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| Topic | Anyone had experience with DOA HDDs? |
| Sahuagin 01/23/21 6:08:02 PM #4 | ReturnOfFa posted... I decided to install a PCIe USB port expansion. When I rebooted after installation, two of my drives weren't working, along with my RGB lighting.difficult or impossible to troubleshoot online, but it "sounds" like maybe you damaged the motherboard somehow. two drives should not fail simultaneously, especially with other things like lights, and a third drive not working in the same place means that it's probably the port(s). if you know you have at least one working port (the one with your system drive), you should be able to connect one of the "dead" drives to that port and see it in the BIOS (after boot). if you have a known working port, and one drive shows up through it, and another does not, then the one that doesn't is likely truly dead. (this is a bit tricky/scary to test though since it involves disconnecting your system drive temporarily.) another good way to test/confirm is to connect the drive to a secondary port on any other known working computer. the drive should appear in the BIOS, and should also become available in Windows. (it is possible to receive a DOA hard drive, but the fact that you have at least some damage to your motherboard, and multiple failing drives, including a new one, would indicate to me that you have failed ports before it would mean that you had three drives all failing for separate reasons.) --- |
| Topic | What are some hard RPGs? |
| Sahuagin 01/19/21 1:17:54 AM #18 | Lokarin posted... Something like "Platinum objective: win in 4 turns" and there's only one solution that does it like "armour break on turn 1, defend twice, rage-counter" or something weird like that.I feel like I've seen that, but maybe not. (that's a good idea though). the closest thing I can think of atm was the Wii Fire Emblem game playing on "normal" (which is really "hard"), and it's hard enough that some early maps do boil down to having to move and attack nearly perfectly to not die --- |
| Topic | What are some hard RPGs? |
| Sahuagin 01/19/21 1:14:41 AM #17 | Icewind Dale 1 and 2 Pillars of Eternity on hard Icewind Dale 1 also has a sort of new game+ mode that I haven't tried much that makes the game even harder --- |
| Topic | Im OFFICIALLY TOO OLD for VIDEOGAMES |
| Sahuagin 01/17/21 1:08:26 PM #7 | I don't think it's age so much as what genres you play. It's a harder than average FPS, with unconventional rules. It can be hard even for people who are used to FPS games. But if you're *not* that into FPS games, then yeah I could definitely see it being too hard. Also, your first playthrough of any game is harder than later playthroughs. --- |
| Topic | Contra III: The Alien Wars |
| Sahuagin 01/16/21 7:37:11 PM #4 | yes that game is awesome --- |
| Topic | What if Jordan Peterson is the Spirit Science guy |
| Sahuagin 01/15/21 8:24:22 PM #3 | why did skeptic become the unskeptic? considering unsubbing... (not cuz offended, just not entertaining anymore) --- |
| Topic | MIT Applicants were asked to solve this VERY DIFFICULT MATH QUESTION..Can you??? |
| Sahuagin 01/15/21 8:21:48 PM #10 | What_The_Chris posted... solving for x is a lot funner though --- |
| Topic | MIT Applicants were asked to solve this VERY DIFFICULT MATH QUESTION..Can you??? |
| Sahuagin 01/15/21 12:38:10 PM #8 | --- |
| Topic | They have the complete series of Futurama for $35 on the Microsoft store. |
| Sahuagin 01/15/21 12:10:47 AM #5 | looks like it's $60 canadian. and I already own everything up to and including the movies on DVD. tempting though... --- |
| Topic | waluigi is really freaky looking |
| Sahuagin 01/15/21 12:06:06 AM #5 | probably everyone already knows but he's basically just a rip off of "The Peculiar Purple Pieman" --- |
| Topic | How good is Dragon Quest XI? |
| Sahuagin 01/12/21 9:02:17 PM #8 | It's very very good --- |
| Topic | What food is your local area best known for, and do you like it? |
| Sahuagin 01/12/21 3:56:36 AM #56 | supposedly Ginger Beef is from around here it's not bad when its fresh, but it's not that great either and I wouldn't order it on purpose --- |
| Topic | Whats your current favorite youtube vid |
| Sahuagin 01/11/21 9:55:12 PM #10 | just saw this yesterday and it was amazing: Why the Music in Cats (2019) is Worse than you Thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k (there are a couple short censored parts that you can view via the link in the description) otherwise probably this: history of the entire world, i guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs --- |
| Topic | First day back to work after COVID |
| Sahuagin 01/11/21 8:33:32 PM #5 | any permanent effects? how bad was it? (like compared to a cold or flu?) --- |
| Topic | How many of these games have you played? |
| Sahuagin 01/10/21 2:00:17 AM #12 | I've played something like 31/57, but a couple of them was only for a half hour or so. Yoshi's Island: Yes X-Men: Children of the Atom: No Starcraft:BW: Yes Oblivion: Yes Rogue Squadron: Yes Secret of Monkey Island: Yes Goldeneye: Yes Mass Effect 2: Yes Nights Into Dreams: No, but I think my brother has it Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: No SMB3: Yes MvC1?: No Unreal Tournament: Yes AoE2: No Ratchet and Clank: No Mario Party 1: Yes, I think (too many of those to remember for sure) Tomb Raider: Once for a few minutes X-Men Beat-em-up: No Grim Fandango: Yes DKC1: Yes CT: Yes Aladdin (Genesis): I don't think so, but I played and beat the SNES version which appears to be vastly superior Luigi's Mansion: No Halo 2: Yes Guitar Hero: No Torment: Yes Splash Down: Never heard of Mega Man X: Yes Some Spider-Man game: No Kingdom Hearts: No Lego Racers: No Street Fighter Third Strike 3: No Red Dead Revolver: No Assassin's Creed 2: No Secret of Mana: Yes Streets of Rage: Yes Jungle Book (SNES): Yes KotR: Yes NBA Jam: Yes Mario 64: Yes Sly Cooper: I actually bought like all 3 of them or something a while back, but never tried them out BF1942: No Contra 1: Yes Hitman 2: No GTA: VC: No Borderlands 2: Yes Bioshock 1: Yes Spyro: No Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance: Never head of Jak and Daxter: I think I bought a couple of them with the Sly Cooper games and tried it for a few minutes Army Men: No Starfox 1: Yes StarHawk: Never head of SMB1: Yes GTA: SA: No MGS2: Yes Conker's Bad Fur Day: Yes --- |
| Topic | What are some games that give a sense of accomplishment? |
| Sahuagin 01/09/21 3:25:06 AM #14 | "feeling good about building something great" with challenge: Kerbal Space Program Factorio not challenging per se, but very satisfying and relaxing: House Flipper --- |
| Topic | I think that Miracle Whip is being secretly produced by Big Mayonnaise |
| Sahuagin 01/06/21 1:06:11 AM #4 | I like mayo, but it can be a bit heavy. eating something that's too greasy can make me nauseous pretty quick. miracle whip is not so fatty and also has a tangy flavour that maybe isn't that great, but does go good on the right sandwich. my personal fav is a fried egg sandwich. miracle whip + two fried eggs between two slices of toasted bread. yummy! --- |
| Topic | Was mr miyagi right |
| Sahuagin 01/04/21 8:54:07 PM #4 | not familiar with the context, but off the top of my head there's two possible ways to look at it: - he's putting the responsibility on himself rather than the student. (I know a certain scumbag who is the opposite of this. if you don't understand him, it's your fault, and if he doesn't understand you, it's your fault. he will even treat complete strangers this way, as long as it's not in public.) - maybe you could say that someone who has zero interest in the subject is not actually a student. student implies at least some willingness to learn the subject. so, given that, it's up to the teacher to make it happen. --- |
| Topic | Do you still have a comfort item/blanket? |
| Sahuagin 01/04/21 8:37:52 PM #26 | GunslingerGunsl posted... Is it hard for you to think of getting rid of it?it would be a shame to get rid of it, but it's not a super emotional attachment or anything, like Mr Burns and Bobo --- |
| Topic | Do you still have a comfort item/blanket? |
| Sahuagin 01/04/21 8:12:26 PM #19 | I have a teddy bear that's as old as I am, but it's in a box somewhere --- |
| Topic | How many paid days off do you get a year between vacation and holiday? |
| Sahuagin 12/30/20 2:28:10 PM #32 | blu posted... What do you do? Something with network security?combination sysadmin/software dev/accounting assistant for a small company --- |
| Topic | Whenever free games pop up on Steam / GOG / Epic / Humble / PSN / Live / eShop |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 8:16:00 PM #19 | Revelation34 posted... The free one obviously. That means I would still have 500k in the bank.I don't mean choose between the two as if that option had presented itself to you, I mean analyze the emotional difference between the two scenarios. (including that buying a $500k car implies that that is something you want to do, and that you can afford it, etc.) you're evaluating something rationally that I'm describing as being irrational. an example is pride, where I know people that will tend to refuse any kind of generosity. you can't buy them anything, but they'll offer to buy you almost anything (obviously within reason). and if you do buy them something, they'll make sure to outdo you later buying you something just as or even more expensive. this is not rational behaviour, it's more emotion driven. the ability to buy something carries (can carry) a sort of status with it. if you just do a coldly logical +/- dollars and cents analysis, then this behaviour makes no sense. --- |
| Topic | How many paid days off do you get a year between vacation and holiday? |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 7:44:10 PM #23 | including holidays, I think it adds up to about 50 days --- |
| Topic | Whenever free games pop up on Steam / GOG / Epic / Humble / PSN / Live / eShop |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 7:29:09 PM #16 | Revelation34 posted... If we went with your logic then Skyrim, which was massively pirated, wouldn't be worth playing at all.it's not really logic, it's a feeling. if I were to play a pirated copy of something I wouldn't enjoy it. note also: I'm not making a moral claim (at the moment). keyblader1985 posted... So.. nothing good should ever be given away for free?think of it like, what would you enjoy more: a lamborghini that you legit paid $500,000 for, or one that a friend of a friend of a friend gave you for free? there's two ways to look at it, and I think both are more or less subjective. you can feel the satisfaction of having earned something you worked hard for and appreciate the value of the item you obtained and that that value was rewarded with your purchase. or, you can feel the satisfaction of having obtained a high-value item for a low or even zero cost, and feel great about the overall net gain that you received. (ok, having written that, I think what I'm describing here is actually something else. I think it's the (false) feeling of receiving value by having paid a large price for something. it's not just the "satisfaction of having earned it"; there is a sort of maybe elitist/snobbish/decadent feeling you can get for buying something exorbitant. it's more like that, but on a smaller scale. so, paying more for something translates into more satisfaction rather than the other way around. I'm not suggesting that's how anyone _should_ be, just noticing this in myself, and noticed that it contrasted the attitude in the OP.) --- |
| Topic | Whenever free games pop up on Steam / GOG / Epic / Humble / PSN / Live / eShop |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 5:08:22 PM #11 | adjl posted... I wouldn't say this is altogether reasonableI didn't say it was reasonable; in fact, it's quite unreasonable. that's my knee-jerk instinctual feeling. it's also why I don't pirate games or play emulators. --- |
| Topic | If you had to give up one finger which would you pick? |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 5:01:33 PM #15 | right pinky, I think. I don't use it for anything. I do use left pinky for certain keys, though I've been starting to notice a bit of inflammation/arthritis in the top joint and it's starting to not work properly. --- |
| Topic | What's that effect you see when looking at a mesh? |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 4:39:22 AM #4 | might not be what you mean, but since it's a repeating pattern, your eyes can focus on it incorrectly, similar to those 3d cross your eyes pictures. --- |
| Topic | Whenever free games pop up on Steam / GOG / Epic / Humble / PSN / Live / eShop |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 4:22:41 AM #7 | I sort of have the opposite attitude. I want something that's worth paying for. If it's free it's probably not worth my time. I may even enjoy a game more the more I pay for it. --- |
| Topic | Has anyone here built a PC in the past few months? |
| Sahuagin 12/29/20 3:20:53 AM #5 | still using the same computer I built in 2012. upgraded the RAM once, and the video card once since then. as far as I know it's seriously bottlenecked by the CPU (i5-2310) but I don't notice it that much. --- |
| Topic | What's your favorite flavor of popcorn? |
| Sahuagin 12/28/20 5:18:04 PM #8 | caramel popcorn is fantastic, as long as that doesn't mean like "artificially caramel flavoured" or something, which would probably not be great --- |
| Topic | PotD's Game of the Year |
| Sahuagin 12/27/20 4:57:40 AM #20 | Doom: Eternal easy, but I don't play much that's new --- |
| Topic | How's your VISUAL MEMORY?? Can you BEAT Me?? Take this and Post Your Results!!! |
| Sahuagin 12/27/20 1:03:00 AM #5 | wow that's hard... at the higher levels you can barely grok what you're seeing before it's gone. got level 9 the first time, and managed level 12 after 10 or so attempts. I don't think I could do much better unless I tried all day. --- |
| Topic | Frosted sugar cookies are bottom tier cookies. |
| Sahuagin 12/26/20 9:25:46 PM #4 | not sure what you mean exactly (ie: what are "frosted sugar cookies"?). I vaguely recall some kind of cookie like that that is not as good as it looks and is too sugary. I do know that good shortbread cookies (which may look similar) are friggin fantastic. --- |
| Topic | Why isnt "Ulysses S Grant" talked more about |
| Sahuagin 12/26/20 9:22:42 PM #13 | watched this a lot as a kid, though I don't think I learned much from it at the time aside from names and images. whole thing is on youtube now it seems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlseQlnk3R8&list=PLXKLYIH9Cw8viQePDMdNf8yn3l3pKJkEc --- |
| Topic | Why isnt "Ulysses S Grant" talked more about |
| Sahuagin 12/26/20 1:13:27 PM #9 | watch more civil war documentaries? --- |
| Topic | Is it normal for USPS packages tracking not updating in over 10 days? |
| Sahuagin 12/26/20 1:50:48 AM #15 | once I had where a package stopped moving for 1-2 months. the day after I sent an email asking about it, it started moving again. normally doesn't happen though. --- |
| Topic | Here on the eve of Christmas eve; GodTok with Lok explains the Nativity |
| Sahuagin 12/23/20 9:16:00 PM #3 | what a weird topic I can't really add anything --- |
| Topic | Whats the difference between grave robbing and |
| Sahuagin 12/23/20 9:13:29 PM #13 | graverobbing would be primarily for personal profit, whereas archeology would be primarily for knowledge and then, the amount of knowledge extraction would really be the deciding factor, more than profit. archeology would aim for 100% knowledge extraction, whereas graverobbing would ignore it entirely. if archeology happens to make some profit (not sure how it works), that wouldn't invalidate it. sacrificing knowledge for profit would though. --- |
| Topic | Can you be a POLICE OFFICER?? Warning There's MATH and ENGLISH!! Try It!!! |
| Sahuagin 12/23/20 9:02:14 PM #13 | 29/31 got the number of people mentioned off by 1 (one person quickly mentioned and never brought up again, which I thought was likely but wasn't supposed to go back to read it again) I didn't get the "can we tell if the truck was making a delivery" question. I thought we couldn't tell, but by "after the warning" I was imagining the second encounter with the driver, when it meant "what he did once he got the warning", which makes sense now. --- |
| Topic | Could you be an FBI AGENT that only 5% CAN?? Take this SHORT Test to Find Out!!! |
| Sahuagin 12/23/20 12:49:05 AM #10 | Yellow posted... I also didn't get the picture one. Someone explain that to me pls? --- |
| Topic | ATTN: Alberta people |
| Sahuagin 12/22/20 8:33:37 PM #15 | zebatov posted... Get one of those things from Can Tire that attach to your shovel so your off-arm doesnt have to reach down as far.thanks, I do have a shovel with a bend in it to help with that, but it's not a very big shovel either. I probably should try something like that, but this usually only happens once a year or so, if that. I was also trying to lift the snow with my legs rather than my back but it only helped so much. I'm not sure, but I suspect the huge pain I was in is disc related more than muscles (but not sure). I bent my lower back backwards after and it got better after a few minutes. now I'm mostly just normal sore and exhausted rather than in pain. --- |
| Topic | Could you be an FBI AGENT that only 5% CAN?? Take this SHORT Test to Find Out!!! |
| Sahuagin 12/22/20 8:19:48 PM #4 | 7/7. some tough questions but IRL it would probably be timed (among other things). --- |
| Topic | ATTN: Alberta people |
| Sahuagin 12/22/20 7:48:02 PM #13 | barely managed to shovel out my driveway... my poor back... it sucks how the plow plows the road *into* your driveway, so at the end you have a wall of hard packed snow to get through to finish, as if it wasn't hard enough already... I was shoveling it to go get dinner but I think I'll just order something now instead --- |
| Topic | ATTN: Alberta people |
| Sahuagin 12/22/20 2:58:53 PM #12 | Ogurisama posted... They are saying its going all nightI was hoping the roads would be plowed and less slippery, but upon seeing my car buried in the better part of a foot of snow, I took the day off instead. --- |
| Topic | ATTN: Alberta people |
| Sahuagin 12/21/20 9:19:35 PM #8 | super slippery on the way home today. hopefully it's better in the morning. --- |
| Topic | Do you have a Male or Female BRAIN?? Take this Test and Post your Results!!! |
| Sahuagin 12/21/20 8:57:19 PM #6 | A TOTALLY MALE BRAIN --- |
| Topic | Is there such a thing as, like, reverse-scalping? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/20 1:52:14 AM #7 | but why would you be surprised that adding 5 $52 items to your cart would result in ~$250? what about the product listing is misleading besides the price being high? did you just assume that the product was something other than what it said, just because the price was high? (maybe there is little visual distinction between the two kinds of box? but you still shouldn't be surprised to add 5 x $52 to get $250. I don't see why there's any confusion except for the high price.) --- |
| Topic | Is there such a thing as, like, reverse-scalping? |
| Sahuagin 12/21/20 12:48:45 AM #5 | you said you were surprised when it came to ~$250? but that can only happen if you intentionally add 5 of them (@ $52 each) to your cart. if it's overpriced, yes, that's something to be aware of on these kinds of sites (amazon, walmart and newegg are the three that I know of) where there are third-party sellers that often list things at stupid prices hoping someone will buy it anyway (similar to WoW auction house or something). --- |
| Topic | Is there such a thing as, like, reverse-scalping? |
| Sahuagin 12/20/20 7:05:50 PM #2 | I don't think that's what's happening. is it this? https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/yu-gi-oh-cards-maximum-gold-box/6000202082581 it does not do what you say. I seem to be able to purchase them for $52 each. --- |
| Topic | should the covid-19 vaccine be mandatory |
| Sahuagin 12/19/20 9:10:36 PM #67 | Mead posted... you really think theyre gonna spend the billions/trillions it would take to produce cutting edge technology and maintain the infrastructure for monitoring just to secretly track everyone in the countrynot agreeing or disagreeing about the specific issue under discussion, but the answer to this question is "yes". --- |
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