I think I may be the luckiest man on Earth

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Kurdt · #1 Post by **Kurdt** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:41 am

Okay, check this out, guys. There's this girl I've been seeing this summer. She's awesome. Beautiful, smart, funny, and everything I want in a woman wrapped up in a wonderful little package. Needless to say, I've been having a good time. So one day I'm hanging out with her at her house and her dad's there, and he looks at me and says jokingly, "You know anybody who wants a 486?"

I looked at him, stunned. "Are you serious?" I replied, a little bowled over and excited. "Sure," he says, pointing to a giant dinosaur of a CPU sitting on the fireplace. "I'm throwing it away unless somebody wants it. Why, you know anybody who wants one?" My eyes get wide. "ME!" I say, excitedly. Then he runs me down a list of the specs...and I find out it's equipped with Windows 3.1! This is the computer I've been looking for for years! I say I want it, and he tells me to load it up in the back of my car. I now own a 486! Error 52 is but a faint memory now! SQ4 running fast? Pish posh! I can even play Privateer and nothing goes wrong. My dreams have come true.

But then, it gets better. Me and my girl are driving back to my house, 486 in tow, talking about how excited I was to get this thing. She doesn't know why I want such an old thing. So I tell her. "I'm a fan of these old games that came out a long long time ago, like when this computer was made, so I need it to--" Then I'm interrupted by a question:
"You mean like King's Quest?"

I quite nearly swerved the car off the road.

"You know about King's Quest?" I asked her, shocked and stunned. "Yeah!" she says. "They're, like, my favorite games ever." It turns out that her and her best friend are avid KQ and QFG players. Her favorite game of all time is QFG4. When I told her I have every KQ game and every QFG game, she just about hit the ceiling. She was squealing with excitement and actually called up her best friend then and there to tell her I had the games and I knew how to make them work. It was at that moment that I knew I loved this girl.

How much better can it get? I've got a wonderful girlfriend who's into KQ and QFG without my introducing it to her and a 486 with Windows 3.1 given to me by her father. I think it's time I went ring shopping.

So that's my life for the summer, how was all of yours?

Swift · #2 Post by **Swift** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:49 am

That was so unbelievable! Congrats!

Gronagor · #3 Post by **Gronagor** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:54 am

You sure you weren't dreaming??

Spikey · #4 Post by **Spikey** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:03 am

Broomie · #5 Post by **Broomie** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:09 am

Kurt you lucky bastard! My girlfriend barely knows the Sims.

Congratulations. I'm not sure I know anyone except for my cousin who's heard and likes the Quest games. Good find.

Skyshark · #6 Post by **Skyshark** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:23 am

Heh, what are the odds of that happening? Congrats Kurdt, looks like you've found the prize catch in the ocean of love.

Now just don't let this one get away.

Cumboy · #7 Post by **Cumboy** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:32 am

Error52 is already a thing of the past with DOSbox and the recent patch that has been made.....

Broomie · #8 Post by **Broomie** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:37 am

Yeah but he means playing it on the computer it was built for. I'd rather have an old computer like that instead of having to use DosBox on a fast computer.

#9 Post by **Erpy** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:52 am

That, my dear Kurdt, is one lucky shot... If only that type weren't on the endangered species list.

Klytos · #10 Post by **Klytos** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:00 am

Lucky Bastard!

Jafar · #11 Post by **Jafar** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:08 pm

You don't have any lucky charms, do you? Are you part Irish?

#12 Post by **navynuke04** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:23 pm

Very cool, Kurdt! Congrats!

Rambaldi0503 · #13 Post by **Rambaldi0503** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:26 pm

Kurdt, don't ever post a pic of her, or many of the guys here might try to steal her away!

MuzlakOofmay · #14 Post by **MuzlakOofmay** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:48 pm

a taste of heaven, no less.

#15 Post by **navynuke04** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:06 pm

So Kurdt, when are you going to bring her here and introduce her to the world of fan games?

If she likes KQ and QFG, I think she'd get along well with the rest of us.

Blackthorne519 · #16 Post by **Blackthorne519** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:56 pm

You make me sick Kurdt. Everyone knows that shit only happens in movies.

You never meet a girl you dig completely, AND find out later she's into Sierra Games........

Lucky Bastard.

Bt

1eyedParrot · #17 Post by **1eyedParrot** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:18 pm

Good job, just be careful with that blender now.

chels · #18 Post by **chels** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:02 pm

Aww!!Congratulations!

Oh Happy Day!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

Senor Matt · #19 Post by **Senor Matt** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:55 pm

That's too cool Kurdt

Gav · #20 Post by **Gav** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:54 am

Man, girls who like (or even know of) classic adventure games are so rare. Well done on your find!

Cain Aleksandrovich · #21 Post by **Cain Aleksandrovich** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:35 am

Ever heard of Ying-Yang, balancing out and stuff. One of these days your luck'll turn and you'll be masturbating and your piecce will fall off...

::sobs::

1eyedParrot · #22 Post by **1eyedParrot** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:36 am

Hahahahaha! Tharts so scruels man.

Angelus3K · #23 Post by **Angelus3K** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:34 am

Well done Kurdt you've found a diamond in the rough there!!

Hang onto her!!

Jafar · #24 Post by **Jafar** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:26 am

Gav wrote:Man, girls who like (or even know of) classic adventure games are so rare. Well done on your find!

All of my sisters like classic adventure games.

The Avatar · #25 Post by **The Avatar** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:59 pm

Yay for Kurdt! Yippee! Hurray!

Take good care of the 486; good computers never last forever..

oh, did you say something about a girl?

I think I may be the luckiest man on Earth

I think I may be the luckiest man on Earth

woo hoo!