I use laptop so rarely that the effort might not be worth the effects anyway.
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You shouldn't use that so rarely.
The Warpriest's 2-handed hammer took a hit from a rust monster also. So on his turn he threw it away from them to protect it.Paladin is a little annoyed with me because I destroyed his +1 keen longsword. It's not my fault that he failed his saves against the rust monster!Eat sword!
EAT HAMMER!!
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That is actually quite likely.A silly thought that comes and goes to my mind from time to time...
If I scrapped windows from the laptop and installed Linux would the laptop work faster than it does now? It's over eight years old now.
Of course it would involve doing work that I am too lazy to do, like finding the right suitable ready made Linux compilation (or however it is called), learning how to put it on the laptop (making an installation usb flash drive, I guess? does my laptop support booting from a flash drive? I have no idea). Possibly learn how to make a boot selector between Linux and windows to avoid losing windows...
Been there, done that. The good news is that yes, Linux runs MUCH faster than Windows, and Steam has amazingly good Linux support -- most games we played together could run on Linux, either natively or in emulator mode.
The bad news is that yes, the Linux learning curve isn't short; expect to spend 20-30 hours Googling and fiddling with the command line to get the system behaving just the way you want it to. And once you get it running, the emulated games do run a bit slower and can have some painful bugs (I forget which game, but there was one we played where on Linux every cut scene was just black. I got audio, but no video).
Finally, some games just don't run on Linux at all.
After spending several years trying to make Linux work for me, I finally gave up and bought Windows 10, and it's my main partition. (I still have a Linux partition for when Windows refuses to do something, but I may boot it up once or twice a year now.)
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And now for everyone's astonished gasps:
(1) The car dealership called Shiro to cancel his noon appointment because the car "is still en route".
(2) While they had him on the phone, they started badgering him to make a deposit so that the car "wouldn't get sold out from under him".
It wouldn't be so bad if car dealerships were only reputed to be the vilest customer service organizations in the world. But does every single one we encounter have to live up to the reputation?
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Fun in the barber's.
1) A young fellow with an undercut, and his hair tied up on top of his head in a wee tuft, so he looked like either Little My from the Moomins, or possibly an onion.
2) A very cross father sternly asking his misbehaving sons if their ears were drawn on, which is a phrase I am certainly going to use in future.
I also looked around another house, video-calling ALL (DE) while doing so. It's a grand place, despite (or because of) the very 1970s avocado coloured bathroom fittings and the little niche in that same room containing a plaster statue of a nymph with BARE BOSOMS. We've put an offer in for it, anyway, so we'll see what we shall see.
it may just be that i haven't been reading enough lately, or watching enough good cinema/television, but . . . .
. . . it truly seems to me that season 5 of The Last Kingdom is shaping up to be exactly what it needs to be.
it's doing all the things that GoT didn't.
it may just be that i haven't been reading enough lately, or watching enough good cinema/television, but . . . .
. . . it truly seems to me that season 5 of The Last Kingdom is shaping up to be exactly what it needs to be.
it's doing all the things that GoT didn't.
I'm eventually going to watch The Last Kingdom. Not enough time.
You shouldn't use that so rarely.
Story of my life.
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OPINION TIME: US auto dealerships are owned by organized crime syndicates and price fixers who have their grubby little hands into literally every politician's pockets to the point where the owners have, for the last 40+ years, written every law and regulation that applies to them and the sale of vehicles that's been adopted without question in the states.
Over the last twenty years, I have personally witnessed three local dealerships change hands (into the hands of the owners direct or extended family) or end up liquidated seemingly overnight due to the business and owners being either implicated in or directly caught red-handed in accepting and performing interstate cocaine and human smuggling operations. None of the owners were brought to justice as they were either given enough advance notice that something was going down or they just paid bail, boarded one of their private jets, and disappeared completely.
While there may be some families and corporations who own car dealerships that don't have their hands stained red I am extremely skeptical that even a double-digit percentage of such businesses in the US are actually funded by clean money.
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Just fixed a computer problem on my own. Instantly went to the bathroom to see if I had Vany style facial hair.
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Well that fix lasted for all of five minutes.
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Well that fix lasted for all of five minutes.
Welcome to just one of the versions of my own personal hell.
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Pure class.
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I'm living one of my personal hells: a!!$@++ team parents drinking in my lobby. When I came in, 2nd shift said that he spent most of the shift hiding from them in the laundry room. Of course, he didn't actually do any laundry while hiding from them, so I've been doing that for the last 75 minutes. Now I just need these f!$&ers to go away. And hopefully never come back.
it saddens me that one of your personal hells is one of my lesser personal heavens.
That guy also needs a smack.
One of the guys has been trying to get his wife to go to bed for the last 10 minutes. He keeps saying things like "You know, honey, it's getting really late and we have to be up early. Maybe we should go to bed?" and she has been mostly ignoring him. He just said it again, she looked him in the eye, and snarled "I ain't done drinking yet. If you're so tired, go to bed. Pussy."
Yeah, great people.
wow.
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I'm living one of my personal hells: a!!$@++ team parents drinking in my lobby. When I came in, 2nd shift said that he spent most of the shift hiding from them in the laundry room. Of course, he didn't actually do any laundry while hiding from them, so I've been doing that for the last 75 minutes. Now I just need these f!$&ers to go away. And hopefully never come back.it saddens me that one of your personal hells is one of my lesser personal heavens.
Being one of the revelers is entirely different than having to be the one to cater to and clean up after these frequently verbally abusive assclowns.
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I'm eventually going to watch The Last Kingdom. Not enough time.it may just be that i haven't been reading enough lately, or watching enough good cinema/television, but . . . .
. . . it truly seems to me that season 5 of The Last Kingdom is shaping up to be exactly what it needs to be.
it's doing all the things that GoT didn't.
Ranking of Kings is a surprisingly addictive anime that's basically, "What if we took Game of Thrones, got rid of all the sex, vastly reduced the number of characters, made it cute and chibi, and made the main character a deaf mute 'dwarf*' who should be unbelievably annoying but somehow manages to work?"
10 minutes in I was thinking, "How could anyone ever recommend this series?"
By the time we finished the first episode I was willing to watch another one.
By the time we got 3 episodes in, we were hooked.
*Technically, he's a young boy, but he's incredibly tiny for his age and never grows, so I don't know what you'd call him but he's small, weak, and speaks in nothing but annoying babbles.
Being one of the revelers is entirely different than having to be the one to cater to and clean up after these frequently verbally abusive assclowns.I'm living one of my personal hells: a!!$@++ team parents drinking in my lobby. When I came in, 2nd shift said that he spent most of the shift hiding from them in the laundry room. Of course, he didn't actually do any laundry while hiding from them, so I've been doing that for the last 75 minutes. Now I just need these f!$&ers to go away. And hopefully never come back.it saddens me that one of your personal hells is one of my lesser personal heavens.
actually my phone hiccupped...again...and made it seem I was replying to that post when I was actually making a completely different post about room parties.
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I don't like hotel parties. But then again I'm claustrophobic and I used to work at a hotel so I'm already the wrong demographic.
That said, high school tournament time is the absolute worst! You get the biggest a#*@*~@s!! Sorry, gran, you have my sympathy.
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So Shiro refused to go to the dealership just to give them money for a nonexistent car, and the salesperson got angry and indignant and told him that if he didn't show up ASAP and put down a deposit, he just might not get the car.
Shiro's response was classic Shiro: "I don't think you understand this situation. Your negotiations have already failed. I don't even care any more. If you want to sell me the car at the price we agreed on, that's fine, but until then don't bother me."
He's at a loss as to how such dealerships make any money. And I have to agree with him: If a dealership treats me like that, I walk away as a matter of principle. If every dealership treats me like that, there are plenty of used cars in the sea.
It's yet another, "Why do people tolerate this and allow themselves to be scammed, perpetuating the cycle?" moment.
(In a similar vein, I've skipped concerts rather than buying tickets from scalpers, so maybe I'm just over-Lawful and willing to do without rather than support the corrupt.)
That's basically it. Most people would rather pay the extra fees than go without.
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Fantasy Monster: Atomic Moose.
Recently someone mentioned when commenting on a friend's post that she lives between a nuclear reactor, a military training field, and a forest with elks moose.
Fantasy Monster: Atomic Moose.
Recently someone mentioned when commenting on a friend's post that she lives between a nuclear reactor, a military training field, and a forest with
elksmoose.
This means that 'Hiero's Journey' stands a good chance of becoming real, especially if the mooses are also psychic. Hey hey!
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Far Cry 4 and it's season pass were on sale for about 12 bucks so now I'm waiting for it to finish downloading.
Far Cry 4 and it's season pass were on sale for about 12 bucks so now I'm waiting for it to finish downloading.
Don't expect Ajay to be as expressive or talkative as the main character in 6. He's still a heaven above the Deputy in 5, though. He has a few snarky moments of his own, when he wasn't completely overwhelmed by the people and circumstances he fell in.
And listen to you good uncle Pagan Min when he calls you on the phone. It's worth it.
It's also (cringe)worthy to listen to Rabi Ray Rana on radio when driving around.
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It's things like this that really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Back to school today.
50 work days left until summer.
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Needless to say, with Tiny Teena's adventure coming out on Thursday, my gaming desktop failed to boot this morning. As in, "There is no indication it's getting power at all."
So, "best case" scenario is that it's "just" my power supply and I can order a new one and be ready by Thursday. Unfortunately, power supplies are very simple creatures, so the more likely explanation is a dead motherboard. Given the other stuff happening this week, I have neither the money nor the time to build a new gaming computer by Thursday, so crossing my fingers it's the power supply.
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Needless to say, with Tiny Teena's adventure coming out on Thursday, my gaming desktop failed to boot this morning. As in, "There is no indication it's getting power at all."
So, "best case" scenario is that it's "just" my power supply and I can order a new one and be ready by Thursday. Unfortunately, power supplies are very simple creatures, so the more likely explanation is a dead motherboard. Given the other stuff happening this week, I have neither the money nor the time to build a new gaming computer by Thursday, so crossing my fingers it's the power supply.
You don't have another desktop at hand to check the power supply?
On the second thought, maybe better not.
Speaking of computer hardware. I have just brought home a mouse (two actually, I ordered two of the same to have a spare one of exactly the same type just in case).
Now I am getting used to its slightly different weight and handling than the last one (the left mouse button started to occasionally double click when held down, or pressed for too long, I use drag'n'drop quite a lot so it was a growing issue).
I picked a mouse model that I already used a few years ago - in fact it was the mouse that was (until today) connected to the laptop. Nothing expensive, in fact I am rather distrustful of expensive mice, I doubt they will last that much longer than cheaper ones.
Also, the mouse button clicking sound is... Louder? More clear(er)?
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Well, this is depressing...
i'm feeling the sudden impulse to quit my job, start making soap, and start hosting 'brawl bros' events in a ramshackle basement somewhere.
i do not see how this can end well for Stargate fans. i'm not even a serious fan of the franchise, and i've got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach . . . .
Go fornicate your lower intestines with shattered axehandles and fire-roasted rebar, Amazon. and double for Bezos. 'cause
Here's hoping it's the power supply.
Seems this is the week for technological issues.
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Here's hoping it's the power supply.
Seems this is the week for technological issues.
Hey, I only found it this morning and I had to get to work, so I've got a lot of good chances:
(1) It mysteriously unplugged at the outlet overnight. It happens, and I have to dig around back there to check that.(2) That power outlet is bad. So I need to check that.
(3) The power cord is bad. That'll be my next check.
(4) The power supply popped a fuse. That'll be my final check.
Given a computer that went from "fully functional" to "not even a motherboard LED" overnight, I'm guessing one of these four will fix it.
Crossing my fingers.
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Well, this is depressing...I'm feeling the sudden impulse to quit my job, start making soap, and start hosting 'brawl bros' events in a ramshackle basement somewhere.
Let me know if you need help making the soap.
Well, this is depressing...i'm feeling the sudden impulse to quit my job, start making soap, and start hosting 'brawl bros' events in a ramshackle basement somewhere.
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I've not heard anything but praise for the WOT show. This is the first time I've heard someone disliking it. (Granted, I don't like the books, so changes thereto would potentially be an improvement in my eyes. FWIW.)
Only reason I haven't gotten around to watching it myself is because Amazon isn't one of the streaming services Scint and I are subscribed to, and there's not enough there we're interested in to warrant adding it.
Agreed on the bit directly aimed at Bezos though.