If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place — Page 147

Handman said:

Warbler said:

Possessed said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ANYTHING DONE IN REAL LIFE 

 Cocaine?

 Some get a kick from cocaine

I'm sure that if

I took even one sniff

That would bore me terrically, too

Yet, I get a kick out or you

 

 Are we just singing Frank Sinatra songs now?

I can see it in your eyes

That you despise the same old lies you heard the night before

And though it's just a line to you, for me it's true

And never seemed so right before

and then I go and spoil it all

by saying something stupid like

I love you.

I just found out today that my best friend from when I was a kid who is younger then me is getting married.

I should be happy for him but all it has done is put me in an emotional tailspin. Everyone I grew up with now has a life and a family and I am stuck living at home without a job.  My funds are so low that I can't even stay in touch with any of my old friends because I don't have the money to go out and do anything with them.  It has been more then a year since I was able to talk in person or do anything with a friend.

I feel really bad for feeling this way but I just can't help it, I am stuck alone in a dead end life and since I can't even get help from the government or anyone else, what I am today is all I will ever be.

Well at least I was born in an age when everyone can read, so no matter what else happens I will always have my books.  Nothing can take that away, not even a lack of funds or housing.

So all in all it could be a lot worse.

Afrocentrism and eurocentrism -- two sides of the same dumbfuck, racist coin.

Can't even respond to most posts due to this forum's issues.  Man, this bites.

I am getting sick of the way video cards these days don't even come with a disc with the drivers on them and the drivers are massive files.  So on my slow as a snail internet connection I have to go to the Geforce website and download the drivers just to get the video card working right.

I mean three days downloading, this is just insane.

I miss the days when I paid for something and it came with everything in the box needed to make it work.

Better internet might not be available in his area.

I believe he's mentioned on a number of occasions that high-speed Internet isn't available where he lives.

He has mentioned that.

Yeah better internet is a mile down the road.

Okay now that it has finished let me explain.

I didn't buy a new video card this is an old one.  You see because of the internet thing I mostly play PC games made before 2011 because after that they tend to start requiring an internet connection to play.

Now I had to build a new PC in late 2013 early 2014 because my last PC was fried by some sort of power surge despite being plugged into a surge protector. Any way so I built my new pC from a kit and it came with a newer graphics card then my old one and more ram.  Still for the past year a lot of my games have been running slow and crashing.  It was only just this past week that I figured out why, the new video card while better then the one in my old PC was not being read by most of my games so they were trying to use my ram and only my ram to handle the 3D graphics.

Okay so I determined that the Graphics card I had in my old PC that worked fine with the older games was not fried and so I plugged it into my new PC.  Now for some reason it did not come with a disc of drivers in the box, but that wasn't a big deal with my last PC because for some reason it worked just fine plugging it into the mother board with having to download drivers, the motherboard seemed to have them or something.  This time the motherboard on my new PC couldn't find them so I had to spend three days downloading them off of a website.

Not a big deal and it was easily fixed, still by near the end of day three it was starting to get on my nerves.  I mean how hard is it to burn the drivers to a disc and stick it in the box?

Still all is well that ends well and all of my games are now running smooth as silk, so no real harm done.  It just got on my nerves at the time but it all worked out fine in the end so I guess I don't really have anything to complain about.

Oh and don't even get me started on the fact that at least once a week we lose power out where I live for between a few minutes and a few hours, so at one point I had to start the download over from scratch.

Just don't get me started on that.

Phimosis is a bitch.

Food poisoning is the worst.  I'd rather have dial-up.

Yeah I had that once a few years back.

On the bright side I lost twenty pounds in Two weeks!

On the down side I ended up reading every copy of EMG I own several times while I was stuck in the bathroom.

Get well soon.

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

TV's Frink said:

Food poisoning is the worst.  I'd rather have dial-up.

 I agree, I have it today.  Weird that I got it right after you.  I wonder if it was from having a post next to yours.

Anyway I called in to work for the first time since I've been there today because I have food poisoning.  I feel like a piece of shit, I hate calling in and I always feel like I've let everybody down and that I'm going to get fired.  I know it's ludicrous to be afraid of getting fired for calling in one time since I started working there, but I'm a paranoid fuck I can't help it!

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Everything pertaining to computer games sounds needlessly complicated these days. What the hell ever happened to simply loading a disc in a computer?

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Everything pertaining to computer games sounds needlessly complicated these days. What the hell ever happened to simply loading a disc in a computer?

 Loading a disk in a computer!? I remember loading 14 disks to play old Might and Magic, then tweaking the millions of settings to make it work on my computer. 

Davnes007 said:

Before I moved to the city, I lived in the middle of the woods basically. Even dial-up was barely an option.

Downloading any software was a test of patience. I know your pain.

 Yeah that is pretty much where I live. Dial up just stopped working a few years ago so now the only option is to hook up a cellphone and use that, it runs at about 5k a second. Stupid lines not coming down my road.

One of these days I will snap and become a Supervillain who's only goal is to destroy Comcast with giant rats.

TheBoost said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Okay, so last year I picked up a copy of Starcraft 2 because I love the first game and I am a huge RTS fan(Games that don't require super fast reflexes are great for me because of my movement disorder)and I looked it up online and it said that you didn't need a highspeed internet connection to play single play.  It just said you needed to log on to Battle.net once to register the game.

Now I was able to do this same thing with Mass Effect 3 on EA's Origin system so I figured it would not be a big deal.  Now Battle.net will not detect my computer as having an internet connection because it is too slow.  All I need to do is send in my Email address, a password, and the serial number of my game, why should that require a highspeed internet connection?!

I know this is a first world problem and something I should be used to by now and I am not really mad since I always know this is a chance you take with PC games these days but as someone who has been a PC gamer since I was a kid this recent trend of punishing the people who like me want to support the content creators just baffles me.

Wouldn't it be better to just have good tech support for people who buy the game instead of stealing it so people would want to buy it?  This way it makes me think a pirated copy is the better option, and that is just messed up.

I spent an hour on the phone with a guy from Blizard but he couldn't help me.  So now I am off to find a hack or a pirated copy of the game I paid for.

Way to go Blizard!

Modern gaming sucks.

Everything pertaining to computer games sounds needlessly complicated these days. What the hell ever happened to simply loading a disc in a computer?

 Loading a disk in a computer!? I remember loading 14 disks to play old Might and Magic, then tweaking the millions of settings to make it work on my computer. 

 Oh yeah those were the days.  I remember having to spend two days tweaking everything to run Wing Commander 5.

Still at least back then all the drives came on a disc and they didn't make you buy DLC to get the full game, you got all fifty missions right there in the box.

Still it was not perfect, I just wish they would give people like me the option to avoid downloading.  I would be willing to pay extra for the discs with the drivers at this point, if they would just give me the option to do so.

Also back them most drives fit on a floppy disc, now they are almost 500Mbs, how did that happen?!

I love what can be done with computers but I hate using them.

Yeah, I used to like coming here a lot more.  Some people simply seem to enjoy it.  But I've decided to try a different method.  You know, I even was thinking about it, and as long as Bingo and I avoided particular topics, I'm sure he and I could get along again here and I'd be happy to have him.  I kinda doubt it now, though.

Leonardo said:

I'd like to bitch about this place becoming a right old SHITHOLE.

Seems like people can't go five fucking minutes without having some kind of argument.

I really don't like this place anymore.

 Maybe you shouldn't have been so quick to play the race card. :p