It's Personal...

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:33 pm

Well, I called it. This week hasn't been fun.

And now, on top of the grief and the other things, my wireless router has died, which means I get to set up a new one.

The one consolation is it waited until my income tax refund came in before it decided to die. The downside means I can't get on the internet with my -personal- computer.

Edit: Found out something that made it a little better.

My cousin was an organ donor. He died on Sunday. Today, Thursday, there's a man who can now see because he got Daryl's eyes.

Not gonna lie. I lost it and started crying when I found that out.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:34 pm

Sorry Maxus, that's got to be tough

. Thanks for sharing though, that was really awesome of him.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:31 am

brohug to Maxus.

I'm sorry about your loss.

I work in a clinic that does roughly 1% of the cornea transplants in the U.S. each year, and it makes a big difference to the recipients.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:17 pm

I was terrorized by a bat this morning! I tell you, there's nothing more unique than waking up to see a giant black blob flying around your ceiling lamp.

Upon seeing it, I screamed like a little girl, and jumped from my bed out of the door and rolled into the floor. Then I spent the night on the couch downstairs in a terrified stupor. It was glorious.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:21 pm

What happened to the bat?

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:44 pm

They came to understand and respect one another's differences through the power of interpretive dance. Then it got hit by a truck.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:15 pm

Bats carry rabies and follow fan blades.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:17 pm

Related, serious note: if you happen to have any bites you didn't have when you went to bed the night before, you should definitely see a doctor about that. Pretty much immediately. If the bat is still around (I assume not), capturing it or having animal control capture it for testing would be great.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:36 pm

The bat's still in the house, asleep either in the den or my bedroom (we aren't sure exactly which; we've barricaded both rooms to be safe). Currently we're waiting for nightfall, where we will then call Animal Control so they can safely and humanely remove this demon from the blackest pits of hell.

Also, fortunately, neither me or anyone else was bitten by said bat.

BAT UPDATE: So we heard the bat banging about in the den, and hurriedly called Animal Control. Of course, by the time the dude got here, the bat had gone back into hiding again...

So it's still there, waiting, planning.

The bat is a bastard. Nay, a nemesis, if you will.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:40 pm

Could leave a window open and hope it exits. That's what I did when I was in a big honkin log cabin for vacation a couple years back and there was a bat in our room.

Worst that can happen is have more bats come in.

This is all presuming that however else the bat got in isn't still open.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:06 am

You get a net and net it. This is easy to do if you have ceiling fans, because bats will fly predictable paths around them.

Leaving the window open is also good.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:07 am

You get a net and net it. This is easy to do if you have ceiling fans, because bats will fly predictable paths around them.

Leaving the window open is also good.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:07 am

BAT UPDATE: The bat has been successfully removed from our home by Animal Control, and safely returned to the nightmare realm from hence it came. You can now return to your regularly scheduled lives.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 2:57 am

So, after 5 Years, i decided it was high time for a new computer.
I spent over 2000€ on this, without SSD, HDD or ODD.
And it's mostly what i had been wanting, when i put this together.
First 3dmark benchmark run puts it at better than 93% of all tested systems.
And it actually managed to get 1.5k points more than a system with a GTX Titan got.
I am still not sure how exactly that happened, but i ain't complaining.
Minor Design-Fault:
I used my old computer to warm my feet by doing some heavy computing stuff on it . .
I designed the new system to be relatively quiet and cool running.
And so it does just that. No more warm air blown over my icy feet though.

Looking at how prices for these things have fallen, i am tempted to go and buy a new HDD and SSD for this system.
Seriously. 500GB SSD for under 200€? That's nuts!
For my first 128GB i paid more than 200€!
And for my 256GB i still paid more than 200€!

Now i need to convince my mother to sell me her old system so i can have 3 screens hooked up to this baby and use her old one as a kind of office-computer.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:01 pm

My three year old nephew is a huge Transformers fan (he got some bootlegged transformers as a birthday gift at some point, and has wanted moar ever since) and I'm enjoying watching Beast Wars and Transformers animated with him (I'm as new to the franchise as he is). I need to correct him every now and then, e.g. he runs around shouting "Ratrap, TERRORIZE" and calls Optimus Primal, Optimus Prime. Well, I guess it's up to me to talk to him about the trucks and the monkeys.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 5:01 pm

If ever you need help, young initiate, I am here at your disposal.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:06 pm

Thanks. That would be prime.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:29 pm

Well there was that one episode where Rattrap got to show off his spy guy skills (out of like, three episodes) and played the traitor switching his trasformation command to terrorize...

Huh. Beast Wars could actually serve as a good in road to D&D. Rattrap is the iconic rogue, Blackarachnia the iconic assassin, Silverbolt the iconic paladin... it's a shame that there isn't really an iconic wizard or the like, although Optimus Primal does dip cleric in the sequal-series-which-shall-not-be-named.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:53 pm

I always thought of Him as the Prime example of a Paladin O.o

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:49 pm

My son has become quite a builder in Minecraft. Today, he created a three dimensional human, complete with a digestive tract you could go inside and follow. There was an esophagus, a stomach, and a way out in a relatively anatomically correct manner. It was actually quite remarkable - I was really impressed.

Once done and satisfied that Mom thought he was awesome, Giovanni filled the stomach completely with farm animals (chickens, cows, sheep, and pigs), unblocked the butthole, and proceeded to laugh the whole while as the animals escaped into the rest of his world.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 2:21 am

*snickers*

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 8:03 am

Maj wrote:My son has become quite a builder in Minecraft. Today, he created a three dimensional human, complete with a digestive tract you could go inside and follow. There was an esophagus, a stomach, and a way out in a relatively anatomically correct manner. It was actually quite remarkable - I was really impressed.

Once done and satisfied that Mom thought he was awesome, Giovanni filled the stomach completely with farm animals (chickens, cows, sheep, and pigs), unblocked the butthole, and proceeded to laugh the whole while as the animals escaped into the rest of his world.

W...wow. How old is your son, again?

Because my 10-year old spends a lot of her time on minecraft crowding villagers into a swimming pool, to get them to make baby villagers, because she thinks they're cute.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:09 pm

Why into a swimming pool?
Vanilla Villager-Farm is building lots of small houses with many doors if i remember correctly.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:32 pm

Stahlseele wrote:Why into a swimming pool?
Vanilla Villager-Farm is building lots of small houses with many doors if i remember correctly.

I thought it was building a 10 by 10 platform surrounded by 40 doors and roofed in.

EDIT: Although, come to think of it, water traps would be a great way to contain your villagers and force them to mate more often.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Mar 30, 2014 4:37 pm

PoliteNewb wrote:W...wow. How old is your son, again?

Because my 10-year old spends a lot of her time on minecraft crowding villagers into a swimming pool, to get them to make baby villagers, because she thinks they're cute.

He just hit 5 1/2. I had no idea that Minecraft (he plays the Android pocket version on Ess' Kindle) would be such a creative medium for him. He's built some crazy, crazy things that have just blown my mind. Hell, the fact that his brain thinks like that in 3D space blows my mind.

I'm thinking I might start grabbing screenshots and posting them.