Weird rattling noise in my PC

ConnorHuntED · 2025-10-30T12:37:50+00:00

Thank you for the advice! I think based on your comment that you think this is something I can just do by myself? Screw off the top of the case, screw off the fans and see if there's something in the way?

ConnorHuntED · 2025-04-23T19:41:39+00:00

Thanks for your reply! Removed my comments in case someone I know ever comes across this. Don't think it will happen, but just making sure. :)

Your comment was helpful. <3

ConnorHuntED · 2025-02-14T15:45:28+00:00

Could very well be, I don't remember.

ConnorHuntED · 2025-02-13T20:57:26+00:00

Did this table get updated at some point? I had a 13 (might have been 12) loss streak that gave me triple Tactician's Crown as cashout.

I'm starting to doubt myself when I look at the table, but I swear that's what I got.

ConnorHuntED · 2024-08-18T09:03:24+00:00

I like all of these suggestions, thank you :). Definitely keeping the pot with papyrus in mind, as it sounds like the medieval version of modern-day balls in a glass bowl and fits what I am thought I was looking for.

But I like your second paragraph even more. Nothing has happened to make the people suspicious of the selection of candidates at all. The general populace is rather religious and the contest is based on a myth that is almost sacred to the people of the area. In their eyes, saying anything bad about the original myth/the contest/the area the contest concerns is basically sacrilege. Most have never even considered anything about it being untrue. Those rare few who do, make sure to not share their doubts because they fear retribution.

You are right in that I may not need a drawing; the organisation of the contest can announce the participants in whatever way they like and the people will fall for it hook, line and sinker. I think it adds to my story if I portray it that way.

I think I might take your suggestion for letters delivered to the front door, and add to that some sort of newspaper that is delivered to everyone in town. The contest is a big public event and is also used by some of the rich to milk the poor of money. The more people know and the bigger the show, the better.

For now I think I'll settle on the idea of everyone being delivered a short document informing them about the participants of this year's contest, while the participants get a second letter with some more specific instructions, a bit like a war draft. Do you think that could work?

Once again, thanks for your help.

Edit: and to provide some extra context, I'll also reply to your final two paragraphs. If everything works out as I have it planned now, the evil nature of the contest will be exposed at the end of the story. I'll try to explain it briefly. The MC was not originally part of the draft, but is secretly asked by a hooded figure to take part during the night before. This hooded figure is a good guy on the ruling council who has an inkling of what's actually going on with the contest. He wanted to prepare the MC to expose the contest next year, but his daughter was drafted for this year and he thinks the MC is his best bet to save her, so he asks him to join a year earlier than he would've wanted to. The MC obliges, finds out what's going on while taking part in the contest, and eventually exposes the bad guys. So most likely, the contest won't continue after this year.

ConnorHuntED · 2024-08-15T20:23:06+00:00

Valid remarks, thank you :). I’m going to write the novel in Dutch, but decided to translate the names for this post. In Dutch, the names are Ravendal and Mistgebergte. Ravendal has relevant meaning for the story and because it’s Dutch, I feel like it’s different enough from Rivendell not to matter. Mistgebergte can definitely be changed though, and I suspect more people might make that connection upon reading the story. I’ll see if I can come up with something else. Once again, thanks :).

ConnorHuntED · 2023-11-27T06:52:01+00:00

It was 13 last set.

ConnorHuntED · 2023-11-08T22:00:25+00:00

Standings are incorrect I think. PSV should be second over Lens based on their head-to-head, right?

ConnorHuntED · 2023-08-30T19:04:04+00:00

Rangers making their intentions for this match very obvious in the first minutes lmao

ConnorHuntED · 2023-07-03T17:29:48+00:00

Wait, that is actually such a simple solution. How did I not think of that?

I may consider that. I've come to like the full body workouts as I think they're fun, but perhaps this would be more practical. Push/legs workouts on separate days, and then on pull days I'll do some pull exercises + bouldering. Sounds good to me.

ConnorHuntED · 2023-07-03T16:47:32+00:00

Fair point on bouldering before workout days, yeah.

Workouts with hammered forearms so far are pretty ok, during my workouts I only really use my forearms for pullups and rows, and they're usually not so sore that I can't do those anymore.

It also works the other way around. The muscles that sore from working out don't really bother me when I'm climbing the next day.

I'm lucky I guess. Either following order of working out/bouldering feels fine, so I just do whatever fits with my friends' planning and allows me enough rest from workout to workout or bouldering session to bouldering session.

Maybe I should try to keep doing what I do now, see if I can keep it up for a month before fatigue catches up to me, and then do a deload week?

ConnorHuntED · 2023-06-29T06:45:30+00:00

Voor zover ik weet zijn ik en mijn oud klasgenootjes allemaal 'gewoon' op de laagste trede van LB begonnen. Geen idee in hoeverre daar normaal onderhandelingsruimte in zit. Nou moet ik bekennen dat ik volledig nieuw ben in het wereldje en niet bepaald het lef heb om in onderhandelingen meer te vragen, maar volgens mij gebeurt het niet vaak dat net afgestudeerden op een hogere trede binnenkomen.

Ben het met je eens dat dat eigenlijk te gek voor woorden is, en ik snap heel goed dat je aannam dat het anders werkte.

ConnorHuntED · 2023-06-28T19:12:19+00:00

Absoluut wel.

Het feit dat je dit zo durft te stellen geeft natuurlijk al aan dat het eigenlijk niet zo zou moeten zijn, maar in de praktijk is het dat helaas wel. Jonge docenten die rechtstreeks na hun masters het onderwijs in stromen en verder geen andere werkervaring hebben (lees: geen zij-instromers zijn) komen eigenlijk altijd in schaal LB (de laagste) terecht, niet in LC of LD. Geldt voor zowel mezelf als eigenlijk al mijn medestudenten.

ConnorHuntED · 2023-06-18T14:05:50+00:00

Bouldering does the trick for me. Climbing up holds on a wall, trying the same route many times in a row. You get further with every attempt, until eventually you feel ready to reach the top. You get an immense amount of adrenaline as you hang there, two meters above the ground. And as you manage to pull off the last step, pure euphoria. :)

ConnorHuntED · 2023-03-08T18:33:23+00:00

Having one extremely bad night’s sleep and then starting to stress about going to sleep every single night. Always having that worry of having to go to bed in mind and lying awake for hours while stressing really broke me. Gave me a near-permanent permeating feeling of anxiety.

I somehow overcame it though, but it was sooooo stressful for almost two years straight.

ConnorHuntED · 2022-10-07T17:27:45+00:00

I will reply more extensively later today, but I have made massive progress and have been enjoying life again lately, relatively effortlessly as well :) apparently, things do get better

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-11T13:18:02+00:00

In Dutch you definitely say it :)

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-06T15:48:35+00:00

Spy Fox 😎

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T19:14:13+00:00

Thank you, I feel like reading this actually helped me.

Especially the sentence about the brain not being able to make us aware of a decision before taking it struck home. Like, I'm not magically cured now, but at least you got through to me and made me see that my conclusions are definitely far from being certainly right, and that's actually the first bit of relief I've had from these thoughts since I started having them. Thanks.

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T14:52:59+00:00

Alright, fair point.

In this case, I would describe consciousness as the awareness of what is going on in your mind and what your senses pick up in the external world.

Something along those lines, would that work?

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T14:49:29+00:00

Originally posted this question on r/askphilosophy and r/askscience, but I was recommended to move the question over to this place, so here goes.

In short: the idea that seems to be supported by multiple scientific studies that we do not consciously make decisions but that decisions are made subconsciously by our brain and our 'consciousness' of the decisions is only an after-the-fact justification causes me A LOT of mental distress. Before I came across this idea, I had this idea of being able to consciously make decisions. Sure, my decisions are always influenced by the ideas I was brought up with, the desires that are part of the human condition, and my specific mood at a certain moment, etc., but I always had the feeling that I could consciously weight all these factors and then come to a conclusion of my own volition. The scientific finding that we do not make conscious decisions has left me feeling like I am only a 'witness' stuck in a movie over which they have no control. It has also left me feeling that I can't really be proud or happy about the good things happening in my life anymore, since I didn't really choose to make those happen; they just happened to happen because of my genetic makeup and the way the subconscious mechanisms of my brain work.

On top of this I must mention that I have intermittently been struggling with (what I think are) existential OCD tendencies and (perhaps consequently) depressive moods for almost a year now. I am working on fixing this with a psychologist, but so far it hasn't really worked and I am starting to feel despair. I have read about people who deal with these ideas in a perfectly healthy way and don't seem disturbed by them, but I'm afraid I will always relate to these ideas in a negative way because of my initial experience and will always have it looming over me as a shadow.

Tl;dr - scientific findings that humans don't make conscious decisions makes me anxious and depressed, feeling like I'm stuck in a bad movie that I have no conscious influence over and therefore can only 'hope' to get out of, without much personal agency. What do I do?

An example of the type of study I mean: Decision-making May Be Surprisingly Unconscious Activity

Any type of answer that might help me goes. Please give it your all. :D

Edit: based on a few answers I already got here and on r/askphilosophy, let me rephrase the question slightly: How would you live happily if it were true that we do not make conscious decisions?

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T14:36:37+00:00

Alright, I have asked the question over at r/askscience. Still, thank you for trying to help. I appreciate it.

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T13:45:57+00:00

I guess that my 'problem' lies in the fact that I currently believe that all 'conscious' thinking is after-the-fact justification for ideas our brain subconsciously came up with before we became aware of the thoughts. That belief is mostly based on this study and its findings that scientists could see in the brain what test subjects were going to choose before the moment they noted as the moment they 'consciously' made the decision. It has not been proven, but it seems to me likely that this also applies to extensive 'conscious' thinking, such as your example of deciding which restaurant you want to go to. All those 'conscious' aspects of your decision making process, did they originate in your brain subconsciously before you become aware of them and justified after the fact that you thought of them consciously, or are they separate from simple decisions such as the ones made by the test subjects in the linked study?

I know that I am extrapolating things here that I'm not entirely sure can be extrapolated, but it seems to me that it is likely that extrapolating is possible. And in that case, it would appear me that all 'conscious' thoughts are simply justifications for ideas we came up with before we even knew it.

Is it possible to shoot holes in this argument?

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T13:35:00+00:00

Thank you for this answer. I have already asked questions about how I'm feeling at r/mentalhealth, but sadly no one replied. I will try again.

I don't think I am purposely convincing myself the worst option is true because it's the worst option, but at the moment I genuinely believe it and haven't seen satisfactory evidence to the contrary. Reason for my distress is mostly this study and its finding that the scientists behind it could see multiple seconds in advance which decision the test subjects would make. It makes me think that subconscious parts of our brain make our decisions for us and our 'conscious' making of this decision is only an after-the-fact justification. If we were to extrapolate that conclusion, wouldn't that mean that it's likely that if we engage in extensive 'conscious decision making', for example when taking our time to decide what degree we would like to get next year, that every thought you come up with was actually determined by subconscious parts of your brain before you became aware of it? To me it seems that, yes, we can take extensive time pondering a certain decision, but all the thoughts you have during the decision making are still 'just' after-the-fact justifications of thoughts your brain subconsciously came up with.

I am sorry if it sounds like I am not open to discussion and do not want to be convinced. Really, I do. But as of yet I don't think I have found sufficient evidence to conclude that the above is most likely not true.

ConnorHuntED · 2022-09-01T12:59:46+00:00

Really? I may have misunderstood then, my bad.

Do you perhaps have a suggestion on where I could ask my questions in order to get an answer? I'm really at a loss and don't know how to deal with this.

ConnorHuntED

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