The Noob Feeling.

[Aerialfrogg]

Since I am a computer science major, everyone thinks that means I know how to fix every electronics problem they have. This is especially bad with phones, which I am particularly bad with. I usually end up cursing at the bad interface design, looking through their help program with about a 50% chance of finding the problem and fixing it.

I really hate the look of betrayal that says "but I thought you were smart".

 

[higgs20]

i had to fiddle with my house's heating system to get the boiler pressure up so the heating would come on, there where three taps and i tried all possible combinations of on and off and nothing worked so i rang a plumber, turned out i hadn't turned one of the taps far enough....

 

[The Wykydtron]

I'm good at every type of game so i don't get many noobzor moments

Well except RACING FUCKING GAMES WHY WILL YOU NOT GO ROUND ZE CORNERS WHY?!

 

[teebeeohh]

whenever i didn't play a game for while, start it again and get owned(multiplayer only)
and sometimes when i play starcraft 2 and end up playing someone who zergrushes me in 5min and I keep wondering why I even train my micro

 

[Hashime]

The other day I actually forgot how to work my oven. I was stood there for like 10 minutes staring at the thing in utter confusion before my roommate showed up and just did it for me.

I felt so fucking stupid...

I can't cook to save my life. In my high school French class, the only assignment I ever failed to do concerned cooking. I sought out the simplest recipes I could find, and despite this, could not get past staring blankly at the foreign verbs. (The recipes were written in English.)

I never used to be able to cook either. I learnt/got taught over the past year. So now I can cook, but this one time the cooker just baffled me. It was so embarassing.

I am a cooking noob as well, I just hide that by not using recipes and experimenting. That way if it sucks I can just say my hypothesis was wrong.
On that note my lunch was awesome today, because I put a can of beans, sliced chicken, frozen veggies and some jalapenos in a pan and cooked it up, seasoning with tex-mex. It was glorious, a little more mild than I wanted but still good.

 

[bulldogftw]

when i didn't know the name of someone
who goes to my school at a new year party

 

[Hman121]

when I tried to turn on my Gamecube a day ago, spent about 10 minutes trying to turn it on and failed to realize I had set the TV to DVD instead of Video 2...

 

[Aerialfrogg]

Every time I play a FPS game. I play them so seldom and I really really suck at aiming so my stats were last time after 20 min on Free For All something like 7 - 34

Oh, yeah. This too. I need something with a big cover area, like a shotgun, to be able to hit things. For me Fallout 3 has been FPS with training wheels...huge fucking training wheels.

 

[kek13]

Anytime I play black ops, I mean I'm not terrible at it sometimes I can REALLY kick ass but a kdr of like 1:25 is unacceptable even for a me.

As a result I play more single player/co-op modes because they cater to my noobishness dammit.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I was once so deep in thought I stepped with the same foot twice, resulting in my face becoming good friends with a wall.

 

[AMMO Kid]

I almost caused a wreck yesterday and I am a very careful driver (but it wasn't cause of that)... Yes so that pretty much sucked

 

[Dango]

Me and a friend were bored last night so we went on our Runescape accounts that we hadn't been on since we were ten. Needless to say we felt like absolute noobs.

 

[Owlslayer]

Every time i play Battlefield 2, dammit.
Nothing else really pops up at the moment, though I'm sure there are quite a lot of such moments.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

Any time my computer throws a fit and doesn't work right. I'm not very tech savvy, so...my only method of solving a problem is googling it and hoping it works T_T

 

[JaffaFrost]

I got it while trying to play "Magic The Gathering" with my friends. I like to think I'm better at it now.

[sub]I still suck[/sub]

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I had one time forgot how to wright a G a 5 and an S...don't call me stupid I just sometimes draw a blank. 3 days ago I played Guitar Hero for the very first time with my 9 and 10 year old friends. I thought to myself "Psshhh, I'm no noob, I can play this on medium no problem!" I even said it out loud...1 minute, 4 fails and a whole lot of swear words later.... I was on beginner tearing shit up!

 

[Scarim Coral]

It was probably when I first join The Escapist months ago. I didn't understand those command field properly (like to embed image, video etc). I had to look up online on how to understand which youtube code you copy and paste to be embedding the video onto here.

 

[badgersprite]

Every time I realise I've been misspelling something. I'm dyslexic, you see, so, especially when it comes to things like people's names or bands or titles of things, I really do screw them up a lot. Even when I've read the correct spelling online, my dyslexia means I will frequently misread it as something else. So, yes, I will screw up how things are spelled, and it's really embarrassing when I screw up the name of something or someone I'm a huge fan of.

 

[pubbing]

Since I am a computer science major, everyone thinks that means I know how to fix every electronics problem they have. This is especially bad with phones, which I am particularly bad with. I usually end up cursing at the bad interface design, looking through their help program with about a 50% chance of finding the problem and fixing it.

I really hate the look of betrayal that says "but I thought you were smart".

This.
Just because i design websites I have been sandbagged with the responsibility of being the family computer guy. NO I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT [insert obscure error code here] MEANS. I will probably solve all of your computer problems that you come to me with by googling it.

And then they look at you like you should know it already.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Starcraft. I'm good at most RTS games and I love them, but something about Starcraft... Ahhh!