The sad story of an semi-senile, computer illiterate attempting to download Mods.
It was a dark nite, wife watching tv, kids out, granddaughter in bed, I sat at the computer, meditating, "The computer is my friend, we are as one", then armed with suggestions from friends on the forum, like, Tesco, SJ, PhoenixD and Val, I was ready, I hit the switch, it booted, so far so good, no problems, put the Gold CD in the drive, "the computer is my friend we are as one", Go to my computer, find CD drive, I strike.. it brings up the mods on the cd, excitement begins to slowly escalate thru my body, I clik on the Mod Launcher, Winzip opens, ah ha, I'm in. I attempt to load, BUT, where are the buttons for extract and load named folders?? I pause, "the computer is my friend we are as one", I hit unzip, its working, at least its going somewhere,
now for the resistonce, I find TDM-Mod and P&N, do the same thing, everything looks ok, The excitment is flooding my body, I quickly go back to the SE4Gold folder, looking in ecstacy for the enjoyment that will shortly be mine. I look, I stop, I stare in disbelief, "The computer is my friend we are as one", No where are any of the three showing in the SE4 directory. Hmmm, Don't panic I say, I look further, I find the launcher on the left screen of Windows explorer, but nothing listed, sweat now breaks out rolling down my aging frame, but wait, no problem, "the computer is my friend we are as one", I decide to try another solution, go to my computer again, with shaky finger I clik on D drive. There are the mods again. Ok, ok, slowly, clik and drag the Launcher, TD-Mod & P&N onto the desktop, Success, oh yes, "the computer is my friend we are as one", I clik unzip, type in SE4 Gold, ok, nothing weird or strange happening, my anxiety beginns to subside, a sigh escapes my lips, "we are as one",
I clik & drag them to the SE4 Gold Shortcut, they go in ok, BUT, they are still on my desk top, oh oh, "we are one, we are one", ever so slowly I go back to the SE4 Folder, I inch my way down looking, looking, AEIIIIII , their not there, Mrs Mac comes, (bad timing), asks why I'm screaming and that I'll wake the granddaughter, I reply back, outcome, Mrs Mac is not currently talking to Mr Mac, she exits gracefully, I return my attention, "we are one", ya right. I desperatly search, finaly I find on the left screen after cliking the the + of MM folder, there they are, I go to the launcher, Excitment is profuse, there they are listed under none. A strange liquid begins to run down my inner leg, my mind is in a frenzy, excitment courses through my whole being, "the computer is my friend we are as one",
I clik on TD-Mod Pack, hit play SEIN, sit back and drool with anticipation, the computer is my friend we are as one", then... S..., NOTHING, I screwed it up again, d... computer, we are not one, the biggoted piece of metal, I furiously look around for something to increase the number of ventilation holes within its crusty, sarcastic, metal being, I know its laughing, haunting me, keeping me from a gamers high, and then like an exploding gas line, it hits me, IITTT KKnnoowws.. From its hidious Bios along its shiny slippery wiring to its inner Core, "It Knows", This is all a master sadistic plot of "Revenge". It knows about those like him that I met in combat in space, it knows how I glazed their ships and flayed them with Computer Viruses, It remembers how I captured and enslaved their planets minions. The frustration and disruption of my family life is all a stroke of a sick, warped and ingenious AI. I will get even, I will learn, I shall return and take the beasts smugness and shove it up its hard drive...For I am human and its Master, I shall persevere....Oh in between I'm going to have to but some roses for Mrs Mac, She still is not talking to me... sigh, what gamers go thru.
please help an old semi-senile, very active, computer illiterate who is a real nincompoop...
a very sad, frustrated, mac
[ 13 March 2002: Message edited by: mac5732 ]