Phoenix333
2[H]4U
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I wonder how many of the folks making these decisions play any type of ping sensitive games? Nothing like several hundred megs of updates to roach up a gaming session.
That's exactly why I don't do any kind of automated anything. Windows updates, graphics drivers... you name it. I update manually. It also gives me a chance to back up my machine so that if an update fux0rs I can fix it in a few minutes instead of a few hours. At least Steam is polite enough to stop updating while you're in a game, but Windows? Yeah, nothing's worse than getting a lag spike and packet loss right before you're about to get the game-winning flag capture, and you get fragged and watch the lucky-assed newbie return their flag and run off with yours instead because Windows decides "Oh, screw you, user! I belong to Micro$haft, and so do you! Your frags mean nothing to me!".
It's also why I don't touch anything with the words "home edition" on it. It takes enough time to de-noobiefy every new version of Windows so that it's not eye-bleeding and nausia-inducing to look at without getting hamstrung by all the limitations they put on the "Ur 2 dum 2 uz comp00tur" versions.