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To refresh, Jim says he'll order hot chocolate for the crew if Phyllis says all her regular rainy day phrases. Phyllis missed the last phrase quoted in the title, and the implication is therefore no hot chocolate.

Fun to set up little games like this at work. But I feel even if the employees fail, you say "good game" and order hot chocos anyway for morale. Right? Seems like kind of a dbag move to say "welp, gotta stick to my guns...on hot chocolate based on a meaningless game."

I could understand if it was a prize set for meeting a meaningful goal like sales numbers. But just Phyllis saying random phrases as an inside joke? Get 'em some hot chocos, jerk.

I was just on the phone with tech support for a PDF program. Was on hold for a while and the guy got silent. I started hearing a low growl from his dog in the background. Slowly got louder and louder until I realized the tech support guy fell asleep and was snoring.

I've researched this complaint online and don't see any real solutions that don't involve me manually modifying the magazines, which it really doesn't seem like I should have to do. So I sent the following to Smith & Wesson because I haven't seen an official comment from them online. Curious what they'll say. Seems like a crazy design defect to still have given this magazine has been sold for some years now.

"Hello. I recently purchased an M&P 9 2.0 Metal 4 inch barrel. It came with a couple 10 round mags and I purchased 5 more, all Smith & Wesson brand, designed for this gun and purchased through a licensed dealer. Every magazine has the same issue. It is extremely difficult to load the 10th round into the mag, and when fully loaded, the magazine is almost impossible to bang into the gun. I read online that this is a common issue and to try keeping the magazine fully loaded for a couple days to let the springs break in. I've done this for over a week now. This at least allows me to bang the magazines in after a couple tries, whereas at first it was impossible. But it's still an extreme effort, doesn't work every time, and has to be hit so hard that it's painful. Is there something I can do to fix this? It seems like a safety issue if I needed to quickly load the gun for home defense."

Edit: I should add that I do see online, folks claiming that S&W recommends seating the magazine with the slide locked back. That does allow the magazine to seat easily, so I was trying this at the range earlier today. However I noticed that the first round then failed to fire until I'd partially re-racked and/or pulled the trigger a couple times. Something is not fully seating properly when the first round is loaded from an already locked back slide.

Broke general lighting. Broke Anime Vision. So far no amount of uninstall and reinstall has fixed the problem. Been at it for hours while I try to maintain my sanity with YouTube in the background. You basically either get no lighting, or lighting that you can no longer control in any way.

Yes, I've gone into Windows settings to make sure Armoury Crate is the primary control for dynamic lighting. On that note, Armoury Crate has regularly updated itself in ways that made doing this necessary...so that's how I even knew to do that already. But this is the first time the fix no longer worked.

I should just add that using your computer to control some lights is perhaps one of the most basic computational things possible. The fact the computer is hanging and breaking like I'm trying to ask it to tell me the last digit of pi is insane. The whole while through reinstall I'm being asked to confirm how much tracking and selling of my data I will allow in order to be able to control my lights...which I suspect is what's really breaking the system.

EDIT: What worked for me was not uninstalling and reinstalling everything through my laptop model's driver page. I had to Google and find the Armoury Uninstall Tool. I used that to uninstall everything. On that same page, I was able to download the full AC package (about 5gb and includes tons of stuff for even other devices like the ROG Ally). I ran that and clicked just the couple boxes that applied to my laptop.

After installing, I also wondered if it might help to log in within AC to remind ASUS that this was a registered device. Not sure if that helped, but it did log in and show my laptop as a registered device.

After that I first started with Anime Vision, which forced me to install an update first, but did then work.

I had to separately download and install Aura Sync Creator to be able to control the rest of the lighting again, but it does not work again.

At multiple steps, I had to go to the windows Dynamic Lighting page to keep dragging AC up as the primary lighting control, as update stages kept resetting it.

But yes, for now I seem to be fully updated with all my lighting working again. Took me about 3 hours of troubleshooting to figure this out, and I imagine it won't work for everyone, just as some solutions posted by others in the comments didn't work for me.

EDIT 2: Lighting now only works with laptop lid closed. I give up.

Ever since I learned of the impending release of RGB TVs, I've been stopping at my local Best Buy weekly to see when they'll finally be on display. Oddly you've been able to buy them sight unseen for about a month now.....surely not a scam, right?

YouTube reviews tout RGB TVs as a next gen tech, tantamount to the advent of OLED. So yeah, I've been pretty excited to see RGB TVs in person.

My local Best Buy has been selling but not displaying RGB tech for about a month. This weekend, I finally found myself a few towns over where a Best Buy happens to be showcasing Samsung R95H and R85H models.

In my opinion, they look like crap relative to the hype. For example their off angle viewing is terrible. Even when viewed straight on, OLEDs with almost know off angle effect look clearly better.

The picture also appeared over saturated to the point of being unnatural and losing detail...again, even in comparison to OLEDs which are well known to be over saturated..

But the main issue for me is...RGB is touted as some kind of revolutionary tech, and that's just not the case. I was having to carefully walk from spot to spot in the store, comparing from TV to TV. Because the differences in many ways are subtle. And in no ways were they positively obvious.

Brightness, color volume, angular viewing...none of is was clearly better than anything else I've seen, nor than what was available in store.

And from what I understand, some things like response time are actually worse with these TVs.

Which makes me wonder if the whole RGB tech isn't just a worse but cheaper tech, with all the money going into ads to make people buy worse TVs for higher profit

Edit: Rule 10 (no office topic posts) was triggered by AI. Screw AI.

Apparently you're not allowed to call your local best buy directly anymore?

I called my local best buy yesterday to see if they have RGB TVs on display yet. I've been driving to check in person, but the date keeps getting pushed back so I figured I'd just call instead.

Well first I get routed to an AI assistant. It can't give me an answer, so I get connected with a real person with some title also related to AI like "AI helper" or whatever. She checks the system and tells me she's showing two TVs should be on display, but that she can't tell me for sure because she's not on site.

I ask if she can connect me to the local store and she says there ARE NO DIRECT NUMBERS TO LOCAL STORES ANYMORE.

I'm going to edit this post or post an update once I drive down to Best Buy today, because I'm expecting the TVs are not, in fact, on display.

Edit: And of course, there's still nothing on display.