TheGreatGodPan on 11/6/2005 at 04:07

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This a long, somewhat boring, and possibly pointless post. You've been warned.
A long while back, I lent Deus Ex (the best game ever made) and Fallout (the second best game ever made) to a friend of mine. He got sidetracked and didn't get to play much before he lost them. Today he found Deus Ex and System Shock 1 (another friend lent that to me because it wouldn't work on his computer, I got it to work a short while on my old comp, but it crashes when I tried to hack, so I lent it to the friend that is the subject of this post). He bet me 5 bucks that he could get SS to work, I was morally obliged to decline his offer as I knew it would only play the intro and then crash, as I had seen just that happen when I first lent it to him. Then he tried to install Deus Ex. The auto-install didn't happen for some reason, so he went opened up the D:/ folder and tried to run set-up (in both the main and system folder) and deusex.exe (ditto). It said there was some file missing and it wouldn't work. I offered to to see if I could get it to work on my computer. I wasn't sure if that would work, because the reason I let him borrow it was because it had stopped working on my computer for some strange reason, and when I first lent it to him it worked fine on his, leading me to believe that it had gotten damaged during his (mis)use of it. I brought it home, and auto-install DID pop up, but it kept on giving me the same error. Was Deus Ex lost to me forever!? Then I remembered something.
A while back I brought Soul Calibur for Dreamcast from Gamestop. It didn't work at all. I went back and the not-so-friendly clerk (I'm not bashing all the employees, one of them is really alright, but the other one isn't) said it was probably my Dreamcast. I knew that wasn't it, because I had just traded my busted Dreamcast for a perfectly working one with the same person I had lent Deux Ex to (he had stopped playing it anyway, so it was no big loss to him) and it had been working perfectly. Then the clerk sold me some CD-repairing goo. I followed all the directions on the bottle, but the disk was still kaput. I returned that, but even though I got store credit, I still felt a bit gipped that I blew that money on the goop that did me no good. Just a few weeks ago from today, I remembered that goop when while griping about how quickly my Iron Maiden Dance of Death CD got horribly scratched on all the best songs (my Ed Hunter compilation, which is considerably older, is in perfect condition). The goop worked like a charm. I tried it on my punk mix, which had some minor scratches on a few songs (nothing near as bad as DofD though), and it was good as new.
Thus far, it had only been succesful in repairing music CDs. For all I knew, it was just allowing the scanner to skip over broken portions so it didn't get stuck. This was a game that the computer demanded a good file for, and my computer was possibly too screwed up to work if the file was good anyway. I squirted on some goop (forgetting to shake well first, for which I cursed myself), rubbed, polished and prayed. Deus Ex works perfectly. Or at least it did before I unistalled it (I tested it till a bit past Castle Clinton when I got flame-throwered to death), seeing as how I promised to bring the CD back to my friend. Thank you, busted copy of Soul Calibur!
I guess what I'm really trying to say, in a kind of roundabout kind of way, is that good things do happen to good people. Or at least not too far below average people.

Ozzy Osman on 11/6/2005 at 21:10

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lol, paragraphs

Tortus on 12/6/2005 at 06:35

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Such a typical TTLG retort. I think someone could write a book on the subject.