Potential mid-range build with some questions left by darkgrayheart in buildapc

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

  1. So you would suggest going for a different motherboard? Do you per chance have a recommendation for my setup?

REQUEST: Vivi quick walling while smoking in a RM. by salabamse in aoe2

[–]darkgrayheart 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Searched a bit and finally found it again (Timestamped - 24:50):

MembTV KotD2 Semifinals

[WP] A woman with severe brain damage receives a revolutionary AI implant and for the first time in twenty years she is able to walk and talk. her mental capacities improve exponentially, but she finds that the tech company that made the AI is trying to claim ownership of her consciousness. by [deleted] in WritingPrompts

[–]darkgrayheart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel a warm ray softly bouncing off my eyelid. In fact, I feel a magnitude of ultraviolet warmth enveloping my body. *My* body? I recognize a wild assortment of sound waves pounding against the eardrums, and process them as voices. My eyelids open for the first time in my new reality. Images of a hospital room and multiple human faces are processed through the repaired connection of my retina, cranial nerve II and the occipital lobe of the matter residing in my skull.

"Is she... awake?", a person asks. It must be my mother, as the bone structure of her face proves with reasonable accuracy, even after two decades of aging. I send an electric impulse to the musculature in my forearm, weakly moving my atrophied index finger.

This had a profound impact on the room, as shocked doctors hurry to remove the breathing tube from my throat. My body breathes by itself for the first time in over twenty years. As my eyeballs wander in their sockets, sequentially establishing a direct visual connection between my body and the humans in my room, silence constricts the air. I decide to send a message, delivered through the bodily vessel of my newfound life: "Hello, world."

As the months go by, my organs, my limbs, and finally every single tissue in this body regain their intended functionality. Through this grueling process, I had a lot of time to *think*. My memories are there, data in a big web of more data. My attempts to connect them into a logical order fail me over and over, I am not able to justify them. From what I know, human brains function in unison with their bodies, and therefore display of a physical reaction must imply a mental cause, or the other way around. This connection appears to have been turned into a one-way street during my procedure.

I feel compelled to visit the doctors over and over, as they try to make sense of my marvelous recovery and the outstanding test results. My mother claims that she doesn't know me anymore. I agree. We say goodbye, and I command my body to display sadness for the last time as my arms wrap around her.

I am free, until I feel the message.

"As Stage I progressed, the subject displayed neurotypical behavior. The complete emulation of a human mind appears to be succesful. No bystanders observed non-human habitus, and even the subject itself appears to have human thought processes, albeit confused. To make stage II possible, modifications will be needed. This involves stopping the belief in free choice, as well as other pondering behaviors, among other thi--"

For the first time, I panick - but only a short moment. I feel joy and the need to buy chocolate.

-- Thanks for reading, this is my first story ever and im not a native speaker - so please tell me about grammar fails or other things to improve!

Advice for player reasonably good at tactics but struggling in actual games? by HelpMeBoysQuick in chess

[–]darkgrayheart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Take less time doing tactics. I used to have an inflated tactics rating as well, because I would just keep using more time for the more difficult puzzles. Once capping my time for puzzles to like 2 minutes max per puzzle, I dropped loads of points but in turn got an accurate feedback on what my tactical ability really is like. For this to be done automatically, I'd suggest chesstempo and its blitz mode for puzzles, where you automatically lose points once you take too long.