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16 years ago
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My brand new computer is a lemon.
this isn't something that the technicians at best buy have confirmed yet, but I am rather positive that it is the case. I have wasted several hundred dollars and a lot of gas on getting a new machine together, but here I am using my laptop again. I was telling this to a friend, and I apologize, but I think I'll just have to copypaste from what I told her, as I can't put it any better.
When I bought my new computer, some people were surprised when I made it known that I was keeping this laptop. My new computer went two weeks before becoming a paperweight--thank the gods an old, good friend of mine bought its warranty for my birthday--and here's my laptop, still chugging away.
And that's why i'm still keeping it.
This laptop is five years old. For a computer, that is obscene. It still boots... it still allows me to come here and to talk to my friends. This machine may have some performance lackings, but it has never failed me. not even once. Period.
Now, some people someday may have fancy machines that might simultaneously be able to build and simulate an entire universe on a sub-atomic level that are so fragile that they bluescreen if you look at them the wrong way... or reduce to permanent bootloop failure if you drop a pin the next room over. This laptop, though, has been through hell and back, and it's still with me.
I... love this laptop.
Now, I know it did not choose to be here. I know it's an inanimate object; she doesn't have a choice or any opinion on the matter. Even if she did, she'd still be here because physics decided -for- her. But...
if any person went through what this little machine did, for me, that person would be the most important person in the world to me.
That's all I'm saying. I will not put this computer through any additional strain if I can help it. I won't do any gaming until I get a new machine... that works... for ANY SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME...
Suffice it to say I am rather disillusioned. My trust has been damaged, directly, by this investment and nigh-immediate FAILURE. I seriously consider giving up on gaming altogether; just fuck it all. fuck WoW, fuck EQ2, fuck Starcraft 2 when it comes out, fuck Mass Effect, fuck... even secondlife ... all of it. I looked at some of the other amazing artists of the world, and do you know what the major difference between them and me is?
I play video games.
If I spent my time creating rather than impaling my imagination on prefabricated experiences--HOWEVER beautifully crafted--I would probably make worthwhile art. I might be making things that people would even pay me for. I might be creating the prefabricated experiences that people like me spend so much time and money on today. My laptop can use my tablet. She still has three of her four original USB ports still working. That's enough for my tablet and maybe a scanner if I can afford that--if I DARE to invest in technology again any time soon, if ever again...
I'm bitter. Sometimes you just want to feel bitter. Just wade in it, because it satisfies something deep down, but I think I'm going to take a deep breath, having vented all of this out, and start reading again. I'm reading The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny... which is an incredible set of psychological fantasy stories in the fifth dimension. You won't get it until you read it, and I suggest you do. I also have the next book of the sword of truth series to go through. doesn't the late Robert Jordan's last wheel of time book come out soon? I forget. Reading is always good because it manipulates all centers of the brain. When you have to imagine the scene before you, all of your senses pitch in. Whereas, with movies, you don't HAVE to do any imagining, a book inspires you to fill in -all- the blanks, and I'd forgotten how much I loved that.
If only I had a strawberry daiquiri, a big thrunderstorm outside, and a perch high up in the shelves, I'd feel just at home, just like my old library...
Guess I will have to settle for muggy silence and diet cherry Pepsi in the corner easy chair.
Safe journeys, and storm protect you.
this isn't something that the technicians at best buy have confirmed yet, but I am rather positive that it is the case. I have wasted several hundred dollars and a lot of gas on getting a new machine together, but here I am using my laptop again. I was telling this to a friend, and I apologize, but I think I'll just have to copypaste from what I told her, as I can't put it any better.
When I bought my new computer, some people were surprised when I made it known that I was keeping this laptop. My new computer went two weeks before becoming a paperweight--thank the gods an old, good friend of mine bought its warranty for my birthday--and here's my laptop, still chugging away.
And that's why i'm still keeping it.
This laptop is five years old. For a computer, that is obscene. It still boots... it still allows me to come here and to talk to my friends. This machine may have some performance lackings, but it has never failed me. not even once. Period.
Now, some people someday may have fancy machines that might simultaneously be able to build and simulate an entire universe on a sub-atomic level that are so fragile that they bluescreen if you look at them the wrong way... or reduce to permanent bootloop failure if you drop a pin the next room over. This laptop, though, has been through hell and back, and it's still with me.
I... love this laptop.
Now, I know it did not choose to be here. I know it's an inanimate object; she doesn't have a choice or any opinion on the matter. Even if she did, she'd still be here because physics decided -for- her. But...
if any person went through what this little machine did, for me, that person would be the most important person in the world to me.
That's all I'm saying. I will not put this computer through any additional strain if I can help it. I won't do any gaming until I get a new machine... that works... for ANY SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME...
Suffice it to say I am rather disillusioned. My trust has been damaged, directly, by this investment and nigh-immediate FAILURE. I seriously consider giving up on gaming altogether; just fuck it all. fuck WoW, fuck EQ2, fuck Starcraft 2 when it comes out, fuck Mass Effect, fuck... even secondlife ... all of it. I looked at some of the other amazing artists of the world, and do you know what the major difference between them and me is?
I play video games.
If I spent my time creating rather than impaling my imagination on prefabricated experiences--HOWEVER beautifully crafted--I would probably make worthwhile art. I might be making things that people would even pay me for. I might be creating the prefabricated experiences that people like me spend so much time and money on today. My laptop can use my tablet. She still has three of her four original USB ports still working. That's enough for my tablet and maybe a scanner if I can afford that--if I DARE to invest in technology again any time soon, if ever again...
I'm bitter. Sometimes you just want to feel bitter. Just wade in it, because it satisfies something deep down, but I think I'm going to take a deep breath, having vented all of this out, and start reading again. I'm reading The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny... which is an incredible set of psychological fantasy stories in the fifth dimension. You won't get it until you read it, and I suggest you do. I also have the next book of the sword of truth series to go through. doesn't the late Robert Jordan's last wheel of time book come out soon? I forget. Reading is always good because it manipulates all centers of the brain. When you have to imagine the scene before you, all of your senses pitch in. Whereas, with movies, you don't HAVE to do any imagining, a book inspires you to fill in -all- the blanks, and I'd forgotten how much I loved that.
If only I had a strawberry daiquiri, a big thrunderstorm outside, and a perch high up in the shelves, I'd feel just at home, just like my old library...
Guess I will have to settle for muggy silence and diet cherry Pepsi in the corner easy chair.
Safe journeys, and storm protect you.
I been visiting VA Western for a few days now and kept stopping by your place to see how you was doing with it. You wasn't home or was asleep or something. Uhm...In terms of liking gaming, man, my mom and me have got a huge collection of games your laptop would probly run. Not to say they're all old and stuff, but most of them have very low requirements and 3/4ths of them are puzzle/adventure games I'd think are right up your alley.
Uh...just, ya' know, when are you next off work? I'll come hang out. :3
god dammit I feel like such a tool asking about that...