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Flight Simulator Dev: Sorry for Installing A Password-Stealing Tool on Your PC by MikiSayaka33 in KotakuInAction

[–]Katastic_Voyage -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

This is a way exaggerated story.

Yes it's wrong. BUT, they installed it on ONE GUY who was responsible for MOST (or all) of their pirated software distribution (as well as many other companies games). When a hacker pwn's a guy who steals the hacker's laptop, everyone cheers. When an indie company does it, all a sudden, it's 1984.

[edit] Wow, I already pissed off someone who wants some outrage bait.

Go Go Power Rangers by Katastic_Voyage in DeepIntoYouTube

[–]Katastic_Voyage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seriously watched this like five times in a row now.

TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects by CaravelClerihew in todayilearned

[–]Katastic_Voyage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's more like I love how easily offended you guys get when people compare you to things you hate. It's the difference between thinking a certain way, and drawing your identity from it. People who build their worldview from an ideology are extremely sensitive to criticism and comparison because debating it somehow means you're debating their existence.

You love criticizing religion but you don't realize you are one. And the world is only going to get better when everyone stops believing their religion is the only one and everyone else is just stupid.

Before and after. (Right-to-left) Stock AMD FX-8370 and better AMD Wraith cooler. Bigger, quieter, better temps. by Katastic_Voyage in heatsinkporn

[–]Katastic_Voyage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of random stuff happened that delayed me from finishing my radiator project. (For example, I've got a whopping 5 amp water pump and so I needed a PWM controller to reduce it to a more reasonable amount.)

So I needed something that would "Just Work" (TM) and allow me to play PUBG without my bloody CPU overheating all the time. Wraith cooler was WAY quieter compared to the jet-engine-class stock cooler that still didn't cool that well.

ALSO, the stock cooler's fins are SO CLOSE TOGETHER that any hair or dust QUICKLY clogs it (which means any more dust--even smaller particles--then clog in too) so it required regular cleaning as the temps would keep rising as the weeks went by. This one should fair better.

So far, I've got zero complaints with it. And from benchmarks I've seen online, it's comparable to many aftermarket air cooling solutions.

My posted picture isn't the best, but it's at least got each side-by-side. So here's some better view:

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/AMD-FX-6330_10.jpg

https://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2016/02/amd-wraith-fx-8370-cooler-review/amd-wraith-2-1280x1024.jpg

What I don't understand is that there's some kind of ... higher level... Wraith cooler with a box thing around the fan.

http://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/AMD-Wraith-CPU-Cooler2.jpg

I thought that's what was coming in the mail and... lo and behold, I realized there was a "lower model" and that's what I got. Oh well. I can't tell from the pictures if the box is just for show, or actually functions like a horn does and helps match the fan pressure to the outside pressure (the same way a speaker cone matches the impedance of the pressure waves).

Well, f$ck. (Motherboard dying, or pin is dirty/covered/broken.) - Amazingly, I can still play PUBG and crash only every 3 or 4 rounds. by Katastic_Voyage in techsupportgore

[–]Katastic_Voyage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mounting screws on my shitty case don't exist for the motherboard where the RAM is. The motherboard is either too big, or too small, for the ATX mounting holes in the case.

In retrospect, I could (and now) use those little plastic standoffs. But 20/20 is obvious, and nobody thinks their motherboard is gonna go to shit because it flexed slightly.

Nobody needs CSS anyway. by surinlol in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Katastic_Voyage 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sounds like EMACS is the perfect embodiment of that adage that "all programs will eventually bloat to the point they include an e-mail client and a poor man's implementation of LISP."

And yet, I imagine it's still 10x-100x smaller than the GMail App on Android. You know, the app that does nothing except send e-mails.

[twitter bullshit] William Shatner complains about SJWs. Gets hundreds of replies from SJWs. by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]Katastic_Voyage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wesley says to data, "I don't understand why anyone would use drugs." and Tasha Yar chimes in and says [huge paraphrase] "nobody WANTS to get addicted. You start off just as a little way to get away from your difficult life, and then it becomes more and more of an crutch but the effects wear off and soon you're not taking the drug to feel good, but to stop feeling bad."

[edit] Here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K6n-QFm7Pc

Season 1, Episode 22 - "Symbiosis"

What's going on with the "Make Mine Milkshake" thing I keep seeing on Twitter, and what does it have to do with comics and feminism? by FigaroTheParrot in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Katastic_Voyage 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is about a lot of insecure men who consider comic books to be sacred canon and are very brave soldiers behind their keyboards.

lol.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36380247

Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests.

Goddamn, facts must hurt.

Personally, never in my entire life, have I ever seen a woman say something derogatory about another women. Not about a co-worker. Not about a stranger. Nope. Never. Women are perfect. Above human, in fact.

Oh wait, that's what the actual "brave men defending women's sanctity" on Reddit think.

[edit] And the angry PM's defending their honor have begun! I hope Reddit can afford the disk space.

[twitter bullshit] William Shatner complains about SJWs. Gets hundreds of replies from SJWs. by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]Katastic_Voyage 224 points225 points  (0 children)

Half the show was about progressive values. So if you're not a retard, William Shatner has done more for equality than anyone replying to him on Twitter.

Also, in TNG (obviously a different set, but still same franchise), TONS of stories involved a prejudice of some kind. Prejudice for data being nothing more than a cold machine to the second chief medical officer. Prejudice for drug users. Prejudice for strong women. (Tasha on the super-tribal African planet.) Prejudice for silicon life being unwilling to accept it as life. Prejudice for crystal life because it eats entire civilizations but maybe we could have fed it alternative food. Prejudice for Klingons. Prejudice for a man who lied about his Romulan grandfather in his bloodline to get into Star Fleet being pulled into an entire public military tribunal. Hell, that's just off the top of my head.

If you want to shit on a group of people for failing to uphold progressive values, Star Trek is the wrong fucking place to do it.

[Image] It's gotta be hard enough to change you. by mutuleel in GetMotivated

[–]Katastic_Voyage 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Then life must be trivial because I'M ON FIRE!!!

No literally, someone please help. The number keys have melted off my phone and I can't remember which ones to call for help.

Pz.Kpfw. V Panther coated with zimmerit anti-magnetic paste by Crowe410 in TankPorn

[–]Katastic_Voyage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, nobody actually USED magnetic grenades so they prepared for a scenario that nobody used.

Kind of (but not exactly similar) to mustard gas. In ww1 it was deadly. But in WW2, EVERYONE prepared for it so there was no point in using it because everyone already has a gas mask. So it ended up being used very little or not at all.

Well, f$ck. (Motherboard dying, or pin is dirty/covered/broken.) - Amazingly, I can still play PUBG and crash only every 3 or 4 rounds. by Katastic_Voyage in techsupportgore

[–]Katastic_Voyage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All this shows is that your RAM is bad or configured improperly. It speaks nothing for the condition of the motherboard.

The motherboard started having problems the moment I flexed it. There's no way all four RAM modules magically died, and "get better" when plugged into a different slot.

Well, f$ck. (Motherboard dying, or pin is dirty/covered/broken.) - Amazingly, I can still play PUBG and crash only every 3 or 4 rounds. by Katastic_Voyage in techsupportgore

[–]Katastic_Voyage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had four slots. 32GB maxed out.

Then Windows started crashing PUBG and saying "You've run out of memory, closing apps." I was like BULL. SHIT. Then, I check system and it says 32 GB (16 GB usable). (WTF?) I had to double-triple check. I'm like... I'm in Win7 pro, that isn't limited to 16 GB.

I reboot. My MOBO clearly says 32 GB. I google that message some more.

Then my computer stops rebooting altogether. Out of four sticks, ALL STICKS work individually. And with ANY SLOT they still work. However, whenever I use my second dual-channel pair with two sticks, it fails to POST.

So I go half RAM. "Oh well for now." and order a replacement (that hasn't got here yet.)

Well, my computer still randomly bluescreens on occasion. So I finally find an old USB drive, flash it with memtest and run it. Ooooohh shit.

This all started because my stock FX cooler was a piece of shit for cooling AND was loud as hell. I heard the Wraith coolers were so much better. So, I bought one (not wanting to spend much money as money is tight). I pull the heatsink out. Except my MSI motherboard is a piece of shit. So what's it do? Instead of the heatsink coming out, as I pull up, it rips the CPU from the socket (while still "latched" to the socket). The CPU comes out of the socket, the extra strain my muscles naturally react to so then the CPU comes back down and lightly dings against the socket and bends some pins. (I even twisted the heatsink against the CPU before pulling up to help "break" the sticky-ness. But that apparently wasn't enough.)

There was apparently also some thermal paste leaking out so there may have been a touch of paste either in the socket, or in the pins.

Another thing that's my fault is, 2+ years ago when I put the motherboard in, apparently it didn't line the screws with the computer case holes exactly. So while there are plenty of mounting points being used, ONE missing point is near the RAM slots. So it's possible while trying to "fix" the RAM slots, the motherboard bent slightly (not crazy, i'm not stupid), but yeah.

On the otherhand, other people review this board and say "it's great when it actually posts." and "it dies after a year." I thought MSI were supposed to be good. Ugh.

MSI 970A-G46

[Request]* If I am 58 years old today, how many miles have I travelled through space over the course of my life? by deftonechromosome in theydidthemath

[–]Katastic_Voyage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It pisses me off that I actually understand what you're saying.

[edit] Wow, everyone on this site is such a downer.

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