POW!!!

[The Question]

No, this has nothing to do with Nacchi'srevenge, it has to do with what a DVD just did in my roommate's computer for no apparent reason. The DVD drive was cycled up pretty good -- despite the fact that no one had the game on the disc running -- and then BAM!!! Almighty godawful fucking sound from the DVD drive and it finally cycles down with a sorta clickety-clickety-clickety going on.

So I'm sitting shaking and trying to re-explain to myself why I don't have a gun strapped to my hip, and finally reach up and hit the button for the DVD drive on a suspicion that that's where the sound came from. Sure enough, it opens and little bits of shattered plastic fall out of it.

 

[bad dog]

It must have had a crack. I saw that mythbusters show where they find the rpm breaking speed of a cd. A wood router turns 26,000+ rpm and it will hold together under that speed. I think in the show they found they fly apart around 30,000 rpm's.

 

[Acrimonious]

It can happen, but it's extremely rare. It's usally caused by an imbalanced disk, like little sticky labels the video stores put on them, or cheaply made burnables.

I had one shatter in my 52x drive once.

 

[The Question]

Well, it's scarier than all unholy shit, I'll tell ya what. Scarier than the thought of Hillary Clinton topless.

:| Okay... maybe not that scary. Pretty god damned scary, though.

 

[starguard]

I had that happen once in my computers CD drive

 

[The Question]

Hillary Clinton went topless on your CD drive? Oh, and exactly what the hell is it the Asian chick in your sig anim is doing? Playing a round of footsie with that dude?

Poor dude, he's just eatin' his lunch and here's this bitch with a bad attitude and no panties doin' some kind of under-the-table noodle voodoo... :fear:

 

[starguard]

No, I think shes playing a crotch game called "Flash the Snatch" :shock:

 

[The Question]

No, I think shes playing a crotch game called "Flash the Snatch" :shock:

One of several varieties of "Under The Table Noodle Voodoo."

 

[Shitty Dual]

I had a cd snap right in two after being dropped (not thrown, DROPPED) from about chest high onto a linoleum floor. I couldn't believe my fucking eyes.

Maybe sometimes they just get made with some cheap, brittle plastic.