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Ruvan22 posted...

Katellox posted...

Old NoiseTank posted...

@Katellox

yo man, weren't you in a similar situation earlier this year/last year? if so, how did you end up getting your games back?

Sure was, except the key difference being I let my lifelong friend borrow the N64 for a brief period with my games, having done so in the past with no problem. He sold them to a local used game store; a friend of mine caught one of the games in there with my last name written on the cartridge and gave me a heads up. They'd been in just a week ago to trade them in and over half were already sold.

Long story short, I let the dude know I wasn't playing around and threatened legal action and his stupid ass and girlfriend believed I had lawyer money and although I didn't get the $600ish required to actually replace it all, I did squeeze $300 out of them and brand new copies of Majora's Mask 3D and Ocarina of Time 3D that he stole as well.

I considered that good enough considering there was no way in hell to ever get my original games back. He got $150 for trading my N64 and 20+ games in. The store turned around and sold just Snowboard Kids 2 for $55. I want to throw up every time I think about it.

And then I just get over it and use my PC but mother fucker I wouldn't piss on fire to put him out.

Wow.. and this was a guy you'd know your whole life? What led him to do that?

He's a low life piece of shit from a poor background and he'd do anything to make rent, that's what. Spends hundreds of dollars on weed, moves from apartment to apartment.

He named his first kid after Auron from FFX and then gave him away a year later when they started having their second kid.

No contact with him for a long time now. Hope he's well

MrZAP17 posted...

That's way more fucked up than my situation. At least my roommate isn't a close friend and I can easily write him off.

Now I'm kicking myself for never labeling my games.

I hope you find them, some of them, whatever you do.

You know the messed up thing in my situation was the store had camera footage of him bringing in the games all at once, and the system, and my 3DS games, and sold them. Yet the store, even after filing a police report (to obtain the footage and games sold) would not give the information on the people they sold them to. Would've been a hassle to go hunt them down anyway but I would've at least appreciated that. Meh.

Good luck my friend.

Old NoiseTank posted...

@Katellox

yo man, weren't you in a similar situation earlier this year/last year? if so, how did you end up getting your games back?

Sure was, except the key difference being I let my lifelong friend borrow the N64 for a brief period with my games, having done so in the past with no problem. He sold them to a local used game store; a friend of mine caught one of the games in there with my last name written on the cartridge and gave me a heads up. They'd been in just a week ago to trade them in and over half were already sold.

Long story short, I let the dude know I wasn't playing around and threatened legal action and his stupid ass and girlfriend believed I had lawyer money and although I didn't get the $600ish required to actually replace it all, I did squeeze $300 out of them and brand new copies of Majora's Mask 3D and Ocarina of Time 3D that he stole as well.

I considered that good enough considering there was no way in hell to ever get my original games back. He got $150 for trading my N64 and 20+ games in. The store turned around and sold just Snowboard Kids 2 for $55. I want to throw up every time I think about it.

And then I just get over it and use my PC but mother fucker I wouldn't piss on fire to put him out.

^^ That's precisely why I want to get into this... well, besides working with computers, living alone is expensive and I assumed getting certified and working in that field will yield good wages compared to the unskilled labor I'm doing now. Time to get specialized in something.

voldothegr8 posted...

Katellox posted...

Ahh I guess I'll have to save up for these anyway so it'll be a few months before I can afford anything. Guess I'll enjoy life til then and prepare :)

If you're studying for Cisco certs you're not enjoying life, that shit is no joke.

Lol well, that's life, you get out of it what you put in. Gotta work to get somewhere like that, have to start somewhere.

Ahh I guess I'll have to save up for these anyway so it'll be a few months before I can afford anything. Guess I'll enjoy life til then and prepare :)

i think it's just an argument for the weirdos to shit standing up

TheDarkCircle posted...

one last dash of oyster sauce

Fuck lol

That's a relief. Thanks dudes. I may hit up my old boss and see if he knows anybody I could get in touch with too!

I think I'll sit down tonight with a beer and really hash this out. Networking is looking great as the first step.

I bought this pack of courses last year sometime for like $40 (it was on sale) and it goes over like, databases, programming, sql etc. etc. and I still have to run through all those. They're really informative... Honestly I think networking would just be way easier for me to understand than programming and learning all that. System administration would be a great long term goal.

Ya'll are extremely helpful and I greatly appreciate the time you take to respond to this thread.

rowdy would look like a member of amon amarth with just a little longer and more wild head hair. nice.

my hair is down to my ass and my beard is as long as rowdy's. big beard crowd represent what up

CableZL posted...

With networking, you're essentially dealing with routers, switches, firewalls, etc, and essentially making sure devices on the network can properly and efficiently communicate with the resources they need to access whether it's a server on the local network or a resource on the internet or otherwise external to the network.

With sysadmin work (from what I understand, at least), you're more focused on managing the PCs and their use. You'll probably be dealing heavily in active directory to manage user accounts for current employees, new employees, and terminating accounts for employees that leave... Possibly building or buying new machines for new users, setting up Windows and controlling group policies to control what users can and can't do, etc.

Hmmmm. That second one does sound more up my alley, but 'administration' implies it's a bit higher up and requires more expensive certification/degree, eh? I'm thinking maybe I can get into the networking field and maybe one day move up to that, as a long term goal.

okay first step is making sure all future chicks take chemical baths before you tongue punch their fart box

Cocytus posted...

Katellox posted...

music education, don't care about it anymore, don't want anything to do with it

Why's that?

Completely burnt out after my graduate recital (which earned me my degree after finishing the rest of the curriculum). Computers have always been my passion since I was a kid, music was a thing that developed during my teen years and after about 10 years I just realized it's not what I want to do for a living, I don't want to teach people anymore, or work at all in the education field, I barely have the motivation to pick up my guitar or piano for just a few minutes. At least with computers I know it's a field I can find a job in somehow and I know it's something I actually give a damn about.

If I could travel back in time I'd convince my high school senior self to pursue programming or something but c'est la vie, this is where I am now. I just realized I really need a job where I can work with computers, nothing else makes me happy.

Preferably I'd like to just work in PC repair but I concluded that for me networking seems to be the most practical route to go, since I can avoid going to college that way, basically (couldn't do that with programming; too much room for error if I study on my own, which I've tried). My old boss at the PC shop I worked at was a goddamn pro at networking and most of his business was at big companies like Pepsi doing all their computers. That's the kind of job I want to go for, work with computers while remaining a necessary player in the workforce.

That said... what's the difference between systems admin and networking? I tried studying the basics of databases and although it was fascinating I think it was just above my head, not sure how similar that is to systems admin.

Wow, that soon? That's awesome to hear. I want to get studying and feel like I have a purpose re: work soon. This will be a good goal for me. I'm making it a point to look at those CBT Nuggets videos and the Cisco Press books. I just hope that'll be enough to get my foot in the door somewhere, but, baby steps, need to study and take the exams first.

Thanks for the info, dude. I think I'll be going down this path as well. Looking into the CCENT and CCNA route. Whatever it takes to get started.

@CableZL, do you have a job in computers with any of those certificates? If you don't mind me asking, did you pay for those out of pocket, and were they terribly expensive? I'm leaning strongly towards going this route but not sure what all certificates I would need. As many as possible, I assume, obviously, but for example, CCNA Security and routing/switching are two targets I'm going after.

I basically want to be able to come home from work and just study this shit night after night after night to escape my current job and go right into something I love.

I worked in a PC repair shop for a few months until the owner fucked us all over and shut the shop down. I'm 26 with an associate's degree (music education, don't care about it anymore, don't want anything to do with it). Over the last few years I've realized I want to do computers, but I don't know where to start.

Do I take these government grants and free money and go back to college all over again to study a data systems & development 2-year degree? Or do I dive into the Cisco world and just study for the CCNA? I know I want to work computers, but I don't want to go to a university and risk crippling debt just for school.

The CCNA seems like the smart path to take, I live 15 minutes away from a city in which I could easily find employment with certification/PC know-how. I just don't necessarily long to work as a residential serviceman like my buddy who's a technician for Comcast and has to visit everyone's filthy disgusting homes.