Man, this sucks. Lately, my dad and I have had to totally redo the system and hard-drive do to virus and malfunction crap. My dad has learned how to build new PCs', and he's been working on one of them. But it kept messing up, and each time we thought it was fixed, we'd put Morrowind or KotOR in and try it. Would work for about a week, then crapped up. This happened for like 20 times. It's finally fixed, but my CoD CD is scratched up, and every other game I don't want to play because I've had to restart it so many times I've lost interest.

Damn technology.

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Titan A.E.

"The least they could do is kill my food before I eat it." - Cale

Although my name represents one of my favorite songs, in a way it also explains my actual person, a Cosmic Castaway!

You just need some good times with some UT or even some nice FarCry.

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"Ahhhh!! I'm Burnin'! I'm Burnin!!!" - Cleaner from Max Payne 2

Meh... same thing happened with me, except that it wasnt because the games wouldnt run, it's just I didnt feel like playing them. I'll still play a few games but I've gone from buying like 5 games a year to maybe one at the most.

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free mp3 ~Jump - Young America

new album comes out April 20th

This too shall pass.

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EvilMagic.net: Brian's Web Log

Eh... I've had that before. I just sat on the computer looking at the desktop, 'cause I didn't want to play anything. I really need to get either a 'net connection in my room or set up a LAN without my parents noticing...

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"Apples rule. If it weren't for a conspiracy on the part of fruit manufacturers we'd all have apples."

Welcome to maturity.

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My Tracks
My Life.

Pfft..my grandfather plays UT. My dad plays MoH:AA. I play NWN (etc). 60+yo..40+yo..and 20yo. *shrug*

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The Truth about Bowling for Columbine

I haven't bought a game in forever. If a new game comes out that I wish to try, I borrow it. It's been more than 2 years since I bought a game. I only play games (pc & system) about 6 hours a week max. That's less than an hour a day...imagine, a whole world outside...in the outdoors =-O

Sweet Irony....

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* Seb goes around singing "I'm too sexy for my body"
* Wolfy goes around singing "I'm too sexy for Seb's body"
* Cave_Demon steals Seb's underwear (underwear stolen: 39)

Em, aren't you like 9?

[what seb said]

i was playing a LAN game at a friend's house and after being killed (by me... in the game) his grandfather yelled out some serious profanity...

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LONG LIVE DREAMCAST!!!

Some people "grow out of" games when they reach age 21. That'll never happen to me, though.. I would shoot myself first.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

I'm only 16 and I'm getting tired of games.

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I check my e-mail.

Whoa cool!

My dad is about 70 or so (big family). Me and my brother in law were playing Truck Dismount for a little while and my dad saw us playing. He's just standing there watching... then we wandered off. My brother in law comes to me later and says "Your dad's playing truck dismount!" I run back in, and dad is sitting there with this analytical look on his face saying things like "if I move this a bit here... " *BROOOMM CRASH AHHHHHHHH CRUNCH* no..a little bit this way...

It was very surprising

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Founder of the Massassi Brute Squad (MBS)

B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

Tired of games? Grab a console and play games like Metroid Prime.

Yeah, I hear you loud and clear. Upgrading a PC is NOT as easy as it sounds. It can be very unpredictable and every move you make can be worse than a chess move. Just when you think you have the right part, something that you might have overlooked shows up at the last moment and your forced to return the part. Even if you have the right part, you just never know if that part is defective, not compatible, or simply refuses to work with your computer, depite what logic would tell you.

I had recently upgraded my computer. Believe me, it was NOT a fun ride. At first, I bought a new video card, motherboard, and a CPU off the net. When I got the parts, I discovered that it only took DDR RAM, not SDRAM like the motherboard's advertisment said (arg!) so I was only able to put in the video card. Shortly after, my hard drive dies from old age (had it for over 2 years) so I replaced it with a new one. Another weeks passes and I finally get some DDR Ram from the same company over the net. When I plugged in all the parts, some sort of glitch with the video card and the motherboard corrupts the hard drive (I only had the hard drive for less than a week)! After two days worth of trying to reinstall my OS (which kept failing because the installation wouldn't complete! Arg!), I gave up on the motherboard and restored it back to the old motherboard (which forced me to restore it the old CPU and RAM as well). The hard drive is fine because it was the motherboard that was the problem. A while later, my moniter DIES from old age (had it for 7 years... no big surprise). I bought a new one later on and I returned the motherboard and ram back to the store (couldn't return the CPU because they won't accept RMAs for that). After about a week or two, I bought a new motherboard and a new video card (the other card seem to be unstable and I accused it of messing up the motherboard). My mother told me that I shouldn't open the new video card yet because I should return the other video card to the store first. Well, I installed the new motherboard into the computer as well as the other new parts that worked and the computer runs fine. It appears that other video card is fine on this system so the newer video card was returned to the store.

Well, that's the crazy story of how I upgraded my computer recently. Here is what the system is using now:

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (FSB PC 333)
RAM: 512 DDR 3200 PC 333
Motherboard: SOYO KT600 Dragon PLUS
Moniter: KDS USA 19" CRT
Video Card: GeForce FX 5600 XT

-- SavageX

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"...and if you don't like that, then you need to be slugged in the face repeatedly, until my hands are soaked in blood. Have a nice day!"
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