I have on 3 occasions that I wish I could forget. What the hell, let's immortalize it in the annals of the gog forum until it gets archived in 2022.

Back in, I guess it would've been around 1998ish, I was playing a certain godforsaken level of Earthworm Jim (attached) and after about the 50th failed attempt I threw my hand at the screen open handed to give it a slap (to teach the screen a lesson I guess for showing me my own incompetence) and completely shattered that weird UV protector thing that I had mounted over the screen. I can't remember what excuse I came up with :P

Late in highschool me and a buddy decide to upgrade our pcs together and to build them ourselves. I think we each bought an AMD cpu, a first for both of us. What we didn't know was what that white stuff was in that little bag that came with the cpu. We later found out that it was thermal paste, and that it was supposed to go between the cpu chip and heat grill... At least we got to switch on the new pcs once :P

You see that little red switch on the attached pic? Yeah, don't change its position when there the power supply is still plugged in and switched on (pc itself was off). It was before the days of cameras in absolutely everything so I don't have a pic of what happened. If anyone wants to recreate the outcome, take out your power supply, take it outside and shoot it.

kinda sorta

i mostly demolished the cases

in one occasion i took a dremel to a case because a cd rw would fit otherwise

and the damn thing still didnt work after i made it fit

oh and that little switch ?
thats a volt switcher

speaking of volts
i did once fry an american ps2 it runs on 110v and i live in pal land so that means twice as much

i released the magic blue smoke and when you release the magic blue smoke electronics dont work anymore i made a thread just for that ;p

Many keyboards have suffered during Unreal Tournament matches when I was a kid, sometimes bashing on the panel of the case caused it to jam and start beeping. That PC was a beast I swear, it was able to withstand all that and live a few years later until my sis forced a memory stick in the wrong direction and shorted it.


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I once did that once on an old Pentium 1 PC, it was fine until I flipped the voltage switch on the PSU and the processor literally lifted off the socket with a nice burn on the bottom. Learned the hard way that it was meant for US power outlets :D

yeah that is what happens when you flip that little red switch of doom
things are gonna fry >.>

I once dropped a baseball signed by Lou Brock on my gamepad. Totaled it.

The side of my power supply literally looked like this:

i kick my from time to time to see if its alive

Yes! I wiped my entire harddrive including OS from the Command Prompt. Make sure you know what "deltree" means before you press "Y."

Not real damaged the pc but tried the recover once...it worked, all files on the hdd were now in fancy 0000a1x....format.

Roughly one year ago. After realizing that i had my IP under surveillance and my digital footprint followed. I knew it served no purpose, but i turned my desktop motherboard into my own personal punching bag. Still full of dents, even if decommissioned. It had the graphics card damaged anyway from some time ago even earlier, plus my system was seriously infected from a recent (by then) virus which wasn't able to be fended off, even by Kaspersky.

One thing brought the other. I didn't want it to end to a technician, because before the system stopped working completely (before me thrashing it off), i had inside it stuff that would probably get me in trouble (my pirating career is long and diverse, reaching off to the furthest corners of the map where devils and monsters be).

And that is how i got the acquaintance of this wonderful new laptop, which is also ideal for gaming, i might add.

Elvis knocked a latte into my white MacBook with his tail a few years ago. It died. Though its entire life with me was stolen time - we had recovered it from a near-fatal water spill at the mac repair shop ~2009.

But no, never myself. Great stories from the shop. I have a photo somewhere of a guy's 12" PowerBook that fell out of his bag while he was doing 70mph on his motorcycle down Interstate 35. The thing still booted up - and its damage was, in a way, beautiful.

When we assembled my PC around ten years ago, we nearly burned it (turns out the motherboard isn't supposed to be tightly screwed to the case, there should be some space between them and the "lengtheners" as we called them served exactly that purpose). Well, we realized our mistake once we smelled something was burning.
The thing is, this lesson's been learnt without any consequences, the motherboard works fine up to this day.

My first PC a little piece of shit HP Pentium 3. By the time I got it, it had already seen a lot of hell and I assume porn related viruses (my brothers despite being 10 and 11 years older than me were/are fucking idiots). Our home network at the time was wireless and the thing relied on a little usb wifi adapter to access the internet and my mouse was usb as well.

The computer happened to have this enraging habit of killing the usb devices which meant losing both internet and mouse input. At first putting it to sleep and resuming would often revive everything for the next few hours, but it was gradually getting worse with time.

It got to the point where it would occur like every 15 minutes some nights and it just kept pissing me off more and more. During one particularly heated gaming session it did it and I got so pissed I smacked the thing on the side of the case... Which interestingly enough fixed the problem temporarily. Well, fast forward a couple weeks it did it at the worst time and I punched the case so hard it cracked the motherboard in half.

Back then (was in like early middleschool) I was super paranoid, cause I didn't really have a grasp on how little my family knew and didn't want them finding my browser history... So I took the HDD outside and finished it off with a rock (for as fragile as the platters are in HDDs the "case" portion of the older ones is surprisingly sturdy... took god knows how many throws and smashes to crack the damn thing open).

Intentionally only when I was a child.

I remember my Amstrad CPC has the keyboard ¨curved¨because I used to punch it strongly whenever I lost at a difficult game. Still, was working and I was able to sell the computer ... sic... to grab some money to buy a Commodore Amiga.

Later I broke ¨joysticks¨ with NFS games but by accident, not intentionally, I broke two Logitech Sidewinders in the same way, just being nervous, twice with NFS3 or 4, during a race, the joystick was "cut" at the base of the stick probably for the strength I was applying to it.