What's the worst thing you've put your computer through?

It's not porn, it's a massive collection of Touhou music arranges, roughly 45.000 songs strong.

But wait, it gets better! That is just the tip of the iceberg. That collection was MP 3 encoded (i.e. lossy). A version of it encoded in a lossless format (TTA) exists and that version is 1.2 TB large.

edited 15th Apr '13 5:18:56 AM by AngelG55th

ARMA II (and Day Z).

Christ... Just how big is this "Touhou" thing? And WHAT is it? It seems to be a very vague anime fandom and I'm not entirely sure if it's a TV program, a video game, or a manga. Or something else entirely.

You need an adult.

It's kind of like Homestuck where it's way too late to get into it.

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Tohou is actually some sort of Bullet Hell game about a bunch of little girls and something else I dunno. :/

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I've had myself uninstalling SEVERAL Steam games. At once! Owing to a difficulty I've experienced with a third-party partitioning software one day...

I now go by Graf von Tirol.

My computer hasn't been through that much abuse. The worst thing I can think of is downloading Portal 2 without knowing how long the download would take. (Half a day? -sigh-)

Tohou is a long running series' of bullet hell PC games with a huge cult following and really dedicated Fanbase. In japan at least, here it's more of a niche thing.

edited 15th Apr '13 8:22:00 AM by ThatOneGuyNamedX

Once I had three computer viruses all at once, running on different accounts.

I then had to scan the computer to get rid of them and let it run for a week doing that.

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I burnt through the charging cable of my laptop. No, I don't know how, but it's happened multiple times since then.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

To give you an Idea on how big of a shit my pancakecessor is, Fallout: New Vegas.

If you wanna PM me, send it to my mrsunshinesprinkles account; this one is blorked.

By the way, this burnt out the battery.

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Never again will I use 2chan.

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New Vegas is hardly something to sneeze at, especially with a whole bunch of mods installed. You can get the game looking like Crysis, but it'll buttfuck your processor... If you can get it to even run multiple mods. Unless you really know what you're doing with third party mod content, the chances that the mods will clash or cause some other kind of problem are liek rly high.

You need an adult.

I fell asleep on my computer.

I ended up accidentally smashing the hard drive of an old laptop by banging on its body out of frustration dealing with Windows Movie Maker not letting me edit a single tiny clip.

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Crysis, Aion, Planetside 2...

And then there's Spore. F***ING SPORE.

edited 22nd Apr '13 9:51:43 PM by OmegaShadowcry

"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous

I was carrying my last laptop in a bag and accidentally banged it into a doorframe. The power button was smashed in, but it still worked if I pressed it the right way. But after that I started having worse and worse problems with the hinge until the screen started glitching out; I got the hinge replaced, but by that point the laptop was falling apart and died completely a few months later.

Percussive Maintenance with my fist.

Oh, the stories my poor computers could tell...

Er, not the questionable fanfiction, though that too I guess. Outside of odd content, the odd bit of shady and/or extremely outdated software, the overly large numbers of tabs, and other such stuff, I guess this prize might go to however the front edge of my old-malfunctioning-but-kinda-usable laptop managed to get chipped. There's this one spot which looks seriously chewed up. Said laptop is a rugged one - not one of the ones that can stop bullets, but I'm still not sure how this managed to happen. My guess is absentmindedly waving around a very solid fidget toy and inadvertently whacking the thing repeatedly.

I also managed to seriously fuck up the left mouse button on my (now-defunct) laptop before that one while playing a Flash game. I swear I try to be nice to my things... oh well, accidents happen.

Edited by KatanaCat on Feb 10th 2020 at 7:48:01 PM

If you are not very careful, your possessions will posses you

Oh yeah, the classic multi-tab mega pile-up.

I once got impatient during a Windows update that was taking forever, and got the bright idea of turning it on and off. I thought it was bricked after what I read online, but I turned it back on anyway and prepared for the worst. Miraculously, it booted back up with zero damage.

I'm actually good with computers, I swear.

Hey how you doing well I'm doing just fine I lied I'm dying inside

Apart from questionable torrents, I think the worst would be my poor Asus laptop from way back when.

See, it started with performance issues. So I gave it to an IT guy in my village (yes I lived in a village at the time). I got it back, it got a bit better. This repeated once more.

Nail in the coffin: my dad once brought home a lot of internet/ethernet cables and one AC cable for the wall socket. So I tried the AC cable. Without checking the voltage and amperage on the cable and on my laptop.

I burned that poor motherboard like a toast. And when we gave it to my sister's biological dad, who/whose friend is a big IT guy... turns out nothing, not one thing, was original in the storebought laptop by that point. Meaning the first IT guys robbed me for parts.

Oh, that motherscrubber.

That's a very bad case of theft right there.

I feel sorry for ya.

Thanks :) yeah we never gave another PC to that person let me tell ya that.

It was a useful learning experience in more ways than one :D