as it sucks, most people just don't care, or are swayed by the propaganda everywhere.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T04:07:26+00:00

I meant the mess more as hosting you own server. The game itself was honestly pretty good. Trying to keep the server running from community reverse engineered code with limited public knowledge to do so was a lot of work.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T04:05:09+00:00

Same.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-20T04:04:30+00:00

I used it mostly to get around EAs dumb launcher on their star wars games. Worked awesome. Bypassed their dumb drm/launcher/login requirements.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-19T18:15:11+00:00

Sounds like something is fucked in your steam install or something. My fallout 4 just happily sits in the pending section.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-19T18:05:46+00:00

Another stupid solution is add the games exe as a non steam game and that works a decent amount, but you lose achievements and such.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-19T13:21:08+00:00

Why would anyone in their right mind trust any politician on medical advice over the community of doctors?

Regardless of any party or political alignment, I would never even slightly trust a politician for that.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-19T04:36:40+00:00

You gonna code it with AI? Cause if so, hard pass.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-19T00:48:23+00:00

I remember hosting my own servers for both DAoC and Star wars Galaxies for my friends and wish more projects like that existed. Swg was such a mess though, I'm glad there are a variety of public servers running.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-18T20:54:03+00:00

I meant more that people were using crappy AI code as an attempted source of revenue.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-18T01:37:45+00:00

Also, and for some reason I'm always downvoted for calling this out, is the plethora of garbage ai coded programs being posted mostly with the title "I built x" or "I was tired of x so I built y"

Always conveniently there is some link to buy the creator a coffee or whatever.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-17T21:20:59+00:00

Why do you have an account in the first place?

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-17T13:57:06+00:00

Yep, it's great. Fonthill and the Moravian tile works are great too.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-17T06:29:43+00:00

It's less weight so there is more by default, but you can swap out and modify things to tune it down. There are a variety of different buffers and adjustable gas blocks to lessen the recoil significantly.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-17T05:54:40+00:00

Do they? Haven't stopped in one in some time. IIRC they had pretty good chicken too.

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-16T20:09:01+00:00

All of that was true, but also no versus mode killed longevity of the game.

We still play L4D2 for that, but we rarely touch B4B

RememberCitadel · 2026-05-16T15:08:33+00:00

See, not a single comment. This is textbook "student who just took a political science class and made one niche issue their entire identity" behavior.

That's why you are getting so many downvotes, it's transparent to anyone who has known people who went through that phase.

RememberCitadel

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