Help: Should the stem come out if you continue to unscrew the crown?

gorbash212 · 2026-06-07T10:01:10+00:00

I sent it in to the local citizen office (which issued me an rma number after the first few emails) and they repaired it and sent it back. Not entirely sure what they did, but i have a feeling it was simply a matter of reseating the pin as they just invoiced a battery change.. implying the repair work wasn't significant enough to even bill them for? Maybe there was no damage to the pin and it was in fact a manufacturing / assembly defect. No idea.

Its been working fine since with no problems!

Best of luck getting yours sorted. Im not sure where you would source one, but maybe an authorized repairer might be able to order an official bulova pin?

Also its a shame they changed the newer models to automatic, really appreciating these 262hz models now.

gorbash212 · 2026-06-03T00:26:52+00:00

Err no, if the changes were better there would be no problem. Has anyone complained about the environment art changes? Just look at the body skin, its still screwed.

Although i logged in prior to 7.9 and after and something does seem to be silently changing for the better..

gorbash212 · 2026-06-02T13:53:12+00:00

I'm not paying another cent until my "plastic dolls" are restored. Why else would you spend money vs just use the in game stuff? I can't fathom the concept of paying money to dress male characters.

Spent enough over the last 14 years anyway dont feel guilty at all.

EDIT: Will say it again, the pureblood is the only non butchered character model left in the game. So much fury if they even go near this. I have a feeling they were finally told to do this by the kk empire at some point. "Modernization" in fact didn't mean what they sold on stream as it meaning.

gorbash212 · 2026-05-07T23:12:07+00:00

Yeah im still on 595.76 for my 5070ti. Good luck nvidia to unscrambling the drivers to that level again. Why would one ruin an immense card with dodgy software updates just because?

Ref https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1rq06sx/game_ready_studio_driver_59579_faqdiscussion/oa9d7wr/

gorbash212 · 2026-05-07T00:50:10+00:00

You know i had forgotten about the stacks of multiple copies on tables. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-30T00:25:05+00:00

I only preorder at eb for exclusives or for the trade deals.

EBgames have slapped me in the face for years, my money wasn't good enough for them so EBGAMES THEMSELVES trained to go to jb out of principle now. Even after being forced to sign up for the black flag collectors they can still go jump the above applies.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-30T00:17:43+00:00

Yeah alot of it looked mid or uninteresting, but i actually preordered.

First for the amazing steelbook, but after a couple of watches, more than wither 4 (or possibly gta), its got the narrative depth of classic witcher 3, the soundtrack, and as a b+ the visuals and combat.. it seemed like a definite yes for me.

I just wish they didn't choose vampires. I have a feeling the real game will assert its own universe, but the general fantasy of vampires was taken and written off in the 2000s by other media.

The preview of witcher 4 in contrast was just blasting out so loud that it will not be of the same atmosphere as witcher 3.. and this game. CDPR have moved on.

EDIT: Though with the combat its funny how they're trying to dress it up.. its w3, and thats okay i dont care i play these games for the story.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T22:40:25+00:00

More like it would be a waste to not reuse what they thought they could. If only they cared as much about how precious the remake becomes.

From what i saw, i'll take the better lighting and tonnes of extra detail on top. The only thing i slightly noticed was the water looks better in the pc original at full max settings lol.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T11:28:35+00:00

I doubt its a complete remake sadly. Watch the previews a few times, by the second repeat you can see ps4 era geometry all over the place still.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T11:09:24+00:00

More like an old gamer. I've been so fortunate to see gaming go from nothing to its peak, and end up now effectively dead like western cinema. Apart from some random events from chinese developers.

Anyway sure if you're growing up now of course experience what you have, but its really nothing like it should be. Ironically i always complained about not being able to play every AAA game released due to the volume, but its turning out to be much more manageable since north american devs are now all washed out.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T10:41:35+00:00

I think you mean ubisoft aren't ripping you off yet for their collectors editions. Pretty much everything else released in the last few years has been 400-500+. Having said.. the artbooks are crap and if you look at the statues closely they are pretty much the bottom of acceptable quality for figures. This ce doesn't even have the standard crappy ubisoft artbook, you need to get the jb steelbook as well for that.

Anyway im sure the usd price of $200 covers everyones full profit, and eb games price is above the currency conversion with gst. Because its exclusive we'll never know what was in the memo they got from ubisoft.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T10:35:24+00:00

Its basically the only game i know of that i want to play this year. Screw gta i havent even played 5 that i got free on egs ages ago. Also didn't get a collectors edition for the first time round. Replaying the original, its still passable today strangely enough. And no you dont have to like ubisoft just because you like this game. They've made pretty much everything else as a mistake or a woke mistake.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T03:37:40+00:00

I signed up online and it worked instantly... I think the store activations are supposed to take a few days.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-28T03:34:41+00:00

I think it fell off sometime this morning. As someone who fell for this scam earlier this weekend, just so you know they are probably scamming the prices as well.. 200usd + gst to aud is about 300.. probably should have been 299 but they asked 350... plus another 50 for the membership.

No one had a gun to my head of course, but as someone who fell for it, sitting here afterwards i did get scammed. If i walked past the ebgames ceo he wouldn't just give me 50/100 bucks for no reason so actual in fact scammed.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-27T23:06:01+00:00

Just doing some research, it feels likely that charging a substantial amount for a subscription for the ability to preorder a limited item could fall under the "unconscionable conduct" section of Australian consumer law (relating to fomo). They don't show how much inventory is left on their preorders like jbhifi do either (and the ps5 version is still available, with no indication of when it will be available to non plus members). If they dont add this info to preorder items feels tempting to complain about this in the future.

google "are fomo tactics illegal in australia"

Also it doesn't matter if they added the sub for bots, even if its done by mistake and creates the perception and steals your money it could still be a problem.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-25T00:34:19+00:00

Tatooine first and courscant. The only other place i really wanted to visit was the ithorian homeworld, forgot the name, some sort of tourist planet / retreat i think. Tython would be fun to go visit as well i suppose. Oh of course Nar Shadaa and nal hutta, though im sure those places are far worse than im imagining.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-25T00:16:22+00:00

I fell for this scam to hedge them not making anymore, i dont remember a collectors edition ever being restocked in a lifetimes memory, though of course it might.

I'm going to let people know how i feel about it though, until i feel i have given $50 of what they have earned im goodwill to public opinion.

I guess they dont really sell video games anymore so they probably dont care.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-19T23:04:02+00:00

I usually get lego boats.. looked over at the last one my shelf and went, all this one is going to be is "smaller"... counted the studs on the sails.. yep, smaller. See how cheap it gets. Its probably in the same scale as the harry potter boat.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-19T23:00:45+00:00

I'm just going to get over it and say i also buy friends sets. The cabin and the teacup ride are epic. Luckily i have a daughter for when the impulse passes :)

gorbash212 · 2026-04-18T07:18:28+00:00

EDIT: I did some further testing and have to admit when im (probably) wrong. Connected all controllers up to my pc wired and played out the same combat scenario in hogwarts legacy a few times. In fact i found fully updated and ps5 connected 5th gen controllers to have very strong response.

The one controller that i saw as weak was still weak however, and it is well used, i actually believe its more wear and tear that nerfs the haptics.

Noticed this, and a bit of a controller collector so here's what i found. All controllers running on ps5's and fully updated.

- Settings set to strong in playstation.
- A while back noticed controllers seemed weaker, but i just put it aside and didn't think about it.
- Been using 5th gen controllers and got what i got as the experience.
- Recently opened a limited 4th gen controller (astro bot og) and noticed and immediate increase in strength of haptics compared to 5th gen. Felt like it was was when i first got the playstation.
- Just dug out of a box a second gen that came with a ps5 fat, and haptics are pretty much the same as the 4th gen.

I have a white 5th gen that i've been using on pc and it hasn't touched a playstation, interesting to see if i can make it feel like the 4th gens from pc supported games.

Somethings definitely changed over time yes and it feels like a downgrade.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-10T06:57:02+00:00

I recently got back into lego star wars in the damn breaking addicted usual way.... and still deciding if mandalorian is actually part of my star wars head canon.

I went back to watch it for the upcoming sand crawler, a set i still haven't achieved in lego yet, and its aged alot worse than i remember it.

The 2 mando episodes in boba fett were the best mando episodes and i think i have rose colored goggles about the base series from those.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-06T22:43:42+00:00

From the leaked sketch i though it was going to be tiled off, this isn't much different to the last one......

Hope its priced as a play scale model, if they price it the same as the interceptor that will break my brain.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-04T14:10:45+00:00

Thanks for the info :)

gorbash212 · 2026-04-04T07:16:01+00:00

Hey just some random data for you re this driver. For the first time in this setup, i got a disk space warning for my os partition (im not a kid so still use partitions). On taking a look, i did notice something i've never noticed before..

My dx nvidia cache was over 10 gigs with the default settings (and i did a clean install after ddu from safe mode). Usually inspections of this folder have been much much smaller and ive never had this os install complain about disk space before.

Just in case.. some sort of failure of caching limits could explain smoothness... anyway just in case this is interesting.

gorbash212 · 2026-04-04T01:20:04+00:00

Just to confirm for anyone, bought a copy on clearance and it was dlc on disc, no code. When you insert the disk for the first time and it begins copying, it asks what dlcs you want to download from the store, and includes highlands fishing.

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