Random Rants OA - I Have 71 Problems, But This Thread Ain't One

[Takhisis]

It's still a free laptop which you can use for a lot of things.

I recommend Linux and Battle for Wesnoth (assuming you have enough time to spend on a gaming addiction).

 

[Synobun]

I got an early birthday present, my mom bought me a new laptop. Unfortunately it's an AMD A9 9420 Dual core with 8gb ram and a radeon R5 M230. From what i can tell it is more or less incapable of any form of gaming other than facebook games and even then it will apparently run slowly from what i've read of the reviews. Pretty much has roughly half the power of my current kitty-thrashed laptop......Now i just got to figure out how to tell her about these problems without sounding ungrateful..........

"Hey mom, thanks for buying me that laptop. I really appreciate the thoughtfulness. It's actually not quite as good as my current laptop though so I was wondering if you still had the receipt. You and I can go return it and find something else together and maybe I can even teach you a little about this stuff just in case you ever need to know about it in the future."

 

[Takhisis]

Watch the tone if you try Synsensa's approach. It's very easy to make it sound as if you were an ungrateful twerp if you don't use the exact appropriate tone.

Edit: actually his wording is quite good.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

What Synsensa said, with the added:

"...maybe I can add a little money to it and we can get one with the better capabilities that I need."

 

[Valka D'Ur]

"Hey mom, thanks for buying me that laptop. I really appreciate the thoughtfulness. It's actually not quite as good as my current laptop though so I was wondering if you still had the receipt. You and I can go return it and find something else together and maybe I can even teach you a little about this stuff just in case you ever need to know about it in the future."

Change "it's actually not quite as good" to "But because it doesn't have all the features I need, I wonder if you still have the receipt..."

That way she won't feel criticized and hurt for unwittingly choosing something inferior.

 

[Kyriakos]

What Synsensa said, with the added:

"...maybe I can add a little money to it and we can get one with the better capabilities that I need."

 

[Snerk]

Always maximise dramatic effekt. Upon receiving it, throw it in the wall and storm out of the house in a flood of tears.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have no idea how I did it, but somehow messing up an img tag in the video game thread ended up with the site's navigation header at the bottom of the page. I couldn't get it fixed with edit either. Thankfully a mod helped.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Always maximise dramatic effekt. Upon receiving it, throw it in the wall and storm out of the house in a flood of tears.

There was a time that i might have considered that option, but now i have a pill to keep those thoughts away.(and to keep me from punching holes in the walls and yelling at strangers)
Also, one of my cats seems to have decided that knapsacks are for peeing in....

 

[Synobun]

I used the automatic update package for phpBB without doing proper research and missed all the chatter about how terrible it is and how it'll probably wreck your installation.

You would think they would just remove that option if there are that many issues with it, but no. They just post convoluted workarounds on the forum while telling you to make sure you backed everything up beforehand because oopsies, the auto update isn't so great.

Really just more material for my "myBB is the best BB software out there" convictions.

 

[Takhisis]

There was a time that i might have considered that option, but now i have a pill to keep those thoughts away.(and to keep me from punching holes in the walls and yelling at strangers)

At least you have the pills…?

 

[Kyriakos]

It's still a free laptop which you can use for a lot of things.

I recommend Linux and Battle for Wesnoth (assuming you have enough time to spend on a gaming addiction).

Linux sadly is incapable of running most games - including old-ish ones, as long as they are 3d-tied (cause it uses an entirely different base for that)
Tbh, linux sucks, but at least it is far more stable as an OS than windows. If one doesn't care about games it is the better system, surely.

 

[Zkribbler]

So do 40% of Americans. College degrees aren't anything special nowadays. Bachelor's degrees are pretty much treated like high school diplomas now and are a dime a dozen. Even master's degrees are becoming increasingly common. So please, come down off your "I went to college" high horse. A college education is actually very average nowadays and isn't anything special. That's why you see so many college graduates working as baristas at Starbucks.

You must not have read where I mentioned teaching certificates, and advanced degrees, and continuing education classes.

Not many people would classify a desire to get off food stamps as "greed,"

Oklahoma teachers lokk like they'll be walking off their jobs in early April.

 

[Synobun]

Going to the dentist today again.

 

[Snerk]

Will you lie when asked if you floss daily?

 

[Synobun]

Will you lie when asked if you floss daily?

I set a good example and own up to my failures.

 

[Takhisis]

Linux sadly is incapable of running most games - including old-ish ones, as long as they are 3d-tied (cause it uses an entirely different base for that)
Tbh, linux sucks, but at least it is far more stable as an OS than windows. If one doesn't care about games it is the better sy stem, surely.

Actually, you can get most games to run, sometimes natively, most often on WINE (including, I recently found out, World of Warcraft, even if Blizzard apparently have a Linux launcher which they never release). There's tons of workarounds.

Of course it'd be easier if more game companies released native Linux versions, but still.

 

[Kyriakos]

Actually, you can get most games to run, sometimes natively, most often on WINE (including, I recently found out, World of Warcraft, even if Blizzard apparently have a Linux launcher which they never release). There's tons of workarounds.

Of course it'd be easier if more game companies released native Linux versions, but still.

I found it impossible to run EUIII.

 

[Takhisis]

Now that's a rant.

 

[Cutlass]

I think I really need to go to the dentist too. My old dentist retired a few years back, and I never got a new one.