Just as the topic title implies. Gone are the days that we all sit around and backstab people in SC, or play videogames in general. As most of us get older, I can only imagine computer time has gone down. For those that still spend a lot of time on the computer: what do you do for fun? Which websites do you visit frequently?
I'll start:
I go to about 8-9 different Webcomics, have an RSS feed for a couple different websites, and am always on iGoogle to see if a new Slashdot/Engadget/Techdirt story catches my eye. I also check x86 but the lack of activity usually means there's never anything here. Beyond that, I find myself at a loss for what to do on a computer for fun. I've been meaning to install Linux so that I can get back into a more comfortable programming environment, but I've heard Linux isn't a great laptop OS in terms of battery consumption/energy efficiency, and I don't want to deal with reinstalling Windows anyway. I casually play video games, and watch some downloaded TV shows/movies.
Facebook, Google Reader, e-mail, video chat, youtube, working on personal projects, hulu... the list goes on porn. I guess those are the ones that I'd attribute most of my "fun times" to, though.
Facebook, slashdot, x86, various web comics, ICCup, StarCraft 2, StarCraft, Counter-Strike, TV shows.
Quote from: Sidoh on April 14, 2010, 12:35:02 AM
Facebook, Google Reader, e-mail, video chat, youtube, working on personal projects, hulu... the list goes on porn.
I read about a dozen different "fun" RSS feeds (webcomics + some cheezburger sites). And about 500 different security/IT feeds (give or take). I also use Twitter (twitter.com/iagox86) to follow a lot of different security folks.
Besides some little games (I just recently beat I Wanna Be The Guy), I spend a lot of time working on hacking tools (I'm a core developer for Nmap and I've been working a lot on Metasploit, plus I do some of my own stuff like nbtool and dnscat). I also maintain my blog on skullsecurity.org, which gets a decent amount of recognition lately.
So yeah, I spend a lot of time on the computer.
Quote from: iago on April 14, 2010, 11:26:12 AM
I read about a dozen different "fun" RSS feeds (webcomics + some cheezburger sites). And about 500 different security/IT feeds (give or take). I also use Twitter (twitter.com/iagox86) to follow a lot of different security folks.
Besides some little games (I just recently beat I Wanna Be The Guy), I spend a lot of time working on hacking tools (I'm a core developer for Nmap and I've been working a lot on Metasploit, plus I do some of my own stuff like nbtool and dnscat). I also maintain my blog on skullsecurity.org, which gets a decent amount of recognition lately.
So yeah, I spend a lot of time on the computer.
i see two problems with this.
1) Your list contains a lot of things that aren't porn.
2) Your list doesn't have porn on it
me thinks you're a LIAR!
facebook, gmail, skype, reading the news, AIM, listening to music, personal programming projects, comp sci homework, english homework, reading up on MLB standings/statistics, MLB gamecasts, TV shows, online chess, ...
There are sooo many things to do on a computer for fun. And there are a lot more fun things to do on a computer than reading forums and playing video games >_>
Maybe I'm just missing something, but I don't really see the appeal in Facebook.. Everyone I "keep in contact with" through Facebook I already talk to regularly. To me it's just more something I check once a day or so to see if I got invited to some random events or what have you. Care to fill me in?
Quote from: deadly7 on April 14, 2010, 07:50:39 PM
Maybe I'm just missing something, but I don't really see the appeal in Facebook.. Everyone I "keep in contact with" through Facebook I already talk to regularly. To me it's just more something I check once a day or so to see if I got invited to some random events or what have you. Care to fill me in?
Not true for me. Most of the people I'm in touch with over facebook I don't see every year, let alone every day.
Regardless, it's a forum for discussion and interesting conversation. That's rarely what it amounts to, but that's why I'm there if I am.
Sidoh has joined group 'Can this pencil get more friends than Joe?'
Quote from: Blaze on April 14, 2010, 09:09:25 PM
Sidoh has joined group 'Can this pencil get more friends than Joe?'
"Like"
I don't use facebook. :P
Facebook. x86. Listen to music. Do homework. Download movies and music. Really, that's about it. I don't do those all that much, either. I'm really social now. And that's sad, because my social life is pathetic by most standards. I had no social life back in high school in comparison.
Quote from: Blaze on April 14, 2010, 09:09:25 PM
Sidoh has joined group 'Can this pencil get more friends than Joe?'
"Like"
Joe has joined the group "If 1,000,000 people join this group there will be 1,000,000 in this group."
Quote from: Joe on April 15, 2010, 01:10:46 PM
Joe has joined the group "If 1,000,000 people join this group there will be 1,000,000 in this group."
"Unoriginal (http://xkcd.com/703/)"
Quote from: MyndFyre on April 15, 2010, 03:27:43 PM
Quote from: Joe on April 15, 2010, 01:10:46 PM
Joe has joined the group "If 1,000,000 people join this group there will be 1,000,000 in this group."
"Unoriginal (http://xkcd.com/703/)"
I think he left out the reference because he assumed everyone here has probably seen it. ;)
The difference between a "ripoff" and a "homage" is tricky to spot.
STARCRAFT TWO BETA
I use my computer for: online homework, mathematica on occasion for written homework, facebook, email, any sort of media (I rarely go to a TV for shows anymore, since I get TV channels over my intranet, hulu, etc), I RARELY play video games anymore, but instead I do play on landgrab.net (online risk) and my friend got me playing OGame recently too, which is a slow, text based massively multiplayer browser game. And yeah, you can assume what "any sort of media" entails... :P
Here, but as someone pointed out the lack of activity has cut my time here compared to what it used to be. Various gaming forums ( MMO-Champ, Blizzard forums, etc. ), local car enthusiast forums, playing WoW entirely too much, Winamp, etc.
I've probably got ~75-100 people on my AIM f-list from my days on BNET that I don't even know who they are anymore. Some day I should go through and weed it out a bit.
Quote from: Furious on April 17, 2010, 05:18:46 PM
Here, but as someone pointed out the lack of activity has cut my time here compared to what it used to be. Various gaming forums ( MMO-Champ, Blizzard forums, etc. ), local car enthusiast forums, playing WoW entirely too much, Winamp, etc.
I've probably got ~75-100 people on my AIM f-list from my days on BNET that I don't even know who they are anymore. Some day I should go through and weed it out a bit.
I did that the other day, and my friend list is exponentially smaller...
I think WoW killed my ability to entertain myself on the computer, nothing can compete with it.
Quote from: Towelie on April 18, 2010, 12:01:22 PM
Quote from: Furious on April 17, 2010, 05:18:46 PM
Here, but as someone pointed out the lack of activity has cut my time here compared to what it used to be. Various gaming forums ( MMO-Champ, Blizzard forums, etc. ), local car enthusiast forums, playing WoW entirely too much, Winamp, etc.
I've probably got ~75-100 people on my AIM f-list from my days on BNET that I don't even know who they are anymore. Some day I should go through and weed it out a bit.
I did that the other day, and my friend list is exponentially smaller...
I think WoW killed my ability to entertain myself on the computer, nothing can compete with it.
Yeah, I'll agree with that. I spend a lot of time tabbed out on the forums though. I should probably stop trolling, last temp ban I got was a week long :(
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