Thread "Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, and wildebeest needs" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 1:11AM, Nov. 23, 2011

Lonnehart wrote:
Wow… Mass Effect 2 has showed me something… and makes me glad I don't drink alcoholic beverages. Some of them will… well… let's say enough alcohol in the system would make a thousand year old woman look significantly younger… O_O

Addendum to Walker's Rules of Lay. (Tank crewman in joke because there actually are Gunner's rules of lay)
1. Go ugly early.
2. If your standards are too high, lower them.
3. Every woman's a ten when she's giving you a BJ
Addendum: There are times when experience is worth the wrinkles.

Posted at 5:11AM, Nov. 23, 2011

rokulily wrote:
the better google earth gets the more concerned i get about skylights. especially in bathrooms…

please sign up for the dd secret santa if you haven't already.
http://www.drunkduck.com/forum/topic/174790/

What she said.

Posted at 8:11AM, Nov. 23, 2011

Yes!! sign up for Secret Santa!!

also - for kicks, I was thinking of doing an audio mash up for the holidays. If you want to participate, record your self singing the Entire "12 Days of Christmas" song and email your recording to me by 2 Dec. that's: drunkduck100@yahoo.com. If you can't sing, a "Rex Harrison" treatment is OK
If I have 12 recordings by 2 Dec, then it's happening. let's see who can sing here on the DD
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and guess who's got some energy again? that would be ME - - woot! even drove the car a bit today (roads were empty - it's all good)
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oh my!!! the green wizard is gone!

Posted at 7:11PM, Nov. 23, 2011

ayesinback wrote:
also - for kicks, I was thinking of doing an audio mash up for the holidays. If you want to participate, record your self singing the Entire "12 Days of Christmas" song

Um…do we have to sing the entire thing? Can't we just sing the last verse….that song is feaken long…I have never survived it…not even on the piano.

Posted at 6:11AM, Nov. 24, 2011

Niccea wrote:
Um…do we have to sing the entire thing? Can't we just sing the last verse….that song is feaken long…I have never survived it…not even on the piano.

I believe the Empress exaggerates - but point taken. If anyone wants to do this, the Whole song is not necessary, only the first and last verses.

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and Hey - Happy Thanksgiving to all, USA or not. After all, gratitude is a fine thing to indulge in every so often.

Posted at 3:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

can I sing the Icelandic version :D?

Posted at 4:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

gullas wrote:
can I sing the Icelandic version :D?

is this the santa trollkin version?

Posted at 5:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

Any Christmas song is fine with me… as long as we're not singing about how Grandma got run over by a reindeer… AGAIN!!!

Hmmm…

*sings*
"The night Santa went crazy. The night Saint Nick went insane. Realized he'd been getting the raw deal. Something finally must've melted his brain…"

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

wanna develop psychic powers?
Work in sales. hehehe… :D

Posted at 11:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

Lovely… Had this weird dream right before I woke up. I had just watched an entire anime opening for my newer comic (which I'm working on right now as a result), with one notable scene being the male character being chased by a fireball… right through the famous Ninja Warrior (Sasuke) course in Japan! The song used in this opening? "Dominoe" by Jesse J.

And my coworker was telling me I could revive my GeForce 8500GT card by baking it in an oven. I'm very highly skeptical on this. I mean… if I could bake something back to life, why am I not hearing about people undergoing this after death?

Posted at 11:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

Didn't you know? People go to crematoriums to be resurrected!
That's how Jesus really did it ;)

Nah, the thing with the 8 series card was supposed to be that there was a fault in the manufacture process where some of the silicone board and circuits would part ways after a while due to heat stresses… or something like that.
Sticking it in the oven is meant to realign things by applying nice even heat to the entire card.

No idea if it works or not, but if the card is dead anyway, you've not much to lose, have you?
I could even try it on mine… don't know if I want to though.

Posted at 11:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

I'm tempted to try it as well, but the idea of anything I bake in that oven having a faint taste of burnt electronics is not something I'd be looking forward to…

Posted at 11:11PM, Nov. 24, 2011

I found an artle about someone fixing the same exact card as mine here:
http://tech.icrontic.com/article/dead-8800-gtx-scienced-to-undeath-by-oven-mad-owner/

and there are lots of vids on Youtube about it too… Pitty I already replaced that card :(

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

I suppose it works for a lot of people, but all I've got is a toaster oven here and I'm pretty sure the thing will melt being so close to the heating elements…

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

Use a friend's over then? Maybe that co-worker who suggested the idea?
Just remember to take off the heatsinks and thermal paste etc and don't let it rest directly on a hot surface- the guy in the article rolled up four small foil balls for the corners of his.
And it's on 10 minutes at 350C so that's no so bad.
-As long as you can replace the thermal paste!

Posted at 12:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

You're not just egging me on to see if it REALLY works, are you? Well, I did the cooking prep and now the muffin is in the oven so to speak. I'll find out tomorrow if the video card is back from the dead or not. I'm not counting on it. Because my monitor suffered an electrical surge I'm sure that's also why the card is dead, so I've got nothing to lose by giving this recipe a shot… However, I've changed the recipe a bit… Rather than cooking it for 10 minutes then immediately removing it from the oven, I'm cooking it for 8 minutes, then letting it cool down in the oven for 2-5 minutes. THEN I'll let it sit on the counter overnight. Safety first, you know.

Posted at 1:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

Tell me how it tastes! ^_^

Yes, I wanna see it it works :)

Posted at 1:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

rokulily wrote:

is this the santa trollkin version?

Nope sorry, just a translation :( but we do have bunch of troll santa songs and poems…

Posted at 2:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

Well, I let it cool down a few hours and it seemed safe enough to put back into my computer… and it's STILL DEAD. Same as before. I'm pretty sure the GPU is fried from the power surge though. No amount of baking is going to bring it back from that state. I think it would be a waste of time to try if your graphics card is totally dead (like mine), but if you just had artifacts on it then it's worth a shot.

Posted at 5:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

Well that's a shame Lonne! :(
Mine worked… sometimes. It tended to freeze my whole fricken machine. Because of that I don't actually want to put it anywhere near my comp ever again, baked or not :)

Weird- most of my firendslist on FB talking about thanksiving and "black Friday" etc… Not things I have much to do with. For me "black Friday" is something people tend to call any disaster (usually a bushfire that killed many people), that happened to occur ON a Friday. Naming a shopping day that way seems sort of… shallow? :/

Two facts:
1. Cats are the best creatures in the whole world and clearly the pinnacle of evolutionary potential (which is impossible since evo is an ongoing process with no end point).
2. Drawing goes better with wine.

Posted at 6:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

That cat fact was so good I had to Twitter AND FB it!
Thanks wine- you make me think all my musings are genius ^_^

Posted at 7:11AM, Nov. 25, 2011

I might agree, ozone, if a cat had not woken me up 3 days in a row. -_-
She wakes me up because she wants to cuddle, which is cute, but it would be nice if I could just tell her "20 more minutes" and she'd leave me be.

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Poor Romeo got freaked out by Buddy. He tried to snatch one of the dog's treats which was on the ground and Buddy chased him off. Romeo sat in the corner and thumped for a little bit after that. : (
I hope they're still friends.

Posted at 12:11PM, Nov. 25, 2011

ozoneocean wrote:
Well that's a shame Lonne! :(
Mine worked… sometimes. It tended to freeze my whole fricken machine. Because of that I don't actually want to put it anywhere near my comp ever again, baked or not :)

You could probably bake yours and it'll work 100% afterwards. Not that you need your card now. My card was already dead. Remember when I had to take my monitor to the shop? According to the tech, a surge hit the thing and he had to replace the inverter thing to get it working again. It probably ended up hitting the power supply as well, and when the computer went dead I found the cables to the video card power connection (located on the upper left of most AM2 motherboards) had been burnt…

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 25, 2011

OH wow XD
i haven't been here in EVER (it didn't even come up on my computers anymore o_o )

SAUCE - HAI GAIZ <3

Posted at 8:11PM, Nov. 25, 2011

I think Julie is sick again. She's been off her food all day, and she's just hiding in her house. I gave her some of the medicine from last time and some vaseline, and I hope she's feeling better soon.
I think it's probably my fault…I've been giving her a different kind of hay than what she's used to(because she seemed to really like it) and it's probably upset her digestive system.
I'm very worried about her.