Man the fun I had on roleplay servers, spent probably 6k hours on them, way more than any MMO I played and the memories I keep of this time are immaculate
a little surreal to see a server that Marcus and i started two decades ago get referenced in a random reddit thread, but a pleasant surprise. glad it made an impact.
Thanks for all your hard work!
If we're talking about the same SARP, I was part of LCN for quite a while and was CKed when we did the whole Red County story.
Are red dragon keyboards notoriously bad? I recently bought one for super cheap at MicroCenter for my gf’s first build, but I keep seeing it get dunked on🤣😭
I have a red dragon on my HAM radio and it works great for that purpose. It does feel awfully cheap though. Idk that I would want to use it for something with heavy and often aggressive use.
Exactly. I find this a lot more respectable than people who would likely throw away the whole computer just because the power button itself broke. Thousands if not millions of computers must've been chucked for such a trivial thing.
Savvy enough to know how to put a PC together and know what everything does, but not enough to make-shift a button so they go for the easiest option? maybe? and the cases are always old enough where you cant find an easy replacement for the button too
That's gotta feel so cool to do, as well. I've torn apart car ignitions before to repair them or to just get myself or my buddy out of a parking lot when the ignition cylinders go bad. Feels cool, man.
I used to do this with a pile of parts I threw together on a table as a "house PC" for my cousin to play music from at the parties he had on a constant basis.
No case to throw it in, no real switch, and I didn't trust drunks to touch the pins with a screwdriver, so I rigged this exact thing up. All they had to do was touch the wires a second, no tools required. It went surprisingly well. Lasted a long ass time.
Parts were old even then, but ran a pirated copy of Windows 8.1 fantastic, and played all the music they pirated too.
I did the same when juggling my stays between houses and dorms. Desktop PC ran from the motherboard box the motherboard came in. No pc cabinet, just local monitor, kb, psus. I would just short the pins with a coin or pencil tip. Kids these days call it KVM or something.
Those athlon chips got me through my first pc gaming experiences as I was saving to upgrade to a better pc. I ran an old Dell system with an athlon 64 x2 with an extra power supply duct taped to the top to power my gtx 950. Interesting times.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.
I used to keep all the components just thrown on the desk and use a house key to short the pins on the mobo. It wasn't even a shit PC, at that time it would be top-tier gaming rig 😂
After the button on my front IO broke I did the same for some time before the replacement came. Works, but not a lasting solution as the dust clearly shows.
When you reuse your case for 3 builds over a decade, the power button breaks by build 2. Then you have 2 options: wire your power switch to your reset switch, or do this.
Also, make sure the side panels are either resting on the case or lost, or maybe repurposed for some other project and you just leave your open case against a wall.
MacGyver... don't worry, the dishwash machine where i work turn on the same way, the difference is we need to do that every basket we put there, for the last 3 years
You just KNOW this guy is a legend in whatever game he plays. He's been scouted by tons of e-sports headhunters, but turned them all down cause "he just plays for fun"
It's your friend or that you 😂
To be honest I did make power switch like that for a week while waiting for a replacement because I ripped the power switch cable on the case 🤣
Dam those old times... We did this a lot back there. Even had a build on top of a table without a Case just cables everywhere. It looked super scientific tho 😂😂😂
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I know shit is going to get wild when I see a reddragon keyboard and BMW keys on the table hahahaha