(02-07-2015, 08:44 PM)Lilithium Wrote: Computer maintenance and troubleshooting can choke on a fat, disgustingly hairy chode and die.
I think the worst time to have computer problems is when you're trying to do something you NEED the machine for. Of course, I haven't heard of many situations where you're just popping on for something mundane like checking your email and go "Oh, hey, it's not working" and remain positively chill about it.
I still remember one time when I had a WoW raid and something went wrong with my machine. So I'm sitting there getting a beep code that I couldn't look up because I needed the INTERNET for that and my computer was the only source of it and THE RAID IS IN LIKE FIVE MINUTES WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU COMPUTER? It was pathetic but I started worrying I was gonna let the raid down and getting rather emotional about it. Like, overly so.
Ended up pulling open the case and pushing and prodding at everything until I finally got it to work. After having banged angrily on the case like that was going to help. Even in the modern age, "hit it until it works" seems to be a primal response to malfunctioning machines.
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