Moby

I would remove Win11 just because fuck Win11.

Also, had another mysterious problem with my PC yesterday.

The tablet software was starting in a window instead of just the icon on the taskbar, so I revouninstalled the driver and reinstalled it.

Restarted the PC and was greeted by an infinite loading, which then failed to boot up twice.

Used the BIOS recovery assist, it checked the Windows installation and memory, returned no errors. The assist then started the hardware check, which then showed there was a boot error.

It checked the RAM, processor, SDD, et. and returned no errors. Then the PC booted up like normal. And yes, the tablet driver got fixed.

After all that, I have no idea what was the error.

Something that made me wheeze laugh today.

Was watching one of the streamers I follow, when he decided to do a collab stream with a few others, one of them being a streamer I stopped watching MONTHS ago because he got extremely boring, predictable and caustic.

The first words that come out of his mouth are about his scat fetish (I am not kidding here, its not "haha poop funny", he constantly talks about shit and scat, happens too often to not be "ironic"). I comment "Geez, I don't watch him for months and he is still going with the scat fetish?", which some people agreed, confirmed and one even pointed out he streamed with a feet cam recently (????).

He takes notice and goes "Well, I'll just ban you from my stream so you can keep not watching it". And since I really stopped watching him, I just bluntly say "I mean, no loss?"

I must have striked a nerve or something, because his voice warbled with a hint of rage, then he complained to a mod to time me out for the remaining of the stream. That really got a laugh out of me, I never thought he was that much of an insecure man-baby that what amounts to a single "you won't make any difference for me" damaged him that deeply.

I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't such a vitriolic person.

Liking the new tablet, but something that was really bothering me was the high levels of cursor jittering. Holding the pen a centimeter or two away from the tablet made the cursor jitter like I have Parkinson's, holding the pen touching the tablet would diminish it, but I could still see the cursor moving around.

Tried reinstalling the drivers, but was still happening.

Tried searching for solutions, nothing helped.

Official Huion support, "might be a pen defect". Nope, I bought a spare pen just because I had to switch from my Wacom due a broken pen that is no longer sold, and it had the same issue.

Then, I stumbled on a reddit post in an Osu! subreddit that had the same problem as me and he also had switched from a Wacom tablet to a Huion one.

The first post only said "Have you uninstalled the Wacom drivers?" Huh.

Uninstalled the wacom drivers and anything else I could find, restarted the PC. No jittering.

Thanks, random Osu! player.

Next you are going to tell me that old game reflections just render an entire scene on a fake room with mirrored models.

I still have encyclopedias books and CDs from the 90's. I wish I had kept my CDs from my school's books, they had a lot of content and are lost media at this day and age.

I saw a guy that I used to watch devolve into a baittuber in just a few months. It was both sad and extremely pathetic.

Face cam, clickbait ALL CAPS titles, open mouth reaction thumbnails, copying whatever the big streamers are doing, jumping immediately into the current trend, bending down to the algorithm, torturing himself with bad stuff because it "generates more clicks", demanding people to leave their PCs on to fake audience for advertisement streams, stopping doing stuff because it was "not getting views".

The first red flag was set during one stream I joined and noticed the views had dropped by almost half of what it was a few hours before, so I asked what happened and he immediately snapped thinking I was insinuating he lost views because he was ranting (again).

The second flag was set when he stopped a stream for one hour to review his blocked word list and it was entirely made of single words that made him mad, including common verbs and even a few colors.

Then what made me stop watching was when I joined a stream and , like always, every ""joke"" was "haha cock", "haha gay" or "haha doing your mom". I made a side comment saying "recently all his jokes are either "penis" or "haha gay"" and he once again snapped saying "fuck you, you are not even subscribed".

My new tablet arrived a few days ago. (Huion HS64)

Pros:

- Cheap

- Pressure levels are good

- Driver worked from get go

- Came with adapters for mini-usb and usb-c

- The rough surface is nice to draw on

- Pen is rubberized, feels nice to use

- Bigger drawing surface than my last tablet

Cons:

- Very small, about 3/5 the size of my last one. Not a problem, but I liked having the tablet on my lap and being bigger was perfect for that.

- A bit too sensible, was detecting micro jitters because I had it on my lap, putting it on a stable surface stops that

- Pen could be a bit heavier

- The USB cable does a 90º curve to the left, all my USB ports are at the right

I like it.

So, I got a new drawing tablet.

Nope, I looked at Steam delisted games and couldn't find it. Unlike my previous post, I have no idea where to get clues to find it.

Searching for it is pretty much useless because "punk rock pvp game" or "guitar melee pvp game" or "delisted pvp game" or anything that I searched returns everything but it.

Talking about remembering game names, another game popped up in my mind.

It was it 3rd person PvP game, with a punk rock aesthetic, characters were all noodly, with bright colored mohawks or spiked hair. I remember that you used your guitar as a weapon, but when you attacked, it would bend like it was made out of rubber.

As far as I know, this game VANISHED from existence, I can't find videos, pics or even stats on my Steam profile (which still remember of idle games and long dead mmorpgs I played for like 30 minutes), it like it was retconned from existence.

46 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

I don't remember a puzzle like that in any of the games I played, which only really lets you know where it isn't. (Ex. it's not in any game of the Myst or Journeyman Project series.)

 

This reminds me of the type of puzzle you would see in The 7th Guest, though I don't remember seeing a puzzle like that in The 7th Guest itself.  I don't know if I've actually ever beaten it completely, so it could be in the end stage.  But if that is the right track it might be in The 11th Hour, which is a sequel I never played at all.  However looking through hint files for The 11th Hour I don't see a reference to this type of puzzle.

 

Some other 90s adventure 1st person games I never played but which seem like they might have this sort of puzzle in them:

 

-Lighthouse: The Dark Being

-Timelapse

-The Atlantis series

-Starship Titanic 

 

Those would be the more well known ones.  There are a huge number of low budget titles in this genre, as well as weird European games which never had a wide release.

As far as I know, its not Myst, Riven, Lighthouse, Shivers, 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Lighthouse or Starship. BUT, I did find it.

I looked around to see which old PC games we had, and found the following:

Taking out the most obvious ones, I looked at a Fort Boyard gameplay and actually found the actual moment. It is as bizarre as I remember.

Talking about old games, I am looking for the name of a Myst-like game that I saw my dad play ages ago, in the late 90s.

All I can remember is a particular puzzle where you have to control the strength of an electrical current that goes through this bizarre blue doll. The doll is seated in the top right corner of the screen, and not only is completely blue, it's neck is stretched all the way off the top of the screen.

Moving the dials would make the doll arms respond to the electricity by having it's arms move up and down.

I seriously can't find this game or even this puzzle. At this point I am starting to doubt my own memories, but I KNOW this game existed.

I just changed my Wifi settings to "limited" and changed the Windows Update download folder permissions so the update can't download anything.

53 minutes ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Thanks, I was unaware of that and the mass of likely AI generated tech help pages online never mentioned that.

 

The bad news is that things do work like I expected in one way: when you select "move" windows will try to put the mouse at the title bar, and if that is off screen it will fail to do so.  So you cannot move with the mouse, even using this option.

 

However, using the keyboard does work, even though the mouse does not end up where it's supposed to be.  So that does resolve the issue.

I honestly just searched "windows 10 moving window out of reach" and the first result outright says "In Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista, hold down the “Shift” key while right-clicking the program in the taskbar, then select “Move“".

No idea why you couldn't find it though.

1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

Windows 10 question:

 

My PCEm programs have a tendency for their windows to move upwards when I unmaximize them (i.e. when I switch from the emulated windows display to another window.)  After a while, they'll end up so high on the screen that their title bars are offscreen.

 

How do I move them back?  The usual way of moving windows is to click and drag the title bar, but I can't do that if the title bar is off the screen.

 

In old versions of windows you could solve this problem by right clicking on the task bar and selecting "move."  But that no longer works in Windows 10; now you just get the option to close the program or pin it to the task bar.  You can get the move command by right clicking on the title bar, but that doesn't work either if I can't see the title bar.

 

There is a keyboard shortcut for doing this: alt+spacebar, then you can page down to a move option.  Unfortunately PCEm locks these shortcuts to your emulated version of windows while it is running, meaning that I cannot use this shortcut in this case.  I'm not 100% certain it would work anyway, since experimenting with other programs (while PCEm isn't running) has the mouse snap to the title bar to do this, meaning that it might not work if the title bar isn't on screen.

Have you tried Shift + Right Click on the taskbar?

5 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

EDIT: It actually uses this midi

I can't take this MIDI without cracking up due Joel's Super Ghostbusters and Super Ghostbusters Deluxe albums.

So, we got a Gex, Clock Tower and Link CDI revival on the same day.

3 hours ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

I was so fucking tired of there being no parking where I work so I just moved the cones for the reserved parking spaces I never see anyone using. If I get vanned and never post again, you'll all know what happened.

 

Seriously though, I wish we lived in pokemon land where people can just fold out transportation from their pockets so there is never a parking issue ever again god damn I hate it.

Oak's words echoed... "There's a time and place for everything but not now!"

I dissembled my Tablet pen to see what was broken and if there is any hope of fixing it.

Turns out, yes, it can be fixed. But its far beyond my skills.

I could fix part of it, the buttons are working and the tablet detects the pen nearby, but touching the tablet does nothing.

There is, or was, a REALLY thin spring inside a part, along a piece of iron that connects to the circuit board.

I noticed that if I touch this piece of iron, the pen starts drawing, and if I put a bit more force on it, the pen pressure increases. I guess this is the main component of the pen that makes it draw, so I guess if I managed to replace or weld it back, it might work again.

The spring I guess it was there so the pen had some counter pressure when I touched it. I think I could make another spring if I had another wire with the same thickness.

Either way, the new tablet will arrive in two weeks, but its nice to know that it can be fixed.

I thought it was pretty much known for a year or so that they were making a sequel to Panty & Stocking.

Or you can just do this.

Due to previous disclosed unforseen events, I no longer have a way to draw with my Wacom tablet (RIP) and the new one might take a while to ship.

So meanwhile I was doodling on paper. I had this small book that I used to scribble stuff when I was working, so I decided to just use it to draw.

5 minutes ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

Honestly they seem fairly similar, I would personally lean towards the Wacom if they were a similar price (I'm seeing the H64 cheaper but I live in a different region than you so idk if you're seeing that too). The H64 apparently has more pressure sensitivity levels but I'm not sure how much that will be noticeable above a certain point. I trust Wacom a little more than Huion though both have decent enough reputations from when I did my research a few years ago for my own tablets.

 

I had a similar situation to you where a simple wacom tablet of mine worked for an extremely long time through daily use (it outlived its support, and I had to jump through hoops to find the software actually when moving OSes, kind of a pain but a testament to how well put together it was). If they still make 'em like that then getting another would be pretty safe.

Yeah, they are both very similarly priced here. The Huion caught my attention because it was a bit cheaper, has programmable buttons, more pressure levels, slightly bigger drawing area and they were offering a big discount on one of these two finger drawing gloves if you bought it.

I might go with it because I'm not that picky, I only had this Wacom as reference, if it sucks I can just return it and then get the Wacom.

Still wish I didn't had to replace it tho.

So, talking about drawings, my drawing tablet pen is completely broken. It started to mess up the pressure randomly, drag things without touching the surface, lines would keep going long after I removed the pen from the table.

I opened it to see what was the problem and the buttons crumbled apart. I tried to fix it but then the thin wires all snapped. Easy to say that there is no hope left.

There is no way to replace this pen because it is a CTL470, made more than 10 years ago.

So, I open for suggestions for a new one.

Was thinking about either getting a CTL472 from Wacom or a HS64 from Huion.

Holy shit.