Member Announcements Thread

[Alias]

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I'd like to announce that after almost two weeks of downloading, my VenusBlood Chimera torrent has ALMOST reached 60%.

CONGRATULATE ME. NAOW.

 

[Goldstein]

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Thirdly, why are you all abandoning the forums 'cause of school, I'm just waiting to get my school computer back! School computer+ school extreme internet connection+ computer in every class= ultraULMFposternerd!

For me? I'm actually a little nervous about being on this sort of site at college at all. I don't particularity want to explain it to my roommate, or anyone else for that matter, either.

Congratulations, Alias! (What is it?)

 

[Kusanagi]

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I can't speak for others, but I'm certainly not abandoning the forums just because of school.

I just may not be able to post as often is all, as school simply takes higher priority than this forum.

You're welcome to disagree, but you'd be wrong.

 

[SirOni]

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I've changed my msn, it is now; [email protected] feel free to add me.

 

[randomwords]

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I am not abandoning the forum just because of school i am doing it because i have a shit ton of work at school. I dont start classes until the 31st but i have a lot of stuff to do before than. Also fun stuff to do like this saturday going to Six Flags (the one in New England since i live in Maine. *No it is not apart of Canada for anyone that does not know where Maine is. And yes i have had people ask me if it was in Canada*)

My g/f does not really know about this site. She just knows i do a lot of internet stuff. But i dont really feel like trying to explain everything to her and stuff. And i love her to much to cause any problems in the relationship.

I will get on as much as i can but since i will be living with my g/f and our schedules are pretty much the same it will be hard.

And i dont like Laptops i use a desktop so i wont be able to use a computer while in classes and stuff.

And for anyone that thinks laptops are better then you are wrong. I know about 20 computer science majors and 3 computer science graduates and they will all agree that Desktops are the way to go. Especially since i am a gamer and love to play my MMORPGs, RTSs, and FPSs.

so i will try to stay as active as possible. But in the words of someone that i know.

"Theatre is a thing that will steal your life away from you, but at least you will have fun doing it"

or something like that.


-Random

 

[Alias]

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Go to the last page of the hentai games thread, there's a link to the torrent in there.

And random... that's an incredibly opinionated view. Desktops are generally more powerful for less money than laptops, sure, but that doesn't make them better. For people who don't game - or even people who game but ALSO do other things on their computer, like me - a laptop can be invaluable. For example, I type extremely fast but write extremely slowly. I couldn't physically take notes in class unless I had my laptop; it would be retarded to lug my desktop to class every day. And that's just one example of many. Yeah, sure, for gamers, processing and graphics power generally does overshadow portability, and you can get more oomph for your money with a desktop, but that doesn't by any means definitively state "desktops are always better." You simply can't get portability with a desktop, and some people - actually, the majority of people - need that portability. It depends on what you use the computer for.

If all 23 of your comp sci majors say that desktops are always 100% of the time better, than either they graduated from/are attending shitty schools or see things in an even higher degree of black and white than I do.

 

[dmronny]

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Good luck with school everyone, it's a shame you couldn't clep or DANTE out of 3 quarters of your classes like I did. Have fun and remember to enjoy yourself oncein a while.

As to hiding this forum, why would I do that. I rarely see a good forum without a pron section, plus I don't frequent that part anyways. If they don't like it tough luck, I would rather not be around someone who doesn't accept people liking certain things.

 

[aika]

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My g/f does not really know about this site.

Same.

She just knows i do a lot of internet stuff.

Mine knows I watch a lot of porn and hentai, and doesn't exactly approve, but accepts that all guys do it.

 

[Alias]

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Mine likes to watch hentai with me, but she's not into tentacles. That's cool with me though - it's kind of strange imagining a girl being into tentacles anyway (disregarding the women of this forum of course).

 

[ToxicShock]

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A lot of people don't like owning up to their fantasies and it's quite common for such fantasies to be very questionable socially.

I think more girls would be into the idea of tentacles than you think. Of course, that doesn't mean any of them would start stripping at the sight of a tentacle monster. Too many people assume that "If I admit to having a fantasy, other people will think I want it to happen," failing to realize that fantasy=/=reality and social stances don't enter into the imagination.

 

[Shrike7]

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That's exactly it, Toxic. Some big alien empire lands tentacle beasts and tries to harvest women, I'd be the first one running, right after I trip a couple of people for distractions

 

[ToxicShock]

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I wouldn't run


...technically that's cuz they wouldn't be after me but still

 

[Chibichibi]

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I... might run. >.>;;

Anyway, it's still only the first week so I do have some time to be with you guys in between classes, lol. I'll be on when i can, but between my upper level courses and learning a foriegn language, my time will be eat up with studying. I NEED straight As.

 

[Gatorbait]

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Good luck with your classes Chibi! I am taking pre-calc this semester online *shudders*

On another note, I will probably not be on much this week (not that I have really been this week anyway) because I have a good friend who had a "breakdown" and I am spending the week out of town with her. I should be home Friday.

 

[Copper]

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Good luck to ya, Chibi and good luck to your friend, Gator!

 

[randomwords]

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And random... that's an incredibly opinionated view. Desktops are generally more powerful for less money than laptops, sure, but that doesn't make them better. For people who don't game - or even people who game but ALSO do other things on their computer, like me - a laptop can be invaluable. For example, I type extremely fast but write extremely slowly. I couldn't physically take notes in class unless I had my laptop; it would be retarded to lug my desktop to class every day. And that's just one example of many. Yeah, sure, for gamers, processing and graphics power generally does overshadow portability, and you can get more oomph for your money with a desktop, but that doesn't by any means definitively state "desktops are always better." You simply can't get portability with a desktop, and some people - actually, the majority of people - need that portability. It depends on what you use the computer for.

The only thing that i can see that a laptop has over a desktop is the portability factor. Other than that fact Desktops out power, out class, out customize, and just generally out do lap tops in all ways.

If your Lap top breaks unless you have gone to school specifically for fixing them there is no way to fix them without sending them into the company you bought it from and you never know what they actually do with it there.

Desktops you can fix right there at your house, apartment, ect... The knowledge needed to open up and fix a desktop is a lot less than is needed to open up a lap top and fix and repair that.

Parts: you can get new upgraded parts for a lot less and a lot better value and a lot easier than if you were to try to upgrade you laptop.

Cost: laptops cost WAY more than desktops do. I could easily get a top of the line desktop (like i am going to be doing soon) for $400-500 tops. If i were to try to get the top of the line laptop it would cost well in the thousands.

i think it is futile to argue about it. people will always argue and there is usually no getting through to the people that think one side over the other. I am not one of those people. I know exactly what laptops have to offer and what desktops have to offer and what desktops have to offer outweighs what laptops do by a lot.

If all 23 of your comp sci majors say that desktops are always 100% of the time better, than either they graduated from/are attending shitty schools or see things in an even higher degree of black and white than I do.

I never said that they will say they are 100% better all the time. They will agree that laptops are convenient. But laptops will break down and become obsolete a lot faster than a desktop will.

The school that we goto and my friends have graduated from are excellent schools for computer science. One of my friends has a career out of fixing, building, and working with computers. He is actually the one who is helping me build my desktop that i am going to be working on.

All of the information i am displaying here is from years of gathering pro's and con's of both machines and working with both.

You can still think laptops are better, that is fine. I am not saying they are not good. but i am saying they are not great.

I might even own a lap top at some point but for now i see no point in having one with a desktop.

I will end with one last thing. You should always have a desktop as your Main and primary computer. Take this advice if you want, you dont have to. I know from experience of my friends that having a desktop as your main computer is a really really smart choice. Trust me you dont want to lose any good information if your lap top breaks down and that is your only computer.

Its a lot easier to retrieve the information you have in your desktop than it is from your laptop.


Anyways. Now that i am done with my rant.

good luck everyone else that is going back to school and stuff.

I will be there with ya feeling the pain hahaha.



-Random

 

[Bartnum]

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The only thing that i can see that a laptop has over a desktop is the portability factor. Other than that fact Desktops out power, out class, out customize, and just generally out do lap tops in all ways.
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If i were to try to get the top of the line laptop it would cost well in the thousands.

Not true. I got a top of the line laptop for about £310, which I think converts to about $515 dollars. And it out performs my desktop (which was actually more expensive than the laptop) in just about every possible area.

 

[Kusanagi]

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I've seen Laptops out-perform Desktops plenty - hell, half of them were cheaper as well. It all comes down to personal preference vs. necessity. I'd prefer to have a Desktop, as I can actually open it up and figure out what's wrong if it's physical, but I'm going to need a Laptop for my classes, so that's where my money's going to go... even if I do plan on mostly using it for gaming >.>

 

[XSI]

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Just got back from an unanounced, unplanned trip to Germany.(Unplanned for me anyway)

Germans are nice people.


And as for the laptop v desktop thing I'm seeing in the first line of the post before this one, my laptop outperforms both desktops in my house put together in pretty much every way except for not being able to place drinks on it.

 

[Alias]

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The only thing that i can see that a laptop has over a desktop is the portability factor. Other than that fact Desktops out power, out class, out customize, and just generally out do lap tops in all ways.

Wrong. It just depends on what you get. Generally, you will get the same power for less money, but that's about it.

If your Lap top breaks unless you have gone to school specifically for fixing them there is no way to fix them without sending them into the company you bought it from and you never know what they actually do with it there.

Desktops you can fix right there at your house, apartment, ect... The knowledge needed to open up and fix a desktop is a lot less than is needed to open up a lap top and fix and repair that.

Wrong again. Fixing laptops is just a little bit harder than fixing desktops. Otherwise it's the same principles. Basically desktops are like Duplos, laptops are Legos. The LCD is the only real issue; if you break that you're fucked.

Parts: you can get new upgraded parts for a lot less and a lot better value and a lot easier than if you were to try to upgrade you laptop.

True. I wouldn't go with a lot better, but generally desktop parts will cost slightly less. Again, the only real issue is the LCD, which jacks the price up.

Cost: laptops cost WAY more than desktops do. I could easily get a top of the line desktop (like i am going to be doing soon) for $400-500 tops. If i were to try to get the top of the line laptop it would cost well in the thousands.

WTF? Who the hell are you buying your laptops from, Apple?? The only real expense of a laptop is the screen, as I've mentioned, which can run from $500-$1000 (I think, it's been a while since I built mine). Other than that, some of the parts will cost you a bit more but you shouldn't have to spend more than $1000 for a decent laptop.

i think it is futile to argue about it. people will always argue and there is usually no getting through to the people that think one side over the other. I am not one of those people. I know exactly what laptops have to offer and what desktops have to offer and what desktops have to offer outweighs what laptops do by a lot.

I think you're misunderstanding. I prefer desktops over laptops as well. But it seems you have a skewed viewpoint, one that I'm trying to correct by informing you of the facts that you might be unaware of. Seems like you don't understand that outperformance is an issue of what parts you build the computer with, not what chassis you use. If you slap the same processor, ram, and gfx card into a laptop and a desktop, they'll be identical aside from looking different and cost more. Laptops might overheat more easily. If you link me to a study that shows that a desktop will outperform a laptop with the exact same specs, I'll happily admit I'm wrong; I've just never seen anything like that and don't expect to.

I never said that they will say they are 100% better all the time. They will agree that laptops are convenient. But laptops will break down and become obsolete a lot faster than a desktop will.

Seemed like that's what you were saying they were saying. And I'm not sure why you/they would think laptops break down easier. I've spilled half a liter of lipton iced tea (sticky, fructose liquid) all over my laptop - keyboard, screen, everything - and it still works fine aside from a slightly sticky mouse button. (No jokes about the sticky mouse button, please, I've heard them all.)

The school that we goto and my friends have graduated from are excellent schools for computer science. One of my friends has a career out of fixing, building, and working with computers. He is actually the one who is helping me build my desktop that i am going to be working on.

Ok... time to get my college epeen out. The school I'm attending (and almost have a full scholarship to, btw) is one of the top technological institutes in the country (I think it ranks second or third). While that doesn't disqualify your friends' opinions, I think you'll have to agree that I know what I'm talking about.

All of the information i am displaying here is from years of gathering pro's and con's of both machines and working with both.

So is mine. this is what I do for a living. Not a great living, yet (I still haven't finished college) but still.

You can still think laptops are better, that is fine. I am not saying they are not good. but i am saying they are not great.

I don't think that they're better. I'm saying I don't think that they can be compared. One is better than the other for one thing, the other is better for another thing.

I might even own a lap top at some point but for now i see no point in having one with a desktop.

Again, if you don't need the portability... no problem. Desktops are obviously better for you.

I will end with one last thing. You should always have a desktop as your Main and primary computer. Take this advice if you want, you dont have to. I know from experience of my friends that having a desktop as your main computer is a really really smart choice. Trust me you dont want to lose any good information if your lap top breaks down and that is your only computer.

Mmm... sort of true, sort of false. You should always back up everything to an external hard drive. No matter if you use your desktop or your laptop as a primary computer. If you really can't spend the $100 for a decent size external (I think some of the smaller ones are half that nowdays, smaller being like 50g), then yeah, going with the desktop would be better, but really? You use a computer for more than just email and you don't have an external?

Its a lot easier to retrieve the information you have in your desktop than it is from your laptop.

I have no idea where this is coming from. A hard drive is a hard drive. The only added difficulty would be getting the hard drive out of the cramped confines of a laptop's chassis. And if you'd backed up to an external like you should, there is no problem in the first place.

Anyways. Now that i am done with my rant.

I hope I'm not making you rant =P I just love discussing computers (since you know it's kinda my thing), especially games.