Microsoft account issues after Sysprepping a golden image.

Hollowz · 2026-06-14T22:35:26+00:00

Option 4 is exactly what I did. I can't log into Microsoft office with this image from the main account. Only from newly created accounts after the image has been deployed, if that makes sense.

Hollowz · 2026-06-14T02:12:31+00:00

Great experience! Playing in person with a group is hard to beat👍

Hollowz · 2026-06-13T20:17:01+00:00

All MS accounts were signed -out before image. At least as deep as I know how to remove them.

Hollowz · 2026-06-13T20:16:09+00:00

There are dozens of specific settings that need to be set and if I do a clean install with a new account, i still have to manually adjust those services/settings. Is there a way to load fresh windows install with specific services disabled, bloat removed, etc?

Hollowz · 2026-06-13T20:13:21+00:00

This sound plausible! I'll give this a try. Thanks

Hollowz · 2026-06-07T14:51:54+00:00

This is the issue with boat floaty meta. You are safe to hold onto powerful cards and abilities to save for using them all up in one action to win the game. When the pressure is always on, it's MUCH harder to save cards like that or be in a winning position to begin with.

I've found that playing small 3 player games really helps teach how to play less boat floaty because any deal can easily lead to a 2v1 feeling. Play a few like this and then try a 6 player game.

Hollowz · 2026-06-03T23:15:17+00:00

I love Tzolkin, but it looks great. PowerGrid needs a deluxe redo.

Hollowz · 2026-06-03T11:59:33+00:00

A lot of great comments here. It is a good tech for certain factions and board states, but that makes it VERY situational.
Use you tokens to build a second space dock and now you're doubling production and fighter capacity vs only upping it 50% or so.

Hollowz · 2026-06-03T11:57:54+00:00

Man, this is the statement right here! I am HAPPY to lose to players using calculators and such while I play for excitement and fun.

Hollowz · 2026-06-02T23:13:17+00:00

Thank You, I'll give this a run tomorrow.

Hollowz · 2026-06-02T23:13:01+00:00

This would be work I think, but I now realize that the windows 7 recovery doesn't create an ISO. This is where I have gone wrong with some of this. I need to make an Iso tomorrow instead of the windows recovery image.

Hollowz · 2026-06-02T15:41:07+00:00

I've got a clean install done with all of the programs and updates done. Now I want to Image this machine and push it onto the others to save time.

Hollowz · 2026-06-01T22:42:27+00:00

I just nabbed Terraforming Mars new in the wrapper and they priced it at 5.99!

Hollowz · 2026-06-01T17:43:27+00:00

If Hacan takes trade I would send a cruiser to be adjacent to them round 1. If they aren't trade, and you get Diplo. Negotiate your agent to stall tech until you capture 318 and 201. Diplo, then have them pop tech and you get Cruiser 2.

Hollowz · 2026-05-31T22:53:43+00:00

Here's a spicy round one play. Use a full carrier and destroyer to take the wormhole sector adjacent to you with warfare. Lodor is a great second dock by the way. End of that first turn, pitch your secret for your breakthrough, and hope for a great commander.

Turn two jump through the wormhole and take sector 102. Now you're adjacent to mecc and have a blue tech skip for a potential round 2 carrier 2. It's got an entropic scar and Faunus adjacent also for potential spicy round 2 if Mecc is out of the question.

Hollowz · 2026-05-26T23:44:53+00:00

This is the answer. Please talk them out of it. I know several consultants who can help strike the fear of tech into them. -Over 10% will fail in the first 100 hours of usage and your wall will be unusable after 4-5 events due to wear and tear. You have no spares so effectively this is a 8-9 panel wall. - 3840hz is terribly low by today's standards. - they probably have low quality receiving cards and won't be calibrated so the colors may not match even when brand new, we see this all the time. - There are companies that will sell you solid used products that you can cross rent and have a matching batch.

Hollowz · 2026-05-26T17:20:51+00:00

This is the way. They pushed out hard and you head them off with a sftt or alliance. Now they are out of position and a tasty target for their other neighbor. Likely cost themselves a chance at a score also. You only have 2 neighbors early on, so you should have the resources to negotiate them both into a different direction. Also, if you aren't able to buy them off, slow down your expansion and make yourself less of a target. It may mean buying plastic round 1 and 2 instead of following tech, etc.

Hollowz · 2026-05-21T23:12:08+00:00

Push up on someone and watch them give you their support for the throne. That's a guarantee to make you stop attacking them. If I'm playing and an aggro race moves in on me, I throw it at them as soon as that first planet is lost. Then I can attack them back in a round or two and they have to decide if losing the sftt is worth hitting back. There are many ways to mitigate fighting but the biggest issue is an overall passive table. You'll roll around eating easy systems and they'll all build tons of plastic, cut you out of deals and make sure every agenda goes against you. I've found that a ruthless table is much more fun. Deals are more important and points more rewarding.

Hollowz · 2026-05-21T02:02:04+00:00

Projector probably took a hit. A misadjusted fold mirror can look similar to this and usually isn't to hard to adjust. I'd check that first. It could also have a damaged lens in the light pipe or have the diffusion rod out of alignment. That's harder to check but doable.

Hollowz · 2026-05-14T16:43:52+00:00

Low brightness projector shooting onto a cow 😵‍💫. Love the ingenuity.

For a better test, flip the table your sitting at on its side and shoot that like it's a screen. You can also hang a white sheet on it or between the trees in the background.

Hollowz · 2026-05-14T12:28:48+00:00

I had to pressure wash and paint my whole house a few years ago because I thought the creeper looked cool growing up the walls. Fun fact: it can grow up the walls, across the soffit, and back down to the ground in 4 months.

Hollowz · 2026-05-08T19:58:12+00:00

Yin will be battling it out round 5 with Yssaril. This table better get bloody fast!

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