Downtime

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

I don't.



Thus, Twitter is not important.

I didn't get my first computer until I was nine, when my then-uncle was going to throw it away for being a boat anchor with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1.

I didn't get my first additional games for it until three solid months of begging finally wore my mom into buying from the "please take this shit for free" bin.

I didn't get a color monitor for it until I was ten, which my mom's work was going to throw out for being outdated.

I didn't get a CD drive for it until I was eleven, because my dad had one he wasn't using.

I didn't get my first proper game system until I was twelve, and the GBC had already been out for a year. My grandparents popped for one I could share with my brother because my cousins both liked theirs so much. We got four games for it and didn't get more until months later when we coughed up from our own piggy banks.

I didn't get my first console until I was thirteen, which was a free fourth-hand PS1 from a friend as everyone got the PS2. It's one of the originals with the plastic gears (and still works!).

I didn't get a modern computer until I was eighteen, and it was the cheapest laptop we could find for school. I got my first dial-up a month later after explaining what the Internet was to my mom and saying how useful it would be for school research.

I didn't get high-speed Internet until I was nearly twenty because my mom finally discovered YouTube and I convinced her to shell out for a package deal with our phone company.

I did not get a cell phone until I was twenty-two, and only because my brother had bought a TracFone on his own money and then decided his plan blew goats, so it was just lying around.

I did not join any site minus Gaia, Zenhex, or NPF until late last year.

I did not join Twitter until NPF exploded however long ago.



If I have something related to technology or software and another person doesn't, chances are they are fucking behind. XP

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

If I have something related to technology or software and another person doesn't, chances are they are fucking behind. XP

Or it's stupid.

[Kim]

Twitter isn't stupid. At least, not inherently so. However, it isn't something people have to have either. It's a thing. It's very useful. That's all.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Krylo

Or it's stupid.

Hey, hey, HEY! Twitter is totally awesome! It's like an IM, only with as many people as you want to read from and you can talk to anyone who wants to hear from you all at once!

PS - I didn't get taught how to use an IM until after I joined NPF. :P

PPS - Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is a man who will someday soon be writing an intricate financial system for your bank, or critical code for your operating system, or the combat system for that game you'll be drooling over in a few years when it gets announced. :P

(PPPS - I have to be one of the most self-deprecating people alive. XD)

[synkr0nized]

hahaha Blues that post is so I don't even what is going on nyoro~n

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by NonCon

It's a thing.

That is stupid.


But for serious, if you're a person who both cares about things enough to need up to the second updates on them in 150 characters or less, and subscribes only to news sources/insiders/etc. on those things I could see where it would be useful.

For the rest of us it's just going to be a place to watch stupid people post stupid updates about their stupid boring lives in very short posts.

Besides, the entire admin/mod/PR staff has Shiney's number. We text/call him when we notice the forums are down. He doesn't need a twitter for that, and the rest of you can just wait patiently for things to get fixed or wait for information to trickle down the grape vine (and probably hit POS's or someone else's twitter, admittedly).

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by synkr0nized

hahaha Blues that post is so I don't even what is going on nyoro~n

Mostly it's just me making fun of myself for having a family that knows jack shit about technology and having gotten screwed pretty much my whole life in that department until I got my own disposable income. XD

[Kim]

The whole fuck Twitter/Facebook/Myspace/Whatever thing people seem to have going on just smacks of I don't even know what. I mean, Blues' whole spiel is pretty asinine, and Shiney really doesn't need a Twitter, but I wouldn't say you're coming off any better than Blues. Just a bunch of blegh all around.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by NonCon

The whole fuck Twitter/Facebook/Myspace/Whatever thing people seem to have going on just smacks of I don't even know what. I mean, Blues' whole spiel is pretty asinine, and Shiney really doesn't need a Twitter, but I wouldn't say you're coming off any better than Blues. Just a bunch of blegh all around.

No, I will fully admit that reading that whole thing over just got way too long to be funny, which was what I was aiming for and missed like Babe Ruth on a bad day.

Everyone else is just being everyone else reacting to me being asinine.



Edit: Also, I can totally dig their attitude, because until very recently, I was in the same boat. I only joined Twitter so I could talk to Mac when the server melted and ended up chatting up Token before Mac followed me and snowballing from there. I only just got a Facebook after literal years of outright refusing so my mom would stop spamming my email with StumbleUpon links. I have to say I still don't particularly like it, but it's an easy way to post info to my family and is slightly less painful than sifting through pages of unmarked links.

[synkr0nized]

Nah, I totally get how Twitter can be neat, moreso once I got a smartphone. It's truly merely a particular use of it that is stupid, much how my gripes about FB before joining it could be traced to the ways people I know used it rather than the service itself.