Free stuff thread

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

How about a thread for stuff that is free? In the current economic climate, free things are nice.

I'll start off with a free calender :))

http://ojara.net/cl/2009/index_e.html

All you need is:

A - to find someone with access to a colour printer which handles paper bigger than A4

B - Erm, to re-do the public holidays as they are different.

[MelbourneGr]

Good idea!

The time I spend printing off / editing will result in cost to my boss tho :))

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Heh, true :))

Also, Freecycle is a great resource for giving and receiving stuff that would otherwise end up as landfill:

http://www.freecycle.org/group/UK/London/Southwark

[SeanMacGabhann]

like the idea Shu - does it belong more inthe Wanted/Offered section tho'?

[Keef]

I wouldn't have said so, it's not the same, and that section is crap, unless it's put at the top as a sticky.

[SeanMacGabhann]

How come "crap?"

I don't read it that much but it gets more readers than most of the rest of the forum I believe

[Keef]

Crap probably a bad work, but it just gets so much traffic, I think there should be a "for sale" / offered section seperate from the recommendations section.

I admit I am slightly biased, as someone took it upon himself to recommend Bare Groove after we played his wedding, and it was a lovely write up, which was on page 3 by the end of that day!

Anyway, I still think this particular thread doesn't belong there, it's not about something specific, it's a thread for people to say they've found something free and share it. So, unless it was sticky at the top of that section, it would just be lost and forgotten.

[Asset]

Yo Sushi are giving away 5 free plates if you buy 10 (easily done) for a limited time and Pizza Express are giving away 1 free pizza when you buy 2 until 19th Oct.

Vouchers available on the respective websites.

[SeanMacGabhann]

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Not a bad idea that

I hear what you are saying as well about how quickly things drop down in there - true test of popularity if it stays mind you!

Objections sustained - thread stays in Lounge

[Jeremy]

Perhaps the wanted/offered section should have sub-sections:

-Items for sale

-Free stuff

-Items wanted

-Tradesmen recommendations/requests

-Activities/sports partners/musicians

-Places/pubs/restaurants/shops

-Pets

-Misc

[AcedOut]

That would make for way too much clicking!

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Um, well wherever this thread is, just thought it might be a nice idea :))

Cheers Asset for the heads up on the food!

[Moos]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Objections sustained - thread stays in Lounge

Can you be both prosecution and bench at the same time?

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Maybe hes a fan of that megalomaniac lawyer from Phoenix Wright?

[SeanMacGabhann]

Never played those, Shu... worth it? And is one going free? ;-)

[PeckhamRose]

Nope, Lounge is wrong place for this thread.

OFFERED is offered, no matter whether free or not.

IMHO.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YViJ9KagCJ4

Its a kind of "Visual Novel", a style of game that goes back to the Famicom/Nes days (probably further back than that)

which were also popular on the FM Towns / Sharp x68000 series, gaining a wider audience on the PC Engine Disc system, PSX and Saturn etc. This style of game is a fairly new thing to the western market. You should be able to pick up the first 2 in the series for peanuts for the DS I reckon nowadays.

Going back on track, some 8-bit joy for free here:

http://lifehacker.com/394597/firenes-brings-2000-nes-games-to-your-browser

[Mogs]

I got myself hooked for a while on the Phoenix Wright games