OUCH I got PWND

[Nima]

don't they get annoyed that you're making too much noise at the library tapping the keys hard?

[evilbutterfly]

I made a Stepmania CD with hundreds of songs and I played it before class in first period like, every day. The other kids got sick of it, and they all thought I was like, the best SM player ever (and I'm not good at all compared to yall). It's fun fun fun. I need to make an emulator CD, too. That way they'll walk in and be like "HOLY CRAP IT'S MARIO!!" Oh shizz, I gotta do that before school starts =O

[Moogy]

How in the world did you manage to play Stepmania off of a CD?

It must have been lagging like hell.

[Varia]

Nima...do you mean he will sell it to you for$700 Canadian dollars? Holy crap...your father is the stupidest guy in the entire world. That's like $500 or so US dollars I think. Good luck trying to buy a computer of that quality for anything near that price. And even if it is $700 US, that's still like...the best computer deal ever.

Poor guy.

[Squeek]

It does suck, but 2,000 for a computer just like that? PSHH. I paid $1,350 US for a better one 3 weeks ago. Dual Monitor, 5.1 surround, 1gb DDR2 ram, 3.0p4 ht, Radeon X300, 160sataHDD, SBAudigy 2, you name it. Here's what I did when I wanted my new computer:

Start making it really apparent that the need for the computer is great. Price out several different brands online. Then, keep doing it until the deals on the site are giving you enough of a discount to get your parents to buy it. This computer should have been about $1,900. I waited 4 months until the site offered 15% off and 150 off after that as their deals. And free shipping. I even got a brand new line of computers since I waited until they upgraded. This one has a better heatsink and much freer air flow within the computer.

So, do what I said and it may be cheaper and sooner than you think.

~Squeek

[staroceanfreakx]

That sucks Nima. Burn all of your files onto CDs (even better, DVDs if you can), then at least if you end up having to buy your own comp you can still have your games and such. And yeah, computers aren't that expensive if you have a friend that can build one, i am getting the following PC for $650 american as soon as I have the money, and my neighbor is building it.: 2.8Ghz pentium4, 512 ram, 60 GB HD (I don't have that many files), the second best Geforce FX card (don't remember the #), CD burner, monitor, keyboard, optical mouse, speakers, winXP pro, MS Office pro.

Much better than what I have now: 433 MHz Celeron, 256 ram, 40 Gb HD, win98se,ms office home, integrated video card (I just found out 2 months ago it can run SM, it previously was only able to run DWI, I don't know what fixed it), monitor, keyboard, ball mouse.

That was a lot of typing. Whew.

[Tsuguri]

don't they get annoyed that you're making too much noise at the library tapping the keys hard?

Honestly, I thought that would be a problem, but for some reason, it hasn't been. I wear headphones (of course), and I guess they have those "quiet-tap" keyboards or something. I haven't ever even gotten strange looks from the people around me, muchless asked to stop playing. I guess my tapping just blends in with the 40 other computers' tapping. I dunno.

[Kenzya]

40 others? Jeesh. There's like.. 5 computers in my local library.

Go for the AAA.

[Tsuguri]

I heard that my library is funded by Woodfield Mall...I take it you know about that since you live in Illinois and all... so yea, quite a bit of backed up resources. o.o

I'll try and snap a picture of the inside sometime in the future, I guess. It's a rather impressive spread.