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My 2nd computer monitor got dripped on for a few hours last night from the plumbing above it. I went to bed at 3 or 4 am and woke up at about 11am, so that's the time frame of when the dripping could have happened.

It wasn't a whole ton of water, but it was enough. The back area of the monitor got dripped on over what I can only assume is a vent that goes all the way along the length of the monitor.

I tried to turn my computer on this morning, and only one monitor worked, the second would not start and the "on light" refused to light despite turning it on and off a couple times. Then I discovered the leak from the ceiling.

Can the monitor be salvaged?

I have unplugged it and set it on an out of the way table to dry. Is there anything else I can do to increase the chances of making this monitor useable again?

I am considering running a forum game.

I would like to have an embedded hyperlink to individual spoilers in a reference post for important item descriptions, or character sheets.

The only thing I know how to do right now is to create a link to the individual post. I would like to be more specific than that, so clicking a link would take them to a specific part of a post. Is this possible?

Click Link 1 = sent to reference post spoiler 1
Click Link 2 = sent to reference post spoiler 2
Click Link 3 = sent to reference post spoiler 3
etc etc

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I have several problems including not doing things I want to because I know I can't do them perfectly.

For example, even little things, I would like to start a stupid little online game on this forum, but I keep feeling that I will suck at it. I am not awesome with maps, or several other things. I am afraid people would laugh at me or that I would be disappointed in the result / that it could have been better once it is done. (To be fair the in general internet is full of negative people if you read any comments boards, but I realize this is a problem I need to get over).

It's a thing were I need to just get over it and do it I suppose, but my head is messed up.

Any ideas, thoughts, helpful comments would be very appreciated. Thank you.

How do you buy video games for a personal computer anymore...? Seems I can't find a whole lot of them in stores and the ones I do find aren't as cheap as the ones on steam. I don't understand digital goods well enough to really do this at present. I have steam installed. What am I missing?

I am considering purchasing something.

It is about $10, which is 1/3 the store price. How is that a thing?

I also imagine I won't be getting a physical disk for this. What happens if I somehow need to reinstall it? I've always had physical disks as backups as my data has been corrupted before from various virus/malware before (and I've had to restore to factory condition, or just completely reload windows and everything from scratch). Is this an issue?

If you would all be so kind as to help me out with some stuff, I would really appreciate it. Please don't quote this or be mean to me.

I keep hearing something along the lines of, "It isn't how many times you fall, it's how fast you get back up." I'm having a real hard time getting back up. I know everybody has to deal with this. I may not be dealing with it very well, and I'd like to deal with it better. I don't know who has it worse, and I don't think I want to compare scars with others, because it won't help. I just want to focus on getting better. How do you deal with serious stress and cope well?

This is rather difficult for me to post. I've been under  ton of stress lately.

*I've recently had major problems eating (keeping food down, etc), have (in a bad way) lost 35 pounds (I've gained maybe 10 or so of that back).
*I can't really stomach very much soda or heavier food anymore, so I'm drinking a ton of tea.
*I keep having obsessive, intrusive thoughts (not hearing voices or anything, but rather replaying past events or possible future concerns over and over again in my head).
*I know I am good at what I do, but I have been unfairly told I am not and it's really undermining my self confidence.
*I've withdrawn socially.
*Within about the past month or so, everything seems to grate on my nerves and I don't know why (I handle it well by ignoring it but the cat meowing or somebody trying to talk to me never bothered me like this before.

Honestly, the obsessive thoughts appear to be the biggest problem (I think). I don't know if they're the root of the problem or just an expression of it. I'm sort of paralyzed with fear to do anything at the moment. I realize I have to do certain things to make my life better. I want to do them. I try to do them, but then I get scared for some odd reason with a paralyzing fear. I've read about stuff like that but I never thought fear could be paralyzing until now. Sure, maybe fear of some physical thing might stop somebody in their tracks, but I'm afraid of doing pretty much anything right at the moment (I know, that's weird).

I'm spending too much time being haunted by thoughts and memories from old experiences and I know I need to use that time constructively instead. Stress is really starting to get to me, and I know I need to do a better job coping with it. I know I need to be ok with who I am (I am not comfortable in my own skin). I know that doing things constructively will help me out much more than worrying about things (in terms of stress and actually getting things done).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated (reasonable advice only please).


P.S. So far I'm trying some very basic yoga ("Downward Dog," apparently). I feel kind of silly doing it.

I have recently found this:
http://www.mapeditor.org/

I don't yet understand how to use it. I would like to use stonesense tilesets to draw little maps for forum game roleplaying things on 12 bay. Is this possible? Is this ok?

Thank you for your time.

Edit: If it is not possible, then is there some other way to make maps for a little roleplay game here on 12 bay using an isometric tileset?

This thread is for lists of things that brighten your day, and that you wish to help brighten the days of others.

Rules:
1.) Nothing "Adult," (I really shouldn't have to say this).
2.) Nothing negative.
3.) Use a brief instruction or description where needed.
4.) When we get a lot of things, we can consolidate them if that works. Anyone can consolidate.
5.) No ads.
6.) If someone asks you to remove a link, then do it.
Others as needed.

I'll start.
1.) Star Trek Shows
http://www.cbs.com/shows/star_trek_voyager/video/NWEgEq0YYiqNxaVDnXyCLW84Vs_YgmSH/star-trek-voyager-concerning-flight
I've always loved Star Trek. CBS has all the episodes available for free on their website.
If you want to see other shows on CBS (including all the star trek shows), then hover your mouse over "shows." Sadly, Star Trek shows are all under "TV Classics." There are other shows like Big Bang Theory on there too. I'm pretty sure it's legit, because it's right on the network's site and you have to watch commercials.

2.) Order of the Stick (OotS webcomic)
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0919.html
A classic.

3.) Homestarrunner.com
http://www.homestarrunner.com/
Another classic cartoon webcomic.

4.) An interesting cover band/artist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuM-wDolnMc&list=PL7A4D9C100657150E&index=32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0&list=PL7A4D9C100657150E

I guess this would be a place to discuss what the thread title says. 12 Bay seems to be a fairly open minded place that likes to think about stuff similar enough to this.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/15/farming-on-mars-nasa/

I know it's fox news, but I don't think there is much spin on this one. Besides, as a conversation piece it still works either way.

The article is on possible future farming on mars. This is one of those ideas that lets my imagination run free for a bit. It seems like a technically difficult and interesting challenge in its own little way. The whole idea of going to Mars seems to be as a stepping stone to going somewhere else and hopefully somewhere better.

Earth First?
Basically they're talking about farming in a desert (with no air , radiation problems, and millions of miles away). I kinda have to wonder why they don't do more of that here on earth. We've got tons of deserts that do have air. If we could find a way to stabilize the population, the surface area of the Sahara Desert alone could provide enough land to feed all of Africa if we could use some kind of space aged greenhouse tech to grow plants there. It seems like practically growing things on a large scale in a major earth desert would be something we'd wanna do before we set off for another planet. (large scale growing easier here than Mars).

Don't get me wrong, I get that economics is the problem (pretty much always), but before we spend however many billions or trillions of dollars and people's lives going to Mars, shouldn't we do it on earth?

Once on another planet (or in space I guess):

I'm not really sure how things would work given the problems they're talking about. Radiation, air pressure, isolation are a few that come to mind. They don't seem to get into the idea of how anybody would go about fixing many of these in the article above except by using terms like "radiation shield," but we never seem to get a whole bunch of details about how that would work.

I don't know, what do you think? I imagine this is basically where humanity's future is going to end up being. We either learn to use the space we have better (urban farming, underwater/onsea, using terrain we usually don't/can't), or find new places.