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As a member of the PC Master Race, I am happy to report that none of these issues has ever happened to me. Ever. No...really, I swear. ;)

Users of any electronic device have inevitably had to deal with their device freezing every once in awhile and needing to be rebooted, and is not necessarily a deal-breaking issue if it happens rarely and does not happen often.
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Thanks in large part to the patience I've developed over many years of being a PC enthusiast, it doesn't even register with me when my devices aren't working properly. Reboot and move on with my life. This goes for everything from consoles, to phones, to cable boxes. I just don't even notice anymore.

Problems have been, are, and always will be a part of the equation regardless of ecosystem.
 
dergreg said:
Thanks in large part to the patience I've developed over many years of being a PC enthusiast, it doesn't even register with me when my devices aren't working properly. Reboot and move on with my life. This goes for everything from consoles, to phones, to cable boxes. I just don't even notice anymore.

Problems have been, are, and always will be a part of the equation regardless of ecosystem.
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Pretty much this all day.

I use PC's, consoles, tablets, phones you name it. I am a gamer and I enjoy Games. System froze..reboot. Doesn't even hit my radar unless it starts looping honestly.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Pretty much this all day.

I use PC's, consoles, tablets, phones you name it. I am a gamer and I enjoy Games. System froze..reboot. Doesn't even hit my radar unless it starts looping honestly.
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Hell, sometimes getting games to work is part of the fun. :D
 
HisSvt76 said:
A game in itself right :)
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Exactly. Although it's been getting significantly better in recent memory. The last thing I remember even having a struggle with was Ghostbusters... The game didn't like that I had 2 audio outputs available for some reason. Disabled the HDMI audio output of my video card and the game was working immediately...

I almost long for the days of having to create a DOS floppy with alternate himem configurations sometimes.
 
dergreg said:
Thanks in large part to the patience I've developed over many years of being a PC enthusiast, it doesn't even register with me when my devices aren't working properly. Reboot and move on with my life. This goes for everything from consoles, to phones, to cable boxes. I just don't even notice anymore.

Problems have been, are, and always will be a part of the equation regardless of ecosystem.
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It might be normal for us PC plebs, but for an Apple user, or a grown up man with responsibilities, this is unacceptable!



/s
 
dergreg said:
Exactly. Although it's been getting significantly better in recent memory. The last thing I remember even having a struggle with was Ghostbusters... The game didn't like that I had 2 audio outputs available for some reason. Disabled the HDMI audio output of my video card and the game was working immediately...

I almost long for the days of having to create a DOS floppy with alternate himem configurations sometimes.
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Getting games to work in the early 90s lead me to a long career in IT.
 
canon.tk said:
Getting games to work in the early 90s lead me to a long career in IT.
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Welcome to the club!

Between gaming and breaking the PC and needing to get it fixed before I found myself at the wrong end of my dad's belt, I got really proficient with computers.
 
dgz said:
It might be normal for us PC plebs, but for an Apple user, or a grown up man with responsibilities, this is unacceptable!



/s
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Apple users don't have it much easier these days. They're being a lot more relaxed with what hardware can run what version of MacOS it would seem. They need to find a way flush the lower-spec systems before things get ugly for them. That includes laptops, desktops, and phones. There's no way a MBP from 2009 would be running 10.9 if Jobs was still around.
 
dergreg said:
Welcome to the club!

Between gaming and breaking the PC and needing to get it fixed before I found myself at the wrong end of my dad's belt, I got really proficient with computers.
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This all day long. Got our first computer (386SX-20MHz) and the parents had very little to do with it other than my mom typing up stuff for school and my dad playing computer games on it sometimes.

Meanwhile I was curious about the two page handwritten commands that the guy who installed our computer from the local computer store had written up was all about. So started typing them...hmm I wonder what delete means....del c:/win.exe oops, now Windows wont run. Well, I know what delete means now! Umm, now to fix it before I get found out!
 
They forgot the one where the XBOne logs off when you don't want it to.
-Stop speaking the user's name, "Xboxlogoff".
:)
 
I'm always amazed how many people will ask me for troubleshooting advice without having first tried a reboot. Phones seem to be the biggest culprit lately. I think most people have trouble with the concept of a phone not being an appliance.
 
canon.tk said:
Getting games to work in the early 90s lead me to a long career in IT.
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Doom with IPX/SPX for multiplayer. Good times. Novell had a Space War type of game that was fun, too. Came with Netware Lite, I believe.

Before the networking stuff, though, I loved getting Leisure Suit Larry and other games I wasn't supposed to play working. I had a friend that loved to copy games for me (and Windows 2.0).
 
not necessarily a deal-breaking issue if it happens rarely and does not happen often.
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People will think your writing is better if you do refrain from redundancy and do not say the same thing over again.
 
jojo69 said:
People will think your writing is better if you do refrain from redundancy and do not say the same thing over again.
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Wow, good catch haha. Just went back and read my post and what an atrocious mess. Sorry about that, was doped up on cold meds yesterday. :eek:
 
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