Where can I buy Fallout 1 or 2?

Only seven minutes between your "im tired of all u computer geeks giving me shit see ya" comment and your next response? Without anybody else replying in between them?

Pity, I've seen better.

That said...

Lunchbox said:
i just posted this to get maybe one message but right from the start u started making fun of me and stuff and u know what i do not like being made fun of and i did nothing about it until u called me lazy and u know what i am but u don't know me and don't be saying shit, im sorry u have to make fun of people to make urself feel better about {I'm trying to say your, you are, or you're, but I'm likely too stupid to know which to use.} lonly life.

You're right, we don't actually REALLY know you, since all we have to go on is what we've seen of your posts here. Guess what we saw though? :roll:

Lunchbox said:
i just wanted to see where i could get the game if anyone knew where other than online
Now how the hell would we ever know this? Hell, we wouldn't even know what CONTINENT you live on if it wasn't for Rosh helping us figure out that you're from in or around Winnipeg.

Try looking at Best Buy, eh? (waits to see how long it takes him to figure out what Best Buy is called in Canada :twisted:)
 
There are online stores where, now this is a shocker, you can place a "Money Order." It's a very demanding process though.

Actually, Ozrat, to be fair, Lunchbox did mention residence in Canada, when complaining that companies don't ship there.
 
Lunchbox said:
im tired of all u computer geeks giving me shit see ya

I think as per typical of this thread, I have to point out the obvious again.

Liar.

i just posted this to get maybe one message

One message for what? Another to prove that you're a lazy little twit that can't be bothered to think for themselves, requiring other people to play 20 Questions in order to get some sense of the drivelous crap you originally posted? I'm sorry, that was proven a long time ago, it's a little late to start with the tears now.

but right from the start u started making fun of me

No, right from the start I pointed out that you failed to indicate what you were really looking for and how you either have or have not, and failed to look for yourself like a sentient being that hasn't wasted the schooling they were put through.

and stuff and u know what i do not like being made fun of and

Do you even bother to read what you write, or just blubber via the keyboard?

i did nothing about it until u called me lazy

Did I forget to mention "idiot" as well? It is called simple observation, but apparently you lack said skills. I was civil until you kept feeding out line after line that you conveniently forgot in your initial post, including first that your parents won't let you use the credit card or that they don't like to make online credit card purchases. Your story doesn't match up with each version you keep trying to revise in your monosyllabic manner.

u know what i am but u don't know me and don't be saying shit,

Really? I know you through how you represent yourself on a forum. Again, that's through simple observation.

im sorry u have to make fun of people to make urself feel better about {I'm trying to say your, you are, or you're, but I'm likely too stupid to know which to use.} lonly life. i feel sorry for you.

The line by every moron in denial of their own actions and the result of social rejections due to said actions. Of course, since you apparently didn't know that other people didn't approve of your garbage, that would technically affirm that you have little touch with reality.

Try spouting that line to your father as he's beating your ass with the belt for poorly representing the family and the innumerable hours obviously wasted upon your "education".

and ya i used my moms email becuase i do not got one other than hotmail

I suppose it's obviously because you can't work a search engine worth a damn. Seriously, with your poor grasp of literary skills and else, how the hell did you ever manage to register onto these forums, much less think that typing like a cat scrubbing its ass over the keyboard has any place here.

i just wanted to see where i could get the game if anyone knew where other than online

Too bad you didn't stipulate that and many other points to begin with, moron.

i did not think it was a big deal,

Obviously not, since you expected everyone to jump to your aid without you having to stipulate a damn thing of what you were really looking for. You expected, but you received what you asked for, numerous times over. Don't bitch at us because you're too stupid to formulate the question correctly.

sorry every one

Oh, now we get to the "apology", after the repeated lies and pathetic excuses. What is it with these passive-aggressive attention whores, lately?

u can just ban me i guess and delete this topic

I'm sure you've love for this topic to vanish. However, there will be actions taken unless I get a written explanation from Mrs. Fenwick about how her child told her about how they abused their e-mail account to otherwise bother people who have rules around their forum and require a certain amount of maturity in order to post. As their spawn was found to be lacking of said maturity, if I do not receive that, I will send a copy of this thread to everyone in her office.

Some of us are better at playing the mind games than you'll give credit for when you'll try your lame excuses and denial, kid.
 
WHat a retard, Rosh is actualy farly nice to him here, as far as Rosh goes......

Oh, and Ive also had a CD explode in the drive befiore. Approx 15% (juding from what was missing when I pulled the fragments out) basicly shatterd into fine grained dust and never came out.
 
well the members/mods here are harsh.....(there should be a notice when you sign up) they grow tired of answering questions that have "seemingly obvious answers. search engines aren't hard to use and if you bothered to read up on past pages you would have found most of the answers you seek.
i have never had a disk "explode" in my drive before, but my original fallout disk did get small holes in it, because i was using a small installation and the disk was running all the time it got hot and wore holes in the data.
 
so now we know why he isn't allowed to buy online. his illiteracy is broadcasting to all of the lowlives on the internet. viva la spam and con mail
 
A disc could "explode" theoretically if it accelerated so quickly the centrifugal force caused it to break apart. It takes quite a bit of force to break a CD (I've tried to break countless CD-Rs that I have ruined with my own incompetence), and I don't remember the formula for calculating centrifugal force off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that the RPM/sec would be measured in the hundreds of thousands if not millions; far above the capacity of a dinky old CD-ROM drive.
 
DevilsAdvocate, it is a wellknown fact to the hardware community that such things DO happen.

in the first part you are right, to break a CD you'd have to generate a rotationspeed way above what a CD-rom or DVD-rom reader can generate. however, the CDs break because of bad structural integrity, not due to excessive rotationspeeds. sometimes invisible hairline fractures cause the cd to be weaker than they should be and they just pop out of existence...
 
They tested this on the show Mythbusters and they found out that CD s with no flaws really can't just decide to self-destruct in normal CD drives, even fast ones like the 52x speed I have. You have to REALLY get the RPMs up there for them to decide to fly apart. They even tried microwaved and otherwise mutilated CDs. They had to simulate extremly high speeds using some sort of powertool if I recall. When they did go though... You wouldn't just be picking the bits of plastic out of the drive, it would be trashed.
 
I'm looking forward to that explanation letter. Or the reaction of her co-workers when they get a copy of this thread.

*sits down and opens beer can*
 
Colt said:
They tested this on the show Mythbusters and they found out that CD s with no flaws really can't just decide to self-destruct in normal CD drives, even fast ones like the 52x speed I have. You have to REALLY get the RPMs up there for them to decide to fly apart. They even tried microwaved and otherwise mutilated CDs. They had to simulate extremly high speeds using some sort of powertool if I recall. When they did go though... You wouldn't just be picking the bits of plastic out of the drive, it would be trashed.

i've seen such tests myself (on hardwarewebsites with nice little vids), however, they didn't claim it couldn't be true. they used their heads to put two and two together...

and how many CDs did they test at mythbusters? 100? 1000 maybe?
quite frankly, that is not enough when millions get sold daily...
if the problem was so frequent as 1/1000 i'd be one hell of a scandal imo...

myself, i've been into computers for ages. for quite some time now i've been the person friends go to if they'd have any prob with their pc. for a bit over a year now, i've been a mod of a local hardware forum (basically news, reviews & troubleshooting).

yes, i have seen what an 'exploding' cd can do to an optical drive... so no lameass 'i heard from a friend that...'-bullshit. of course your drive is fucked if it happens, you'd have to be extremely lucky for it not to be.

i find it rather disturbing to have someone say "ow the problem doesnt exist because i found some site or some show saying you're a liar!". i even take offense at it. especially when it is such a hard subject to empirically test. maybe think before you post, that helps...
 
The reason why I called it bullshit is because the kid obviously hasn't had enough experience in using a computer, or life for that matter, for that grade of CD to have gone under enough stress to have "exploded". It does happen, but that's only with poor media that is poorly-treated (i.e. overused).

Now, given the amount some of us have played Fallout, I would lay better odds on MY original copy turning into kibbles before Toolbox's there.
 
wasn't aimed at you, dear rosh. my point was a general one: however unlikely it might be, it is possible.

anyhow, i dont believe the original poster either (due to what and how he writes), but that was not the issue ;)
 
Wooz said:
I'm looking forward to that explanation letter. Or the reaction of her co-workers when they get a copy of this thread.

*sits down and opens beer can*

Same here :D
 
Well, I wasn't saying the person was lying. It just seems like to me that the most likely result of a structurally weak CD being spun at high RPM would be a much cleaner break than an "explosion". That actually happened to me with my Baldur's Gate II Disc 2: I tried playing one day, heard the drive spin up to read, then a loud crack, and when I examined the disc there was a clean break running from the center ring outward. If I recall correctly, CD-R (and especially CD-RW) discs are weaker than your standard retail CD; retail discs have an extra layer on them to add a larger degree of robustness to the disc, which is why burned discs seem to go "bad" faster.

A retail CD flying to pieces in a drive seems very, very unlikely as a result of a single flaw and would be more likely a result of hundreds of flaws in the manufacturing procedure (which would probably mean a lawsuit, and a lot more discs breaking).
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
...That actually happened to me with my Baldur's Gate II Disc 2: I tried playing one day, heard the drive spin up to read, then a loud crack, and when I examined the disc there was a clean break running from the center ring outward...

NOOOO! not baldurs gate 2!!!!! *calms down by opening a beer... mmm*
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
Well, I wasn't saying the person was lying. It just seems like to me that the most likely result of a structurally weak CD being spun at high RPM would be a much cleaner break than an "explosion".

Very true. Flaws tend to develop upon lines, and to fix that it only requires a paperclip to manually eject the pieces and a cleaning of the few shards. At most, you'll end up with two or three large pieces of the disc and a few splinters.

"Exploding" is the term for when a CD basically loses integrity and falls apart in splinters, often to be ground into the CD drive. This is caused by extreme temperatures mixed with a very high seek, which is rarely known outside of stress testing labs. When a CD is to the point of being flung apart like that, it will hit the sides of the drive and act like a frag grenade to the internals.
 
That happened to a friends brothers friend (if that makes sense). The CD sped up really fast and actually sliced through the side of the case before smashing (or atleast hitting really hard) against the wall.
 
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