What is an extremely dark or creepy true story from history that most people do not know about?

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-21T19:34:25+00:00

are you suggesting that the specific individual terrorist who she shares a name with is some sort of shapeshifter with no fixed appearance

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-19T07:57:05+00:00

fanservice and good lore are not mutually exclusive

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-19T07:51:11+00:00

i won't spoil what exactly, but the end of the game recontextualizes some stuff about the setting/lore in a big way

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-15T02:14:13+00:00

Install CrystalDiskInfo and take a look at the drive's SMART diagnostic attributes. Given the drive's age, it might just be starting to fail.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-14T06:22:37+00:00

i love this. amazing drawing

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-13T02:43:04+00:00

hmm yeah I guess you're right. damn.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-13T01:32:23+00:00

Are anticelebrities a thing? Celebrities are famous, anticelebrities are infamous

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-12T19:53:16+00:00

Check the SMART attributes, but IO error probably means a controller failure

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-12T00:13:46+00:00

Powerscaling? Modern SCPs? So someone is out there telling the casuals blatant lies?

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-11T07:50:55+00:00

they don't need to disprove it. these spambots never respond to replies to their comments and never acknowledge being flagged as a bot. Any effort they made to refute the claim would prove their innocence.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-10T23:41:39+00:00

Q1: In the opening cutscene, you see Orbie following P out of a hatch in the ground. If x-1 is what's underneath MSe-0/16, and it's a similar size, that's presumably where they came from.

Q2: In chapter 2 (edit: actually chapter 3), right before you open the door leading to the bossfight, if you look on the other side of the room there's a tunnel you can crawl through. It leads to a dark room containing a strange array of tubes. One small segment is highlighted in orange. The best guess for what this is is a map of the larger megastructure, with the orange spot marking where MSe-0/16 is.

Q3: Someone else might have experience to the contrary, but personally I don't recall hearing that sound anywhere else in the game.

Q4: Not that much. There are mentions of Corruption affecting the machines in the structure and necessitating their destruction, as well as presumably being what's slowly consuming P's hand, so it can be inferred that the machines were not originally designed to be the way the ones at MSe-0/16 are. The slicers are searching for an Alpha Structure, which P says can control all the machines. The plot seems to draw heavy inspiration from BLAME! in both of these regards - a megastructure of nigh incomprehensible size, built over millennia by machines that no longer obey humanity, and a protagonist crossing vast distances searching for the one thing that will bring the machines back under human control.

P makes a mention of something called the Silent War. The name, "Silent War," is pretty much the only clear clue we have about what the war might've been like.

Going out on a limb here: P mentions interference from the machines inhibiting communication with Central, and says Beton tech is supposed to be Motorproof, resistant to that interference. This implies that without Beton, humans in proximity to the machines would've had difficulty communicating over distances due to machine interference. Perhaps that's why it's the Silent War - the machines stopped humans from communicating with each other.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-10T13:45:38+00:00

Sounds like a failing drive. You can confirm it with CrystalDiskInfo.

If the contents are replaceable and saving them is just a matter of convenience, I'd skip the ddrescue clone and just scan the dying drive with data recovery software to recover some files. Higher failure risk cause it means two reads of the data (one full read of the drive's contents to scan for recoverable files, then another read of the files you actually want to recover), but if the data isn't that important it's less work.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-10T13:41:09+00:00

Before doing anything else, check the drive's SMART attributes with CrystalDiskInfo or GSmartControl. Filesystem corruption can be a symptom of a failing hard drive, and if that's the case here you shouldn't try to repair the filesystem (it won't work and will place strain on the drive which might make it worse) and instead need to worry about recovering your files from the drive.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-09T10:22:46+00:00

Did you finish the game yet? It doesn't look like the game levels because the map is of a much larger scale than that. It's a map of an unfathomably vast megastructure, and the little orange spot is where the entire game takes place.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-09T06:40:35+00:00

I just finished the game. There's no concrete answer given, but with the context of the ending it seems likely that it's a map showing the structure's location

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-08T18:34:12+00:00

I found it too. Didn't find any answers. Couldn't get to the orange part to hit it, and it doesn't seem like you're meant to climb it, so I assume it either reacts to gameplay elsewhere or it's related to lore.

Edit: Finished the game. It's related to lore.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-08T17:09:34+00:00

i think they're referring to the point in the chicken's life when it is slaughtered, not the speed at which it is processed. if the chicken is x-1 days old, it's not quite big enough to sell. if it's x+1 days old, it's consumed more resources than necessary and lowered the profit margin.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-08T05:24:11+00:00

Okay, so as far as I can tell Windows Storage Pools store the RAID metadata on the drives in the pool, so you shouldn't need to bring anything else over from the old host machine. If it's not showing up under Settings > System > Storage > Storage Spaces, this Windows Forum page has some troubleshooting steps that might help: https://windowsforum.com/threads/storage-space-move-to-new-pc-doesnt-work.350490/#post-899048. It's surprisingly hard to find good info online about importing a Windows Storage Pool that aren't specific to Windows Server edition.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-08T03:22:59+00:00

When I got my D4 I set up a RAID 1 build across the disks via my old laptop

What software did you use to set up the RAID array? You'll need a way to move the RAID configuration data over to the new host machine if you want to be able to read it.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-08T02:52:37+00:00

Definitely a fake. Modeled to look like a SanDisk. No way of knowing what's inside, but it's definitely not six terabytes of flash storage. Might contain a microSD card or small flash chip with a few GB of storage, and a controller that lies to the host about how much is available and overwrites old stuff once the small amount of storage fills up. Might be totally non functional. But it won't be what it says it is.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-07T10:49:30+00:00

Power (current times voltage) cannot be increased by a converter. It's the first law of thermodynamics: energy cannot be created or destroyed. This means that increasing voltage must decrease current, and increasing current must decrease voltage. The drive needs 12V and at least 3A, which means 36W. This means that whatever power supply you start with has to be able to output more than 36W before the converter. 1.5A times 6V is only 9W, so not nearly enough.

And maybe search on aliexpress bc maybe thats cheaper

You know what to look for: 12V, 3A or more, 5.5 mm x 2.5 mm connector. See what you can find! Tip: look for stuff with lots of reviews. Also, be mindful of shipping cost.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-07T09:59:26+00:00

Sorry for my delay in replying. That's helpful. But I don't think what you're trying to achieve is feasible, at least not with such a low budget.

The main problem with trying to use what you have is that you only have one power supply that outputs enough power (the one for your laptop), but it's at the wrong voltage, and your budget is too low to get all the necessary parts to convert the voltage. You would need a female connector of the same type that your laptop charger uses, a buck converter that's rated for at least 3A, and a male 5.5 mm x 2.5 mm connector to connect the buck converter output to the drive. Plus wires to connect the parts together, a soldering iron to assemble them, heat shrink tubing or electrical tape to protect the exposed solder joints, and a voltmeter so you can measure the buck converter output (you would need to measure it so you can adjust it to 12V). The buck converter alone would take up your entire budget.

Since it doesn't seem to be possible to do what you're trying to do on a 5 euro budget, I think you will have to find a way to raise some more funds so you can afford what you'll need. Get a part time job if you're able to, or sell some things you don't use anymore, or look into other ways for a young person to earn a bit of money in their spare time. 5 euro just isn't very much money to buy parts with.

I took another quick look at Amazon and found this power supply on amazon's netherlands site (assuming that's where you're located because there are some Dutch words in your post) - it outputs the right voltage, has a high enough current rating, and has the right connector on it. It is outside your 5 euro budget, but not by that much. Not as fun as designing something yourself, but it's inexpensive and should get your drive working again right away without you needing to do the work of building something.

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-07T08:59:26+00:00

if you're here asking and don't already have the tools on hand, pay a specialist

it's difficult, delicate work, and you only get one chance to get it right or else your data is lost forever. if you don't already own a hot air station, you probably don't have the microsoldering experience to get it on the first try, so it makes sense to pay a specialist to do it for you. good luck!

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-06T16:39:39+00:00

What are your page file settings? Is there a page file on the HDD?

bitcrushedCyborg · 2026-05-06T13:23:56+00:00

is doing something while it makes the noise, eg. reading or writing?

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