TheMightyEthan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Goddamn, if I'd had the internet at home when I was 14... just... goddamn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 How old are you, Ethan? I'm in my 30's and I DEFINITELY had internet and porn at 14. Fuck, my dad showed me playboy.com on Netscape 1.0 when I was 12. Told me that it would be the future of the Internet. I thought telnet chatrooms and MUDs were the future. He was right, I was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Your dad showed you porn when you were a kid and told you it was the future? That's...just fucking weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 He showed me and a group of kids the entry page to playboy.com (IIRC, there were tits) and said that this would drive the future development of the internet, not chat and games like I liked back in 1993. You know what? He was correct. To my knowledge, pictures of naked tits never hurt anyone. And they were not the first pair I had ever seen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I'm 27. Was 14 in 2000 Now that I think about it more I'm fairly sure we did have internet at home when I was 14, but we would have just gotten it. My grandparents had internet for several years before we did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I forget that most people didn't really get internet service at home until the late 90's. We had dialup service since the very early 90's through my parents' work at the local university, so I was just fortunate. Though I recall visiting my cousins' place in a moderate-sized city in the mid-90's and they had Roadrunner cable modem service and I was jealous as all hell, and I was selling cable modem service as a telemarketer by 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I think we got a cable modem (Roadrunner, actually) in probably 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 I was never part of the "download images/pictures and hide them in folders" or the magazine groups, though I did have a few friends in the latter. I WAS part of the "don't want to pay for porn so I'm gonna wack it furiously to those 30 second previews of videos on paid sites since free streaming was unheard of" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoStarr Posted July 27, 2013 Report Share Posted July 27, 2013 I used to live in the boonies before I got out of there for University. My hometown is still on dial up, I swear to god. There's one tech dude with a satelite connection who moved in shortly after I left; he started running ethernet cables underground to all the neighbouring houses to hook them up with something with a bit more speed, but it's still goddamn impossible to play games on it. The guy running it seems to monitor traffic since last time I went out there I spend some time on 4chan and then he blocked it. I can't imagine downloading porn on either the dial up connection we used to have, or the shared satelite connection they currently have. My teenage years were spent awkwardly trading burnt CDs full of porn from the kids in school who came from places with high speed. They actually made a lot of profit off of kids in my situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 The latest development in the saga of Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 has Microsoft overclocking the Xbox One's GPU to get it more in line with the competition. Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten broke the news on the Major Nelson podcast published today. "This is the time where we've gone from the theory of how the hardware works…to really having them in our hands, and that's the time where you start tweaking the knobs," Whitten said. "An example of that is we've tweaked up our clock speed on the GPU from 800MHz to 853MHz." http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/microsoft-overclocking-xbox-one-to-crank-up-its-graphical-power-1170690 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 I've read that as far as actual power goes, this increase is fairly meaningless. I'm no expert though so I don't know if it's true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Even if you assume those numbers are meaningful and straightforward, it's only a 7% increase in power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 surely this doesn't bode well for reliability? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 surely this doesn't bode well for reliability? That's what I was thinking. I was just reading stuff yesterday about how it's meant to last for ten years turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Microsoft is back pedaling so hard they actually managed to move the bicycle by the shear force of their legs spinning around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 surely this doesn't bode well for reliability? What? Don't you think Microsoft would know what they're doing when it comes to console GPUs and reliability? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 Xbone Grill and firestarter, coming this holiday season. Seriously though, with this increase surely means that it'll run a bit louder as the fans work a bit harder. The 360 is a loud machine. I personally don't want a repeat of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted August 2, 2013 Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 my biggest issue with the 360 wasnt that it was loud, it was that I had 5 of them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) I've owned 4 360's, and only one redringed. And the one that did was actually an Elite. I've got a v1 360 that's still running strong. *Edit* - The one that redringed was the only one that broke. 1 I sold to my friend to get the Elite, 1 is the Elite that redringed, 1 is the Elite I got when I sent the redringed one in, and 1 is the one I got on the cheap for my wife to use (because at the time I was primarily playing on 360 so hogging it all the time). Of the 4, 3 are still working. Edited August 3, 2013 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 I had three. No red ring but the first one had a disctray malfunction. Surprisingly I got that swapped out. Then the one I got was given to my younger brother and I eventually got myself a MW2 edition 360 from my brother. I believe my older brother got a similar story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 I had two. RROD was the cause for needing a second. I'm a statistic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) Well everyone knows my anecdotal evidence is obviously the most accurate. *Edit* - Actually, even if that were true, a 25% failure rate is not something to be proud of. Edited August 3, 2013 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Heat Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 I've had 4 360s, myself. The 60GB one that replaced the 20GB model. I didn't get the red ring, just the E74 error (which was covered under the same warranty) then I bought an Elite, which I sold to a friend after I got a Slim then a 250GB drive on the cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 Microsoft rushed the 360 like a motherfucker. With all these last minute changes to software and hardware, I'm keeping further away than Michael J Fox in an epileptic clinic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 3, 2013 Report Share Posted August 3, 2013 (edited) I've had 3 360s and 2 PS3s. One RROD within warranty, one afterwards, so I bought the S model (and it's nice having soooo much more HDD space anyway). Gave the old one to a friend, who actually fixed it no problem and sold it on eBay. My old 60GB BC PS3 has a faulty disc drive (just like on my old PS2) and I probably could get it fixed/replaced but I bought a new PS3 slim as well. I will say that at least carrying your data from one 360 to another is relatively easy. PS3 to PS3 was just a complete pain in the arse, and I was lucky the thing still worked in some capacity, I guess. Edited August 3, 2013 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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