[deathspeed]

Was helping my brother with some of the initial setup on his shiny new college laptop, which for me meant getting acquainted with Windows 8 for the first time.  And man, its interface is even more unwieldy and ass-backwards than I'd expected.  It's like I'm fighting the damn thing half the time just to get to the places I want to go.

I had the same experience while working on a friend's laptop to remove some malware.  I didn't really have any issues with Vista (or even Windows Me) despite what I had read, so when I saw 8 on the laptop I thought "well this won't really be so bad, will it?"  But  I spent more time trying to figure out where stuff was than I did actually working on it.  I never did find my flash drive folder; I finally had to unplug it and plug it back in to see the autoplay box and open the folder. 

[Nuke]

Had to make my best friend despise and think very little of me. Worked out as planned, one less person who was too close for their own good
Now to get two others in a similar mindset and keeping another at the distance they're at now

They'll never know I'm doing them a favour to which I'm okay with.

To clue anyone in, I've learned that I'm not a fantastic person to be close or invest trust in so I'm removing and keeping others from thinking I am a decent person for that crap

burn all the bridges
with nukes

[Mongoose]

Was helping my brother with some of the initial setup on his shiny new college laptop, which for me meant getting acquainted with Windows 8 for the first time.  And man, its interface is even more unwieldy and ass-backwards than I'd expected.  It's like I'm fighting the damn thing half the time just to get to the places I want to go.

I had the same experience while working on a friend's laptop to remove some malware.  I didn't really have any issues with Vista (or even Windows Me) despite what I had read, so when I saw 8 on the laptop I thought "well this won't really be so bad, will it?"  But  I spent more time trying to figure out where stuff was than I did actually working on it.  I never did find my flash drive folder; I finally had to unplug it and plug it back in to see the autoplay box and open the folder. 

What already has me scratching my head is that sometimes, you can switch from the godawful Start screen to the normal desktop by just hitting the Windows key or hovering over the pop-up icon in the lower-left...but then at other times, the icon doesn't appear, and you have to use a Windows+D keystroke.  There's also this "charms" bar on the right-hand side that seems to not want to appear at random.  And that's ignoring the basic design issues of having two separate system settings menus (one for the Start screen, and then the normal Control Panel), and having essentially two separate versions of IE and the like in play at once, depending on whether it's an "app" or a normal program.  Hell, even the menu options in plain old Explorer are completely obfuscated.  No wonder no one wanted this OS.  All the more reason for me to pick up a 7 license or two for myself.

[Colonol Dekker]

Had to make my best friend despise and think very little of me. Worked out as planned, one less person who was too close for their own good
Now to get two others in a similar mindset and keeping another at the distance they're at now

They'll never know I'm doing them a favour to which I'm okay with.

To clue anyone in, I've learned that I'm not a fantastic person to be close or invest trust in so I'm removing and keeping others from thinking I am a decent person for that crap

You can limit your closeness without cutting them off. Practice dude.

[deathfun]

Yeah, those are called coworkers
However you can't limit what has already been given. Sure you can stop talking to them much, but then everything you did feels like such a waste of time then. Not saying it wasn't a waste of time now, but at least they're free completely

As Nuke said, bridges be damned. Nuke 'em

Self realizations suck, moral of the story

[Colonol Dekker]

Rifles won't break your heart 

[Aardwolf]

Bullets will though.

[Sololop]

You guys are all so grim.

Me and my roommate have a bridge setup for Artemis Bridge Simulator. It's amazing.

[Colonol Dekker]

I read that as arnheim bridge simulator.

[Dark Hunter]

Rifles won't break your heart 

Sure they can. You just have to impale it forcefully enough to break the ribs first.

[deathfun]

Rifles won't break your heart 

Sure they can. You just have to impale it forcefully enough to break the ribs first.

That's why I made my bayonets into a trident

[An4ximandros]

Apparently, studio Ghibli is shutting down it's animation department.

[MP-Ryan]

Over the past five years, I have been responsible for (if not the executioner of) the deaths of what likely amounts to several hundred or thousand small fish for acute lethality testing in my job.

This does not mean, however, that I cannot do my utmost to bring the single White Cloud Mountain Minnow in our aquarium that's taken ill with some affliction of its swimbladder back from the brink of death.  36 hours after initial symptoms, he's still alive... if barely.

[Nuke]

when i kill fish i usually eat them

[deathfun]

Hey MP-Ryan

Let... MINNOW... how it goes

[Scotty]

I feel compelled to give you a warning for that message.

[deathfun]

Too bad it's more than you got!

(I'm done... for now)

[Colonol Dekker]

Hey MP-Ryan

Let... MINNOW... how it goes

I approve this.

[Lorric]

Over the past five years, I have been responsible for (if not the executioner of) the deaths of what likely amounts to several hundred or thousand small fish for acute lethality testing in my job.

This does not mean, however, that I cannot do my utmost to bring the single White Cloud Mountain Minnow in our aquarium that's taken ill with some affliction of its swimbladder back from the brink of death.  36 hours after initial symptoms, he's still alive... if barely.

Hang on. Your job is in the police in some capacity, isn't it? So where does animal testing come in?

[MP-Ryan]

One day I may have dropped enough clues about what my job and field of expertise entails that someone will figure out exactly where I work.  That said, given that I'd never even heard of my department before I got interviewed for a job with it, I doubt it 

We're now 2.5 days since initial onset of symptoms and he's still alive and kicking... er, finning.