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Random Thoughts.....What are you thinking?
 Cerberus.Irohuro
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:17:56
Valefor.Slipispsycho said: »Valefor.Slipispsycho said: »Not really a strike if you're still consuming the goods..
I'm probably one of the biggest pirates on this site, so don't take it the wrong way or anything.. I'm just pointing it out.
if I'm refusing to be a customer it is, technically what I'm pirating is ancient though...
I can't seem to get into new stuff...
but I'm refusing to go to movies/buy them, and I haven't bought a cd in years anyway. I haven't bought a movie or went to them in years, I haven't bought music since I first learned of Napster.
I rarely buy games that are on PC when I'm only interested in single player, the only thing that makes me buy a game is console exclusive games and when I want the multiplayer.
Software I literally never buy, aside from windows. I only buy it because it's so central to a working computer, and I really don't need the added headache of figuring out problems.. Plus, I keep the same OS for years and year and years.. I'm not one of those who just upgrade every time they put out a new OS..
i had planned to stay with xp for a while, but now that i have this computer with windows 7, i really like it, it makes thing more convenient i think
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:19:04
get my OS's legally for free, well short of my preferred copy of XP, it's a volume license copy with some extra features that I don't see in a lot of other versions, so I just use it.
it actually predates SP2, but all my current copies are slipstreamed with it, lost the older ones, and almost lost it completely, luckily it's ripped now so I just need to burn it again.
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By Odin.Minefield 2012-02-21 03:19:13
So many tails :O!
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By Siren.Kalilla 2012-02-21 03:19:49
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By Odin.Minefield 2012-02-21 03:20:51
Sorry I just got back from minor afk and seen that, <3 Kal xD
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:21:04
you can't really use xp in a lot of 64 bit environments (unfortunately) so we're forced by hardware to stop using it.
I prefer it in a lot of cases just due to compatibility.
When I move again I'll have a kvm set up to have a 98, xp and 2 other machines always at my disposal.
I'd eliminate the need for it if I could get directx video acceleration in emulation...
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:21:11
I have windows 7 too, and I plan to stick with it for a long time. I was always in love with XP.. I basically started computers with Windows ME, (I had a computer with windows 95, much, much earlier, but I never really saw the appeal in them back then) so going to XP was a huge step forward. I stuck with that, and bought computers with XP.. But eventually, they didn't sell computers with XP anymore, so then I had Vista. I dealt with that one computer for a long time, then it was time to upgrade, computer and operating system.
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:23:36
i had an old packard bell running windows 95 until about 2005... then we got a new computer with windows xp. so i pretty much skipped a lot of the OSs.
i thankfully skipped vista too
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:23:47
Oh, and for reference, I can see the last movie I went to see at theater..
Resident Evil..
Yes it's been that long.. It's pretty much been that long since I've bought a movie too.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:24:37
i had an old packard bell running windows 95 until about 2005... then we got a new computer with windows xp. so i pretty much skipped a lot of the OSs.
i thankfully skipped vista too LOOOOOOOOOL Vista didn't have ***on ME..
Jesus *** christ.. I wanted to drop kick my computer almost everyday because of ME.. You're sooooo goddamned lucky if you never had it.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:26:27
lol XP is an upgrade to Vista...
and lolME...
idk what could be considered the lesser of those two evils...
98 is what I started on, moved to XP for spider solitaire and cuz it was what I was learning how to use at school. there's things I once knew how to tweak that I've long since forgotten but meh.
I'd have dualboot with XP on my laptop but I couldn't get it to work properly.
looks like I'm going to have to learn how to work with emulation enough to get directx in an opengl container if I want my acceleration.
this is the best I could get XI before:
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:28:29
yeah ME and Vista are the two major windows I don't have in my collection, and I keep a dos 6.22 cd in that binder.
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:28:54
talking about all these OSs reminds me of my OS class =/
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:29:13
I'd have to say ME.. I dealt with both for a long time.. I was surprised when I finally got a BSOD on Vista.. It just happened so rarely (the OS was still ***though)
On ME, it would happen at least once every couple of days.
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:30:10
i used ME once, on my dads emachine when i went to visit him one time. i didnt use it long enough to have a bad experience
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:31:19
talking about all these OSs reminds me of my OS class =/ lol I just tried to get an x86 version of android to work in virtualbox, almost had it.
going to try again tomorrow when I have more patience.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:31:43
never had it, knew better, almost want to go hunt down a copy now to see the evil.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:32:49
Sometimes I really don't get Microsoft.. I literally picture the board meetings or whatever in my head going:
Okay, so we put out a good strong OS last time, what do we do now?
Oh Oh! I know! Let's make an unstable clusterfuck of an OS!
That is a really good idea.. Let's throw in something that will basically force people to upgrade to this system before we put out another
Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh, and let's give it even more security *** that gets in people's way this year.
Then next year it's like:
Well, that idea didn't work too good, let's go back and do things right this time.
/okay.jpg face
But! We can screw them next time
/awwwwwyeah.jpg face.
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:33:56
i miss 95 sometimes, it had cool games on it.
i remember having a blast in windows navigator when i was little, and i would play POD racing and play around in the 3rd dimension.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:34:54
never had it, knew better, almost want to go hunt down a copy now to see the evil. You really don't want to.. Trust me I'm not exaggerating.. I would literally say it's the worst thing Microsoft has ever put out.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:35:52
most of those games (iirc) were vendor supplied and not part of windows, I'll have to look into it.
but 98 will run anything, dos, 95, 98.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:36:13
Valefor.Slipispsycho said: »never had it, knew better, almost want to go hunt down a copy now to see the evil. You really don't want to.. Trust me I'm not exaggerating.. I would literally say it's the worst thing Microsoft has ever put out. < needs a good laugh
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:37:08
well the ones i named were, yea, (except for windows navigator im pretty sure) but there were some included with it that i enjoyed
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By Siren.Kalilla 2012-02-21 03:40:41
Windows 8 looks... interesting.
I won't be upgrading to it though, it's just a fancy way to display pictures and stuff. It's nice if you care about it, but it's just over thinking the little things I believe.
This whole transition to boxes for all their products is annoying. I get why, but it's still annoying. I don't even like the look of their phone OS or the new Xbox look.
It can do some cool stuff, but that's all it is. A fancy way to display the same information you've always had. Favoring the upcoming craze of touch screen computers and TV's no doubt.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:49:50
pretty sure they only came with pinball, card games and hover
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:51:50
Windows 8 looks... interesting.
I won't be upgrading to it though, it's just a fancy way to display pictures and stuff. It's nice if you care about it, but it's just over thinking the little things I believe.
This whole transition to boxes for all their products is annoying. I get why, but it's still annoying. I don't even like the look of their phone OS or the new Xbox look.
It can do some cool stuff, but that's all it is. A fancy way to display the same information you've always had. Favoring the upcoming craze of touch screen computers and TV's no doubt.
I agree it's annoying but all their stuff will have the same look.
I'm half tempted to reset glitch my 360 so I can use the old look.
8 will be able to handle the arm cpus though so it can be used on tablets, which is their point: to take over more of the market.
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:52:58
well 3d kinnect would be cool
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2012-02-21 03:56:13
Give me holodecks or give me a controller.. Anything in between, *** off.. Lol.
If I wanted to play tennis, I would, if I wanted to snowboard, I would.. I wanted to do anything that Move, Kinnect or Wii does, I would just go out and do it <_<
I just want to play a game.. I'm sorry, I just really hate gimmicks.
I usually sit down to play a game after a day of house bitching, the last thing I want to do is move around more. I want to sit on my *** and relax.
EDIT:
House bitching is my term for house work.. You know the stuff a woman stereotypically does, cooks cleans, whatever. I have worked, and at the end of the day, I still feel as tired and sore as I did while working.. Even if I only spend 4-5 hours doing it, when I'm house bitching, I'm not getting paid, so I do what I can as quickly and effectively as possible, which means I usually work harder per hour than when I was employed to work.
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By Cerberus.Irohuro 2012-02-21 03:59:07
pretty sure they only came with pinball, card games and hover
pipedream, rodents revenge, skifree, and there was this one game that was like an action game and it takes place in a comic book, you go from pane to pane
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By Bahamut.Jetackuu 2012-02-21 03:59:54
oh I don't mean for games, I mean for pc interaction.
and I have a wii, not bad.
Not doing all the jumping around the kinnect requires though < lazy.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
Inb4thisthreadgetsreallywtf
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