The rules: 1. Explain why your desktop is the way it is? 2. Include at least one pic (see title again) 3. I am awesome, praise my awesomeness 4. Comment on other people's desktops 5. Don't be a fool
So here's my desktop. Decided to go with a black and white image of Penny from The Bing Bang Theory, since I'm watching the series now. The off-centerness of the pic is due to the fact I have a 22 inch monitor as my primary monitor while it's plugged into a 15 inch screen laptop.
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Vinyl Banned
posted 02-02-12 09:57 PM
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Also I approve of Penny. Not so much the girl in underwear. The pic isn't overly trashy but desktop is an awkward place for eyecandy.
The Wanderer Squire
posted 02-03-12 01:23 AM
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Hey Popey! Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica was a lovely anime that I will always remember fondly... I approve of that wallpaper.
The soul now burns, these thoughts I churn. To never have a brief sojourn. Oh maiden Death! Please hear my plea! Allieviate, my malady. Engulf me now, to you I bow. Embrace me now, your tears, my vow.
Sur Perry the Platypus Squire
(id: Gil_abhaas_galad)
posted 02-03-12 07:13 AM
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Sorry for the really dodgy picture of me
Its a girl! Pics to prove it! ZOMG!
I cannot fathom why you would want something that makes you horny right there on your desktop.
You sir, are disturbing.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
Stop playing so erotic, dammit! - theferret Well, that's like wanting to get raped by a nine-inch dick instead of a ten-inch. - Moff I was being stupid. - Herr
RedHandedJill Cardinal Sinner
posted 02-03-12 07:26 AM
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Its a girl!
Well at least that sorted out the confusion about my gender. Though I prefer not to be called it.
"Then ready yourself Peter Pan, for I am Red Handed Jill"
Popeychops "Cool" Huskarl
posted 02-03-12 08:59 AM
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I cycle through over a hundred pony wall papers. I'll get a pic of those soonish.
Oh good lord Please restrain yourself to posting a folder-pic of thumbnails, like I did with mine. For me. <3
Hey Popey! Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica was a lovely anime that I will always remember fondly... I approve of that wallpaper.
I knew there'd be someone :D
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Aro AoKH Dictator
posted 02-03-12 10:29 AM
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I guess this is just what I get for not thinking through my blind and angry responses before I shout them to the world.
I don't blame you, Felix. I blame... I blame myself.
Which is a good thing, cuz I don't think through things either and that makes you a better person. Only assholes think. From my rough understanding of the human anatomy, I mean. (Very rough. Like prison. While I was in prison. I wasn't really. But I dreamt it once. (Not really.))
Fail. Search "dell dock" and it's the first result :P
The fact that you use a Dell lowers my opinion of you. I still love you, just a bit less than I did before. Which, relatively, is quite a bit a lot. Because Dells are terrible.
But I do like that phrasing. "Quite a bit a lot." Very alliterative. Literally quite a bit a lot alliterative.
Well at least that sorted out the confusion about my gender. Though I prefer not to be called it.
May I say that you have very pretty hair today and I sleep only with guys. Only one of those are true. Well, they would be, if they weren't BOTH true. Although I can't make promises on the hair thing.
(In all seriousness, I'm only into women. Well, not *that* serious. I'm emotionally unstable and unable to commit to anything in general. Well, when it comes to women, anyway. Men, on the other hand... ha. I said other hand. Makes you wonder about my dominant hand. Because my hand WOULD be dominant, girl. Purr. Holla at me.)
You sir, are disturbing.
Me? Nawwww... me?
The pic isn't overly trashy but desktop is an awkward place for eyecandy.
I have a niece who wouldn't understand if I had underwear-clad women on my desktop.
But I remember back in the day, when I was 13 or so, my uncle had a cartoon character in a bra/panties that did animations when you right clicked on her. As a teenage male, I found that to be the most fascinating thing anywhere ever. That was on Windows '98... those were good times.
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Popeychops "Cool" Huskarl
posted 02-03-12 10:56 AM
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Because Dells are terrible.
That is an odd way of spelling "expensive".
What's so bad about dell, may I ask?
Member of BlackForest Studios Co-creator of Silent Evil(4.6) Voted Best Multiplayer Scenario of 2009 (Most Fave'd Multiplayer Scenario) and TheSeasofEgressa(4.8) Voted Best Multiplayer Scenario of 2010 "Popey just hates everywhere." - Chocolate Jesus, on my fear of Romanian organ-traffickers "Hooray for Dear Leader-Comrade-Generalissimo-Presidente-Lord Protector Popey!" - Lord Sipia, on my benevolent, iron-fisted rule "You're not Popeychops; you don't get to physics." - Moff, in response to a clumsy muon simile
Aro AoKH Dictator
posted 02-03-12 11:08 AM
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That is an odd way of spelling "expensive".
What's so bad about dell, may I ask?
Dell, expensive? Cruddy third party/Dell-dependent parts, laughably small cases, very low longevity, terrible (and almost always outsourced) customer support, and they always come with plenty of bloatware pre-installed. If you go and buy a very affordable Dell printer, oh, hey, guess what, you have to buy overpriced cartridges from Dell. If you need to replace a power supply, oh, man, it looks like you gotta buy a power supply from Dell. I've done tech support on a lot of different systems. Dells have consistently been awful. The way I see it, even if you have an expensive high-end Dell or laptop that works just fine for you, you could've gotten a better high-end computer for the same price, from a manufacturer that doesn't focus on making disposable plastic computers to rake in cash. They're a terrible company.
» Your attractive master. »"Because I before E is a LIE!!!"
morgoth bauglir Squire
posted 02-03-12 12:48 PM
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For you. They're a terrible company for you. Possibly they know that you're a terrible person, so they provide that personalized service of being equally terrible!
I've been using Dell for over a dozen years now, and I've only ever had one mechanical problem for which they are responsible, and that was on a 3-year old laptop.
Pretty much what morgoth said. Why would you buy a Dell printer? Everyone knows cheap printers are sold at a loss and subsidised with expensive ink sales. Not seen any cruddy dell equipment with any of the three dell PC's I've had a hand in buying. I know plenty of people who use dells, one of whom uses one with his accountancy business. I also know of a private school that has solely used Dells for its IT solutions in the past, oh, decade?
Member of BlackForest Studios Co-creator of Silent Evil(4.6) Voted Best Multiplayer Scenario of 2009 (Most Fave'd Multiplayer Scenario) and TheSeasofEgressa(4.8) Voted Best Multiplayer Scenario of 2010 "Popey just hates everywhere." - Chocolate Jesus, on my fear of Romanian organ-traffickers "Hooray for Dear Leader-Comrade-Generalissimo-Presidente-Lord Protector Popey!" - Lord Sipia, on my benevolent, iron-fisted rule "You're not Popeychops; you don't get to physics." - Moff, in response to a clumsy muon simile
Francis de Talking France Squire
(id: Watson)
posted 02-03-12 01:22 PM
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Cruddy third party/Dell-dependent parts, laughably small cases, very low longevity, terrible (and almost always outsourced) customer support, and they always come with plenty of bloatware pre-installed. If you go and buy a very affordable Dell printer, oh, hey, guess what, you have to buy overpriced cartridges from Dell. If you need to replace a power supply, oh, man, it looks like you gotta buy a power supply from Dell. I've done tech support on a lot of different systems. Dells have consistently been awful. The way I see it, even if you have an expensive high-end Dell or laptop that works just fine for you, you could've gotten a better high-end computer for the same price, from a manufacturer that doesn't focus on making disposable plastic computers to rake in cash. They're a terrible company.
So you're saying that you should have something that makes you horny on your desktop? And I'm the one who's disturbing?!
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Sur Perry the Platypus Squire
(id: Gil_abhaas_galad)
posted 02-03-12 01:32 PM
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Who buys Dell printers?
Edit: Dell makes printer at first place?
And Herr, that was directed at Aro.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
Stop playing so erotic, dammit! - theferret Well, that's like wanting to get raped by a nine-inch dick instead of a ten-inch. - Moff I was being stupid. - Herr
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Aro AoKH Dictator
posted 02-03-12 02:33 PM
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For you. They're a terrible company for you.
I had a Dell at my place of work. That part, yes, is me, and makes them a terrible company for me. I had no choice on that matter until it (thankfully) died a few months ago. But I'm not ticked at them cuz I had to suffer through their bull. It has been terrible for everyone else I know, a lot of them calling me and hoping I could do something to remedy the fact that Dell is a terrible company with a bad product.
But as I said, if it works just fine for you, somebody who I reckon has tech experience and computer knowledge, just imagine what you could do with a machine that *didn't* blow.
Why would you buy a Dell printer? Everyone knows cheap printers are sold at a loss and subsidised with expensive ink sales.
People who don't know a whole lot about computers, which is Dell's prime demographic. They're scam artists. You're fortunate you know how to avoid (some of) their bullshit -- but that doesn't make them a reputable computer manufacturer. I wouldn't flip a nickle or roll a penny to support their candy asses.
And Herr, that was directed at Aro.
*twirls mustache* Herrr herrr herrr...
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ax_man1 Squire
posted 02-03-12 07:13 PM
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Dell, expensive? Cruddy third party/Dell-dependent parts, laughably small cases, very low longevity, terrible (and almost always outsourced) customer support, and they always come with plenty of bloatware pre-installed. If you go and buy a very affordable Dell printer, oh, hey, guess what, you have to buy overpriced cartridges from Dell. If you need to replace a power supply, oh, man, it looks like you gotta buy a power supply from Dell. I've done tech support on a lot of different systems. Dells have consistently been awful. The way I see it, even if you have an expensive high-end Dell or laptop that works just fine for you, you could've gotten a better high-end computer for the same price, from a manufacturer that doesn't focus on making disposable plastic computers to rake in cash. They're a terrible company.
I went to Asus, and will now forevermore melt faces.
But seriously, I've been very pleased with the Asus laptop I've had for the last three years. The only reason I haven't upgraded is because it still works good as new. But then again, I put everything on an external hard drive, so I've managed to preserve the internal workings of my machine.
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WinstonShnozwick Squire
posted 02-03-12 08:40 PM
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I'll agree on dell stuff and alienware being expensive, but I don't agree with people complaining that it is bad technology in itself. My dell laptop works damn fine, all I need is the hardware for the windows software to run on. It's pretty simple to get rid of all the dell preinstalled programs anyway.
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Leif Ericson Seraph Emeritus
posted 02-03-12 09:02 PM
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My family had some Dell laptops, and they were satisfactory at best. They were also our first Vista laptops though, so that might have tainted the experience. Our family has had better luck with HP.
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CarolKarine Squire
posted 02-03-12 09:14 PM
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popey, could you email me the pic on the second row (second pic) please?
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CarolKarine Squire
posted 02-03-12 09:16 PM
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I get discounts through HP! I have an uncle who works there
He buys all of my family's computers.
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Chocolate Jesus Squire
(id: trebuchet king)
posted 02-04-12 00:49 AM
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I am way too lazy to start up the desktop for a screenshot, but here's the background. And because I am way to lazy to hit print screen and host something, here's the laptop background.
I've dabbled with astronomy pictures and landscapes, but nothing gets me going like a gorgeous, gorgeous plane.
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Herr Heir Squire
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posted 02-04-12 01:49 AM
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CK, I need your help with my HP laptop. How much of the bloatware can I actually get rid of?
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Nowhere Squire
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posted 02-04-12 05:12 AM
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Sur Perry the Platypus Squire
(id: Gil_abhaas_galad)
posted 02-04-12 05:36 AM
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Oompa Loompas win at everything.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
Stop playing so erotic, dammit! - theferret Well, that's like wanting to get raped by a nine-inch dick instead of a ten-inch. - Moff I was being stupid. - Herr
Nowhere Squire
(id: NowhereT)
posted 02-04-12 05:41 AM
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Except basketball.
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Lord Sipia Squire
posted 02-04-12 06:12 AM
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Except basketball.
Wait, how do you know that?
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