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Creative Projects / Re: The Queen's Guard: Arx's NaNo-As-A-Serial Project
« on: January 13, 2022, 02:08:44 pm »
Ey, thanks! The first person is a bit experimental but it's working so far. It's definitely not also very helpful for reducing how much of the world I need to have planned in advance to make things fit seamlessly <_<

I'd say I'll try to find the duplicated thing but that would probably not be true >_> It's really hard to edit for those, since I can't just ctrl-f it. But thanks for letting me know!

Writing has slowed down more than it should have with my job starting up again and the weather heating up, but hopefully I'll somehow get myself less sleep-deprived and more inspired soon.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: January 08, 2022, 04:18:39 am »
For any Latin scholars kicking around, is "Regis et Regnum" a correct-ish way to write "ruler and country"? I know it's not standard, but is it wrong?

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Creative Projects / The Queen's Guard: Arx's NaNo-As-A-Serial Project
« on: December 31, 2021, 03:59:01 am »
So I did NaNoWriMo this year, and didn't quite win because I got too sick to write for the last couple of days but still produced a lot of words. I've been publishing as I write on Royal Road, for great editing justice obviously, and have made it up to ~65k words so far. Figured I'd post it here too, though I'm not around much.

The original one-sentence concept for this was "what happens if you stick Wheel of Time book 1, some Richard Sharpe, and a few pints of German folk rock in a blender?" Then I made a bunch of stuff up, obsessed over realistic details for a bit, hijacked an existing setting from a different story of mine, and started writing without much more than a two-page flowchart outline and a handful of names. It's gone better than I expected.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48181/the-queens-guard

Lemme know if you check it out and/or have any feedback. It is in many ways... substantially less than perfect. By a lot. But hey, it exists and is like eight to ten times longer than anything else I've written, so I call that good.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 31, 2021, 03:32:13 am »
Update: I did reset/partial windows reinstall and it seems to have resolved the issue. GPU is now talking to me again without complaint.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 29, 2021, 02:30:03 am »
Hmm. I appear to be able to install the driver like that, but it doesn't seem to change anything -- I still get the ol' code 43. Not sure if it's actually any different to before, actually, as the driver seems previously to have been installed, Windows just (presumably) rejected it and it's still doing that. Any other last ditch possibilities? I'm arguably overdue a proper system cleanup so a full Windows reinstall isn't actually off the table, if that might help.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 26, 2021, 03:08:34 am »
Thanks, makes sense. Clearing everything and trying again didn't bear any useful fruit -- what do you mean with disabling driver enforcement? Searching it brings up driver signature enforcement which doesn't seem helpful here, unless I'm drastically missing how this works.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 24, 2021, 12:17:18 pm »
Quote from: LordBaal on December 24, 2021, 07:52:38 am
Uh oh... should not the fans start regardless of whatever.. checked them to see they are not stuck?

I think it's a software problem. The fans spin up when the PC powers on and spin back down when Windows boots, which is a little odd.


I can now add updating BIOS to the list of things I've tried that haven't apparently fixed it.

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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: December 24, 2021, 04:43:05 am »
I've run into a bit of an odd problem with my GPU (GTX1060 3GB): it's not working as a full-on GPU, but it will run a screen (although the fan doesn't run, for some reason, which means it gets pretty hot pretty quickly, so I've taken it out while I'm not actively troubleshooting it). Checking the device manager turns up a code 43 (stopped because it reported an error), and checking the event log turns up that it failed migration (partial or ambiguous match).

The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is the most recent Windows update, but I haven't a clue how to resolve it. Updating the drivers doesn't seem to achieve anything -- in fact, I'm using GeForce Experience and it doesn't actually dismiss the "update available" after it installs which makes me question whether the update actually resolves. Reverting the Windows updates doesn't seem to have done anything either.

On the hardware side, the PCI power cable seems fine. Swapping it to the other PCI-E port doesn't help. I haven't tried it in another PC, but I may be able to later.

The precise series of events is this, repeating any time I update the driver:

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Presumably the exact IDs are only useful to me, but there are the details.

Anyone have any ideas? I can't find anything more than what I've mentioned so far because of the glut of "ez fix" articles aiming for a high page rank to run ads.

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General Discussion / Re: Gardening with herbal magicks!
« on: August 06, 2021, 01:25:47 pm »
Sounds like it's time for murder in the dark.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: August 05, 2021, 05:01:18 am »
Oh hey, good to see you Soli. Grats on all the good things!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« on: July 31, 2021, 07:47:22 am »
I recall a short story written... some decades ago? Where someone released a DNA-altering virus that cranked up senses of smell massively. With exciting, mostly suicidal, results.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: July 29, 2021, 09:54:59 am »
In South African English it's all just coriander. Seeds? Coriander. Leaves? Fresh coriander. Plant? Coriander plant. I had no idea what cilantro was the first time I read the word.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: July 27, 2021, 11:49:56 am »
Quote from: Enemy post on July 27, 2021, 11:20:27 am
It's not a mimic, it's convergent evolution. It doesn't look like a hummingbird because it's pretending to be one, it looks like a hummingbird because hummingbirds are absent from its environment, so the moth is able to use very similar methods to survive.

*Although, a similar genus of moth exists in the Americas, so existing alongside real hummingbirds probably wouldn't be too much competition for them. Still, they look alike as a result of having similar survival strategies.

I used to see sunbirds in my garden all the time, and occasionally hawkmoths. I think it's probably just not such a crowded niche it becomes a major problem.

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General Discussion / Re: Gardening with herbal magicks!
« on: July 25, 2021, 11:54:36 pm »
Africa gang rise UP

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 25, 2021, 03:02:56 pm »
He's taking a forum hiatus after a scuffle a few months back, I think. But he's not, like, dead or imprisoned or anything.

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