Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Drastic Measures Call For Drastic Times

Two days ago, I spent $130 of my ninety whole dollars and bought yet another upgrade to my computer - a video card. I was expecting it to be a piece of piss to install; after all, I remember vivid scenes of me happily plonking in my last vid card. But when it did come time to slot the damn thing in, it became so much of a chore I had to cut the power to my Floppy Disc drive so the card would work!
It was then I remembered why I love PCs... because they suck.
They're fiddly and annoying and buggers to work with.
About 7 hours later, the card was in and my DVD drive was plugged back in from the motherboard loader (lolwut?), but as I went to install the software, the only language was one I'm quite fluent in - Turkish. And English wasn't in the language list. The only word I could figure out was "simple," so I clicked on whatever button was next to that and let it go inself.
Some time into the night later, I was done.
I enjoyed the frustrating experience immensely, and I look forward to the next time I get to hurt my brain, hands, toes, and lose sleep, and stuff, for the sake of 30 extra frames and an HDR lightmap in Garrys Mod.


Now my computer has the following above average stats: 512MB RAM, 537GB Total Hard Drive Space, HIS RADEON HD3650 Graphics Card... plus a Mouse and Keyboard and Business-quality sized screen!! PLUS IT'S NOT A DELL OR A MAC!

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