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[Redux] Experiences with "techies"

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Note: Not techies in general. but "techies" the subclass of techies.

 

 

you know the ones...

Thinks their PC is faster because it says alienware.

Talks down to you because you dont know what SCSI stands for.

Takes one look at your boobs & dismisses you as ignorant about tech. (My personal favourite)

 

So, what's some experiences you've had with... Those people... ?

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Kid at my school telling me his 8800 card (Not sure which one) was still good a few months ago. Also running some QT Intel processor. Somehow he got an IT job.

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

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"you should have gotten a mac" every time I have a minor problem.

That's like saying "You should go gay" whenever you have relationship trouble.

 

No offence to any gays out there, I could just as easily say:

 

That's like saying "you should go straight" whenever you have relationship trouble.

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I don't know what scsi stands for... 

 

That's the point

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People that think every gaming PC is over $2000.

People that class runescape players differently than other gamers... - if there's anything that game has brough to the world is that a lot of people learned English from it, and in some Twitch Streams a chap gets so much donations that I think RS players may deal better with money IRL. So what I mean with that is that the game taught them to handle money properly and thus helped them in real life too. Maybe I am looking into this too much idk.

So many things I could write here... things like this.

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People that think every gaming PC is over $2000.

People that class runescape players differently than other gamers... - if there's anything that game has brough to the world is that a lot of people learned English from it, and in some Twitch Streams a chap gets so much donations that I think RS players may deal better with money IRL. So what I mean with that is that the game taught them to handle money properly and thus helped them in real life too. Maybe I am looking into this too much idk.

 

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My mum was wondering why her computer wasn't turning on and it was because the power supply wasn't on but she isn't a complete noob.

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One of my friends keeps on asking me if his craptop on depressants will run Minecraft better if he upgrades to W7 from Vista.

His laptop is worth less than a premade Ubuntu LiveCD from Canonical.

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My sister saying she'll keep up with coding after going to her £8000 maker's academy because she said it'll be "useful in the future" (she's going into a business/economics course in uni. yeah, reaaaalllll useful)

After coming back from maker's she's like "yeah look at the stuff I did! It's so awesome I'm gonna keep coding. It's so fun!" 

Guess what? A week later, never touched her computer for programming again. 

 

Biggest waste of money I can imagine.. It's made me really despise her whenever she brings up anything tech-related, and in general just made me dislike her even more as a sister

 

Also, my "gamer" friend who claims he's into tech says his whateverwhatever metabox i7 gtx 870m laptop "beats your gtx 760 (desktop) by a mile". Just coz he paid close to $3000 for his laptop does not mean it's better (duh), buuuuuuut he thinks so, so I won't burst his bubble

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The ususal , intel i7 is same as an i5 & i5 is all you need speech,  :/

Details separate people.

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The ususal , intel i7 is same as an i5 & i5 is all you need speech,  :/

But if you are gaming only as most people are then you really don't need more right now because the cores have the same power and games are not mulitthreatherd(sorry i fucked up i  am tired)

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But if you are gaming only as most people are then you really don't need more right now because the cores have the same power and games are not mulitthreatherd(sorry i fucked up i  am tired)

Exactly, B)  what i mean is the performance analyse from these folks, read a few benchmark from a game ie : frame rates & such then they think that i7 is jsut an overpriced i5 chip rebranded (sortaa right since cores are locked) , not knowing the real horsepower of it..

Details separate people.

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Exactly, B)  what i mean is the performance analyse from these folks, read a few benchmark from a game ie : frame rates & such then they think that i7 is jsut an overpriced i5 chip rebranded (sortaa right since cores are locked) , not knowing the real horsepower of it..

Yeah if you are doing graphics or editing in school then an i7 is totally worth it.

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My friend was going to upgrade his graphics card and was conviced that a gtx 760 would be considerably better than an r9 280 just because it was nvidia. After a while I managed to convice him to get the 280 instead as it was a better deal (€189 vs €239) and had slightly better performance.

 

People that prefer one product over another just because of the brand annoy me.

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Got utterly dismissed once because of my choice of CPU and GPU because OBVIOUSLY INTEL AND NVIDIA MASTERRACEHURRDURR.

 

Meh. :\

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One of the people at my school tried convincing me there were 2000 watt PSUs with fusion reactors inside.

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"We don't sell products from small companies like AMD...."

 

Just a ma and pop shop.....

 

Like, WTF.

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Talks down to you because you dont know what SCSI stands for.

Small Computer System Interface. You're welcome.

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kid at school says the $1500 gaming build i did on pcpp was horrible because it didn't even have an i7

Cokeman? 

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