So I wasn’t sure if getting on VR was worth doing so, as I’m still trying to help
my ‘sick’ graphics card by it not rendering in 1080p. But I hoped it wouldn’t do too much to it; Jero was going to come on VRChat and I wanted to see him. Now I’m just going to skip the ‘confusing drama’ of him not saying anything on Discord when he got on VR and focus on finally being able to see him when Spoon was on.
I talked to him about what I’ve been doing with my graphics card, how I’ve been closely monitoring the temps everytime I’m gaming, and feel glad I finally have an actual thermal threshold I can believe in.
Jero though, feels I shouldn’t need to worry. That even taking apart the card, cleaning the dust off and replacing the paste, isn’t going to make much of a difference with the
temp: “a 5-15c difference at the most” he said. But in my mind.. “as long as it gets below 80c, I’ll be happy”.
But he feels I’m over-panicking, and asked me “have you stress tested your card on the games you play, with HWMonitor, and noticed the clock speed going down? If it is, then it’s thermal throttling”. I said “no” but started to feel ‘..yeah, I should do that’. But then I countered it by saying “I’m actually worried about doing that, due to how long this has been happening and how old the card is.. scared I caused permanent damage to the
card.” He shook his head no, doubting it, and also going by my own reports that I haven’t seen any visual artifacting to prove damage has been done to the card.
He also says the thermal paste can handle temperatures up to 140c, to not worry about the paste drying out on the GPU chip due to the card’s age, even adding that he had a card that worked fine for 7 years.
And he really advises me to do that stress test to help calm my fears. So I will, which is why I’m back in 1080p. No more stretched out windows.
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Much later, in LS Media (without Jero there as he fell asleep in VR (again)), I was
with Muum and I told him about my issue. He seems to be on my side for this, even going as far as saying “too many things could happen if you take apart the fan and heatsink. You would be better off just getting a new graphics card than to risk damaging your current one.”
Granted, though.. he’s never seen nor heard the GPU chip having thermal paste (never saw a single video about it). He assumed the manufacturer made it impossible to take off the fans, that only the CPU gets paste on it.
.
In closing, what I might do tomorrow (depending on how I feel) is dedust my computer again, then take out the graphics card and give it (and the intake fans) a proper
dedusting, then put it back in. Anything I could do to knock off (at least) 5-10c.
Though I’ll do that after the stress test from playing Planet Crafter on Ultra graphics settings (depending on the results). I want to see if Jero’s right that I have nothing to worry about.
As for now, I’m going to bed. Strange thing though.. when I got off VR, is the exact moment that Jero also got off VR (and went to bed). Kind of creepy in a cool way.
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Right, this feels really weird. Feels like I either got to get my graphics card “up to the vet” or “to the doctor”, and hearing “before your visit, set your resolution back to 1024×768 to put less stress on it.”
And all I can feel from this is.. well, you know that old toy Stretch Armstrong? Instead of stretching the arms.. the entire toy looks like it’s stretched. It looks really bad, and I can’t believe I’ve handled this for many years. But, it’s the only thing I can do to prevent further damage to the card due to overheat. I don’t feel the card is
damaged, but I just want to make sure there’s no more risk of this.
It’s now Day 2 since I made a thread about this in the Microsoft Community discord server. Day 1, at night happened unexpectingly. I was editing the OP, covering any troubleshooting steps people might ask me (and my response to them) and suddenly this person with Japanese lettering started responding to me as I was halfway done with my editing.
After asking if my PC is a laptop or desktop (I said “desktop”), they asked me a very strange question (that made me question if I should wait for other help); “are there fans on the graphics card?”
Why is your computer illiterate ass trying to help me, if you never learned graphics cards have (at least) 1 intake fan!? But if it’s not that, then you clearly didn’t read the part in my OP when I said ‘the fans are screaming at me’. And they continued to ignore the OP when asking “do they spin at all during load”?
Yeeesss… READ THE FUCKING OP FFS!!! Why would I be saying the fans are screaming at me if the fans weren’t spinning on load?! After that, the conversation got a bit better.
They believe the issue is either the paste is going out, or the fans aren’t properly seated. Great.. the very thing I feared I might have to do. So I told them “at that case I might as well get a new card. Do you have any recommendations?” They did not, only going by how they do upgrades. So I felt “alright, I guess I’m going to be buying a new card then.” I know there’s a channel for this, to get recommendations. Figured I’ll just go to bed and ask the next day.
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The next day came, and I didn’t expect the thread to still be active. But I did forget to say it’s ‘Solved’. Because someone else was trying to help me. They were asking if the
fans “were spinning close to max speed”. Since I wasn’t using MSI Afterburner at the time I didn’t know this, so I brought it up and then did a test with Planet Crafter, in 1080p, with the fans at 100% speed… and the temp was not good. It was around 84-86c. Wow. So even with the fans at their maximum speed, it isn’t getting the temp below 80c. ..That’s, bad. I think this proves I got an internal issue with the card.
…Great. Just great. And so I told them the story of me and that POS FX 9590, how I couldn’t get the paste off and it was going under the heat spreader. But this person felt I still had a shot at doing it, and sent me this video;
That’s definitely my card. And, it doesn’t seem that difficult as I thought. I don’t really have to worry about pulling it off and accidentally yanking the plug the fans are connected to. The plug is on the upper right side of the card. That’s good for me.
The guy in the video mentioned how dusty everything was of their card. Immediately a lightbulb turned on as being a highly possible culprit to the heat. It can’t breathe with all of that dust, and hardware needs to breathe to be cool.
And as for the paste removal (the biggest bane of my existence), I found it interesting he used a razor blade on the heatsink, then he used QTips (coated in Isopropyl Alcohol of course) to clean the rest. Also doing this to (carefully) remove the paste from the GPU chip itself, and removed the paste that went past the chip with more QTips.
QTips, huh? Very interesting. I was told to use a cloth (or paper towels) before. Probably why I fucked up so bad before. Then of course he added a pea-sized dot on the chip (then spread it out evenly on the dye), reattached the fans/heatsink (on the second attempt), and carefully put it back into place.
The person that sent me the video said “please try this, unless you really want to get a backup card first”. And that made me feel a tiny bit confident that I could undo my fuckup of the past and do this. Because this seems.. honestly a bit easier than to replace the paste on a CPU. There’s no risk of the paste going under the chip when cleaning the old paste off. But I’m sure my nervous hands are going to fuck it up so god damn bad. …I hope not. I can’t afford fuckups.
I’ll find out next week, once the items I ordered on Amazon arrive. I ordered new paste, a razor blade scraper (to remove the paste from the heatsink), and some QTips.
For now, I ‘volunteered’ (without being told this) by lowering my resolution (and monitor the temp when gaming). Now I finally know what temps are ‘safe’ and what isn’t. Once I’m done and notice the idle temp is much lower than 54c (and the on load temp stays
below 80c), I’ll set it back to 1920×1080.
Hopefully after doing this, it might give me the courage to finally give my mother a faster computer (my old hardware), to re-paste my FX 4350, and the 750 Ti.
Two good things came out of this at the end;
1. Nothing’s wrong with the case’s airflow.
2. The CPU idle/on load temp are OK.
I still might aim to get a NVIDIA card in the future. Dunno what right now. EDIT: To the ones that are asking me “why don’t you open up your card and clean it off, then put it back together with the same paste that’s on there,” and believe me I really wish I could, to see if de-dusting it from the inside would help the card without needing new paste.
…But, this is not recommended in the slightest. With the card being this old, there’s a risk the paste has dried out, and putting it back together without applying new paste would make it worse. This is what I was told anyway. So I’ll need to wait until I get the equipment first.
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A post that’s half Games blog, half General blog. Where the hell would I put something like this? Answer: the General blog, as this is about the technical side of a game instead of talking about the gameplay.
So, Planet Crafter. A fun game about taking a lifeless planet and turning it into a tropical paradise, and watching the fruits of your labor happen before your very eyes. But like I said I’m not here to talk about the game, I’m here to talk about the technical side. Since the game is being worked on by a small team, updates take months until they get published.
The 0.7 “Fish and Drones” update brings changes to optimization; an uncontrolled LOD based on your set graphic quality.
If you don’t know what ‘LOD’ is, it stands for Level of Detail. This is a well known way to deal with optimization issues. …Except I feel the devs don’t fully understand what its purpose is actually for. Either that or I myself have mistaken it for Draw Distance. So
what LOD does is take an object and base its graphic quality around the distance the player is looking at it. If the player is far away, it will replace the actual model of the object with a static 2D object, which cuts down on rendering requirements (hence, a smoother framerate as the GPU doesn’t have to render so much).
…This is not what’s actually happening in the game. So, I believe this is draw distance, not LOD. Draw distance makes objects disappear based on the distance of the player. But it does so.. very obsessively.
Exhibit A: Rods disappearing.
Note that I don’t have to go far at all for these rods to disappear, yet the glow of them still exists? This is not LOD, this is draw distance. And this is ridiculous.
And here’s another. Exhibit B: Display screens.
LOD would never do this. It would adjust the graphics quality based on the player’s distance to the object, not completely POOF the object out of existence. And another thing that gets me, why is it only the Power screen on the smaller screens, it attempts to do this on?
“Um…. this is an Early Access game. I’m pretty sure they’re just testing things and it likely will be fixed in a future update,” and your point would be valid. But that still gives me the right to point it out. And I have told them the issue.
With that out of the way, I need to talk about the point of this blog post. And that is how my computer handles this game. Now the framerate isn’t the issue.. it’s the fact my graphics card is getting very close to 90c when in 1080p (1920×1080). I do my best to ignore the fans screaming at me with how fast they have to spin to keep the GPU from dying.
Now I’ve had this happen with other games, but this is the first time I actually reported it as an issue. Mainly because of the ‘LOD’ I thought was going on and how it wasn’t really helping me with my soaring temps. So I assume it was just “this is an Early Access game, so I’ll just report my hardware in their discord server and maybe in the future the devs would fix it”.
I never anticipated the response I would get from a fellow user of the server, who seemed like they were delibertly trying to scare me.. and it also makes me not really want to play anymore as I don’t feel it’s “worth it”. I will explain this later on. The person said the temps are “dangerous”. What really made me sick is them saying “you are running AMD and they are more cheaply made than their Intel counterparts for the same performance”. However I only felt sick for a few moments until I read it again, and felt.. “wait, what? The ‘same performance’?? What the FUCK are you smoking, pal?!”
Intel fanboy detected!! 😂
‘Cheap made’ my ass. Now I could agree with the RX 580 having a lower TDP than
my CPU (which makes no sense as GPUs typically get hotter than CPUs. Though of course that depends if the game’s engine uses the GPU or the CPU more).
The person continued to make confused (to me) blabbing, somehow not just confusing
a GPU with a CPU (saying I should be water cooling my CPU.. when it’s not the problem here), but not even reading how I said “I’m not seeing any thermal throttling”. And
again, more and more people were ignoring this part in my OP. What the HELL.. do I have to put it in fucking neon for them to see it?? Come on!! Please help me figure this shit out!
But nothing happened after that. They stopped responding after I clarified my words, even adding emphasis on the whole “I’m not thermal throttling FFS!!” aspect. But nothing happened. The trolls said their peace and moved on.
Had a guy later this evening, asking me “do you have a Steam Deck, by the way?” I
said “yes”. They said “I run Planet Crafter on a Steam Deck and it runs great! Of course I get less than 60 FPS but I don’t feel the game needs a lot.” ..Huh. Curious, I asked him if they use the Steam Dock as well, as the game doesn’t have 100% compatibility with the deck. They claim you don’t need the dock with this game, but they had to bound
the CTRL key to “one of the unused buttons on the back”.
Huh. Interesting. But.. I dunno. 😞 I dunno if I want to stare at a small screen compared to my monitor. The only way around that is to use the dock, but I would need a cheap keyboard and a monitor. Thought of using my TV as a monitor. Get me a TV stand that will be high enough to clear my legs and put the dock and keyboard there.
…But what about other games? Would I seriously use my deck as a laptop for gaming, just because I’m lowkey scared of my graphics card getting to those high temperatures?
I need to ask someone, or a group of people of my options. If I should be worried, and what I could do to either mitigate the problem, or find a more drastic alternative (such as replacing the card, the case(or adding another outflow fan to my current case), or
both)?
Feel I’m in for a long ride, with lots of troubleshooting. One of those I’m pretty damn sure I’ll be asked (due to the age of the card), is “reapply thermal paste on the GPU”… oh
god.
*flashbacks of trying to put thermal paste on that FX 9590.. and trying to ‘clean it off’ and it going everywhere… and the fact I have to not fail this task with the GPU*
I feel sick thinking about it… rather just pay for a fucking graphics card instead! ANYTHING than having to deal with thermal paste!! 🤮
This is why I don’t really feel like playing anymore. That and I tried to go back to my old resolution (1024×768). The graphics card never hits 80c there, but.. the vertical letterboxing is getting on my nerves (as my monitor resolution is still 1080p).
This feels unfair.
Also, weird glitch happens every time I close the game; it hangs for some reason. That’s also very annoying.
============================================================== Jero has an (actual) job now
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Not sure how to start this one, to be honest. Outside of “so Jero has a job now”. But that’s quite pathetic of a way to start a segment. Mmm, whatever I guess.
Anyway, from what he said, it seems he got his ‘old job’ back as one of those people who installs internet service, working with his dad again (which is good). I am very happy for him, aka not having to worry about him being unable to make it financially. But all he seems to care about, is paying me back.
Now you would expect him now working, of me only seeing him on the weekends, being
a ‘problem’ with me. It really isn’t, though. I’ve been preparing myself for this scenario and have zero issue with it. I’m serious.
But what I didn’t prepare myself for, is him being too tired to come on VRChat on the weekend. I based this off of, well, the typical person that works daily. But Jero is not ‘the typical person’. He has severe Insomnia, where he’s either sleeping too much, or hardly sleeping at all (which makes him too tired to hang out with anyone on VRChat). This also doesn’t help when he’s 5 hours ahead of me (and his other American friends). ..Plus his issue that he has trouble trying to be communicative with me, also doesn’t help him.
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What worries me, is I’ll never see him on VRChat ever again because of this job he has, and how tired he tends to get. He might become another distant friend I once had. And if that’s the case, then I’m going to have to prepare myself for this as well. But.. well I’ll cross that bridge if it actually happens. I pray it doesn’t. I pray I’m wrong with my thoughts, that he would try what he can to make sure this never happens. And I told him this.
He has revealed last week, that even sometime during the weekends they might call him in. And that’s fine… IF he would work on his freakin’ communication skills.
Two things are going to have to change with him, if he wants this relationship to last. Including one thing I too am going to have to change (about myself).
1. Be more communicative on Sundays and Fridays, by saying “hey Benie, I’m going to be working on the weekend”.
2. Fixing his sleep issues to not ‘use’ sleep as ‘an excuse’ he can’t play VRChat.
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And the one thing with me, to… be more patient with him, and beat “he’s not fucking doing this on purpose!!!” into my head. There could be a number of reasons this is happening. I just wish he would tell me, so I won’t have to worry about ‘never seeing him again = having to say goodbye’ as I don’t need a BF that never even comes on Discord as he’s too busy, in my life. …I absolutely hope I never have to go through this.
============================================================== Bluey, the surprisingly likable ‘kids’ show
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Time to talk about something more uplifting after that love drama mess.
Don’t typically talk about TV shows or Movies unless they’re worth watching. This show is definitely worth it. Yet how can a standard kids show that’s typically tailored for preschoolers (to for parents to give their kids something to watch), manage to become one of my favorite shows after binge watching all 141 episodes, spanning three seasons, totally not watching them on LS Media and instead watching them on Disney+ like a good little enjoying paying yet another monthly fee for a streaming service boy?
But you’re also probably curious of how I heard of Bluey. YouTube of course, but it was out of nowhere. Though I originally wasn’t sure about it, it started to grab my interest. But I wanted to watch it with Jero, due to the British-like accent of Australian anthropomorphic cartoon dogs.
I ended up watching it alone, by myself. But literally right after the intro, I started laughing at the dad using Bluey as a piano (playing on his stomach). I was instantly hooked on the show. The wholesomeness of the father’s bond with his kids definitely won me over. It’s amazing that the first episode of the first season got me hooked, and all I wanted to do was watch more episodes. I wanted to see the tearjerker moments I read about in other videos, to see just how they would ‘hit me in the feels’. …They did not disappoint when I started tearing up, watching Bingo be ignored and hearing herself crying. Fucking hell, that cut me like a knife.
So yeah, I absolutely adore this ‘kids’ show, even as a 46 year old. Because I love the humor with the parents spending time with the kids (going along with their crazy imaginations).. to do nearly anything to see their kids smile. I love the tearjerker moments as well, with how powerful their family bonding is.. and wishing I had parents like this when I was growing up.
…I have cried, when Bingo (one of the two kids and one of my favorite characters as she’s so sweet) feels scared and alone in some episodes. A 46 year old, crying while watching a kids show. How absurd, huh? Yet there’s nothing wrong with this.
This is how powerful of a show Bluey is. Because it’s not just for kids, but a teaching tool for parents as well. The show doesn’t try to insult your intelligence. It goes over relatable topics you possibly had when you were growing up, even more sensitive topics you would never EVER expect to be discussed in a kids show: ADHD, abandonment issues, infertility, death, toxic friendships, hangovers, (hinted) miscarriages, not picking favorites when you have two kids, and more. It’s just so good.
And then there’s the humor; the icing on the cake. And some of this humor can fly right by a kid’s head as it’s more adult themed. But, you also got episodes that start kind of slow then suddenly have a surprise ‘guest star’ (who only showed up twice in Season 2 and 3). I’m talking about Unicorse, and my goodness this character is so freakin’ funny.
I found this YouTube short of Unicorse’s best moments. Enjoy.
“Aaaaaaaaand… why should I care??” 😂🤣🤣
“Unicorse, what’s your favorite food?” “…Children.” “Ohh! 😨” 😆😆😆 The last time I laughed that hard, was the episode ‘Taxi’. It was beautiful too.
So if I haven’t convinced you to check out Bluey on whatever platform you use, I highly suggest you to do so.
============================================================== OSC Goes Brrrrr is.. “interesting”😅
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Right, this final segment, um.. if you have kids with you while reading this blog post, it’s best to close out the page before I go over the specifics, as this segment is definitely not suitable for children. Trust me. Or at least have them look the other way while you read this.
So hopefully you’ve already X’d out this blog post or whatever you (legally) did with your kids.
*claps once* Right then, for the actual ‘adults’ out there who are reading this, I have some questions for you:
Do you play VRChat? Are you a furry? Do you like to ERP, but can’t really find anyone to have fun with? Do you have toys from Lovesense? If your answer to all four is ‘yes’, then I got a surprise for you.
Your toy can work with a Unity addon called ‘OSC Goes Brrrr’, from the talented
creator (and someone I swore I was friends with in VRChat back in the Best Boi
era): SenkyDragon (or just ‘Senky’ for short, that I usually call ‘Sneky’). But enough of that. It uses a base program called ‘VRCFury’, also made by him.
But anyway, yeah. You can set your toy to vibrate while things happen to your virtual dick in VRChat. Jero has wanted this for a long time, talking how awesome it would be if he got a Lovesense toy and we had virtual sex. And I would love that a lot. But I’m not sure if it would.. work for me over a.. size issue. 😶 He wanted to know for the longest time how it’ll be possible.
Little did I know the answer would come to me, in a very.. awkward way in the form
of Blender joining. There’s a reason why I didn’t really go over this in detail. Anyway, he has this thing that Jero was able to jack and suck his dick and he would feel it IRL. Nearly a month later, I was thinking about this but I felt too embarrassed to ask him. Finally I did and he told me everything, even the toy he uses and the program he uses.
I looked over the program and something caught my eye.. this thing, can respond to an orifice. Almost immediately I started to think about the Jero clones I have, and how I wanted to have lewd versions of them. If what I’m seeing is true… dear god, I would
never ‘need’ Jero for ‘uwu time’ ever again. Of course a doll will never, ever replace the real thing.
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But there’s something I needed to know– is this even possible with non-avatars that are attached to you that can be spawned? I asked Blender, while also knowing he likely wouldn’t know as he’s probably never done this before, and sure enough it was the
truth.
So, that was it. There’s no way I’ll ever know as this is a GitHub page, and the dev usually doesn’t have a way to contact them to ask.. until I saw ‘Need help? Join the VRCFury Discord’. Wonderful! They have a discord server that I can ask in!
Joined and was able to get access to their NSFW channels about VRCFury and the other projects, and I asked my question. I never got an answer, but that night I saw Senky saying he would be “answering all unanswered questions tomorrow”. This gave me hope I would get a response.
And sure enough, when I woke up and turned my computer on, he had responded to me as well. And his answer is YES, it is possible!!
Oh man, the things I could do. The poses I could come up with. Yet something’s stopping me from going gung ho on this. And that’s remembering the hell I went through to get
the Jero clones to work the way I want them. Plus, the unfamiliarity of the forced VRCCC.
I might also have to be forced, to go back to the VRChat Discord incase VRChat’s updates broke everything I’ve done.
Just doesn’t feel ‘worth it’, going through that hell again. Especially if what I’ve
learned, what I’ve been taught back then, no longer works anymore and I’ll have to start from scratch (and it’s even more difficult). …That would suck.
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#ThoughtsOfBenie
I have been having a lot of thoughts lately. Some thoughts that annoy me. Some thoughts that confuse me. And some thoughts that cause me to have depression.
Three of these stand out as being the main thoughts, with one that’s slightly minor.
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The first one, is coming back to Autonauts after a year long hiatus. As I said in my Games blog, I finally remembered why I had stopped playing. However, I’ve gone beyond where I stopped thanks to some helpful Youtube playthroughs of the game.
One channel has really been helping me to maximize my efficiency (the best I can), and is also the main (and only) channel that has been doing a playthrough of
the ‘new’ Settlement mode, named ‘ShabbyDoo‘. His playthrough, I seriously mean that it has really been helping me when it comes with trying to figure out where to put what. Plus he shows you code that he does, which makes things so efficient. Such as dealing with the annoying Crude Bucket (when you want your bot to do as much as it can in the least amount of time).
However, about a week ago I started noticing that he might not see Autonauts as ‘worth playing’, as maybe to him it isn’t bringing in the views as his other videos. And if this is his full time job, yeah it’s definitely understandable that you would want as many clicks on your popular videos as possible. And now he’s playing other games.
…This presents a problem (for me). He had just started Stage 5 in his last video, which is the stage I was been stuck on for about a month (mainly of waiting for him to post a new video). And without his guidance, I was fucking LOST. But, I finally squeezed myself out of that evil stage after putting it off for so long.
I also had told myself “wow, if you’re having this much difficulty.. it’s going to get even worse for you”. And already, they want me to set up Power, and have a way where I got to bring in those big rocks that do not respawn (unless you mine a Stone deposit with
a crude metal pickaxe.. which means having medium distance traveling for bots to get metal ore).
Without that video giving me an idea what to put where and how many, to get another idea how to make it work with my village.. it’s going to take so damn long of being.. ugh. Forced to learn on my own instead of having the answers given to me!
I know that eventually, with enough patience on my part, I’ll reach the end of Stage 8
and ‘beat the game’. But to have a visual guide in the form of YouTube videos is even better. Especially when it’s using the same gamemode I’m in, and the same game version I’m playing.
And no, I can’t use his completed Enlightenment mode playthrough, as this gamemode unlocks things differently than that original one. It would feel out of order, especially when I’m searching for him starting on a specific building, and having buildings I’ve never seen before in his video that could be attached to it.
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On to the next thought. And of course it’s about my boyfriend, Jero, and my inability to help him out. Though we’re still a thing that (I hope) is never going to end anytime
soon, I fear his own thoughts might take over his reasoning.
Mainly of the status of his Index controllers.. they don’t work anymore. That’s how bad it’s gotten for him. And he didn’t seem he was going to go insane without being in VR, which was surprising. He told me before, he was very addicted to VRChat. But I believe his financial situation is causing his depression to be stronger than that addiction.
And this, has me worried.
His financial issues haven’t gotten any better. Infact they’re getting worse. And it’s mainly because of that stupid Russia-Ukraine war. It’s gotten so bad that he’s been desperately trying to look for an actual job, and drop his Uber Eats gig work. And he tells me that if that happens, he’ll likely never be able to play VRChat again.
X to Doubt there. Though that depends on the workload and the boss. Usually they’ll let you go during the weekend.
Though he has another issue. Yesterday, he got on VRChat to see how his laptop would handle it. However, his ever glitchy controllers had their own idea by deciding they wish to unalive, screwing him. In the past he’s said to me that he would go crazy without
VRChat. But having to focus on his finances more, seems to have rid him of this feeling. And this brought up a thought, that he’s going to start feeling I’ve “let him down” and start to feel that he’s a “bad boyfriend”.
To counter this, I had a long (one-sided) conversation with him (aka some paragraphs for him to read when he wakes up), and also to work out some sort of plan if that addiction to play VRChat comes back. I feel happy I did this, to show him I’m not going to leave him nomatter what happens. Those days ago of feeling doubts, are over. And honestly, I’m quite glad it did happen. Because I was able to learn from it.
Sure there are still times where I wish he would be more communicative, but true love is looking past the flaws. He’s looked past mine, and he still loves me. About time I do the same, of that he can’t always be there.
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Now the 3rd thought. This one is about something that doesn’t exactly concern me (right now), but something that really needs to be discussed by the media of why and how this wasn’t preventable.
It’s about that massive train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and the coverup by not only the government, but the Norfolk Southern railway. Of all the times to have doubts if what you’re being told is true, this is a really good time for that. It’s extremely disgusting for them to lie through their teeth to the citizens of that small town, and I hope they pay dearly for it.
But there is also a concern for me. How safe is our spring water, lately? And where in the hell does it even come from? See, I live near the Ohio River. Do we get our water from it? And if so, where from? And has the EPA (and not anyone else like a greedy train
company) been doing regular testing since the Ohio train derailment for Vinyl Chloride?
It’s that level of miscommunication that has a lot of people nervous, for good reason. The Louisville Water Company did a one-week-long test phase, and claimed by the time they ended it the Vinyl Chloride “would had passed us by now”.
This doesn’t exactly make me feel safe, the fact they just stopped testing altogether. They should keep testing until ZERO traces of any harmful chemical from that crash site are detected. Only then would I feel safe. Especially the ones in East Palestine who see that ugly multicolored ripple in their creeks and streams from throwing a rock into it.
Water should stay clear and fresh for not just humans, but for animals. It is our
lifeblood, quite literally. Blood has water in it. We need it to survive.
There should be, at least, small groups of the EPA to test the waters all along the Ohio River (and any creeks that are coming from Ohio into Indiana and other states), and make those results available to the public (in an easy to digest format) until the EPA no longer detects any chemicals that were the results of the train derailment. Any level of transparency (even possible health effects that could happen 5-10 years from now) to ensure that even bottled water is safe to drink, would be nice to help calm fears and distrust that the government is poisoning the water.
And… that’s about all the thoughts I have (currently).
Ok, this is my first (proper) post of 2023. I wasn’t really going to make this post, but there’s a lot that came up that I felt was blog-worthy, and things I should had talked about before but I “never had time to do so” (aka too lazy or felt it wasn’t really worth it).
So let’s start.
============================================================== Benies-Blogs.com now using HTTPS
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So this change was due to the very system I use to make these blog posts: WordPress, who has been bitching at me for many months to make changes to my ‘website’.
Mainly it was bitching about PHP being outdated, but what finally got me to actually take action was it claiming that WordPress “will stop supporting it in the future”.. which would fuck me over, as PHP is literally the brain of WordPress. And only Arvixe can do something about it.
And if you were to ask me “why do you have to contact your hosting provider? Why don’t they update this automatically?”.. I wouldn’t be able to give you an answer. I dunno. Guess they don’t feel its their responsibility. *shrug*
But WordPress also asked me to clean up the database… aka delete old blog posts to help speed up the overall time users take to search for a specific blog post, which I cannot do as there’s a lot of history. I can’t just delete that. Unless I make two special archive blogs to move old posts from 2008 all the way to 2018– ten years of blogging, which blows my mind.
Anyway, my WordPress overlords are happy now (somewhat). But I’m glad the screenshot database now has security, which hopefully should mean no unauthorized access to the screenshots folder.
============================================================== Odd computer freezes
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So I’ve been binge watching every episode of the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who in LS Media. I’m now up to Season 11, soon to be Season 12. And the reason I’m talking about this is twice (in the span in less than a month), I’ve had my computer completely lock up and display black screens on the monitors, while also my speakers playing an ear-piercing sound when it happens.
What’s bad is I dunno what could be causing it. It’s hard to reproduce it due to its unpredictable nature, but I do have three suspects; 1. Bad video card drivers (even though I did a clean install). 2. My C drive being full. [I’ve since have taken care of this] 3. I haven’t updated the BIOS in awhile.
But like I said, it’s hard to pinpoint the source. All three ‘suspects’ could very well be innocent as it isn’t happening more frequently. What the hell triggers it?! It’s so frustrating and anxiety filled to not know if I have it fixed it not, mainly because of how I need to have the volume up there as they talk quietly. And when that sound plays, it scares the shit out of me as it just happens without warning!! One moment, just be happily focused on the plot of the episode, and the next.. “BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
This issue, whatever it is.. is trying to give me a fucking heart attack! And I wish it would stop.
============================================================== Finally watched Dreamworks’ Furry Bait
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I saw Dreamworks’ attempt at successful Furry Bait with Jero today, aka Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
But before I go there, the movie as a whole.. felt lacking to me. It felt way too short for a full length movie (like 45 minutes instead of your typical nearly 2 hour movie). The pacing felt rushed, and there were a few scenes I felt were overdone. It just felt they ran out of good ideas halfway and salvaged the ones they could.
The characters in the movie however, were really good. I really liked the little dog who always did his best to think positive, and just wanted to be loved. The art style was also really good.
And then finally, there’s the Furry Bait: ‘Death Wolf’. Dreamworks, clearly knew how to make a bottom cream themself. I can see why a lot of furries are making really cool art work of him.. even NSFW, and saying things on the lines of “OHH REAP ME, DADDY!!” He uh, he’s definitely an interesting character. For he shows no fear, only ‘dom energy’, to make most subs quiver in fear.. and lust. *cough*
Let’s just say, Hell’s about to get a lot more full with horny subs wanting Death Wolf to dominate them. But what makes him such a great character is just his style, and the fight scene near the end. He’s just so badass. So it’s no wonder why most furries love him to where they want to make him their ‘husbando’.
Furries are weird, bro. And this comes from a furry who’s also dating one in VRChat. But to me, Death Wolf (and the cute dog) carried the movie. Dreamworks was aiming for more than one character to be a fan of, and they did it with me. They could had easily made the dog an annoying little shit, and Death Wolf ends up actually killing Puss to finally hit the harsh reality of morality home with its audience.
But they didn’t, and in a way it’s good how they did it. They also could had gone the route that most animation movies did in the past: having long drawn out ‘the main protagonist is sad’ moments. But they didn’t. They just kept hammering the audience with more and more.
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But like I said, I don’t really like it. It’s good, but I just.. I don’t like it. One of the reasons is because of the moral of the story. It isn’t a ‘rags to riches’, ‘not letting anyone stop you from achieving your dream’, ‘boy eventually gets girl’, ‘a bad guy can become good’, and ‘learning to cope with your differences’ story that’s been used.
No. This movie hits me on a more personal level, just like most of Doctor Who hits (but I end up ignoring it as I’m more for the SciFi cool shit of time traveling).
Actually, there’s multiple morals to this movie:
1. Not feeling you’re immortal and can “laugh in the face of death”, for death will show you.. you’re not immortal.
2. Death always comes for you, nomatter how fast you run away.
But the main moral they’re trying to hit, shows up at the end of the movie when Puss finally realizes he only needs one life, that he can live well. It’s supposed to tell you
to ‘live your life to the fullest’.. plus to look back at why you need to stay alive, for the ones that love you. That’s literally it, in a nutshell.
…I don’t like movies that are aiming to teach which hit me on a personal level. 😛
============================================================== Spoon goes all out for his birthday next month
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I’ve never seen anyone going all out for their birthday, unless they’re a kid and its their parents doing so with clowns and stuff.
But Spoon is. Apparently the guy has a disposable income, even though he currently doesn’t have a job. Or maybe his BF is raking in the money with his job. Though that’s none of my business of how they’re getting their money.
All I know is his 29th birthday (February 4th) is going to be HUGE. Live DJs, giveaways such as Steam keys for certain games, and finally asking for donations to a charity that helps with downs syndrome. He especially wants you to think about his little brother who also has it.
If you want more info about his birthday bash (and you’re an 18+ furry), then join Spoon’s discord server here as it’s the only link I’m allowed to give out. Personally, what he’s doing is really awesome. Always awesome to donate to a good cause.
============================================================== “Doooo you have the time, to llISTen to me whine?” -Grey
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This was something I didn’t really feel like discussing, but I have to talk about the elephant in the room which is Grey (now currently Jero’s only real friend). Most of the time when Jero is on orange status, he’s with Grey. And that’s because Grey constantly feels hurt that he isn’t the center of Jero’s attention. ..Basically, it’s like a mirror of the old me, that wanted to be attached to Jero, but even worse. Where he gets bothered when Jero hangs out with other people (which is why Jero has to be on Orange status).
Now you can say he’s toxic, but there’s a reason why he’s the way that he is (if it’s to be believed, that is). And that is, his family. But to respect his privacy, I will not be discussing it in here. All I can say, is it’s pretty ugly and I can understand why he’s the way he is. I do feel for him. I’m sorry what’s going on is happening to him.. but there’s nothing I can really do.
He’s like me, that never grew up to understand whining to friends about my life isn’t going to fix anything, that only I can change it. Sure, I still whine about things I can’t control. But I rarely talk about my life anymore, unless I have to in order to explain something to someone. For the most part, I keep it to myself.
Even Jero understands this about Grey. But, he has a lot more patience than I do, which I’m thankful for (as he’s patient with me).
Anyway, a few days ago I noticed Jero was world hopping. I wanted to investigate, and I found out he was with Grey. Jero, really wanted Grey to bury the hatchet and us to be friends again (to where he was begging). I was cool with it, but Grey wasn’t.
And you know what’s funny? Grey claimed I was “being desperate” to be friends with him. Seriously? I’m not the one begging here, Jero is. But I didn’t want to throw my BF under the bus like that, so I said “no I’m not being desperate. I really don’t know what you have against me”.
And that’s when he told me it’s something I said in Discord, which.. again, I don’t remember. But since it’s something I said, I would assume (when it comes to Grey), that I said to “grow the fuck up and stop whining about things you can’t control”.
That I could understand why he would dislike me, even though it’s true. But come
on, Grey. It’s been a long time. Bury the damn hatchet already, dude.. so Jero doesn’t have to go out of his way to have you be happy.
But.. I honestly don’t care either if he ‘hates’ me until the end of time. I’m not going to stoop to his level. I don’t need your toxicity in my life. I got my own issues. Everyone does.
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Usually anytime I talk about love drama with Jero (and it’s good), the next day or sometime that week.. something goes wrong. I dunno why, or how of what I write, ends up jinxing myself that I really start to question my own words.
This 3rd time I’ve dated him, I’ve been doing my damnest to keep my emotions in check. To not feel I “need” him so much and ones like that. To not feel jealous when someone hugs him and whispers sweet things to him (I’m still working on this).
Those things I’m trying to change in my life. Things I know I can change, as they’re fairly easy to do.
…But not all change is easy, when my mother wants me to change to be as bored as she
is, so I can spend the most time with the cats (and never feel they’re a ‘burden’). She wants me to throw away the life I enjoy, nomatter how much I try to tell her that I want to enjoy this life as much as I can before the day she passes away.
In ways I..I actually hope she does pass away before I do. She’s in her early 70’s. I’m in
my late 40’s. But my health is questionable.
And with this burden that would be placed upon me when she does pass away, I won’t be able to do the things I wanted to do.. such as meet Jero IRL. I really, really want to. But at the same time, I also feel scared to do so. I’m scared I’m going to feel “EWWW!!” of seeing what he actually looks like, that all of this time I’m scared I’ve been lying through my teeth.
But again, I really need to. I need to see the face of who I love behind the monitor. It needs to happen, for me to feel “yes, this is the one I want to spend the rest of my life with.” To be inlove with an avatar is one thing, but to be inlove with the person controlling it is true love.
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But why am I saying all of this? Because Jero’s friend Spoon Head, wants it to happen. He also wants me to attend my first Furry Con with him and his friends. And there is something else I recently discovered that happened when Jero visited Spoon and the others IRL last year.. they went to a gay bar. *cough*
Okay, there’s things I wouldn’t mind going to if I could, like furry cons and meeting up in another city. Those would be awesome. But eating at restaurants that I’m not familiar with and going to gay bars, I cannot.
One: I only like certain foods. And Two: I’m bi, though more on the side of liking a woman’s body than a man’s body. To attend a gay bar, no offense, would make me sick. Like, “WTF am I doing here?!” sick. I’m sorry. I couldn’t do it. I would more happily attend a bar that has both women and men. Attending a gay bar would make me very uncomfortable.
Oh yeah, I forgot. I also don’t drink. There’s that too.
But, that’s why Jero is the one for me. He understands me, and promises to not do anything that makes me feel uncomfortable. He wants me to be happy, and I don’t have to worry about him leaving me. I never really did.
Yeah, he would like for me to visit Spoon and the others IRL in a Furry Con, even said he’ll take care of me. But when my mother passes away, Cleo (the cat) would have to be my main responsibility. She gets lonely, and I can’t leave her to attend a con.
Can’t be gone for an hour.. let alone 3 days (that’s typically how long a typical convention lasts, which includes travel time to and from an airport, getting to a hotel room, etc etc).
Honestly, I’m better off attending Furality (in VRChat). I won’t have to leave the
house to go to the airport. I can eat my own food IRL. And still be able to attend a furry con.
Plus, no risk of catching COVID, or needing to worry about my appearance.
..However this does come with its own issues, such as possibly needing to make my main avatar to be Quest compatible (to not lag out people). Might have to pay for a commission to get that done.
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Whatever happens though, I know that Jero will always be there. And I’ll always be there for him. I just hope this also reflects IRL as well.
I hope for the day where I’ll be able to meet him IRL, and he’ll see the real me in person. But let’s not wish that day to come soon, for there is still plenty of time left in the world.
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So before I start, let’s get a list of the easiest ways to upgrade your PC.
1. Upgrade RAM (no screws required).
2. Install an M.2 (only one screw required.. for my case, two were required).
3. Replace a dying case fan (though this depends where the dying fan is located, also
four screws required).
I have done all three of these, and all three I have nearly failed at due to either
my unstable, shaky nervous hands (and I do my best to keep calm but my body
refuses to do so) which causes me to screw up as I’m scared I’m either applying too much pressure on the motherboard (mainly for RAM install), I’m putting it in wrong, or I’m going to end up losing a screw that I cannot reacquire by shaking it out of the case.
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So now we go to the M.2: the 2TB I went through hell to actually acquire the damn thing due to shipp— hmm, maybe I should explain the story before I explain the still unknown results of what I did to install it.
I don’t fully remember what lead me to seeing this M.2. Was it from an email? Just browsing Amazon because I was bored out out of my mind? What I do remember is it was a list of various items that were on sale after Cyber Monday. And one of them, was this.
At the time before I got this, the 2TB version was $156.99. For a 2TB M.2, that is a
fucking STEAL!! 😀 Because as you can see, this is usually $500. 69% off. Nice.
Anyway, hell of a deal. Bought one, even though I didn’t know if I could even use it. I
mean my motherboard does have two M.2 slots. But I remember from reading the manual that something will have to be disabled to make it work. And I prayed it wasn’t anything important.
I waited a week and finally got the M.2 in the mail. But something was amiss when I got the package out of the shipping envelope.
Yep.. they cheated me out of a Terabyte. And I put the blame straight on Amazon. At the end of my conversation with them, they wanted me to send the 1TB back. And they were willing to work with me by having the shipper come to my house and pick up the
envelope, which is really nice. ..If only other companies would be willing to work with people that don’t want/can’t drive and have no printer for a return label, it would make returning items a breeze.
So how about it Valve/Samsung/Lenovo? Are you guys going to actually WORK with people like me? But I digress. After I got done with that and was checking my email, I noticed another issue: the return was listed as ‘refund’ instead of ‘replacement’. And it’s a good thing I contacted their support again, as they were planning to once again cheat
me.
How so? With that time I waited for the first one, the sale has been slowly deteriorating which means the price was going back up. And they assumed I would be able to simply buy back the same deal I got before with the refund. When I kindly reminded them.. that’s not the way sales work, they’re like “oh fuck” and said “ok, just buy the item and when you get it and its the same as you got before, let us know and we’ll give you a full refund.”
My mind quickly assumed “wait.. a free 2TB M.2?! Yes!!” How the math worked in my head, is they’ll still give me a full refund for the original item, but getting an additional refund for the new item?! Hell yeah!! Free M.2 for my efforts!
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Finally though, I got the new one. And.. it’s the 2TB! Woo! Finally I got what I paid for. So I contacted them to get that sweet full refund… and I didn’t get it. They had twisted their promise to only offer a ‘price difference refund’ (aka refunding the difference between the two). Plus, not refunding shipping and tax costs.
Guess I was too hasty in praising them. Very unfortunate. But, at least I got what I asked for.
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And with the story out of the way, two weeks later is when I finally had the balls to install it. Looked at the manual again and saw I can easily put it in the second slot. It would only disable the card slot below it, which is thankfully unused. And after watching a video from the motherboard manufacture on how to properly install an M.2, I shut down my computer and opened the side panel (while also unplugging the PSU and discharging the motherboard for safety reasons).
I found the M.2 port and the mounting screw. With the case still upright I carefully unscrewed the screw and took it out. All there’s left to do is put in the M.2 into the slot at
a 30* angle, then secure it with the mounting screw, and I’m done! Easy peasy.
…The securing it part would take a fucking HOUR. The biggest problem is.. I don’t have a magnetic screwdriver to keep the fucking screw in place for me to get it back into its hole. I assumed a standard Phillips screwdriver would do the job (because that’s all I have).
Now, there was one time where I felt I wasn’t able to get my right arm into the case to hold down the M.2 for me to start screwing. So I turned the case, and I remember seeing the screw on the screw head. But when I put the screwdriver in and tried to screw, I notice it wasn’t really going in.
Pulled the screwdriver back out… and I noticed the screw was no longer attached. Oh shit. If it’s not in the hole, then it likely fell in the case. Thing is, I didn’t even hear it drop. And when I started moving the case around trying to listen for anything that sounds like a screw rattling around as it got moved, I didn’t hear anything. What the fuck?! Am I losing it? I KNOW I saw the screw when I put the screwdriver in the case! I even had a light on
it! How in the fuck is it not in the case?!?!
Frantically looked around anywhere else that it might had dropped outside of the
case, and saw nothing that looked like it. Like it disappeared into thin air. So I took out
the M.2 and turned my computer back on, feeling I failed. I messaged Jero thinking he might know what to tell me, but didn’t. Kept on thinking about that screw as I sat
there with my computer humming, then eventually felt “ugh.. FUCK IT!!” and unplugged everything from the back of it and threw it on the bed, and shaked it praying the screw would fall out, but again I heard nothing.. like the screw was never in there.
I’m fucking losing it, man….. 😣
After thinking for a long while of what are my other options, a thought popped into my head that I could use the other M.2 mounting screw. So I did, and this time I made damn sure this second fucking screw wasn’t going to pull a hudini on me like the last one did.
I managed to successfully screw in the M.2.. but, I didn’t like how it was bent.
According to the video, there is supposed to be a riser for the screw hole that you can place the M.2 on, when you tighten the mounting screw. But this motherboard doesn’t have
that, which greatly worried me that doing this would damage the M.2.
But I assumed “well, I guess this is how you do it.” ..Yet I couldn’t fucking do it again for a very long time. Every attempt I’ve made, the screw would slip away and rest on the motherboard the last second I try to get it in the screw hole. Very annoying.
But eventually.. eventually, I got it in and screwed it into the motherboard.
You can clearly see what I mean by the bending. I really do not like that, but there’s nothing I can do. Blame the board manufacture.
Now all I had to do was get those god damn tiny ass FPC’s (Front Panel Connectors) back in as two of them had fallen out of their pins. When I pushed them all back in, I plugged everything back in instead of just plugging in the essentials (as I didn’t know which ones even were the essentials.. too many black USB cables).
When I turned it on, I noticed the Power light wasn’t on but the hard drive activity light is still working. Still didn’t hear the phantom screw and haven’t to this day.
All there’s left to do is have Windows detect the M.2, assign it a drive letter, and then to move my entire Steam folder over to it. I first did the recommended backup which took around two hours. Yes, there was nearly a full Terabyte of game data. Geezus.
But I got everything working, and tested Guild Wars 2. And I see a 40-60% load time decrease when switching zones compared to a standard HDD. Wow.
Definitely feel I got my money’s worth.
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Merry Christmas to one and all. I hope all of you are spending time with your family, be them your biological family or a group of great friends you see as family.
And hopefully, if you’re like me, you’re trying to stay as warm as you can from this historic cold blast that is starting to (finally) leave us. Though its effects are still being felt, with more deaths being reported (and the worst time of the year for them), power
outages, house fires caused by space heaters, and roads that are impassible.
Stay safe out there, everyone. And if you’re out there traveling, arrive alive for your loved ones.
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Since I currently cannot create or edit any blog posts, I’m forced to use a Windows 10 Sticky Note to type this and have it ready, when the website comes back up. I was going to continue work on a pretty ranty post about the Skyscales in the Games blog, when I was greeted by this;
(had to take this with my phone as ShareX couldn’t upload, as it’s connected to my website)
My mind’s like “what?? Why is my website down?!” The 404 error really scared me, as usually a 404 means ‘page not found’. Like.. they deleted my website and didn’t tell me, yet I KNOW I paid my hosting and domain parking bills for the year.. so it can’t be
that!
Then I thought “ok, maybe the server my website is on is down for maintenance. I tried to get ahold of Arvixe about this (literally had to Google their damn Live Chat as they have it buried in their website now).
This was also when I had to help my mother build a feral cat house for a cat that hangs around here, that cannot be litter trained according to their ‘owners’ (who barely feed
it, and when they do it’s straight from the can.. yeah, they’re too lazy to put it on a
plate)..
Anyway it did take an hour (claiming of long wait times. My guess of customers like me that are upset seeing their websites suddenly down without warning) until I was finally able to talk to someone. They looked into the issue and discovered it was a server migration.
My mind felt “…OHHHHH!! That email I got 1-2 weeks ago!! They mentioned this!!” Explained that and said I completely forgotten about it. They say they don’t know how long until the website will be back up, but it will be ‘soon'(TM).
So I’m doing this while waiting to post it in the General Blog once it comes back up. Currently at the time of this writing (in this Sticky Note), the Games Blog is back up and running at full capacity, but the General Blog is still down. If I was to guess, they’re probably moving the massive WordPress database over.., which will take time (with the amount of posts I’ve made in it). It keeps on showing ‘Page not found’ in the title, while showing an infinitely spinning symbol in the middle of the page.
It’s also possible they’re moving the General Blog over first, then they’ll move the Games Blog over. As I notice, the General Blog is using an https, while the Games Blog is still using http.
..Are they increasing my website’s security, too? I really hope they are, as my screenshot database that ShareX uses could use it (to keep prying eyes out.. you know who you
are, my friends in the Mystery Skulls server).
EDIT: It’s now the 16th, and there’s been absolutely zero work being done on the migration. General Blog is still down. Games Blog is still up. Can’t
use ShareX either (which is SUPER annoying). Might have to contact Arvixe again and see if they’re still working on it.
EDIT2: General Blog is.. ‘back’ and I’m posting normally again. I dunno what the hell happened but apparently the whole ‘https’ thing was a mistake, and they said to
try ‘http’ instead, and I went right in. So, no additional security.
However, ShareX still can’t upload. They can’t help me with it, so I have to find a way to contact them. But I already know why– FTP. ShareX connects to it to upload. With the move to the new data center, they didn’t give me the updated info I needed to log into it. So yeah, real smart Arvixe. I can’t even get into my cPanel. It’s all based around FTP.
And after two more hours of waiting in line in Live Chat, I finally got everything. The only thing that I had to change was the host.
But yeah, we’re back up! 😀
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