Chat Thread XXX: It's Not What You Think

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:02 pm

You know what I just realized? Every post of mine has been in the "Not the Comic" section.

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:22 pm

Start posting in the comic comment thread then!

Chaplin · Post by **Chaplin** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:48 pm

I posted once in "The Comic" as opposed to "Not the comic". My self-esteem went down by 3% that day.

Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:50 pm

why did your self-esteem go down?

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:22 pm

Sleet wrote:Start posting in the comic comment thread then!

But nothing I can say would be of value to that section.

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:04 pm

Well I got my new laptop today, was so super mega excited about it, went to play minecraft, and it turns out that netbooks aren't really very good for minecraft D: (I need to figure out how to successfully install mods for version 1.8.1)

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:52 pm

Heh, getting a new computer is always nice. I really want one, myself, but that's Christmas.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:01 am

I don't get one until medical school. Which is fine, 'cause this one will last me a while.

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:23 am

I've had my current desktop since 2006; it was a gift from a friend when his school gave him a bigger, better one. x3

I've got two laptops, a Toshiba which needs a little work and a Lenovo tablet PC which really needs to be used more. x3

Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:37 am

I only have a Vaio laptop that I've had for a little less than 4 years, i think.

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:41 am

Good enough! *giggles* I mostly use my desktop.

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:43 am

I have a 4-year-old Acer craptop and a HP desktop which isn't much better, but games are playable. Neither one has very good specs, and quite frankly, it annoys the living <insert word here> out of me.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:43 am

Got a new Dell with my graduation money, probably going to have to last a couple years.
Admittedly not a computer guy but as far as I can tell it's pretty good.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:46 am

I got my first computer shortly after Vista came out. My dad bought it when he was drinking and was like "here you go" and it was a piece of crap. I now have a cheap but solid HP laptop.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:50 am

Kitela wrote:I got my first computer shortly after Vista came out. My dad bought it when he was drinking and was like "here you go" and it was a piece of crap. I now have a cheap but solid HP laptop.

That sucks. <.< My old laptop was great but had an unbelievably sucky graphics chip that wouldn't let me play Starcraft II despite the computer in general being far more high-end than computers that could play it.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:53 am

That's the only problem I've confronted with this computer. In June I had to send it back to get fixed because the graphics card failed. I currently don't have sound because it screwed up again. I think that's the reason

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:58 am

My first computer ran exclusively on DOS and had the monitor built into the 'tower.' ;3

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:06 am

Diss, you're old. What year was that in now?

Post by **Dissension** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:10 am

*laughs* I got it in '93 or '94, I think, but it was probably about a decade old at that point.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:11 am

My first computer with my family was from '96 and was quite advanced for the time.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:16 am

Diss, you probably got that computer in the year I was born.

I remember in 07' 500 Gigabytes was a lot to have on a computer, now you can have multiple Terabytes on a computer. Of course, in 93' a gigabyte probably wasn't even imaginable to have on a single personal computer.

Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:43 am

the first computer that was actually mine, I got in '04 and it was bought in like '01 or '02. the one I'm using now is the first one that was actually bought for me. ^_^

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 8:36 am

Tha Housefox wrote:I have a 4-year-old Acer craptop and a HP desktop which isn't much better, but games are playable. Neither one has very good specs, and quite frankly, it annoys the living <insert word here> out of me.

I have an Acer AspireOne, it's great, but it has no disk drive, but luckily I have an external one so i got microsoft office for free x3

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:the first computer that was actually mine, I got in '04 and it was bought in like '01 or '02. the one I'm using now is the first one that was actually bought for me. ^_^

This is my first computer that I bought with my money and that is only for me! (I LOVE IT!!!)

I'm hoping to try and get as much out of this laptop as possible (including Minecraft) but sadly some stuff doesn't work all that well on netbooks... But hey, my computer still ROCKS!

Mod Edit: Please do not triple-post; if you need to add more information to a thread and nobody has replied since your most recent post, use the edit button in the post's upper-right corner.

Souji · Post by **Souji** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:55 am

I remember our first computer being DOS-BASED, and we thought it was fantastic that we could play Wheel of Fortune, and be in awe of a heavily pixelated Vanna White. This was probably 12 years ago.. it was too long.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:02 pm

My desktop got fried so now I have to use my brother's laptop

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:55 pm

The Grey Wolverine wrote:My desktop got fried so now I have to use my brother's laptop

My old laptop got fried so I had to use my desktop xD (new laptop still running strong, though!)

dalonewolf25 · Post by **dalonewolf25** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:14 pm

Mettlebird wrote: I have an Acer AspireOne, it's great, but it has no disk drive, but luckily I have an external one so i got microsoft office for free x3

Same, but it's such a tiny laptop...so thin, too, but still somewhat powerful, compared to desktops back in the olden days(6 years ago), and better than the pentinum-4 processor. :U

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:15 pm

What I hate is how I lost ALL of my progress in Farcry 2, and Oblivion. I was almost through Knights of the Nine! I was able to Run Farcry 2 on very high with minimal lag so it was great for gaming. I was thinking of getting Crisis, see if that would work.

Souji · Post by **Souji** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:41 am

The Grey Wolverine wrote:What I hate is how I lost ALL of my progress in Farcry 2, and Oblivion. I was almost through Knights of the Nine! I was able to Run Farcry 2 on very high with minimal lag so it was great for gaming. I was thinking of getting Crisis, see if that would work.

It should. I'm able to run Farcry 2 that well, and can play Crysis at a decent resolution on High. It's a very enjoyable game. x3

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:40 pm

Souji wrote:I remember our first computer being DOS-BASED, and we thought it was fantastic that we could play Wheel of Fortune, and be in awe of a heavily pixelated Vanna White. This was probably 12 years ago.. it was too long.

This is in like 1999? Wow, that was an old computer!

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:03 pm

speaking of how old things are

I was born in 1996 on june 2
how old am I? I forgot it a while ago and I can't seem to determine if i'm 14 or 15.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:26 pm

You're 15, silly. It's even in your profile.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:32 pm

Sleet wrote:You're 15, silly. It's even in your profile.

*clings to you for the rest of the day*

ok, thanks.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:47 pm

*runs around flailing with a wolf on his/her back*

Mettlebird · Post by **Mettlebird** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:02 pm

*scratches head as Sleet goes running by flailing with a wolf on his/her back*

Mettlebird wrote:
dalonewolf25 wrote:I have an Acer AspireOne, it's great, but it has no disk drive, but luckily I have an external one so i got microsoft office for free x3
Same, but it's such a tiny laptop...so thin, too, but still somewhat powerful, compared to desktops back in the olden days(6 years ago), and better than the pentinum-4 processor. :U

lol, it's faster than my iPad is, and is about equally as fast as my desktop for the most part, depending on the web page, like if it has a lot of useless ads and all that garbage on it, then it would be slower. The only downside is the graphics card isn't powerful enough for Minecraft to run smoothly without a whole boatload of mods on it. (But hey, my friend is making me a game to play personally [such a nice guy he is!] so I won't have to worry about that at all for much longer) As for the size, it's PERFECT for me. the screen isn't overwhelming, and offers more privacy that a big-huge-massive screen like some laptops have. (The HD display ain't bad, either

)

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:15 pm

Speaking of computers... do you guys know of any good netbooks? I'm on a strict budget of $300 and I need one for school.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:17 pm

whee! foxy-back rides.

I've got a very large asus. battery life of about one hour if i'm lucky.

Post by **Sleet** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:18 pm

Can you turn down the brightness setting?

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 4:21 pm

Sleet wrote:Can you turn down the brightness setting?

I know all the ways I could be saving battery power. I just leave it charging most of the time.

The Grey Wolverine · Post by **The Grey Wolverine** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:01 pm

Souji wrote:
The Grey Wolverine wrote:What I hate is how I lost ALL of my progress in Farcry 2, and Oblivion. I was almost through Knights of the Nine! I was able to Run Farcry 2 on very high with minimal lag so it was great for gaming. I was thinking of getting Crisis, see if that would work.
It should. I'm able to run Farcry 2 that well, and can play Crysis at a decent resolution on High. It's a very enjoyable game. x3

Well that saddens me to find out, also they are making a Crysis remake for consoles, its just a Crysis 2 clone. Not worth it.