kamimatsu said:
Yes! Someone actually used "Wherefore" correctly!

I like that word. It's really close to the Scandinavian word. Words such as who, what and where are influenced by Norse.

kamimatsu said:
Wherefore always means why. It's the opposite of Therefore.

"Therefore," as in, "'There' is the answer," "Wherefore" as in "'Where' is the answer".

Furrin_Gok said:
"Therefore," as in, "'There' is the answer," "Wherefore" as in "'Where' is the answer".

I didn't know of this word. It's also almost identical to the Scandinavian word.

Sorrowless said:
I didn't know of this word. It's also almost identical to the Scandinavian word.

What Scandinavian word?

Here's some more words like those.

BlueDingo said:
What Scandinavian word?

Here's some more words like those.

Derfor = therefore

I remember it by thinking "where is the pretext (fore, as in before) that led to this event".

damn these flies.

i don't know if it's the weather or what but these past few days have had the house swarming with flies and it's not for any reason on our part. we haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary that would attract them but now? my aunt has gone through 2-3 fly strips (those long plastic strips with sticky glue on them) and each one has been full within 1-2 days time and yet they still swarm like crazy.

got 2 or 3 here in my room bothering me constantly and with how easily spooked they are (pretty much ANYTHING will send them flying around again), i can't hit them with my fly swatter.

Version-exclusive content in most video games, especially in games that aren't cross-compatible. Pokemon is the only game series I can recall that pulled it off successfully, otherwise it feels like an excuse for game developers to shoehorn more money out of their customers.

"If you want to experience all the content the game has to offer, we suggest you purchase all three games for each system."

treos said:
damn these flies.

i don't know if it's the weather or what but these past few days have had the house swarming with flies and it's not for any reason on our part. we haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary that would attract them but now? my aunt has gone through 2-3 fly strips (those long plastic strips with sticky glue on them) and each one has been full within 1-2 days time and yet they still swarm like crazy.

got 2 or 3 here in my room bothering me constantly and with how easily spooked they are (pretty much ANYTHING will send them flying around again), i can't hit them with my fly swatter.

Tried some of the concoctions that are supposed to get rid of them? Like, Apple Cider Vinegar, which attracts them, but then melts them.

Chameloshi said:
Version-exclusive content in most video games, especially in games that aren't cross-compatible. Pokemon is the only game series I can recall that pulled it off successfully, otherwise it feels like an excuse for game developers to shoehorn more money out of their customers.

"If you want to experience all the content the game has to offer, we suggest you purchase all three games for each system."

Personally, I really liked Legend of Zelda: Oracles. For the full upgrades, you needed to go back and forth between the games, and the true final dungeon required finishing both of their unique "final" dungeons.

Furrin_Gok said:
Tried some of the concoctions that are supposed to get rid of them? Like, Apple Cider Vinegar, which attracts them, but then melts them.

I can vouch for that. You know that old saying about catching more with honey than vinegar? It's actually false. You catch more with vinegar.

kamimatsu said:
I can vouch for that. You know that old saying about catching more with honey than vinegar? It's actually false. You catch more with vinegar.

It doesn't work with straight vinegar though, does it?

Furrin_Gok said:
Tried some of the concoctions that are supposed to get rid of them? Like, Apple Cider Vinegar, which attracts them, but then melts them.

"melts them" >.< EW! though i suppose...if it does work...

treos said:
"melts them" >.< EW! though i suppose...if it does work...

Better that than buzzing around everything

When I have to reboot because of space issues and then every single file on my desktop is resorted alphabetically for no fucking reason and I have to spend the next hour trying to remember how it was set up to rearrange it back to the status quo ante. I don't typically like to focus on the negative which is why I've refrained from posting in this thread, but fffffFFFFFFFFUUUCKing hell I've never been so pissed off as when this happens every goddamn ram reset. Fuck.

video games + politics = game devs, DON'T DO IT! it will NEVER end well for you.

and now we have playtonic banning people on the steam page for disagreeing with their decision. and a lot of people are asking for refunds which it seems playtonic isn't giving.

well, they made things political and the people are doing the best possible thing: responding with their wallets

as for me, i haven't actually bought any ps4 games after those first 3. i've just been renting and returning them with some i may re-rent later to finish the game. so playtonic probably wouldn't get a purchase from me anyway.

treos said:
video games + politics = game devs, DON'T DO IT! it will NEVER end well for you.

and now we have playtonic banning people on the steam page for disagreeing with their decision. and a lot of people are asking for refunds which it seems playtonic isn't giving.

well, they made things political and the people are doing the best possible thing: responding with their wallets

as for me, i haven't actually bought any ps4 games after those first 3. i've just been renting and returning them with some i may re-rent later to finish the game. so playtonic probably wouldn't get a purchase from me anyway.

I believe a corporation has every right to act on political matters, as long as said political matters don't directly involve government. Playtonic fucked up with the backlash, that is correct. On the topic of gaming and politics in general: they're inseparable, just like any other media. Games are made by humans with their own implicit political views, and the most provocative pieces of art (as in things like literature) are very much political.

I don't mind politics in games. Bioshock for example is an excellent game imo and it also brings up political and philosophical questions.

Sorrowless said:
I don't mind politics in games. Bioshock for example is an excellent game imo and it also brings up political and philosophical questions.

I mind it when everything gets deemed political by CERTAIN PEOPLE who seem to be unable or just unwilling to view such things as apolitical.

If you fucking tell me that Super Mario 64 is political, I will call you a fucking moron, because you fucking are.

Sorrowless said:
I don't mind politics in games. Bioshock for example is an excellent game imo and it also brings up political and philosophical questions.

That's politics internal to the game, not external like the Jontron debate.

Furrin_Gok said:
That's politics internal to the game, not external like the Jontron debate.

I see. My bad. I don't know much about Jontron.

Kavellrist said:
If you fucking tell me that Super Mario 64 is political, I will call you a fucking moron, because you fucking are.

You're good or have a certain obsession if you can find something political in Super Mario 64. I suppose there can be found minimal traces of what one could call politics in a story. My point is that things are not black and white. Democracy for instance isn't a on/off switch. There are varying degrees of it.

Bowser attempting to seize control of the Mushroom Kingdom by capturing Peach. There might be something political in that.

YouWereNeverMyFriend said:
If you fucking tell me that Super Mario 64 is political, I will call you a fucking moron, because you fucking are.

damsel in distress

I couldn't help it but give it a few thoughts :p

Is Bowser kidnapping Peach so he can marry her? If so is this a decision out of love or to gain power and influence? Could that be considered a political move? Also there are castles in the game and Peach is a princess. Feudalism?

BlueDingo said:
Bowser attempting to seize control of the Mushroom Kingdom by capturing Peach. There might be something political in that.

Only the THINNEST veneer of political-ity, used simply as a plot point and not representative nor apropos of ANYTHING IN REALITY. Sometimes the cigar is just a fucking cigar.

Fenrick said:
damsel in distress

Oh DO shut up, Anita.

Sorrowless said:
I couldn't help it but give it a few thoughts :p

Is Bowser kidnapping Peach so he can marry her? If so is this a decision out of love or to gain power and influence? Could that be considered a political move? Also there are castles in the game and Peach is a princess. Feudalism?

It's more or less established that Bowser is actually madly in love with the Princess and is simply such an incredibly awkward, bumbling oaf of a guy that the only way he really knows how to let anyone know that is by kidnapping her.

As for feudalism, if the creators of the goddamn games never put that much thought into the political system of the Mushroom Kingdom or whatever WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PUTTING SO MUCH THOUGHT INTO IT? They went with the faintest trappings of feudalism because they're ridiculously simple and require no real meaningful backstory. They're pretty much just there because things like democracies are necessarily more complex and have all sorts of implications that simply aren't at fucking home in a game about plumbers that use mushrooms to grow in size, bipedal intelligent turtles (some of which have wings) and so on.

This is not complicated. Making it complicated doesn't make you sound smart and educated. Making it complicated makes you sound like an idiot who THINKS he's smart and educated and has a political ax to grind.

I didn't put much thought into it. It's not hard to think of feudalism when you see castles and monarchs. I think you're the one putting much thought into it in this case.

Sorrowless said:
I didn't put much thought into it. It's not hard to think of feudalism when you see castles and monarchs. I think you're the one putting much thought into it in this case.

You're approaching the table and moving your hand towards the plate of cookies that has a sign by it clearly marked "WARNING: POISON". I'm slapping your hand away before you get the bright idea to not only pick one of the damn things up, but put it in your mouth, chew and swallow, because I do assume that is what will come next from past experiences with others.

I don't LIKE doing this. I don't like having to fucking lay out exactly why this isn't fucking political. But if I just say "it's not political" some people will not be HAPPY with that. I am forced to explain to these slackjawed dipshits EXACTLY WHY APPROACHING THIS AS POLITICAL IS RETARDED.

Believe me, I wish I could just say "It's not fucking political, full stop, end of line" and have people just stop, think about it for a minute, and realize that I'm probably right. But these days, you have to BEAT IT INTO PEOPLE'S BRAINS. They will inevitably ask why it isn't political. Rather than exercising their own brain meats and really considering exactly why calling Mario games any sort of political treatise at all is pants-on-head, they will ask me to spoonfeed them, essentially.

It's incredibly fucking lazy to say "EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL". Saying "everything is X" is generally the sign of a weak and lazy mind. Some people will pull shit like "Well I THOUGHT IT WAS POLITICAL, therefore it's political to MEEEEE" and these people are also fucking retards, for a slightly different reason. This post-modernist "everything that matters is subjective, objectivity is an illusion" crap is basically the lie that got halfway around the world before the truth was able to put its pants on.

Mate, you might wanna calm down a bit before you get another negative record on your account.

check out this "video quality on youtube in glorious 144P.

yeah, that's right, youtube. your quality auto adjust system based on a persons internet connection SUCKS ASS! i get fucking 144P while my aunt could be streaming netflix in the living room in fucking HD quality with hardly any lag at the exact same time.

oh great... now img.ur is crapping out and won't upload correctly. well tinypics worked. here is the pic in question

yeah, THAT'S what i'm looking at in one of throthgar's videos right now because youtube thinks my internet connection is so shitty it can only handle 144P at best. that auto-adjust system has been complete garbage since it was first implemented. i may as well go and download it in a decent quality just to see it properly.

treos said:
check out this "video quality on youtube in glorious 144P.

yeah, that's right, youtube. your quality auto adjust system based on a persons internet connection SUCKS ASS! i get fucking 144P while my aunt could be streaming netflix in the living room in fucking HD quality with hardly any lag at the exact same time.

oh great... now img.ur is crapping out and won't upload correctly. well tinypics worked. here is the pic in question

yeah, THAT'S what i'm looking at in one of throthgar's videos right now because youtube thinks my internet connection is so shitty it can only handle 144P at best. that auto-adjust system has been complete garbage since it was first implemented. i may as well go and download it in a decent quality just to see it properly.

You can click the gear and manually change it, you know.

I hate the fact that the image viewer on my phone requires system space to even open. I don't even have much free space to use because of essential system files or something, and when it's close to full, the app refuses to open.

I'm certain that there's a legitimate reason for it, but it still pisses me off.

Chameloshi said:
I hate the fact that the image viewer on my phone requires system space to even open. I don't even have much free space to use because of essential system files or something, and when it's close to full, the app refuses to open.

I'm certain that there's a legitimate reason for it, but it still pisses me off.

Temporary thumbnail storage, maybe?

BlueDingo said:
Temporary thumbnail storage, maybe?

I honestly have no idea, but wouldn't the cache already handle that?

This sounds like something the programmer side of e6 could explain.

"If playback does not begin shortly, try restarting your device."

get fucked, youtube! ಠ_ಠ

why does this happen when i am on a LAPTOP?! stupid shitty website always has something breaking...

this website is working normally. everything on my laptop is working normally. but NOOO youtube's video player is broken and now i have to reboot my whole laptop just for that one lone website to work again. that is bullshit!

wish google would work on actually FIXING that sites problems and making things better instead of always updating and changing things. granted this particular issue doesn't happen often but why do i have to reboot my laptop when it's their video player that's acting up?

Thing that gets me more angry than sad:

Uploading things I drew that I thought were ~finally~ good enough to go up on this site, only to find out I suck and can't get feedback from anywhere. Within 20 minutes both versions have over 5 downvotes and no comments. No feedback from two places I posted the pics for indications of what I did wrong.

I'm not a particularly angry person. When I smell flowers, I think of flowers, not a graveyard.

treos said:
"If playback does not begin shortly, try restarting your device."

get fucked, youtube! ಠ_ಠ

why does this happen when i am on a LAPTOP?! stupid shitty website always has something breaking...

this website is working normally. everything on my laptop is working normally. but NOOO youtube's video player is broken and now i have to reboot my whole laptop just for that one lone website to work again. that is bullshit!

wish google would work on actually FIXING that sites problems and making things better instead of always updating and changing things. granted this particular issue doesn't happen often but why do i have to reboot my laptop when it's their video player that's acting up?

Just pause it, then play. It always gives me that error message, and that fix always works.

locker611 said:
Thing that gets me more angry than sad:

Uploading things I drew that I thought were ~finally~ good enough to go up on this site, only to find out I suck and can't get feedback from anywhere. Within 20 minutes both versions have over 5 downvotes and no comments. No feedback from two places I posted the pics for indications of what I did wrong.

People will be trolls. If you are "good enough," trolls demand better.

locker611 said:
Thing that gets me more angry than sad:

Uploading things I drew that I thought were ~finally~ good enough to go up on this site, only to find out I suck and can't get feedback from anywhere. Within 20 minutes both versions have over 5 downvotes and no comments. No feedback from two places I posted the pics for indications of what I did wrong.

Looking at your two Zootopia ones they look very, um, simple. Unfortunately the bad looking type. Simple can be good but you need some charm like looking high quality or having something interesting about it. The artist Trout for example have art with a simple look but they are charming, intersting, a bit on the unusual side and have humor.

Sorrowless said:
Looking at your two Zootopia ones they look very, um, simple. Unfortunately the bad looking type. Simple can be good but you need some charm like looking high quality or having something interesting about it. The artist Trout for example have art with a simple look but they are charming, intersting, a bit on the unusual side and have humor.

Thank you. I posted ultimately in 6 places seeking advice and you're literally the only one who supplied some constructive criticism. Gonna take them down and maybe work on it some more, but I don't think I'll be uploading to this site again of my own volition. Even if I took out the bold lines, sharpened up the edges of the phone, made the ground a texture similar to a bathroom stall, added a ton of strokes to make it really look like fur, it would still be smited down once uploaded- if only on the principle of what it is now.

I see the stuff inkyfrog and the weever put up and this whole experience just dumbfounds me. Some of their stuff is funny and has character, but a lot of it is oversimplified and doesn't at all. The zootopia portion of this site is flooded with them. Yet no one downvotes their work into oblivion. And I remain confused.

ratte's wiener is bigger than mine

Knotty_Curls said:
ratte's wiener is bigger than mine

Doesn't mean they know how to use it.

A friendly hallo from Germany ^^
so the question is "what makes me angry" mhh ?
ok i think there are a few things that make me angry but the biggest of all is definitely Unacceptance towards others sexuality or fetishes i mean we all found this site more or less because we are "special"
why cant humans even in "small" groups like this fandom get along i really would like an answer to that .

What makes me angry? Filthy Alliance scum...

Especially Worgen warlocks.

for both this and the sad thread.

reading the international news :( as if more local news isn't bad enough already.

i'm happy to know trump and those working for him are trying to make things better in this country but seeing news about what's happening throughout the rest of the world is enough to wish i never had to live in this world to begin with. makes me wish i had a choice of at least 2 other worlds (both of which hopefully better than this one...assuming the Fing RNG of the universe doesn't decide to troll me that is) instead of this dung heap.

edit: and after seeing that one article, i feel bad for any swedes on this site. :(

oh and they actually used the word "londonistan" in an article title. have things deteriorated so far that we are now going to be seeing news article titles with words like that in them? for fucks sake...that is BAD.

Youtube automatically subscribing me to a channel just because I happened to like one video on that channel. If I wanted to subscribe, I would click the "Subscribe" button. If I only click the "like" button, that means I want to like the video, but it does *NOT* mean that I want to subscribe to the channel. No, Youtube, You Do Not Know What I Want Better Than I Do, So Stop Acting Like You Do. You are not God, you do NOT know what I'm thinking, so stop being a douchebag and let me make my own decisions like a good widdle website.

InannaEloah said:
Youtube automatically subscribing me to a channel just because I happened to like one video on that channel. If I wanted to subscribe, I would click the "Subscribe" button. If I only click the "like" button, that means I want to like the video, but it does *NOT* mean that I want to subscribe to the channel. No, Youtube, You Do Not Know What I Want Better Than I Do, So Stop Acting Like You Do. You are not God, you do NOT know what I'm thinking, so stop being a douchebag and let me make my own decisions like a good widdle website.

Youtube seems to be all over the place. First they're unsubscribing people left, right and centre, not they're subscribing people to channels they don't want to subscribe to.

Out of curiosity, which channel did it subscribe you to?

BlueDingo said:
Youtube seems to be all over the place. First they're unsubscribing people left, right and centre, not they're subscribing people to channels they don't want to subscribe to.

Out of curiosity, which channel did it subscribe you to?

What's more infuriating is Youtube bending over for old media to shit on content creators by mass demonitizations.

BlueDingo said:
Out of curiosity, which channel did it subscribe you to?

This one: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4oMaqaY0hIoT9jafj1g8g

The only way I can reliably watch youtube videos is manually altering the URL to youtube.com/v/[videonumber] every time.
I've never seen a more broken video player on any other website.

I just download the 144p version of videos and watch that in Media Player Classic, though I only do this to reduce the amount of data I have to download to watch it.

Ijerk said:
The only way I can reliably watch youtube videos is manually altering the URL to youtube.com/v/[videonumber] every time.
I've never seen a more broken video player on any other website.

had to reboot my laptop due to it breaking yesterday. the whole "please restart your device" playback related error.

and then theres how our internet connection here can stream HD on netflix fine yet youtube struggle to stream at 144p.

i mean, i know our connection is bad but it's not dial-up bad.

Morons who think that when you are doing something illegal, you are somehow *not* committing a crime... and who will throw an unholy tantrum when you inform them that they are wrong. Illegal immigration? "Oh, that's not a crime." Uh, yeah, it actually is a crime, which is why they use the word "Illegal."

Also, people who instantly assume that when you call illegal immigration a crime, you're automatically racist and hate "brown" people. Because apparently expecting "brown" people to obey the law of the land is somehow racist and hateful? Cops, do remember that the next time you see a "brown" person doing 150 mph in a school zone. If you bust them for speeding and reckless endangerment, it's not because they're committing a crime, nonono, it's all because you're an evil racist, because a bunch of high school and college aged kids said so. *smh*

InannaEloah said:
Morons who think that when you are doing something illegal, you are somehow *not* committing a crime... and who will throw an unholy tantrum when you inform them that they are wrong. Illegal immigration? "Oh, that's not a crime." Uh, yeah, it actually is a crime, which is why they use the word "Illegal."

Also, people who instantly assume that when you call illegal immigration a crime, you're automatically racist and hate "brown" people. Because apparently expecting "brown" people to obey the law of the land is somehow racist and hateful? Cops, do remember that the next time you see a "brown" person doing 150 mph in a school zone. If you bust them for speeding and reckless endangerment, it's not because they're committing a crime, nonono, it's all because you're an evil racist, because a bunch of high school and college aged kids said so. *smh*

o.O did i miss something on the news recently? think i saw something about california still trying to be one of those sanctuary cities that wants to protect and help illegal immigrants earlier but i didn't hear much since i was just passing through the living room at the time.

and when it comes to people protesting those who arrest and deport "criminal" illegal immigrants it makes me wonder: why do these people like living amongst criminals? they certainly like to try and protect them.

treos said:
o.O did i miss something on the news recently? think i saw something about california still trying to be one of those sanctuary cities that wants to protect and help illegal immigrants earlier but i didn't hear much since i was just passing through the living room at the time.

No, it was some young woman who had uploaded a video on her Youtube channel, claiming that illegal immigrants aren't doing anything wrong by being here illegally, so I reminded her what "illegal" meant and she flipped out.

Speaking about immigrants. Here they get a good amount more welfare money than a native citizen would.

Windows 7's utter refusal to acknowledge the existence of the physical and fully functional USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard. They have power, they work, but goddamnit if Windows 7 absolutely will not acknowledge they even exist. I have no idea what causes it, I can't reproduce this bug at will, and of course Google is about as useful at finding answers to this question as reading a user manual for an early stereo would be in figuring out how to fix a jet engine.

Just let me plug my external HDD in and stop being an ass, Windows.

InannaEloah said:
Windows 7's utter refusal to acknowledge the existence of the physical and fully functional USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard. They have power, they work, but goddamnit if Windows 7 absolutely will not acknowledge they even exist. I have no idea what causes it, I can't reproduce this bug at will, and of course Google is about as useful at finding answers to this question as reading a user manual for an early stereo would be in figuring out how to fix a jet engine.

Just let me plug my external HDD in and stop being an ass, Windows.

Do you still have your mobo's driver CD? You might need to install a USB controller driver to get them working...you can also find them on the mobo manufacturer's website as well. Also if they are they kind you plug in make sure they are going to the correct USB 3.0 connectors and not 2.0...many mobos still have both.

Futhermore...I would upgrade to win 10 asap my friend. I feel like Microsoft has abandoned even trying to make Win 7 work anymore. I'll bet you dollars to donuts Win 10 would just find whatever driver is needed for those ports and they would work.

Dyrone said:
Do you still have your mobo's driver CD? You might need to install a USB controller driver to get them working...you can also find them on the mobo manufacturer's website as well. Also if they are they kind you plug in make sure they are going to the correct USB 3.0 connectors and not 2.0...many mobos still have both.

Yes, I have it, and no, I can't use it. The only good that disc has been since I got it is as a coaster, since it wouldn't work from the moment I took it out of the envelope. This is the second MSI product I've bought where the installation DVD doesn't work at all, the previous one was a video card.

Futhermore...I would upgrade to win 10 asap my friend.

Absolutely not. I will not install that spyware-ridden PoS operating system on my computer. If I have to "upgrade" I'll go to Linux before I ever put Win10 on my machine.

InannaEloah said:
Yes, I have it, and no, I can't use it. The only good that disc has been since I got it is as a coaster, since it wouldn't work from the moment I took it out of the envelope. This is the second MSI product I've bought where the installation DVD doesn't work at all, the previous one was a video card.

Ok, so go to the MSI website, type in your mobo's model, go to the support\downloads section and download the USB controller drivers there.

InannaEloah said:
Absolutely not. I will not install that spyware-ridden PoS operating system on my computer. If I have to "upgrade" I'll go to Linux before I ever put Win10 on my machine.

If you can't find and install a USB driver on Windows I'm pretty sure Linux would eat you alive.

InannaEloah said:
No, it was some young woman who had uploaded a video on her Youtube channel, claiming that illegal immigrants aren't doing anything wrong by being here illegally, so I reminded her what "illegal" meant and she flipped out.

huh, cool. wonder how that played out.

i tend to see such situations a fair bit on channels like Suit Yourself. well, i did but then that cyclone came through where he lives so... no big videos for a while yet unfortunately. :( but at least they survived so that's good.

edit: wtf, firefox? are you now trying to become worse?

i was just trying to update java on my laptop and hit 2 problems.

1. apparently i can't update past java 1.79 because when i try to update to 1.80 it shows this in task manager. so the update stalls right from the start.

maybe if i uninstall it entirely then install a newer version beyond 1.8...

and 2. when it opened the tab for the "Verify Java Version" page (like it always does upon updating) i was shown the following message:

"Starting with Firefox Version 52 (released in March 2017), Firefox has limited support for plug-ins, and therefore will not run Java."

seriously? why?

treos said:
huh, cool. wonder how that played out.

i tend to see such situations a fair bit on channels like Suit Yourself. well, i did but then that cyclone came through where he lives so... no big videos for a while yet unfortunately. :( but at least they survived so that's good.

Yeah, we get quite a few cyclones up north. In the south, it's mainly droughts and bushfires.

ok, got jre-8u121-windows-i586 (java's newest version) downloaded and upon attempting to install... you piece of crap!

the memory numbers (1,000 K and 60,600 K) reached those numbers then stopped increasing. the installation stalled.

something about java 1.8+ simply does not work on windows 7 at all.

PhrozenFox, if you see this post, sorry. it seems i CAN'T try that game, Haven & Hearth because java doesn't work at all and that game requires... 1.8

this is the exact reason why i never updated beyond java 1.79+. something about the installation process of 1.8+ simply does not work properly.

BlueDingo said:
Yeah, we get quite a few cyclones up north. In the south, it's mainly droughts and bushfires.

hmmm... ever seen any fire tornadoes (they are real) down there?

treos said:
ok, got jre-8u121-windows-i586 (java's newest version) downloaded and upon attempting to install... you piece of crap!

the memory numbers (1,000 K and 60,600 K) reached those numbers then stopped increasing. the installation stalled.

something about java 1.8+ simply does not work on windows 7 at all.

PhrozenFox, if you see this post, sorry. it seems i CAN'T try that game, Haven & Hearth because java doesn't work at all and that game requires... 1.8

this is the exact reason why i never updated beyond java 1.79+. something about the installation process of 1.8+ simply does not work properly.

Why did you have two Javas? Did you make sure you uninstalled your old java before installing the new one?

People who absolutely refuse to deal with what you actually said, instead opting to make some bullshit up and using that as an excuse to attack you and imply that you're stupid.

Case in point:

Dyrone said:
If you can't find and install a USB driver on Windows...

Because heaven forbid the quoted user actually deal with my original complaint that physical USB ports are randomly becoming completely undetectable, which in turn makes the installation of drivers for those ports completely impossible. Better to just make some shit up and then use that as an excuse to be an ass.

Furrin_Gok said:
Why did you have two Javas? Did you make sure you uninstalled your old java before installing the new one?

i only had the 1 java installer running. it starts the 2nd process on its own. and yes, i went to start menu and uninstalled the previous versions before starting the 1.8 installer.

InannaEloah said:
People who absolutely refuse to deal with what you actually said, instead opting to make some bullshit up and using that as an excuse to attack you and imply that you're stupid.

Case in point:

Because heaven forbid the quoted user actually deal with my original complaint that physical USB ports are randomly becoming completely undetectable, which in turn makes the installation of drivers for those ports completely impossible. Better to just make some shit up and then use that as an excuse to be an ass.

Let's go back into those quotes and see where this "Confusion" stems from, shall we?

Dyrone said:
Do you still have your mobo's driver CD? You might need to install a USB controller driver to get them working...you can also find them on the mobo manufacturer's website as well.

InannaEloah said:
Yes, I have it, and no, I can't use it. The only good that disc has been since I got it is as a coaster, since it wouldn't work from the moment I took it out of the envelope. This is the second MSI product I've bought where the installation DVD doesn't work at all, the previous one was a video card.

Dyrone said:
Ok, so go to the MSI website, type in your mobo's model, go to the support\downloads section and download the USB controller drivers there.

^{Underline and bold code manually added, message itself unmodified}
Notice the difference between the underlines and bolds. Two completely separate solutions, yet you only looked at the underlined solution, and said nothing about the boldened one. Did you not notice it, in your anger with the bad installation disks?

Furrin_Gok said:
Let's go back into those quotes and see where this "Confusion" stems from, shall we?

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Two completely separate solutions, yet you only looked at the underlined solution, and said nothing about the boldened one. Did you not notice it, in your anger with the bad installation disks?

I see you didn't read my original post either, because if you had, you would have noticed that I wasn't talking about that in the first place.

Here is my original comment, which is on this same page but which nobody seems to be willing to actually read before passing judgment (emphasis manually added)...

InannaEloah said:
Windows 7's utter refusal to acknowledge the existence of the physical and fully functional USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard. They have power, they work, but goddamnit if Windows 7 absolutely will not acknowledge they even exist. I have no idea what causes it, I can't reproduce this bug at will, and of course Google is about as useful at finding answers to this question as reading a user manual for an early stereo would be in figuring out how to fix a jet engine.

Just let me plug my external HDD in and stop being an ass, Windows.

In this post, I have made it crystal clear that I am referring to USB ports that are randomly disappearing from Device Manager, NOT "installing drivers" as you and Dyrone have stated. The drivers are already installed, that's not the problem. The problem is, as again I made perfectly clear in my original post, that the USB ports are randomly becoming undetected by Windows.

The installation disc is not the issue. Dyrone made the installation disc the issue when they refused to deal with what I had already said. Please stop assuming that I said shit that I did NOT say!

InannaEloah said:
In this post, I have made it crystal clear that I am referring to USB ports that are randomly disappearing from Device Manager, NOT "installing drivers" as you and Dyrone have stated. The drivers are already installed, that's not the problem. The problem is, as again I made perfectly clear in my original post, that the USB ports are randomly becoming undetected by Windows.

Could still be a driver issue in that Windows isn't giving them enough power. I recommend trying to manually install the manufacturer's driver over your current one because Windows is usually not the best at picking the proper drivers by themselves.

NotMeNotYou said:
Could still be a driver issue in that Windows isn't giving them enough power. I recommend trying to manually install the manufacturer's driver over your current one because Windows is usually not the best at picking the proper drivers by themselves.

I've tried that. Hell, I've tried everything. Best I can figure is that USB 3.0 is just plain shitty tech and should probably be disabled entirely. I just hate having to do it because it's so much faster than 2.0 and I have a 4TB external HDD that I use with the 3.0 that's two-thirds full. Having to put that on 2.0 would be a major PITA because of how slow 2.0 is in comparison. If I could get an eSATA enclosure for it that's any good (it's a 15mm thick portable drive, so good luck there), I'd disable the 3.0 in a heartbeat. The HDD is literally the only thing I use the 3.0 for.

I have a separate card I could install, but it doesn't have a front panel header on it and because of the way I've got my tower set up I'd have to string a USB 3.0 extension cord around to the front. I've got the cord, but I really don't want to have to open the case yet again just to get it all working.

Maybe there's a hot-swap dock that can go into a 5.25" optical bay that will fit a portable drive that's 15mm thick? Preferrably one that doesn't cost a couple hundred dollars. If there's something like that, I'll gladly take that over the 3.0.

EDIT:

And I found what I'll be using, I guess. I found one of those hot-swap mobile racks to fit in a 3.5" bay, and then a bay adapter which will allow me to mount it in a 5.25" bay because my tower doesn't have any 3.5" bays that are accessible from the outside.

My only gripe now is that the unit I'll be getting uses a tray and I wanted trayless, but at this point there really isn't that much available considering the thickness of my drive. Besides, I only have one other portable, but I have my Windows installation files on it and it's small enough to use with a USB 2.0 port. Maybe I'll also get a hot swap dock for 3.5" drives too. It'd be kinda nice not to have to buy enclosures for every new HDD I want to use externally.

When people add an orientation tag to an image but don't also add at least one other tag for what exactly makes the image qualify for that orientation tag. The number of male/male -sex images that contain sex is annoyingly high.

Then there's images of characters not doing anything even remotely sexual or romantic being given an orientation tag (particularly male/male). I know aliases are responsible for some of this, but still, a little consistency would be nice.

post #281905post #220857post #38062

I removed male/male from these because to me, these are friendly at best and the orientation tags don't cover friendly.

BlueDingo said:
I removed male/male from these because to me, these are friendly at best and the orientation tags don't cover friendly.

wha? firefox, load the pages when i open them in new tabs please. don't just open blank new tabs.

whatever, in the just 1st row of results alone i see 3 missing the sex tag. adding now.

angry and sad: how things continue to get worse over time in germany.

was looking through some news articles just now and saw this. yeah...might want to be careful if you live in germany (and the rest of europe if things keep going this way) and use social media sites like facebook (for that matter, why does anyone still use facebook?).

treos said:
(for that matter, why does anyone still use facebook?).

Them duckfaces ain't gonna spam themselves.

I find it annoying that Germany haven't dropped those old WW2 censoring laws such as with the swastika.

BlueDingo said:
Them duckfaces ain't gonna spam themselves.

Also if a friend moves away, since before we had guaranteed ways of communicating (letters aren't guaranteed), a friend moving could potentially be functionally the same as that friend dying (you have no idea how they are doing or when you'll see them again, IF you'll ever see them again). Social media has its downsides, but it helps prevent such things as losing a friend to long distance.