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  1. Posted

    On 19/07/2020 at 1:48 AM, The Bard said:

    I joined back in the Cube-Europe days. I well and truly miss this place, and sometimes, once or twice a year I'll type n-europe.com into my browser and sit there staring at the title page. It's much like going up into the attic of your childhood home and seeing the boxes full of memories, photographs, toys, and trinkets that you never use but you can't ever discard. More than any other thing on the internet, this site feels like a real, living place to me - it's gone through so many coats of paint, add-ons, consolidations and visitors, some transient, some that stayed for a season or two, and I really have it to thank for helping me through my school years. 

     

    I'm 31 now, and many of the people I really liked from here, I ended up becoming friends with in real life. I doubt there will be a forum culture like it again, honestly. There was something amazing about having a sizeable, but contained group of people that you'd respond to on a daily basis, whose viewpoints you internalised over the course of years, and that you could have meaningful conversation with, rather than what I tend to do these days - mostly doom-scrolling through my Twitter or Facebook feeds. I feel like in the times of the 'rona, a lot of us could use this place as much as we did a decade ago when we were all teenagers or young adults.

     

    Anyway, I hope you all are doing well! I'll try to post some more, and hopefully get into fewer arguments than before - can't guarantee it though ;).

    Man, I know this is like a two and a half year necro of this thread but I just had to say how accurate this statement was. Just found myself in exactly one of these moods and read this and it summed it up PERFECTLY. Nice one Bard 💙

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  2. Posted · Edited by Dyson

    Loved the NE Meets! I came to a couple, and brought Brian Mcoy along to one and my (then) girlfriend Zoe. And then, the following year when everyone came to Namco Funscape on Southbank where I was working.. that was really sweet, and it was ace to see everyone again! 

    This place was my teenage years, to be honest, in a lot of ways. I hold it very close to my heart, primarily because of the mostly fantastic members, lots of whom I still talk to every now and then (Hi R_A!). I miss Gizmo. I see his avatar every now and then and lots of memories come back. There's even someone on the Eurogamer comments section called Gizmo and I'm fairly sure it isn't him, but whenever I see it I'm reminded of some very dumb posts we made.

    It all came back a year or two ago when I stumbled on a text file of old PMs and instant messenger convos that I had no idea I had. In one of them, there was a conversation with "Bluey" who I remembered getting on really well with, so I decided to see if I could find them in the modern internet era. Not only did I find them, but it turned out we were both attending EGX Rezzed, so I made a point of finding her at the SpecialEffect booth (which is where she works) and surprising her. We swapped memories about the forum, she told me how Jamba was getting on, and I've volunteered at two SpecialEffect events since. :D

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  4. Posted

    This is a hell of a necro but I had to mention it - I was just talking to my partner about this game and the thrill of the leaderboards "back in the day" and was desperate to find screenshots of the domination I was describing.

    On 31/07/2008 at 5:18 PM, Dyson said:

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    I love that over ten years later I can still find this stuff. I just read through the thread and it filled me with happiness and memories of these golden days.

    Would love to get back on this game one day and see where we all decided to leave it, and maybe even improve on some of the scores I left behind over 7 years ago...

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  7. Posted · Edited by Dyson

    Predictions...

     - Crash Bandicoot Switch
     - Fire Emblem Switch
     - Mario Odyssey DLC?
     - Yoshi Switch named and dated
    - Too much time spent on Octopath Traveller
     - Lots of time spent on Mario Tennis - more than I'd like (hopefully no more than 5 mins but reckon it could be closer to 12...)

    And something neat to end with. My heart says Smash Bros but I don't think that'll happen - maybe Pikmin..?

     

    PS. Hey again peeps! :D

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  8. Posted

    Sorry about the last season chaps, I was really up for it and as soon as the season began I just completely forgot to log in and do my bits and bobs - except for a couple of weeks...

     

    They really need to consider an app for this that can notify me when I need to make changed and such. I do have the time but with my limited amount of N-E activity these days and X11 needing its own website it just totally slipped my mind. Really hope it didn't mess anything up! Love how passionate you all still are about it too - Haden, your match reports and song rewrites are still 10/10 even after all this time!

  10. Posted

    So I contacted Hermes again and looking and behold, they have my package. Being delivered before 4pm today.

     

    Relieved. That said, we managed to find a Neon Switch via Click and Collect at ASDA that we booked - ironically, our pickup time was set for 4pm but it looks like we won't need it.

     

    Just excited to have it here and have the saga come to an end!

     

    @Shorty and anyone else - might be worth a check if you're still waiting for NUK.

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    If that was your normal post that's just been and gone, it should come via seperate delivery van, just might not be out for delivery yet but I'd imagine it would be today... I really hope so. :smile:

     

    I appreciate your optimism dude!

     

    Just got off the phone with Nintendo Store.. they don't know where my parcel is is the short version.

     

    The guy on the other end of the phone did several checks for me with no results and said (sounding super exasperated at the day he has had) that compensation would be arranged via an email to the admin team. I thanked him for his time and said regardless of his helpfulness, I'd still like to speak to a manager.

     

    After a couple of minutes I was put through to James who was also very friendly but tinged with stress at firefighting, who said that he has authorised an £18 refund to my Nintendo account and will be calling me back before he leaves with an update. He hoped it would be with good news but said if it doesn't arrive today we can discuss further compensation at that point.

     

    I feel for them, I know this isn't their fault and they're only acting on the information given to them by their fulfillment team. But my word, what a clusterfuck.

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    Mine has just arrived moments ago so stay strong Dyson! :)

     

    Fingers-crossed that you get your Switch soon as well. : peace:

     

    Still got second set of Joy-Cons to arrive yet but... they'll probably be in the main post I guess, my Switch came by Royal Mail van.

     

    Nice dude, what does your RM tracking say now?

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    So I got home from an eight hour shift at work today to find...

     

     

    ...no Switch delivery at all. :(

     

    ShopTo sent me an e-mail stating that there would be a Switch delivery delay meaning no console from them until Monday.

     

    As for Nintendo Store UK, they're just like... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

     

    Hopefully my main Switch will be coming tomorrow, probably not in the morning though while I'm here, no you can bet it will likely be at a stupid time when no one is about to sign for it I bet. :hmm:

     

    I'm really hoping NUK deliver tomorrow at a sensible time, at least then I'd have Zelda, the console and all the accessories while Super Bomberman R will likely be bundled with the ShopTo delivery.

     

    Othewise, no Switch this launch weekend for me. :sad:

     

    I did get the two Joy-Con straps, charging grip and AC power adapter which I ordered seperately though so... yay? ::shrug:

     

    Oh and Zelda Breath of the Wild for Wii U - got it for my brother mainly - which I'm sorely tempted to unseal and start playing now despite the fact that I should have the Switch version tomorrow.

     

    Nah... I think I'll just play a bit of Horizon Zero Dawn on my PS4 instead. : peace:

     

    Ah well, SOON!

     

    I feel your pain dude! My tracking now says

    We have been notified that your item is being shipped by the retailer; the next scan will appear when we receive this item into our network.

     

    Which, at almost 1am, is fairly disheartening.. but I guess better than Royal Mail outright rejecting the tracking number like earlier, right?

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    Urgent training on left controller issues id recon

     

    Are they really that bad? I assumed it was an urgent update for everyone on the delivery issues, but I got through after that and they say there's no news

     

    I just don't understand how neither Royal Mail not Nintendo seem to actually know what's going on with this thing. It's baffling.

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    @Dyson some people are reporting an email with a Hermes tracking number in and an explanation that it was a mixup. Any chance you're one of those lucky ones? (I'm not)

     

    That's a no from me as well unfortunately. Still nothing. A few people in similar positions to us saying that they've had theirs turn up by Royal Mail at about half three, and even after it was delivered the tracking wasn't working, so there's some (albeit miniscule at this point) hope..

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    *bangs head against wall in frustration*

     

    Nintendo UK have really, truly dropped the ball on this one. 2:40pm and my Royal Mail tracking number STILL says:

     

    Status: Sorry - we don't recognise that reference number.

    Please check the reference number is correct.

     

    Spoke to Nintendo this morning who told me the number should update at 12/1 and to call back if it hadn't. Then got through to someone at 1:45 being told something different.

     

    So far it has been a total disaster of a day off as I haven't been able to take my mind off of it or head out, and the worst part is I don't even know if it will be turning up today at all!

     

    So frustrated right now.

  25. Posted

    I got nervous/impatient and ordered the console via Amazon Prime Now and it's already arrived.

     

    Prime Now is godly.

     

    For anyone who's ordered with Nuk but had an incorrect tracking number, your order is likely coming via Hermes according to GAF.

     

    Hope it doesn't mysteriously go missing..:woops:

     

    I was tempted to do that, but I want the neon one

     

     

    Do you have the number for Nintendo?

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