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Nothing about the Epic store has interested me, and by forcing my patronage to their store, those games also become less interesting to me. What really bothers me about the Epic Store is that the allure was first made in that developers could use it to offer games cheaper for consumers, and instead developers decided to go exclusive and keep the entire profits for themselves. Yeah, it's their choice, but also enough to cause me to say I don't care about their games right now. And if I have to wait a year to play them, I probably won't care about their games ever.

I'm still here, Jefe!

I'm more and more convinced that the only reason Trump is the leader of our government is to show us how fucked up and broken our governmental system really is. For years, I used to tell people how it would only take a corrupt person to get into the highest office to show how messed up our system is, and people ignored me. Now, they'll still ignore me, except they'll claim they always knew it and will act like they were saying the same things way back then. I also predict that instead of holding him accountable, they'll choose to just run out the clock and do absolutely nothing to fix the system when he is finally gone.

So, has Fearless Leader explained how this Space Force is supposed to get to...um...space?

I still love the comic that was done of the rover, trying to prove himself useful so NASA would come back and get him. First time ever a comic brought tears to my eyes.

I notice the default response is "yeah, but what about Obama?" except when Obama obviously did something a lot better. Then it's dead silence.

I did, but it can easily be argued that I'm never in my right mind. On the real subject, I bought a Honda Insight brand new because it was the first year in some time that the car was being offered that was also a hybrid (the only type of car I buy these days). I really love my car, and I would have bought it used if it had been available as such.

At least I know enough to know what should or should not be happening, and my patience with customer support is just enough to realize when I'm not going to get any of the assistance I need. This weekend is the first time I've been able to start using the computer, and it was nice. It's just sad that a computer I bought in the beginning of December finally got to be used (not in its finished form) in the second week of February.

Wow, after all of this time, I finally got my computer running. Paid a bit of money to get it repaired (lost complete trust in Cyberpowerpc.com. One bad turn after another. Anyway, a local repair place was able to fix the liquid cooling system problem (I will NEVER buy a computer with that type of system in it because it was the one thing I couldn't fix on this computer and ended up being the biggest complication I've ever gone through with a computer ever). Right after they fixed that, the video card, of course, didn't work as planned. Being a 2080, it is one of the 50 percent that fail after a short while of working. So I have to send that back, YET the box to send it back won't fit into any UPS bin, which means I have to find a local UPS drop off place (as two UPS Store locations refuse to send anything with an RMA that they can't charge for...yeah, no kidding). Anyway, I bought a Nvidea 1070 and stuck it in the machine to at least get some of the quality of this machine up and running, while I wait for the card fiasco to play itself out. I'm thinking of just throwing an older 1080 Ti into it and forget about this new version from Nvidea until they finally fix the problems. Or I just might wait a short bit for the new AMD card and throw it in instead.

This whole thread was fascinating to read, right from the start. Granted, that's about a week and a half I'll never be able to get back in my life, but wow, that was fascinating to read, just to see how so many people just weren't understanding what was happening as they were living.

Wow, I can't believe this shit show is still going on.

Never said she saw the light. Just that she's using the stupidity of Americans to continue spewing her nonsense.

I was gonna guess Alaska. I mean, you can't throw a Russian grenade without hitting one of those things there.

No, we're a horrible country when it comes to learning from our mistakes. The run up to 2020 is already an example in how we don't even think through the week before before planning for the week ahead. And as long as we keep getting people who will pretend to be all things great yet are actually in it for their own personal power (kind of the definition of every politician ever), we're going to be stuck with people out for their own interests. It's kind of what I hated about the run up to both Obama and Trump. People basically turned off their bullshit detectors and started serving nonstop Kool Aid. We got lucky with Obama in that he turned out to at least have the right motives in mind, or at least enough of them that coincided with positive outcomes, but we most definitely pulled the slot machine the wrong way with Trump. Even today, the sycophants who sided up to Trump are starting to see the light, such as Ann Coulter who says she was a "stupid girl" as if that somehow made it all right. For reasons that make little sense anywhere else but here, she has a base that listens to her. And they're going to listen to her again because they're stupid and she's somehow "redeemed" herself by writing an apologetic tweet. So, 2020 will happen again.

Yeah, learned my lesson the hard way. Well, two of them. First, I'm never going with anything but air cooled. At least then I could have fixed it myself. Felt like I needed to be a plumber. Second, build my own. I just thought it would be nice to have them do it. Big mistake. Sure, you can get lucky, but it definitely looks like they profit mostly by putting bad labor into high end quality systems. Won't do that again.

The one positive is that a lot of these paycheck deprived people is that they'll get paid almost immediately and up until the next shutdown.

I can introduce you to an even worse one, but so awesome. Go on Youtube and type in MGTOW. You'll never stop being amused (assuming you're not a fan of that movement already, and then, I'll just silently go back to my corner). I came across this when doing further academic research on ASMR (another guilty pleasure to see the rabbit holes that one goes down), and I subscribe to a bunch of them cause of how meta I find it.

I've completely stopped using my Facebook these days, so not happy with this. I'm tired of Facebook being the default "don't want to use an email, then use us instead" application. I was looking at someone's picture the other day, and it immediately forced a sign in to Facebook (where I haven't signed on for a month now). Was not happy about that.

All of that sounds AWESOME. So, yeah he looked at the computer in much more detail now, and it turns out that the pump ruptured, fluid spilled everywhere, and basically ruined the power supply. He recommend I send it back to them to do as it was a bit expensive to fix, but I'm so tired of dealing with this, so I told him to fix it. He's also replacing the power supply with a Corsair brand as it turns out the power supply that I originally bought with it was really crappy. So, it may be until next week until I see it (they have to order the specific parts which take a few days to arrive), but then, hopefully, I'll have a brand new high end gaming computer. Next time, I make my own. Simple as that. On another subject, what's the recommendation these days for virus protection for the computer? I know back in the day (not that long ago), the recommendation was to stick with Microsoft's installed protection, but I kept hearing stories of how it's gutted and doesn't work as well. I've kind of lost track of that area of info. Also, any other little things to add to a brand new system? I've got Office, so I'm good with that. As an aside, the tech said when he first saw the computer: "Don't see many high end systems like this. Graphic design or games?" Mostly, it's video editing I want it for, but I just said: "Gaming." He nodded. "Same here. What game you playing these days?" My deadpan response: "Microsoft Solitaire." I got that infamous Heath Ledger/Joker, not sure if serious look back.

They wouldn't do it. Cyberpowerpc is incapable of feeling or showing any guilt or pity. And I've gone the supervisor route. There's never one there, and they have to call me the next day. Guy called me and was the worst customer service person I've dealt with in ages. Rather than send it back, I brought it to a repair shop in town (that has a lot better facilities than my apartment and people I trust) and had them take a look at it (yesterday). The first thing he noticed was the smell of liquid immediately; my ability to smell anything is kind of messed up after years in the service...kind of both a good thing and a bad thing, but a whole other story. He thinks something ruptured (like the pump), but he's taking a look at it now. Waiting to hear from him. The one good thing I know is that they're not going to charge me an insane amount. My bigger concern is if he tells me that it would be too much for them to fix it, so he would recommend me sending it back. Then I'm back to that original problem of having to send it back and wait weeks for it to get back. The problem I've discovered with Cyberpower PC is that they have a history of kicking the can down the road with computer systems, in which they don't do a really good job repairing anything.

If I don't get my wall, I'm taking the whole damn country down with me.

Turns out, I was able to solve the problem of power by resetting the motherboard. Unfortunately, the computer has a new problem since getting power. The liquid cooling doesn't seem to be activating, which means it immediately overheats. I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, but unless there's a broken pump, I'm at a complete loss. I also have zero experience with liquid cooling and am really kicking myself for throwing in the extra money for liquid cooling when I should have just stuck with air cooling as it's so much easier, more reliable and would not be leaving me in a world of anger right now. Thinking I'm going to have to somehow box this thing up (UPS practically destroyed the box, so I have to find a box for this monstrosity soon) and send it back to only have them have to send it back to me again.

I actually did. I paid quite a bit to get a bunch of upgrades to quality equipment. Part of me suspects that my real problem is that I really went with high tech, as I looked into the system and noticed it had all sorts of tubes and stuff that caused me to think, wow, this isn't the type of computer we used to make. To make it worse, I couldn't diagnose a way to fix the problem, which is absurd in my opinion.

This cuts right at the core of Trump because you know he's looking forward to an opportunity to address the nation and have the whole focus directly on him. She just took that away from him because he needs her permission in order to address Congress. It's the one institution of government he doesn't actually control.

So, finally got the computer last night. Doesn't work at all. The power button does nothing. Plugging it in shows there is electricity flowing into it (the insides light up a bit), but nothing starts. No motors turn, no fans start, nothing. Part of me thinks it might just be the start button itself, but all attempts to figure out what's wrong with that have proved useless as the system appears to be designed to cover up practically everything, so I can barely see anything significant to the problem on the insides. The worst part is that I have to send it back to them, and when UPS delivered it, the box was wet from the rain and a whole side of it basically was too wet to salvage (meaning I don't have the box to be able to send back, and it's such an absurd size (30x30x15) that I may not be able to find a box to replace it. I'm so frustrated right now. The biggest problem is that I added so much extra stuff into the system that when I looked at the insides, it's not like anything I've seen before on a system's insides. Had tubes and all sorts of other components that just made me feel like I was a teenager with his first computer. Woe is I.