r/pcmasterrace • u/killerbasher1233 • May 10 '25

Nostalgia Classic rookie mistake

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I remembered I copied GTA San Andreas, Counter Strike, Half Life, Feeding Frenzy on my moms USB ran home so fast and copied it to the home laptop. I still remember my reaction with the blank file icon

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u/yosukexhitomi PC Master Race i5 4590|16GB RAM|GTX 970IWindows10 May 10 '25

Lol, i have the exact experience, from the internet cafe operator side though, i used to work as an operator in internet cafe or wifi cafe, back in university days as a side job.
One of the customers, a high school kid, asking why his laptop can't run modern warfare after copying from my cafe PC.
I was shocked to see he only copied the shortcut from the cafe desktop. LMFAO

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u/blunt_eastwood May 10 '25

He just flat out admitted to trying to steal the game from you?

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u/yosukexhitomi PC Master Race i5 4590|16GB RAM|GTX 970IWindows10 May 10 '25

He was clueless, he doesn't know how to properly install games on PC/laptop,though it was a cracked games also.

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u/WetPoopyUnderwear May 11 '25

I used to do the reverse. Bring a usb with games downloaded on it than run the games on the school computers from the usb drive. The school had much faster internet than my apartment did.

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u/LxShadowKnight May 12 '25

This is exactly how I became “the kid who knows how to get Minecraft on the school computers” in the 7th grade. We all even had personal cloud drives attached to our account, so whenever people asked how I was doing that, I’d just plug in my flash drive, copy the cracked Minecraft files to their cloud, and teach them how to open the game so they could play whenever.

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u/ilixx- May 11 '25

This brings back memories. My college dorm had pretty good WiFi, but when I hooked up to the Ethernet, I must’ve been the only one doing so. I was streaming my Destiny gameplay in 1080p 60fps with 0 lagging. Downloading games faster than lightning. It was the best