tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
For the past 2 to 3 weeks I had exams at University and having done pretty decent on all of them except for my oral exams as far as my feeling goes I thought i'd have a nice weekend with little on my mind so I could finally do some gaming again.
However, last friday was my Mom's birthday so I had to come home. Especially since I hardly go home anyway as it takes me more than 4 hours to get there and that basically means you waste a whole weekend travelling only to be bored to death when you come home.
But the biggest problem is that all the electronics they have are old, outdated and work like shit. Knowing that I would be bored to death again as they only have my old computer and my little brothers x360 with games I dont like (halo and gta4) I decided I'd put some anime movies on a memory stick to atleast have something to do.
Knowing from the last time that the x360 is a useless piece of junk when it comes to playing media I already converted the movies to .avi. Know, please bear in mind that all these files play without a problem on my mobile phone. Yes, a phone is more capable at playing media than a x360.
Anyway about 1 hour ago I decided to watch my neighbour totoro. Ofcourse, I have to use Tversity as the x360 doesnt seem to support the codec. So I have to use my parents pc to do the real time converting. Ofcourse, this is not a problem at all on any half decent piece of hardware, even my parents pc should be decent enough if they didnt treat the machine like garbage.
The pc in question is my old amd 2500+ (which always used to be capable of running as a 3200+). I bought it myself in I think 2004 because I was sick of my parents claiming our pentium 2 350Mhz was still more than sufficient. Anyway, A couple of years ago I gave them the pc because they (and my brothers) were still using the p2.
But its so rotten and again they are claiming the system is still fine! No its not. I wasted 45 minutes trying to get the damn movie to play but its just downright impossible because its old and wants to die. It wont run as a 3200+ anymore, it will just crash after 2 minutes. At 2500+ its not fast enough to do the transcoding and to make matters worse it just random crashes services.
And that wouldnt be even that bad if its only when transcoding, but the system is like that always.
Its the same with the screen. Untill 8 months ago or so they were still using the monitor they originally bought with the pentium2 system. But ofcourse after that many years the monitor died. As always my mom said she didnt have any mony right away and they bought a second hand CRT again for 5 years just untill the end of the month. Well, thats 8 months ago now and right now im still watching at that eye destroying crapbox.
I dont get it, a lcd screen costs like what? 120 euro's? That seems as small investment given that it will prevent you from fucking up your eyesight. But that doesnt seem to be the case.
It annoys me to death because everytime I have to bother with this when I get home. Is it so hard to just buy something that works? its not like a pc is expensive these days and given they will keep it for atleast 5 years something like a 500 euro system sounds like great bang for your euro.
I'm angry and I want to go home. Having stuff around that just works.
The horror
However, last friday was my Mom's birthday so I had to come home. Especially since I hardly go home anyway as it takes me more than 4 hours to get there and that basically means you waste a whole weekend travelling only to be bored to death when you come home.
But the biggest problem is that all the electronics they have are old, outdated and work like shit. Knowing that I would be bored to death again as they only have my old computer and my little brothers x360 with games I dont like (halo and gta4) I decided I'd put some anime movies on a memory stick to atleast have something to do.
Knowing from the last time that the x360 is a useless piece of junk when it comes to playing media I already converted the movies to .avi. Know, please bear in mind that all these files play without a problem on my mobile phone. Yes, a phone is more capable at playing media than a x360.
Anyway about 1 hour ago I decided to watch my neighbour totoro. Ofcourse, I have to use Tversity as the x360 doesnt seem to support the codec. So I have to use my parents pc to do the real time converting. Ofcourse, this is not a problem at all on any half decent piece of hardware, even my parents pc should be decent enough if they didnt treat the machine like garbage.
The pc in question is my old amd 2500+ (which always used to be capable of running as a 3200+). I bought it myself in I think 2004 because I was sick of my parents claiming our pentium 2 350Mhz was still more than sufficient. Anyway, A couple of years ago I gave them the pc because they (and my brothers) were still using the p2.
But its so rotten and again they are claiming the system is still fine! No its not. I wasted 45 minutes trying to get the damn movie to play but its just downright impossible because its old and wants to die. It wont run as a 3200+ anymore, it will just crash after 2 minutes. At 2500+ its not fast enough to do the transcoding and to make matters worse it just random crashes services.
And that wouldnt be even that bad if its only when transcoding, but the system is like that always.
Its the same with the screen. Untill 8 months ago or so they were still using the monitor they originally bought with the pentium2 system. But ofcourse after that many years the monitor died. As always my mom said she didnt have any mony right away and they bought a second hand CRT again for 5 years just untill the end of the month. Well, thats 8 months ago now and right now im still watching at that eye destroying crapbox.
I dont get it, a lcd screen costs like what? 120 euro's? That seems as small investment given that it will prevent you from fucking up your eyesight. But that doesnt seem to be the case.
It annoys me to death because everytime I have to bother with this when I get home. Is it so hard to just buy something that works? its not like a pc is expensive these days and given they will keep it for atleast 5 years something like a 500 euro system sounds like great bang for your euro.
I'm angry and I want to go home. Having stuff around that just works.
The horror
