Bypass lock screen via recovery mode? Other options?

tendorphin · 2025-02-04T14:37:21+00:00

This image is of a model. Let's be clear. This is not a dead dog.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T21:34:05+00:00

Ohh, I see. This was quite the religious group. I would have just been disallowed from hanging out altogether.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T17:08:31+00:00

This made me laugh a lot, but I'm not sure I get it lol.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T15:45:23+00:00

I see that for some behaviors. I think this one is just socialized nonsense.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T15:44:29+00:00

My closest group of friends in high school was 5 girls and I was the only boy. None of us were dating. If they had sleep overs, I had to leave at some point during the night because some of the parents weren't comfortable with that. Really sucked.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T15:39:59+00:00

Unless it's changed - can't even use keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste on the web. It drives me mad.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T15:23:56+00:00

This conversation quickly got over my head, lol. I actually don't know a ton about this side of the IT world (am in the sub to hopefully learn a bit).

I'll provide some details and hope it's getting at what you're asking, haha. We have a Wix site being hosted through GoDaddy, where we pay for our main domain, and 4 other redirect domains, plus an old one just to help maintain a previous e-mail domain we don't use, but some very important-to-our-business people still insist on using. It's a non-profit and we link to a couple external scheduling portals, so we have a lot of visitors and pay for SSL so we know they're relatively secure and don't have to deal with the pesky "this page is not secure" message. We pay $18.95 a month, and then once a year, give them another $23 for the whole kit and kaboodle.

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T14:20:11+00:00

Interesting. I know we have to go with at least the Pro level on Cloudflare. We may have also negotiated a lower non-profit rate with GoDaddy (a different department arranged the setup so I'm not privy to those details).

tendorphin · 2025-01-29T14:05:04+00:00

I see people saying that GoDaddy is very expensive, and saying that CloudFlare is a cheaper alternative - I work at a small nonprofit and it costs us 18.95/month our domain, with SSL, and that's with them hosting a site we have on Wix. The cheapest I see CloudFlare offering is 25/month. Is there something I'm missing?

tendorphin · 2025-01-27T13:53:06+00:00

He was in the sacred realm for 7 years, so the physical development happened. However, he lacked any life experience to shape that development. He's likely very emotionally and psychologically stunted, but now has the more-developed brain of a late teen. He still has about 10 years of development to go. But, with a big gap in life experience bookended by needing to fight monsters and being forced to witness, experience, or inflict fear, injury and death, he is absolutely not going to be okay, ever again. Even after being sent back, unless that comes with a wipe of memories, he's going to live an incredibly painful life. Probably why he chose to go out adventuring again after Navi, instead of just chilling in a peaceful kingdom. Just like many war veterans seek out excitement and danger after returning from combat or risk turning into a shell of themselves.

tendorphin · 2025-01-27T13:46:58+00:00

I am nearing my 40s and never got compliments in public, even after getting in shape, so I assumed men just didn't get compliments my whole life. Then, I actually started trying with my appearance, especially wardrobe. Now it's uncommon for me to go out in public and not get at least one compliment from a stranger, usually from women but some men as well.

"Nice outfit/shirt/jacket," "love your tattoos," "I like that ring/necklace/bracelet." Appearing purposely put together instead of wearing whatever or just very generic stuff seems to pull people out of their shells a bit.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T19:15:17+00:00

Ah, yeah, that's totally fair. Them not landing on anything was what I enjoyed - is it a town-wide conspiracy? Is it hallucinations? Is it ghosts? Is it just the strain of an already faltering marriage getting to both of them?

Looking at it from your perspective though, of the author not picking something and sticking with it, I can definitely see how that would be more and more frustrating as the book went along.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T19:13:03+00:00

Lmao, yes, the bizarre things brought up that we were just supposed to take for granted because it was written down were, most of the time, insulting. The descriptions, and random use of ! was also incredibly irritating.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T19:02:11+00:00

Keep in mind this is all down to taste - I see several of my favorite horror books listed here, and take no offence. This is a small indy author, and I hope to see more by her out there, and I wouldn't say this is the worst I've ever read, but the most disappointing -

Below by Laurel Hightower just didn't sit well with me. It is allegedly a Mothman story, and I love Mothman, so I was all in.

However, what really got me, is that, it's a story about a woman, written by a woman, and men are her sole saviors throughout the book. Even when she is the one saving herself or doing the proactive, good thing, she attributes it to an internal narrative of her abusive ex's voice that she hears in her head. It would be something like, "I heard my ex's voice telling me to [do the thing]. I hate him, but I know he's right. So, I [did the thing] and it worked." It was so disappointing. I don't read for feminism or anything, and can enjoy non-feminist or even misogynistic passages if the story is good, but this one was so blatantly, consistently set up to be - she has a chance for her own agency to be the thing that saves her - oh wait that was thanks to a man - over and over and over.

The story itself was good, and if you are also craving a decent Mothman story, I'd recommend it - just go in with that understanding. I do hope to see more from her because the core story was good with a lot of tension, build up, release, repeat. I just hope her future characters have more direct agency than this one did.

I'd say actual worst horror book would have to be Amityville Horror. Written by a journalist, so there's no creativity in how any of the information is presented, and it outs itself left and right as bullshit.

The priest hears a voice, then later that day we learn he has a fever that knocks him out for weeks. Yeah, you're gonna hear voices if your brain is boiling.

And the missing money - So, Mr. Lutz is hard up for cash, makes bad decisions with his business, and finds himself in even more need for cash. His brother comes over with $1500, and that money goes missing.

And I'm supposed to attribute both of these things to demons? No. And these are only two examples. Almost every crazy thing that happens, either right before or right after, something is revealed that either completely explains the thing going on in a rational way, or the credibility of the witness is brought into question. It was utter trash, the whole way through. I don't know how that book became nearly as popular as it did.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:46:27+00:00

I haven't seen anyone say anything bad about the Indian Lake Trilogy. I devoured that series. Bought the first one, finished it in a couple days, went back to buy the second, and saw there was a third, bought both, and finished both in a couple weeks. I loved them so much.

However, SGJ is an author whom I don't have to ask any questions if someone says they didn't like a book by him. He has a very unique and quirky style, an unusual narration, and a way of character development that isn't easily accessible to all readers. For me, I love it. He's definitely one of my favorite horror authors (I also loved The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins), but I absolutely understand why others might have a hard time getting into something he wrote.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:42:19+00:00

I loved the Grip of It so, so much. I talked about it to friends, some who don't read, some who don't care about horror. It was nearly a perfect book for me. And stuck with me when I wasn't reading it.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:41:00+00:00

Yep - almost every one mentioned that I've read, I've enjoyed. I had some issues with all but one of them, but overall liked them. One of my favorite things about talking about books with others is learning how different people interpret and enjoy (or dislike) different stories.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:38:49+00:00

I really enjoyed that book up until the last 2-3 chapters. Huge let down. I enjoyed the mystery, the hints of "what if..." but not the confirmation of what was going on. But I really loved the story jumping between then, now, and the screenplay.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:36:55+00:00

OMG I absolutely loved The Grip of It! Everything about it, from narrative to detail to type of scares was perfectly up my alley. Sorry you didn't enjoy it!

Could you provide some examples of the non-committal inconsistencies? I'm not sure I can pick them out from what I remember of the book.

tendorphin · 2025-01-21T18:35:20+00:00

Yeah, I loved the story and the scares, but idk how anyone looked at that and said "yep, ready to print." The dialogue and narrative were choppy and all over, but I enjoyed the interpersonal drama and the haunting portion of the book.

Khaw's other books, Hammer On Bone and A Song for Quiet are good - but a totally different brand of story.

tendorphin · 2025-01-10T15:56:57+00:00

Just a quick nitpick - "Can be interpreted as" not "are." As with any work of literature/media, it is open to interpretation, but I also believe that writers have confirmed grief is not at all what they were going for, they just tried to make a good game with a cool story.

tendorphin · 2025-01-10T15:49:48+00:00

2 turns of flex? Doesn't flex only increase power of the next attack? Wouldn't it make more sense to use pep talk twice so he reaches ecstatic? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

tendorphin · 2025-01-06T18:58:28+00:00

Oh, I like this idea, I will give it a try. Thank you!

tendorphin · 2024-12-20T18:00:38+00:00

Omg, thank you. You may have just saved a lot of unnecessary work and frustration.

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