Don't you hate it when...

Gleasonator · February 24, 2007, 11:05:37 PM

1. You're fighting Gannon and the power on the DS goes out, then you realize that you haven't saved since the light world?

2. You're playing Animal Crossing, you pull out all the weeds in hope of getting the golden axe, then your friend trips over the power cable and you have to deal with Resetti criticizing you and telling you not to cheat?

3. You're almost done downloading that file that took you three hours, then Internet Explorer crashes and closes everything on your computer?

4. You open Photoshop then accidentally close it again? (for those of you that don't know, it takes about 10 minutes to load... OK it takes more like 30 seconds but that's still alot)

5. You keep trying to delete a file but it says something else is using it and you spend days trying to figure out what it is?

6. You pay hundreds of dollars for Pokemon cards only to find that they are no longer anything but scraps of paper sitting in your drawer a year later that you can't sell because nobody wants them and you can't throw them away because you spent so much money on them?

7. You buy the BEST video card out there then the next week it goes down in price $200 and one twice as fast comes with the price equal to what you payed for yours?

8. You're filling out paperwork, accidentally spell your name wrong, eraser smudges, then you have to walk up to someone and explain that you need to borrow their eraser because you spelled your name wrong, only to find out that it smudged so bad that it's not erasable?

9. People make long pointless threads?

Perseid · February 25, 2007, 01:12:33 AM

As for number 5 there are a few things to try. You know how XP tells you in the status bar how long a video file is? Well, if you have a broken or incomplete .AVI file XP has a bug where it will attempt to check the file type forever which will mark the file as in-use until the end of time. There is a registry hack to fix this but I don't remember it. A quick google should work. An easier, but more annoying fix is to reboot, do NOT navigate to the directory containing the file and use cmd to delete it. If it's not a broken .AVI try hitting Control-Alt-Delete to bring up Task Manager, find explorer.exe and hit End Process. Your desktop will disappear. Then in Task Manager, go to File/New Task and type explorer. Your desktop will come back. Try to kill the file. This works 90% of the time for me.

And Resetti can kiss my ass too. You don't even get a chance to whack him with the shovel.

liquidnitrogen · February 25, 2007, 01:20:48 AM

HAHA! man, i can relate to pokemon cards...

it sucked me into the collectible card games... wasted coupla hundred on them ($300-400?), then went to yugioh, wasted maybe $150?, then went to Magic, and wasted like $300 somewhere there... maybe more after you tally all those booster buying, single card buying and stuff... damn.. so much money wasted -.-....

damn.

Quote3. You're almost done downloading that file that took you three hours, then Internet Explorer crashes and closes everything on your computer?

your still using IE to download files?

... if your on windows, i recommend a download manager or some other method like torrent where if you get disconnected you can resume...

Doggy124 · February 25, 2007, 01:26:51 AM

Quote from: liquidnitrogenHAHA! man, i can relate to pokemon cards...

it sucked me into the collectible card games... wasted coupla hundred on them ($300-400?), then went to yugioh, wasted maybe $150?, then went to Magic, and wasted like $300 somewhere there... maybe more after you tally all those booster buying, single card buying and stuff... damn.. so much money wasted -.-....

The best way to save your money, play yugioh on your DS . and plat with people on wifi

kompact · February 25, 2007, 01:29:25 AM

#5. "Unlocker" is a fantastic little free app that I have been using for sometime now. It will allow you to solve this issue:

Snag it here http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.5.exe

iignotus · February 25, 2007, 02:27:01 AM

#6, yes (__ __)

Money spent on collection: $250
Collection worth ca. 2000: $500
Collection worth ca. 2007: $25

Appreciation my ass :evil:

arange · February 25, 2007, 10:05:53 AM

#10: ... when you cant find the droids you're looking for...

#11: when you get a rom and keep getting white screens, but no body else is.. and you realize you have a bad dump.. thats 128 megs.. and you're on dialup

Hi · February 25, 2007, 10:45:38 AM

#12 You spend three hour on a homework assignment, put it in your bag, go to school, find out the homework magicly dissapeered, and the teacher lowers you grade? AND You have to do the assignment over again?

#13 When you realise you should have skipped 13 because people who are superstitious think the number is unlucky even though it's just a figure of lines or in this case pixles just like every other number?

#14 You accedently spill water on your nds and break it? (Happend last summer :cry: )

#15 You're about to do something fun, and than your parents say you can't?

#16 You're about to play a gbm movie, and then realise the file is corrupted and you have to re-convert the whole movie?

#17 You get a scdsone in the mail, play it for three days, think "This is great! I am soooo happy I bought this thing... HEY WHAT'S GOING ON??? MY NDS SAYS THERE'S NO GAME CARD INSERTED" and you find out your scdsone is defective and you have to wait for the store to send you a new one?

#18 You want to run garage band on your computer, but can't because it doesn't work on windows?

#19 Dragonminded leaves the sceen?

#20 You get stung by a bee?

#20 You buy something worthless and realise you just waisted your money?

#21 People like to argue with you?

#22 nds games are to expensive (but now I have a supercard, so not a prob anymore)?

#23 You install a new video card and then have to spend all night getting it to work?(Experianced this last night)

#24 The wii costs to much money?

#25 You have to go to bed?

#26 You have to get off the computer?

#27 Your internet stops working?

#28 You can't beat a very hard level in a game?

#29 It won't snow in the winter like it is supposed to because it's a warm year?

#30 An important file to run microsoft office delete's itself and you can't find the microsoft office disk to fix the problem and now office still works but takes forever to load?

I could go on to #1,000.

rocky · February 25, 2007, 12:03:23 PM

#31 When your power goes off because of a big ice storm and then you DS battery dies and your laptop battery dies so you have nothing to do but sit there in the dark and your stupid ds winding charger only charges DS phats and is not worth it to charge. (all happened to me yesterday)

Gleasonator · February 25, 2007, 12:12:56 PM

Quote from: "kompact"#5. "Unlocker" is a fantastic little free app that I have been using for sometime now. It will allow you to solve this issue:

Snag it here http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.5.exe

NOW you tell me. XP

liquidnitrogen, I was using it intil just a while ago when IE7 stopped letting me on.

Gleasonator · February 25, 2007, 06:07:52 PM

Agg... I just did #4...

754boy · February 25, 2007, 06:18:21 PM

3,4,5.......boy those 3 are annoying as shit. That's happened to me many times!!

falseadress · February 25, 2007, 07:22:29 PM

#32 When you break Your nds screen
ive done this before
ive broke it and then broke the mobo trying to fix it

drkshinigami · February 25, 2007, 08:41:22 PM

#33 When you get the "blue screen of death" and then there's no other way to fix it but to reinstall your OS

Gleasonator · February 25, 2007, 09:21:20 PM

Quote from: "drkshinigami"#33 When you get the "blue screen of death" and then there's no other way to fix it but to reinstall your OS

Oh my God. That's hell. Best way to go: OS on one hard drive, all important files on another.

34. You have a project to do, and you REALLY want and NEED to do it, but you just CAN'T get off the computer?