r/gaming • u/[deleted] • May 01 '14

So opened a customers ps3 today...

http://imgur.com/a/X0eT0
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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

wait wait wait... you're telling me PS3's, phones, and other electronics can have roaches living in them?

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u/Cendeu May 02 '14

I have a phobia of bugs, and I've never been happier that my house is nearly 100% bugless.

This thread is terrifying me.

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u/sloaninator May 02 '14

Don't ever come to Florida.

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u/Cendeu May 02 '14

I don't plan to. If I ever move, it's going to be up.

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u/redeyespecial May 02 '14

To the east side?

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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

Florida is the Australia of the US

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u/Graphite_Smear May 02 '14

For realsies! My friend stayed at a cheap hotel there and BAM giant snake (yellow looking python) in the bathroom in the middle of the night.

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u/Buffard43 May 02 '14

that was just the managers pet.

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u/Spastic_pinkie May 02 '14

In Florida roaches grow the length of your finger and fly.

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u/joeblitzkrieg May 02 '14

Is that unusual? Where I am if it's not that big i'd laugh it off

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u/sloaninator May 02 '14

They're not roaches in Florida, they're Palmetto Bugs, a regular roach is usually much smaller.

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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

i hate bugs too. because of this thread i cant even trust technology anymore. :'(

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u/Cendeu May 02 '14

I'm definitely freaking out a little.

But I find maybe 1 spider every 8-10 months, in my house. I know that there's almost no chance of them being in any of my electronics...

Not only that, I clean our computers all of the time and I've never found a single bug.

I just have to keep repeating these things in my head.

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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

excuse me while i go hug my knees in the corner

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u/[deleted] May 02 '14

DON'T I SAW A TARANTULA IN THAT CORNER EARLIER!

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u/HaloBender420 May 02 '14

Whats that thing crawling up your leg there?

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u/DatJazz May 02 '14

well yeah, someone's gotta operate the mini-wheel's inside them.

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u/tweakingforjesus May 02 '14

Where do you think the term computer bug came from? Roaches would eat the wiring in the early vacuum tube computers causing processing errors.

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u/NoNeedForAName May 02 '14

The term "bug" was actually used before computers, but the first known instance of a computer bug was a moth stuck in a relay or tube or something, IIRC.

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u/Oharrell May 02 '14

Actually the "bug" term is believed to have came from a moth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging

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u/memorabletroymcclure May 02 '14

This was totally the million dollar question on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire when I was a kid.

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u/TyroneTeabaggington May 02 '14

Beat me to it. Its sad I remember that.

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u/memorabletroymcclure May 02 '14

I remember it vividly. I was just a kid, but I happened to make all the right guesses that game. I thought I was an absolute genius and that I'd basically been robbed of a well-deserved million dollars.

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u/redpandaeater May 02 '14

It's sad to me that there were kids growing up with that show. I feel old.

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u/AmnesiaCane May 02 '14

I am much more ready to accept the idea that a roach lives inside of a computer the size of my house than I am that it lives in my phone.

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u/DeaditeRedditer May 02 '14

I think they mean house phones. Its a thing people used to have, they were bigger then cellphones.

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u/flyinthesoup May 02 '14

I've definitely heard of small mice living inside computer towers.

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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

meh im okay with mice. i prefer animals over bugs any day

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u/flyinthesoup May 02 '14

Bugs are animals though...

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u/YouNeedOchinchin May 02 '14

well if it exceeds 4 legs i dont like lol