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Motto Motto!

I keep gaining subscribers for some reason. Is lurking in chat with a gold name really that effective?

Also, here, have a vaguely related video. I prefer Nomizu Iori's cover that was used for the OP of Morita-san wa Mukuchi, but dat music video...

Family Tech Support Is Suffering

Yesterday, I was over at my grandma's place to help set up her Christmas tree, and while I was there, she asked me for help with her printer, which wasn't working. So she turned on her PC and tried to bring up the web page she was trying to print... and the PC hung for at least ten seconds before responding to anything — even single keystrokes. All the while, the hard drive was grinding away. Something was obviously wrong.

After waiting, like, five minutes for Task Manager to open, I managed to figure out that AVG Antivirus was completely choking the system while updating. So I opened up AVG's control panel, which took another few minutes, and got to its update tab. Now, by this point, it had been at least twenty minutes since booting the PC and the update progress bar was only about 3/4 full. Clicked cancel... and waited a good ten minutes for it to happen.

So then I could finally do stuff at only painfully slow speeds instead of excruciatingly want-to-throw-the-computer-out-the-window slow speeds. This was still unacceptable, so I headed to the Windows control panel to uninstall AVG. The thing was crippling the PC as bad as any virus, so why not? That ended up taking another fifteen or so minutes, but eventually that bloated piece of ass was purged from the system.

Before rebooting to complete the uninstallation, though, I went into the system settings and there I found the reason AVG was choking it so incredibly bad: It was a 1.7 GHz Celeron with only 384 MB of RAM and ~500 MB of HDD space allocated for virtual memory. I bumped the virtual memory up to 2 GB and rebooted. Finally, the PC was running smoothly. Still slow, given the slow CPU and tiny amount of RAM, but smoothly.

I went and started downloading Avira Antivirus to replace AVG while we tried to get the printer to work. No dice on that, since I think the printer's shot and would need physical repairs of some kind, but I got Avira installed. Incidentally, Avira installed, updated, and ran a quick system scan in less time than it took AVG to uninstall, and the system remained usable all the while. Some of that improvement was due to more virtual memory, I'm sure, but still...

tl;dr AVG sucks, especially on low end PCs.

Continue? Insert Coin

Was going to edit an episode of Astarotte and watch the last two episodes of Fushigiboshi no Futago Hime. Ended up spending all night watching Extra Credits on Penny Arcade TV instead.

Finally upgraded from Firefox 4 to Firefox 7. Noticed that it chops off the http:// in the address bar. Took all of one minute to Google for the option name for it in about:config and make the change. At least when there's a dumb change in Firefox, there's usually an option to revert it.

Might stream something tonight. Possibly Super Metroid if I don't feel like starting FFVII.

Knock It up a Notch

Playing Final Fantasy VI again has kind of made me want to replay FFVII as well. But whereas twinking out in FFVI makes the game more fun because you can build highly varied characters through differences in equipment, relics, and esper stat boosts, taking full advantage of FFVII's materia system ends up making the game pretty dull because every character ends up basically the same. That's why I need to come up with some extra rules to spice things up.

So far, I've got:

• No Knights of the Round
• No more than one summon materia equipped in the party at one time
• No multiples of any materia equipped in the party at one time

Can anyone come up with other good restrictions? Note that I'm not looking for wide-sweeping bans on stuff like a command materia only challenge because that sort of thing only makes the game more repetitive. I want ideas that help balance out the broken materia system and encourage character diversity.

If I do end up replaying FFVII, it won't be soon since I don't want to jump into another really long game right after FFVI, but I figured I'd toss this out here for now. And I guess this is also to see if anyone would be interested in watching a stream of the game.

You asked for it

No, screw the rules.

1. Are you a black leather kind of person or a brown leather kind of person?
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2. What was the first thing you ever cooked on a stove-top by yourself?
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3. If there was one physical bodily thing you wouldn't mind changing, what would it be?
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4. What was the last time you ever had to explain a weird/niche fandom to someone about?
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5. What is the best aspect/trait/feature of bacon?
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6. If you had to get into a fistfight, what would your favourite / most confident attack be?
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7. Have you ever been caught singing something embarrassing in public before you realized you were doing it?
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8. What is the worst pick-up line you have ever told or have ever been told?
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9. What is your favourite fancy essay-type word?
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10. If you were despot of a small, completely indoctrinated nation, what would the national chant be?
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11. If you could go back in time and change one thing in your life, keeping in line with what's important to you right now, these days, what's on your mind, what would it be?
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