| Whats up with people leaving their pc on while logged into a games especially mmo games and leaving the characters on a afk area? Why? Its ok if you leave pc on cuz of some work or if your downloading something overnight but what of these people who dont do either of these and still leave the pc on? why u do dis mate? Did nobody ever told you about saving power? #TEAMTRESS |
foscor70Oct 30, 2019 4:55 AM
| I don't seed anime torrents anymore, so no. |
 |
| I mean in an MMO you leave your character idle to show off your gear, I've been guilty of it on a number of occasions. Other than that I usually just shut my pc down or sleep it if I'm away from it for an extended period. |
 ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴀꜱɪᴇꜱᴛ ᴡᴀy ᴛᴏ ᴋᴇᴇᴩ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ɢᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ ʜᴜʀᴛ yᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ yᴏᴜʀꜱᴇʟꜰ yᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ yᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ʟᴇᴀʀɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʟɪᴋᴇ yᴏᴜʀꜱᴇʟꜰ |
| lol i always shutdown the PC before i sleep at night but im not a gamer though so i cannot relate to those reasons provided here also its a small good thing to lessen the impact of global warming so shutdown your PC if you can |
| Maybe if I'm downloading large files or seeding. Or just afk farming for GTA Online lmao. |
Least degenerate visual novel enjoyer.  |
| I can leave my school laptop in sleep mode admittedly but I'll always turn my desktop off before leaving the house or going to sleep. Because why wouldn't I? Just a waste of electricity otherwise |
  |
| Electricity's expensive here, so I have to shut it down before sleep ayy lmao |
 |
| No, my friend keeps several computers on while I turn it off, have my PVR in low power mode, sure it rakes 30 seconds to start up but that doesn't bother me now as it takes me time to settle in anyway. It makes no sense to leave things on overnight. |
 |
| My computer is old so I don't really shut it down. It's convenient to let it sleep and start rather than shutting down and booting up. |
 |
foscor70 said: Whats up with people leaving their pc on while logged into a games especially mmo games and leaving the characters on a afk area? Why? What a nostalgic question. Coming from someone who used to play mmo's and afk my character all the time with the computer on, there 4 things that comes in mind. 1. Back then, social media wasn't a thing. I've had guildmates,party mates, friends who I always had contact with. I leave my character afk so I can receive their message. 2. I've had items in the auction, and most auctions had taxes in them, so the buyers mostly messages or adds the seller (me) to lower the prices without taxes. 3. Just afking and taking a break from gaming. Probably alt-tabbed out, watching porn or something. 4. Literally afk's on the hang-out place, because the place wouldn't be complete if you're not around (even if afk) |
  |
| I used to but now life has haunted me to shut down my pc for several days at best. Back then, some of my friends who is into mmo even paid for hours on internet caffe just so they can leave the pc on and got back to it after they sleep. |
 **☾** |
| I don't play video games on my computer, and I always shut down my computer before going to bed. I even unplug it from the wall. I shut my phone off before going to bed, too. |
 |
| Nope I don't. I always log out everywhere and shut down my laptop. |
 |
| Not solar-power or other forms of renewable energy in my country, switch off for global warming... |
| I leave my PC on for long until i shut it down once i get to sleep. |
 |
| I pretty much leave it on all day. I turn it off when i go to bed. |
 Build The Cities (Empire Of Sound) [feat. Kerli] Tristam x Karma Fields 00:58━━━━⬤━━━━━━━━━━━━━04:01 ⇆ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵◃ ❚❚ ▹ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵ ឵឵↻ |
Masuko_Senpai said: I pretty much leave it on all day. I turn it off when i go to bed. Same goes to me, as you what said. I do this the same thing as well. |
|
| Only time I leave my laptop on when I'm away from it is if I am in the middle of watching an anime or playing a VN and need to go eat or something. As for leaving it on all night or such, only happened when I was doing random Windows updates or file compression that took forever. My previous laptop, a Gateway, I pretty much tried to leave it on as much as possible as the boot cycle was messed up and sometimes took upwards of an hour to boot correctly. |
    Summertime days, passing gentlySunlight, leading to an encounter; Dreams that don't want to end Continue onwards toward the next day While she waits in the air. |
| I often don't these days, but I used to do it just to have some music playing in the background while I did other stuff. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Yeah i leave it on, but it's in sleep mode. |
 |
| I turn it off before going to work and before going to sleep. |
| I wonder how much power it uses while idling... Feel like it'd be pretty inconsequential to have a laptop on 24/7 for whatever reason but not a desktop. |
 |
| Sometimes I turn off my computer in the living room or the one in the bedroom ,,Mostly because they get slow otherwise so I either restart them or turn them of once every 2 week .Same with my older laptop ,, My new laptop have not been restarted for almost 2 months =P Its really fast and I testing it how long i can have it on without suffer from any type of slowdowns |
Yuri-CrusaderOct 23, 2019 6:43 AM
 |
| I tend to leave my laptop on but in sleep mode when I'm at home and need to take a break to eat something or do some quick errands like getting groceries, but I always log out everywhere beforehand. I never really got how people are online appearantly 24/7?? Shutting it down before turning in for the night, unless there are some downloads running that are expected to take an hour or longer to finish. |
 |
| I turn on mine when I get up and shut it down when I'm about to sleep so it's running throughout the whole day/night. CBA to go through the booting process even tho it takes no more than 20-30 secs. |
  “The most shameless thing in the world is political power that can be inherited regardless of ability or talent!” |
| I do, but I do because i'm running reverse hackintosh (Windows on a Mac Pro) and I need to be able to screen updates before they automatically install to avoid bricking it. |
 |
| Never for me since my landlady is a tyrant when it comes to electricity and gas consumption limits. Seriously, I could be charged up to a hundred bucks if I'm not careful with how I use my PC. |
 |
| I turn it off at the power strip that it (and the modem, monitor and speakers) are plugged into. In other words-when I'm not using it there is no power to it. |
| Life Is Short But Intense. |
| It gets turned off when I leave home or go to sleep. |
 |
| I used to leave my computer on during the day while going to work so I could continue right away with reading Visual Novels instead of having to boot up and load the progress. But since I'm using my laptop for stuff like that, I only put it on hibernate. In summer or when I go away for a shorter time, I only just use the "power safe" button on my wireless keyboard, though I still use hibernate over night/for longer absences. I used to turn my computer off completely by clicking the switch on the power stripe, but that caused issues with the PSU, so I stopped doing that. Also once when I left it unplugged for three weeks or so because of a vacation when I was younger, I had to change to CMOS battery... so the only thing I actually unplug is my laptop's charger. It bugs me more though that my TV has a ridiculous bright stand-by LED... but I don't want to unplug it or use the switch on the power stripe out of worry it could cause issues with the condensers |
| I never leave it on overnight. My PC nearly caught fire because of a 4pin Molex to SATA cable this year. It caused a short and burned my dvd drive enough to spew ashes all over my room. The top of my tower have a slight inverse distortion due to the heat. I was wondering what that incense smell when I came up to my room after I gone downstairs for 30mins. So for me, I wouldn't risk leaving my pc on when I'm not home or sleeping. Got some pics if anyone want to see. |
fNeLNov 6, 2019 10:45 PM
 |
| i always turn it off, occasionally i leave it on to download stuff (slow internet connection :c), and unplug everything during thunderstorms |
| I done that before when I was playing Mabinogi afking next to friend and sleep. It was like trend. |
| What kind of junks do you have guys have for PC that it take more than a minute to boot? |
 |
| I leave it on all day and turn it off when I sleep. I spend a lot of time on it and it would feel like a waste of time. |
fNeL said: Wait, does your PSU not have surge protection?I never leave it on overnight. My PC nearly caught fire because of a 4pin Molex to SATA cable this year. Kaiser-chan said: The boot time depends on many factors. Like there are quite some people that prefer to keep a boot logo and disable fast boot in the BIOS/UEFI just so they have more time to hit the respective keys for opening up the boot menu or the BIOS/UEFI without having to boot into the OS, first.What kind of junks do you have guys have for PC that it take more than a minute to boot? Then if you have multiple internal drives rather than just a single SSD, it takes longer to initialize the drives. If you shut down your computer properly by disabling fast startup, of course it will take a bit longer as well. There are even issues with installing updates when you shut down your computer with "fast startup" enabled: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4011287/windows-updates-not-install-with-fast-startup And last but not least: if you want to have all kinds of background programs starting with Windows, they will naturally increase the boot time as well. |
NoboruNov 9, 2019 1:40 PM
| no that reduces the computer's life expectancy. |
| "among monsters and humans, there are only two types. Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.” David Hume “Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus  |
| I always turn it off. Infact Ima do that now and eat dinner |
More topics from this board
» Gacha Survey ( 1 2 )Shizuna - Apr 11 |
56 |
by BitChilly
»»
2 minutes ago |
|
» Looking for more Anime Pixel GamesAstachanna - Apr 4 |
12 |
by Astachanna
»»
7 minutes ago |
|
» Last game you purchased ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page )Completely_Numb - Mar 15, 2014 |
525 |
by Timeline_man
»»
53 minutes ago |
|
» Stellar Blade Preview: Sekiro Meets NieR: Automata?deg - Feb 1 |
28 |
by Shizuna
»»
3 hours ago |
|
» Add "you little bitch" to a video game quote. ( 1 2 3 )Kajiuran - Oct 20, 2023 |
141 |
by Kajiuran
»»
8 hours ago |