Pluses (+) and minuses (−) of this day

[Elite Piranha]

It was the first seven volumes of Bungo Stray Dogs

I haven't heard of it, but I found out that the anime adaptation was made by Bones, so I might check it out eventually.

[Hunchman801]

+/- Headed back home after a nice stay in Switzerland.

[DaveRattlehead]

-Stomach sore is back.
-It won't be the best holidays.
+At least I have the consoles here.

[Pirez]

++ New laptop, yeah

---------- Estimatation to buy a house : triple your salary first, boo

[Hunchman801]

- Over the week-end I had to deal with both a dead car battery and a clogged toilet.
+ Thankfully I vanquished in both cases.

[The Jonster]

Oogh, I'd hate to have a dead car battery. Last time that happened to me I had to get a new one from Wal Mart and throw away half of the day!

+/- My classes finished in January, but still waiting for my certificate to arrive. I wonder if I should just request it at this point.
+ I'm going to start my Rayman journey over, from the first Rayman game I ever played. Aside from nostalgia, hope it gives me inspiration again for the series, like playing older Mario games did for me as of late.

[Hunchman801]

Oogh, I'd hate to have a dead car battery. Last time that happened to me I had to get a new one from Wal Mart and throw away half of the day!

In my case, I was lucky there was a small garage a couple minutes' walk from my place!

[The Jonster]

+/- So I've been experimenting with VirtualBox lately and testing some older edutainment games from series I liked as a kid, for nostalgia along with a few others. I found most of them easy to find, with the exception of a few, due to either errors with installing on the VM (which is using Windows XP currently) or altered discs. The downside with that was, the few I couldn't find were the ones I wanted to play the most. Maybe I'll try using the Math Blaster disc I have and try that instead (probably by ripping the contents, since ofc it doesn't work on modern Windows)
- Apparently, I need to work more about Macs. Was struggling to scroll down on a window yesterday in an app when helping dad with filing his taxes.

[PluMGMK]

The ones you want most are the ones you played most when you were younger, so they were out so often that they never got put back in the right place, and so got lost! It's happened to me often enough, which is why I love GOG and Steam so much!

[DaveRattlehead]

That reminded me of something that happened to me about 4 months ago. I got an external CD player as a gift and when I went to play older games I remembered that Windows 10 no longer has the drivers needed to play them properly . Not the first time I hear about the VirtualBox. Are the system requirements very demandant?

+I no longer have the bacteria in my stomach!
-The medication completely destroyed both the gut microbiota and the stomach, so now I have to eat bifidus like a maniac until the pain finally disappears. I was told I could be in this situation from 3 to 9 months

[Fifo]

- Apparently, I need to work more about Macs. Was struggling to scroll down on a window yesterday in an app when helping dad with filing his taxes.

Yeah, macOS has reverse scrolling by default and it takes getting used to. I adapted to it pretty quickly tho.

[The Jonster]

Yeah I think I just need to fiddle around with the Mac some more and I'll get the hang of it.

The ones you want most are the ones you played most when you were younger, so they were out so often that they never got put back in the right place, and so got lost! It's happened to me often enough, which is why I love GOG and Steam so much!

For me, the Internet Archive is the best place to find the education games I'm looking for. Speaking of those, I did find one of the two I was looking for yesterday after extensively combing through the site for the past couple of weeks. Just leaves one to go, but none of the isos that are there really worked in Virtualbox, so, might have to get my own copy and then rip the contents (which I never done, but would be up for it).

That reminded me of something that happened to me about 4 months ago. I got an external CD player as a gift and when I went to play older games I remembered that Windows 10 no longer has the drivers needed to play them properly . Not the first time I hear about the VirtualBox. Are the system requirements very demandant?

I think that depends on what OS you are going to use on it and how much memory you're willing to put into it. I went with standards for the Windows XP that I'm currently using and it's working fine for me.

+ Interestingly enough, on that note, I checked my C drive today and discovered I now have 20GB of memory left, which I find weird since previously I have only had 1-2 GB left, not sure what caused that jump but lols.
+ Also curious as to who wrote that bottom line, reminds me of someone hehe.
- Lately my File Explorer seems to crash when I attempt to right click certain files on my computer. Still trying to figure out what is causing this.

[PluMGMK]

For me, the Internet Archive is the best place to find the education games I'm looking for. Speaking of those, I did find one of the two I was looking for yesterday after extensively combing through the site for the past couple of weeks. Just leaves one to go, but none of the isos that are there really worked in Virtualbox, so, might have to get my own copy and then rip the contents (which I never done, but would be up for it).

Glad you found it!

That reminded me of something that happened to me about 4 months ago. I got an external CD player as a gift and when I went to play older games I remembered that Windows 10 no longer has the drivers needed to play them properly . Not the first time I hear about the VirtualBox. Are the system requirements very demandant?

I think that depends on what OS you are going to use on it and how much memory you're willing to put into it. I went with standards for the Windows XP that I'm currently using and it's working fine for me.

Yeah, VirtualBox shouldn't be as demanding as an emulator (like Dosbox or any console emulator) because it doesn't do any CPU emulation, it just sets up a virtualized environment on the real CPU.

+ Interestingly enough, on that note, I checked my C drive today and discovered I now have 20GB of memory left, which I find weird since previously I have only had 1-2 GB left, not sure what caused that jump but lols.

Did you reboot after a long period of not doing so? I think Windows Update can accumulate a lot of stuff in the Temp folder if you don't reboot…

+ Also curious as to who wrote that bottom line, reminds me of someone hehe.

Birds858?

- Lately my File Explorer seems to crash when I attempt to right click certain files on my computer. Still trying to figure out what is causing this.

Not sure what would be doing that… What kinds of files?

[The Jonster]

- Lately my File Explorer seems to crash when I attempt to right click certain files on my computer. Still trying to figure out what is causing this.

Not sure what would be doing that… What kinds of files?

It's mainly some of the isos I just downloaded. And it continuously does that every time I right click. Only trying to rename the file but this could be a problem later on if I wanted to, let's say copy it. But then, there's probably a shortcut for that too so I can just bypass the clicking.

+ Interestingly enough, on that note, I checked my C drive today and discovered I now have 20GB of memory left, which I find weird since previously I have only had 1-2 GB left, not sure what caused that jump but lols.

Did you reboot after a long period of not doing so? I think Windows Update can accumulate a lot of stuff in the Temp folder if you don't reboot…

Actually I've been doing a lot of restarting lately due to my laptop having little RAM leftover and having to work around the issue.
I usually get a little back, but not 18 GB!

+ Also curious as to who wrote that bottom line, reminds me of someone hehe.

Birds858?

Yup! But man, when's the last time I've seen them around? And now that I think about it, R4Y too? Those were good times hehehe. Even if much of those memories were me practically shitposting.....

[PluMGMK]

It's mainly some of the isos I just downloaded. And it continuously does that every time I right click. Only trying to rename the file but this could be a problem later on if I wanted to, let's say copy it. But then, there's probably a shortcut for that too so I can just bypass the clicking.

I guess they're big files. Is there some shell extension you've installed that might be trying to do some expensive operation on them before giving its input to the context menu?

By the way, F2 is rename, and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are copy / paste!

Actually I've been doing a lot of restarting lately due to my laptop having little RAM leftover and having to work around the issue.
I usually get a little back, but not 18 GB!

You're sure there's nothing missing then?

Yup! But man, when's the last time I've seen them around? And now that I think about it, R4Y too? Those were good times hehehe. Even if much of those memories were me practically shitposting.....

Birds hasn't been here since 2018 I'd say, then R4Y was like 2020? 2021 maybe? I don't know, I hope they're in a better frame of mind now than then…

[DaveRattlehead]

+ Feeling a bit better with the stomach, at least I'm not crawling in my skiiiiiiin 24/7.
- PS4 controller broke itself, so I had buy a new one.
+/- Posting a lot today.
+ I guess that means I have plenty of free time today.

[The Jonster]

+ Great to hear your stomach is feeling better!
- My cup of tea broke in my bag a few days ago and my Switch got wet. The console itself, mysteriously was fine after air-drying and charging with all the data intact. The joy-cons, though seem to be less responsive (i.e. they don't register in the console sometimes) than they normally are. Maybe I should get them looked at. As for the library book that got soaked...well!

It's mainly some of the isos I just downloaded. And it continuously does that every time I right click. Only trying to rename the file but this could be a problem later on if I wanted to, let's say copy it. But then, there's probably a shortcut for that too so I can just bypass the clicking.

I guess they're big files. Is there some shell extension you've installed that might be trying to do some expensive operation on them before giving its input to the context menu?

By the way, F2 is rename, and Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are copy / paste!

Thanks for the shortcuts! Actually the files only range between 80-600 MB. Curiously, this issue doesn't happen when I open the files from another application. Hmmm......

Actually I've been doing a lot of restarting lately due to my laptop having little RAM leftover and having to work around the issue.
I usually get a little back, but not 18 GB!

You're sure there's nothing missing then?

No, unless I've deleted files in between restarts, which I have, but even then they were pretty small (the memory is down to 6 GB from my last reboot as of this writing)

Edit: Turns out, it was a program that i had recently installed. After removing it, the crashes stopped. I wasn't using the program for the moment anyways so it was fine in the end.

[DaveRattlehead]

+ I could eat chocolate and drink alcohol without any consequences for the very first time in months.
+ I must have somehow been living in a cave, but it was not until today that I found a bar in my hometown where a pint of Guinness costs around €2.50.

[PluMGMK]

– The cat died today (the vet who had told us she didn't have cancer turned out to be wrong, but I didn't have the heart to mention that here when we found out)
+ At least it was of natural causes, we didn't have to "put her to sleep"…

[Elite Piranha]

That's terrible, I'm sorry for your loss.