Dial-up users of the world, unite! (646 hits)
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Submitted by Mentor (View user info) at 2004-06-28 09:26:12 EDT
The slogan above is a ripoff of the communist "Workers of the world, unite!" But that's not the point.
The point is that I have achieved Nerdvana. I have reached that point where my personal life and my internet/computer life have blurred and I can no longer see the point of leaving my chair where I am no doubt already developing a bed sore on my ass.
For the past four days, I have been downloading a 500meg game entitled "Pristontale". This is not so remarkable except for the fact that I have dialup, on a 56k modem. Yes, I know I could always upgrad to a 126k, but then what would be the point? I'd just be one step closer to broadband, but I would be lacking broadband. It would be like having the flour for a batch of cookies, then one day getting the butter. You are closer, but you don't have it. I'd rather stick with the flour. At least I can pretend it's a baby...and it doesn't melt.
At any rate, after a total of 28 hours of downloading, I finally have Pristontale. Then, after about 10 minutes of installation, I have it installed. I go to play, and I find out I need to be registered. I say "Ok. I can do that." So I venture to the website and pay a visit to the registration form. I agree to the terms and services/EULA, and am taken to the actual registration form.
Dum dum! Dum dum! Dum dum! Dum dum! When the birdman flies, there will be no doubt, we're gonna take control and gonna wipe you out!
Sorry....I'm listening to late-80's/early-90's punk....makes me feel better.
Anyway, the registration form is broken. I click on the field where you are supposed to type in your user ID. It links me over to a "Check ID" screen for you to see if your ID is available so you don't look like a jackass by typing in an ID and finding out it's been used so you have to waste another ten seconds of your futile and pointless life coming up with something new.
So, for about ten minutes, I sit there....rocking back and forth. It took me four days of on-again, off-again downloading to get the bastard exe file. Now, I can't use it. The opening screen is fun and the music is peppy, but that doesn't make a game very good.
Now I find out that a friend of mine in Quebec who downloaded the entire game on the same day I started mine has a registered account. This means I could have registered the day I began and could be playing right now!!!!!!!!!!
Dial-up users, Unite! We need to stop these privileges that the broadband/DSL/ADSL/ABCDEFG users have! We need to take them back for ourselves! If we can't have them, they can't have them!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
User Reviews
Submitted by Mentor (user info) at 2004-06-28 12:36:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
sg11588,
You don't need to change your ISP if you upgrade your modem. At least, not that I think so. I'm on the same ISP I was on when I had my 28k or 26k or whatever that number is that's so teeny-weeny.
And as for pedantic whining, isn't that what a rant is about? And aren't rants the things that make uber go round? Take your superiority complex elsewhere, you lowly mortal.
Submitted by thinning_temples (user info) at 2004-06-28 11:49:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Fluff - I read that you're living in Basel; so am I. Whereabouts are you?
Submitted by Robot9598 (user info) at 2004-06-28 11:30:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by melkorthedelerious (user info) at 2004-06-28 11:25:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Honestly, this was pretty boring.
Take your pedantic whining elsewhere.
Submitted by fluff (user info) at 2004-06-28 11:15:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I feel for you.
Submitted by DJMattB241 (user info) at 2004-06-28 11:05:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
in the time it takes you to download 1 song, i can download 2-3 music videos.
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2004-06-28 10:03:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
dial up should be banned so the elite can move on.
Submitted by sg11588 (user info) at 2004-06-28 10:00:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
If you upgrade your modem, do you need to get a different internet provider? Like from 56k to 128k or something?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-06-28 09:47:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
9600 baud is the way to go!!!
WOO!
Submitted by AlahAckbar (user info) at 2004-06-28 09:44:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dial up sucks. That's why I have broadband and home, and t1 at work. Oh Joy!
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2004-06-28 09:38:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm upgrading to 256k, not much better, but hey it's an improvement.
Submitted by Creepy_guy (user info) at 2004-06-28 09:34:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I can't stand dial up; so damn slow and nothing loads. The sad thing is that I'm about ten feet outside high speed range where I live. Kick in the nuts, that one...
Submitted by itchy (user info) at 2004-06-28 09:32:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"If I can't have it, no one can." Sounds pretty communist to me. I dig it.
I'm also scared that I knew what you meant about pretending that a bag of flour was a baby.