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Hundreds and hundreds of moons ago I had a partition for everything. One for MP3s, one for downloads, one for games, one for school related files, one for silly joke programs, one for Windows, one for films, one for stuff I wanted to burn to disc and delete, and so on, and so forth. To keep everything properly separated but also because FAT32 was woefully inefficient with larger partitions. I do have a full backup of these on the external drive that is lying next to my screen right how. It contains folders up until "S", as I copied everything in folders named after their drive letters. The practice has since fallen out of my favor, even though it is easier nowadays to handle partions than ever before (and it even is possible to use them without the silly drive letter clutter that one ended up with way back), for a number of reasons. The largest one: it simply became too much work for too little gain. Eventually that one partition for games turned into two, and then three, the videos one grew in number too over time, then inevitably some spilling happened, I added new hard disks and partitioned them, then a game came out that broke all my partition sizes (hello full installation of Baldur's Gate!). There are other minor reasons too, one of which is a plethora of decently working and really fast file analysis and search tools. Running out of space for no obvious reason? WizTree is done telling you why in a couple of seconds. Need to find something and you cannot quite remember where it was? Everything has got you covered. It of course also helps that my desktop computer stopped being anything other than my private retreat from the real world. There is almost zero production software installed, for instance. I no longer have a printer, I no longer have compilers installed to fiddle with software as a hobby, not even a copy of Microsoft Office - or any other office suite. I barely ever do support for friends or favors any more, so there is no need to keep a large and well stocked driver library for the most common issues at hand. It is funny, for all my need to properly fill out progress bars and subject myself to terrible TV shows for no other reason than because OCD drives me to finish them, the excessive amount of organizing I did to keep everything in neat little drawers on my computer? That went away. Work is work. This desktop here, is not. Working from home blurred the lines a little, but thanks to working exclusively on Virtual Desktops it is still fairly easy. That is the almost part of having almost zero production software. I do have Citrix Workspace installed, that cannot be helped (technically it could, by having a work laptop, but so far I successfully avoided getting one, much like I still have an ancient Nokia 2600 as work phone - ain't nobody expecting me to read emails after work on that device).

I would recommend watching his videos, as they are entertaining and informative, and they offer a different point of view than most critique or review channels, as prior to making his channel and starting streaming, he was primarily an author who published a few fantasy and science fiction novels. Unlike many other streamers and review channels, he is also quite skilled, as evidenced by his plowing through Celeste. There is a copy of his Celeste stream on his secondary channel.

You should try 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ then.

For verbs of motion, when using に/ni, the subject (marked with が/ga, here the train) moves to (and then proceeds inside) the specified location from outside of said location (家に走った - I ran home, implying I entered my home too). Structured a little differently, that sentence could be made to mean a train/tram existed in Hiroshima which ran, but that is not what the title says. At least, not with the grammar I know. So yeah, beats me, someone with more experience with the language could probably answer that, in light of the context it is probably meant to express "The fist train ran in Hiroshima", but why? No idea.

Semi-unrelated, but still relevant if anyone else wants to look for it, I just spent a bunch of time trying to find information about the short animated film, but there's a typo in that title. It is Hiroshima ni Ichiban Densha ga Hashitta (original Japanese title: ヒロシマに一番電車が走った, with Hiroshima in katakana, not the usual kanji 広島). The difference between one simple letter is quite hilarious, as the title with no means something like "Hiroshima's first train ran", and with ni it means "The first train ran to Hiroshima" (走る is not specific to trains, it is a general movement verb meaning to move quickly - also used for running in the jogging or sprinting sense, driving with a car, etc). Also some added hilarity here is that none of the online translators deal with the title all too well, for whatever reason. Note: I do not know if 一番電車 in this context is an euphemism or anything of cultural relevance relating to the bombing. Literally it just means first train, 番 denoting an ordinal number here, as the other meanings of 一番 as "most" or "first turn" make no sense in context, at least not without watching the short.

About as often as they need to finally find a way to incorporate an aging Brent Spiner into the cast without it looking weird, or alternatively until now that Brent Spiner apparently finally gave up and accepted that he's going to forever be Data, but that is mere speculation. I do now know if he was fed up with the role and insisted to be killed off because of the aging issue or the casting issue, or both (rumors went around even as far back as Star Trek: Nemesis, but I never really followed them - I mean I liked Nemesis more than most people, but it still was not a good film). The latter is fixed now though, I guess. Not that any of that matters as the time of having decent Star Trek shows on air died in 2005*, and that might even be a stretch calling Star Trek Enterprise decent when it consists of two seasons that were noticably worse than other Star Trek early seasons, an experimental but rather enjoyable third season with severe pacing issues and retcon nonsense and an actually decent fourth season that showed potential until the plug got pulled and we got that travesty of a final episode that I once thought is going to be in the Star Trek hall of shame as the worst episode ever, but it has since been dethroned. Multiple times. *Not extending an olive branch to Strange New Worlds, as I mildly disliked to hated most of the characters and attempts to write character interactions and the character development. The show is not bad, so that is at least that, but certain aspects of the writing are just too awkward, and it fusses around too much and never truly commits to being full Star Trek - never mind it stubbornly adhering to the formula of having to have at least one awesome action scene per episode.

Rich: "Nothing I'm going to complain about is as bad as the stuff that came before." Indeed, and that is how low we have sunk. Because those middle three episodes were not good, but I guess when swimming in a sea of diarrhea, finding a chunk of firm stool feels like a win.

Even with the gimped core clock speeds there are games like Far Cry 6: I sure hope everyone who bought the 7950X3D needs them for production workloads too, because otherwise they might feel a little, say, uhm, silly? Quoted for truth, if one's primarily a gamer, one is better off saving money on a current mid-range Intel CPU or getting a leftover 5800X3D on AM4 and investing the money saved on a better GPU. Not using an RTX 4090 would move the results even close together than they already are, unless we're talking about games like Factorio, which obviously are going to benefit more from CPU upgrades than anything else (but even then we're talking about practically useless, if really impressive, improvements).

Curiously enough, the biggest hurdle to installing the RTX 4070 TI was not fiddling with the cables. The computer was built cleanly, all I had to do was to just plug a new cable in. Getting the RTX 3060 12GB out of the PCI-E slot on the other hand, that was a challenge. Good thing I have really long fingers, that chunky be quiet! Dark Rock Pro and some of Asus' heatsinks almost completely prevented me from reaching the unlock button for the latch in a way so I could apply enough pressure on it to unlock. Card draws - with unaltered settings - 140W in Hogwarts Legacy on Ultra (1080p, with DLSS). 60° GPU, 65° hotspot with the fans silently spinning at 30%, 1100 RPM at 2760 MHz GPU clock. Idle power draw of the card is less than 8W, what with my (gaming) PC only having one monitor. Playing something less demanding keeps the card in idle mode and it has zero fan spinning. Guess fiddling with the power target or voltages would yield even better results at barely any performance cost. Conclusion: Faster, less noise and pretty good power consumption. The card got a whole lot of hate for the MRSP, which I understand, and it could have a better memory interface (or rather, it could have come with 16GB memory, like the 4080), but for me and my aspirations to play games at 1080p, well, I'll be good for a while now.

Speaking of long form videos channels, this was for the longest while the only channel I subscribed to: Joe's not been very active mostly because he's been unable to properly finish his The Witcher 3 video. It was supposed to be one video about the trilogy but YouTube had technical issues uploading an eight hour 1080p60 video and so he split it in three parts, reworked them, and only managed to release two of them in three years now. He even deleted his 5000$-a-month Patreon account because he feels bad about not finishing it. I guess it'll be done when it is done, in other words, there's a good chance that The Winds of Winter will release earlier. Other noteworthies, just without images: SummoningSalt - long form speedrun documentaries. RLM - well, needs no real introduction, been a fan of theirs for a long while now, even before they moved to YouTube. Plus some other bits and pieces that probably aren't too interesting.

You should see my Netflix recommendations, it keeps telling me to watch Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai specifically because I liked Violet Evergarden.

Well, then he needs to beat up his writers.

Star Dreck: Pikerd To paraphrase Hawkeye in Marvel's The Avengers: "You and I remember Deep Space Nine very differently." Dear Paramount, it is pretty cool that you stopped letting Jar Jar Abrams, Kurtzman and Goldsman mess up Star Trek for this season, but can you please force future showrunners to watch the entire Star Trek canon (ideally without nuTrek) before deciding on major plot points? Or at least make characters that should know better do something else than make a sad face at the poor sob story of a changeling subjected to torturous experiments who was clearly given wrong information about major historical events? Edit: Oh, and Picard and Beverly miss like twenty shots at point blank range. Not even Stormtroopers are that bad.

I can also pawn off the old card for a chunk of money, probably, a friend already said he'll probably take it off my hands, meaning the net cost is somewhere around 650€. While that is a technicality that I just came up with to "justify" spending still way too much on a card I don't really need, it's an okay price, and the 4070 TI comes with the advantage of not having to upgrade my PSU for it. It really is pretty efficient.

Good thing I only almost lied, as I just ordered a Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Trinity on Jeff Bezos' money making and labour exploitation vehicle for a bunch under the nVidia MSRP. Not looking forward to fiddling one more cable into my PSU, but I'll manage. Somehow.

But surly right wingers, they not against bank profits ? Telling people they don't need to pay mortgages, surly you must agree that sounds like socialism and BLM.

The low the radical left will stoop to knows no, uhm, lower bound, I guess. Probably an ANTIFA or BLM plant to discredit QAnon.

Is this left-wing radicalism part of the " CRT curriculum " ? Why teach children about that when surly their no more racism now ? We talking " historical realities " here ? Surly you agree @Pidesco, how about @Gorth we talked about that in Ukraine thread. We over that already why bother @PK htiw klaw eriF what about Texas who would it be received their if Disney pushed woke agenda telling poor white kids they all racist their ? @Lexx another conundrum for Germany what if a back girl called Hitler moved to Germany ? Would " racist " German politics force her to change her name ? Would the left-wing radicals in your governemnt object ? /snort You know, like I posted about before, back when Iron Sky came out, the film was - anecdotally, perhaps, based on IMBD votes - not very well received in the US. Republicans did not like being made fun of, particularily with the Sarah Palin stand-in as president in the film, while Democrats thought it was ridiculous and that Sarah Palin would never become president (well, she did not, so that part came true), and both sides agreed that American politics would never degenerate to the level shown in the film. When I watched it at the theater, I laughed really hard. I recently rewatched it, it really stopped being funny in 2016, for some strange reason. Can't quite put my orange on it why. Ah, well, what a tangerine I went on here.

Yeah, he had enough of all the NAZIs here.

Original English, no need to try Japanese or German dubs. I guess the Japanese dub would be hilarious, but more recent German dubs, particularily on Netflix stuff, haven't been of really high quality. I generally go original with subtitles nowadays, if available.

As far as I know and from articles I've read, Castlevania's production team contained a number of people who worked on various anime series. Which makes the claimes by fanboys that Western Animation(tm) finally strikes back all the more hilarious. Fandumbs are pretty dumb, all across the globe. Eh, and yeah, I don't think you need to re-visit the series, it is unlikely to change your mind. There's too much focus on (somewhat) pointless action sequences and not enough character development, I'd say. The later seasons get more traditional antagonists. I actually liked the setup from the first season, with Darcula being clearly wronged and having a point. The priests and their flock sure had it coming. Nothing wrong with the pacing of the first three seasons, perhaps a bit too fast in some places, but overall it's fine. The fourth season spins its wheels in place at times as if they couldn't come up with enough content for the amount of episodes they were asked to provide. Not sure what is weird about the dialogue. It was fine. Voice actors were told to sound as deep and mysterious as possible, I guess.

nuTrek went with keeping Jar Jar Abram's Star Trek 2009's opening events, meaning the Romulan Star Empire was more or less destroyed, and they're galactic refugees now*. Never mind how utterly dumb the idea was in the first place, it is what it is. They install a cloaking device from a Klingon Bird of Prey on the USS Titan, and Geordi is all like: "Do you have any idea how many treaties you're violating?" Yes, indeed. One irrelevant one. I mean technically the Romulan Free State is still around and the Federation mantains that treaty, but, uhm... it really is whatever at this point. *Unless they need to be a threat, in which case the Romulans can muster an enormous fleet out of nowhere to face off Picard at the end of the first season. They couldn't ferry their own refugees or evacuate Romulus properly with the thousands and thousands of ships they have, but hey... Condolences are in order, I think. Have "fun".

120+ minutes queue in D4. Congratulations ActiBlizz.

Went to my ophthalmologist for a checkup today. The same doctor as usual, the experience was vastly improved though, by the simple fact that she decided to go fully private, meaning she no longer has any contracts with our regular, public insurance companies. Instead of health insurance paying the checkup, you pay the bill yourself, and then hand in the bill and get reimbursed up to a certain amount (for me and my really bad eyesight that is going to be roughly 80% of the bill, for others, much less), with the rest potentially covered by any additional, private health insurance. In the past the waiting time was like an hour, sometimes even more when some acute case came in. Last time I had to wait hours just to see the doctor, in spite of having an appointment, because someone came in with glass splinters in their eyes. I mean, yeah, I get it, that does take priority over a regular check. Today though, I was ten minutes early, got to the checkup immediately, then got eye drops (for dilation, looked like a junkie afterwards) and a complete ophthalmoscopy. Took 20 minutes. Well, aside from being half-blind, nothing's noticably wrong. Pupil dilation is back to normal too, and none too soon, everything was uncomfortably bright. To think people used to use atropine eye drops for beauty effects in the past (it is how belladonna allegedly got its name - pretty woman). What a stupid idea.

The episodes are only good when you check your brain out at the door, because the moment you start thinking about some of the things you see, it all pretty much falls apart. Then there's this whole fake warp trail nonsense after we've been shown that Starfleet had the ability to track its ships decades ago. Man, like, what? Watched The Mandalorian, episode four. The series has established a rhythm by now. It's one stinker episode followed by one that is decent enough if - and there it has something in common with Picard - one just checks out one's brain before turning it on. The Mandalorians certainly deserved being bombed into oblivion, they're the dumbest people of the galaxy, by a great margin. This is just dumb with a capital D.