Hey Reddit, what great lengths have you gone to do something completely stupid?

I'll start us off, I really wanted for some reason to play Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver.

I figured this would be an easy thing so I went and downloaded it online and tried to install it, only having it not work. I figured that since I was running Windows 7 that was the problem, so I went and found out that Windows 7 offers a XP Virtual Machine Mode so I went and tried to download that but found out that since I had the basic version I couldn't get it.

So what did I do? Give up? FUCK NO. I decided to upgrade my computer to Windows 7 Business Edition, which took three hours to download and about one hour to install. I then see that I got a weird Virtual Machine that defaulted to Chinese. I powered through this, went and installed it... only to find out that my laptop doesn't have the processing power to run it, the game is God knows how many years old and was running at maybe 3 frames per second.

Feeling defeated, in a last ditch effort I went and mounted it on a DVD to try again on another computer in my house and figured what the hell, let me try to run it on the computer without the Virtual Machine and see what happens.

It installs perfectly. I spent an entire day doing something that would've taken me five minutes... I am an idiot.

tl;dr - I went through three different Operating Systems and upgraded my computer to play a fucking Scholastic Book Club video game.