Okay that's it, which one of you sosuaver's was at my GF's BF's house lol?

backbreaker

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 24, 2002
Messages
11,573
Reaction score
572
Location
monrovia, CA
Only someone from here, could try this hard and fail this bad lol.



We go over my girl's best friend's house to chill. She's got drinks and crap, we are just chilling. She tries to fire up her PC to do somethign, pc just refuses to cut on. She throws a hissy fit. she's frantic, her pc is gone!

Now, as some story for you tat don't know me, i've been a pc tech my entire life just about. So naturally I say what the hell is wrong? calm the **** down, talk. She says my pc can't cut on, i have so much stuff on there and now it's dead I don't know what to do.

I'm like okay, I go look at it. Dead as a doorknob. No surge protector. I open up the case with a screwdriver, no lights, no movement nothing.

So, I used another power chord, swtiched it out just to make sure it wasn't a faulty cord, nothing.

I'm like okay, this more than likely is a falty power supply. Even if it's something else I can't figure out what it is until I repace the faluty power supply.

There is a computer store a few blocks away, I say you know what i'll get get you one and put it in, it's like 50 bucks, no big deal. I haven't done it in a while, I actually don't mind, it's fun.

Now there was like 8 of us there, one of the guys, I guess, just decided, I was being way too DJ for the moment. She was listening to me (she was pretty cute) and so happy I was helping her, so the dude calms out of the blue and tries to tell her that, he wouldn't do that becuase it's dangerous replacing the power supply and 'there are like 25 things that could be wrong with it" and we need to sit down and figure out what they are lol, i'm like dude, it ****ing wouldn't cut on, so I ask him, what is the fist thing you would look at if your car would not cut on? he said the battery. I said that's exactly what I'm doing, and usually that's what it is, something battery related.

So I go and buy a power supply, plop it in in like 10 minutes, comp uter worked like a ****ing new machine lol. Dude just refused to let it go. Pissy the entire night. She had invited him over, by the time we left they weren't speaking lol.

All he had to do is sit back and let me fix the damn computer instead of trying to be "alpha" when he had no clue what the **** he was talking about or when it was clear I knew what the **** I was doing. I'm not goign to act alpha when a doctor gives someone some advice
 

sux2bu

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jan 25, 2003
Messages
755
Reaction score
9
Girls tend to leave their computers running 24/7 which they are made to do and that's fine, BUT it also dramatically reduces the life of the power supply and all the other internal components. Nice to see you got it handed like a MAN and didn't take to those so called "geek squad" tards at Best Buy. Stay clear of them. Trust me.
 

backbreaker

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 24, 2002
Messages
11,573
Reaction score
572
Location
monrovia, CA
I used to be one of those geek squad members in high school.
 

Julius_Seizeher

Master Don Juan
Joined
Nov 25, 2009
Messages
1,233
Reaction score
75
Location
Midwest
Yeah it's stupid when people challenge you like that.

It escapes them, that by mere virtue of being the "challenger", they are automatically placing themselves in a position of inferiority.

Did Caesar challenge the Senate? No. He did as he pleased, to a chorus of bitter challengers whose jealousy ultimately lead them to kill Caesar.

I believe a defining virtue of men who win in the game of life, to be that of 'moving forward'. The men who rise to the top are those whose focus is always on the next hurdle, how to prepare for success, how to take advantage of all available assets. They simply don't have time, or the mental headspace, for bs that deviates from their mission. Sometimes the mission is a subject of devoted ambition, sometimes it is something as simple as needing to fix a computer, but in this instance, OP has demonstrated this quality in the manner by which he solved the problem.

This other loser was of no consequence, he lost before he opened his mouth.
 

ArcBound

Master Don Juan
Joined
Sep 15, 2009
Messages
1,529
Reaction score
114
Location
U.S. East
This is one of my gripes about some people on this site, they try to become the super alpha male. They don't realize that being an "alpha male" is an inherent quality that's earned by changes in mindset that eventually change how you act overall. They think it means to dominate every other dude out there to come out on top and it just makes them seem insecure. A.k.a. they nurture big egos.
 

Channel your excited feelings into positive thoughts and behaviors. You will attract women by being enthusiastic, radiating energy, and becoming someone who is fun to be around.

Quote taken from The SoSuave Guide to Women and Dating, which you can read for FREE.

NorwegianDJ

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 8, 2010
Messages
2,562
Reaction score
83
ArcBound said:
This is one of my gripes about some people on this site, they try to become the super alpha male. They don't realize that being an "alpha male" is an inherent quality that's earned by changes in mindset that eventually change how you act overall. They think it means to dominate every other dude out there to come out on top and it just makes them seem insecure. A.k.a. they nurture big egos.
Quoted for truth.
 

Julius_Seizeher

Master Don Juan
Joined
Nov 25, 2009
Messages
1,233
Reaction score
75
Location
Midwest
ArcBound said:
This is one of my gripes about some people on this site, they try to become the super alpha male. They don't realize that being an "alpha male" is an inherent quality that's earned by changes in mindset that eventually change how you act overall. They think it means to dominate every other dude out there to come out on top and it just makes them seem insecure. A.k.a. they nurture big egos.
No kid, if you were honest you'd admit that you don't have it and you hate people who do.

What do you care what other people do, why does it so ruffle your little feathers?
 

Bible_Belt

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jul 27, 2005
Messages
17,107
Reaction score
5,740
Age
48
Location
midwestern cow field 40
backbreaker said:
I'm not goign to act alpha when a doctor gives someone some advice

Behind lawyers, which most stockbrokers simply avoid due to fear of getting sued, doctors were always the worst investment clients. They have a God complex and never want to listen to advice, especially disagreement. I found that trait in a lot of very successful men - when faced with something new, they would continue to act like experts despite being completely ignorant.

That is a trait of true confidence in yourself - to realize when someone else has superior knowledge about a particular area of expertise, stfu, and listen. No one is the top expert on everything.
 

penkitten

Master Don Juan
Joined
Nov 14, 2001
Messages
8,270
Reaction score
244
Age
47
Location
at our house
fudge!
ok i admit it... you caught me red handed.
i went over to your gf's bf's house and tore open his computer and swapped all the parts out with ancient bad parts...
i didn't want him to get online and come here.
that's why i did it.
happy halloween.
rofl
 

Zarky

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 13, 2010
Messages
3,231
Reaction score
89
Location
SoCal
Julius_Seizeher said:
No kid, if you were honest you'd admit that you don't have it and you hate people who do.

What do you care what other people do, why does it so ruffle your little feathers?
troll or wannabe alpha detected, hope it's the latter :rolleyes:
 

theunflushables

Master Don Juan
Joined
May 28, 2007
Messages
1,105
Reaction score
20
May be the way I read it, but he doesn't sound alpha but a little AFC *****. He was worried about HER computer and refused to admit he knew nothing about computers. He also got all pissy after backbreaker fixed it.
 

Julius_Seizeher

Master Don Juan
Joined
Nov 25, 2009
Messages
1,233
Reaction score
75
Location
Midwest
Zarky said:
troll or wannabe alpha detected, hope it's the latter :rolleyes:
Jealousy detected, deal with it.
 

ArcBound

Master Don Juan
Joined
Sep 15, 2009
Messages
1,529
Reaction score
114
Location
U.S. East
Julius_Seizeher said:
No kid, if you were honest you'd admit that you don't have it and you hate people who do.

What do you care what other people do, why does it so ruffle your little feathers?
Some people can naturally dominate other people in social settings without seeming insecure or overbearing. And I respect that.

You can go through life without trying to control every single situation and every conversation.
 

backbreaker

Master Don Juan
Joined
Apr 24, 2002
Messages
11,573
Reaction score
572
Location
monrovia, CA
real2 said:
I woulda liked to stick my BIG NVidia GTX480 into her tiny PCIe slot for sure :rock:
this girl was more like an old ass agp slot
 

cordoncordon

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jun 2, 2006
Messages
2,890
Reaction score
109
backbreaker said:
Only someone from here, could try this hard and fail this bad lol.



We go over my girl's best friend's house to chill. She's got drinks and crap, we are just chilling. She tries to fire up her PC to do somethign, pc just refuses to cut on. She throws a hissy fit. she's frantic, her pc is gone!

Now, as some story for you tat don't know me, i've been a pc tech my entire life just about. So naturally I say what the hell is wrong? calm the **** down, talk. She says my pc can't cut on, i have so much stuff on there and now it's dead I don't know what to do.

I'm like okay, I go look at it. Dead as a doorknob. No surge protector. I open up the case with a screwdriver, no lights, no movement nothing.

So, I used another power chord, swtiched it out just to make sure it wasn't a faulty cord, nothing.

I'm like okay, this more than likely is a falty power supply. Even if it's something else I can't figure out what it is until I repace the faluty power supply.

There is a computer store a few blocks away, I say you know what i'll get get you one and put it in, it's like 50 bucks, no big deal. I haven't done it in a while, I actually don't mind, it's fun.

Now there was like 8 of us there, one of the guys, I guess, just decided, I was being way too DJ for the moment. She was listening to me (she was pretty cute) and so happy I was helping her, so the dude calms out of the blue and tries to tell her that, he wouldn't do that becuase it's dangerous replacing the power supply and 'there are like 25 things that could be wrong with it" and we need to sit down and figure out what they are lol, i'm like dude, it ****ing wouldn't cut on, so I ask him, what is the fist thing you would look at if your car would not cut on? he said the battery. I said that's exactly what I'm doing, and usually that's what it is, something battery related.

So I go and buy a power supply, plop it in in like 10 minutes, comp uter worked like a ****ing new machine lol. Dude just refused to let it go. Pissy the entire night. She had invited him over, by the time we left they weren't speaking lol.

All he had to do is sit back and let me fix the damn computer instead of trying to be "alpha" when he had no clue what the **** he was talking about or when it was clear I knew what the **** I was doing. I'm not goign to act alpha when a doctor gives someone some advice
You did good bb!
 

Peace and Quiet

If you currently have too many women chasing you, calling you, harassing you, knocking on your door at 2 o'clock in the morning... then I have the simple solution for you.

Just read my free ebook 22 Rules for Massive Success With Women and do the opposite of what I recommend.

This will quickly drive all women away from you.

And you will be able to relax and to live your life in peace and quiet.

Tovansky

Don Juan
Joined
Jun 18, 2010
Messages
66
Reaction score
1
lol good job man. and I totally agree with you not to try being an alpha on a field that you are not that capable of, like the doctor thing you said.
 

Kailex

Master Don Juan
Joined
Jan 3, 2010
Messages
2,072
Reaction score
190
Location
New Jersey
Oh wow, he honestly said that 25 things could go wrong with installing a new PSU??? Are you kidding me?

What did he think that was... a MoBo? And even that is hard to screw up.
Obviously the guy had absolutely NO clue what he was talking about and that was his biggest mistake. Instead, he looked like a damn fool.

It's pretty much a "plug and play" situation and he turned it into a bomb defusing and then ended up looking even worse. That's why it's wise to just stick with what you know, there's no shame in not knowing about something rather than to act like you do and have it blow up in your face. God knows he probably could have scored points with everyone just by asking you if you could help him learn a few of those "IT intense things" like "Installing a new PSU".

Next time, ask him if he should get a 100w PSU and watch his reaction, guaranteed he would have said that the 100w was far better than a 50w. :box:
 

5string

Master Don Juan
Joined
Feb 18, 2010
Messages
2,360
Reaction score
112
Location
Standing At The Crossroads
BB....the icemaker in my fridge isnt working. What time can you come over? I won't even feel threatened. We can have some scotch on the rocks when you get it fixed!
 

synergy1

Master Don Juan
Joined
Sep 22, 2006
Messages
1,992
Reaction score
192
Seriously, who would argue against a busted PS if NOTHING turns on. Whats worse than dorks are dumb dorks...seriously. What is interesting that this guy was clearly trying to out do you in some regard, and it makes them look even worse than if they kept their mouth shut. I had a similar run in w/ a wanna be alpha ( he must have read pick up **** back in the day) and try and insult the women at our little party. you could tell he was trying too hard to be the jerk, so rather I talked to all the ladies and eventually ended up hooking up w/ one at the club we went too. His little routine made it easier for the normal people, thats for sure.

Unrelated but somewhat relevant story from this weekend. In college I worked for the campus network center and basically did field work to make sure everyone was online. Anyway, I was out this saturday and thought I saw an old buddy from college from like 6 years ago. I approach the group and start chatting, and it turns out that one of the girls remembers me troubleshooting her computer from all that time ago. So swag mean chicks remember you!

BB pro work as always. Keep up making pretenders look dumb. Too many of them, and too few of us!
 

terran2k

Senior Don Juan
Joined
May 13, 2010
Messages
298
Reaction score
18
I think both of you were trying to prove how alpha you were by fixing her PC, you just happened to guess the better solution.
you didnt even listen to what he had to say it seems, maybe he knew something you didn't perhaps? something that could help you later on in troubleshooting?
in the end she got her computer fixed for free, all she had to be a cute girl with a problem and woooosh, you guys rushed in to save her.
she did at least pay the $50 for the powersupply right?
 
Top