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What have you learned since you came to AT?

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I learned how to program. I have found out I have the gift of syntax.

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Have picked up quite a bit of computer knowledge, actually. Already knew that I hated children, but that's been further cemented here (see sig).

Edit: oh, and the ATOT Synopses...

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that there are one hell of alot of:
basement-dwelling, pimple-farming, women-fearing, sunlight-avoiding, junkfood-eating, lard-ass, mommy-mooching, whiney-assed, punks out there....


So, if the above description fits, my suggestion is for you to:

Put down the twinkies, get off your fat ass, walk upstairs and out the front door. Keep walking untill you find a nice sunny place in the park. Then ask a real woman out on a date, to a real restaurant. (fyi any place with a drive-thru or a clown as a spokesman isn't a real restaurant). Pay for it with your own money. Oh, yea, and don't fvcking whine about spending more than 99 cents for your damn meal.


Have a great day!





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Originally posted by: GroundZero
that there are one hell of alot of:
basement-dwelling, pimple-farming, women-fearing, sunlight-avoiding, junkfood-eating, lard-ass, mommy-mooching, whiney-assed, punks out there....


So, if the above description fits, my suggestion is for you to:

Put down the twinkies, get off your fat ass, walk upstairs and out the front door. Keep walking untill you find a nice sunny place in the park. Then ask a real woman out on a date, to a real restaurant. (fyi any place with a drive-thru or a clown as a spokesman isn't a real restaurant). Pay for it with your own money. Oh, yea, and don't fvcking whine about spending more than 99 cents for your damn meal.


Have a great day!





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Good advice, but a little too overly optimistic. Let's keep the goals attainable so that we don't scare anyone off. Folks, just work on putting down the twinkies. When you can make it through an entire week without stuffing your pimply loser face with junk food because you had to stand next to a real girl in the cafeteria in junior high and wet your pants in fear, then and only then move on to step two.

 
Once something's "learned", it must be unlearned soon after:
  • AMD and the PA-2007 are the shlt! After buying the combo, I find out the damn thing is flaky, probably due to heat, but who knows...[/i]
  • SB Live! is the BEST audio card in the world. Soon, incompatibilities with the wondrous AMD/mobo chipsets makes Turtle Beach the card to own.
  • Overclocking is all the rage, but cooling the damn AMD CPUs costs more than buying the faster processor in the first place!
  • Case modding is so kewl, but all the extra fans are noisy as hell, and now pre built customized cases are dime a dozen.
  • Building your own PC is far cheaper than buying a prebuilt... or is it? DELL and HP are giving the damn things away today!
  • Price of PCs keeps dropping, while cost of viable gaming video cards goes through the roof!
  • Buy.com was evil, then, the shlt, now they're just so-so.
  • Best Buy used to rock, while Circuit City sucked, now the opposite is true.
  • Remember Value America, and Onsale.com? 😕
  • NewEgg was nothing new, now they can do no wrong... :roll:
I've learned and unlearned quite a bit!
 
i have learned that there are cool people who will give good advice or comments,
and people who are miserable asses.

the cool people are still the majority.
 
This is the first forum I've ever posted at. I came here looking for advice while helping my little brother (a self-confessed Internet Wizard) put together his first PC. Neither of us had ever attempted such a feat.

I would normally never bother with Internet forums; if you met me in person you'd never guess I would spend free time posting here, let alone even use a PC recreationally.

While waiting for replies to our questions, I discovered Offtopic and ended up getting sucked in. Despite the frequent hostility and negativity, I found Offtopic to be full of hilarity. It's the humour that keeps me coming back.

Over the two years and several thousand posts I've racked up here probably the biggest insight I've gleaned is that, computer geeks, people I would normally never interact with, are indeed as fvcked up as they appear to be. Of course there are exceptions, but I still can't believe how socially and emotionally stunted most of you guys are.

Many of you simply are not "normal," "average," or even "stable."

Anyway, I love the flames, the insults, and the unbelievable stories. Keep 'em coming, guys; you're always good for a laugh.

I "pop" my collar to you.

😉
 
I've learned that nerds do actually come to other nerds for love advice. I've learned that you cannot assume everyone agrees with you on something you post. I've learned that most people are helpful, but the rest are assholes.
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
i have learned that there are cool people who will give good advice or comments,
and people who are miserable asses.

the cool people are still the majority.
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Wow, you've got a very lenient definition of "cool". The ratio of intelligent people who can offer useful advice and lucid comments to whiny losers around here is more like 1:100
 
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