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[Bohandas]

Doesn't surprise me. Unexplained electrical fires were what got me, though, not poison.

For me, there's the whole lot of problems that I've had with my Alienware 13 (from day 1). I could go on and on about this. Screen problems, performance problems, hardware problems.... you call it, I've have had it.

And right now I'm angry because an advertisement for their Dell Recovery system keeps popping out, reminding me that "unless I update to Dell Recovery Premium" I won't be able to make a backup of Windows 10 but instead will revert to Windows 8 if I make a recovery disk.

This would be a sleazy company policy in itself, but what's far worse is that a quick google search shows that Windows 10 allows you to make a backup of Windows 10.... FOR FREE.




So yeah, Dell is trying to charge their customers for a characteristic they already have for free.


Shit, I hate them so much.

Sue the hell out of them

[Graknorke]

You can't sue Dell m8. They have money and lawyers.

[i2amroy]

You can't sue Dell m8. They have money and lawyers.

I mean you can sue them, but you are going to run out of money to keep the case going long before anything ever gets decided.

[lemon10]

Got a cold and now my shoulders are ache.

[hops]

I just finish a piece of art that I was pretty proud of, and I really want to share it, but I know people will just ignore it and then I'll be sad again so I guess I'm preemptively being sad? this is dumb.

[Bauglir]

go ahead and share it

if people ignore it, then literally nothing will have changed

[Spehss _]

Apparently I have not two, not three, but no less than four tests this week. One for every class. Over the next two days.

Woooooo. Would've been nice to know about this before now. Have little time to really study for anything aside from the calc test and history test. Guess it's my fault for not looking at class calendars and keeping up on dates.

[hops]

go ahead and share it

if people ignore it, then literally nothing will have changed

I guess that thinking about it, in the end it doesn't really matter anyways since it was insubstantial in anything except aesthetic value. Its only purpose was to be created, allowing me to practice my skills. Now I might as well just destroy it since it has outlived its usefulness. Though I'll keep it so that I can redraw it later when I am a better artist.

[Orange Wizard]

Wait no don't destroy it, I wanna see.

[Bohandas]

You can't sue Dell m8. They have money and lawyers.

I mean you can sue them, but you are going to run out of money to keep the case going long before anything ever gets decided.

Well in that case, maybe just make a note of it for now and later, if you're ever diagnosed with a terminal disease and don't have anything to lose, burn one of their factories down

[Arcvasti]

I'm sad because I just finished The Silver Spike, the third book in the second Black Company Omnibus.  I was a little disappointed.

Spoiler: Sort of? (click to show/hide)

I don't consider these super spoilery because as far as I can tell The Silver Spike is self-contained and there's nothing it says that would hinder your understanding of the other books in a way that's unsatisfying.  Worse, I figured out that the female Shadowmaster was Stormbringer when a storm attacked the temple they were staying in.  Then things got confusing when my intuition was right but the evidence was wrong; the storm was the Plain creatures attacking the Limper, who's back for some reason?

The entire series really hinges on people knowing things and pulling shenanigans out of their asses and normally it's okay but it felt more obvious and contrived in this one.  I was glad to never see Raven again and disappointed I had to read another book of him, even if he dies at the end.  The ending was also a little rushed and strange.  One of the things that's neat about that series is how the wizards are simultaneously unstoppable and super-vulnerable.  Like Shadowspinner gets strangled by thuggees, Shifter and Stormbringer get conked on the head after they're done fighting. 

But the LImper's death was just weird, and I don't see how bringing him back really forwarded the story.  I mean I guess we resolve what happened to everybody but that wasn't a question I was asking.  And throwing the spike into the negaverse kind of undermines the themes they were building throughout the book.  There was this real sense of futility and dread; it seemed like there was no way to stop something like the Dominator.  It's what the very end of the third book hints at, with Toadkiller Dog coming back every night to dig.  Evil can't be contained forever. 

And then they just throw it in a hole and it's gone forever.

This will make it sound much worse than it was (I liked the book, it's the lowest point in a very high series) but it's The Phantom Menace of The Black Company.  A vestigial story that has no bearing on the rest of the series and doesn't answer any questions that needed answering.  I don't know how well it would've stood on its own.  It doesn't influence the rest of the series but it's still mired in it.

Spoiler: More Spoilers (click to show/hide)

Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the Silver Spike's ending. The bit with the thieving group inside the city was reasonably intense and Limper's coming back seemed par for the course as far as absurdly robust wizards goes. I do feel like everyone except two people dying in like three or four pages was pretty dumb, although I did think that Raven's death, at least, was well done.

[Willfor]

They really should have stuck with the published order, and had The Silver Spike as #4 in the omnibus, though I do get why they decided not to. That's not much of a spoiler. Overall I felt like following the other branch of the company was more worthwhile, especially given that the theme of the series is heavily tied to the annals of the company.

[itisnotlogical]

and on the third day of heartburn, fucking bullshit brought to me
acid reflux in my trachea

[hops]

Wait no don't destroy it, I wanna see.

It's not that big of a deal, I'm just being overly dramatic.

[Yoink]

I feel like I'm gaining weight. I have too much food at the moment...
At least it's Summer. With any luck I'll be able to sweat myself back to skeletal before long. Time to go for a jog! Maybe.