u/ShaggerAJSA

I swear, new phones have everything set to "piss you off" by default.

Bought my A57 a few weeks back. And yes, trying to get everything set off the ridiculous defaults has been a pain, but I do like it so far. However, there is one incredibly irritating problem that I can't seem to fix.

I'm trying to use a song from the library as my ringtone, and I was able to do so quite easily. The issue is it doesn't play the song from the start. It's about 25 seconds in, and it just annoys me. Both me and my better half (Who's had a Galaxy for a few years) have been back and forth through the settings and can't find any to change this.

Can somebody help out with whatever obscure setting needs to be changed? Or do I need to download some 3rd party app to get the phone to cooperate?

No need to tell, I know I'm an idiot, but I really need help. Been using my Acer Nitro 18 AI for about 4 months now. Loving it, but having a collinder for a brain has caused me a bit of a problem.

I have completely forgotten what the keyboard shortcut is to open the NitroSense overlay. Not the main app, I know you just hit the Nitro button for that, but I know there is an overlay similar to the Nvidia overlay one accesses by hitting Alt-R. The NitroSense one is better, though. It shows more information. However, I cannot remember what the shortcut to it is, and for some reason, searching online is getting me nowhere. I'm certain it involves hitting the Nitro button along with another key, but I can't figure it out.

So if anyone knows, please tell me, as it's bugging the hell out of me.

And before anyone says it, that accessibility option is turned off. It has been the entire game, but it keeps doing it anyway. I keep trying to use the "tendril" attack, but end up growing that stupid and utterly useless plant instead. Even though I know for a fact, and I mean for a FUCKING fact, that I selected the tendril attack. It is driving me bug-shagging mad!

I'm playing on PC through Steam using a controller. Is there some sort of control option or setting that I don't know about that could be causing this?

Earth King Kuei was a weak, ignorant coward who pretty much abandoned his duties to suit himself.

Earth Queen Hou-Ting was a selfish, tyrannical hag.

Prince Wu was a complete joke. An entitled brat with no capability or self-reliance at all. But to his credit, he does grow into something so much more, but it's at a level of "expected" at best.

As for Suyin Beifong, thanks for her success can be attributed to the people around her as she seemed not at all interested.

Even Bumi, as a ruler, was pretty crap. He was an impulsive, undisciplined lunatic. He was happy to let his entire city and its people live under the oppression of the Fire Nation for months because he wanted to "wait for the right moment".

The fact that Kuvira is the closest thing to competency among them says it all. God, I feel sorry for the Earth Kingdom citizens because their leaders complete a Bingo card of twattery.

I know the game didn't review very well and is still sitting at mixed for both all-time and recent user reviews on Steam. However, I've always been interested in it. So would you say it's worth it now at it's cunnent price (£19.49 or £22.42 with the "In Tanta We Trust" expansion), or is it just not worth it at all?

Sometimes, a comma or a full stop is an appropriate punctuation mark instead of a semicolon. Stop trying to replace every punctuation mark I use with a semicolon. Thank you.

The title pretty much says it all. I don't use Edge, I don't like Edge, but I am aware that all the Microsoft default apps are connected to the OS. So I just wanted to know what the potential issues that can arise from force-deleting Edge from my computer.

EDIT: I know it says "Azula" in the title, but I obviously meant "Allura". I initially typed this out on a new phone where I had only posted a few things on Avatar: The Last Airbender subreddits until now, so the AI powered autocorrect changed that, and I did not notice. I'm sorry for the error. I can't fix it because I can only edit the post body.

Before somebody goes insane, I get her resentful attitude towards the Galra. Zarkon and the Galran Empire he rules destroyed her home, her past, her future, her entire civilisation. I also get her being slow to trust when it comes to them, which is why I'm ready to be perfectly fine with how she first resented The Blade of Marmora. They did have centuries to take down Zarkon and have not done so. However, that is all built upon the actions of one man and the regime he rules.

So why was she such an asshole towards Keith? Clearly, he had nothing to do with Zarkon's tyranny nor the Blades' overly cautious inaction. She crossed over from understandable resentment and mistrust into flat-out bigotry when she started treating Keith like stepped-on shit just because she found out he has Galra blood. She knew he had his heart and focus was on the same goal, she knew he was worthy of her trust, but threw it all away for no reason other than his genetic heritage. And I'm sorry, but there is no force in Heaven, Earth, nor Hell that can convince me that was anything better than despicable.

It does not bother me when characters are wrong about something. It does not bother me when they make emotional mistakes. It does not bother me when heroes show negative traits and when villains show positive traits. On the contrary, I say that makes them better. More relatable and easier to understand their drives and motivations. But when Allura became for those few episodes what is, pretty much, a racist, that's when the character stopped feeling like her. The show really drums it into your head that the Alteans were a liberal, welcoming, accepting society that was ready to embrace outsiders and their culture. If they werent, the origonal Paldins of Voltron would never have come together in the first place.

Yes, she apologised and made it up with him, but that merely excuses her behavior, not explain it. And I don't like the fact the show blasted it in like a nasty fart, then just blew it out of an air duct a couple of episodes later like it never happened. I don't know what's worse, that they were so fast to ignore it or that they included it in the first place.

He was sharp, intelligent, true to the cause, and knowledgeable. He did value protocol over heart, but isn't that the point? Isn't the watcher meant to be an advisor to the Slayer to direct her attention to the cause of protecting the world from dark forces? Westly was also young and was put in charge of not one, but two rebellious Slayers.

Do I agree with everything he said and did as a watcher? No, of course not, but it took a level of conviction and dedication to stick with it as he did. His heart, and more importantly, his head, were in the right place. And he did grow and appreciate the value of trust over authority in time.

I think he is a seriously underrated character.

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A bit of a random question, but I've always wondered what would have Allura said about the pilot of the blue lion in the same context as the other paladins if Lance has not interrupted her. I somehow doubt it would have been "The blue lion will be piloted by the thirstiest bitch", so what would she have actually said that makes sense within the lore?

Either I'm doing something wrong, or this is the worst system of its kind I have ever played.

With camera relative targeting on, the game will lock onto a target centred on screen, but I can't move the camera. Instead, it switches targets, which is the last I want to do when surrounded and I'm trying thin enemy numbers. It's useless.

With camera relative targeting off, it isn't much better. I still can't lock-on to a target and move the camera because, yep, you guessed it, the movement stick makes you switch targets. At least the lock-on kind of works this way.

In both modes, I do press in the stick to lock on, but it makes no difference. I still can't maintain a lock on a specific target because of the stupid way this is mapped. Seriously, how is this meant to be played?

It's incredibly frustrating at best, but actually makes the game feel unplayable at times. I constantly hit enemies with the "wrong colour" of spells because it switches targets at the last second and spend 90% of the battles against groups of enemies with them at their full numbers because this constant target switching makes it impossible to focus on one enemy at a time.

Am I missing something here? Please tell me if I am doing something wrong because this cannot be how this works.

I have been playing and really quite enjoying it. I haven't finished it yet, so I'll save my thoughts, but I can't help but get the feeling people are clowning on this game just to clown on IGN.

Even though I haven't finished it yet, I can tell that Mixtape is not perfect and it is certainly not for everyone. I also do see clowning on IGN as a valid life choice, but why bring this game into it? It's not like the developers have any power or even the right to tell IGN what they can and cannot say, be it positive or negative.

The audience for these games I call interactive narratives is niche and have been a frequent target for abuse and dismissal by the wider gaming community since games like Life is Strange and the Telltale games became popular. There is a sure lack of understanding about not just these games, their appeal and the people who play them and why we enjoy them.

So maybe this is just the same old dross that we have been putting with from the so-called "hardcore gamer" for years, but it feels different this time. Like instead of the target, we're the weapon now. It's what we like about these types games being turned on IGN to somehow prove how "out of touch" they are. And I think I like that even less.

Now, if you're all action and challenge when it comes to gaming and that's why you love playing, then that is fine. Good for you, more power to you. You don't need to change for anyone. I don't think anybody could take that away from you even if they wanted to. But can you please not fire you own lack of understanding at games media like a 50 cal because it makes us all look stupid.

Every day, people come to this sub-reddit asking for help because they haven't got what they paid for through G2A. Whether they have not received keys, found the keys they bought to already be used, bought accounts that they can't access, or in their own way have been scammed. We've heard these same stories time and time again.

Don't think I'm letting the sellers nor G2A themselves off the hook here, they are the main problem, but since G2A and these scumbag scam-artists don't care to be any part of the solution, it's down to the buyers to be the solution. There is something better than learning from your mistakes, learning from somebody else's.

So I'm making this thread looking for others to contribute to a set of general advice to users on G2A about what to do and what not to do to avoid being ripped off. So please, tell your stories, offer your advice so we might condense this knowledge into one, hopefully easy to find easy find reddit page. I'll edit the page going forward as often as I can to include new, relevant information.

I'll set the ball rolling with these two.

1. Do your research on a seller before buying.

If they have a habit of scamming people, their name will be out there. It could be here on Reddit, social media as well as G2A customer reviews, but I'm not sure how much I trust those. Whatever avenue you choose, just do the homework.

On a side note, maybe we could have a "bad actors" list on this page? Please let me know what you think.

2. Never buy accounts. Ever. Honestly, if G2A cared, they would ban this practice.

The account login information is not enough. Account transfer is a complicated process that requires access to a seller's personal e-mail or possibly even phone number. Failing that, it would need the seller's their complete coordination to pull off. Without that, it is all too easy for the seller to simply claim the account back and deny you access. Of course, this has happened, but most sellers just save both parties the time and don't even give you the login information in the first place.

If, by some miracle, you do encounter a seller that is both honest and cooperative, you can still assume that account is on borrowed time. It doesn't matter whether it's Steam, EGS, GOG, PlayStation, Microsoft, Nintendo or even non-gaming related things like Adobe, Spotify, Netflix or Amazon. Whoever it is, I can almost guarantee that buying, selling and trading of accounts is against that company's specific Terms of Service (TOS). If you get caught, and you likely will, you can wave that account and all the games, software, movies and music that come with it goodbye. As well as any hope of a refund. Sellers know this.

Please post in the comments anything you would like to see added or even corrected.

They announced the game and it's release date less than two months away from the launch. This is a good example other companies should follow.

I wanted to step away from the controversies surrounding the designs and the remake and focus on something that is not only positive, but tends to get overlooked. And this is a very good thing, and this is why.

Companies all too often follow the trend of announcing the release of games months, sometimes closer to a year before they actually launch. They do this to try an rake in as much from pre-orders as possible.

But I hate this practice! It is real pet-peeve of mine. Not only is this an annoying tease, it's the root cause of so many issues.

Look at Cyberpunk 2077, for example. CDPR took advantage of the fact the world's eye's were on them at E3 2019 to announce the release date that was still a full 10 months away. A game they announced was in development back in 2012, so it had already been a long wait for fans. And then, well, we all know the story. It got delayed again and again before they had to release the game as a broken mess in December 2020 as if that would fix the PR disaster they created for themselves. I know the COVID-19 pandemic played it's part, but the first delay was announced long before Poland (and most of the rest of the world) went into lockdown, so you can't blame the pandemic entirely for this.

The point is there is no way CDPR knew game would be ready for that original release date of April 16, 2020, but announced it anyway. That was a foolish, greedy decision to make and it cost them badly and justly. Sadly, it's not a unique case. Game releases get announced too far in advance and then for whatever reason get delayed or released as a broken mess just to meet the schedule all the time.

Nintendo, on the other hand, got this right. Didn't even confirm this game's existence until they were weeks away from launching. This generated a very helpful and welcome burst of buzz from the fanbase that won't have faded into cynicism by the time the game launches. We know that not everyone was entirely pleased of course (myself included), but whether you like the game or not, it got your attention. Personally, I don't think people should pre-order games at all, but you can pre-order this with confidence that it won't be another Cyberpunk 2077. I'm not suggesting that Star Fox went through development hell, I'm just pointing out that because they waited to announce it until they were at the peek of confidence it would be ready, there is no PR disaster like Cyberpunk 2077 had to endure even if it did go through development hell.

So kudos, Nintendo. You've got your due from me on this one. I still think that it's a mistake to make this another reboot, but they knew what they were doing with this announcement.

I've had this new Asus Nitro 18 with a 2TB SSD for almost two months, but I'm already having to manage drive space constantly. What makes it worse is the Asus got lazy and installed the same firmware on this from a 1TB model, so my 2TB SSD had been effectively slip into two 1TB drives, which makes this all the more difficult. Time to Upgrade.

Here is the exact model and store I bought from for the full details.

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/18-acer-nitro-18-ai-165hz-wqxga-ryzen-ai-9-365-32gb-ddr5-2tb-ssd-12gb-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-usb

I understand this model has an additional M.2 SSD slot. I've got a flexible budget and looking for a minimum of 2TB, but 4TB would be twice as nice, but I realty cant spend much more than £300. Any recommendations of model or even places to shop would be greatly apricated.

I have installed hard drives into laptops and even built PC's before, but this new NVMe tech is less familiar to me. If there are any beginners traps or practical advice on the installation of such things you can offer that would be very welcome.