Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
In a nutshell: Konami, the one-time video gaming giant behind the likes of Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid, has entered the PC manufacturing business. Konami Amusements, a subsidiary of Konami Holdings Corporation, is now accepting orders for the first three Arespear gaming PCs.
I guess my only remaining question would be if they come with a free pachinko game?
One of the key things I’m looking for in a laptop right now is a minimum of three hard drive bays. My current laptop has two NVMe slots and one SATA. I’m looking at a couple of good candidates for upgrading to, but the problem is the online documentation for these models isn’t exactly clear on how many drive bays come with each laptop, as there are different revisions of a particular model out there that have different things like screen size, the amount of RAM it comes with by default, etc. If I look up any motherboard I can immediately find information on its home website (even ASUS), but when it comes to their laptops you really have to dig on these newer models to figure out which revision comes with what, and nothing of what I read online in their manuals or in disassembly videos has given me an idea of a drive layout. I contacted ASUS via email to inquire about upgrading…
Hello,
I am interested in upgrading from a G752VT to a GL702VS, and I currently have two NVMe drives and an SSD that I would like to move over to a new laptop. How many m2 slots does the GL702VS have?
Thank you.
Over 24 hours had buzzed by, and I get this gem as a response (Note: I changed the reference number):
Hello ***********,
Thank you for your response. My name is David S. I appreciate the time out you have taken to notify us of your concern and I apologize for any inconvenience caused. I’m grateful to be able to further address this matter with you. I have escalated your query to our senior engineers for more information. Please allow 1 – 2 business days for feedback.
Thank you for the opportunity to address this matter with you. We value you as an important ASUS customer, and we want to ensure your experience with us is fulfilling.
If you have any other questions, comments or concerns please feel free to reach out to us again. Thanks for contacting ASUS support.
Please make note of your case number for future reference: XXX666XXXX
Regards,
David S.ASUS Product Support
Concern? The only concern I have is in this overall response… did they even bother to read what I wrote? Why are they responding to me as if I have a broken laptop? All I wanted to know was how many drives that laptop could hold in its fucking badonkadonk case.
What’s even more concerning is getting this exact same email again this afternoon… wtf?
On the drive back from a milk run I noted the amount of homeless people with signs out on the road, and all in close proximity to each other. I counted about three or four, all of them had signs. One was a young skinny guy that was begging for food, said he’d take anything. Then I saw this young woman in a nice summer chair out near a crosswalk, dressed well enough for a warm summer day, sunglasses and all that, as well as a sign that said “My Birthday is in 2 Days, anything helps”. I think I had a mental moment similar to Lewis Black’s “If it weren’t for my horse” skit. I honestly couldn’t fucking tell if that was a real life troll or if she was seriously that much of an entitled killatwat. Either way, she had a smug look on her face that would suggest that she likes to shit the bed frequently, and bask in the aroma permeating the air.
I deal with the public everyday, and the public includes the homeless. Yeah, there are some that are homeless because of bad attitudes and decisions. There are also people that lost their jobs, can’t get back on their feet because no one will hire them, or they’re just too mentally fucked up to even halfway function at a shit job that will hire almost anyone with a pulse (unless it’s a dead guy up against someone that vapes cannabis oil, then the dead guy wins), and have no one else to turn to. We used to have institutions to keep these kinds of things in check, but history would say that in the 80’s that’s how we started to really Make America Great Again™ :zorak:
I’m sorry… I had a Grandmother who had to raise 7 kids on her lonesome after her husband ditched her for her best friend. I would hear stories about what they had to do to survive day to day, and how Grandma had to go from being a housewife with no experience to finding any form of work just to stay afloat. As a result my view of the poor seems to clash with everyone else… although I already clash with everyone else on other subjects and people with similar hobbies, so what have I got to lose? :v:
I used to be the kind of person that wouldn’t wish that sort of thing onto anyone, but now, living in an age where literally almost any of us could miss a paycheck or two, or have a medical catastrophe thing happen to them to completely fuck up their life… I’m tired of seeing all of these well off self entitled little shits, and wretched fuckmuffins that think they’re well off enough to be mocking the very people they could be joining in a soup kitchen line someday. Lately it seems like the only way people are able to learn anything is to have first hand experience, and to that I say bring on the brawndo mates!
I received a couple copyright claims from last night’s stream… because of copyrighted ambience?
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Hi Overlord Tomala, A copyright owner using Content ID claimed some material in your video. This is not a copyright strike. This claim does not affect your account status. There are either ads running on your video, with the revenue going to the copyright owner, or the copyright owner is receiving stats about your video’s views.
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The second one was “Oasis Ambience” and claimed by the same company. Last night Yutram and I were playing some Borderlands 2 DLC, and there were two areas in it called The Oasis, and Wurmwater. Apparently streaming this DLC will earn you more than one copyright claim should you venture beyond the oasis. What’s strange about this is Shock Entertainment Pty doesn’t merit much of a result for me on search engines, other than a link to a video website in their name and a video by Angry Joe with Shock Entertainment Pty being in the description for the video under the list of copyright claims that were not resolved. They don’t even have a Wikipedia presence, something smells fishy. :morty:
This begs the question; why is an Australian website that primarily deals in video releases (if it’s even them) trying to claim copyright on ambience that game developers put in place in a game that I paid, and have every right to stream? How am I, a consumer, supposed to know ahead of time what I can and can’t stream based on ambient tracks? Music? I can understand them copyright claiming something if I’m using a song or something… but ambient tracks? This might make me consider ditching YouTube for streaming and going with Twitch, and maybe syndicate to Mixer. I don’t want to cut my streaming ties with YouTube, but if they want to lay claim to something that I can’t even control apart from completely removing the background audio then I’d rather just use YouTube for video releases only. As it is I get more traffic on Twitch than I do on YouTube, so it wouldn’t really be that big of a loss. I just wouldn’t want to part with the few people that have no reason to join other platforms like Twitch or Mixer… unless of course Twitch offered me the big bux. :trollface: Can’t be choosy in this economy.
I’m going to ponder this a bit more before coming to a final conclusion, but here’s what I’m thinking; I could either drop YouTube completely, or do it on a case by case basis. If one of my streams receives another copyright claim I will no longer stream that game on YouTube. Borderlands 2 is already on that list. Perhaps I’ll even generate a list of games not to stream on YouTube just to have as a reference. I’ll even give it a page all its own. This doesn’t really do much harm to me since I need 1,000 subscribers before I can even think about making a penny off YouTube (a number I doubt I’ll ever get to), but for those that do this is poses a problem. What if I did make money off that platform and I edited down my video as I usually end up doing, and I find that whatever background ambience playing in the background gets a copyright claim or a strike and now any revenue made on the video that I put my own time and work into will go to the copyright owners of background noise instead?
Well, now I’ll have something to watch for when I do finally get around to editing the video footage, :zorak: I’ll also look further into Shock Entertainment Pty to see if I can find out anything else, and I’ll write about my findings.
News like this should not be a surprise to anyone.
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
I still remember when these bots were in their infancy back in the early 2000’s, when my family and I ran a phpBB2 forum at the time and we were invaded by tons and tons of bots several times throughout the day. The concept was still fairly new, as the bots never typed anything but only made tons and tons of accounts usually ending in Petrov or something. It was annoying back then because there were no captcha’s, there was no need for them because nothing like this happened. I ended up having to disable account creation temporarily as a result while having to clean up warzone and block all the account names from ever being used again, as well as any IP address. These days its much more advanced just as described in the article. Their programing is sophisticated enough that they can join all these social media websites and go about the internet as actual people, and these trolls keep taking it steps further when creating websites to further mask their intent. It is so easy in this day and age to come up with a straight up legit looking business or news media site, and people fall for it hook line and sinker. I could easily build a website that looks like a local news rag, or with the right amount of words and pump a straight up legit looking news website that talks about important things, like why the boogieman won’t come out of the closet.
I’ve loved the internet since the day of its conception, but at the same time I always knew that like anything else in life it can be manipulated to cause harm instead of good. I just never could have predicted how far it has come, and I have a feeling we haven’t even scratched the surface yet.
This article tops anything I would have to say about today:
Along with any dirty jokes, though, anti-profanity software is notorious for censoring lots of stuff it shouldn’t — and quite a few real names. As Natalie Weiner’s tweet took off, it became an amazing thread of Schmucks, Cummings, Dickmans and Dikshits who could commiserate with her. For them, a digital identity will almost always be hard work.
Goodnight. :trollface:
No, seriously they have.
The aforementioned Jeff Goldblum show—working title: The Curiosity Of Jeff Goldblum—which has just been green-lit at Nat Geo. Given that Goldblum already appears to exist in a permanent state of “Hmm, yes, fascinating,” we have to assume this new series (which will see him investigate the joys of common day phenomena like baseball and making toilet paper) falls securely under the “get paid to do what you love” rubric for human happiness.
I don’t normally post this kind of celebrity related junk but felt this merited a mention… what a world we live in.
Everything about this statement is wrong to the point of making me puke in my mouth.
Wrong enough apparently that Forbes removed their entire article. Considering I read posts from both the left and the right, and most of them hated the idea it must have been enough for them to 86 the damn article. :zorak:
I read an article today about two children in Saudi Arabia committing suicide due to a game called “The Blue Whale Challenge”, and as a result their government banned 47 different games including The Witcher 3, Bayonetta 2, Okami, Life is Strange, etc etc. This sounds like quite the over-reaction more so than one might realize considering the game itself is social media based, the challenge has become infamous enough to have been given its own Wikipedia article. Basically the Blue Whale Challenge is a list of 50 challenges that a person has to complete with proof of doing so, and each challenge or task is given to someone calling themselves a “administrator” or “whale”. These challenges start off innocently enough (if you call following stupid instructions from a random person on the internet innocent) such as drawing a picture or waking up at 4:20am, but then it gets darker when they start telling you to carve sentences and words into your arm or leg, poke yourself with a needle, among other acts of self harm all the way up to telling the person to off themselves. The whole process is designed to break the person down, to manipulate them into doing whatever they want, and sadly it seems quite a few children have fallen victim to these sick assholes.
Now, how does this relate to the 47 games that have been banned as a result of these two suicides? Nothing really, a good portion of the games on the list aren’t even multiplayer… and why is Okami on the list? That’s like one of the most calming games I’ve ever played. O_o I’m actually surprised that out of all of the games on the list Dishonored isn’t included, it still would be just as stupid to ban but it DOES have things pertaining to whales. 😛 At least there would be some form of an attempt to tie things together.
This reaction makes about as much sense as banning commemorative dinner plates because people masturbate. Why go after video games over an act that took place on social media? Wouldn’t it make more sense to, I don’t know… ban social media instead? That’s still an extreme measure and that’s clearly not the best answer either, but it would at least relate more to the offending act itself. In some ways this reminds me of our government in the states trying to relate violent video games because of gun violence, which went up in smoke. Our government is not as religious however, at least not yet. They’re working on it…
Ever hear the saying “You are what you eat?” Well… I guess that can be kinda true?
Police say they responded to a parking lot on South Dixie Highway and found three people sitting in a car. The people in the car consented to a search and police say they found drug paraphernalia and a substance that field tested positive for crystal meth.
Crystal Methvin and Douglas Nickerson were arrested on drug possession charges
Crystal Methvin, fucking hell that is fabulously horrible. I don’t know what to add to this, it just writes itself. :trollface: