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Broken Pathways / Open Doors
B'rail Rahas: navigator
independent, SELECTIVE oc. blog
Born from the FFXIV universe. Set loose to travel others.
It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
sage advice from Urianger
It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳 WILD
anyway, look at the krile mtg card, it is now my desktop bg
Bonus Details:
an elpis flower and the infamous squapes
Archon Burger and G'raha reaching for his staff and
The name of the artist's WoL written in Eorzean w/ Krile reading Endwalker raid plans
Sharing arcane headcanon/analysis tweets that spark joy to me :> (part 17)
ah yes, my new favorite ship: The Truther x The Bullshitter
THE CYCLE IS COMPLETE
3/3 meme redraws for @blastflight of B'rail! Thank you again for your support <3 <3 <3
[Still alive. Just very busy working on leveling and work.] [Will be doing my best to get back into a rhythm of things.]
art By @hypnapomparts
i'm a writer irl (can't say who because my agent would put me into a blender and press go) and honestly the funniest and most humiliating incident of my life was the time my finished manuscript triggered a plagiarism flag with the publisher for two lines of prose in my literary fiction novel...
.... which was word for word similar to a paragraph in a certain explicit work on FFN starring elrond and his batsman from the hobbit films, aka that one elf that looked like he ate panic attacks for breakfast (i forget his name but it's Figwit II) where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment.
and if you think i had to sit in front of one if the biggest publishing companies in the world and admit that it was, in fact, me who wrote the fic where the lord of imladris bends said twink over his writing desk and gives him the battering ram treatment in order to avoid being wrongly flagged for plagiarism, you would be absolutely correct.
(yes they published the book)
This takes a lot of courage in a lot of important ways good job OP
🌟 pixel rpg marcille on her way to battle more undines! ✨
the crowdstrike catastrophe is getting resolved but the intel 13th and 14th gen CPU nightmare is just beginning. damn
basically: a significant number of the past few years of intel CPUs are almost guaranteed to die due to a manufacturing error. it is just a matter of time. and then they will break.
how many are affected, you might ask? intel says shut up. how can you tell if your CPU is going to die? go mind your own business. is there a recall? absolutely not. what can you do about it when your shit breaks? go fuck yourself is what
to find out what gen intel cpu you have (on windows, idk how to do this for mac or linux, i'm sorry) go to your start or search menu and type in device manager:
In device manager, look up processor:
Mine is a 12th gen, so I am safe from this bug.
Now, I haven't had a chance to watch the videos, so sorry if I am reiterating things here, but because some people learn better with text:
How to read intel CPU product labels for intel CORE processors (this is the most common intel cpu you are likely to find for home pc and laptop builds, their other cpu product lines are more for servers and ai and people who still use 32bit OSes, which are largely obsolete now):
the first letter number combo is always i and either no number, 3, 5, 7, or 9. The number refers to the amount of cores a cpu has. In general, more cores, faster cpu. (there are other things that affect cpu speed though, mostly clock speed. This is usually listed in ghz on the product page, but it's not relevant here to determine if you have one of the unlucky broken cpu models.)
In this example, I have an i7, which has more cores than an i5, but less than an i9.
The first 2 numbers after the i number is usually what generation you have. Sometimes, depending on how old your cpu is, it's only the first number. Mine is a 12, so I have a 12th generation cpu.
The numbers after that are the SKU numbers and largely are not important.
The letters determine if your cpu has onboard graphics or needs a discrete graphics card, and if it comes with a cooler/can be overclocked. (i personally do not recommend overclocking because a lot of software isn't really designed to support it and it can cause problems) If it has an F, it means you need a separate graphics card. If it has a K, it means you can overclock it, and also that it does not come with its own cooling.
Laptop cpus almost always will come with their own cooling because laptops get really hot and cooling in laptops is kind of abysmal to begin with.
If you have a LAPTOP, and your intel cpu is 13 or 14, you will have to replace the ENTIRE LAPTOP. start making backups of all your important information ASAP. Due to how laptops are constructed, you cannot replace a single part, you have to replace the whole machine. If you have a PREBUILT desktop, if you can figure out what motherboard you have, you may be able to buy a replacement cpu. If you build your own desktop, you are definitely able to replace your cpu.
A cpu is attached to your motherboard - if the cpu fries, it can also damage your motherboard as well, so if it's at all possible, and you're ended up with one of the broken cpus, I would look into replacing the motherboard as well. (Again, if you have a laptop, you need to replace everything. Sorry.)
there ARE a few laptops where you can replace the CPU, like framework, but for 99%, yeah. SOL. if you do not already know whether the CPU can be replaced on your laptop, it almost definitely can not be replaced.
back your stuff up!!
One hot soup of B'rail. By @hypnapomparts
"You say that." Brail mused as she looked at him without a reaction to the strange sound of his voice. In her time as an adventuring map maker she had heard and seen many things far stranger. It was amusing to her how his words and actions seemed to run counter to each other. Her gaze locked on to him before she spoke again. "But without knowledge of value how can one value silver and gold?" She noted with a chuckle. "I would say you go have some fun finding out what grand treasures are there."
The yuan-ti just gave a dismissive hiss to her words, tongue flicking. The rippling of his eyes subsided as he glanced her way, "What's the catch, then? You're just going to give this to me?"
His serpentine tail swayed near his feet, giving no insight on what Caspian might have been thinking. But he was well renowned for being rather violent, so perhaps there should always be an air of caution. Especially when he asks for the price of such a map.
"A single copper coin at most. Call it an investment in a future customer." She chuckled as she winked at him. "Plus getting to see someone try and find treasure is its own reward for me." Brail said with a smile. "But today? Its yours for nothing." Her tone was honest and genuine. She had no need for money. This trivial revelation of truth was something that helped her work off another sort of debt. "Let me just say: I am paying it forward."