The Anti-Rant Thread, AKA the Feel-Good Thread!

**THABEAST721** · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 2000

So Firefox didn't even tell me it had to update, but it did when I opened it just now. They changed the animation when you scroll up or down with the little wheel thing on your mouse, and it looks really smooth. They make new tabs show your most visited pages now too... I hope none of those ever become something embarrassing for me lol
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

After 20 months of saving, planning and waiting, today I finally bought my new computer and new computer desk for my "home office." I should have the computer before the end of the month. I'm still jittery because the thrill of making progress like this is so great.

Apple haters can eat dicks, this will be the most beautiful goddamn 27" iMac you ever saw (plus I get Mountain Lion for free, since I bought it after June 11).

Growing my freelance business enough to afford this is a huge step for me and I can't believe it happened. This sounds cheesy but if you really work hard towards something you want like this you can make it happen. YAY!
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**Desertman123** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 2957 Location: Central FL

I fixed an Xbox 360 by overheating the GPU and wrapping electrical tape around the xclamp.. ghetto shit right thurr.
Gamertags? Desertman123
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

Noted. I was worried this might happen. Totally understandable so I will explain myself.

A little context: I am friends with a decent number of the current active users, some (or many) of which are self-described "Apple haters." In my profession it is industry standard, and naturally my preference, so I'm shamelessly a fangirl and I often have to defend myself against it due to Internet nerd rage (note that any defense against the aforementioned SH folks is almost always in jest, not serious fanboy rage like where you might see elsewhere on the Internet... at least I hope so... You guys aren't seriously mad at me about electronics... Right?!). At this point I see it as more of a running joke than anything else, and no ill-will or offense of any sort is intended.

Heh, but the point of what I was trying to say still stands. "Fuck the haters." I certainly don't hate PC fanboys (or any fanboys for that matter), so long as they let me do my business and don't have to point out at every turn what's wrong with what I chose (same general problem I have with atheists vs. Christians, but I dont want to get into rant territory!)

Hope that clears it up. I had hoped that comment was absurd enough coming from me that no one would take it seriously and be upset, but unfortunately not. Sorry,

Edit: Welcome to ScoreHero, where our rants come into our happy threads! ...

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**Davers** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:30 am Post subject:

I'm not an Apple fan, but I can't say I wouldn't mind owning one. I would just prefer a really nice PC for the price an Apple computer comes at. That being said, I was always under the impressions that graphic design was actually easier on an Apple. I don't know if it's because of the software that's available only to Apple computers or what though (I haven't researched this out). But anytime you watch the making of a film or some sort of graphics, Apple computers are being used. I certainly don't hate Apple users. It's much like Coke vs Pepsi to me. I just prefer Pepsi but Coke is alright too I guess if it's all you got. I won't complain

Anyways, got all moved back down south and settling in nicely. The transition was really easy this time around (thank God). My job seriously loves me and it's almost ridiculous how much they already depend on me to keep things in line. Tomorrow I'm going to the water park in Baton Rouge with my brother to enjoy some slides and sun

Been a really good past week!

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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

I'm also non-denominational about personal computers. Apple fanboys who sneer about "well, a Mac simply never would have had the issues you describe" make me roll my eyes; Apple haterboys who sneer about "a PC could do exactly what you're describing for 60% of the price" also make me roll my eyes. I mean, hey: does the machine you acquired do the things you want and need it to do? And was it available at a price point you're comfortable with? Then great! You have a tool you found suitable for the job at hand - aces for you! I'm not inclined to shit on that, not any more that I'd be receptive to folks clucking about how I could build a MythTV machine when I already have a pretty sweet TiVo filling that function in my life.

In other vaguely ravey news: I have a friend who's a school teacher who failed to get tenured last year, effectively making her unemployed for this summer. And holy geez, is she just gunning for me to (a) please go on one of my county-acquisition road trips and (b) for the love of god, take her with me, because she's going crazy and needs to be anywhere else for a while before she loses it. And she's been framing it in this really quirky fashion, too - sort of a "I hope you don't mind if I'm flirty and/or sexually harassing you along the way, ha ha" sort of setup. I mean, that's a little bit weird... but not gonna lie: it's nice to be wanted, no matter the context. (So I may spend several days in July driving aimlessly around West Virginia, but with a teammate for the first time since, like, 2008. I like having road-tripping companions; that is a solid tick-mark in the "win" column if I can make that come to pass.)
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**Dodongo** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:28 am Post subject:

Cheers peeps :> also, I just did my Physics final exam, and it went pretty good. Missed out two small questions, but only needed 30% for an A anyway due to my previous results. In this case, good is most certainly good enough. Time to do maths and listen to Chimp Spanner for the remainder of my exams - a pretty sweet agenda if you ask me.
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**sukergod** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:05 pm Post subject:

Since this Anti-Rant thread is actually taking off, I much prefer reading this than it's counterpart

So I was having a conservation with my fiancee last night about what we are getting each other as wedding gift's (late December). I came up with a random $250 budget which buying something for her is very easy but she always has a very hard time buying me gift's since I usually just buy what I want any ways. I already told her that I will buy a few random SNES games as my B-day/Anny/X-mas gifts and she can give me the money for them which she is fine with (Mario RPG FTW).

Getting to the fun part, she asks me last night if there were any other retro systems that I would want and I was like "Hell Yeah, I never had an N64, get me one of those" So my wedding gift is now an N64 with a few random games (I have never played anything on the N64, not even goldeneye or OoT). She still wants to keep maybe $100 for a meaningful gift but I should be able to get a system and at least a couple of games for that.

So yeah, Im sure most of you don't care but I thought it was pretty cool. At least I don't have to pretend to like my wedding gift

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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

**arvain** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject:

Well that is a pretty awesome wedding gift imo sukergod

So much has been missed ! I'm sure you'll enjoy the time spent on your N64

Also, I'm glad : tomorrow, my favorite coworker is back from vacations, which means I'll have someone to talk to. We're working next to each other, so it's pretty easy. You know how sometimes, little conversations with some cool people make your day better ? Well he's one of those people with whom I like to share stuff that has no-little-some-a lot of importance

He's pretty quiet, yet hilarious at times (with no warning, so when I just rofl out of nowhere, people think I'm crazy

). It's also cool because he's almost as old as my dad, but he really doesn't act / talk like a typical +50yo man (as in... my dad). He's a New School man x) Most of the time, we exchange randomness, sometimes seriousness. I like how he never presents his opinions like "I am older, so listen to my words, mortal fools" like most of the people of that age that I know. He even told me he liked my insights on several issues we've discussed, and keeps telling me I should become a therapist because he noticed how much I care for people around me

Anyway, yay he's back ! No more boredom to death !