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6 hours ago, themctipers said:

our laptops

 

single

core

amd 

laptops

 

running windows vista

 

 

2gb of ram..

There needs to be a sympathy button.

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15 hours ago, themctipers said:

Friend: I think I cracked my screen...

 

 

 

 

The the only cracked thing is the screen protector..

-picture snip-

Reminded me that I also have a small crack in the screen on the corner of my phone. I think it's only the screen protector that's cracked, though it's not that easy to tell.

 

Also, when I first read it I read screen projector and I was super confused thinking "What are screen projectors on phones? How come I've never heard of one. I thought phones were lcd (or some amoled) displays?" Just confused the crap outta me at first :D 

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Another long story dump?

Another long story dump...

 

And its in a spoiler now, because it actually turned out a lot longer than I thought it would.

 

Alright, back during my highschool years I became known at some point as being the super tech-knowledgeable guy in my group of friends, which slowly spread to my girlfriend's group of shitty friends. I was pretty bad at hiding my nerdy side, but w/e.

One of my girlfriend's friends at the time wanted to get into pc gaming, and had asked her to get me to help him, since he knew, that I knew computers... I got suckered into it, because of course I can't say no.

I get to this kids house out in LA, expecting to help him assemble and setup a pretty standard gaming pc. Now, I should point out I freaking hated this guy, he was one of the party hard, drink hard, drug hard, absent minded 24/7 guys. A complete and total tool. I pull into his drive in my nsx initially thinking I would have to be careful, that's a damn nice car to leave out on the street in LA... Nope... Gated driveway with a freaking rolls royce phantom in front of the garage. suddenly I lost all my brag points o.O

Ring the bell, his father I presume answers the door and gives me directions to his son's flat behind the house. I walk back and am greeted by, let's call him Eric.

Eric shows me his abode, and tells me we need to swing out to get the parts for the pc. Whatever, I get to work with computers and get away from doing nothing for a little while so I agree. We walk back around to the front of the house, his dad is pulling out car care stuff from his garage. 

Eric turns and says something like "We're going out to get the parts for the pc now"

His dad responds rather dismissively "Keep it under 6" and I assume he's talking about 600$ like a freaking moron and mention that 600$ probably isnt enough to get the kind of computer that Eric wants. His dad corrects me with "$6,000; that's what left of his limit this month." before eying me over like I said something absurd. .-.

We get to the store and Eric immediately jumps into the case section like a child in a candy store. "I want the best case, which is the best."

"Well, cases are mostly subjective. There are some that have more features, but generally just get what you think is nice. Most of these here are at least decent quality."

Which... was a mistake. He looked at them all, and was visibly distressed. I mean like when you present someone with something they can't handle, he looked like he was literally going to have a panic attack. "I don't know what to fucking look for man, just which is the best?!"

I take a brief look and point at a generic thermaltake case that had some foam padding for better acoustics. "Dope, let's get that then." w/e its his money. They didn't really have anything that great anyway, just a load of generic raidmax and antec cases.

Storage... All ssd's because... Well... He read that ssds are best. To be honest, the budget was large enough for em, so it didn't matter.

Cpu... 4770k, because it was the best they had in stock. Once again, what ever, it's his money and at least it will last longer than an I5.

32gbs of ram, because he wouldn't be talked out of getting 16. "Does having more ram hurt it?" he said, "Well... No, but it doesn't help at all..." I replied. "Then its settled. 32gbs of ram."

some pretty generic asus rog board that tickled his fancy; but now we get to the best part.

We get over to picking out gpus, and he immediately grabs a sales associate and demands that three titans be brought out for him. I stop him real quick and inform him that the 780ti that is on sale right over here, is faster, for less money. This apparently made no sense to him "But... it costs less... how can it be better?"

"Well... It doesn't support professional applications like [x] and [x]"

"But I want to be a professional gamer, won't that like hurt me?"

"Nope, not in the slightest. Trust me on this, get the 780ti."

He caves and gets three 780tis' despite me telling him the third is almost entirely useless, and may only add 5-8% performance when it works. To which he responded with something like "But its still better when it works, right?"

We get out of the store, and head back to his place to build the computer. After it was built I loaded up W7 on it and I'm just about ready to head out when his dad stops by and says something like "Those monitors you got are here Eric, they're out front." His dad pauses for a moment looking at the computer with its side panel off, all neatly cable managed and looking swoll (Im so sorry for using that word).

"That's pretty good, How much of that did you do Eric?" His father asked, looking at his son. Who just sat there nodding his head with a shit-eating grin the whole time. Literally didnt say a word, just nodded his head the whole time.

I kid you not, his dad let out an audible sigh and lowered his head, looking over at me as I sit there in this now stupidly awkward moment. He looked just so... disappointed in his son that I actually felt really bad for him. The father and I walked back to the front of the house while Eric unboxed the monitors he bought; he told me that he knew his son was a complete, and I quote here "Failure" and thanked me for helping him. We talked briefly about cars or something, but he then dropped me a 50 for the gas and trouble, and I was on my way pretty quick.

To my knowledge, Eric uses his $4000 computer to play only minecraft and call of duty. I... I don't even know anymore.

 

 

And so that... I guess... Is the story of the time I built a computer for a "failure" of a son. Damn his dad was just freaking brutally honest; seems like the kind of guy I could get to like :3

 

Uhh, spoilers seem to be broken. Might make a thread on it once I've gotten a bit of sleep.

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40 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Reminded me that I also have a small crack in the screen on the corner of my phone. I think it's only the screen protector that's cracked, though it's not that easy to tell.

 

Also, when I first read it I read screen projector and I was super confused thinking "What are screen projectors on phones? How come I've never heard of one. I thought phones were lcd (or some amoled) displays?" Just confused the crap outta me at first :D 

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31 minutes ago, Atmos said:

Another long story dump?

Another long story dump...

 

And its in a spoiler now, because it actually turned out a lot longer than I thought it would.

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Alright, back during my highschool years I became known at some point as being the super tech-knowledgeable guy in my group of friends, which slowly spread to my girlfriend's group of shitty friends. I was pretty bad at hiding my nerdy side, but w/e.

One of my girlfriend's friends at the time wanted to get into pc gaming, and had asked her to get me to help him, since he knew, that I knew computers... I got suckered into it, because of course I can't say no.

I get to this kids house out in LA, expecting to help him assemble and setup a pretty standard gaming pc. Now, I should point out I freaking hated this guy, he was one of the party hard, drink hard, drug hard, absent minded 24/7 guys. A complete and total tool. I pull into his drive in my nsx initially thinking I would have to be careful, that's a damn nice car to leave out on the street in LA... Nope... Gated driveway with a freaking rolls royce phantom in front of the garage. suddenly I lost all my brag points o.O

Ring the bell, his father I presume answers the door and gives me directions to his son's flat behind the house. I walk back and am greeted by, let's call him Eric.

Eric shows me his abode, and tells me we need to swing out to get the parts for the pc. Whatever, I get to work with computers and get away from doing nothing for a little while so I agree. We walk back around to the front of the house, his dad is pulling out car care stuff from his garage. 

Eric turns and says something like "We're going out to get the parts for the pc now"

His dad responds rather dismissively "Keep it under 6" and I assume he's talking about 600$ like a freaking moron and mention that 600$ probably isnt enough to get the kind of computer that Eric wants. His dad corrects me with "$6,000; that's what left of his limit this month." before eying me over like I said something absurd. .-.

We get to the store and Eric immediately jumps into the case section like a child in a candy store. "I want the best case, which is the best."

"Well, cases are mostly subjective. There are some that have more features, but generally just get what you think is nice. Most of these here are at least decent quality."

Which... was a mistake. He looked at them all, and was visibly distressed. I mean like when you present someone with something they can't handle, he looked like he was literally going to have a panic attack. "I don't know what to fucking look for man, just which is the best?!"

I take a brief look and point at a generic thermaltake case that had some foam padding for better acoustics. "Dope, let's get that then." w/e its his money. They didn't really have anything that great anyway, just a load of generic raidmax and antec cases.

Storage... All ssd's because... Well... He read that ssds are best. To be honest, the budget was large enough for em, so it didn't matter.

Cpu... 4770k, because it was the best they had in stock. Once again, what ever, it's his money and at least it will last longer than an I5.

32gbs of ram, because he wouldn't be talked out of getting 16. "Does having more ram hurt it?" he said, "Well... No, but it doesn't help at all..." I replied. "Then its settled. 32gbs of ram."

some pretty generic asus rog board that tickled his fancy; but now we get to the best part.

We get over to picking out gpus, and he immediately grabs a sales associate and demands that three titans be brought out for him. I stop him real quick and inform him that the 780ti that is on sale right over here, is faster, for less money. This apparently made no sense to him "But... it costs less... how can it be better?"

"Well... It doesn't support professional applications like [x] and [x]"

"But I want to be a professional gamer, won't that like hurt me?"

"Nope, not in the slightest. Trust me on this, get the 780ti."

He caves and gets three 780tis' despite me telling him the third is almost entirely useless, and may only add 5-8% performance when it works. To which he responded with something like "But its still better when it works, right?"

We get out of the store, and head back to his place to build the computer. After it was built I loaded up W7 on it and I'm just about ready to head out when his dad stops by and says something like "Those monitors you got are here Eric, they're out front." His dad pauses for a moment looking at the computer with its side panel off, all neatly cable managed and looking swoll (Im so sorry for using that word).

"That's pretty good, How much of that did you do Eric?" His father asked, looking at his son. Who just sat there nodding his head with a shit-eating grin the whole time. Literally didnt say a word, just nodded his head the whole time.

I kid you not, his dad let out an audible sigh and lowered his head, looking over at me as I sit there in this now stupidly awkward moment. He looked just so... disappointed in his son that I actually felt really bad for him. The father and I walked back to the front of the house while Eric unboxed the monitors he bought; he told me that he knew his son was a complete, and I quote here "Failure" and thanked me for helping him. We talked briefly about cars or something, but he then dropped me a 50 for the gas and trouble, and I was on my way pretty quick.

To my knowledge, Eric uses his $4000 computer to play only minecraft and call of duty. I... I don't even know anymore.

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And so that... I guess... Is the story of the time I built a computer for a "failure" of a son. Damn his dad was just freaking brutally honest; seems like the kind of guy I could get to like :3

 

Uhh, spoilers seem to be broken. Might make a thread on it once I've gotten a bit of sleep.

It's well written, but honestly? I think this is more like just someone who's never really gotten into computers, rather than not having common sense. Still a nice read though.

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Specs:
Graphics Card: EVGA 750 Ti SC
PSU: Corsair CS450M
RAM: A-Data XPG V1.0 (1x8GB) (Red)
Procrastinator: Intel i5 4690k @ 4.4GHz 1.3V
Case: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black)
Speakers and Headphones: Monitor Speakers and Phlips SHP9500s
MoBo: MSI Z97 PC MATE
SSD: SanDisk Ultra II (240GB)
Monitor: LG 29UM68-P
Mouse: Mionix Naos 7000
Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB (2016) (Browns)

Webcam/mic: Logitech C270
 

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2 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Reminded me that I also have a small crack in the screen on the corner of my phone. I think it's only the screen protector that's cracked, though it's not that easy to tell.

 

Also, when I first read it I read screen projector and I was super confused thinking "What are screen projectors on phones? How come I've never heard of one. I thought phones were lcd (or some amoled) displays?" Just confused the crap outta me at first :D 

What I do is tilt the display so it's flat and look from its a looks cracked it is cracked

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138 is a good number.

 

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Just now, themctipers said:

What I do is tilt the display so it's flat and look from its a looks cracked it is cracked

If it looks clear it looks good.. Like only the top layer is cracked

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138 is a good number.

 

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On 1/17/2013 at 3:23 AM, Boosted_i6 said:

Them - "hey I need advice on buying a computer"

Me - "sure id be happy to help you pick something out or ill build a great computer for you"

*week later*

Them - "yeah, i just decided to buy a computer from Best Buy"

Me "......................."

i had one of those mates who asked me too help buy a laptop then she messaged me she bought one and 1 week later the thing doesnt even boot up anymore......

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10 hours ago, IAmLamp said:

I believe it was the Xerox Star? I could be wrong, feel free to quote and correct me 

If we talk about OS, then yeah, the Star was the first with a windows based GUI, but pure GUI (without being windows based) existed before, one of the first was the Xerox Alto (the Alto was hyperlink based if I remember correctly). And this was based of a GUI engineering software made in the 60's called Sketchpad (or Robot Draftsman).

 

I always thought it was an interesting subject, if you want more, you can also look up Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay (Xerox did developped a working GUI OS but Engelbart and Kay were the ones that came up with the concepts in the 60's)

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17 hours ago, vandenbergmp said:

My father, who is somewhat tech savvy (mechanical engineer) likes to smash on his laptop in frustration. (low powered HP that is very, very slow). after the HDD's inevitable failure he asked if I could fix it. I took it out and did the freezer technique to try an pull the files off, when that failed i took it apart to take it to a friend who has a device for reading the disk. the disk had taken so much of a beating, the reader had punctured it in multiple locations and it was split. I don't think the FBI could get anything off it.

 

My cousin bought $70 worth of RAM because he thought it would improve his gaming performance (4GB of DDR2 like wtf)

 

Grandmother wont let my clean the viruses off her computer because she think ill break it                                              

I'm curious what's this freezer technique you mention?

 

This device for reading a HDD do you mean an external dock?  Kind of looks like a toaster for HDDs. 

 

You our mean he bought 4GB of DDR2 for $70?  Why would such old RAM cost that much?

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7 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

It's well written, but honestly? I think this is more like just someone who's never really gotten into computers, rather than not having common sense. Still a nice read though.

He lacks common sense... Trust me rofl. He lacks a lot of things tbh. 

Theres a lot more to his 'character' that ive seen over the years than i care to go into detail on. But that whole, shit faced grin and nodding his head while being asked questions is nothing out of the ordinary. A little while after those events i was dragged back down there by the sig other to help him again because he was having virus problems apparently. He had uninstalled the avast i installed on the machine, because he didnt like the popups telling him the virus database had been updated. He then proceeded to download about as much porn as humanly possible and wreck his os.

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7 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Reminded me that I also have a small crack in the screen on the corner of my phone. I think it's only the screen protector that's cracked, though it's not that easy to tell.

 

Also, when I first read it I read screen projector and I was super confused thinking "What are screen projectors on phones? How come I've never heard of one. I thought phones were lcd (or some amoled) displays?" Just confused the crap outta me at first :D 

Funny story sort of: sometime within the last 6-9 months I believe it was my iPhone 5s slipped out of my hand while I was standing over my iPad Air.  My iPad Air was find no damage but my iPhone 5s got a very slight scratch in the screen.  Just enough to feel it if I run my fingernail over it and see if there's white being displayed on that section of the screen.

 

Long story short my iPad scratched my iPhone.  lol

 

(Neither has a screen protector since I'm so careful this is the first time I'd ever dropped my phone by accident I swear.) 

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1 minute ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Funny story sort of: sometime within the last 6-9 months I believe it was my iPhone 5s slipped out of my hand while I was standing over my iPad Air.  My iPad Air was find no damage but my iPhone 5s got a very slight scratch in the screen.  Just enough to feel it if I run my fingernail over it and see if there's white being displayed on that section of the screen.

 

Long story short my iPad scratched my iPhone.  lol

 

(Neither has a screen protector since I'm so careful this is the first time I'd ever dropped my phone by accident I swear.) 

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14 minutes ago, Atmos said:

He lacks common sense... Trust me rofl. He lacks a lot of things tbh. 

Theres a lot more to his 'character' that ive seen over the years than i care to go into detail on. But that whole, shit faced grin and nodding his head while being asked questions is nothing out of the ordinary. A little while after those events i was dragged back down there by the sig other to help him again because he was having virus problems apparently. He had uninstalled the avast i installed on the machine, because he didnt like the popups telling him the virus database had been updated. He then proceeded to download about as much porn as humanly possible and wreck his os.

Not that I've known any personally but I really hate people like this idiot.  Rich dumbasses who do nothing but waste their parents money and are almost certainly going to amount to nothing.  Or they do become successful but don't deserve to be because they're still awful people.

 

If someone was a good person then I'd have less issue with getting handouts from their parents. 

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33 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

What does that mean?  ?

Good Game

Internet jargon most commonly used for satire of having finished something, or done something moronic. 

As am extreme example, getting your d*ck stuck in a ceiling fan while trying to install adobe flash player would be a GG situation.

 

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6 minutes ago, Atmos said:

Good Game

Internet jargon most commonly used for satire of having finished something, or done something moronic. 

As am extreme example, getting your d*ck stuck in a ceiling fan while trying to install adobe flash player would be a GG situation.

 

I feel like him saying that should bother me but I'll allow it because I did technically make the mistake of dropping my phone.  Also I still think it was funny that one Apple product damaged another.  lol

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19 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I feel like him saying that should bother me but I'll allow it because I did technically make the mistake of dropping my phone.  Also I still think it was funny that one Apple product damaged another.  lol

Not really an insult, but more a way of just sort of saying "lol" at an outcome that someone arrived at by nothing but their own fruition.

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10 minutes ago, Atmos said:

Not really an insult, but more a way of just sort of saying "lol" at an outcome that someone arrived at by nothing but their own fruition.

Sorry I guess I should've phrased that better.  I'm not mad about him saying that is what I meant to say.

 

 

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9 hours ago, Atmos said:

Another long story dump?

Another long story dump...

 

And its in a spoiler now, because it actually turned out a lot longer than I thought it would.

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Alright, back during my highschool years I became known at some point as being the super tech-knowledgeable guy in my group of friends, which slowly spread to my girlfriend's group of shitty friends. I was pretty bad at hiding my nerdy side, but w/e.

One of my girlfriend's friends at the time wanted to get into pc gaming, and had asked her to get me to help him, since he knew, that I knew computers... I got suckered into it, because of course I can't say no.

I get to this kids house out in LA, expecting to help him assemble and setup a pretty standard gaming pc. Now, I should point out I freaking hated this guy, he was one of the party hard, drink hard, drug hard, absent minded 24/7 guys. A complete and total tool. I pull into his drive in my nsx initially thinking I would have to be careful, that's a damn nice car to leave out on the street in LA... Nope... Gated driveway with a freaking rolls royce phantom in front of the garage. suddenly I lost all my brag points o.O

Ring the bell, his father I presume answers the door and gives me directions to his son's flat behind the house. I walk back and am greeted by, let's call him Eric.

Eric shows me his abode, and tells me we need to swing out to get the parts for the pc. Whatever, I get to work with computers and get away from doing nothing for a little while so I agree. We walk back around to the front of the house, his dad is pulling out car care stuff from his garage. 

Eric turns and says something like "We're going out to get the parts for the pc now"

His dad responds rather dismissively "Keep it under 6" and I assume he's talking about 600$ like a freaking moron and mention that 600$ probably isnt enough to get the kind of computer that Eric wants. His dad corrects me with "$6,000; that's what left of his limit this month." before eying me over like I said something absurd. .-.

We get to the store and Eric immediately jumps into the case section like a child in a candy store. "I want the best case, which is the best."

"Well, cases are mostly subjective. There are some that have more features, but generally just get what you think is nice. Most of these here are at least decent quality."

Which... was a mistake. He looked at them all, and was visibly distressed. I mean like when you present someone with something they can't handle, he looked like he was literally going to have a panic attack. "I don't know what to fucking look for man, just which is the best?!"

I take a brief look and point at a generic thermaltake case that had some foam padding for better acoustics. "Dope, let's get that then." w/e its his money. They didn't really have anything that great anyway, just a load of generic raidmax and antec cases.

Storage... All ssd's because... Well... He read that ssds are best. To be honest, the budget was large enough for em, so it didn't matter.

Cpu... 4770k, because it was the best they had in stock. Once again, what ever, it's his money and at least it will last longer than an I5.

32gbs of ram, because he wouldn't be talked out of getting 16. "Does having more ram hurt it?" he said, "Well... No, but it doesn't help at all..." I replied. "Then its settled. 32gbs of ram."

some pretty generic asus rog board that tickled his fancy; but now we get to the best part.

We get over to picking out gpus, and he immediately grabs a sales associate and demands that three titans be brought out for him. I stop him real quick and inform him that the 780ti that is on sale right over here, is faster, for less money. This apparently made no sense to him "But... it costs less... how can it be better?"

"Well... It doesn't support professional applications like [x] and [x]"

"But I want to be a professional gamer, won't that like hurt me?"

"Nope, not in the slightest. Trust me on this, get the 780ti."

He caves and gets three 780tis' despite me telling him the third is almost entirely useless, and may only add 5-8% performance when it works. To which he responded with something like "But its still better when it works, right?"

We get out of the store, and head back to his place to build the computer. After it was built I loaded up W7 on it and I'm just about ready to head out when his dad stops by and says something like "Those monitors you got are here Eric, they're out front." His dad pauses for a moment looking at the computer with its side panel off, all neatly cable managed and looking swoll (Im so sorry for using that word).

"That's pretty good, How much of that did you do Eric?" His father asked, looking at his son. Who just sat there nodding his head with a shit-eating grin the whole time. Literally didnt say a word, just nodded his head the whole time.

I kid you not, his dad let out an audible sigh and lowered his head, looking over at me as I sit there in this now stupidly awkward moment. He looked just so... disappointed in his son that I actually felt really bad for him. The father and I walked back to the front of the house while Eric unboxed the monitors he bought; he told me that he knew his son was a complete, and I quote here "Failure" and thanked me for helping him. We talked briefly about cars or something, but he then dropped me a 50 for the gas and trouble, and I was on my way pretty quick.

To my knowledge, Eric uses his $4000 computer to play only minecraft and call of duty. I... I don't even know anymore.

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And so that... I guess... Is the story of the time I built a computer for a "failure" of a son. Damn his dad was just freaking brutally honest; seems like the kind of guy I could get to like :3

 

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18 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Hey just curious, do you still live in LA? Cause if you do, by my calculations I've just found the probably only other active member of ltt that also lives in LA :D 

Rofl. Naw, I live in ventura county, about 50mi outside of LA

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12 hours ago, BingoFishy said:

*cough cough* Moto Z *cough*

Oh shut up :D 

 

11 hours ago, themctipers said:

What I do is tilt the display so it's flat and look from its a looks cracked it is cracked

 

11 hours ago, themctipers said:

If it looks clear it looks good.. Like only the top layer is cracked

Thing is, on my phone what it is is that I can tell the screen protector is cracked put under it there's this sort of plastic like stuff that's peeling off. I'm not 100% sure if that plastic stuff is from the screen protector or the screen, though it's probably the adhesive layer or the layer that goes above the adhesive of the screen protector since I can't think of any reason there would be a plastic like material on my screen. Also I have the OnePlus 2 and it has a plastic thing that goes all the way around the screen so I can't really see the screen from the side anyhow.

 

It doesn't really matter anyways though :) can't think of any reason why I should care.

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3 hours ago, Atmos said:

Rofl. Naw, I live in ventura county, about 50mi outside of LA

Well, it looks like I'll have to keep looking :D 

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5 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Not that I've known any personally but I really hate people like this idiot.  Rich dumbasses who do nothing but waste their parents money and are almost certainly going to amount to nothing.  Or they do become successful but don't deserve to be because they're still awful people.

 

If someone was a good person then I'd have less issue with getting handouts from their parents. 

Ahem

kids who spend 1k+ USD on a minecraft server. Total douchebags most of the time 

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1 hour ago, themctipers said:

Ahem

kids who spend 1k+ USD on a minecraft server. Total douchebags most of the time 

I did say *if* the person wasn't evil then it's ok.

 

But yeah I agree.  People who spend excessive amounts of money on hardware they use for stuff that's nowhere near its full potential are very likely to be douche bags or just plain stupid.

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