Curtailed via Curb-Stomp

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A 40 hour torrent.
A search for assistance crowned by waiting on hold for a full hour before the problem was fixed (apparently by placing a little check in a box labeled 'authorized').
Another nail-biting 40 minutes of patching while I read up on my chosen race/class.
The excitement of watching the program open and the cinematics scroll by.
The careful creation of what would be my avatar.
My character emerging from the basic dwarf model like a sculpture from a block of marble.
The moment of naming coming and going... The beginner area loading...

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The massive fail that is the lack of reading the minimum specs for the goddamn game ahead of time.
My computer groaning and screaming under the weight of the particle physics and textures the graphics engine was flogging it with.

There truly is no one to blame for this but myself.

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This is how super-villains are made.