Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
- Merrymaker_Mortalis
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Internet still shit.
It used to be pockets of lag, but in the last week it's developed into "TOTALLY DCING YOU FROM WORLD OF WARCRAFT". Basically, I cannot play ANY online games at all because within 1 minute I'll receive a lag spike that dc's me.
I have lots of offline games I can play. It's just annoying when I am stopped from playing what I FEEL LIKE playing.
Guess I have Age of Wonders 3 Easy Mode to finish.
It used to be pockets of lag, but in the last week it's developed into "TOTALLY DCING YOU FROM WORLD OF WARCRAFT". Basically, I cannot play ANY online games at all because within 1 minute I'll receive a lag spike that dc's me.
I have lots of offline games I can play. It's just annoying when I am stopped from playing what I FEEL LIKE playing.
Guess I have Age of Wonders 3 Easy Mode to finish.
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If I ever met the person who decided it'd be a great idea to stop putting actual buttons on devices and instead just have a random section of plastic with an inconspicuous label and a touch sensor... I would have some very angry words for them.
I'm not entirely sure what the benefit is supposed to be... I guess it makes the thing look infinitesimally sleeker? But that's not much of a gain when compared to the fact it makes it impossible to find the buttons by feel, or when the label is hard to see (and they always make the label so tiny and unassuming that you can't see it unless you're really close and staring right at it)... but these sensors are just plain less reliable than normal buttons, which people have had many decades to perfect.
Case in point: the PS4 has magic sensor-buttons for both the power and eject controls on the actual console. The labels are practically invisible unless you already know where they are, and they're not mentioned on the slip of paper they give you instead of a manual, so you can basically only find them by trial and error or by searching online. And they're super dodgy.
The eject button in particular on my console is just broken - every now and again, while you're playing, the console will beep, you'll be kicked back to the home screen, and the disk will pop out. In the middle of something where progress isn't saved? Too bad. Even if you just don't put a disk in there and play downloaded games instead, it'll beep at you occasionally anyway, like it does when you hit the eject button when the drive is empty. Once this happens it'll just refuse to load a disk until it thinks you've finally let go of the eject button, then you can put the disk in and get back to playing... until it happens again. Even just turning the console off won't save you, as the eject button is programmed to wake it up from sleep, so it'll periodically wake up just to beep at you or eject the disk, unless you pull the power cord out.
Most days it works fine, but some days this will just happen nonstop... it's not like it just happens every now and again, it's either happening constantly or never, which suggests some environmental problem is messing with the sensor, like if the ambient temperature is too high or something.
Searching around online, this problem is not unheard of, and plenty of other PS4 owners are seeing the same thing... and their solution seems to be (a) Unplug the power and let it sit for a while, and if that doesn't work (b) send it back to Sony for repairs. I've tried (a), and it does help (which suggests that their eject button sensor is possibly malfunctioning due to heat, hence my "ambient temperature too high" guess), but it's only temporary, and it goes back to failing pretty quickly... And I really don't to send it in for repairs (I got it second-hand, from someone who got it on launch day, so it's out of warranty for two reasons) but it looks like that's the only option... until I do that, some days it's just "Nope! you don't get to play Destiny today. The Almighty Playstation hath decreed it thus."
I'm not entirely sure what the benefit is supposed to be... I guess it makes the thing look infinitesimally sleeker? But that's not much of a gain when compared to the fact it makes it impossible to find the buttons by feel, or when the label is hard to see (and they always make the label so tiny and unassuming that you can't see it unless you're really close and staring right at it)... but these sensors are just plain less reliable than normal buttons, which people have had many decades to perfect.
Case in point: the PS4 has magic sensor-buttons for both the power and eject controls on the actual console. The labels are practically invisible unless you already know where they are, and they're not mentioned on the slip of paper they give you instead of a manual, so you can basically only find them by trial and error or by searching online. And they're super dodgy.
The eject button in particular on my console is just broken - every now and again, while you're playing, the console will beep, you'll be kicked back to the home screen, and the disk will pop out. In the middle of something where progress isn't saved? Too bad. Even if you just don't put a disk in there and play downloaded games instead, it'll beep at you occasionally anyway, like it does when you hit the eject button when the drive is empty. Once this happens it'll just refuse to load a disk until it thinks you've finally let go of the eject button, then you can put the disk in and get back to playing... until it happens again. Even just turning the console off won't save you, as the eject button is programmed to wake it up from sleep, so it'll periodically wake up just to beep at you or eject the disk, unless you pull the power cord out.
Most days it works fine, but some days this will just happen nonstop... it's not like it just happens every now and again, it's either happening constantly or never, which suggests some environmental problem is messing with the sensor, like if the ambient temperature is too high or something.
Searching around online, this problem is not unheard of, and plenty of other PS4 owners are seeing the same thing... and their solution seems to be (a) Unplug the power and let it sit for a while, and if that doesn't work (b) send it back to Sony for repairs. I've tried (a), and it does help (which suggests that their eject button sensor is possibly malfunctioning due to heat, hence my "ambient temperature too high" guess), but it's only temporary, and it goes back to failing pretty quickly... And I really don't to send it in for repairs (I got it second-hand, from someone who got it on launch day, so it's out of warranty for two reasons) but it looks like that's the only option... until I do that, some days it's just "Nope! you don't get to play Destiny today. The Almighty Playstation hath decreed it thus."
While no one overhear you quickly tell me not cow cow.
but how about watch phone?
[he/him/his]
but how about watch phone?
[he/him/his]
Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
The original fat PS3 also had magic touch sensors and for the most part they worked fine. Seems they forgot how to design things properly for the PS4
Anyway in more constructive advice, there's en emergency eject screw somewhere under the the HDD cover of the PS4. It seems that thing sometimes gets a bit looser than it should, causing random ejects.
Just google "PS4 eject screw" and you'll find a bunch of guides on how to fix it. Takes about 5 minutes and just requires a screwdriver.
Anyway in more constructive advice, there's en emergency eject screw somewhere under the the HDD cover of the PS4. It seems that thing sometimes gets a bit looser than it should, causing random ejects.
Just google "PS4 eject screw" and you'll find a bunch of guides on how to fix it. Takes about 5 minutes and just requires a screwdriver.
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... Huh. That's good to know, I'll check that out.
All I could ever find was "unplug it for a while, or get Sony to fix it"...
All I could ever find was "unplug it for a while, or get Sony to fix it"...
While no one overhear you quickly tell me not cow cow.
but how about watch phone?
[he/him/his]
but how about watch phone?
[he/him/his]
- Merrymaker_Mortalis
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Youtube commenter who puts words in my mouth, and conjures a 61 line rant in reply to non-flammatory comments.
User brings baggage to the discussion to villainfy me.
I have to pray for her. She clearly hurts.
User brings baggage to the discussion to villainfy me.
I have to pray for her. She clearly hurts.
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So this is NOT as much of a sincere rant as it is more appropriate for here than general chat or thread of lols, etc. :
Atlantic Canada was to get plastered by one last snowstorm: New Brunswick was looking at 40+ cm (aren't you glad you moved now, Gunner? ), Nova Scotia was threatened with 20-30cm, and the eastern edge of Newfoundland would get the fringe of this storm with maybe 10cm.
That forecast was Saturday night-Sunday morning; I didn't keep an eye on things...
I awoke today to find that garbage collection had been pushed back a day due to the BLIZZARD. Schools are closed, the gov't liquor stores are closed, the ferry running to Bell Island is shut down. The Environment Canada warning noted 100km/h winds (expected), and "30 to 40cm in eastern regions (like St. John's, right on the easternmost tip of the isle) and 10 to 20cm further west."
Oh.
Fair enough, I think this is like only the third serious snowstorm we even got this winter - most had either drifted more out to see and brushed us with light stuff as they passed, or even almost died out as they reached us. I can dig.
But dang if my dander ain't up due to euphemistic doubletalk borne of a society more interested in turning a message into something as inoffensive as possible (as well as inflating the message's apparent importance with long, '50-cent' words):
*sigh* waffle-waffle-waffle. All this unnecessary verbiage (and remember, this is coming from Mr. 'I write posts so long they need footnotes'!) is weakening the import of this part of the warning, and watering down the effect it SHOULD have on people. It'd be MUCH simpler to just say:
From eighteen words (some hypenated) to ten doesn't sound like such a big improvement, but try eleven syllables from FORTY-TWO, and thirty-eight letters down from a HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN.
I'm with Anton here - a public notice sort of feels in the same genre as a short story; burden it down with unnecessary detail (with the motive of 'making it seem more important') weakens it; be brief, concise and direct.
Atlantic Canada was to get plastered by one last snowstorm: New Brunswick was looking at 40+ cm (aren't you glad you moved now, Gunner? ), Nova Scotia was threatened with 20-30cm, and the eastern edge of Newfoundland would get the fringe of this storm with maybe 10cm.
That forecast was Saturday night-Sunday morning; I didn't keep an eye on things...
I awoke today to find that garbage collection had been pushed back a day due to the BLIZZARD. Schools are closed, the gov't liquor stores are closed, the ferry running to Bell Island is shut down. The Environment Canada warning noted 100km/h winds (expected), and "30 to 40cm in eastern regions (like St. John's, right on the easternmost tip of the isle) and 10 to 20cm further west."
Oh.
Fair enough, I think this is like only the third serious snowstorm we even got this winter - most had either drifted more out to see and brushed us with light stuff as they passed, or even almost died out as they reached us. I can dig.
But dang if my dander ain't up due to euphemistic doubletalk borne of a society more interested in turning a message into something as inoffensive as possible (as well as inflating the message's apparent importance with long, '50-cent' words):
some shmoe at Env.Canada wrote:Travel is expected to be extremely hazardous due to reduced visibility. Consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve.
*sigh* waffle-waffle-waffle. All this unnecessary verbiage (and remember, this is coming from Mr. 'I write posts so long they need footnotes'!) is weakening the import of this part of the warning, and watering down the effect it SHOULD have on people. It'd be MUCH simpler to just say:
Shit got BAD out there, son! Stay the fuck INSIDE.
From eighteen words (some hypenated) to ten doesn't sound like such a big improvement, but try eleven syllables from FORTY-TWO, and thirty-eight letters down from a HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN.
I'm with Anton here - a public notice sort of feels in the same genre as a short story; burden it down with unnecessary detail (with the motive of 'making it seem more important') weakens it; be brief, concise and direct.
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So in two weeks I'll be in Boston for a competition. This competition is part of my senior project - a two course, year long project for which I get a grade, which determines whether or not I graduate. All of my professors are well aware of this.
My reinforced concrete design professor scheduled a test for the 1st. The middle of competition week. Five of nine of us are in this class. When asked if he was aware of this, he said, and I swear this isn't paraphrased:
"Oh, I know, I'll be there with you. You're shaking on Thursday so you have Wednesday free, you'll take it there with me."
Cue a 5 person chorus of noises resembling "uh excuse me?"
And then a rest of the class chorus of "uh, what the fuck?"
So our PM tried to reason with him. We have our presentation on Wednesday, along with a meet and greet/gala event thing, and the industry fair plus scavenger hunt. On Tuesday, we have preliminary judging, the silent auction, and poster sessions. On Monday, the day we fly in, we have repairs to make from 2-6 and a welcome reception at 7. On Thursday we have the shake and more industry fair and panels and workshops to attend. On Friday we go to the awards banquet and leave.
He won't budge.
So now we're following informal complaint procedure by talking to the head and the chair, and if necessary, the dean. The Dean of Students office told me to follow this chain, get everything in writing, and phrase everything as a question, but they find it inappropriate of him to require us to do something for his course while we are actively engaged in a requirement for another course.
This is just the last fucking straw with this guy. First, he says we can use his lab. Then he kicks us out. Then he assigns really difficult homework and cancels his office hours. Then he blames us for something one of his researchers admits fault to. Then he gives us a test in this course that no one finished and was proctored by someone who isn't even in our discipline. Then he assigns a research project requiring 20 cited scholarly articles in a god damn DESIGN CLASS.
I am so fucking through with this asshole. I am so glad I'm leaving this place. He will never have any respect from me. He is unreasonable and unwilling to listen to students' concerns and complaints. He's a complete asshole and I hope this debacle with the test denies him tenure.
My reinforced concrete design professor scheduled a test for the 1st. The middle of competition week. Five of nine of us are in this class. When asked if he was aware of this, he said, and I swear this isn't paraphrased:
"Oh, I know, I'll be there with you. You're shaking on Thursday so you have Wednesday free, you'll take it there with me."
Cue a 5 person chorus of noises resembling "uh excuse me?"
And then a rest of the class chorus of "uh, what the fuck?"
So our PM tried to reason with him. We have our presentation on Wednesday, along with a meet and greet/gala event thing, and the industry fair plus scavenger hunt. On Tuesday, we have preliminary judging, the silent auction, and poster sessions. On Monday, the day we fly in, we have repairs to make from 2-6 and a welcome reception at 7. On Thursday we have the shake and more industry fair and panels and workshops to attend. On Friday we go to the awards banquet and leave.
He won't budge.
So now we're following informal complaint procedure by talking to the head and the chair, and if necessary, the dean. The Dean of Students office told me to follow this chain, get everything in writing, and phrase everything as a question, but they find it inappropriate of him to require us to do something for his course while we are actively engaged in a requirement for another course.
This is just the last fucking straw with this guy. First, he says we can use his lab. Then he kicks us out. Then he assigns really difficult homework and cancels his office hours. Then he blames us for something one of his researchers admits fault to. Then he gives us a test in this course that no one finished and was proctored by someone who isn't even in our discipline. Then he assigns a research project requiring 20 cited scholarly articles in a god damn DESIGN CLASS.
I am so fucking through with this asshole. I am so glad I'm leaving this place. He will never have any respect from me. He is unreasonable and unwilling to listen to students' concerns and complaints. He's a complete asshole and I hope this debacle with the test denies him tenure.
-betsy
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Internet is still giving me sads.
Trying to tune a back-up violin to express my feelings (my primary violin I left in someone's car last night) made me angries.
I feel powerless. Dad is preparing for an important presentation tomorrow and I don't know what to do.
I can live without internet. But I get sad when I want to do something and I am prevented.
Tried playing a game of Heroes of the Storm and it's really depressing lagging when you're trying to play. All. The. Time.
Try to play Runescape and you get kicked out of the quest instance you're doing.
In my times outside of church, college, workexperience and homegroup I feel so lonely. I play these internet games to distract me and to strike up social interaction with people. This is just making me feel even more alone.
It will pass. It always does.
But it also always comes back too.
Trying to tune a back-up violin to express my feelings (my primary violin I left in someone's car last night) made me angries.
I feel powerless. Dad is preparing for an important presentation tomorrow and I don't know what to do.
I can live without internet. But I get sad when I want to do something and I am prevented.
Tried playing a game of Heroes of the Storm and it's really depressing lagging when you're trying to play. All. The. Time.
Try to play Runescape and you get kicked out of the quest instance you're doing.
In my times outside of church, college, workexperience and homegroup I feel so lonely. I play these internet games to distract me and to strike up social interaction with people. This is just making me feel even more alone.
It will pass. It always does.
But it also always comes back too.
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I said in my second interview that graduate studies and eventual professorship were part of my career goals.
I asked THIS MORNING about how you would feel working with me doing part-time grad school while working with you.
But now that I have an actual PLAN of how to do it, you've just no realized it means I don't want to work for your publication forever?
I asked THIS MORNING about how you would feel working with me doing part-time grad school while working with you.
But now that I have an actual PLAN of how to do it, you've just no realized it means I don't want to work for your publication forever?
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I cut off half of the first knuckle on my middle finger of my left hand. This was on Monday. Today I cut my other hand at the base of my thumb. I am so glad tomorrow is my day off. Though the way my luck is going, I'll probably burn myself somewhere on Thursday.
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I cut myself on someone shoving a plastic pipe into my thumb. On the same thumb I rasped my knuckle with a rasp when I stopped paying attention to my task.
Same week I punctured my middle finger putting a steel pipe in a steel wall clip.
I hurt myself on things I don't expect being hurt by.
Same week I punctured my middle finger putting a steel pipe in a steel wall clip.
I hurt myself on things I don't expect being hurt by.
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What do you do when someone argues that arguing is pointless and no one can change their mind by listening to people? Do you demonstrate that they're wrong by changing your mind and quit talking to them? Or do you keep trying for a solid week to give them every possible chance to demonstrate the tiniest bit of intellectual honesty, or faith in their own argument, by being the first to stop talking?
Like an idiot, I went with option B. What a waste of time. Still, it feels like I did the right thing, speaking for speaking, against silence.
Like an idiot, I went with option B. What a waste of time. Still, it feels like I did the right thing, speaking for speaking, against silence.
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I am so done with <Redacted>. First the ER doc sends my referral to the wrong doctor, and they won't see (infant son) as a patient. Next SGH doesn't even have the right number for the damn doctor my son saw. I've called 6 different numbers trying to find this guy so I can get the right referral.
I am beyond angry and stressed right now. To top it all off, I got 3 weeks of 7 day work weeks ahead of me, and I'm pretty sure the place I'm quitting will try it's best to keep me there for another month. I just need about a week off right now.
I am beyond angry and stressed right now. To top it all off, I got 3 weeks of 7 day work weeks ahead of me, and I'm pretty sure the place I'm quitting will try it's best to keep me there for another month. I just need about a week off right now.
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That sucks. A week off would be good. I went insane (more so than usual) when I only had one day off in 33 days.
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FUC&^*&^*(^()&^#$)(&*()*&)(*&@#$)(&*)(*&@#$()^&@#$)(^&@#$)^&@#$&*)^@#$*&^@#$&*()^@#$()*&@#$()*&@#$*()&S&*^!@_(#*&*(&ÎNG PIECE OF CRAP WHY THE *(%^*^#$$$$$()&(*)&ING*(^&*(&#$ DO YOU STOP RUNNING THE MINUTE I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!!
THE DUTCH!! THE DUTCH AGAIN!!!!!
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This project is draining the life out of me. Five days until we fly out. We have no presentation, we have no poster. I'm supposed to be on presentation team but I legitimately don't know anything about what I'm supposed to be talking about, so I can't even write up slide bullet points about it. Due to piss poor management on the PMs part, we had to pay $1000 for shipping today. If we'd shipped yesterday, it would've been $300. I'm super pissed, because that money was supposed to go towards reimbursing people like me who do not have the funds to pay for the trip. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I have to move this summer, possibly twice, and I need that money to be there in case.
I need a goddamn break. I need to not see these people for a month. I need this semester to be over.
UUUUUUGHGHHGHGJ FUCK
I need a goddamn break. I need to not see these people for a month. I need this semester to be over.
UUUUUUGHGHHGHGJ FUCK
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So mad that they give NO GUIDELINES WHATSOEVER for this personal statement. I'm keeping it closer to a statement of intent than a personal essay, but guhhhhh. No guidelines. AT ALL. (If anybody wants to look it over for me and give me some feedback, shoot me a message. I'm trying to submit tomorrow evening (PST), though.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto
I want to punch something, I want to punch something reeeeal fuckin' bad.
I want to punch something, I want to punch something reeeeal fuckin' bad.
Hurp-De-Durp!
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I agree, that "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." message is rather rage-inducing...
While no one overhear you quickly tell me not cow cow.
but how about watch phone?
[he/him/his]
but how about watch phone?
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Municipal Violations
Search for that on youtube and hopefully you'll get a video which explains it.
Search for that on youtube and hopefully you'll get a video which explains it.
Hurp-De-Durp!
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I found I had to stop watching John Oliver's show, because it just kept angering me with the topics it would touch on - predatory lending, the Nutritional Supplement industry, lobbying, FIFA, student debt, advertising, the Hobby Lobby, etc.
Despite how hilarious it would present the topic, and how it would humourously poke fun at the problems with it, it just kept leaving me in a state of increased ire; sorry, John.
Despite how hilarious it would present the topic, and how it would humourously poke fun at the problems with it, it just kept leaving me in a state of increased ire; sorry, John.
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Well leaving you in a state of increased ire is somewhat the point, in the hopes that a fraction of the audience might be convinced to take action. His bit on Net Neutrality led to the FCC being flooded with comments and likely contributed to the pro-neutrality rules the FCC just passed. His bit on Miss America led to a sharp increase in donations to women's scholarship funds.
Granted, organizations like FIFA are much harder to do anything about, but at least some of the time, his reporting on these topics have led to positive impacts on the world.
Granted, organizations like FIFA are much harder to do anything about, but at least some of the time, his reporting on these topics have led to positive impacts on the world.
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Damn you credit card!
Also, damn you separated parents and empty appartment that won't eventually be mine!
This day keeps getting better and better
Also, damn you separated parents and empty appartment that won't eventually be mine!
This day keeps getting better and better
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My car's basically fucked. :/ It's repairable, but the cost far outweighs what was paid for it. It cost ~$1800AU, and the most pressing thing wrong with it would be $2500-3000AU.
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Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
An accountant would say that that asset has completely depreciated in value. :/
If you can get another auto for around the same price as this one, it would be the cheaper option...
If you can get another auto for around the same price as this one, it would be the cheaper option...
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