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Hardware problem with my desktop.

It had been bluescreening on nonpaged area errors a lot so I took a look wether something was wrong with my ram and sure enough one of them had significant dust build up. Decided I should clean it up and see if that's what had been causing the problems. Took both out and cleaned the dust off, along with the video card and cpu fan and heatsink, wich also had significant dust buildup.

However after reinserting all my desktop would no longer boot. Gave a three long beep error on post, wich I'm failry certain is a memory problem. After removing and inserting my ram a couple more times it stopped giving an error message but would not start up at all, the shutting down and restarting every two to three seconds. It did manage to start up and give the option to boot further once, but I neglected to check the information on screen.

Removed all the power cords from the mobo and removed the battery to try and reset bios or something (I have no idea how to do this really) but now it's back to the same error on post. Not sure what to try next. Could be that both  of my two sticks of ram died but it seems unlikely. I don't have any spare ram to try with. Video card can't be it either, it fails to boot using the in built one to. Advice on how to proceed?

See I don't think you should feel guilty. You never had to help, but you do. Maybe you had a moral obligation but ultimately that means you are a good person for helping, not a bad person for not helping when you really don't have to.

The problem however that to me it seems your friend may not want to be helped. Before you can do anything to get her out of her vicious cycle of self hate you must first be able to convince her to try to turn her life around. When you do that you can work on breaking the cycle, but before that she has to be open to change first or she will fight and resist any attempt to improve her situation. Worse yet she may drag you in her pit of misery if she resists help, and given what you have said about your own state of being it sounds like you may be susceptible to such a thing.

Ultimately if her mind is made up and she absolutely can not be convinced it may be necesary to let go and accept it is what she wants, if you truly care for her. In the end it is her choice.

Well there's your problem. Bullies prey on the weak, and your emotional outbursts as a result of the bullying can definatly be seen as weakness. These social predators will do anything to get an emotional reaction and they know you will give it to them.

Turning the other cheek and ignoring their moronics could work for you, but they may just as well get a kick out of bullying someone who will not defend himself. If ignoring fails there's involving a supervisor, but if your school is shit and doesn't care about its students (a likely case sadly) then the only option is to man up and deal with the problem directly. Get some combat training just to show you mean business, violence is the last resort (most bullies won't bother).
If not, I am afraid your are fated to suffer the bully, savage as adolescents at your age can be.

This thread still open to advise? If so here's me chiming in to give my insight as a rather chronic procastinator.

Don't try to reason yourself into getting to work. Why? Because many times procastinating is a very natural course of action. Evolution made sure our thought processes are so as to avoid any unnecesary work in order to maximize survival chance. This is done through a reward based system of conditioning; when our actions are rewarded in some substantial way we learn that this work is meaningful, and when it is unrewarded it is pointless and best avoided. Problem with this is it only really works with relative immediate gain, so long term benefits are trickier. Furthermore many things in the construct we made called society are inherently pointless, exercises in futility. Education especially, there many things you learn and practice you may never need. That homework you are tasked to make may never have any substantial reward, apart from say a pat on the back or some other form of commendation that really doesn't mean much.

But enough rambling, it's got to get done so here's my advice. Best way to motivate yourself is to trick your brain into thinking your homework is a meaningful task (and if it really is all the better) with an immediate reward. Say you play DF (just as practical example), then make an effort if you have some homework to be done to not play at all. Only reward yourself after making an effort to get the work then. You can start slow at first, short interval of work followed by a reward. If it works you'll find yourself gradually able to get more work done at once. Just remember the reward always comes after.

Come to think of it I'd argue the over saturation of reward stimuli is part of the procastination problem, but I'm rambling again.

Anyway second is get a fellow student (someone who also procastinates is ideal) and make an effort to work together and motivate one another. Or get a group of students, the more the better in this case. Social pressure is a powerful thing, one that can defy what seems reasonable, it can help you get something done that seems pointless. Check up on one another to make sure you're doing the work you're assigned, and as a plus you can help one another with the work itself when needed.

Like HmH (not so tactfully  ) put it get involved in the rat race. I'll be first to criticize that little part of the human condition at the root of consumerism, but you got to do what you got to do to be a functioning member of society! Just you know, keep in mind the big picture.

Get an outlet, it's not good to let it build up till you can't hold it anymore. Don't make a habit of it though, work on avoiding getting angry in the first place. Self controle discipline rationalizing it meditation take your pick, just don't bottle it up (unless you have no choice).

Having a  temper is normal (still something to work on ofc) but hitting and spitting isn't. Best get some help with that, the professional kind.

Anger-->not self control-->Badly aimed punches-->Bad positioning of your wrists-->Broken wrist

I can attest! Not the anger part, just the badly aimed punch part. Who'd have thunk it the middle hand bone of your pinky can't handle to much force, hehe.

Grab a knife. Stab stab stab.
Might want to look for the armor too. Armor really helps reduce damage.

How do you get a knife? Since I didn't know where to find it and time was of the essence I just resorted to good old fashioned fisticuffs. The guy was mush to, and I'm pretty sure I know who the other is. I do believe this makes me a certified mush hunter! 

I'm thinking of getting AP for my Lightning. Worth it? Can I hunt MBTs with it?

I would not recommend it. Given the state of ground vehicles as they are, lightnings are absolutely on the bottom of the food chain (flash excluding). MBT and harrasser both will eat you up and spit you out in a confrontation, even with ap roundsYou're not manouvrable enough to dodge mbt fire, and not durable enough take harasser fire. Only thing lightnings are good for anymore is anti infantry duty when the big dogs aren't out, and skyguarding.

While TR and NC MAXes can be rcognised at first glance (big burly and generally mean looking) the VS look like dancing queens just like the rest of its kin.

Quite the opposite, for me anyway. Zoe maxes are such a terrifying force on the battlefield I recognize them instantly and pray for my soul. The purple glow and fast erratic movement definatly helps, to.

Won't deny the vanu color scheme is harder to spot though, but that's a problem with the vanu standard camo in general. Me personally if I can't tell if it's NC or TR, I shoot it. Much to the dislike of players with harder to recognize camo as you can well imagine, but eh kind of feels karma.