train of thought (DXGI, Veilguard)

 Now that I reinstalled windows and for 90 minutes used the default AMD (no adrenalin) driver,

did stuff work?

Yes.
But I should use the lastest AMD driver(s), right?
And make my customary tweaks.
So I did.
Veilguard crashed in around 60 seconds.
I thought maybe to roll back the driver, but that seemed too drastic.
I got rid of my settings ("chill" and the frame limiter)
And stuff seems to work (famous last words).
But for now, right this exact second, I'll posit that frame limiting within the AMD adrenalin settings is a bad idea.
DXGI has its own frame-limiting program, which I don't know how to use, but if the game is tweaking it, I must be messing it up. 
This sounds great until it crashes again, so OK.

This next bit belonged to a more wordy blog, but I erased it.
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/motherboards/i-know-tariff-related-price-increases-are-a-thing-right-now-but-a-usd1-371-motherboard-might-be-pushing-it-even-if-it-is-extreme/

My style of DIY PC might be too pricey these days. 

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The gossip around forums says that T-Mobile saves on their electric bill by turning the internet speed down nightly.
Whether or not that's true I wouldn't know, because T-Mobile never mentions it, just blames you.

Without touching anything, speed returns on the cellphone and the modem.
The only thing is that speedtest eats into the usage-allotment, but
Wild guesses are my specialty.
Are they hobbling hackers who work their magic at night when they wear their little hoodies?
Is it "Peak time" when most people are on and I've eaten through my allotment because of my reinstall?
I vote "allotment" but even when I roll over next month I'll be afraid to use speedtest.
If only there was a more tiny test that only checked a few hundred bytes.
Anyway (the rumor says) it's from midnight to 6AM, but I really would not know.

judgmental (Crystaldiskinfo)

 The last time I talked about "crystaldiskinfo" a woman railed against depicting girls,
And let's just get that out of the way: without reading the entire site I don't know why but maybe they're his kids, although they'd be all grown up now.
Maybe it's the whole anime (insert Japanese phrase here) craze.
It doesn't matter.
The program is mostly unreadable, and only idle people without a lot to do, *guess* at the values.
Here are two examples. one of them is a demo picture, and one is mine.
There is no way you could possibly translate the hex number into something readable, unless you own the book on inscrutable numbers and numerology (numberitude)

13d and 145, and both are supposed to be fine.
Mine sits waiting so I'm not getting an accurate reading when it works, but people say it could be on the hotter edge of "70" and still be fine.
Yeah, now tell me how to translate "44c" into "13d" (It's kelvin, see below)
It sits blanketed by my enormous and fat video card. It has a retail heatsink.
I honestly don't know,
if it lasts a year and doesn't melt or burn up, I guess it's fine.

Plus, it (the reading) Always seems to be "44" which makes me think it's decorative or something.
"Vendor-specific," say some, meaning that whether to add a sensor is up to vendors.

Temp is in Kelvins (oooooh.)

A utility (a typical one) might not differentiate between ATA and "NVME", like western Digital does (different numbers for different types)
And they actually have their own (prolly unreadable) utility.

Critical warning! (But it's in Greek)
Length 1 (1-what? byte?) 

the above picture (the 00x00) rivals Wikipedia in opaqueness, which is odd considering it's a critical warning.
Bit 00 (left to right or right to left? Binary or hex?) (why the double zero's?) 
0010 (Guessing) means at some point the drive got too hot.
Maybe they mean four bits, each of which can mean a different dire warning.
Save whales, conserve space!  

"13d" is 317k is 43.8C, but it hasn't changed so it might be for show.

winre (Brain-deadness)

Random terms that might mean nothing:
DXGI-Flip: it's the greatest thing since the light bulb.
Tessellation ( See "Flip")

Disable both and see.

The video shares the Wifi slot.
IS it remotely possible...?
I'm forcing "pcie-3.0" just 2b shure.
But that means I have to reinstall the pariah POS game.
(Because I uninstalled it, don't be thick)

No! 

It's a useless endeavor.
Everything on "low," underclocked bus, and anyway, let me edit in here that "Avowed," the near-equivalent game, runs fine, cheats and all.

I'll totally guess here that Veilguard is just a tad too biased towards Nvidia graphics. Which could mean that someone somewhere knows the AMD-equivalent settings, besides "Low" and "Off" and "Unworthy"

I get the whole lack of confidence in my hardware, but I shouldn't, it performs well.
No, it's a setting, a pissant of a setting with movie-star charisma.
I just haven't found it.
I'm seriously considering ripping out my M.2's and replacing them with 990-pro's, but that could just be performance anxiety (plus I love to buy stuff.)
Will Korean tariffs fuck up prices, should I buy now, knowing that sandisk mostly sucks? (or whatever US brand ("Crucial"?) I'm thinking about that fails reliably after a few months)

I chose a different way. (IDK) 
It's not the money, not really, it's how reviewers kept carping about their defective 990.
I have a 970 and a WD black (770? 850) 
The 970(pro) is methuselah, and the 850 is just hoary.

Who knew names had celebrity status...I forgot. 
Well, I bought an 850x, God have mercy on my PC.

I'm as flabbergasted as you
that I bought the same thing
 only newer and bigger.

Unfortunately for me, I, uhm, have very little experience combining multiple drives into multiple partitions on a single drive, and google is reassuring (after it tries to sell me on partition software) but I have doubts, questions.
WILL the new drive be aligned?
OMG
Will it even work with the freebie windows-image software, or will it kick back an error message?
Do I need to format the new drive or do I let "image restore" do it?
Omg, Omg...

It's gonna ask me, do I want to use the original Partition table, I just know it...o crap. I'm not sure, OK?? Maybe "no" because I'm not cloning anything.
It's free space is huge, compared to the old ones, and maybe not-quite twice as big.
Well fucket, damn the torpedoes and etc, I'm sure I'll be editing this tomorrow evening (or so)

But for now, it's nice to know if a drive has to be prepared.
The guys explaining this in forums usually cuss out the questioner and give different answers, depending upon the forum.
*Usually* people recommend a different software package besides windows.
I actually own "PartedMagic" but I can't remember why or if I need it, 

on the dvd-rom (which isn't hooked up.)
It would be fantastic if windows would know what a blank SSD looks like, but I get the feeling that it does not.
At minimum, a disk needs to be MBR or GPT, and this is the part (in theory, so far) I'm stuck on.
Plus, two 1tb ssd's might not fit normally onto a 2tb ssd, because the numbers don't really jive. 1024, 1000 or 996? 
Once this system is down, I'll rely on my phone for answers, and hopefully that will be enough.

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Those Liar

First, The new drive says it is 

1800 gigs. 900*2.

Second, windows won't use the image because it says that I don't have enough drives!

It also says I'm short of space.

Buying another drive to make windows happy, seems wasteful. So ok, I'm up a creek for now.

Force a d: partition maybe?

Clonezilla only reads clonezilla.

But a bright sunshiny page claims that you can mount and read VHD things, which are what image uses, I think.

If it's so obvious someone else would have brought it up.
Windows gets suspicious behind all that sparkly goodness, someone watches closely.
So it died trying to copy to my C: drive, and it's doing slightly better on the D: drive.
But the problem is, the registry is gone, like an attractive girl with a lobotomy.
I wonder if it will help "veilguard" run better?
Point being, everything must be reinstalled, redownloaded.
Don't use windows backup, save yourselves.
But my most important files exist, or most of them, anyway.

OK this won't make any sense, because if it did, I would not write it.
"Windows recovery Partition" is voodoo straight from a black book.
the ID for a recovery partition is umpteen digits long,
And the type of partition is too.

...

sudetenland (and stuff)

 

There apparently is a reason I remember the word "Sudetenland" after waking up.
Where it was and who wanted it can be googled.
Anyway, theoretically speaking, what makes a despot's day and what makes him an admired figure worshipped by milllllions, is a big-assed "glorious" war.
You get extraordinary powers, you can suspend the day-to-day laws,
and become a supreme commander.

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Round up the yada-whoever's and kick them from your country.

(and stuff (To Be Continued)

Random republican nut:
A fox news graduate, a troll or ???

 https://www.post-journal.com/life/viewpoints/2017/08/beware-the-boogeyman/

"Whatever you believe or can conceive" googled results.
I'd have more but I don't think pithy thoughts I can google easily.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1j4vz8a/watch_the_exact_moment_john_roberts_realizes_he/

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I kept combing through these older blogs to find an older remark on Bill Maher.
The guy makes a living off of opinions. 
I never found my entry, I must have erased it.
I do that from time to time, erase stuff.... to my sorrow, sometimes.
They're ALL gems when I write them...
Anyway

https://www.cracked.com/article_46987_bill-maher-who-was-once-fired-by-abc-supports-abc-firing-terry-moran.html

It's OK to have an opinion as long as it's an approved opinion.
So if a person has an opinion, and posts it on "Social media" they can fire him?
A scantily clad video, a politically incorrect(tm) opinion, or any opinion at all?

Stick to opinions about "the hottest videos on social media," getting rid of bags under the eyes.

notes on the perfect food

 

Whoever wrote that REEElly hates bologna.
I'm wondering why my body is having pains right now, and this is only a note.
(IOW, will the pains disappear in a week with no bologna??)

They prolly should add communists love the cancer-causing stuff, and sad puppies die after eating it.

grrrr

The mob is at war with the cult.
I get stuck on all the proper nouns.

Mob->cult->Mr. Big and his brother.
There's kind of a puppet government who doesn't like things smuggled in, it (prolly) eats away at their taxes and import duties.
I just happen to be looking for a smuggled item, and I need help from the mob, who needs help against the cult and Mr. Big. (and vendettas)
No one trusts anybody, rats and stoolies everywhere.
It's like, gangs and turf wars. O...k.
Then there's random civilians needing help to get groceries from the very bad neighborhood.
I get to shoot random thugs of some gang or other, and then it's business as usual. taking subways and crosstown-busses to meet pissants at some bar.

Everyone everywhere has italian accents

"hello, I'm yada-whoozits, formerly of the magister whoozits"
(Is there going to be a test on this?)
I don't know anyone, anywhere. 

Trump should hire the people making puzzles for this game.
It would take a genius several days, and everyone else should brush up on googling skills.
https://www.ign.com/wikis/dragon-age-the-veilguard/Through_the_Shadows_Walkthrough

"Wemod" made him immortal.
Disabling "wemod" killed him in less than a minute.

Deeeeep thots (reddit)

 This could take a while to write, pardon my dust.
Or ignore it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeworkHelp/comments/1jfu1az/1st_grade_math_how_can_you_describe_this/?sort=old

Get some people with an obsession to jaw on about absolutely anything,
Or,
Read my blog and despair that there are no comments.
People will wax philosophical about anything.
Using many words.

It's a trick question.
Many say "No" (it cannot be proven) as a pithy and meaningful answer.
Or being the supercharged genius first-grader you are, you could

• draw a numberline
• Convert ONE of the sides (so it isn't both sides)

uh.....

I ran outta steam.
rewrite 4+2 to 5+1 (says someone)
If there was a vote, no one would agree, and anarchy and chaos would ensue.

Dictators would dismiss the question and fire the questioner.
Then they could dictate the answer.

I flunked math for many reasons but this one deserves recognition
(Math is written by these guys)

5+2=4+(1+1)
Who the hell invited Parentheses?

I'm not up on my emojis but this guy loves his own answer.
1st grade math doesn't include variables nor parentheses, does it?
I'm guessing this was a small lesson,
 to teach you to understand _______,
and the "_____" was edited out to turn it into a trick question.

Some teacher who talks like one, wrote the below.
Unfortunately they touched on several unexplained concepts.
1. Parentheses in First grade

2. "make a ten" Her words have no meaning.

3. "commutative" "Algebra" which, us being bots full of microprocessors, will know about one day (We'll be einsteins)

doubles facts?

I got a good one, but it's politically incorrect:

Teach currency, change, "Make a dollar" (add coins to make a dollar)
Give change from a dollar.

There won't be any calculators or registers close by, you'll just have to know about two nickels making a dime, four quarters in a dollar. 
I wouldn't actually know who gives a fuck about "Associative" but throw in parentheses for the hell of it. a*(b*c) is the same as (a*b)*c so what's with the fancy-assed jewelry? a*b*c, fucket.

Pedantic a-hols, "Minuend" "Subtrahend" and ten zillion other terms no one uses

(Vinculum)

Word of the day:

"Demiurge" which (in context) is a cute name for a writer or an artist.

Wiki has a thought, but it's in greek.

People get mad at stuff they categorize as "woke"

But I'm one-finger typing on a phone. So no links yet. Please stand by.

https://movieweb.com/snow-white-rachel-zegler-controversy-is-racist/

https://www.outkick.com/culture/little-kids-parents-walking-out-trump-hating-snow-white-remake

Lots less relevant (zzzzzz) 
two viewpoints

As far as "Snow white",

Theaters are creepy (creepier) 
And white people condemn Columbians (they're not white enough)
I think I need editing.

Lawyers richer than god bow down to trump, as will everyone else if they want anything good for themselves.
So me and my teeny little blog do not want to invite Sauron, it's bad enough with gossipy neighbors.

Licks

But I had a point, I swear, only it got all self-edited.
Kamala Harris, Snow White (would fail against any white)

not that it mattered;
 they lavished love on the five or six states that really matter (not yours.)
And once they assimilate all the judges, Voting will be a fond memory.
But yeah Harris Lost, White did poorly.

(Ignoring maybe that musicals are so 1960's)
(They should'a picked Anne Hathaway,  
It's racist to call a person "Racist" rather than conservative, hmm)
This needs work.

Miami residents in the sixties picketing to remove the "Nigger" from their neighborhood (on PBS) 
People have evolved since then. 
Not "She's a woman" but "She wears glasses, has a brain injury, was mean to her workers, she prolly wasn't born here, sold stock, has a basement, hates babies"
And what power-hungry nut wants to endure that?
They've got it down to a science, aided by AI.
Fucket, we're screwed, nevermind.

dirty train

 Train:
Why so many cartoony sex games just assume that the characters enjoy stuff in their backside.
Train:
"American Me" (an old movie)
an ex con returns home, and eventually wants sex with the wife.
She becomes horrified as he rolls her over and proceeds to lubricate (U no where.)

Caboose (as it were)
sitting on the john expelling what feels like concrete, I didn't enjoy it or fantasize about it, and blame you all for tossing labels around like candy. FOAD, labelers.

That one and maybe Shawshank Redemption are more truthful.

GATES II Fat Tuesday

 A high up lady in the news had an ashen cross on her head, or I thought she did.
So I looked it up and yes, fat Tuesday was Mar 4.

What the hell day is This?
Well anyway, my excel budget says I have enough for another game, which of course is clearly impossible.
It miscalculated or I did.
O by the way, none of these blog entries are ever read, except one I wrote last month about games.

Along those lines, I should, I Will, change the title.
But to what?
"Gates" of something.

TLDR skip down to a video about safe-for-internet (and the neighbors) risqué games.

I loved watching her lips move, and her form-fitting knit-top is to die for.

I can justify the game, if I write a blog about it.
"Uncharted Lost Legacy"-something, which was a bing result of an inquiry for a game played by women.

 (My reading comprehension is sinking, my math skills died long ago, and (o yeah) my memory is terrible.)

"Uncharted Legacy of Thieves."
I'll never know in a zillion years what most people mean by the word "Legacy."
I'll never know why loooooong reviews about how a person hated a game, matter to anyone.
I'm taking a chance on a game no one ever heard of, because Bing said you like it. 

But I haven't picked up on the Lingo yet.
Terf / Anti-Terf /militant? OK I can't keep typing labels and you know what yours is, But my point is, I am very wrong asking a search engine what "women" like.
("Women protagonists with nice butts you can stare at," is prolly illegal though)

"Sapphic space" is a life-puzzle, where half the endings are either terrible or bad, and one or two good. Did I mention the puzzles?

You play a computer with no arms or legs, to a woman who does very little that others don't direct her to do. Answer correctly, keep her spirits up, survive life choices. The end.

(Link)

Independence or sex?

Long video from a famous lady about women (I think) 

"Uncharted" looks a lot like a typical goodfellas movie so far. Guys getting shot at in prison. 
Maybe I better double-check the title.
Parkour and Puzzles, nonstop, if you don't count the cinematics.
Don't do exactly what they say and it's death.

I'd say that I hate this game and stop playing, but The reality would be that I'd be out of too much money without anything else to buy.
So for now, this is it.
Games you go through like homework assignments vs games you enjoy until they're too boring to repeat.

• What game should I buy
• Why do my choices matter to anyone (video game choices)
• Do my written-down game preferences violate internet rules (Eye color, etc) because they would go against someone else's preferences?

No I'm not going to write anymore about it, the video says it nicely.

romantic memories

 https://www.beltone.com/en-us/articles/whooshing-sound-in-ear

Logic dictates that there are no gargantuan but far-away highways, no ocean waves roaring at the bottom of a really high cliff.
Science sort of ruins the mood.

If you only hear it waking up from your dreams, does it count?
I used to think it depended on the weather.
On Very warm or on rainy days, the whooshing travelled farther.
It's like waiting for a bus next to a Walmart parking lot, close to some freeways, if you were wearing earmuffs.
My other misconception was that tinnitus sounds like a test-tone they used to use on TV at 3am.
Not like a day at the beach.

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I wanted to find out why TBD network moved to a fox channel, and discovered
-Sinclair Network is supposed to be conservative
-Deceived the FCC
-(Tried to "sell" stations to close associates)
*People Like biased news, as long as it's conservative.
So many things to learn, I prolly didn't catch it all.
TBD will become "Roar" soon, anyway.

Old news for some.
TBD used to show kitty and puppy videos,
Now they're more edgy (lol)
The clipped news article is old and only part of the (old) news I read.
Anyway...

maybe "avowed"?

 

If you can even see anything in that dinky picture, It's supposed to be people walking into a room, in the predecessor to "Avowed" which jaded-gameplayers seem to dislike.
People recommend this game, pillars of eternity.
People who must've been in hospital waiting-rooms, IDK, it looks absolutely awful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/avowed/comments/1ipraz8/why_theres_a_lgbt_tag_on_steam/
So what I read somewhere was some random diss, there are no girls to kiss (I guess)
Anything not soldiers bundled up with gigantic rifles must therefore be too gay,

And the story is generic monster fighting.
What makes a generic monster-killing, mountain-climbing game memorable anyway?
Everyone has their own idea.
I don't like cabins in the woods where the undead come to attack relentlessly unless you have a flame-torch to burn them away with, genre.
And if the highlight of the game is getting into a car or riding a horse, forget that too.
Do chatty people want to drag you into some piddly quest?
I literally ran away from these characters in (um) whatever I am playing now.

• Go get the milk for the old lady who can't go to the store
• Along the way, meet the homeless guy desperate for a hamburger
• (get the scratcher from the hamburger place)

• Miss your bus to go to the doctor, he's closed when you get there, and your life slowly ends (the end)

"CRPG" is a word I need to look up, as well as the name of the game (Horizon forbidden-west) I'm playing now.

"!" is usually an indicator I avoid like the measles, and wifi messages to drop in on some town to try the meat.
Beeeecause, inevitably I'll get entangled in some piddly quest that forgets about the main quest (e.g., your doctor appointment)

What?

O!
"Avowed"
IDK. Maybe all the shills are betting on a discount or a sale, but since they already got the game free, I fail to see the point.

The reddit thread I linked to has a few posts who say they are anti-woke, and passes "Avowed" as OK for Anti-woke people.
As opposed to a game I never heard of, "Veilguard."
Int..eresting.
Is it cheaper than "Avowed"?
Are the characters teeny stick figures? 
Wait, I gotta go look.

Pink and purple, never a good sign

The most bombastic blog-entry in the world, ever, for all time,

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/1gjuqm8/my_objective_review_of_the_veilguard_as_a/

I'm avoiding my main quest, which is, picking a cheap game.
I should get back on track.
HOW MUCH is "Veilguard"?
If (for example) it is 59.95, I'll buy Avowed.
But if they discounted it to please Musk-fans, I'll try it (maybe)

What would (insert woke/anti-woke hero) buy?

"tenderqueer earnestness"
And how do you feel about that?

I still don't know, even after the bombasts,

what either game is about.

IDK... not enough B&W kill choices?
Since when does buying a fucking game declare your sexual proclivities?
I'm righteously pissed.
Fight the intolerant assholes!!
(And stuff)

Olive-oil lore 

vs 

Canola Lore.

I like Canola (FOAD, Olive)

But maybe...I'll try "Avowed" first, since I can't get a straight answer about plots.
Can you kiss the princess or not!? (Geez)

If you like Beets and Brussel sprouts,
you'll LOVE asparagus in Crawfish pie.

I don't think I said that right.
"Kingdom-come" was awful. Period.
I still own it, I'll never play it.
Farmer's slowish kid rides to a castle (Why is this supposed to be good?)
"Wanted something more" are you kidding?
Squid-flavored popcorn.
Kimchi on liver.
Someone somewhere just loves those things. 

Lancelot (senor Balles) falls in love with Princess Decollete

and slays mighty dragons to please her.
Does she get a clue or does she give him a limp hand to kiss and some ceremonial sword?
Decollete is under the spell of the mustachioed Fallas.
Lancelot is mortally wounded.

(O well) c'est la vie

So far, Avowed is OK.
Assuming I haven't forgotten some bill (it was a hefty $70),
or chosen the wrong character type,

or missed out on some attribute point (dexterity vs intelligence, etc)
I like it, kind of.

To write this I had to stop, which disables my cheat-trainer, and I'm not sure yet which cheats to train.

But I'm confused so far. Someone is trying to kill us?
(Everyone, yeah, but someone from the mainland sunk our ship)

Insert Meme here

My character *could* look vaguely like someone if I knew what the slide controllers did.
I think I messed up the cheeks.

I'm too tired to play, but so far It's OK.

https://www.reddit.com/r/avowed/comments/1izu4uz/can_we_talk_about_that_ending/

Jumping to the end (Please stop reading,)

I disagree with the reddit fans. They *Like* the optional ending but they label it "Creepy," "Dark."

Now you already know that there are several prominent characters who happen to be trees.
"Delemgans." 

There are several other animated plants but these guys are regal and apparently know history.
What's so wrong with turning into a plant, assuming the speech that the goddess makes at the end is literally true?
If it's a metaphor for squeezing you tightly with love and companionship, nevermind.
But I think it's literal, and very romantical.

It's not nice to fool with mother nature.

My only question is what the hell to do with all the crap they make you collect.
Also, I'm hiding behind being a fighter, bcuz being a mage sucks.

Couldn't I be a noble-born mage / soothsayer and still kick butt??

I walk around in a black jumper. I guess that's OK, hmm