Quest For The Packard Bell
Chapter IV
Almost a victory, certainly a defeat.
You may wonder why I chose to write today's title as "almost a victory, certainly a defeat..." But, if you haven't been following this story from the beginning, here's why I want to say it was most certain that it was almost a victory, yet certainly a defeat in this quest of story.
You see, I found a tower which was in considerably better shape than that Legend Force 2020, and to be honest, it looked much more similar to my father's first computer. Now, why anyone would be wanting to get their own Packard Bell computer that was just like the one that sat on their old man's desk from 1995-2001, some may scratch their heads. But apparently some noobslayers may just think I suck at more modern PC games which are more MMOs than anything else, which to be honest, I do. I may have to git gud, perhaps have some of the more modern titles on newer hardware to practice up so that I don't end up getting my ass handed to me so much, but the truth is, I'm not really seriously interested in taking the full rank of competitive matches. If I have to be someone else's floor to mop, then I should probably accept that. (And perhaps don't use the RedEye to play Overwatch since I have noticed some input lag playing the game.)
However, I experienced a few major hurdles as to getting this off of the ground. First of all, the system I bought was a parts system, only powering on and not booting to anything, and I had no recovery media which would've been compatible with the device in question. Second, I did have some limited time at the Kings County Courthouse Museum that I was planning to keep working at over the majority of July that year, since I was dreading having to share the Transit bus to (or from) Kentville with a load of day-campers at a pre-pandemic (in other words, pre-COVID) amount. And, finally... I was likely discouraged from the pursuit of this project, although I personally may have thought it quite a noble venture in my mind, was probably talked out of it, because apparently certain nerdy friends in my association would prefer I don't spend all of my time playing games in MS-DOS, Windows 3.11 and 95, and in even some cases 98, but just because that has stopped me from the pursuit of this for now, doesn't mean it will stay that way forever.
I've still made this a personal aim of mine, irregardless of how pointless, impractical, or grasping at straws this might seem, for at least one of two reasons. (1.) Sometimes modern games make me rage so much, and it doesn't help that some more veteran players who probably spend all-nighters at the computers which they refer to as "their battlestations" say that I'm mad because bad, which isn't too far an exaggeration of the truth, I kind of have been too discouraged from attempting further games of competitive Overwatch 2. (2.) I may be in 2022, but my mind is perennially in 1980-2006, which the majority of games which I did have some interest in were made. Sure, there may be some made after 2006 which I'm interested in, and I pretty much group the games that were made from 1977-1979 as games of 1980, but as for games released after 2006, I'm not quite as interested in THOSE games as I would've been, say, one released with a release date of 2005 or prior.
Also, I've realized now after some thought that I will be writing a book kind of doing an over two (or more) month commemoration of the fact I quit having a "private" Facebook account as of last summer, during the month of August 2021. Title TBD and not to be published on either the currently active "Weeb Cafe" or the soon to be scrapped as a blog, "Project Excalibur - 2019-2020 Computer Build."
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