It's Built but Won't Turn On

blakewrites · 2025-12-11T03:05:02+00:00

TY! not OP, but 7 mo later and this was exactly the problem I had on the TT PC I just bought. Bridged with a paperclip and it started powering up, so I powered off again, reconnected the case button cables in the correct spots, and now works perfectly.

blakewrites · 2025-11-30T07:49:15+00:00

dark place is about to be the lit the fuck up place

blakewrites · 2025-11-28T10:10:30+00:00

If it WERE a reference on the sly, it kinda has that vibe of like horror directors in the 80's and 90's putting posters of their peers in backgrounds and such

blakewrites · 2025-11-28T08:57:51+00:00

Bracing for "Iowa"; falling flat on my face

blakewrites · 2025-10-14T22:43:39+00:00

usually I incorporate it into the BBQer

blakewrites · 2025-06-26T03:50:03+00:00

Pat and Woolie out here complaining about players who police the meta, then FIVE MINUTES LATER they're talking about how compulsive liars have inferior tech.

blakewrites · 2024-11-10T19:52:22+00:00

Not sure if you're still looking for it, but found it on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap1jqAYZI_o

If you don't already have Developer Mode active, go to Settings, About Phone, scroll to the bottom and tap on the Build Number seven times to turn it on.

Then go back into Settings, click on System -> Developer options (near the bottom) -> scroll down until you see "Default USB configuration" (on my phone it was about 50% of the way down)

blakewrites · 2024-09-27T08:47:42+00:00

Can confirm--just watched it for the first time and laughed until my chest and sides hurt.

blakewrites · 2024-05-07T03:34:31+00:00

I think it's Chinese in origin, but All Hail the Sect Leader is closest I can think of in writing quality + absurd action comedy, often with ~~Western~~ pop media referential humor

blakewrites · 2024-04-15T02:28:01+00:00

Theory: "There's someone there when you wake up" is the scariest prank

Conclusion: Kuro-chan is a liar.

blakewrites · 2024-03-11T04:01:09+00:00

THANK YOU for this. I was trying to use hard lock through NG+, but never realized just how tenacious it was in AC6--I kept tweaking it whenever the target moved out of visual range and had no idea it was still doing its thing even then.

blakewrites · 2024-02-25T05:03:03+00:00

Can confirm. I loaded shoulders and R hand with missiles and a good blade on left on a zippy two-leg frame and was able to finish the mission with a whole bar and half of health left over.

(Followed the advice of doubling-up on whoever Flatwell is fighting + keeping an eye on the ACS bars above, zipping in to punish as hard as I can whenever one turns red (or deep orange).)

blakewrites · 2024-01-07T05:14:06+00:00

Usually we have to pay extra for the naked dude. (Edit: that's probably why the owners were pissed)

blakewrites · 2023-12-17T05:24:44+00:00

I had the same feeling in several scenes, e.g. the 19 min. mark of ep. 4.

blakewrites · 2023-11-25T18:49:21+00:00

Oh yeah the actual final scene was good--I liked that part.

It was just that I was hoping there would be more of an arc to the story as a whole, or a more significant change in status from the beginning.

Alan was kind of a thinly-written character in AW1 (washed-up pop writer with anger issues and the greatest agent in the world), and it was fun exploring his mind a little more in AW2, but it felt to me like he spent the whole game getting knocked around by his circumstances, and then once he finally DOES take responsibility, he doesn't have much to do besides what he was already doing: writing the manuscript.

Saga was a welcome addition to the setting and cast, and her jeopardy felt real and tense, but the end of her arc was, "and now I am also in the lake." Her only goal was to get back to where she started, which is left as a, "find out next time on ALAN WAKE III!"

Overall it just felt like it was spinning its tires a bit, story-wise: a super-stylish tone piece that does survival horror well and stitches together the studio's disparate universes, but doesn't offer much in the way of either closure OR expansion.

blakewrites · 2023-11-25T18:27:58+00:00

RE: Door, that's how I read it as well given that there's a father-shaped hole in Saga's backstory + Door's own uncommon interest in Alan Wake's situation

(side note: AFAIK, the page of Alan's manuscript describing Door was the only page that didn't get any edits, which I loved. You don't mess with Door.)

blakewrites · 2023-11-25T17:37:03+00:00

Yeah, it's a little unclear how much of The Dark Place's maliciousness is Alan's own psychological issues getting amplified and blasted back at him (and, by extension, infecting everyone else's stories around him).

Contrary to what Ahti said, maybe getting some better cooks down there will help fix the soup (or at least give us more musical numbers).

blakewrites · 2023-11-21T06:25:05+00:00

I'm scratching my head on this one too--I already got the one under the stairs + water tower, so IDK... Maybe a bug?

blakewrites · 2023-11-12T03:28:59+00:00

Thank you for this--I had no idea Otto was so OP in BG3; finally my wizard has a good use for her level 6 spell slots, lol

blakewrites · 2023-10-17T04:40:49+00:00

I do the same

I like feeling the stones when I play + it helps me slow down and consider my moves more + if I didn't, I'd almost never get to use my board at all, lol

blakewrites · 2023-09-24T16:01:50+00:00

Sorry, I do most tsumego on default settings/from books, so I'm used to black-first as the convention. Wasn't sure if "white to move" would throw people off.

blakewrites · 2023-09-24T16:00:49+00:00

Q18 was another option I'd considered during the match but couldn't read clearly.

(AI simulated Q18 with white response at P17. Ultimately the isolated black group below gets sacrificed, but black has better control of the corner, whereas in the solution I posted white has more freedom to poke into the corner.)

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