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Heroes Community > Tavern of the Rising Sun > Thread: Bad news.
Thread: Bad news.
shyranis
shyranis


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posted November 16, 2010 04:26 AM
Edited by shyranis at 04:32, 16 Nov 2010.

Bad news.

Seems like making more Homm videos will be a bit harder. I have some very bad news. Somehow, my hubby got our family laptop stolen. The only computer in the house really powerful enough to play games and capture video at the same time.

He's posted around several free boards imploring whoever took it to return it.

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This has been missing for a couple weeks now. I believe it may have been... picked up from inside of my car at the parking lot of either Loblaws at Kanata Centrum, Costco at Silver seven or in front of my workplace.

First I'll go into a little background detail.

My wife and I bought this laptop under a year ago. We poured out hearts and souls into it. We worked very hard to save up the money to buy the laptop. My laptop (an Asus K50 AB) was the most powerful and expensive computer in my household. The rest are very antiquated. I also used it for work and for, well, everything really. Together, we created a lot of content for youtube which she posted: http://www.youtube.com/user/Shyranis (Some of those videos are probably still on the data partition). My latest resume was on the machine. Not that it has been much of a help to me personally, we've struggled with debt and have come close to losing the house a few times because I keep getting laid off from downsizing jobs. My wife has to look after our two kids (ages 1 year 5 months and 2 months old repectively) and cannot work. You'd recognize the computer probably if you start it up. It loads Windows 7 Enterprise (you can't buy it, I got it from Technet, which I no longer have access to.) There are also several programming projects on there I had been using to try to learn the craft to use in my trade (I am a computer engineer, really just a fancy term for tech support but I wanted to learn to program to complement my skills). Also full versions of various microsoft software I had gotten via Microsoft Dreamspark while I was a student earning my MCSE (the government paid for my schooling during the worst of the layoffs... also when the bus strike happened. Ever had to walk to downtown from the west end because you can't afford anything else?) What's more we have baby pictures and videos on that laptop we can't replace. If you find it and you're a parent you'll know how irreplaceable those are! Things were just going well for us. I come from a family where my snow father cheated on my mother and left her with crippling debt she still has to work 3 terrible jobs just to keep from losing her house. My wife comes from a family that lost a lot of relatives to starvation and war, she survived genocide as an infant. These pictures are very important.

On top of that, I stupidly had (if you're a geek you'll know how sentimental we get) left some games in the contents of my bag.

Many of these games are also incredibly hard to replace but at the same time, command little to no monetary value.

The hardest to replace would be Battle Chess Enhanced. It was my first ever Cd-rom game.

Also I believe among those discs were collectors edition Cds (though worthless without the box) of Civilization 4 and also a disc that had Civ 2 and 1.

Other games include:

Fallout

Worms Armageddon

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Armageddon's Blade.

Heroes of Might and Magic (2 copies of it in the same jewel case! One is the DOS version I got back with Heroes 2 so long ago as a teen, the other is a "heroes compendium" disc I had found at Salvation Army.) <-hard to replace

Civilization 3

Unreal Tournament

Total Annihilation

Lords of Everquest (game in Jewel case)

There are probably others but I don't remember them at the moment.

I had a lot of my life's work on that hard drive. There is software on and in it that is irreplaceable. The pictures on it cannot be taken again.

I also had a USB Key, Kingston. 8GB in that bag as well.

Please if you have any sense of decency woven into your moral fabric, return our property.

I have never had anything this big stolen from me before, but I guess I was always a sucker. And that's why my dreams of providing for my family always get dashed, because I place too much trust in the world and don't always check my locks.

Well, thanks for reading. Please return my things.


He's also pretty sure now Homm 4 and some rare Demo discs were in there too.

*sigh*

Can't afford to get a new computer and most of the software there is just irreplaceable.

Fun...

edit:

Oh right. I forgot that I also had some downloaded games I got by donating to charity with the Humble Indie Bundle...
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JollyJoker
JollyJoker


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Undefeatable Hero
posted November 16, 2010 08:18 AM

Shyranis, as much as I sympathize...

Don't you think that it is really, really, umm, well, outright dumb to leave a treasure like that in your car? I mean, would you leave your purse in the car, on the backseat or whatever?

I read some post of yours about having a hard time with jobs and getting along - in that situation, if you KNOW that you can't just replace a valuable item because you are lacking the means, shouldn't you just take a little more care about the irreplacable things and NOT just leave them in your car - theft of things out of cars is the most common form of theft, if I'm not wrong, and if you leave something OPENLY in your car you will even get a problem with your insurance - if you have any - with refunding the stuff.

So that was a very careless and dumb thing to do.

Still, a pity.

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shyranis
shyranis


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posted November 16, 2010 08:32 AM

Blame my dumb man =p
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JollyJoker
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posted November 16, 2010 09:17 AM

Also. I do not think that it is such a good idea to first talk about the important things you did for people in need, posting at youtube and so on -
and follow up with an extensive list of GAMES you will miss, sice they are irreplacable. That sounds a bit... well, it doesn't make it sound like it's all about neighbourly love and such.
And I mean, can you imagine a thief saying, heck, I didn't know these people can't get that stuff back - I have to return it to them; those games are really a serious loss to them.
Don't you think, the thief would say more like, hey, great, if they are irreplacable, maybe I can sell them for some extra dough.

Maybe the stuff is auctioned off at Ebay...

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baklava
baklava


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posted November 16, 2010 09:38 AM
Edited by baklava at 16:31, 16 Nov 2010.

You found me. It was me. I stole it.

My sister has a severe case of testicle cancer and I had no other means of paying for her expensive surgery. Your games have already been sold for illegal experiments, and your laptop is forced to prostitute itself for food in a greasy internet cafe somewhere on the Romanian-Kenyan border.

I'm truly sorry.

Seriously, you guys. Act like grownups on this one. Life teaches people lessons like that. Buy a new laptop and download all the games you had. Chances for the thief to check out random internet forums, notice your plea and then repent and give it back to you in one piece... Well, you might as well play the lottery and hope to win another laptop. And a trip to the Caribbean.
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Mytical
Mytical


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Chaos seeking Harmony
posted November 16, 2010 09:55 AM

Do you two really think that pretty much attacking the OP is the right way to go here?  Seriously?

Sorry about what happened, I hope you get everything back.
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JollyJoker
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posted November 16, 2010 10:41 AM

I'm not "attacking" her.
I just think that it wasn't the most clever move to leave your most valuable posessions in your car and that combining an appellation to a sense of "good" by pointing out that a lot of generally "good" things have been done with the stolen equipment with bemoaning the irreplacability of a host of GAMES may not have been the best strategy to get part of the stuff back this way.

That is just my opinion.

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Elvin
Elvin


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posted November 16, 2010 12:47 PM

I'm sorry to hear that
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baklava
baklava


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posted November 16, 2010 04:25 PM
Edited by baklava at 16:29, 16 Nov 2010.

Yeah, I didn't intend to attack Shyr either, in fact I understand her pain completely.

Like JJ, I just found the fact that the husband seriously wrote all that and started hanging it on random free forums, well, bewildering.

Then again, he sounds like an awesome man.

Besides, Shyr, you two are a pair of people who adore PC games. If my gf played games with me I'd possibly be the happiest man on Earth. You have each other, screw demos and Heroes IV golden editions.
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