SooKee

3 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Indeed that was my understanding.

Has been pointed out earlier in the thread that the proof of monthly transfers was not required for previous 12 months.

So you can obtain an extension based on income method.....then make zero transfers into your account and switch to money in bank method for your next extension. Strange. 

We can never be sure I suppose but my suspicion is that people who have got away with doing that just got lucky.  It does seem strange though, and as I said, when I went to transfer the stamps into my new passport that did check that I had been complying since renewal.  Seems odd they'd bother about a few months but then not care about a whole year.  If I had to do the change in method again though I'd still take both sets of documents, either that or renew early and be prepared to have to go to Immigration again.  For me though, preparing both sets of documents was less less of a PITA than having to go home, start again and go to Immigration a second time.

On 7/18/2022 at 5:40 AM, OJAS said:

Definitely not the case at Rayong in my experience - see my first previous posting.

I had the same experience at Bangkok when I switched this year.  I'd prepared all the documents to show that I had complied with the previous 12 months of transfers since the last extension (bit of a PITA I thought as you essentially have to comply with both sets of conditions) but the IO wasn't interested.  

That said, personally I think it's better to have the documentation, particularly if you are applying for a renewal very close to the expiry date (leaving you less time to sort stuff out) simply because one cannot predict whether they will be required either because of a dictate from the local (or even national) boss or because the IO is being very diligent or even just bloody minded.  Technically I would have thought they should check that you have complied with the conditions of the extension you were granted previously (I even had to get my passbook updated to show the monthly transfers in when I renewed my passport, but after I applied for my extension, the year before last when I took it in to get the stamps transferred).  Not being asked to show the proof, as in the case when I switched method, doesn't mean the IO shouldn't or won't ask IMO.

Most of the time I find if there's two of us going somewhere it's cheaper, or at least the same price, to take a taxi, with the added benefit of door to door pick up / drop off.  BTS is certainly the preferred option at rush hour though or when it's raining (and invariably flooding) and traffic grinds to a halt

$$$$$$ Thainess $$$$$$

I wonder if the 'accuser' is that gobby bitch that got booted out of the Killjoy Squad's party?

On 6/24/2022 at 5:46 PM, Beachcomber said:

Edge and chrome both have  "AdGuard AdBlocker" available from their Extensions page.

 

The program is free and really does work in blocking all adds and pop-ups.

 Have been using it for long time and never get any pop-ups from any site, including this one.

 

RARBG is the only site a bit touchy and sometimes wants to fill a captcha, but small price to for being ad free.

 

With Torrents, Magnet is the way to go, always use Magnet download. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep.  I only ever use the Magnet link.  But just clicking that, even with an ad-blocker, does a site re-direct to whatever junk site it decides.

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Going back to your original post where you mentioned that 1337 was giving you some grief, well I've just started experiencing that myself with all sorts of strange links being shown when I want to download or look at the IMDb rating on it!!

 

I have just installed an antivirus because I thought I might have a virus, but that didn't seem to work so I may well transfer Malwarebytes over from my other laptop to see what happens.

 

On a completely different subject I have watched the first 2 episodes of, "The Old Man" and apparently there are 2 more available, yet I haven't been able to find them, so any ideas as to where they may be?? Anybody??

Yes I looked at the all the issue another fellow kindly posted and I effectively have all those things in place.  It's as if each one of the 3-4 coloured download option 'buttons' now does a re-direct to some junk site.  I also have ad blockers in place and do frequent malware scans.  I've actually never used that site before, definitely won't be using it again.

Currently on a WW2 Naval Warfare frenzy:

Tora Tora Tora (excellent and IMO still the best Pearl movie)

Midway

Battle of the River Plate

Sink the Bismark

Pearl Harbour (or let's turn what was a military disaster, for the US at least (19 ships lost, 180 aircraft and 3,500+ killed / wounded), into a 3 hour, mostly pointless, romance movie and shift the focus onto two guys who shot down 5 planes and then hung up their fighter wings to become bomber pilots.  Better to split it into two movies so as to be able to give the romance twoddle a wide berth.  Good action scenes for the Pearl attack though, just the other 150 minutes that were dull.

On 6/25/2022 at 9:32 AM, MrJ2U said:

I got one of the X series.

 

We've had it a few months and the kids prefer their phones.

 

I think its been used four or five times.

 

If you're a big gamer Series X.

 

Flight Simulator is really cool! 

I don't plan to use it often, I didn't use the PS3 or 360 much when I had them either, just an occasional dabble.  I see Flight Simulator recommended a lot but not sure I get the appeal.  Just depends what folks are into I guess.

4 minutes ago, RedBackman said:

Just a note, if you don't have xbox live gold yet you can buy up to 3 years of it ($5/mo) and then upgrade to game pass ultimate (normally $15/mo) for $1 and it will be applied to the whole 3 years just for that $1. There are plenty of guides about it online but it'll save you money if you intend to use game pass.

 

As for which console to pick, Series S is a better deal even at msrp unless you're frame chasing and trying to play highest settings. If you're casual gamer and okay with 1080p or 4K FSR you should be golden with an S.

Thanks.  I picked up an S in the end, 12,000 from a shop on Lazada.  Very impressed with it and does all I need.  Bought a few games that aren't on Live (AFAIK) and have a Live 14 day voucher that I've yet to activate.  Haven't yet got into the shenanigans of getting Brazilian vouchers to buy from the Brazil store etc or the options to activate3 years of Live with an Ultimate upgrade, I'll do some digging over the weekend.

12 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Oh, that doesn't happen when I use that torrent site, but then I do have an ad blocker running, so maybe that makes a difference??

 

Yes it is about the car drive, and I thought it was great, but there again we all have different tastes! I think one has to get into the "intricacies" and in-depth aspects of the conversations he's having to make it worthwhile.

Oh I got into the intricacies, not a lot else going on after all 5555.  I just found it dull.  As you say, we all have different tastes.

I have an ad-blocker too, no idea what the grief is with 1337.

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

IMO, it is an extremely good movie and well worth the effort to try and track it down, which should be quite easy as I found it again on 1337x.to 

 

Also another excellent movie of his (just in case you haven't seen it) is "The Drop" and it moves along at a slow pace, but the ending is a big surprise.

 

I was also reminded of another excellent movie of his, "Lawless", so I may well download that again for another watch!

 

Can't get enough of a good thing.............

Jesus.  First time I've used 1337x.to.  How on earth do you get to download anything?  Every time I click any of the download options it opens up some damn advert for Lazada, Gearbest or whatever.  Anything BUT download ????.  Normally clicking the Magnet link would open up my bit torrent app., this just opens another bloody ad, every time.

Having seen the image of the movie DVD cover, it's not the one where he's driving a car up a motorway taking phone calls is it?  I've driven that motorway many times and for me, driving it is way, way more interesting than the movie was.  If I've got the right one.

55 minutes ago, xylophone said:

IMO, it is an extremely good movie and well worth the effort to try and track it down, which should be quite easy as I found it again on 1337x.to 

 

Also another excellent movie of his (just in case you haven't seen it) is "The Drop" and it moves along at a slow pace, but the ending is a big surprise.

 

I was also reminded of another excellent movie of his, "Lawless", so I may well download that again for another watch!

 

Can't get enough of a good thing.............

Thanks.  Yeah I saw The Drop.  I'll track down Lawless too. ????

3 hours ago, xylophone said:

Yes I did see it thank you SooKee.........have you seen "Locke"?

I don't think so.  I'll try and track it down.

On 6/9/2022 at 1:47 PM, xylophone said:

Thank you......watched "The Take" last night and thought it was great.

 

I don't know anyone who does evil/nasty villains and criminals quite like Tom Hardy, and his acting in this miniseries was a testament to his acting craft.

 

I did watch another of his movies called, "Locke" in which he was none of the above mentioned, but it was a superb performance by him.

Not sure if you've seen Taboo?  Another great with Tom Hardy.  Came out in 2017 IIRC and has been renewed for one, possibly two more seasons.  Hardy is clearly in demand though and his schedule and covid caused season 2 to be delayed.  Supposedly they will start shooting it early next year.

Yes I has the same email today.  I'll just bin PayPal.  Yet another policy change that was only partially thought through.  No problem for me as I only use it to pay for stuff sometimes.  I'll just use the bank card that the funds come from anyway.

41 minutes ago, Henryford said:

That's what i meant about the X not being available. No way would i pay above RRP and feed the scalpers. I only paid 12,700 for the S. I see it's on Lazada now for 11,990.

Yeah, crazy crazy prices.  S will suit me fine I think.

32 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Well as you can't buy an Xbox X or PS5 it's an easy choice. I have the Xbox Series S and it's great, more than enough unless you are a hard core gamer. You can pay the $10 a month for game pass and play any game you want, or buy and download your favourite games.

There are sellers with the Xbox X available.  Central World for one as a proper store and the two online places above.  Only issue is they are at scalper prices of around 28,000!  Even if I did decide on the X I wouldn't pay those prices, hopefully at some stage availability will improve.  Main thing is though I think the S may well do all I need, is available and the price mark up is not too bad either.

Used to have a PS3 and Xbox 360 years ago but did not bring them to Thailand.  Doubt I'll play as much as I used to but at times I do miss games like Halo and the Tom Clancy GHOST series.  I always actually liked the PS more than the Xbox (found I liked the controller more, at least at first) but always seemed to play Halo more.  For that reason I'm pondering an Xbox Series S.  

As ever it seems that there are Thailand issues.  X-Box not officially supported, PS is but I don't really want to talk myself into a PS4/5 just because of that.  That said I'll read up on game titles etc and see if any would tempt me to forgo Halo, can't see it though as I was not so enamoured with the platform specific games on the PS.  

Of the two X-box types I could go for the X but it's a bit big!!  The 4K is nice I suppose but again, I don't want to talk myself into something I don't need, especially to play maybe 1-2 times per month.  The blue-ray drive doesn't interest me at all nor the need for physical game media.  I dumped over 300 DVDs when I came here, not about to start filling shelves with DVDs again!  Not into PC / laptop gaming at all either so that's not an option.  The footprint of the  S appeals, the price is half that of an X too!  The only thing that concerns me is the digital only nature of the games.  While I actually prefer that idea it's just getting them that bothers me.  From what I've read though you only have to register an account at something like the Brazil store using a duff Brazil address and then just top up for purchases using a Thai card, no VPN required from what I've read, so it's not like it's a major headache, or so it seems.  I've also read briefly where some folks do it themselves and others set up an account, pay an online store 1-2K baht and the store then works its magic to credit your account.  I'm not sure though if that's for game purchases or if it's for the online Game Network / X-Box Live access?

The only other question is around regions for the machine.  I might go an look at MBK in a while but I've seen a couple of online sellers at Lazada / Shopee (Classic Game Officials and Monster Game) that sell the machines and there will often a be a selection of regions (Aus, Japan, Eur, Asia).  With games not being region locked any more now is there any reason to be concerned about the region?  That said, most other than Asia or Europe seem to be out of stock though I've seen Japan versions listed at Central online.  Obviously I'm trying to avoid a 'Doh!!' moment by buying the wrong one.

Any clanger avoiding comments appreciated ????

7 hours ago, Agusts said:

@SooKee why change if rarely used, just maintain what you have, 7 years is not so old for a Click... - bikes you mentioned are not going to be a huge step up ..., well, maybe just the ABS ...

 

Yeah , largely my thinking.  I'd be changing it for the sake of it really, not because I need to.

Was thinking of changing my, now rarely used, 7 year old Honda Click for a Yamaha Grand Filano.  Quite like the style of them (not that keen on the colours though - orange and beige currently, beige!!) with the large under seat storage and the back rest / rack.  I've always had an aversion to small wheel diameters though.  The new 160 might be another option.  Definitely needs to be a step-through though, the few time I do use it it's mainly as a shopping trolley.