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  3. Posted

    A couple songs I want to download, both from the RWBY Volume 4 soundtrack.

    The Volume 4 opening theme, "Let's Just Live", about moving on after losing someone. Here's a lyrics video.

    "Move Onward, Not There Yet". We'll miss you, Monty.

     

    Then there's Weiss's solo song, "This Life is Mine". It starts as more of a ballad and gets progressively more intense, going to opera, adding guitars, then becoming full rock at the end.

     

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  4. Posted

    Less 'happy', more 'immensely relieved'.

    A while ago, my laptop charger cord stopped working. You had to have it at exactly the right position for it to do anything, else it wouldn't work. So I put my files on a flash drive to use the family's main computer. Then the flash drive died a few days ago, leaving me with the worrying possibility of losing everything. The only hope was that I copied the files from my laptop instead of cut and pasted them.

    Well, I just got a new laptop charger yesterday, and my stuff's still there. YAY! ...well, I mean I lost things I've done on the flash drive since the move, but at least I still have most of it.

    Oh, and there's pizza in the fridge. Bonus!

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  6. Posted

    So, anyone know what to do when your flash drive refuses to accept power? Because from what the Geek Squad experts can tell, mine isn't getting power when I plug it into a computer, and thus the computer doesn't recognize that I've plugged anything in at all. Is this gonna be a cheap fix, a pricey fix, or am I gonna have to give up on it?

  7. Posted · Edited by Zorua
    Option 1 failed

    The possibility of losing all my files.

    I keep my files on a flash drive. Since my laptop charger stopped working, the only place to actually access the files is on the family's shared computer, and even though I have a separate profile there, I haven't copied my files to the computer (for security or memory purposes I couldn't say; they download a lot of games on the main profile but I'm kinda paranoid about people poking through my files, so...both?).

    The other day I was using my flash drive. Just typing some story stuff, ya know? Then the computer bluescreens and reboots. I open my profile again, it checks the drive as part of standart boot-up procedures, and it's like "Device may be damaged. Scan and fix? Y/N" or something like that. Standard stuff; I'd seen that prompt for a different flash drive on my laptop, so I know it's okay. I said "sure". I don't want my stuff damaged. It does the scan and says "no problems detected". I go back to what I was doing. Then when I'm done, I close everything, click "eject drive" so it's safe to remove it, wait for it to say it's safe to remove it, and then remove it. Don't wanna corrupt files by being hasty.

    Cut to today, I plug the flash drive in to get to my résumé and references for a job application. Doesn't recognize that the flash drive is plugged in. The flash drive has an orange light that lights up if it's in use. Didn't turn on. I try my profile, I try the main profile, I even try my brother's computer. Nope.

    So now I have three options, in increasing order of unacceptable-ness: either ask Google for help, take it to Best Buy or Fry's and hope they can figure it out, or lose everything.

    I'm <understatement>just a little bit upset</understatement> at the idea.

    [Edit] Okay, I tried a couple of Google solutions. Checking diskmgmt.msc and devmgmt.msc doesn't turn up anything. Using the command prompt to look for drives doesn't turn up anything. Downloading and using the EaseUS data recovery program didn't turn up anything. As far as the computer is concerned, I didn't plug anything in at all. Other flash drives work fine. I suppose the next step is asking Best Buy for a more informed (and expensive) answer.

    My résumé, my stories and notes, my Minecraft saves, my backlog of EGS strip slays, other things of varying importance... Not even 8 gigs worth of stuff, but it's my stuff.

  10. Posted · Edited by Zorua
    Mashup video taken down. Individual parts linked to instead.

    Downloading some famous movie themes by John Williams and some famous movie themes not by John Williams.

    Then I noticed this was in my recommendations again, so I decided to listen to it again. It's two tracks from the end of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, titled "Your Father Would Be Proud" and "Hope", cut together. I can't not tear up listening to this. [Edit: Mashup video appears to have been taken down. I linked to the individual parts instead]

     

    You can tell exactly when Darth Vader activates his lightsaber.

     

    Also, looking around, I found this. You ever hear that one song on TV but can't remember the name? Here's part 1. Hope it helps.

     

  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, CritterKeeper said:

    How are you?  Are you and yours okay?  Are you in a flooded area, or high and relatively dry?

    And had you noticed the irony in your tag under your profile picture?

    Everything's fine. The house survived a lot better than it did in last year's storm (only because the flooding got bad enough to leak into the one room that was lower than the rest; it didn't flood nearly that badly this time, and we sandbagged spot anyway). We once again confirmed the leaky spots in the attic, but that's a problem for the slumlo- er, landlord, and the realtors.

    Heh. I should probably update that tag, shouldn't I? It's just plain inaccurate. Rations taste horrible; why didn't I ask for emergency donuts? :P

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  15. Posted

    Five day forecast: "Harvey". Seriously, the storm put it in park along the coast, so we're getting rain and clouds for the foreseeable future, and maybe strong winds depending on whether or not the eye gets closer or a tornado picks up. We'll see. 

  16. Posted

    A couple Fridays ago I took the test to get my learner's permit (after what, twelve years since I was eligible?), and I passed, and I was legally able to drive so long as I had a licensed driver in the passenger seat.

    Driving on the nearest highway (actually a farm-to-market road, but it's wide enough to be considered a highway in my mind) is still nerve-wracking.

  21. Posted

    So me and Mom finally got new box springs for our beds. Free under warranty. And mine breaks less than twelve hours later. All I did was sit down! This is standard use of beds! It should not break during standard use!

    Maybe Macy's should get their box springs somewhere else. Somewhere that actually uses quality materials and sturdy construction.

  23. Posted

    So the other day I did something incredible. 

    I was using the N-Zap '89 in Turf Wars as usual. Between the decent coverage, the Sprinkler, and the Inkstrikes, usually I get something like 800 to 1100 points of turf with that weapon kit (not counting the victory bonus). 

    ...1700.

    I don't know how, but somehow I got 1700 points. And I won, too, so with the victory bonus I came out of there with 2700 points. That's gotta be a record, or close to one. 

    (I mean in ranked you get more points from victory bonuses alone, but for Turf Wars? Inconceivable!)

     

    In an unrelated match, I saw my first hacker. It was a minor thing--she got going before the match officially began and otherwise played fair--but still, that's a hack. 

  24. Posted

    So my eyes kinda hurt to look around. 

    Then there's a lump under my skin on the back of my neck at the hairline, and another one in that little divot behind my ear, both on the right side. 

    I did have a headache yesterday. The lumps and eye soreness weren't there at three this morning, but they were when I woke up at about eleven.

    Anyone know if this combination is hospital-worthy? Should I get it looked at anyway, just in case? 

  25. Posted

    6 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

    Once met Steve Jackson, of Steve Jackson Games, at a con.  Got him to sign my GURPS Basic.

    He was testing a concept for a game about Tabloid Newspapers at the time.  I don't think anything became of it.  A friend of mine at the con got stuck when he was attempting to create a tabloid headline.  For some reason, he couldn't make a good headline when his available words included (no joke) "Disease", "Madonna", and "Snatch".

     

    2 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Making a headline with those three words wouldn't be hard... but a good one? Ah, I'll pass.

    "Diseased Man Snatches Madonna's Purse! More on page A5."

     

    I was on an episode of The Ramblin' Rod Show once...