Pit Whatever You'd Like!

Why can’t you toe a party line?

So if it’s a partnership, shouldn’t both of you get a fair share? So you get to use the GOOD computer on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and he gets to use it on Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday. Sundays you alternate.
My guess: a few days of having to put up with the ‘Bad’ computer and suddenly the budget will allow for the upgrade. :cool:

:slight_smile: Good idea in theory, but I don’t like his setup and at the moment he can’t run anything better than I can, because his video card is in for a warranty job (bad batch of cards that were shipped out, the manuf is replacing but they’re in China and taking their sweet time so for the moment he’s got a loaner which is a real dog). Plus his desk is set up funny and not comfy. I was more having a little tantrum yesterday because as far as I knew we were good to get me a new PC, and I was all excited and junk, but then he’s changed his mind. I’m going to talk to him about it today, because I need to know what he wants us to do. I want to plaaaaay!

He doesn’t think he’s so lucky when I bogart the TV to play Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. He hates those games :smiley:

I’ve cleaned out all the nooks and crannies with compressed air, made sure everything’s seated properly. For some reason my CPU still runs really hot even when I’m just using the PC normally, I think there’s something wrong with the fans to be honest. I’m just looking at a cost/benefit analysis, really. I could go through and start replacing bits that I think are broken (some new RAM, replace the case fans & possibly see if I can get the CPU cooled any more, buy a new copy of windows coz the guy who installed mine installed a cracked copy, see if that’ll help). But by the time I’ve spent a few hundred dollars, I’ve spent a few hundred on a PC that’s getting to the point of not being able to run any new games anyway, and I’ll have to upgrade again before long anyway. If I go and get a decent new system now, then sure I’ll be spending more now but hopefully not having to upgrade again as quickly.

I need an inconspicuous place to post this while still getting it out of my system.

It’s about Tomndebb and Great Debates.

When he’s acting as a moderator, he gives a little signal at the end of his posts. That’s fine. I can understand if sometimes he wants to post as a human being instead of as a mod.

But when he is posting as a non-mod, why does he make personal attacks? I am thinking in particular about lekatt and his most recent NDE comments – and Tom’s responses to them.

Other than in this particular thread, Tom usually seems to be very level-headed about not doing things like that.

Also, it’s a hard ROW to hoe, not road. I’ve never seen anyone hoe a road.

<Minor rant alert>

Spooky, what the hell do you have against XM Radio? That there isn’t an all-cat station? Or is it that you have to sleep right smack in the middle of the roof of my truck, so the antenna gets in the way? It used to be a minor annoyance, having to move the antenna back to keep the cord taut, but now? Now you just pull the whole thing loose and use it as a bopper-toy! This has to stop!

-signed

The Cat Fud Guy

<minor rant alert ended>

Why did I stay up past midnight to finish The Kite Runner, then think about the story until 2 am? Now my eyes are stinging and I’m still thinking about the book.
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How am I suppose to pack for a two week trip to Russia in Sept.? Checking the weather on the internet ain’t helping me at all. :frowning:

Hoeing a road would certainly be hard, though.

[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo]

There’s few things as romantic as after a night of super smash bros, and FPSes as notcing the way the tracer fire reflects in your partner’s eyes.

Makes sense.

One idea to test if its thermel would be to underclock the CPU a little and see if it locks up still locks up. Either that or barrow the heat sink fan from a different computer.
Although a combination of sweet talking and ads for new systems would be most effective way to troubleshoot it of course…

Hoedown in the road! Download latest Paris video NOW!

I’m expecting it to morph into “Hard road to hold” next, possibly via our strategy gaming friends.

If SpazCat married him, then the engagement ring did work. The ring isn’t responsible for the breakup. :stuck_out_tongue:

FUCK NO. I dodged that bullet. Still have to deal with his bullshit for another year or so because I’m still living in our house while he’s cavorting in Canada.

If I felt like it, I could start a huge long thread pitting him. But I don’t feel like reliving it again. All I’ll say is that it feels good to not have to deal with insanity in denial on a daily basis. :cool:

Fish Nya, those are 10 quality posts that you nave made in your 2+ years here. As the proud (hah!) owner of frizzy hair, I feel your pain.

As for my pitting

I pit panic attacks. Really, enough is enough. No, heart, I do not like to feel as though you are hammering out of my chest. No, brain, I do not like to think that everyone hates me. No, lungs, I don’t think that deviation from inhale-exhale-inhale-exhale is fun. Fucko off, as they say. Really.

Apparently I need to get a wee refrigerator to put in my office. There’s one in the kitchen, but the residents have access to it when they rent out that lounge area.

So hey, assholes: Did you just see the half-empty box of soda and think “hm, that’s odd, I don’t remember buying a half-empty box of soda. Oh well, it must be ours now”? I’d really like to know. Then after you drink it all, you leave the empty box for me to throw away? Thanks, jerk.

At least they left my orange juice and tuna alone. The lot of it barely took up any space, so it’s not like they wouldn’t have had room for their food.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Well, I considered creating a mini-rants thread about work, but that is less fun than jumping in this one, so here it goes…

Work…
Fuck you. I hate this job. I’m in the process of leaving, but I won’t yet. Mostly because I’m trying to do the responsible thing and not end up with too little money to pay my bills, but work, I hope you know that I am pissed about ever having to come in to this office. That is all specifically about my work in general…

Now, boss. Well, boss who is kind-of-a-boss-but-isn’t. I understand you have a degree in a computer science field. I understand that you think you can solve problems. Here is the biggest issue - you solve them when it is convenient to you.

First, this morning, as I was leaving at 7 (when I am scheduled to leave) to get to the university by 8, you decided calling tech support about our server going down was something I could do. It was 7:05. I mentioned you could call later in the day, as the server was working now, but you said no - it had to be done before I left because you didn’t know if you could do it. Fuck you. I called, sat on hold, and told them the problem. They asked for my login, which makes sense, but I don’t have clearance to login to our server computer, only you and the other boss. Here’s the best part - you don’t know your fucking login either! Why not? Oh, you threw away the piece of paper it was originally written on cause you thought you wouldn’t need it. You could have remembered it first. I made it to the university at 8:10, no thanks to you. Glad I had an understanding prof. Fucking idiot.

Second, last week you even removed my status back to that of a new employee. I asked about it, since one entire function of my job is nightly and weekly paperwork that I would need to login as a “user-admin” for, and you said you didn’t think I needed it. Today, you put it back on. That wouldn’t be a problem, but I asked you about it on fucking Tuesday morning last week. All you had to do was click my name, click the little box, and click ok. Not hard, but you didn’t get it done for a week because you’re fucking lazy.

Third, what the hell is your problem with communication? You are my boss. I am gone for most of the work day, but I am here overnight to ensure nothing goes wrong. I do not have magical powers that tell me what happened during the day. You left a note for me. “Brendon - please try to get our money back for those newspapers.” A ton of fucking help. Do you realize that each week night we receive 3 different daily papers. What should I do? Ask all three? Sure, I can make an ass out of myself. Better question - I come in at 11. The newspaper money from the machines is picked up at 9, along with the day’s papers, and someone different drops off the new ones at 2 am. I know this because I have worked evenings when they pick them up. It might help to at least tell the person who will be here then what is going on - not just leave a cryptic message taped to the desk with my name on the front. Way to be a fucking time-waster. I honestly think that you must be sleeping with some higher up, because I kind of wonder how you didn’t off yourself already just because you lack the ability to think, do work, or fucking communicate with anyone.

Dumb fucking boss.

(also, boss-in-charge-of-boss, I’m glad you understand what is going on. Please do not ignore this, as I know you are aware of it. You have done a good job, really, but I think it is time to take some action regarding your employees.)

Brendon Small

An un-pitting…

New PC for me! Should have it within the week. I’m getting all squiggly about it.

But to get back in the pit feeling…

Fuck you to the manuf of hubby’s video card. He started having problems with artifacts when playing high-spec games (Far Cry etc). Then the artifacting started in any 3d graphic games. Shiny colours, weird spots, lines stretching into infinity.

Behold, the intarwebs tell us it’s a known heat problem with his graphics card. Luckily there’s an 18mth manuf warranty in the Asia-Pacific region. So he raises a ticket.

He jumps through their hoops. Clean out this, run that, download these, take the case off that. And so on. It might be a problem with our card, they finally say, take it back to your vendor and get them to test it. He does.

The store says “Yep, bad card. Have a loaner whilst we send this one back”. Several weeks later “We have your new card. It’s a new, shiny DX10 card!”

But the card he’s got is a mid-range DX10 card. His old card was a high end DX9 card (I forget the specs exactly). His old card, whilst no longer in production, still has a shelf value of $100 more than the card they’re offering, and has a performance speed of approximately 10% more than the card they’re offering.

He checks specs, finds he can get a high end DX10 card for $150 more than what this card is worth. So he contacts the manuf and says “I’m not happy with the card you’re offering, can I pay you the difference between the two cards, and get this better card?”

“No”

So for a card that has reported manufacturer’s faults that are being noted all over the internets, he’s getting a card that’s worth $100 less and performs (admittedly marginally) worse. So hubby’s pissed.

I think I’ve pitted this person before, but here goes:

You are not getting your goddamn game back. You know where it is. You can drive your lazy ass down here and get it. And you’ve known where it was for over a year now. You just didn’t remember until I mentioned playing it to get through some pretty serious grief. Now it’s all you talk about. Stop leaving me messages. Stop speaking to me. Go to Gamestop and get another–it’s about $9. Just STFU and leave me alone.

I pit people who tell other people how to live without any kind of need for it. Specifically, people who insist in controlling other people’s diets (I have low blood pressure, you stupid shitfuck), or in telling smokers to stop smoking (no, I’m not a smoker, but this irks me), or non-drinkers to start drinking because apparently the already-drunk dude saying this can’t have enough fun unless everybody else at the table is semi-shitfaced at least (I only drink alcohol rarely).

At least the last time I got that drunk dude, the other people at our table told him to cut it out or he’d be taken out to have a nice faceful of the rain that was falling, but dang, that kind of thing shouldn’t be necessary!

Telling someone who’s hacking his lungs up while lighting up “you know, maybe you should cut on the smokes while you take care of that cough”? That makes sense. But people going to random coworkers who are outside the office’s door “oh my Gawd, you really should stop smoking, it’s so bad for you, you know!” PUH-LEEEZE!