Facebook…I have a Page…I will post a picture of a “Gay Yoda” I drew, if you go and Like the Legacy Control Facebook Fan Page.
So..there must be some evil paramilitary baron dude fucking with me. I have tried and failed twice to download the Hawken Alpha. I am CRAVING this game (I know, and there isn’t even any loot in it).
I even got some tech support from Brian (Editor of Control Freaks, and all around badass) and still no go. Seriously…fuck windows. I know I am going to get some hate for this, but having only ever had a mac, the Windows interface is so totally foreign and confusing to me…never mind the fact that my .dll file somehow vanishes during download.
I competed in my second ever Magic The Gathering draft tourney today (for Return to Ravnica) and did better than last time. I just missed placing in the top 10. I have learned a lot this time and I am giving the Legacy Control fans this promis…next time…I will place.
I was going to write “Happy Monday” but I don’t want to give anyone false hope.
Javis
How do people use Windows? With patience, paranoia, and constant vigilance. Such is the price of freedom, I’m afraid.
Yeah man, thanks for the tech supports, but same thing happened:(
Freedom from what? If patience, paranoia, and constant vigilance is freedom, you must have grown up in a totalitarian state.
Yea, it’s called America.
Draft tourney? Interesting…LGS’s are only supposed to do sealed on prerelease weekend. What did you think of the new set? I played with Izzet… quite bad by itself
It was sealed…I am a newb still (sort of) did I use the wrong terminology?
yeah no big deal. Draft is where you make a deck by selecting one card from a pack and passing it around a table of other people. Personally I like it alot better than sealed, alot more skill than lucky on what you open. Both of those fall into the “limited” format
Meh. Windows is just one of those things that is trying to take over the world. I personally run a counterfeit copy of Windows 7 (As in, I am not going to pay to have verified. It runs doesn’t it?) and mainly only works for the Internet and Emulators. Windows: Fecking PC user’s ever since they got it.
That is pretty much how I view it:)
Windows: The Internet Hitler of America.
I feel like we could assign a less capable and monstrous historic figure to it. I don’t think it’s quite as bad as hitler.
It’s more analogous to a stomach soothing medicine as offered by Taco Bell.
Godwain’s Law strikes again.
Yeah, it does that sometimes.
After a service update, Windows 7 goes, “HERP DERP, WHAT AM USB FOR? WHO NEED ‘MOUSE’ ANYWAY?!” and I have to force it to reinstall all the USB devices without using the mouse. Every. Time.
As a mac user…never had that problem. Not to say it hasn’t happened to others on a mac…just never me.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
But seriously, if the dll is disappearing like that, what Anti-Virus software do you have running?
I did, and also it is, in fact, plugged in. And this “Anti-Virus” software you speak of…what is that?
I thought you worked in the tech department?
I do, but my company is a Mac environment.
Yay for closed source files.
And ANYTHING from MS is open source? If that’s your angle, Apple’s Darwin and WebKit are open source. Google uses WebKit in their bowsers.
It’s unfortunate you’re having issues with that particular games alpha download (yay NDA and avoiding names!) It’s quite fun, so long as you don’t use the matchmaker (crashes the game), and just find an open server.
That aside, I’ve found that windows seems more finicky when being loaded via bootcamp, or some such thing (I’ve blue-screened a Mac running 7, and it was a nice Mac at that) while my PC at home doesn’t really have any issues relating to windows. It could just be their servers too (it took a number of attempts to just get the client that downloads the actual game to work) Who knows, maybe they’ll make a native Mac version once they get into beta, and there won’t be further issues.
This is how I feel whenever I encounter MacOS.
Familiarity is everything. I decided a few years back that I should stop configuring every new version of windows on my home computer so that it looked like the older ones (XP or 98 which is the ones I had on my first own system), otherwise I just kept getting confused whenever I had to use someone else’s system.
I only ever did that with XP, because it just looked so childish. Vista and 7′s visual style never really irked me, so I left them alone and Aero just grew on me. Unless you mean other elements, in which case I often enable expanded menus on a number of Start menu items (particularly Control Panel).
Wow, I can’t believe no one has mentioned Linux in this OS debate. Free, Open Source, and more powerful than the two combined. Most Internet servers run a variant of it, even android’s kernel is based off it. If your serious about computers, you’ll want to give it a look. Window? Mac? No thanks, I have work to do…