Dogget at least has some character development, doesn’t hold a candle to Mulder though and definitely not saying he’s a good character, but what really got me was the Agent NoPersonality, Monica Reyes. (I had to look up her name) She doesn’t do anything, she doesn’t have any kind of development, she doesn’t add anything and she’s just so boring and cookiecutter. No chemistry with Dogget either. I had actually forgotten she exists until I rewatched the entire series recently.

I am considering framing this comment. Never have I gotten such a compliment.

Yes. Thank you for noticing.

I mean, that’s what makes it fun? Do you play games without rules too? In my mind, it’s not worth much thought if there’s no rules to it. Otherwise you could just say “I will go into the future where they’ve invented how to become a god and then come back with my godlike powers and do whatever I want.”

it’s the wishing-for-more-wishes kind of boring thing to do. Boundaries and restrictions breed creativity. That’s what’s fun for me.

Come on, can’t ask this kind of question without giving us the rules.

Paradox free? Does the future change? Do I go as my current self or is age adjusted? Do I keep my current knowledge and memories and skills? Do I get to go back? Do I get multiple tries to get the optimal outcome?

So many variables with these kinds of hypotheticals, I can’t give you any meaningful answer without general outlines of the rules. Can’t play the game if I don’t know the rules.

Hmm, yeah, I don’t think that’s very likely. Used it on the same TV for the entirety of it’s lifecycle, and I believe I was using my PC monitor when I was troubleshooting. Very unlikely for two devices to cause the same issue. I’ll keep it in mind either way, who knows.

Yeah, I think I’m gonna go for the full mainboard swap over that kind of soldering job. I’m not exactly new when it comes to soldering, but I don’t think I can manage components of that scale with my shaky old man hands.

I did mean the towel trick as the last hail mary pass idea if all else fails, I’ve only done it once myself with my old 970 that started bluescreening all of a sudden. It did live for another 2 years after that, I would call it a success. Not typical getting that much, I’m aware.

I’ll have a go with the PSU swap and let’s see how it goes. Cheers for the advice!

Oh, this sounds like exactly what’s happening! On iFixit of all places, I’m embarrassed. I’m a huge fan, but never occurred to me to check their guides…

From what I can tell from googling what the hell reballing my APU means, I gather it’s not something you can generally do yourself. Although, since it’s solder joints that have come loose or bad, ye olde glitching GFX towel-oven trick could work as well. If all else fails, I’ll consider trying that.

But this also tells me, that if my spare parts PS4 main board works, I can just swap it over and it should work.

Thank you, no clue why I didn’t find that guide with my previous googling!

I mean, our friend group still uses IRC. Go back to the roots, discord is merely a fancy IRC anyway. Quakenet is still up and running, working as smoothly as ever! (So at least one netsplit* a day… :D)