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Title: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Schnookums on October 14, 2017, 02:20:25 pm
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/vgm/d/custom-dream-console/6345869739.html
 (https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/vgm/d/custom-dream-console/6345869739.html)

Is it just me, or does this ad look like they just snagged random images of other people's projects? And hoping to make a little cash off of the deposits?

On the other hand, the options DO include a mini-fridge and cup holders, two things my arcade cabinet in progress lack, so maybe I'm just being super jealous?
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Nephasth on October 14, 2017, 02:38:55 pm
Contact me if interested. Send your ideas. I make dreams happen.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Schnookums on October 14, 2017, 04:10:22 pm
Hmm, okay. So I have this dream where I'm eating dinner with my parents but they're wearing Noh masks, and everyone is talking in German but for some strange reason I can understand them, and  I realize the Thanksgiving Turkey is actually a human baby, and suddenly we're magically flying over Lake Michigan.


Any chance of making that dream happen?
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: rackoon on October 14, 2017, 05:29:35 pm
I think I mite hire this guy to finish my barn before it snows :badmood:

Still going to build my own cabs though ;D
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: thomas_surles on October 14, 2017, 05:58:49 pm
Yep those are stolen
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: keilmillerjr on October 14, 2017, 09:02:37 pm
What's with the neat looking crate cab that has random logos, no joysticks and a ton of buttons?
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: yotsuya on October 14, 2017, 09:58:32 pm
What's with the neat looking crate cab that has random logos, no joysticks and a ton of buttons?

It’s Pi based. It transcends joysticks.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: PL1 on October 14, 2017, 10:02:17 pm
Is it just me, or does this ad look like they just snagged random images of other people's projects?
3rd pic is definitely from SpaceHedgehog's CP-1 Command Pod (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,141667.msg1479111.html#msg1479111) build.


Scott
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: vwalbridge on October 14, 2017, 11:08:53 pm
This reminds me of the time someone stole one of DeL’s Vigolix pictures for a Craigslist post.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: nitrogen_widget on October 15, 2017, 10:43:23 pm
Hmm, okay. So I have this dream where I'm eating dinner with my parents but they're wearing Noh masks, and everyone is talking in German but for some strange reason I can understand them, and  I realize the Thanksgiving Turkey is actually a human baby, and suddenly we're magically flying over Lake Michigan.


Any chance of making that dream happen?

jeez and i thought the dream where me and my dad keep getting out of his white jeep at my house to hook it up to another car and it keeps rolling down the hill through the 4 lane intersection and smashing into the building there and pingponging to different spots where we get it and do it all over again was not really all that weird.

The weird part was every time it started rolling he'd say "maybe it will hit the curb and go into someone's drive way"
but, it never does that, it keeps smashing the windows on the building on the other side of the intersection.
the last time it bounced then rolled down the 4 lane highway and i ran after it but didn't find it cause someone texted me and woke me up.

need to kick this cold and lay off the NyQuil I think because he doesn't even have a white jeep.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Schnookums on October 16, 2017, 07:24:37 pm
Yeah, the quality AND styles were all over the place so it's nice to confirm my suspicions.

Look, if someone wants to pay someone else to design a cab or cockpit or whatever for them, hey, it's their money. I personally wouldn't because I'm enjoying making my own cabinet, but I get that some people just want the finished product. However I have nothing but contempt for someone to pull a stunt like this, and I'm really hoping no one has actually fallen for this person's BS.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: shaolindrunkard on October 17, 2017, 05:30:45 pm
"I am a certified audio/video engineer, architect, artist, carpenter and custom builder, so you can be assured of safety and quality."

Red flag. Although the whole thing is a red flag but this just says to me its a person with more ego than talent.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Titchgamer on October 19, 2017, 02:30:12 am
First red flag is in the title IMO “console”.

Ive never seen a 6ft high console powered with a pc before....
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Schnookums on October 19, 2017, 12:31:08 pm
Well I reached out to the guy, and I feel ashamed that I doubted him. Not only is he a certified audio/video engineer, but he was also Nigerian Royalty! He was so generous too, wiring me eleventy billion dollars to my bank account after I provided him all my bank information.
Title: Re: "Custom" Dream Console
Post by: Titchgamer on October 19, 2017, 12:48:43 pm
Damn are you his long lost cousin as well?

Hes setting me up with a palace! He also said he can sort me out with some enlargement pills if you get my drift.

By my calcs if I take em all I will be long enough to circumnavigate the earth 2 and a half times to pleasure kylie Minogue in oz!