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[NRDL]

Was searching some random shit on google when out of nowhere

"Let the SKYFAAAAALLLL

When it TUMBOOOOOOLS

We will STAND TAAAAALLL, and-"

Yeah the song Skyfall just started playing out of seemingly fucking nowhere.  I immediately started checking every tab i had, none of them were it, I exited my browser, it didn't stop, I was really starting to freak out.

Turns out Spotify finished loading.  Goddamnit.  Nearly gave me a heart attack.

[chaotic skies]

I no longer have this problem, ever since I broke Spotify somehow

[Orange Wizard]

Turns out Spotify finished loading.

Wow, it actually finished loading?

[Tack]

Don't think I posted this.
My landlord didn't inform me of a scheduled power outage, and the result of that power outage happened whilst I was playing fallout. Didn't lose a save, but I did lose my PSU, which I just paid $150 out of pocket to replace, three days later.
Now, Landlord felt bad, so has offered to waive the next internet bill ($30). I said fair enough, honor is satisfied, as the company sent it via post and we're all pretty lezais faire when it comes to paper mail.

Issue is, it's broken again, after two hours of playtime, so now we're gonna have to lug it out to the bench again and do top-to-bottom diagnosis all over again.
It's like the gift that keeps on giving.

My computer is more fucked than I thought. Got a new PSU only for the MoBo to crash six hours later. So a $150 problem was actually a $350 problem.

So yeah, day one with no computer.

It's not that I have any particular need to play vidya games, but I've found that too long without... tends to un-fry some brain cells which, in a social sense, are better off fried.
Plus, I'll be honest, probably keeps my libido under wraps too.

A camping trip, three days, is usually enough to have eager roomates cajoling me back onto the computer, like the colleagues of a moderately irritable ex-smoker.
Needless to say I'm worried.

Still need to replace my MoBo but have been suitably convinced that doing so, rather than saving every penny to attend my brother's interstate wedding would be abominably selfish.
Which it would. Even though it's months away, that $200 for the MoBo would be really important for flights, etc.

I've been without PC for two weeks now and I think my posting stats have noticeably gone up.
That and the constant verbal abuse I'm heaping on my poor housemate.

Good news, the new Mobo is here.

Things went terribly wrong. No motherboard. No computer.
However, my mood is being kept stable via console, so there's a silver lining.
Oh, first world problems.

$500 in the hole, have fixed my computer.
Make sure it runs, take to my room, plug everything in.
Dead.
Again.

Might have a suicide component or something.

Replaced another-another part in my PC.
Didn't work. Instantly threw a tantrum.
Am in my room whilst my more patient roomate goes through all of the shitty checks.

Have basically given up on PC master race. PC's are shit.

I poured another $300 into my computer to no result.
Apparently the motherboard needs to be sent to manufacturer for update.

Fuck it. I'm done with it. I don't want to touch another computer again.

The thing is unimaginably obtuse, and becoming inconceivably expensive.
People constantly tell me to "just buy a new one". I explain to them it already is.
Maybe I should say fuck gaming PC's.

... It's the new PSU.
The saga is coming to a close. Unless it turns out to have been a suicide MoBo (not covered by warranty), I may actually be in the clear tomorrow.
I spent... So much money... so needlessly, on parts which might not have needed replacing.
I'm so... Mixed emotions. Definitely WTF.

[Ogdibus]

Does anyone remember the Super Mario Brothers movie?

Tom Hanks wanted the role of Mario, but Nintendo worried that the star of Turner & Hooch (1989) and Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) couldn't headline a blockbuster.

[Akura]

Still getting those pop-ups for Windows 10. The latest has a list of features that has and does not have:

[X]: Anti-Virus Technology
[X]: Anti-Phishing Technology
[X]: System Tamper Proofing
[ ]: Reinforced Concrete



Yeahhno, if it doesn't come with reinforced concrete, I'm not interested. Also, good luck with that system tamper-proofing... which sorta sounds like it'll interfere with system-building.

[Amperzand]

Drinking water is making me thirstier, what the actual fuck.

[TheBiggerFish]

Drinking water is making me thirstier, what the actual fuck.

You must be very thirsty.

[Shadowlord]

Replaced another-another part in my PC.
Didn't work. Instantly threw a tantrum.
Am in my room whilst my more patient roomate goes through all of the shitty checks.

Have basically given up on PC master race. PC's are shit.

I poured another $300 into my computer to no result.
Apparently the motherboard needs to be sent to manufacturer for update.

Fuck it. I'm done with it. I don't want to touch another computer again.

The thing is unimaginably obtuse, and becoming inconceivably expensive.
People constantly tell me to "just buy a new one". I explain to them it already is.
Maybe I should say fuck gaming PC's.

... It's the new PSU.
The saga is coming to a close. Unless it turns out to have been a suicide MoBo (not covered by warranty), I may actually be in the clear tomorrow.
I spent... So much money... so needlessly, on parts which might not have needed replacing.
I'm so... Mixed emotions. Definitely WTF.

Many years ago, I had a roommate who thought it would be a good idea to try to diagnose my PC using a multimeter, after the power button stopped working. Somehow, he managed to fry everything in it (There was a visible flash and sound, and the hard drive seemed to rapidly go corrupt, although we were able to pull much of the data off of it before it got too bad).

Since then I've acquired a power supply tester. Very useful.

[Tack]

I can imagine. I used the paper clip test. Which I hadn't actually known about until now.
My techie roomate didn't even.
FFS.

[Adragis]

I was using Tor to bypass school's Schizophrenic Filtering System, and suddenly B12 told me I was banned for 'troll'.
After exiting Tor VPN it was fine, but was that an IP ban or something? Gave me a nasty fright for sure

[TheBiggerFish]

Quite possibly? Or someone pranking you.

[Adragis]

Nah, it stayed even after I cleared history and came on as Guest.

[TheBiggerFish]

It's possible that there are IP bans.  I don't know though.

[Loud Whispers]

Tor nodes are banned to kill ban dodgers trying to anonygoosly troll