Automatic Updates Die, Now

[Disco Rentsky]

I'm in the process of creating a character application for Near. You can go visit the thread in the 'pending' section - it's rather sparse, at the moment.

Well, here I am at a lovely 3:26:15 in the morning, typing up a roleplay sample for the character to better get me gunned for writing his description and such, to set the tone. Near's is a very particular tone, one that I'd very much regret screwing up if I'm to play the character. Anyways, I was typing this lovely roleplay sample for myself and quite enjoying it, feeling rather creative, gunning out some nice word play, shiny little puns ... everything starting to fall into place and fit the tone for Near ... and .... suddenly ... a good five paragraphs in, midst meticulously detailing the ironic-in-hindsight accidental destruction of one of N's card towers ...

-insert heart attack here, furious pants and gagging and painnnn-

MY COMPUTER RESTARTS FOR AUTOMATIC UPDATES.

Did it save that hour or so's work? Hell to the naw. Hell. to. the. naw.

I'm so incredibly angry right now that I simply must go to the fridge and pull out a few more cans of Mountain Dew to console myself. Not to mention, I'm utterly devoid of energy to type that up again. I have pretty good memory when comes to words, sometimes darn near eidetic ... but O.M.G. THE EFFORT. -dejected sigh-

I despise computers and seriously rue the fact that I'm one of those people that composes best at a keyboard. Ah, well ... maybe now that the ideas for the sample are composed in my head, they'll flow out effortlessly and even more eloquently than they did at first. Nonetheless, I thought that warranted a rant... -_-

[Yagami Raito]

Is it wrong for me to say at least I'm not alone? xDD

I despised auto updates for that very same reason. On my last computer I frequently lost work because of the stupid restart and my lack of remembering to save things *hence why I save things obsessively now*. I'm also one of those that writes best at a keyboard T_T

But now I never update unless I have to... which causes me even more problems at times... soo...

I guess the moral is you can't win with computers? xD

I feel bad for you, though. I find that Near is one of those characters I can only role-play when I'm feeling a certain way myself, or that I have to be in "the zone" to do it properly. So I certainly feel your pain in regards to losing all that

[Disco Rentsky]

You're absolutely right. There's no winning with computers. I feel better now, though, since I've got back to writing ...

Near's not too hard for me to get into, as I'm pretty Near-ish IRL - reclusive, childish, overly-competitive, a bit of an ironic moral relativist despite the fact that I'm pretty set in my ways, and so on. I'm also pretty terrible with dealing with daily life; have a look at the dishes in me sink and my credit card statements and you'll see as much. xD

But yeah, I'm not the type who can stay angry about these things for long, even something so annoying as auto-updates.

-pets laptop- I'm sorry I cursed you out and flicked you, behbeh.

*coughButI'mstillreplacingyouwithaMacbookassoonasIgetthemoneycough*

[Yagami Raito]

xDD When you speak of Near that way, I guess I am already pretty IC with him xD
But I don't know, I find that I need to be in certain moods to portray different characters, whether they be canons or my own OCs xD *shot for being eccentric*

Ick... Macs xD I don't see much of a draw.
I guess despite all their issues, I'm a PC fan forever, though the Mac commercials own ^^

[Disco Rentsky]

Honestly, I think it's just that Macs are so pretty and sleek and flat. Plus, I just love white computers. Call me superficial. Oh, and my love for my iPod and its cool box probably played a part in my conversion, as well. ^^

xD Yes, Mac commercials are epic.

I really miss the old Jeff Goldblum commercials for iMac. Those were so funny. Eh heh. I love Jeff Goldblum. xDDD