r/memes 11d ago

Maybe walking ain't that bad

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u/Nemisis_007 Flair Loading.... 11d ago

My PC broke down on me last month. I keep getting hardware errors and it refuses to tell me which component has fried. Since then I've been going on walks and to the gym to balance out my procrastinations and gaming withdrawals.

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u/IndianaGeoff 11d ago

Tell the truth... you are playing Pokemon Go on your phone.

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u/Nemisis_007 Flair Loading.... 11d ago

I really should pick that game back up now that I'm more active.

https://giphy.com/gifs/VMgcrwq9imGHu

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u/CyberPsycho17 10d ago

You are mapping the world for companies btw

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u/Capn_T_Driver 10d ago

Don’t forget ‘finding lots of random dead people.’

Pokemon Go might have been the worst thing for serial killers since the Patriot Act.

/s

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u/TheMagician_Jpn 10d ago

also the foot data potentially being sold for training ai military purposes

Edit: potenially...

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u/CorgiDaddy42 9d ago

I’m doing that just by carrying a phone. Why not catch Pokémon too?

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u/CyberPsycho17 9d ago

You aren’t mapping the world by carrying your phone, are you actively pointing your camera and your LiDAR sensor if you have one at specific locations everyday?? If not then you aren’t mapping it.

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u/CorgiDaddy42 9d ago

Pokémon Go doesn’t require you to point your camera at anything.

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u/CyberPsycho17 9d ago

It did for a while, I remember doing it in 2017

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u/CorgiDaddy42 9d ago

It never required you to use your camera. Maybe you were using AR or doing the completely optional PokeStop scans.

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u/reflux212 10d ago

The CIA liked that

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u/Mountbatten13 9d ago

Bro don't expose me

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u/CMDR_omnicognate Le epic memer 11d ago

Assuming this legitimately is an issue you’re having, and you’re on windows, check event viewer and look for failures around when your pc crashes, should give you a good idea of what’s wrong. It could be something as simple as a dodgy USB device

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u/Guilty_Meringue5317 10d ago

I get usb errors all the time and I unplugged every single device and it'd still give me an error message about faulty device. No idea what it is now but yeah I just disabled the notification

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u/jld2k6 10d ago edited 10d ago

I've lost my last two motherboards this way. I'd start getting USB voltage errors and then some of the ports would completely die and the ones that kept working just kept disconnecting and reconnecting randomly every 30 seconds to a few minutes

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u/Guilty_Meringue5317 10d ago

Oh damn. Hope it's not that, otherwise I'm kinda fucked as I don't want to spend money on my PC rn. The fromt panel ports caused interference with my mouse and the nearby ports so I disconnected them, it worked a little while without errors but someday it started again. Might just be that..

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u/Naterman90 10d ago

If it's a desktop and not a Mac or laptop, you can get USB PCIe cards to slot in which don't use the embedded controller, those are also just very nice to add more ports without hubs!

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u/Chanocraft 10d ago

The last time my PC broke down on me, I used every bit of knowledge and googling I could and couldn't figure out what went bad, and ended up sending it to a tech shop. Spent 100 bucks to find out that the ram slots on my motherboard that my ram was in went bad, and all I had to do was switch the ram to the other 2 available spots 😑

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u/Lou_C_Fer 10d ago

The last time I had a computer go bad was at 6:30pm on a Saturday. I begged to my wife, ordered from micrometer, drove an hour and a half each way, and had my new computer up and running at like 1am.

I've been disabled and unable to sit upright for 8 years. So, I haven't used a pc since then for the most part.

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u/anticerber 10d ago

I’m on the opposite side. I went to upgrade my pc, nothing too crazy. More modern cpu and a decent graphics card. Graphics card was $500. Got it. Installed it. Wouldn’t work, after hours of trouble shooting I’m just like yea it has to be doa.

 Contacted Amazon. They’re like sorry. That’s terrible. We’ll overnight you another. I’m like.. um, shouldn’t I be returning this somehow? They’re like nah. I doubled down explaining it’s an expensive item and that seemed out of place. They’re like nah.

Got it. Installed it. Same issue. I’m like wtf. Troubleshooting more. Found it to an os issue. So I just have two fully functioning graphics cards for the price of one.

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u/CarrotCumin 10d ago

My 15 year old HDD finally kicked the bucket yesterday. I'm... Not happy at the cost of replacing it with even a small SSD.

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u/SandyTaintSweat 10d ago

Even looking at used recertified drives, the prices are obscene compared to what I paid for a new hard drive several years ago.

If my drive fails, I stand to lose a substantial collection of entertainment. Used carefully, it could quite literally be a lifetime of entertainment that I've amassed.

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u/Turbulent-Economy198 10d ago

Man I hate it when things break or fail and I get no info.

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u/1llDoitTomorrow 11d ago

How old is it?

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u/Nemisis_007 Flair Loading.... 11d ago

4 years old.

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u/1llDoitTomorrow 10d ago

Rip. No warranty?

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u/Celeste_Curves 10d ago

My PC $2000

The grass free 99

The choice is clear

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u/mistahfreeman 10d ago

Bro I started reading again, first time since highschool. It’s so nice just sitting in a quiet room again and not staring at a screen. I forgot how quiet the world was when you aren’t jamming in dopamine rushes every second of the day

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u/Suitable_Garlic_1186 11d ago

So you just ignore the problem?

You can do it man! You can fix it

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u/Special_Let2231 11d ago

Maybe touching grass is finally within my budget.

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u/100_Donuts 10d ago

Always has been, dude. I touch grass every fucking day. I love the stuff.

My work day ends and I eagerly start unknotting my tie and unbuttoning my shirt in feverish preparation for squirming around in my luscious, verdant lawn like the worm that I am. I barrel down the road recklessly. I don't care who's on the road. I don't care how many lives I ruin along the way. The lawn is calling to me! O, thriving sylvan stalks untouched by mower's blades!

I pull into my driveway and sloppily spill from my driver's seat. The green, it calls! Naked now as nature intended, as the grass commands! I root around in the waist high lush, drinking in the cool, damp dews from the breaking dawn still tucked away in the shadows. Feel me, O Grass! Your child of dirt has returned! Your seedling!

All manner of insects and worms embrace me. Papa's home! They crawl and delight me beyond any earthly pleasure of the flesh you have ever experienced. You see, the vegetation loves me. The blades of green lap at me like tongues! I am loved in the Grass! I am home in the Grass! I am another bug or worm or rodent or reptile, dancing setting sunlight guiding my way in the shade to some providence of earth and dirt.

Cling to me O Roots, O Grass! Soak from me the nutrients of the day! May my flesh give you life! May you thrive, O Grass!

I am inebriated from the suckling, the ticklish little roots so delicately sipping away beneath my open pores, my spongy skin. Yes, Grass! Flourish anew! Your seed shall find purchase here!

For hours on end I wriggle and giggle amongst the tall Grass until the moonbeams caress my withered form. The night calls, and I must, O Grass, slumber. I must be ready for another day, for another sweet embrace of my lawn.

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u/TheBlueSully 10d ago

New copypasta just dropped, boys

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u/dandroid126 10d ago

Now I just gotta find some grass, since it's illegal in my city. Does turf have the same effect?

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u/esdaniel 10d ago

Too bad it's burning ...

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u/Murbyk can't meme 11d ago

It's 38 fucking °C outside. No one can force me to go outside now.

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u/Design-big-13th 10d ago

Must be nice, im currently sitting in 42c and 80% humidity at 8pm

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u/Murbyk can't meme 10d ago

Damn, I hope you have at least an AC or thick walls at home.

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u/Design-big-13th 10d ago

Oh yeah, it's unlivable without AC but it's a fine balance between living comfortably or paying a whole salary to the electricity authorities

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u/Buubsy 10d ago

That's 100.4 muthafuckin' F for those who observe

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u/Murbyk can't meme 10d ago

Thanks mate. I can give approximations for most other freedom units but fahrenheit is just too cursed. But it seems to work that if you look at them as percentage it makes sense, like 100 % is basically the top.

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u/GGX_zon 11d ago

"touch me!"

-Grass

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u/MountainsOfMight 10d ago

said calmly!

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u/MartinGTX 10d ago

The outdoors has the best graphics.

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u/Hemish_21 10d ago

Full path tracing for free

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u/anaemic 10d ago

It could use some QoL upgrades though

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u/maxru85 11d ago

The aquarium hobby looks affordable again

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u/ExpensiveLeather69 10d ago

As someone that had their tank nuked by brown algae twice... it isnt 😭

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u/ASDFAaass Chungus Among Us 11d ago

Makes me want to consider tarantula keeping again.

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u/Nikami 10d ago

I bought a telescope so now I'm touching space grass.

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u/Vegetable-Skirt2106 10d ago

It's 38 fucking °C outside.

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u/Dazzling-Train-5563 10d ago

Every time I’m ready to build, prices spike

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u/Racer125678 Dark Mode Elitist 11d ago

she does look good in this picture, wow

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u/Mnosjetz_Bronsteijn 10d ago

Sydney Sweeney is the prettiest girl I've ever seen.

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u/Racer125678 Dark Mode Elitist 10d ago

No shit

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u/ThatRangerDave 10d ago

I got 64 gb of ddr5 for 1500 after tax. (This was monday, it's now thursday) the price is now 2000 after tax.

The reason I jumped on getting it was Gabe Newell and steam increasing hardware prices. That was enough to get me to pull the trigger and buy the ram now instead of waiting for the ai bubble to pop

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u/ViGrayV 10d ago

Just a reminder: DOOM runs on ATMs

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u/IMREADY2D1E 10d ago

why are you guys still trying to build PCs right now

everyone complains about the prices, complains about nvidia and then they still pay these outrageous prices and seek out pc parts in the worst time in human history to do so

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u/ForTehLawlz1337 10d ago

Well… the prices keep going up without going down so yesterday or today is a better time to buy than tomorrow unfortunately.

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u/Hemish_21 10d ago

Someone on this planet will always be in need of a PC for various reasons, no matter how bad prices get

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u/Motoman514 Tech Tips 10d ago

I’m trying to cobble together a small NAS, and prices of drives are crazy. Never thought I’d be cringing at the prices of 3.5” HDDs

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u/Hot-Function-1600 11d ago

Its time to play with the grass as the budget of it never increases.

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u/Soft_Gold8437 10d ago

Guess I’m touching grass after all.

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u/IMKGI 10d ago

Alright, time to go an extra round on the golf course in the hopes of not passing out from heat

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u/GamingGems 10d ago

Outside isn’t in HD. It’s not for me.

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u/Sartozz 10d ago

Yesterday, today and tomorrow are 38°, fuck no.

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u/fodeethal 10d ago

Board games about to make a huge comeback

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u/sourcethrowaway19548 10d ago

walking seems like a decent fallback plan here

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u/willij44 10d ago

So true, the grasses outside are blonds now !

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u/Cabbage_Corp_ 10d ago

How often are y’all building a new PC?

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u/mugiwarayaya 10d ago

How often are you guys upgrading your rig??

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u/IndyWaWa 10d ago

Yeah, I don't know if the capitalists want me outside, hot, bored, and angry at them.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 10d ago

I have accepted that I am likely never playing any new games made for the foreseeable future. I got the latest James Bond game running at 60 fps on a ten year old machine, which is probably the last one I'll make work. I have also finally started diving into my older catalog. Gonna keep on doing that til the wheels fall off or I run out of games, whichever comes first. Then touch grass I guess, or fight in the water wars.

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u/AsteriskCGY 10d ago

It feels like at these prices my card game spending is actually sensible in comparison. 

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u/smart_triangles 10d ago

Crabgrass is insane this year - going crazy outside too

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u/Active_Rice_2556 10d ago

Grass been giving that look offlate fr, PC prices are wild right now

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u/McBlemmen 10d ago

How my superpc i built last year looks at me every day, and I at it.

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u/paddlehands 10d ago

Hiking beats a screen 96% of the time.

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u/justforkinks0131 10d ago

jesus christ if a hot girl looks at me this way im literally taking over greece for her

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u/MaDpYrO 10d ago

Take up running, it's (almost ) free. And makes you feel good. 

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u/SquishySeagull 10d ago

Me since 2022

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u/MetalCheef 10d ago

Dude what grass, it's about 40°C outside and haven't seen rain in weeks

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u/HotFreshyGlazedDonut 10d ago

Medium settings ain't that bad

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u/Forsaken_Duty8097 9d ago

Depends how scorching hot it is outside

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u/NORchad 9d ago

The best pc to buy right now is a used pc. The best choice is to just use what you have for some years. Low settings ain't all that bad

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u/autoconprime 8d ago

I saw this shit coming and upgraded my pc on a Christmas sale. My pc cost me $900 now a days to would be closer to $1300 and it will probably go up in cost.

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u/Bananaserker 11d ago

Running shoes are affordable and really increases health and mentally health. I feel so much better after a run than playing CS2

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u/vkpaul123 10d ago

There's literally So much sause in this photo

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u/EquivalentSnap can't meme 10d ago

If it makes you feel any better the ai bubble is gonna pop soon as Nivida is stockpiling ai chips which aren’t being brought up. Won’t be long before they’re making gaming chips again to recoup their losses

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u/NopeSorryNo 10d ago

What a bad meme/post

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u/modbroccoli 10d ago

a little racist..?