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Post by Keldoclock » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:29 pm

Compressed air cans are great for keyboard cleaning.

I've got a pretty much stock 2008 Dell XPS.I once had an external hard drive but when it broke down I just transferred the drives themselves(2 500gb drives in mirror array), so now I've got a terabyte of hard drive space. It's decent for everything I run nowadays, Razer Charachiras headset for music and voice chat (serious WoW playing kinda requires a mic), an old 19" Acer monitor, some shitty $20 wireless mouse, Wacom Intudos pad, an a ordinary cheap black keyboard.Running Win XP btw, just because it's stable and easy to pirate.

It's like this but the backlighting is blue.
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I've been wanting to build my own but I'm probably just gonna put that off until this thing is entirely unusable. It's already starting to have problems booting up (it can't detect one of the external hard drive's drives, even though it's connected and all that other shit), but thats limited to just forcing me to push F1 every time I start it up. Overhaul the peripherals when I do that too, probably get some newer Razer headset, Steelseries MMO mouse (14 glorious buttons kicks the shit out of the 5 I have now), a Zboard or a Luxeed illuminated keyboard, all that good stuff.

Of course, I drool over the shiny, shiny things that Alienware produces, but $2000-4000 for a computer is a bit much, even if it does do this


Got a macbook off Ebay too because Steve Jobs is evil and forces you to buy a Mac just to program for iPhone. No idea what year, but it can surf the web and run Minecraft at Normal render distance well(Although NO RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON makes it a huge pain in the ass, it passes time when I'm living away from home. Generally I just take the wireless mouse from the desktop with me when I do that)
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Post by Tzan » Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:53 pm

Keldoclock wrote:Compressed air cans are great for keyboard cleaning.
I use air too.
Got a macbook off Ebay too because Steve Jobs is evil and forces you to buy a Mac just to program for iPhone.
Yeah I hate that.
I might have actually looked into iPhone on Unity, but I'm not buying a mac to do it.

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Post by Candlejack » Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:05 pm

The guy across the hall's got one like yours, Keldo. We call it the Radioactive Monster and whenever something electronic goes wrong, we blame the monster. We're also pretty sure the thing is giving the whole hallway cancer, but that's neither here nor there.
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Post by Keldoclock » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:03 pm

Candlejack wrote:The guy across the hall's got one like yours, Keldo. We call it the Radioactive Monster and whenever something electronic goes wrong, we blame the monster. We're also pretty sure the thing is giving the whole hallway cancer, but that's neither here nor there.
Fear the fury of our gaming PC's! They eat smartphones for breakfast, laptops for lunch, and fest on the entrails of ordinary desktops for dinner!

PS: The cancer is to reduce server lag by killing undesirable users.
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Post by RoC77 » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:46 pm

I was at the local Lego store and got these....
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For this much......
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Post by Robot Monkey » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:51 pm

:shock:

DO WANT
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Post by Paco » Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:22 pm

WHOA. Is that a giant death tank WIP I see in the background?
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Post by BFenix » Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:40 pm

Paco the Duck Ninja wrote:WHOA. Is that a giant death tank WIP I see in the background?
:shock: Well spotted
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Post by Swordsalmon » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:00 pm

Holy shoot, $12!? I have to get to a Lego store and by a bunch of those ISDs!
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Keldoclock wrote:Swordsalmon: Argues about the price of bits of plastic, yet happily forks over $1 for a quarter-sized bit of plastic that does nothing but look cool.

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Post by aoffan23 » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:18 pm

RoC77 wrote:local Lego store
:cry:

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Post by Paco » Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:44 pm

I live near Chicago, so there are three or four within an hour or two from me. </gloat>
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Post by Keldoclock » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:25 pm

There is exactly one Lego store in the entire city, but it's in the fashionable districts and the prices are terrible. Looks great though.

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Post by BFenix » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:42 am

I know this isint really very welcome around here and Im not a cocky person, but today I don't really care, cause today is my Birthday! :)
Shish, in a year Ill be a full grown portuguese citizen, argh more responsibilities!

Anyways, the reason Im posting this here is because I want to avenge Yule since I didnt get my hands on any Lego, so Im thinking of buying this with some of my BDay money:

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I read some comments about it and sounds great, expensive to, but totally worth it! I never had one of these big evil fortresses or actually any big Lego sets in a long time... Well, Im off for the rest of the day, on the house booze night baby! :guinness:
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Post by Robot Monkey » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:47 am

Wait a second...

Does that castle have skull cannons?
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Post by Zahru II » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:53 am

Yes.

Also, HBD BFenix! Party like a rockstar! :guinness:
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