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Originally posted by: Fayd
Originally posted by: CZroe
It is common enough to be a genre.
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so is yaoi. and yet i dont watch any of that.

Originally posted by: CZroe
Soo... you admit to indiscriminately watching lots of anime, and anime porn at that...

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FAIL
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so i watch a lot of anime. so what. if you choose to blanketly not watch all anime, you keep yourself from enjoying some of the best storylines ever told. (IMO, no one medium is better than any other. anime lends itself to outrageous characters really well.)

so i've watched anime porn. so what. you're gonna say your perversions are better than mine?
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Notice I said "indiscriminately." Having discriminating taste is a good thing. There are probably, like, 10 good anime flicks and a few shows worth watching (exaggerating, I know). Liking anime for the sake of anime is dumb, but liking a good movie/story regardless of whether it is anime or not is fine. Katsuhiro Otomo's "Memories" is near the top of my favorite films list, right next to "Event Horizon" (very similar to the "Magnetic Rose" part).

If you watch animated porn of any kind, it's an automatic fail. 😉
 
no your honor, she's not really 4. She's an 18 year old trapped in a 4 year old's body.

Srsly brah? *BANGS GAVEL* You are free to go.
 
Originally posted by: coldmeat
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Did he disable the little pop-up that tells you you're low on HDD space?
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I've never got this message and I'm constantly filling up my HDD. 😕
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I had someone call me that kept getting that warning message from Vista(this was on an HP) and they wanted to clean up some files because they thought they were out of space, they just weren't sure what files would be safe to delete. I got there and discovered they had over a 100gb's of free space available on the C: partition, but the D: recovery partition had like 5mb's of space left. :Q I discovered why after looking at the contents. Vista had been set to automatically prompt to create a backup of important files and wouldn't save to the C: partition.

So for like a year the people that called me had been saying OK to Vista's prompt and backing up their ~150mb's of files to the only partition available to back up on, which was the D: recovery one which only had a 1gb or so of free space to begin with.
 
Originally posted by: Brovane
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time. 😛
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I work in IT and when I have neighbors ask me questions and stuff I just say I don't work on desktop PC's so I am not up to speed on that. I then tell them if they want to discuss different features on Servers and network equipment I am there man. I throw out a few buzzwords and there eyes roll back in there heads and they make a hasty retreat. If people press the issue I tell them that I have had good luck with Dell computers and leave it at that.
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This +1

Its simply not worth the hassle to help people with their computers anymore without being paid for the effort
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time. 😛
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Pretty much the same for me. I got sick of helping people build nice computers for free only to have them fuck it up and blame me because they installed ever trojan and malware known to man and get 35 popups a second and cant do anything except call to complain and blame me.
 
Originally posted by: Fayd
Originally posted by: AkumaX
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Wow that's insane.

And yeah, I've only built a few computers for others, and regret it. I just get people to go buy a dell now lol. I don't even offer to go pick one out. I try to stay out of it.

People wonder why IT can be so ignorant sometimes, but it's because we try to avoid being stuck in life time free support contracts, when our job pays well and takes most of our time. 😛
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Dell's have gotten ridiculously cheap, for the amount of computing power we only actually need. XP is freakin 8 years old! And can still process word docs and emails...
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as someone who's had to troubleshoot dells *anyways*, i'd rather troubleshoot my own builds than some proprietary hardware shit. good thing this didnt require troubleshooting, just a thorough beating.
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The beauty of having them buy a Dell is getting them a 4 year warranty. So when they ask you questions you can have them call Dell instead and can resume having a beer when you visit them instead of spending the entire night half ass trying to figure out why it blue screens once a month.
 
Originally posted by: Fayd
my brother was yelling at me about how the computer i specced out for him a year ago was absolute shit and ran like it...

x2 4800+
HD3850
separate sound card (think turtle beach santa cruz...)
2 gb mem
500 gig hdd

and i go over... check everything i can think of as to why it runs so piss poor. then i realize the HDD has never stopped chugging since i got there. i right click it, and it's at 98% capacity.

wtf.

how does someone let their HDD get to that capacity and still expect their comp to have full performance?
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1. "well was it running fast when you first got it?"
2. "well it must have been something you did then"
3. ...
4. profit!
 
Originally posted by: Newbian
Originally posted by: Fayd
Originally posted by: Newbian
Maybe he prefers furry porn... :Q
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the only thing i've seen resembling furry porn is nekomimi..and i firmly maintain that nekomimis are not furries.
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Ahhh, google image search is painful at times.
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While you're at it, image search for futanari. It will blow your mind.
 
Originally posted by: frostedflakes
Originally posted by: Newbian
Originally posted by: Fayd
Originally posted by: Newbian
Maybe he prefers furry porn... :Q
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the only thing i've seen resembling furry porn is nekomimi..and i firmly maintain that nekomimis are not furries.
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Ahhh, google image search is painful at times.
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While you're at it, image search for futanari. It will blow your mind.
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that's just mean dude.
 
I've built some for basically everyone in my family, and I've never had any complaints. Anyone else that I've done tech work for I've been paid for, and they've generally been happy too. Depends on the people. I had one woman calling me to fix a few things. I go over, and her computers are almost brand new and are almost perfect... She ends up asking me how to burn CDs and so on. So I show her, go over it a few times and then a few weeks later I get called again to show her how to burn CDs again. lol. She wasn't pissy though. I don't care, if you'd rather pay me to show you how to burn CDs instead of looking it up or REMEMBERING how to do it, that's fine.

Another customer was asking about upgrading, and they had a really old piece of crap that could barely run Win95. I said to be honest, it'd be more cost effective for you to buy a prebuilt with warranty, if I hand build it myself you'd have to buy the OS separately and so on. She was happy for the honesty, and still ended up paying me to come over and help her set up her new system, show her how to do XYZ things on it, get used to the new OS, etc.

I guess I've been lucky. I haven't really done PC repair on a big scale though, more just a few people here and there on the side.
 
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