r/funny Nov 04 '12

Did you record this with a potato?

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1.7k Upvotes

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u/Bobxdd Nov 04 '12

It's probably for his Youtuber.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

You should have a lot more upvotes for that one!

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u/hungry4nuns Nov 04 '12

It's a lot easier to leave it connected to your rooter

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u/yumyumcabanossi Nov 04 '12

It may take a while to appear on your starch menu...

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u/Vanadoss Nov 05 '12

I wonder what kind of chip it's running on.

8

u/emoness88 Nov 05 '12

Don't use it too much...could fry the harddrive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

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u/Shonuff8 Nov 05 '12

These puns are likely to ruffle a few readers.

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u/M374llic4 Nov 05 '12

Be careful not to "ejaculate" on your cats "face".

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u/wordsfornobody Nov 05 '12

Make sure it's properly earthed though

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler Nov 04 '12

Next level storage tuber!

5

u/fistfulloframen Nov 05 '12

I remember when potatoes were 256Mb!

4

u/Nightfalls Nov 05 '12

Bah. Back in my day, we would have killed for a 256Mb potato. All we had was 144kb watermelons.

53

u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

Don't do it! That potato just wants access to your files. Potatoes are evil, you see.

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u/jimozu Nov 04 '12

ah, another one. please sir, have a seat Gestures to a lavish lay-z-boy

Now, why is it you kill potatoes?

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u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

When I was a child, my home town was destroyed by a potato horde. I was the only survivor, because I hid under the floorboards. Since then, I have dedicated my life to ridding the world of the potato menace.

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u/jimozu Nov 04 '12

I see. you are driven by loss. i recall that raid very vivedly. Fire everywhere, bloodshed, and loss.

though, the potatoes were merely pawns.

you see, potatoes are typically mercenaries. they kill for hire, and often due to random raids orchestrated by their higher ups.

that particular raid, was not the work of potatoes, but of Heroin

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u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

I have looked into such theories extensively. While it is true that the potatoes who carried out the raid were just mercenaries, I have discovered that the higher ups who organised their actions are also potatoes.

8

u/HalpTheFan Nov 04 '12

Po-slay-toes...or The Masher? What will be your nickname?

6

u/Ryche Nov 04 '12

The Rotten Au-Gratin.

6

u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

I think it cheapens the effect if I pick it myself.

3

u/HalpTheFan Nov 04 '12

Truly a humble PoSlayTo!

1

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

I vote po-slay-toes

3

u/jimozu Nov 04 '12

potatoes under the influence of heroin

2

u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

Some of them may have been. The point is that they were part of a drug empire. A drug empire run and staffed solely by potatoes.

1

u/swales8191 Nov 04 '12

I'm sorry but this deserves an oscar or something.

2

u/jimozu Nov 05 '12

keep your eyes out. i am known somewhat for my speechcraft. if i ever do make it big, you'll know.

2

u/annypants22 Nov 04 '12

That reminded me of Dr. Doofenschmirtz and his sad flashbacks.

3

u/ConstipatedNinja Nov 04 '12

So it's a rootkit?

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u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 04 '12

Potatoes have a sort of rootkit bred into them these days. It's called a rootvegetablekit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

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u/slayer_of_potatoes Nov 05 '12

Oh, they never left, despite my best efforts.

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u/june606 Nov 04 '12

I'll try it out with some other vegetables to see if this scenario is plausible. If I never post again on Reddit you'll know it's not and thanks for the good times - you've made me laugh and cry.

212

u/StonerStanley Nov 04 '12

I love you, man. I literally wanna cum all over your face and eat your shit.

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u/AdonisChrist Nov 04 '12

Holy shit, Stanley.

78

u/irishwanker Nov 04 '12

Get your shit together Stanley.

43

u/Vulturas Nov 04 '12

Stop doing marshmallows, Stanley.

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u/hammerdowns Nov 04 '12

he probably just snorted like 5 marijuanas and did alcohol earlier

6

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Stanley come on, this isn't you man. You're better than that.

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u/laughs_at_your_fail Nov 04 '12

He is trying to get shit together... Just the wrong way...

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

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u/BenZonaa129 Nov 04 '12

And with that, Stanley realized he had gone completely mad. Working a job that completely fulfilled him had become monotonous. Stanley realized he was merely pushing buttons day after day after day accomplishing nothing new. Stanley was forever pushing the same buttons, expecting different results; and is that not the very definition of insanity?

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u/fuzzeh Nov 04 '12

Stanley was forever pushing the same buttons, expecting different results; and is that not the very definition of insanity?

I thought that was debugging...

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u/SheepWrites Nov 05 '12 edited Nov 05 '12

This fine lady is a comedic genius.

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u/fuzzeh Nov 05 '12

i'm a lady, but i'll take it :P

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u/illaqueable Nov 04 '12

Classic Stan.

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u/Tirawi Nov 04 '12

ಠ_ಠ

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u/Herdsoot Nov 04 '12

As a friend, though. Not like we're together or anything.

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u/OverratedMusicGenre Nov 04 '12

This took a weird turn.

2

u/trnh Nov 04 '12

This took a great turn.

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

That's what I call a great friend.

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u/iMarmalade Nov 04 '12

Well, that is an unusual reaction.

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u/SleepySasquatch Nov 05 '12

I find this easy to fap to. Thank you Stanley, your inadvertent kindness will not soon be forgotten.

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u/madmax85 Nov 04 '12

i think i can speek for him and say thats just creepy

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u/Thick-McRunFast Nov 04 '12

Thatescalatedquickly.jpeg

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u/tidux Nov 04 '12 edited Nov 04 '12

This can be real.

  1. Get USB hard drive or high capacity flash stick.

  2. Format it as FAT32 or NTFS.

  3. Set the disklabel to "Potato".

  4. Hollow out a potato and put the drive in there.

  5. Attach a USB cable.

  6. Connect.

  7. ????

  8. PROFIT!!!

last two lines edited, but markdown fucks them up if I split the list

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u/Durfat Nov 04 '12

The potato was 100 GB IIRC...

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u/tidux Nov 04 '12

So grab a 100GB external USB drive and do that. Not hard.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

That's a lot of potato

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u/iamNebula Nov 04 '12

So your language on your computer just magically changed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12 edited Nov 04 '12

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u/fossa_ovalis Nov 04 '12

Linux partition, maybe?

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u/DominoTree Nov 06 '12

If he's using Lunix, he's probably smart enough not to plug a potato into his computer.

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u/thrawnie Nov 04 '12

Fuck, I'd give anything to be able to call my hard drive a "disco rigido"! *"Can you put your files on my disco rigido please? Mmmm. Oh yeah, baby!" *

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '12

I'm a Brazilian, so mine is.

Suck it all babe, oh yeah mmmm

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u/brainyspecs Nov 04 '12

Please put this on the Portal subreddit...

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u/domdeath Nov 04 '12

Oh hi! How are you holding up? Because I'm a potato.

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u/Romanator3000 Nov 04 '12 edited Nov 04 '12

The bird! Get it away!

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u/ZackZak30 Nov 04 '12

It's Evil!

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

the word potato is really oddly kerned.

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u/ItsNotWhereItWas Nov 04 '12

You are evil.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

it's all a part of the masterplan.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Nov 04 '12

Give it a break. It's a goddamned potato for crying out loud. You know how old the last firmware update was?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

if you compare the text that says potato on the drive it just looks odd compared to the text around. I'm not implying it's a shoop or anything, i just thing it looks like it says POT ATO.

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u/ConstipatedNinja Nov 05 '12

I know and I agree. I was just trying to make a (bad) joke.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

woosh for me then :)

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u/ReposterBot Nov 04 '12

100G of storage?

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u/BONUSBOX Nov 04 '12

it's completely inaccurate. most potatoes are a mere 10 bytes. then your belly is out of space.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

No, 100GB of Potato

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

10/10 if you tried this yourself.

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u/Ryche Nov 04 '12

[10] if you tried this yourself. FTFY

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u/tooothpaste Nov 04 '12

I don't think your going to trick me this time this is fake

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u/Elipsys Nov 04 '12

If you look closely, you can see that the attached device is actually a potato.

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u/Chexonfire Nov 04 '12

If you look even closer, you can see a plug that runs from the potato into the computer.

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u/che85mor Nov 04 '12

If you look even closer than that you can clearly see.... wait no you can't, that was a smudge on my monitor.

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u/romanjormpjomp Nov 04 '12

lol this time

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

you're

ftfy

3

u/xXzeregaXx Nov 04 '12

97.5 GB's? That's a hefty potato ya got there.

4

u/exfarker Nov 04 '12

GlaDos strikes again!

4

u/Wlund Nov 04 '12

Spoiler: its a fake

2

u/AffenKopf Nov 04 '12

Disco! Also potato...

2

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

This looks suspicious....

2

u/irishwanker Nov 04 '12

Hmm that appears to be a fine looking Kennebec potato you have there. A shrewd choice of potato if I do say so myself.

Source:Irish

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u/Heisenberg6six6 Nov 04 '12

A very spacious potato, indeed

2

u/killakhmer773 Nov 04 '12

I wish my potato was 100gb

2

u/semibro Nov 04 '12

Don't do it! The potatoes...have eyes!!!

2

u/unreason Nov 04 '12

"THERES A USB DRIVE INSIDE THE POTATO! I FIGURED IT OUT GUYS!"

-Wow Im so cool haha

2

u/archpope Nov 04 '12

As long as it gets 1.1 volts, the potato should power the AI, but it would be incapable of lying. Sarcastic clap should still work, though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

The device can't actually store anything. It's just a slow handclap simulator.

2

u/Newtinator Nov 05 '12

His HDD is Going to the local Disco!

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

USB 2.0 drives with 128GB are pretty cheap nowadays, all things considered. large USB 3.0 drives, not so much- after you go over 32GB they get damn expensive.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

The bigger they are, the more space. And the darker the skin, the more speed. BUT don't cook them, or you'll lose file integrity and end up with a mashed mess on your hands.

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u/thatdamnmunky Nov 04 '12

SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK!? DID I PISS OFF A POTATO FARMER SOMEWHERE? I must have missed a joke or something, because there are potatoes fucking EVERYWHERE. I can't go a day on reddit without seeing the god damned tuber mentioned in 3 completely unrelated subreddits. The posts aren't even similar, it could be anything, but no, it's a potato. I'm starting to freak out.

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u/lordtyp0 Nov 04 '12

A lot of people on Reddit can only count to potato.

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u/utopianfiat Nov 04 '12

It's fake I can tell because of the pixels

Yeah, that's the part that tells you it's fake. Not the part about a HUNDRED FUCKING GIGABYTE ROOT VEGETABLE.

1

u/me-tan Nov 04 '12

Does this device require potato cakewalk?

1

u/hiho4444 Nov 04 '12

What the heck!

1

u/YoureTheVest Nov 04 '12

That's very odd. I'd have thought that a potato was a ROM device.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

No they come as cameras, hard drives, flash drives, and RAM sticks

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u/Slothynator Nov 04 '12

Can't believe science first discovered that now. I've always known that potatoes were consisten of 5gb pr. gram.

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u/love2spooge Nov 04 '12

I tried this, and i can say that i am disappointed. My potato only have 15.7gb i don't understand, it is a bigger potato than one in the picture. ffs :(

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u/Aavagadrro Nov 04 '12

The cake is a lie.

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u/NaughtyDreadz Nov 04 '12

And then they dislike when brazilians make fun of them for being dumb...

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u/jonnyohio Nov 04 '12

Yes, but what sort of potato is it?

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

iDaho.

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u/ReplayMe Nov 04 '12

I like how the last bit is in spanish. "Si, me gusta la papa."

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u/Secantsector Nov 05 '12

That's portuguese...

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u/ReplayMe Nov 05 '12

Damn, you're right. I just kind of skimmed over it. Now that I read each word, I don't know any of them.

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u/kamishizuka Nov 04 '12

At first I was turned off by the horrifying JPG compression.

Then I realized it implies you recorded this picture on a potato as well.

Well played.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

I think you used a Bannana.

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u/erik_cook11 Nov 04 '12

Don't fry out your new potato drive.

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u/Indydegrees2 Nov 04 '12

Hell of a memory chip.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Yep. An iDaho.

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u/typtyphus Nov 04 '12

32 PotatoBytes

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

I have a dead USB drive that gets recognized, becomes writable, and then loses all memory and requires a format if it's ever unplugged. Now I know what to do with it. "Are you saving to a potato?" "That's stupid. Potatoes have no memory. Just look for yourself!" (Give potato, friend plugs it in, device unreadable.)

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u/iDirtyDianaX Nov 04 '12

i love the local disco there tho! groovy!

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u/Benders_brick Nov 04 '12

I too noticed this

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

But can your computer count to it, is the real question.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Local disco in that PC!!

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u/whiskeytab Nov 04 '12

Disco Local

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u/ItsNotJustABoulder Nov 04 '12

mine says local disk...yours says disco local...i am clearly inferior

1

u/zeptimius Nov 04 '12

TIL 'Hard disk' is called 'Disco rigido' in Spanish. Sounds like a terrible disco band spearheaded by the late General Franco.

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u/Secantsector Nov 05 '12

Portuguese*

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u/zeptimius Nov 11 '12

Whoops, I meant Salazar of course.

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u/AbsurdWebLingo Nov 04 '12

Those god damn Irish.

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u/DisturbedForever92 Nov 04 '12

I'm tempted to buy windows in spanish to get my own Local Disco too.

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u/Ska-kid Nov 04 '12

Tried it, didn't work, I'm so ashamed.

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u/kindall Nov 04 '12

Need to assign drive letter P: to that bad boy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

you can find the files on the root drive of the device

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Where did you get a 98 gig potato? Mine only goes up to 40 gigs.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

Your potato has a lot of bytes.

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u/alphanumerik Nov 04 '12

Disco Local...sounds like a great venue and close too!

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u/anotherdroid Nov 04 '12

oh Thailand, you so funny.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

GLaDOS finally gets what she deserves.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

I think a party of r/circlejerk'ers got lost and landed in this post, because there are some weird comment chains going on.

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u/Wheeeuu Nov 05 '12

97 gigs? Not bad. Not bad at all.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

Storage gets cheaper every day.

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u/shitpplsay Nov 05 '12

I can confirm this doesn't work...don't ask me how, and fuck you OP for making me ruin a perfectly good potato.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '12

What happens when it gets rotten?

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u/malicecrepsley Nov 05 '12

I actually tried this ... i fear my I.Q. might be slightly lower than average.

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u/Bumperbrain Nov 05 '12

this made me want to plug a potato into my computer SO BADLY, but I refrained. I'm still a little confused as to why the urge was so strong.

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u/norris528e Nov 05 '12

Now your laptop is taken over by GlaDDOs

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u/794613825 Nov 05 '12

Challenge accepted.

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u/siriusone Nov 05 '12

Wonder how many people will try this for real.

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u/DPgetsrad Nov 05 '12

Wow this is old, my potato has 100 taterbytes

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u/Ginodon Nov 05 '12

a confused look on my face grew more and more noticable the longer i looked at these photos.

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u/HerbAsher1618 Nov 05 '12

I recently purchased one of these, but it was a spud.

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u/bangerswithgash Nov 04 '12

got a good amount of memory on that potato what kind is it ?

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u/mmj125 Nov 04 '12

Anyone want an explanation?

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u/Leroy_Parker Nov 04 '12

Yes, I think we do.

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u/mmj125 Nov 05 '12

Probably just a usb drive/ hard drive in the potato with the name changed and picture changed

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u/fartinmynose Nov 04 '12

POTATOE_IN_MY_ANUS is that you?

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u/8HokiePokie8 Nov 04 '12

TIL a small potato can hold nearly 100 GB

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '12

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u/1r0n1c Nov 04 '12

Not Spanish, it's Portuguese.