what to do when you gaming rig 'disapears'

[SolomonGrundy]

Yes, my third child was stolen. Just upgraded to a 6800 too damnit.My whole game collection was also stolen. So lets have some fun...what can you do when you can't play Oblivion?
Be witty kiddies...make me laugh.

[Aszurom]

Tri-state killing spree.

Got crackheads around, or do you think it was some neighborhood kid or what? I'd hit up a martial arts supply website, get myself a ninja suit, various weapons, grappling hooks, etc. and a kevlar vest to wear under it. Then I'd turn into anti-crackhead batman. Steal my PC and that's your ass.

[Raife]

That sucks.

You could spend the time designing and constucting booby traps for any future robbery attempts. Snake pits, punji sticks, swinging logs...

[Nick Walter]

Yes, my third child was stolen. Just upgraded to a 6800 too damnit.My whole game collection was also stolen. So lets have some fun...what can you do when you can't play Oblivion?
Be witty kiddies...make me laugh.

Got homeowners/renters insurance to cover the loss? Right now I'd be fairly pleased if someone nipped into my house and wandered off with my PC, since I could probably make an insurance claim for the original retail value of the thing. My gaming rig is several years old and due for replacement, so theft of it would be tantamount to a free upgrade.

[worm]

A similar thing happened to my friend. He lived in a Trailer park so the cops totally ignored it and he found his shit at a pawn shop somewhere. Are you have any luck with (fuck da) police?

I guess PCs and games have a really high turn around in pawn shops and also aren't that easy to trace. My collection has always been in a 200 disk CD binder.

[Timemaster Tim]

Well, you can always play Postal, but as a real-life version.

[balut]

Flip out, kill the town, wail on guitar. In that order.

[Rob Beschizza]

This kind of thing makes me want to repartition the hard drive to put a tiny partition with my name on it, so they can't just format and reinstall; dremel my name into every interior panel; sharpie my name on the CPU die; and install plastic explosives.

Villains are stupid though. A program that emails you with the computer's global IP on boot would probably catch more than you'd think. We hired a kid (named "Jim" here) to help us move once. He stole my wife's cellphone. We called the phone the next day and he answered it, saying "Hi, this is Jim."

[SolomonGrundy]

Trying to get my mac adress from alienware for just that kind of trace...
just got off the phone with the insurence company- they want an itemized list of the games taken...boy that's gonna be fun...

[Aszurom]

Just start making a list of every game you had and also ever wanted.

[SwampIrish]

That sucks.

You could spend the time designing and constucting booby traps for any future robbery attempts. Snake pits, punji sticks, swinging logs...

Throw me the computer, I'll throw you the whip.