BF2S Forums EE Chats January 2012

west-phoenix-az wrote:

Jay wrote:

Finray you're pretty much wrong.

Jay wrote:

Finray wrote:

Jay wrote:

PC gaming is for basement dwellers Finray.

That's an extremely outdated stereotype.

Considering its advocates on this forum? nah.

Uzique wrote:

Finray wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Console - worry about the plug, cables, controller, tv and actual console.

PC - worry about everything

Yeah, no comparison

console - stops working - find receipt, ship to m$/sony, wait 3 weeks, get a new one
PC - stops working - replace broken part - game on

not rocket science.

i can say from firsthand experience of my dad getting into pc gaming for a 2 year stint (when cod4 was released) that this is decisively NOT how it happens. that 1 week microsoft RMA process for a console-gamer is WAY better for the casual gamer than the pc-repair option. to most people what happens inside a pc case is still the dark arts. my dad's gaming pc's psu died (from what i could guess) - has he replaced the psu? hell no he hasn't. he took it to pc world to "replace the broken part" (taking a desktop pc to a retail-park centre is more hassle than most console gamers will ever have to go through in and of itself...), got charged an arm and a leg for their 'services' ("herp derp we are it experts, that'll be £100 for a windows reformat please, sir") and hasn't used it since. a £1000+ gaming rig dead - won't turn on - cause the power supply has fried. if you think your average gamer/pc user has any idea how to replace a pc part, let alone any inclination or curiosity to know-how, then you're absolutely delusional. you need some perspective.

bearing in mind finray that you're a kid that has sat on facebook posting shitty statuses every 5 minutes for the last 3 days because you don't have a gaming pc. like, literally. without exaggeration. a gaming pc to you seems to either be your closest worldly companion or otherwise your electronic life-support device. i don't think you really have the sense of objective perspective to be making any statements. you are way way way at the extreme end of the pc geek spectrum. it's like your life has no meaning, or as if you have nothing to do, when you don't have a gaming pc. and i'm not even exaggerating there - just going off the frequency and content of your fucking endless facebook spam. quite sad, really. and not helping pc gaming stereotypes at all. nor helping your argument vs. consoles.

Uzique wrote:

okay, here is a sample of your own profile (not counting discussion on other people's profiles, which i am not gonna waste my time stalking to prove a point)

on the 30th december:

Computerless till the 4th! Fml. Well, upgraded an i3 setup with 8GB RAM for effectively £70, n2b.

Just laughed my ass off. Listening to music on my phone (which I haven't updated in months) plugged into my speakers cause my computer is in bits at the moment. It's on random. I'm rocking out to some Opeth (which for those of you who don't know is pretty heavy screamish stuff) then what comes on? Fucking Nyan cat theme tune.

I tried playing MW3 and BF3 but I was close to slitting my throat. Currently rocking Freya's laptop plugged into my monitor. Plugged my speakers, keyboard and mouse into it also. What a slut of a laptop, every hole is filled.

Also I was surfing Reddit last night, then all of a sudden it was 3AM and I was on post 1,300. I need some gaemz.

So I was trying to check what was on an old IDE hard drive I had lying around. I plugged it into the computer, turned it on, not detected in the BIOS POST messages, I figured I'd just import the foreign drive through disk management inside Windows. So I get there, and it's not detected. I think "Damn, IDE must be disabled in the BIOS or something." so I'm flicking through the BIOS for a good 10 minutes, with no luck. So I boot into Windows again and do a thorough Google to try and find an answer. I find nothing. I give up, and shut the computer down to remove the drive. I pull out the power cable, and pick up the drive. The IDE cable follows. I hadn't plugged it in right.

Checking old hard-drive content, couldn't make it work, struggled for a while, wasn't plugged in.

Kik: Finray. /bandwagon.

I do hope my computer parts come tomorrow.

It was actually lagging. I'm trying Quake Live.

Nope. 20 FPS is not enough to play Quake.

the other half of your statuses (and there are a fuckload of them, about 25 updates in 4 days) are to do with inane shite, normally you complaining about how bored you are, or making trite smalltalk, which is directly related and a consequence of... surprise surprise... YOU NOT HAVING A GAMING PC.

i'd say from that sample that you are demonstrably in the 0.00001% percentile of hardcore pc enthusiasts. nobody talks about this shit in their ordinary day-to-day social life on facebook like you do. most of your facebook friends aren't even gamers, so it's hardly as if you're posting this stuff for discussion, or to an audience that cares. the overwhelming impression people get is that a) you are obsessed with computers, or otherwise they command a disproportionate influence/importance in your life and b) your life grinds to a halt with tedium, boredom and nothing to do when you don't have a computer.

either way i'd say you don't "have this shit on lock"... and i'd say you definitely aren't in any position to be expressing the views of the 'casual gamer'.

10 minute post limit is a wonderful thing.

Last edited by 1927 (2012-01-05 04:03:37)

1927 wrote:

He's a what?  A Douche Wagon?

-Whiteroom- wrote:

I think they are trying to say that their method of having fun is better than the others and the the others are stupid for having fun with it. Ie. Squabling over who is the less geeky geek.