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Cake day: March 10th, 2025

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  • Oh damn, I was thinking of the scene where Homer is laying in bed, facing away from Marge and just going to sleep when Marge is trying to say she needs a vacation. Mixed the two up, this is Streetcar named Desire, Homer wasn’t interested in the play since there was no bowling in it, as someone else said.



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    Well, not specifically because I want to make them feel included, it is to stimulate them and satisfy their curiosity. Also helps skittish cats and dogs to gain confidence by introducing them to new smells constantly in a safe way.

    Smells are way more important to both cats and dogs than humans, and more than most people realize. Example: I see a lot of people around walk their dogs and not letting them sniff properly but just tug them along, thinking that the physical exercise and waste management are the sole purpose of walks.

    We have a retired hunting dog, turned 11 on Sunday actually, and she’s still ridiculously hard to tire by physical exercise. The only way to get her proper tired is mental stimulation. Sniffing is a big part of that. 30min calm patient walk is way better than 60min of “COME OON” -hurried impatient walk.

    Disclaimer: not all dogs etc., but… most dogs.










  • I’m mostly the kind of worldbuilder, who gets one cool but vague idea of something and then just randomly plug stuff into it until it makes sense. The latest was “What if there was a force that was rewriting reality while it’s going on, and some people are immune to it for some reason?” and I ran with it. 150h later I have a full 12 scenario Call of Cthulhu campaign, but without Lovecraft stuff, all homebrew.




  • 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.



  • 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!