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Title: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 03, 2010, 07:47:48 pm
So I've got an old crappy desktop I never use.  Big tower.  Useless.  Sold the monitor and sound system for a bit of cash, but nothing useful from the tower itself.

So here's the question: commence pre-deployment stress relief by taking it out on aforementioned tower?

Pics will be posted of it happens.

EDIT:  You pick the weapons of doom!  Non-firearm and non-explosive.  So sledgehammers, axes, tire irons, high altitude drop...your choice!
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop?
Post by: SpardaSon21 on March 03, 2010, 07:54:47 pm
If the tower is completely useless with nothing in it, sure, take the sledgehammer and axe to it.  Be sure to post video instead of pictures though.  If a picture tells a thousand words, a video is worth thirty thousand words per second when shot at 30 fps.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 03, 2010, 09:00:35 pm
By all means keep the case. Next time you build a computer i'm sure you don't want to slap down money for another one.

I'm using a computer case from 2000 still that my dad first used, then a friend, then another friend. It made it's way to me, i ripped out the innards and tossed the latest hardware in there and here i am.

But, if the case is old AT style (you didn't mention age of the computer), then by all means destroy it.
If the case is proprietary, destroy it.
If the case is a non proprietary, non AT, and is a cheapo, then contemplate destroying (although i'd keep the case, whatever saves $20-$70 dollars on a new home built computer).

I recommend combustion potato gun with a frozen 20oz. diet coke. A potato gun is not a fire arm. A combustion variant does utilize hair spray or car starting fluid for propelling the projectile. If you really don't like fire, then use a pneumatic potato gun. A frozen 20oz. diet coke projectile you'll be very satisfied with blasting at the computer more than any melee weapon i can promise.

Other than that 20 pound sledge (it's put big holes in cars and is very satisfying).
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Klaustrophobia on March 03, 2010, 09:04:16 pm
send it my way, i'll see if i can borrow the positron beam port on our reactor (one of the most intense in the world) :D
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 03, 2010, 10:51:08 pm
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Other than that 20 pound sledge (it's put big holes in cars and is very satisfying).

Actually have a 12 pound sledge in the garage right now. :)
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 04, 2010, 08:54:26 am
12 pound sledge....and what's even better is that you're already in possession of one :nod:
20 pounders are nice because they're more of a challenge. Depending on how much you hate something, the faster you'll want to swing it, and a 20 pounder has a lot of force behind it. 20 pounder equals some big holes in things within a minute, and it makes you tired, but satisfying; you know for a fact you kicked an inanimate objects ass.

12 pound sledge ought to do just fine though if you ask me and the same amount of mayhem in about the same amount of time.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on March 05, 2010, 06:26:35 am
Save the casing, like S-99 said.

I was about to recommend a very strong torchlight, but that might be too dangerous and take too long.

It'll be nice if you could get the beam cannon from Northrop Grumman, though.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Dragon on March 05, 2010, 04:19:24 pm
I don't think it's cheap, but firing a GAU-8 at anything you want destroyed could be a very sadisfying thing to see.  :)
Of course, I would prefer just to sell everything useless for a few dollars to somebody, preferably on service like EBay or Amazon (for a couple more than few if it's old enough to count as something a collectors would want).
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: spaceranger on March 05, 2010, 04:25:42 pm
CATAPULT!   :pimp:
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 05, 2010, 07:50:51 pm
:lol: That would be beyond amazing. :D
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Topgun on March 05, 2010, 09:28:32 pm
I might buy it from you, where do you live?
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on March 05, 2010, 10:37:08 pm
CATAPULT!   :pimp:

TREBUCHET! :drevil:
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Thaeris on March 06, 2010, 11:50:57 am
BALLISTA!
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Snail on March 06, 2010, 12:06:09 pm
Peanuts
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 06, 2010, 12:27:20 pm
Two man throw onto bosses car from above.....

Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 08, 2010, 03:51:53 am
Don't destroy it. Make it look as nice as possible and fill the sucker with cement. Then leave it somewhere where it's begging to be stolen.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: watsisname on March 08, 2010, 05:29:16 am
Nonono, fill it with cement, THEN throw it onto the bosses car.  :D
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Kosh on March 08, 2010, 10:08:48 am
So I've got an old crappy desktop I never use.  Big tower.  Useless.  Sold the monitor and sound system for a bit of cash, but nothing useful from the tower itself.

So here's the question: commence pre-deployment stress relief by taking it out on aforementioned tower?

Pics will be posted of it happens.

EDIT:  You pick the weapons of doom!  Non-firearm and non-explosive.  So sledgehammers, axes, tire irons, high altitude drop...your choice!


Post specs to determine worthiness and obsolecensce.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: BloodEagle on March 08, 2010, 10:40:20 am
Use a catapult to fling it into position, where a trebuchet's load (bowling ball filled with cement) will arrive at the same time.  And have a ballista fire the sledgehammer at them, as well.

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Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 08, 2010, 11:06:37 am
Post specs to determine worthiness and obsolecensce.

I tried to fiddle around inside it but the hamster running on the wheel inside bit me :(
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on March 08, 2010, 01:03:07 pm
I'm honestly surprised no-one has suggested this:

KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: watsisname on March 08, 2010, 04:15:48 pm
Fill it with cement, then fling your bosses car into a trebucheted bowling ball filled with cement.  Oh and be sure to fill the car with cement, too.  Kill the remaining debris with fire while performing native dance to nu disco tunes.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 08, 2010, 04:36:46 pm
Fill it with cement, then fling your bosses car into a trebucheted bowling ball filled with cement.  Oh and be sure to fill the car with cement, too.  Kill the remaining debris with fire while performing native dance to nu disco tunes.

This. :D
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 08, 2010, 07:33:04 pm
No, much better if you make it look nice filled with cement and try to bait robbers with it. You know for a fact that if the cement computer isn't on your front porch, then it's probably in the ditch by the drive way.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: JGZinv on March 08, 2010, 07:45:28 pm
A long time ago on the screen savers... they threw a computer off a rocky cliff.
Course it all had to be picked up later.

Wood chipper?

Chain saw?

Use it in some other gratifying project.. such as the test subject for building an at home laser array?

Make an aquarium?

Make into a BBQ grill?

Go skydiving with it?

Liquid nitrogen it.... then hit it with a hammer.

Buy model rocket engines, fix them to the sides, and make it the first HLP satellite in orbit. ^_^

Honestly the cement and nabbing crooks idea sounds good to me.
Maybe rig an extremely annoying siren to go off if it moves off the ground.
Just for extra "no way you're getting away with it" factor.

Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Retsof on March 08, 2010, 09:51:41 pm
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Buy model rocket engines, fix them to the sides, and make it the first HLP satellite in orbit. ^_^
This  :yes:  You think you could use it's limited brains to actually get a stable orbit?
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 09, 2010, 03:05:26 pm
A long time ago on the screen savers.
Reminds me of when my cousin went around telling other kids that eventually a planet would fly by on the stars screensaver for win95.

I forgot to recommend microwave.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: watsisname on March 09, 2010, 06:21:09 pm
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Buy model rocket engines, fix them to the sides, and make it the first HLP satellite in orbit. ^_^
This  :yes:  You think you could use it's limited brains to actually get a stable orbit?

Oooooh, we could rebuild it to look like a big sandwich, with a radio transmitter set to repeat the words OMNOMNOMNOM!

And then set it on a collision course with the Hubble. :O
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 09, 2010, 06:29:32 pm
Put Carl in it, it might encounter cosmic rays and inadvertently create REAL shivans.
 
To increase odds, I suggest installing FSO with 3.6.10 mediavps and the 3.6.12RC1 ;)
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Nuclear1 on March 09, 2010, 06:35:37 pm
Take that Golden Record! :D  Anyone out there finds evidence of human life they'll be playing SCP. :)
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: watsisname on March 09, 2010, 06:39:09 pm
Holy crap maybe that's how the Great War started.  Shivans found our FSO. :O
TIIIME LOOOPS!!!
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: BloodEagle on March 09, 2010, 06:55:29 pm
Holy crap maybe that's how the Great War started.  Shivans found our FSO. :O
TIIIME LOOOPS!!!

WHERE DOIN' THIS BRO! WHERE MAKIN' THIS HAPPEN!
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: S-99 on March 10, 2010, 02:47:00 am
Take that Golden Record! :D  Anyone out there finds evidence of human life they'll be playing SCP. :)
On a **** computer.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 10, 2010, 04:10:56 pm
Take that Golden Record! :D  Anyone out there finds evidence of human life they'll be playing SCP. :)
On a **** computer.

 
:lol:
 
That might cause it.
Title: Re: Should I go Office Space on my old desktop? (you get to pick the weapons!)
Post by: Retsof on March 11, 2010, 10:40:36 am
You'll have to include some way to let thn know that the game was, in fact, designed fo the alien awesomesauce computers, and this one is simply a mode of transport :cool:.