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"Why are computers so STUPID?"

Me and young nashboy have just spent one and a half ballsing hours attempting to play Operation Flashpoint online against each other.

All we wanted was to have a nice little co-op game with just us, no one else, nothing too complicated. It should be like phoning someone up and talking to them.

Was it hell.

First, we have different editions of the same game. Why are there different editions of the sme exact game you ask me? Who bloody knows is my answer. We just wanted to play the original Op Flash but NOOOO the stupid GOTY edition wouldn't let us. It kept crashing.

So I installed all the add ons and everything, but could we play? Take a wild guess. We needed to patch up to the same version.

But could we do that? Did the patches work?

No

Is there any way to solve this problem?

No

Are we extremely ballsed off?

Yes

why can't things be simple?

This is why I hate online gaming with all my cold, cold heart.

And don't tell me that Live is easier because I know that it isn't.


Why does everything have to be so damn hard nowadays?

That was ....different. My eyes hurt.

Anyway, my oldest memory of PC games was using a sheet I got with Worms, where you had to enter a number from a given row/column number. Aaah, memories.

Now it's all this fancy CD-Key magic... bah!

(I sound about 60, I'm actually 16 :D)

Thanks estranged uncle Grey Fox.

Listen Kid, life is not black and white. You can't say "I don't have the game so I don't play it" or "I have the game so I'll play it". It's grey. Nothing turns out as it is expected to be. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of people out there who never owned this game and they still enjoy playing it daily, what matters here is what YOU want. Do you really want to play this game ? Or are you just trying to have fun with your mate ? When I bought Counter-Strike for the first time I spent two months trying to find updates and patches just to be able to run the game, as it doesn't have a single player option. TWO MONTHS. Eventually I managed to play it, and I still play it ever since I got it, do you know why ? Because I wanted to. This was my will. I am a healthy human being with a brain, a pc, and access to the internet. What else do I need ? You must have presistance, don't give up to the course of events that lead you to what you are now, decide what you want and do it. Nothing can stop you, and you have the biggest source of information: access to the internet. Beleive me I've done some miracles using this beauty. You control your life, it doesn't control you, you only have one shot at this: You do what you want or you don't do it at all. Never pitty-yourself. You have the ability to know how can you do what you want. You see, computers aren't stupid, they just obey blindly. That includes both you AND the commands within the game. But who owns the game ? You do. Who is supposed to play the game ? You are. Why are you still here ? All what you need to be lloking at are these:
1- A search Engine.
2- The game menu.

tigamilla wrote:
> Tee hee!! I remember having to make boot disks for each dos game! so
> that the system would allocate 640k base memory!! The Tie Fighter
> bootdisk was my masterpiece.

Mine was too! The sense of pride in getting 640 base, and the mouse and sound drivers bumped up into high memory was a crowning acheivement for me.

Yes I'm a nerd. Sue me.

gerrid wrote:
> Why does everything have to be so damn hard nowadays?

And i'm sure all the manual labour that was done a few hundred years ago was such so much easier than sitting down at a computer clicking a button every now and then.

Timmargh wrote:
> tigamilla wrote:
> Is there any way that a 166mb .exe file could be the full version of
> Half life??
> *****
>
> No idea, but I doubt it could be.

Not a hope in hell. It'll be a 3 cd monster at the minimum I reckon.

Azul wrote:
> In english, please?
*****

Did you ever use a PC before Windows 95 came out?

tigamilla wrote:
> Is there any way that a 166mb .exe file could be the full version of Half life??
*****

No idea, but I doubt it could be.

tigamilla wrote:
> You mean there was a time when no EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT command existed?
*****

I mean before you could set up the two files with different sections so you were presented with a boot menu before DOS loaded.

I wrote the EXE for a mate who was scared of editing his files manually because he was convinced he'd mess up his PC and I ended up using it myself because I was lazy.

Im glad i got into computers when they were more accessible.