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OMG I'm learning to hate my computer

Tue May 20, 2008, 9:07 PM
  • Mood: Grouchy
  • Listening to: NOTHING, NOW!
Ever since I've started to do digital art, my computer has fought me. I'm a multitasker. My computer is becoming a one-at-a-time-tasker.

I was doodling a fun, light, random, eight paneled comic and lost four and a half panels worth of work because I was so wrapped up in drawing that I forgot to save until the program crashed. My problem lies in the fact that I NEED to listen to music while drawing and I just don't remember to push save every, oh, FIVE SECONDS. I've lost progress due to the computer booting my drawing program on practically every page of my Mikey/Raph comic, and I got tired of it enough to attempt listening to my i-pod while doodling.

All that did was make me bitter because the earbuds make my ears ache and what's the point of an ipod when I'm AT MY COMPUTER?! Where all the music came from in the first place?! BITTER!

Something needs to change. Yes, I'm glaring at you, you stupid fucktard computer. I'm glaring at youuuuuu. Unfortunately it's going to have to be ME changing 'cause I can't afford anything but food right now. But I reserve the right to be bitter about it.

BITTER!

I'm just lucky that, so far, the second time around of drawing the panels I lose is better than the first. I just have to take a day-long breather in between because the mere SIGHT of whatever I was working on and it's MISSING progress makes me feel disgusted and want to throw something.




grr.


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~Risa-chan22:iconRisa-chan22: May 20, 2008, 9:14:03 PM
yeah my computer does the same sh*t all the time :frustrated: I know how you feel believe me. Good luck getting yours to work :)

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Mood: Sympathy *Jeegoo:iconJeegoo: May 20, 2008, 11:16:52 PM
The almost exact same thing happened to me, except it was four pages I'd written and I KNOW I'd saved them ... But when I went to find them again; "Nope, sorry, what file were you after? That one? Haha, you silly human, that file doesn't exist!" *cue crying, tantrum*
~icegaze:iconicegaze: May 20, 2008, 11:46:42 PM
All the times before the program would just go white and then no longer be on the task bar. ONCE I had been lucky enough to have saved right before the crash. Twice I lost a small amount of progress, and once an entire panel that I had been angsting over for three hours trying to get it right only for that to just gooooo awayyyyy.

This time an error message popped up saying there wasn't enough memory to do whatever it was I requested (which I don't remember pushing anything special... unless going from 'eraser' to ';pencil' was what it was talking about... and I had the option of pushing OK and making the program go away, or Cancel and try to debug the program. I yelled at the top of my lungs something along the lines of "NOOOOO, PLAY NICE! DON'T DO THIS TO ME!!! AUGHHH! Pleaseohpleaseohplease...." I shut down my media program, the notepad I was keeping text in so I didn't forget dialogue, then stared for a good minute at the dialogue box. Hoping, hoping I was wrong, but knowing exactly what was going to happen. The moment that box popped up there was no OK or Cancel. It was Kill program or Kill program. The box gave me a sliver of hope which made it all the more worse when the end result was still screen goes white and program is no longer on the task bar.

I'm sorry about the four pages of text. I've done that before - back when I was under the delusion that I could write. The story was never the same after losing progress like that. I knew I had written something good, but I couldn't get that emotion back - the exact words back. And that actually frustrated me more than losing art. As a visual person a mental image doesn't go away, but words - I'm lucky I can string enough words together to be coherent, let alone write something compelling... So you have my TOTAL sympathies.

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