Everyone deserves a chance to fly

Dreamer, teacher, counselor, scientist. Also fangirl.

[shmoopie313]

Partner's PC (that I built) has a gremlin. The power supply fan died rather loudly a month ago so now I know how to replace that and rewire the power cable guts of a PC leaving everything else in place. (Not fun, didn't post on the first boot, had to reseat RAM I'd bumped loose, 2/10 experience). Since then it's had game and system crashes in an exponentially increasing manner. Today I did a clean OS install, from Windows 10 to 11. Which required going into BIOS because Ryzen CPUs apparently don't play well with 11. It was terrifying. I hate changing BIOS anything. But I did it and got the 'ready to upgrade" green check. Woo. Then... then. Had to download the install software to a USB on my laptop because the PC failed to do so at the last moment. It took 3 tries to install OS from the USB boot. Had to disconnect every unessential peripheral for it to work. Logged in to a new, clean, happy OS. Yay. Decided to run a memory diagnostic just to see. And now.. 4 hours (!!) into it, 88% complete, pretty dang sure that reseated RAM is the issue. Did I break the RAM? Did I fuck the motherboard? Who knows.. another hour likely before I can get a report. And then there's more troubleshooting.

Blarg.

Just venting. Any good vibes you can send that I just need to reseat that RAM one more time and check for loose PSU cables would be appreciated. There's a giant ass CPU cooling fan rig blocking access to the RAM which is a whole thing I'm not looking forward to having to take out, but that's far better than needing to replace the CPU or motherboard.

Like, I'm grateful I know how to do these things. I learned from watching my dad and this skill set is a part of him I will always have with me which is huge. But this is also a big part of why I'm a console gamer now...

[shmoopie313]

Update: I borked the RAM stick. Also learned that Windows installs files on more than the drive you tell it to! Why? No idea. Installed on the SSD then formatted the two HDDs that I thought were just games and movies, restarted, and it wouldn't boot. So back into BIOS we go to reinstall Windows all over again after disconnecting all but the one SSD. Now we're up and running on 32g instead of 64g of RAM until we can afford to buy some new. So far so good.. will be holding my breath for a week or so anyway.

[shmoopie313]

Partner's PC (that I built) has a gremlin. The power supply fan died rather loudly a month ago so now I know how to replace that and rewire the power cable guts of a PC leaving everything else in place. (Not fun, didn't post on the first boot, had to reseat RAM I'd bumped loose, 2/10 experience). Since then it's had game and system crashes in an exponentially increasing manner. Today I did a clean OS install, from Windows 10 to 11. Which required going into BIOS because Ryzen CPUs apparently don't play well with 11. It was terrifying. I hate changing BIOS anything. But I did it and got the 'ready to upgrade" green check. Woo. Then... then. Had to download the install software to a USB on my laptop because the PC failed to do so at the last moment. It took 3 tries to install OS from the USB boot. Had to disconnect every unessential peripheral for it to work. Logged in to a new, clean, happy OS. Yay. Decided to run a memory diagnostic just to see. And now.. 4 hours (!!) into it, 88% complete, pretty dang sure that reseated RAM is the issue. Did I break the RAM? Did I fuck the motherboard? Who knows.. another hour likely before I can get a report. And then there's more troubleshooting.

Blarg.

Just venting. Any good vibes you can send that I just need to reseat that RAM one more time and check for loose PSU cables would be appreciated. There's a giant ass CPU cooling fan rig blocking access to the RAM which is a whole thing I'm not looking forward to having to take out, but that's far better than needing to replace the CPU or motherboard.

Like, I'm grateful I know how to do these things. I learned from watching my dad and this skill set is a part of him I will always have with me which is huge. But this is also a big part of why I'm a console gamer now...

[sparrow-hawk]

The Witcher 3: SONGS OF THE PAST (2027)

[gideonisms]

Ntn has really snuck up on me as a favorite, it might even tie with htn now. I love how much Pyrrha is There and the campal arc ended PERFECTLY. the bit where nona is becoming alecto but Pyrrha tells her she'll still love her gets me EVERY fucking time. I think tazmuir is so good at doing arcs Within each book, like in the first book it was gideon's corruption arc and the polycule divorce/disillusionment with empire & religion in book 2, and then the love stories gone wrong in book 3. No one is doing it like her

[gideonisms]

However the one thing about htn is that it introduced mercymorn who should be in every book no exceptions

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

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29 Days Remain

[drawerbread]

don't turn around (please turn around)

[mewy101]

Art trade with @lizardbraining ..... a lil jarth smooch

[grynwood]

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"

[queenbruv]

one thing from project hail mary the book that i really wish theyd made clear in the movie is that when grace makes the decision to save rocky instead of go back to earth, he is prepared to die. like i understand why the movie had to cut a lot from the book for pacing and it wasnt exactly necessary to include the whole sub-subplot where rocky and grace figure out that there is nothing on erid that is safe for humans to consume, but it would have been worth a passing mention at some point, because grace goes back for rocky knowing that even if rocky takes him to erid, he will still die there, because there is nothing he can eat. the only reason he survives is by eating taumoeba, which is a solution rocky comes up with only after grace saves him and admits to him that he came to his rescue fully prepared to die.

the movie really breezes past rocky's rescue and the time skip, and it never explains why choosing to save rocky is so monumental in the first place: it answers the central question grace is grappling with for the whole movie. "who would i die for?" he doesn't just go back for rocky because it's the right thing to do. he sacrifices himself to save rocky. he is ready to die if it means rocky will live.

[ultrasequel]

I keep hearing “grace wears science pun shirts to break the ice with his students” “aww grace wears those shirts to make science more interesting to kids”. Bullshit dude, in all of the classroom scenes he’s wearing business casual. His dumbass science shirts are for the love of the game and nothing else

[edgebug]

it means so much to me that rocky's lead puppeteer james ortiz got to voice him and got like. full billing right next to ryan gosling in the opening credits. and he's gotten to do interviews and red carpet appearances and talk about puppetry and it's all being taken so seriously just like he's any other type of actor. gonna make me cry fr. like they could have gotten some famous person to be rocky's voice to try and pull more star power but. they went with the guy who acted him. and like of course they did. like there he is. how could they do anything else. he's right there and he's perfect

[felassan]

Commander Shepard was born April 11th, 2154. Happy birthday, Commander 🎉🎉

[itsfullofstars]

ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY April 3, 2026 at 05:00PM From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity. From the spacecraft's perspective the Sun is moving behind Earth's bright limb along the lower right. Africa and the Iberian peninsula are in view on the pale blue planet's surface, while aurorae crown Earth's south and north poles at top right and bottom left. Commander Reid Wiseman took the historic picture on Artemis II mission flight day 2 (April 2), after the completion of the planned translunar injection burn. That burn boosted the spacecraft out of Earth orbit, sending Integrity and crew on a trajectory that will take them around the Moon and back again. That's a journey humans last made over 50 years ago. Image: https://ift.tt/J3qGfWt via NASA https://ift.tt/fom0MYU APOD --> https://ift.tt/l9rUtWm

[marskid11]

caitvi sketch for the road

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beemovieerotica]

[spinfins]

Manfred is curious, you guys.

But you knew that, didn’t you?

Our slightly unnerving skeleson is made from a Wisp of Curiosity. It’s literally in the name.

He has always been that way.

“Oh, hello,” says Emmrich, with slightly more black in his hair.

Manfred, who is not yet Manfred, preens like a cat at the attention, bringing his shimmering, star of a body closer.

“I’m examining this burial site for possible signs of an earlier Storm Age internment.” Emmrich says, and Manfred, who is not yet Manfred, has the impression Emmrich talks to himself out loud whether or not someone is listening.

These parts of the Necropolis are largely empty and must get boring for someone who stays in one fixed point of reality like a body.

Manfred, who is not yet Manfred, wonders what that is like.

He shines his light obligingly on the dark sarcophagus where Emmrich is brushing at a tarnished bit of metal.

“Oh! Thank you. It is beastly difficult to read these. You’d think they’d want to label the remains of their loved ones more carefully. “

Manfred, who is not yet Manfred, twinkles and chitters in agreement. He likes the way the Mourn Watcher explains things. It is as though he can hear Manfred’s questions.

Perhaps he will stick around a bit longer and indulge his curiosity.

[catilinas]

i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship