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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2025 8:06 pm
Clip arts were a blessing or a curse depending the user of them, thankfully my school teachers I had were more blessed art than the cursed art. One teacher though did send us home with an old gnome with no pants clip art for a school garden class notice, it wasn't bad [no parts shown] but it also wasn't what you'd expect to see any way as it was clear as day he was pants less with his hairy legs exposed and dancing pose. But that wasn't the cursed thing though, the cursed thing was the teacher's phrasing of "Let your child play with my hose this weekend for extra credit. Extra credit garden class." Legit truth of sometimes dumpy looks doesn't mean a product is poorly, the first copy of Fable the lost chapters I played the box for it looked ran over by a car bad, but game disc and game itself was great minus I had one of those old refurbished to new computers the school gave out to students for some payment to aide the school, and so graphics didn't load fully in my game, so I was in Skyrim before Skyrim. (snow looking lands everywhere.)
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 4:39 pm
That's, uh, wow, it's something. At least the art was on theme if a bit odd, but someone REALLY should have run the wording through the twelve-year-old boy test before handing that out. (The twelve-year-old boy test is pretty self-explanatory to me, but in case you're confused, if you say something to a boy of that age and they giggle like a fool, you need to rethink your phrasing since there's a dirty joke in there somewhere.)
Oh, yeah, no, I didn't just mean the quality of the case. (Since I don't give a damn about cases if the disc or cartridge is in good condition.) And, y'know, things happen, I have a couple of cases that a dog LITERALLY chewed, but the discs are unblemished (though I obviously keep the discs in a separate case now to protect them). But, like, if someone is trying to sell a game where the case looks like garbage and they don't include any photos of the disc/cartridge, they're probably trying to take you for a ride.
I've never had a game fail at loading textures/objects like what you describe, though. Of course, I didn't really do any PC gaming until I was in uni unless they were old games or those cheap casual games you could find all over back in the early '00s. Though I have seen the PS5 version of one of the Fallout games bug out like that. It was hilarious watching my beau try to finish a quest when he couldn't see the things he needed to do as textures and some objects failed to load. It was some sort of quest involving pipes in water, but there was no water, and only the above-ground portions of the pipe could be seen, everything else was obscured by a big gray box where the water hadn't rendered. I think he ended up having to skip finishing that one until they finally patched the PS5 version and everything rendered correctly in that area.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:27 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:37 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:05 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2025 5:43 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 4:49 am
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 1:32 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 11:54 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:02 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:52 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 1:16 pm
Aye they really didn't think to check that at all, in fact you got to question why even phrase it like that!? Heck why even do much just be simple and send the group of us home with a page asking if it's okay we go or whatever, I'm sure many know what's happens they need not to explain. Or did they think everyone had Fallout's special 1 intelligence moments? Aye, if the disc or cartridge is poorly is the biggest concern if they hide that from people 99.9% of me thinks they want to rip people off with a poor product, if they're open and the disc or cartridge looks poorly I say 50% chance it's bad and ask to try it out to see if it'll play cause thankfully at times if it doesn't the person or company least for places I been to do get rid of the poor product if the product just will not work ever. Of course I can't go saying everywhere I been does this cause some places I didn't see the person, or company worker toss it for either we had places to be, or they went to another room with it but returned without it so who knows. Apart from that some places you just know will always try to fix it if can cause we all know there is earnings in anything if you can be sure it works. (and sadly we also know some just don't care cause they failed to get one, but some sucker will arrive some day.) For my first computer times with Fable my year elder family member and I believe it failed to load textures because it was an ancient 80s computer just refurbished by our school to work like a early to mid 2000s computer, which as we all know minorly ever 100% runs as wanted/intended. So I could do stuff like log onto gaia here with my long gone by now old account from 2003 a kid never should have had to begin with really cause gaia was always 13+, and other things online like Cartoon network and Nickoloden.com back in the older years of them, the Humongous (idk if I did the correct spelling for them or not, but you will know what I mean.) games like Putt-Putt, Pajama Sam, Fatty Bear, Freddie Fish and etc. those worked swell; But when it came to us trying Fable the Lost Chapters it just didn't want to render a lot of textures for the lands so everywhere was snow lands. (And possibly maybe two young kids around 12 going towards 13 and 11 going on 12 downloading a game both are too young for cause M ratings & rushing it all cause being in a Christian household, maybe just maybe we didn't do all needed things for it to fully be better idk tbh. cat_sweatdrop ) But overall that's pass things now, in 2025 I am part of the adult team now and have mixed moods about it. We all can agree agree adulthood works like that, we each go loving some things and hating other things about being an adult now. cat_3nodding (and each person is different depending their cases.)
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 7:09 pm
Yeah, I'd say they didn't think. I mean, a simple "Extra credit gardening! Parent permission? Yes/No" would have been perfectly adequate. Getting all cutesy about it, obviously, leads to some... interesting word choices. I suppose we can chalk it up to public school teachers being underpaid and overworked, if we're feeling kind, but it's still... oof.
Yes, exactly! If someone is upfront about the condition of the disc or cartridge, you have better than middling chances of however the person describes the item being the truth. But if they hedge or are intentionally vague, they're generally hoping to reel in a sucker who won't realize their mistake until too late.
Ohhh, so it was kind of a franken-build, then. Yeah, that could introduce lots of weirdness when attempting to run more modern/complex applications, like Fable. Lots of hardware in pre-built machines are meant to only work in specific environments/combinations, so when you swap out any pieces, the machine can behave in unexpected ways. It wouldn't have been much of a problem with simpler things (most of the old browsers, kids' edutainment games) since they wouldn't be asking any hardware to do anything computing intensive and can mostly run off the base hardware on a system's motherboard, but anything that might need more resources than that (like needing further RAM, or for processes to run through a graphics card and CPU at the same time) would probably hit a few walls. It's a big part of why you have to buy a whole new system with consumer builds when you want to upgrade, since there's so much proprietary bs that keeps you from doing much more than adding an extra HDD/SSD, or replacing the existing drive. We switched to a system we built ourselves back when we were in uni and never looked back. It's SO much more convenient to just upgrade a single piece of hardware, there's literally no need to buy a new system every few years like you seem to be forced into doing with most laptops since you can't just replace the faulty hardware in them.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 4:50 pm
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