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Reducing Pesky Fan Noise?

Posted by simoniker on from the less-noise-more-sound dept.

Thanks to FiringSquad for their editorial about how gamers and developers interact in public forums, inspired by Alex 'Marweas' Rodberg's public outburst in the HomeWorld 2 forums, which in turn inspired a Penny Arcade strip about the trials and tribulations of being a 'community manager'. The FiringSquad article suggests that "...there's an increasing divide between the people who make the games and the people who play them. And guess whose fault it is? It's yours, not theirs", and goes on to venture that "Online interaction is so impersonal, so fraught with assurances of anonymity, and so littered with the maladjusted and juvenile, that there are no social repercussions for acting like a jackass." What's to be done?

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  1. How to resolve pesky fan noise... by XBL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy some stuff from Quiet PC. Maybe some lower RPM ball-bearing fans and shit.

    1. Re:How to resolve pesky fan noise... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have found that the best tool for quieting a PC is a sledge hammer. It also solved my spam problem.

    2. Re:How to resolve pesky fan noise... by moonbender · · Score: 2, Funny

      Same thought here, I wondered why this was posted in the games section at first. Guess that producer feels about his customers just like I do about my CPU and case fans - you don't like them, but you need them; you want them to stop annoying you, but without them you're screwed. :)

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  2. IRC by Gr33nNight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try being an operator on IRC, you think there are jackasses and immature loots on message boards? Oh man, come to any IRC channel with 400+ users.

  3. a la jay and silent bob by WiKKeSH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Banky: Stop the movie? What are you, crazy?
    Jay: All these assholes on the internet are calling us names because of this stupid fucking movie.
    Banky: That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously. Stopping the flick isn't gonna stop that.

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  4. Re:Poppycock by Makoss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pfft. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Half-Life would have been soooo lame if not for my blowhole, water cooling, and UV lighting.

    Mods are so cool they even started bundling half-life with them, any of you guys know what color Cold-Cathodes they were shipping?

    Ohh. . . .wait. . . .you mean those OTHER sorts of mods. . . .

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