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Recently had an issue with my computer losing power and restarting, and then later black screen of death and restarting, as well as an occasional “freeze up” where it could load web pages or YouTube before

Did the general driver repairs for a couple of months and tried to see if it fixed it, and then moved on to examining the ram, which was the case (faulty one found and ram replaced, problem solved).

I’m simply trying to examine possible reasons ram might fail after less than 3 years when I don’t overclock. One thing that I was struck by when opening it to check the ram was there was a strange stringlike substance tangled next to some of the pins near the ram, with a strong, wax feel, almost like dental floss but significantly “harder”. (The case had never been opened in the last 3 years since activation). It was of course removed when checking/testing the ram.

Could that have been shed from a ram card in some way?

Basically when a work of fiction depicts two opposing sides or choices as equally bad or at fault, despite one obviously being much worse than the other, or even one sides/choice being wholly good! Generally done to either enforce the status quo or promote a middle ground fallacy by the author.

1. The Vox populi of bioshock infinite. Probably the most egregious offender by far; you have the city of Columbia, a city founded by hardline confederate sympathizers/refugees where they buy minorities from the corrupt South to enslave, view the confederacy’s loss as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever, and religiously enshrine white supremacy in a cult like manner, with an end goal of eventually firebombing the north to ruins in revenge for the confederacy’s defeat.

On the other side, you have the Vox populi, an oppressed resistance group lead by the harsh but empathetic Daisy Fitzroy, seeking to oppose Columbia where they can.

So OF COURSE when the Vox populi start taking actual violent action to overthrow a violent fascist theocracy that literally cannot be changed/overthrown except through violence (you slaughter your way through hundreds of enforcers on your path), the game depicts this as a “terrible” action with them jumping straight to genocide and quoting pol pot, while daisy smears blood on her face in a demented manner while babbling about having to kill them all, just so you know violence is never the answer. It’s utterly such character assassination of daisy that they clumsily retcon it into “she was only pretending to be murderously insane!” Which, if anything, makes it WORSE.

2: anytime someone tries to kill the joker. No, killing the joker does NOT make you just as bad as him: there are many, many philosophical, legal and practical arguments one could make for why killing him is justified and does not make you a murderer: but we’re expected to believe Batman’s view that when someone like Jason Todd or another vigilante decides to just shoot him, it’s jumping off the slippery slope.

Hell, people wouldn’t just not cast judgement on joker’s killer, they’d CELEBRATE in the streets that he was dead!

3: obligatory post of voicequill’s “if you kill a killer, the number of killers remains the same!” “Then kill two!” Riff from metal gear solid: revengeance.

Seriously. If you want to reanimate corpses just use necromancy like a normal mage, this shit is going to get a witch hunt going on, and I just repainted my tower.

I found this shell on my covers when I was resetting my sheets last night. I don’t have any other evidence that would point to bed bugs, but it honestly looks 100% like the distinct ridges of a bedbug horizontally and I’m freaking out.

So Yujiro (Baki) gets isekai’d somehow to the world of one punch man (one punch man, duh). Given his arrogant personality and habit of seeking out other fighters to defeat to prove his dominance, how long does he last before a hero or monster takes him down? B, A, S class heroes?

This is assuming he doesn’t just run into Saitama, but just hero and monster association individuals.

As the “he’s chaotic good, really” argument comes up a lot about the dungeon soup barbarian:

Morality scale seeking out a demon with the intent of cursing them with perfect immortality (as in they will continue to live and exist in a sapient and cognizant state even after being chopped into small pieces), so that you can make rice ball out of their corpse and then eat them to make them feel the horrific pain of being digested?

The demon HAD murdered someone in front of him and attempted to kill him several times as well, but the act of how to deal with him was fully pre-meditated and the immortality was solely from the barbarian’s own sword.

So long as you’re feeding their souls to your tank to kill Nazis ? (One of the children may also be an ex-Hitler youth)

Does lightning belong as part of the air element study or the fire element study?

Let’s discuss benevolent and wholesome characters who only want the best for those around them and would never betray those who put their trust in them.

1: rat god, from Mad rat dead. The purely helpful and altruistic God of rats who resurrects the protagonist mad rat and only wants to help them out.

2. Master li, your teacher in Jade empire, and selflessly risks their life to help you overthrow the cruel emperor and bring freedom to china.

3. Erebus. The most moral and studious child in his village, he only wants to help spread the light of religion to the universe at large.

4. starscream, megatrons ever faithful second in command who would never forsake him.

So here’s the question: homelander from the comics vs. homelander from the show.

And I’m going to admit I’m a bit biased in this conversation, because my question isn’t just how the fight would go, but HOW MANY show homelanders you need all at once to kill 1 comic homelander.

No matter how absurd or crazy, go ahead and post them!
(As per rules about listing artist credit, it’s right there in the corner,
Laconic fairy)

How does the JDF cast of gate fare invading and subjugating the primitive magical world of faerun instead of the special realm from their own show? (As well as attempting to maintain sole strategic control of the gateway area between worlds)

From 2-4, the series did a good job of taking well liked characters and groups and expanding upon them in the world (such as making the Woren a major faction in 4, or utilizing its Maria expansion from 1 to 3).

So here’s a question: if there were EVER another BoF game to be made (already a unicorn wish, I know) is there any race or lore you’d like to see expanded upon?

Where a show either features technology or use of technology in a way that is so extremely short term as to date the period or show. Basically, where the show would either be baffling to someone a few years before or after the show or where the viewer would know the date the show occurs in from technology.

1: hey Arnold: bob’s beepers. Paging devices were briefly incredibly valuable devices but became utterly obsolete by the advent of smart phones performing all their functions infinitely better. As such, helga’s dad’s occupation would be confusing to most Gen Z or later viewers, and dates when the series occurs.

2: reboot: literally everything. While inarguably an excellent adventure fantasy series whose characters and plots stand up in a vaccum, its computer technology and references would seem incredibly quaint to anyone who viewed it nowadays. Special mention goes to its depiction of the internet as an eldritch location filled with unknowable horrors to the inhabitants of mainframe, making good use of the original dial up connection noise as a communication method by the inhabitants of the internet to seem strange and foreign.

What’s your thoughts on the characters that make up the Star fox team?

While the Star fox team tries to have a decent array of specializations for each character (slippy being the engineer that makes most of their stuff, peppy as an old mentor, falco as a cocky rival, ect.), the Star wolf team seems a bit more of a mish mash.

Pigma exists to be a bastard that you hate, and panther is actually a good foil to wolf in joking around and calling wolf out on how he actually feels about things or his motives being less evil than he acts. But it seems like some of the others, like Leon or Andrew, are a lot more bland.

What’s your view of the members?

Shows or universes where extremely “high tech” or sophisticated energy weapons exist, but older more conventional ones still are widely used alongside them. Also applies to such things as revolvers and bolt action guns being used alongside automatic or semi-automatic weapons.

1: the heavy arms gundam. I’m using the endless waltz version because it’s the only one to explicitly be shown to use solid shell ammunition despite it running out of ammo being a plot point weakness in prior forms. In a world with beam rifle cannons, lasers, and multiple energy weapons, this is a gundam that gets by simply by mounting more guns than a battleship and drowning the enemy in bullets; notably one of the most beloved from the series for that reason.

2: armored core AC weapons. Despite lasers and particle weapons being a well developed and widely accepted branch of warfare in universe, bog standard kinetic weapons still make up the majority of those used, for the simple reason that logistically powering energy weapons requires a large source of energy and puts a bigger strain on your mech’s reactor. In game mechanically, it’s for the simple reason that kinetic weapons often have a lot of stagger value, one of the key components of the combat system.

3: Real life. We’ve had coil guns, railguns and lasers for literally close to ONE HUNDRED years now, but have never widely adopted them; why? Logistics win wars, not super weapons, and if your “high tech” weapon breaks down and has to be fixed constantly, it doesn’t matter how good it looks in a vaccum.

Kind of funny that when you stop and think about it, rather than super machines built as doomsday weapons or final creations of legendary robots, the character with the best track record of defeating X and Zero, “legendary” creations of the worlds best robotocist, is Vile, a big standard military robot who just really hates the two of them.

So, we’ve seen a corrupted form for twilight and sunset shimmer, and a questionable one that’s more like “possessed” for rarity.

So here comes the question: if you were to assign a deadly sin to each of the mane six/seven, what would it be?