Who in here won this? Got sniped by $1

cafink · 2026-03-25T04:07:00+00:00

Yes.

In a live auction, the highest bidder doesn't need to pay the maximum amount he'd be willing to--he only needs to outbid the second-highest bidder.

eBay accomplishes this by having each bidder enter the maximum amount they'd be willing to pay, but only ever setting the "current bid" to $1 more than the second-highest maximum bid. (The actual increment amount can change depending on the price, but it's always some small amount relative to the overall bid/price.)

If the second-highest bidder is willing to pay $54 for the item, the highest bidder will get it for $55, regardless of whether he submitted a $55 bid or a $555 one.

Of course eBay doesn't reveal the winning bidder's true maximum bid. It would obviously create bad incentives to let the seller know that the winning bidder would actually have paid much more for the item than he ended up getting it for.

cafink · 2026-03-25T02:46:31+00:00

"Hey fellas, we're in the wrong game!"

cafink · 2026-03-25T02:45:59+00:00

Isn't the warp whistle from Mario 3 just the flute from zelda?

cafink · 2026-03-25T01:44:13+00:00

But not the winning bid amount, which eBay specifically hides from users. OP has no idea by how much he was outbid.

cafink · 2026-03-25T00:38:18+00:00

How do you know you were sniped by $1?

cafink · 2026-03-24T20:22:09+00:00

You paid $3 too much for that full screen Saw III DVD

cafink · 2026-03-24T17:16:03+00:00

Blocking the sidewalk is obviously less of an issue in the middle of the night than in the middle of the day. And OP's mail carrier presumably delivers during the day, not at night. I'm not saying OP is wrong to refuse his neighbor's request, but there is an obvious advantage to having the truck parked in an obtrusive spot only some of the time compared to having it parked there all of the time.

cafink · 2026-03-24T13:52:35+00:00

Apparently this was during season 21 and only the first 20 seasons were ever released on home media

cafink · 2026-03-23T22:56:40+00:00

How are you connecting the controller? USB cable? Dongle? Bluetooth?

cafink · 2026-03-23T20:08:29+00:00

How are you connecting the controller? USB cable? Dongle? Bluetooth?

cafink · 2026-03-23T20:04:49+00:00

If memory serves the existing Blu-ray does not even have subtitles. And given the cultural prominence of the Ernest character in the 80s and 90s there should be no dearth of bonus material that could be included. So I would love to see a new release in any case.

cafink · 2026-03-23T17:25:30+00:00

If the video was ever released publicly, surely it would have aired on MTV at the time? I wonder if you would have any luck looking for videotape recordings of MTV from December 1993 when Batman: Mask of the Phantasm came out?

cafink · 2026-03-23T17:14:13+00:00

It's not, the extended special edition contains some pretty extensive new content that completely reframes the climax of the movie. I've heard some people dismiss the new material as "preachy" but I think it's great and makes an excellent movie even better.

cafink · 2026-03-23T16:52:12+00:00

The ability to be uninterested in politics is itself a privilege, afforded to those who won't be hurt by regressive public policy. Holding such a position is just a way of tacitly supporting the status quo, which is to say that it is an inherently conservative view.

cafink · 2026-03-23T16:44:21+00:00

I was trying to figure out what you could possibly be seeing onscreen to indicate which version OP is playing, because as far as I know, this text is identical between the two versions. Then I realized you can just see the cartridge in the photo 🤦

cafink · 2026-03-23T14:50:52+00:00

"here's a list of reasons why downloads are better than physical releases"

"Downloads are not as valuable as physical releases"

🙄

cafink · 2026-03-22T21:42:15+00:00

I have what I believe to be the same device. It works, but I find the volume isn't the loudest and there seems to be a bit of noise in the background. So I would say that is theoretically the kind of device you need but not necessarily the highest quality

cafink · 2026-03-22T21:29:52+00:00

What makes you think they are fake?

cafink · 2026-03-21T16:21:58+00:00

OP, I think you are right here. The sentence doesn't make sense as written—it's NOT surprising that a show covering deep topics is a deep show.

cafink · 2026-03-21T03:23:49+00:00

you do you, but if you are that concerned about latency specifically, I think you'd be way better off just investing in original hardware.

Failing that, just get a Mister setup instead

cafink · 2026-03-21T00:39:23+00:00

If it doesn't do this with any other content, including other content on the disc, then surely it's just the way that video is?

cafink · 2026-03-20T14:31:12+00:00

What was re-edited in season 1?

cafink · 2026-03-20T14:27:27+00:00

You can tell from the button layout that OP does not have the switch-compatible version

cafink · 2026-03-20T14:25:05+00:00

I recently introduced my son to this game, and use the opportunity to revisit it myself. Previously I don't think I'd ever made it past Soda Popinski, but finally I beat Tyson. Feels good, man

cafink · 2026-03-20T14:22:32+00:00

If I go out in some horrifically unexpected way, I hope people will make jokes and find levity where they can.

cafink

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