TheGreatGodPan
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As some of you might remember from a while back, I pirated Arcanum using bittorrent. Your instant reaction should be "Your horrible, horrible scoundrel! Troika is dead and TRUE RPGs with it because of people like you!", but the company was already long dead and I only sought out the warez copy because of people claiming widespread piracy was the reason for poor sales. Sort of like the ancient Greek self-fulfilling-prophecy's retarded cousin. Anyway, the file consisted of two mdf files between 700 and 800 MB each, two 1 KB mds files, an english update RAR file and a readme that said "Just burn the 2 cds and install. Have fun!". The problem is the writable CDs I had only had 700 MB of space. Since I've been away at college for a while without transportation or much desire to go to a store to buy something with higher capacity, I forgot about it for a while. Anyway, now I'm back home and was doing some Christmas shopping anyway, so I head to Circuit City and look for writable disks. The lowest capacity writable DVDs I find have 4.7 GB which is .7 more than my hard-drive! There are two packages with the same number of DVDs (25 or 50, I forget, but way more than I needed) and the same lowest price for writable DVDs ($10.99) from the same company (TDK) only one of them is DVD-R and the other is DVD+R. I don't know what the difference is, so I ask a red-vested employee who says that some older computers can't handle the plus variety, leaving me with no clue to what the benefit of that kind is, so after the cashier gives up trying to find the product's entry in the store's database and sends me to customer service, I buy the DVD-Rs. The next day I try burning all the files to one DVD, cause why waste CDs when I'm low on cases, right? Turns out that though my computer can read DVD-roms just fine, it can only burn to CDs. I return the DVD-Rs to the store, remembering that there were some double capacity DVDs with over 8 GB of space, and wondered if there might be a similar kind of CD. Wrong. They are all 700 MB, less than 100 MB away from what is necessary. I suppose it would be possible to upload the files online, download them to some other computer (I don't know which) that can burn DVDs and then use those, but it almost seems easier to try and get the game legitimately. I'm not going to do that either because I've got way too many games in my backlog already so I might never get to it and I only really downloaded it because I heard I easily could. I promise not to pirate Age of Decadence though, VD.
Since not much discussion should be sparked by that post, I'll unload a question that's been bugging me for all the people screened for reading boring computer stuff. Recently the windows update thing has really been annoying me. It doesn't stop updating. Every time it updates, it has to do so again. If I want to turn off my computer, it gives an extra option to turn off without updating (although it is determined to do so eventually), but I like using the standby option so I don't have to use task manager to turn off a bunch of auto-start programs. However, if I do that a message box will keep popping up to say it is going to restart my computer to update. I can press restart, cancel or remind me later. If I do nothing, it will restart. If I press cancel it will do what I presume it will do with remind me later, just pop up again in a few minutes. I can't leave the computer without it restarting. I try to use task manager to turn off wuaclt, which is what I get brought to when I select "go to process" on the yellow "!" update box in the applications tab. However, wuaclt just won't stay gone. I guess it's a restarting sort of process. I don't really want windows to update any more, I've been doing just fine for qute a while. Similarly, music match jukebox alway has a box when I start the program saying that there is an update for portable music devices, a type of thing I do not own. At least that doesn't have a timer to automatically restart the computer or make the message pop up again, but I still wish update gave an option to NEVER USE THIS UPDATE EVER AND I MEAN IT.
Since not much discussion should be sparked by that post, I'll unload a question that's been bugging me for all the people screened for reading boring computer stuff. Recently the windows update thing has really been annoying me. It doesn't stop updating. Every time it updates, it has to do so again. If I want to turn off my computer, it gives an extra option to turn off without updating (although it is determined to do so eventually), but I like using the standby option so I don't have to use task manager to turn off a bunch of auto-start programs. However, if I do that a message box will keep popping up to say it is going to restart my computer to update. I can press restart, cancel or remind me later. If I do nothing, it will restart. If I press cancel it will do what I presume it will do with remind me later, just pop up again in a few minutes. I can't leave the computer without it restarting. I try to use task manager to turn off wuaclt, which is what I get brought to when I select "go to process" on the yellow "!" update box in the applications tab. However, wuaclt just won't stay gone. I guess it's a restarting sort of process. I don't really want windows to update any more, I've been doing just fine for qute a while. Similarly, music match jukebox alway has a box when I start the program saying that there is an update for portable music devices, a type of thing I do not own. At least that doesn't have a timer to automatically restart the computer or make the message pop up again, but I still wish update gave an option to NEVER USE THIS UPDATE EVER AND I MEAN IT.