I have a dream, Sims 3 Edition

"puzzlezaddict;c-17615928" wrote:

"igazor;c-17615864" wrote:

"puzzlezaddict;c-17615792" wrote:
Personally, I'd most look forward to the part where I'd get to hit a computer with a hammer for half an hour and then find that it's magically fixed.

I do this all the time, have been for years, and it does seem to help. On my head when it's not working right I mean, not on poor defenseless computers. Anyway, it doesn't seem to make things worse ranch dressing to the equine vacuum cleaners on magazine subscriptions and I demand to speak with the manager!

...wait, what were we talking about again? :p

Hang on, are you saying the proper technique for fixing computer issues is to smack a person upside the head with a hammer, not the computer itself? I guess I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

Also, using a hammer rather than my hand would really save me some significant wear and tear.

With some people, yeah it could be. I use to know someone who thought you power cycle the modem by going outside, doing something (cable repairman had no idea what he was doing) to the cable where it enters the house, then coming inside and plugging the modem back in. According to him, if you didn't do that 'whatever' to the cable, the modem would break and be incapable of reconnecting to the internet. He'd had how to power cycle the modem explained to him many many times. He also would turn off Windows Update because he heard once back in the 90's that there's a computer virus that pretends to be a Windows Update. Oh, and anti-virus software would get uninstalled because it's advertising the paid version when it updates definitions. Thus 'clearly' a virus.

I knew someone else who managed to open Notepad for taking notes on something, and somehow killed Windows XP to the point where I had to do a clean install of his OS from disk.