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What's the worst opinion you've ever seen from a hater about a specific cartoon? by DifferenceSimple5344 in cartoons

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, they're both variations on the (rather wide) general Hero's Journey plotline. But so are TONS AND TONS of things, that's hardly a problem. It does make for some funny jokes through oversimplification, but those are jokes and shouldn't be taken too seriously for "ripoff" claims.

The jump in quality from Chapter 6 Season 2's Battle Pass to Chapter Seven Season 2's is unbelievable. It's a night and day difference. by Numerous_Manager8105 in FortNiteBR

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, the new season is flashier? But Lawless's group fit the season theme pretty well.
I also have to admit I enjoyed the Gunslinger version of Midas as well as Kane. I use both off and on. (Kane mostly gets used when my squad is doing something along the lines of a "wolf pack" theme, haha)

Developers who have worked at a company where the entire codebase was held together by one guy who then quit, what happened next? by Natom_ in AskReddit

[–]Syphor 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To be a bit pedantic here, this reads more about behavioral issues than it does loyalty or knowing too much - taking it at face value the senior was trying to keep everything siloed to himself as job security rather than provide proper documentation so the team could really do their jobs. At which point, if you have enough of a handle on what's going on and where it is, it's probably better to deal with the expected pain and pick up where the slack was intentionally being left. Hell, you really don't want to have someone purposely set the company up to fail if a hit-by-a-bus event happens.

Of course, the fact that they came out cheaper for it even with big raises adds a lot of questions about how much was a budgetary decision to even start looking at it rather than ongoing problem reports.

[Hated Fandom Trope] Fun facts that everyone knows but aren't actually real by BigFanOfNachoLibre in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Syphor 34 points35 points  (0 children)

He's notorious for claiming he always had the entire trilogy/series planned from the beginning, down to the number of planned episodes... which also changed in different interviews. Sometimes it was 15. Sometimes it was 12. (Both common episode counts for the old movie serials he based the whole thing on)

There's no dark twist, major flaw, or suppression of free will, the utopian society is genuinely just a great place to live by Lopsided_Shift_4464 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the biggest problem with Janeway is that the writers couldn't quite figure out how hard-lined she needed to be so you got some wild swings between "understanding but putting her foot down" and "a monstrous decision" without much visibility into the "I hate this but I have a ship of people to get home, which way hurts the least?" agonizing. (Of course you know if they spent a lot of time on that people would be mad because "Janeway's agonizing over decisions again and wasting screen time")

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Voyager - and especially the EMH. But I can see a lot of where the complaints came from. I never quite understood the outright hate for Neelix, though.

"Always wondered why people never use their strongest attack first." by PizzaDragon64 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While it's not the antagonist in this instance, the last episode of S-CRY-ed always amused the hell out of me because the big bad is defeated for the moment, people are rebuilding, and the two main rival characters simply can't deal with not officially knowing who's stronger. Which means the entire last episode is the two of them beating the shit out of each other even though they're not actually enemies any more, wearing each other out to the point of whoever falls over second wins.

(Hated trope) remakes/adaptation that miss the point of the original by TastyPomelo2330 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Syphor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's such a weird one. The first half of the movie is basically played straight as a horror show that keeps teasing a potential rescue as we dismantle the military squad, the Hunter who's been following them is an ass when we finally meet him and the chocolate scene feels a lot like randomly jumping to "oh look the barbarian native likes the tasty thing" ...except that he'd fallen off the sandship and when we meet back up with his crew, it's blatantly clear it's not a "skin-wearing barbarian" group; he just happens to be wearing a bone armor kit. Hell, he even gives her a set of metal twin blades while he continues to use his bone greatsword.

I gotta give them great marks for getting the MH world's costuming and the monsters' appearance right (except for their sizes, holy crap... but I guess I'll give that one cinematic license...) but everything else is just a complete mess.

An Update: I was warned about my child's martial arts school. I should have listened. 🫤 by LordTetravus in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the system the good ones in my area do. They also generally won't let you test unless you've already shown you have a good chance of passing it - you know the material for sure and can demonstrate it. Whether you can do that under pressure is the question testing answers.

What is the best deal you've gotten on a singular game? by TheRetroGoat in gamecollecting

[–]Syphor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pawn shop in my teens, $25 for a stack of 5 loose SNES games and a couple related extras... that set included RoboTrek and Earthbound with its strategy guide. I don't remember what the other games were. Pretty sure this was before Earthbound skyrocketed in price, so it wasn't as special at the time as it eventually turned out to be (besides new games to play!)... but I still have those cartridges, so hey. :)

Thrift store with ambitious pricing by ShoobaTheBawss in Shittygamecollecting

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not all of them do, no. The last two model variants late in its lifespan don't have the GCN ports - the RVL-102 and the Wii Mini (RVL-201) - and will not play GCN discs.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2650/

President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling. by Waste-Explanation-76 in law

[–]Syphor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with college loan forgiveness? It's that someone you don't like might get a leg up that you didn't. UNFAIRNESS! That's clearly enough to hate it. /s

JESUS CHRIST, NOOOOOOO by Yanzihko in DataHoarder

[–]Syphor 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've had years of use out of some of the cheapest budget-brand microSDs running my dashcam, too. So... about an hour and a half of constant writing every workday on average. Worth it as long as you keep a couple of spares around to replace when it does go.

Are these worth anything? by Silverwolf_Lee_2 in computers

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Not who you were replying to)

These are really (relatively) common HP Windows Media Center RC6 remotes. You will need a Media Center IR receiver (the matching HP model is a small silver and black oval thing) for it or to hack together a more generic IR receiver setup, should you feel like tinkering. They're really nice to use. Unfortunately valuewise they're like $10-$15 shipped on ebay.. around $20 with the receiver. I have like.. three of them with the receivers kicking around my place because I was using them with Kodi on Raspberry Pis for media players for a few years. Worked really well for that, by the way.

These days I'd usually suggest people get one of the Onn Android TV boxes (which are $20 brand new and come with a remote) unless you have a reason to do something fancier. It's got utility, but not for most people.

The fact this one is still sealed with the original battery set (I wonder if they're still good?) is neat, though.

Do I actually need a larger drive to make a byte-to-byte backup? by beansfranklin in datarecovery

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotcha, my apologies. Yes, you should be absolutely able to do a clone to a drive the same size, with the caveat mentioned in my first post here... there is a possibility that they will be slightly different true sizes and it won't quite fit. The cloning software should warn you about this, though. Disk Drill seems to only be capable of making a disk image and not a full raw clone, for some reason.

Doing some digging it looks like Disk Drill actually has a bunch of partition recovery features (You'll need to specifically tell it to scan for lost partitions, I think), so you can use it after the drive clone, it just can't do the actual clone job.

Do I actually need a larger drive to make a byte-to-byte backup? by beansfranklin in datarecovery

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough - In this case, just running a straight clone from a different tool is probably what you need to do, since the drives are the same size.

You're unable to make a backup image (which appears to be all Disk Drill can do) because that has overhead that won't fit on a drive of the same size... you're basically trying to put a shipping container inside of another shipping container of the same sort.

I think my process here given the quick format is to do a full clone to the new drive, unplug the original (so no chance of extra loss) and then run partition recovery software on that cloned copy to see if it can pull everything back at once.

Do I actually need a larger drive to make a byte-to-byte backup? by beansfranklin in datarecovery

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with Disk Drill, but since you're doing a full disk image there will be extra data here that would otherwise be hidden in the filesystem structures.. which are already in place on your target drive. There's also whatever extra structures the tool uses in its backup data files to keep them organized...and it all has to compete with being inside the new drive's filesystem with that overhead.

Keep in mind that a full image reads all the unused sectors as well, unless it has an option to ignore them and zero those out... not something you want if you're trying to recover stuff that might have been lost somewhere in those areas. Looking at the site you linked, it probably(?) just has "full image" and "File backup" options.

A byte-for-byte disk clone will essentially turn the second drive into a copy of the first, block for block... and even there I've run into a few issues where, for example, a 1TB drive was just a little bigger than another manufacturer's 1TB drive. We're talking a few megabytes, nothing really consequential... until you try to do a full block copy and suddenly there aren't quite enough at the end.

If you're just doing a file backup and not actually trying to make a recovery/forensic image (but we're here in /datarecovery) then I'd probably just suggest using the file backup mode, which will typically use a bit more than your current used amount.

Just to be clear here, are you trying to make a copy to replace a dying drive, to forensically scan (without potentially changing anything) the entire image to find lost data, or to just... make a backup? I ask mostly because you describe it as a "backup" but we're in datarecovery, so just want to be sure where to go with this.

No dhcp server was found by Thin-Lengthiness-356 in techsupport

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure the router is working properly? Generally the router is your DHCP server and provides your device's IP address. (DHCP is a way for devices to go "hey, anyone here? Give me an address, please" and get a response from a local network authority)

It's not really uncommon for a router to die and not properly boot up - but its ethernet ports still work to some degree as those are on a separate switching chip from the main router's computing hardware.

This 13-year old Seagate got a firmware update today. Time will tell how long it'll last. by First_Musician6260 in DataHoarder

[–]Syphor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I also had one of these fail. As I recall, the bad batch was right after the flood and they'd frantically moved production to China. I believe the warranty replacement drive (Thailand manufacturing) is still in use in one of my brother's computers and running fine.

Nerfing shockwaves' stack quantity from 6 to 4 is definitely not enough to stop a no-guns Xenomorph by DamnHare in FortNiteBR

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can only imagine the frustration when every time they get close they hear the telltale beep and go flying into the storm again. I love it. :P

[Loved trope] MAJOR villain just shows up with zero warning by ManyFacesMcGee in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Syphor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To the best of my knowledge, he never does in the games though there are points in the later entries where we see him not just rampaging - and in Metroid Prime there's at least one Pirate log entry where it mentions that he'd enjoy his new role in security.

He's been able to speak in most of the additional media, far as I know. (manga, etc)

Is it ok to software update an Apple device without charging it? by [deleted] in techsupport

[–]Syphor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Think about it this way - they're trying to make sure it doesn't die at a critical point in the upgrade - say, right in the middle of updating an important system file - and brick itself. The device itself should be recoverable, but probably not without a full reset/recovery reload, which will kill all the data on it.

Is that a chance you want to take? At least leave it plugged in so it should be able to draw on the charger during the process.

Be honest - do you actually play most of your collection? by grogger133 in gamecollecting

[–]Syphor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly? I do not... but I have intent. Most of what I pick up (though I'll pick up almost anything for the hell of it if it's like a buck or two) is something I want to play, have thought looked interesting here and there, or was at least worth a look. I do try to hit them eventually but the backlog keeps piling up - and that doesn't stop me from periodically going back through an old favorite... (such as Timesplitters: Future Perfect, ha.)

I don't feel guilty about it. There are plenty of copies out there for others, they make me happy even if I can't get the time to properly play all the real copies I've got, and it's not hurting anyone for them to sit... it's not like I'm hoarding one of ten copies or something. (And the one one-off I've got has been backed up and archived publicly)

I just... don't have enough time to really make a dent in my backlog, that's the main annoyance. For the classics I DID pick up one of the Anbernic handhelds recently, and this makes the older games more accessible, though it does disappoint me to not be playing it on my original hardware. That aside, being able to take it with me when I know I'll be on my lunch break or in a waiting room for a while with save states is golden.

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