Hey everybody. Hope you are all having a good day. This week I’ve been playing some Minecraft and also continuing my playthrough of Elden Ring seamless co-op. I hope you all have had a good week!
My computer died so I’m playing troubleshooting motherboard error lights simulator
What hardware, what lights?
wall of text about pc issues
My mobo has error lights and my cpu light was on and it wouldn’t boot. When i reset the bios it worked and things were fine for a few days. The problem happened again yesterday so i popped the cmos battery out thinking it would work again. Now it cycles to the BOOT light or hangs on CPU. I figured my ancient power supply was the issue, oldest part on the machine, but i just replaced it and the same issues exist.
I got it to boot to windows exactly one time since this recent issue. When i had it running it was incredibly sluggish, like 5 full seconds to open the start menu
While it was running, i ran a cpu benchmark and was looking at the resource monitor but i don’t really know enough to know what to look for. The resource monitor showed nothing was overloaded or close to 100% usage
Now i can’t get anything to display on my monitor so I can’t boot into the bios settings or anything
It feels like it has to be the cpu. Removing either stick of ram doesn’t help and i ran a memtest recently, the gpu hasn’t shown any signs of trouble, and the new power supply has 100w higher capacity. If the mobo had a short i figure it wouldn’t be so responsive nor would the fans be operating normally
My first order assumption, not knowing what CPU or motherboard we’re talking about here, is “CPUs don’t go bad, motherboards go bad.”
Are you hooking up your monitor to a video card, or to onboard graphics? Does your CPU even have onboard graphics?
Whenever i had a mobo go bad it just ceased function… could it really be just a short?
Thing is, there are just so many more things that can go wrong on a motherboard. Short, weakened solder joint opened by thermal cycling, bad cap, any number of things to let the magic smoke out, all of which can cause different weird behavior. A CPU is just one (or two in your case) little bits of silicon, if it passes factory inspection and binning, it’s generally just good.
That hardware is fairly new to be failing at all, though. I can’t find any such thing as a gigabyte b550 gen 3 motherboard, the only Gigabyte B550 board I can find with a 3 in the name is the B550 AORUS ELITE AX V3, is that what you’re talking about?
Okay, totally different brand. Upshot, MSI’s manual seems more helpful than Gigabyte’s was anyway.
The BOOT light indicates something wrong with the drive your OS is on. That also fits with Windows being really sluggish. What happens if you try to boot it without that drive attached?
No onboard graphics. The cpu is amd ryzen 5 5600 the mobo is gigabyte b550 gen 3 am4
JUST GOT DIAMOND 1 WITH MARISA ON SF6
Still trying to get every achievement in sekiro, although I got distracted with Doloc Town. A game very much in the shadow of stardew valley but with better combat (a drone kills stuff for you while you gather) and exploration plus IMMACULATE vibes.
The art is absolutely gorgeous. Look at this:
How do you manage to make rebuilding in the wreckage of the world look so cozy!
Played the travelling at night demo.
Did you like cultist simulator? Did you like Book of Hours? Did you like the lore? Too bad, they rewrote all of it. I know the fact that the setting is inconsistent is the point, but man.
Also everything is a reference. They’re trying to do marvel style “omg I recognise that guy” shit but for character who appear in one line in a game that had limited success 10 years ago.
Wow this woman is named J.N Sinnombre the same name that means without a name that the mysterious patient was called in cultist simulator wow and now they’re a patient here wowiezowie.
Wow this guy has the same name as the cop from cultist simulator. But they had a mysterious run in with THE WORMS!!! (You care about THE WORMS, RIGHT? The nebulous threat the entire point of which is that they’re a nebulous thing at the periphery of the setting) OMG!!!
Wow this lady has the same name as the woman from book of hours.I mean, the games take place in different histories, as far as I understand. And in some histories, the lore plays out really differently than the ones in Cult Sim and Book of Hours, which I think were relatively similar. In some the entire history has been consumed by the Worms. But yeah, I can see it being disappointing for them to rewrite a lot of the lore that’s been mostly established thus far. Maybe the full game will improve on this? Hopefully?
And I do care about the Worms, I thought they were neat…
I’d actually be fine with this not being the sixth history, but they don’t commit, but they also ruin the vibe.
In cultist simulator the world was mostly the same, but stuff was weird on the periphery. The mystic stuff was on top of a world we understand. So a normal person works a normal job and suddenly his world falls apart and he discovers a new secret world hidden within the one he knows. You keep finding lore like what if elagabalus was a follower lf the grail and their odd behaviour was cult stuff and ooh and ahh. And you get stuff like the veneration of Saint Agnes “inadvertently” carrying on secret lore of the knock aspect and the mother of ants and oooooooo
In Travelling at Night people talk about the Sun in Splendor in the open, there’s a picture of the Witch and Sister in the stained glass window of a church just labelled that. You talk to the actual Worms.
But also. Everything is still the same stuff. Just with no subtlety. You’re playing a guy from game 1 referenced in game 2 and the events that happened in the background of book of hours are canon even though it was retconned. All the people you meet are the same people Oh you go to a mysterious mental health institute with a very understanding head physician and find j.n. sinnombre. The quest to find the mysterious lady is called The Lady Afterwards and she’s name the thing from the game.
Oh, that is weird. My guess is you happen to be in a cult-heavy area, but even then in CS they usually still try to be subtle about it. They’re more open in BoH, but you’re also in a specifically occult library. BoH is probably my favorite, but I got good at CS before BoH was even announced.
No. See. They retconned it (Or it’s the seventh history or whatever). Christianity is gone. Well, it’s an American cult called Crucianism. The global church is the church of the Sun in Splendor.
People just talk about doing cult magic in the open. It’s in newspapers and you get hired in a park to cast spells.Oh wow. That’s a big deviation! I guess it could be a different history, but that’s still a weird shift from the usual atmosphere. So I guess there’s no suppression bureau in this world? I’m still interested in this game, but it sounds very weird compared to the others.
No there still is, and your player character who was a suppression bureau agent in cultist simulator was still that.
They just suppress uhhh. Some of the deeper lore? It isn’t clear to me. Can’t be doing much though because
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you walk up to and talk to a long. You just meet a lantern long in the flesh. Which they now have to be because the Mansus exploded. A thing people know happened. And like people just know about the Carapace Cross. That’s a thing people read about and talk about and just see walking around.
Wild. Like if the secret world just completely collided with the mundane one to the point the esoteric is almost mundane itself?
Played some Aether & Iron, a visual novel with light RPG and tactical combat mechanics. It takes place in an alt-history 1930s New York where a technological breakthrough allowed for floating cities and floating cars; the tactical combat takes place between cars driving around.
You play as a grizzled smuggler (who’s a woman, so it’s actually good) tasked with smuggling a bright young scientist to safety. I haven’t gotten that far yet, but the job the player character takes is one that’s supposed to be easy, but ends up being much more complicated and dangerous than it seems. I’ve never watched or read a yuri, but the smuggler and scientist together give off big yuri vibes.
We out here climbing Celeste Mountain again
But maybe I’m in the right vibe to crack in to Routine
Edit: nope, not alone in the house after all tonight so no horror vibe
Balatro has me
Mostly just fire emblem three houses. Golden deer. Getting near the end of part 1. I’ve finished blue lions already.
Just made psychotically powerful ladies into mages who can almost one shot everything while my character punches things.
more FTL, trying to get a Mantis A win on easy. Phase 3 always mind floods me and i die
Every Sunday me, my best friend and a long time group play TTRPGs, don’t know if that counts. We’re currently playing a system me and my best friend are developing.
This Sunday was really fun because we’re trying out the system for the first time in a more fantasy setting. And my best friend is GMing this campaign. So it’s fun to finally play as well, a player, on the game I’ve been making for some time 😂
Started a neat puzzle game called “The Message From Deep Space”. It’s you, a computer scientist, a linguist, and an astrophysicist sitting in front of a computer from the 1970s trying to make sense of the radio transmissions from an alien probe that crash-landed in Alaska. Very dry (one of the hypest moments so far has been the computer scientist programming in a 3d renderer and seeing some circles), but also very interesting. The demo’s free, and I’d recommend checking it out if it sounds interesting.
Also more Nioh 2, Warframe, and a sprinkling of Risk of Rain 2.
Picked up Look Outside on sale last week and have absolutely been binging it ever since. Phenomenal game - insane narrative, premise, and characters, deep lore that can’t be completely uncovered in just one run, a combat system with its own complexities without going overboard, and plenty of nonsense for achievement completionists like myself.
Very quickly jumped up to one of my top 10 games, legitimately a work of art.
I have no intention of ever playing that game, it’s not my kinda game. I watched someone play a little bit of it, and out of curiosity wanted to see how wild the narrative got. The good ending is one of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever read.
Oh yeah, it’s absolutely not for everyone, both gameplay-wise and just the sheer amount of weird body horror shenanigans. It’s still an RPGMaker game and that shows in a lot of ways.
I love how the endings were handled - even the two “best” endings still have some heavy undertones (“there’s no coming back from the nightmare but we can make the most of it and rebuild”). I can’t get spoiler tags to work so I’ll hold off on anything else I wanted to add here but there’s so much more to it.
If I was cool I’d keep playing Mega Man 4 or XCOM but I keep struggling against FF Tactics. My greatest foe.
Im back into Galactic Civilizations 4. It’s a space 4X game, and I have about 20h in it. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it really nails that “one more turn” vibe. It also has nice music and the production values are generally pretty high. On the other hand, there is a lot of AI art in this game, which I think is a bit ridiculous for a larger production. (I can forgive it with smaller indie type games.)
Overall, fun game, though I feel like games tend to really start to drag in the later phases. But that’s similar in many Civ style games…I guess.
Edit: Also one of those games that REALLY makes use of your RAM if you have it and can support massive galaxies if you happen to have 64GB of RAM. If, for some reason, you wanna play games that last months.
I myself am good with mid-sized or huge maps at most, though, since games already take quite a while. As a cool sidenote, the base game without DLC does come with like 20+ playable alien races, which is much more than most games of this type, so that’s pretty cool. They are also a bit more asymmetrical, though not as much as something like Endless Space 2, at least on the level of the leaders in Civ 6.
I think GC4 has been adding a bunch of ai slop lately, so i’ve been staying away from them. I loved gc3 though.
I played the Travelling at Night demo, and it is the first Disco-like that doesn’t feel like a worse version of Elysium that uses or discards its elements without understanding them. Now, I’m not saying it will be better than those games, necessarily, but at least it’s doing enough of its own thing that it doesn’t feel like a fan game.
Oh damn, that’s by the team that made Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours, I am excited for this
