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Phone my dad bought me despite me not wanting one in high school, but I kept it for emergency purposes, just did not work when I needed it. I was suspicious once when I couldn't call home to tell my parents I'd be back from uni orientation, but I thought it was bad reception or something - yeah, you're in downtown next to a well-known college, of course they'd have bad reception, idiot. Then there was a follow-up that didn't have an end time, so I thought I'd call my dad to pick me up - I don't know why, but I should have just paid for parking. Well, the stupid thing wouldn't work and apparently Verizon can mess with other services like Tracfone. Impatient and stubborn as I am after 3 dropped calls which my dad guessed meant that the follow-up was over, left and drove to where he dropped me off. I decided to walk home without keys, cash, or a working phone. I walked close to 5 miles before giving up - I'm not as fit as I used to be -, going to Subway, asking for a phone, calling home, and having my mom pick me up about a mile or 2 away from home. Also, I had to drive back to my dad to tell him to go home. Oh, did I mention the humid heat and the chance for a storm?

 

Well, I should have bought a phone by myself through my own goddamned research instead of relying on some cheap phone service. In case anyone's wondering, I don't know my way around phones that well. I'm still confused over 4G and 3G stuff.

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Had 6 1TB drives fail over the course of about 6 months a while back, right around the time when the HDD factories flooded and prices sky rocketed, ended up loosing all my data in the end even though I had a server grade RAID 5 setup because I couldn't replace them fast enough -_- At least I learnt my lesson, JBOD + parity beats RAID hands down for home use and 2 parity drives is much better because rebuilds tend to make drives fail if they are that way inclined.

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Phone my dad bought me despite me not wanting one in high school, but I kept it for emergency purposes, just did not work when I needed it. I was suspicious once when I couldn't call home to tell my parents I'd be back from uni orientation, but I thought it was bad reception or something - yeah, you're in downtown next to a well-known college, of course they'd have bad reception, idiot. Then there was a follow-up that didn't have an end time, so I thought I'd call my dad to pick me up - I don't know why, but I should have just paid for parking. Well, the stupid thing wouldn't work and apparently Verizon can mess with other services like Tracfone. Impatient and stubborn as I am after 3 dropped calls which my dad guessed meant that the follow-up was over, left and drove to where he dropped me off. I decided to walk home without keys, cash, or a working phone. I walked close to 5 miles before giving up - I'm not as fit as I used to be -, going to Subway, asking for a phone, calling home, and having my mom pick me up about a mile or 2 away from home. Also, I had to drive back to my dad to tell him to go home. Oh, did I mention the humid heat and the chance for a storm?

Well, I should have bought a phone by myself through my own goddamned research instead of relying on some cheap phone service. In case anyone's wondering, I don't know my way around phones that well. I'm still confused over 4G and 3G stuff.

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Yes. And more.

 

My mom accidentally dropped my laptop in a running dishwasher.

My brother again dropped a screw inside my PSU and exploded it.

My brother kept kicking at my computer thinking it's a bomb.

My dad destroyed my front panel in a fit of rage.

My brother threw my iPhone at a wall and smashed it to bits.

I bought another one, but my brother threw it into the pool.

 My brother tried to shoot my CPU into a basketball net as if it was a basketball or something.

 

Get the pattern?

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Yes. And more.

 

My mom accidentally dropped my laptop in a running dishwasher.

My brother again dropped a screw inside my PSU and exploded it.

My brother kept kicking at my computer thinking it's a bomb.

My dad destroyed my front panel in a fit of rage.

My brother threw my iPhone at a wall and smashed it to bits.

I bought another one, but my brother threw it into the pool.

 My brother tried to shoot my CPU into a basketball net as if it was a basketball or something.

 

Get the pattern?

 

Jesus Christ how are your family such cunts?   

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Yap. I bought a PS3 when it launched. A year after it broke down, I sent it in to Sony and two weeks after I received another with its panels all dislodged and completely scratched.

Called Sony and sent it in again, received another and a week after the gpu fried. Sent it in again and received another. Sold it and then bought a newer PS3.

Sony. Not even once.

 

Didn't have much luck with the 360 too. My launch 360 broke down almost two years after, sent it in and received one with a faulty dvd drive.

At least the second one they sent me did actually work.

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Laptop's OS went full retard. Recovery partition also went full retard. My 200mm fan won't fit right in my case that can use it. Skyrim CTDs 3 times before loading a save. All this happened in a 3 day span.

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First off try to spell you correctly. I promise you the first two letters don't take that much more effort to type. ;)

Secondly, mods generally cause Skyrim to crash through incorrect load order, incompatibility with other mods, or straight up not being made correctly. Having a 8 core $1000 cpu will not help in any of these scenarios. I am basing my statements off the experience I have gained in the hundreds upon hundreds of mods I have installed across the past three Elder Scrolls games not including TESO. Also Logan does a great deal of content creation and he did not buy that CPU for gaming.

 

Hope this clears that up. :)

Fair enough then, no need to be grammar nazi on the internet :) Ppl are different, dont make them all be the way u want it to be, it never works.

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Fair enough then, no need to be grammar nazi on the internet :) Ppl are different, dont make them all be the way u want it to be, it never works.

I'm sorry for wanting people to be literate. My apologies. :P

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I'm sorry for wanting people to be literate. My apologies. :P

Well, being a grammar nazi is @AMorassOfPixelz's job.

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Well, being a grammar nazi is @AMorassOfPixelz's job.

I'm his new assistant ;)

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