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Darkbluerabbit:
I'm sorry, that sucks a lot.  It's been a long time since I performed any music, but I can definitely remember the agony that is equipment problems.


--- Quote from: KvP on 23 Feb 2009, 15:31 ---Be careful if you're going to bring building management into it. You could be labeled a narc and disallowed from sitting at the Cool Kids' Table. Also you won't be invited to any keggers that guy hosts. I do hope you can live with those consequences.

One other possibility, one I know from experience, is that this guy could be functionally retarded. I worked with a guy who had Reye's Syndrome as a high schooler and he would just fuckin' blast the same Garth Brooks song, every morning at 6 AM, until 10 AM or so. So make sure this guy can help it before you start getting up in his shit.

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I have actually wondered if they are perhaps a little slow, which is one reason I've tried to be less than a giant bitch about it.  It's a pretty quiet, antisocial building with an average age of about sixty, so being the "narc" wouldn't affect my social life at all.

I will probably talk to the manager when she gets back from vacation. 


Also, it looks like I'm going to visit my best friend in Egypt in three weeks.  I'm a little nervous as I've never traveled alone, and I'm going to be flat broke if not in debt at the end, but I think it will be worth it.

McTaggart:

--- Quote from: Alex C on 24 Feb 2009, 11:46 ---I have Dawn of War 2.
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I bought this too, it took nine hours to install because it didn't say anywhere that the installer was going to be trying to download things. Then it went and installed steam, which took four hours to update and  then the game had to patch itself. This download was going at roughly 6kb/s and it wasn't telling me at all how much it was going to download or how long it would take. After leaving it overnight and it only hitting 2% I just uninstalled the whole thing and I'm back to not using steam for another three years because fuck that shit. I don't get why games all seem to try and screw me over. Every game I buy just pisses me off with crappy drm, limited installs and then if I actually get around to playing it just straight up not being fun. What happened to the days of buying something that just ran straight out of the box?

Also, my project for this year has fallen through, now either I can try to find a new one for to start this semester (this semester's already started) or find another unit to do in it's place and start one next semester. I would absolutely love university if it wasn't for actually having to deal with the university.

Jace:
I bought assassin's creed on steam, since i had a new computer with better internals. And while it was downloading, I was like "fuck yeah, I loved when I played this game at my friend's place. This is gonna be great!" Then I go to load up the game, and steam uses so enough RAM that I don't have the required left for the game to run. Thanks steam, I just wasted $30 until I can spend at least another $50 to buy more RAM.

The extra letter:
When I was getting my student union card thingummy one of the student union peeps was all like "I helped you enrol" or something like that and I was sort of "...I don't think so?" To cut a long story short she thought I looked familiar from somewhere and I think I was a bit rude. I tend to get all deer-in-a-headlightsy when someone apparently recognises me and I don't recognise them. My brain goes into "Shit guys, devote all power to the memory room!" and the social skills part of my brain goes darker than the Hordern Pavilion during NIN's set last night and I'm all "Urh, wha?". It's still vaguely bugging me.

That was a good night. Very, very fun. Even despite the power outage. You'd have thought that the tech staff would've been ready for such a massive power situation considering NIN have eleventy billion lights and bits of electronic equipment, but obviously not.

ackblom12:
Steam is taking up too much RAM to run a game? Steam typically takes up anywhere from 20 to 25 megs of RAM on my machine. If that's honestly enough to keep you from playing the game, you might have wanted to get an upgrade anyways. Assassin's Creed wasn't exactly known to be well optimized on PC.

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