Re: Why Can 39;t I Download From Pirate Bay
Tanesha Prately
I've been posting some very highfalutin lyrics--time to lower the tone a bit.
This song has a strange and twisted history. It was originally written by a man named Don Freed. Then it was rewritten by folksinger and Navy vet Tom Lewis, who rearranged the chorus and added the second verse and the last verse. Following that, I learned the song from him after having heard it three times live--it's just that catchy. Then I found out that Tom had stopped singing it out of respect to the original author, who didn't like the changes.
However, by then it was too late--I had already taught the song to seven or eight people, including folksinger and former Thames tug captain Danny Spooner. Danny added the "berk" wording. I've kept singing it--I figure it's already breeding in the wild, so I may as well enjoy the song in its present form.
Without further ado...
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses an eye.
It hurts like the blazes, it makes you pull faces--you can't let your mates see you cry.
A dashing black patch will cover your hatch, but be sure that your socket stays dry--
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses an eye.
(chorus after every verse:)
It's all part of being a pirate; you can't be a pirate with all of your parts. (2X)
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses an ear.
It drips down your neck, and it lies on the deck till some berk shouts "Hey! Wot's this 'ere!"
You can't wear your glasses, you can't pull the lasses, and folks have to shout so you hear,
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses an ear.
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a hand.
It spurts and it squirts and it jolly well hurts--pain only a pirate can stand.
The fashionable look is a nice metal hook--but now you can't play in the band...
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a hand.
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a leg.
It hurts like the dickens--your pace never quickens--hopping around on a peg.
Ask your girl to marry, but too long you've tarried, 'cause now you can't kneel down and beg...
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a leg.
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a... wotsit.
You didn't choose it, you don't want to lose it, you're hoping that somebody spots it.
The Doc comes along and he sews it back on, he pulls it real tight, then he knots it--
Being a pirate is all fun and games till somebody loses a wotsit.
Someone else suggested I check out Pirateship.com for my shipping on large items. Plugged in a random address on the opposite side of the country for a 30 pound box and Pirateship quoted me $60ish. Where as Ebay is quoting me $$52-$144 for parcel select and $37-$348 for UPS ground. If I go to buy the label, are there hidden fees? Something I'm missing? Is this a promotional rate?
For the 60ish you did not mention which service, probably USPS? For lower weight packages you may get a cheaper price at pirate, for higher weight, probably not, if your comparisons above are apples to apples.
The advantage of Pirateship is their superior customer service, an ease which which you can print or reprint labels, SCAN forms (for USPS packages), cancel label and have them refunded and several others, they respond to email within 24 hours, live chat is also available. If you mail internationally, packages up to 4 lbs are about 25% cheaper than their competition, including ebay.
NEVER EVER use flat rate for larger heavier items. The disparity in shipping cost local vs cross country are just too enormous. ALWAYS use calculated shipping. Enter the correct size and weight and the shipping will adjust depending on the buyer's ZIP.
For calculated shipping, you can only use ebay's calculator. Generally Pirate Ship with be equal or less the cost quoted on ebay. However, for USPS there can be some small exceptions depending on, if you have the old TRS plus discounts or a holiday surcharge is being waived. Also Pirate Ship offers cubic rates, which can save cost, and will be good to have when the Regional Boxes disappear.
For UPS you may see a cheaper price on ebay, but very often it is not the actual higher price you will end up paying. This generally is not a problem with Pirate Ship, which has a better quoting system. Also Pirate Ship offers USP cubic and flat rate, which can be cheaper.
Pirateship allows you to integrate your eBay listings with their site when printing labels. However, you still need use eBay's calculated shipping in your listing to determine the exact shipping charge the buyers needs to pay. You need to keep in mind that if the dimensions of your box exceeds 12" x 12" x 12" inches that you have to calculate the dimensional weight for oversize parcels. When calculating dimensional weight you need to use the carriers dimensional weight instead of the actual weight which ever is higher.
For example, I recently shipped a box 28" x 20" x 8" which actually weighed 17 lbs. However, the calculated dimensional weight for UPS and Fedex was 33lbs. and USPS was 27 lbs. If you don't enter the dimensional shipping weight in your listing you will get a nasty surprise from eBay when they collect it later. This is an error that many sellers make because they aren't aware of dimensional weight calculations. You also need to exclude shipping to P.O. Boxes when using UPS and Fedex.
You need to keep in mind that if the dimensions of your box exceeds 12" x 12" x 12" inches that you have to calculate the dimensional weight for oversize parcels. When calculating dimensional weight you need to use the carriers dimensional weight instead of the actual weight which ever is higher.
For example, I recently shipped a box 28" x 20" x 8" which actually weighed 17 lbs. However, the calculated dimensional weight for UPS and Fedex was 33lbs. and USPS was 27 lbs. If you don't enter the dimensional shipping weight in your listing you will get a nasty surprise from eBay when they collect it later. This is an error that many sellers make because they aren't aware of dimensional weight calculations. You also need to exclude shipping to P.O. Boxes when using UPS and Fedex.
An extraordinarily excellent and informative post. All those posts from all those shippers screaming how UPS or FedEx "overcharged" them when they KNEW that they entered the correct weight and size are now explained. Too bad they probably won't see this.
How in the world did this mechanic make it to live servers? The spawn radius for pirate raids massive, I was trying to get a fish caught by crab king and it just so happens that my crab king spawned in a location that is covered by the pirate raid spawn radius (thank god I fought crab king already, I could not imagine trying to fight crab king only for monkeys to come in and ruin everything).
Honestly I could deal with the monkeys if it weren't for the fact they drop those stupid trinkets, this is the single reason I am shocked pirate raids were released as they were. If you kill the monkeys, you're punished by losing an inventory slot or by having to go to the moon quay and give the stupid queen bananas. If you don't, you get your boat ransacked (and possibly masts destroyed, idk, wiki still says raiders break them but it could be outdated). This mechanic feels like I'm being punished for making a mistake and have to make a choice, which is fine, nothing wrong with mechanics like this, but what mistake did I make to warrant this punishment? I guess you could argue that the mistake I made was being near the island, but that just doesn't make any sense at all, especially before you discover the moon quay's location, then you're getting punished for pretty much no reason, guess you should've just known the island was there.
Edit: my issue isn't the lack of ways to solve raids, it's the fact that killing the raiders punishes you, and the fact that the raiders come to you. Regular monkeys dropping trinkets is fine, you are going out of your way to kill the monkeys, raiders are going out of their way to harass you and you are being punished for trying to defend yourself.
My suggestion for re-work is have the pirates drop a treasure map, similar to what you find in bottles but with a better loot table. When you retrieve and crack this treasure open you have a chance to get the curse. This way fighting off pirates doesn't punish you, which is proper b/c you don't really have a choice. If you fail to fight them off, they can ransack your boat in leui of killing / sinking you. Fair enough. THEN if you take the pirate's treasure THEN you get their curse (possibly) and need to give tribute to their queen.
Make this change and adjust the number of monkeys on the boat to be relative to the number of players on the target boat, and I think they could hit the whole ocean like hound waves of the sea and we'd be fine.
Regardless, does sailing without one specific item sound like a good reason to punish players? I say no, and you could argue that you need a bunch of items to sail anyways, but there are a plethora of options, oars vs sails for moving, firepit vs lantern vs boat illuminator for light, but raids really only have 2 options. Either bring a relatively forgettable food item from the ruins, or bring a pan flute and drop whatever you were doing to run away and despawn the raiders. Not to mention you're bringing these items on the off chance that raiders spawn, at least with things like food and light it's a guarantee that darkness/hunger will be an issue, with raiders you might just be wasting your time gathering resources only for them to not show up, and I think that perfectly summarizes raids: a giant waste of time.
It'd be nice if the Strident Trident could also scare them away, whether by having them "hear" it or by allowing for the geysers to spawn under a moving boat so you don't have to time it to hit the side (which currently does not scare them away).
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