The Saga Continues

The Mac Saga continues as the sound and video breaks completely on this device. So I'm like, okay, I'll restart as a first step and see if that fixes it. Oh, it wants to do updates before I restart, okay maybe that will help too. Oh, I need to login to my apple store ID to do that...okay. Oh it wants me to update and reset my account cause...uh...security reasons...even though I literally did that a couple months ago. Fine, I have jumped through your hoops, I reset my account, used a password that hasn't been used in the last year, dug through my spam email to find the reset email and now I have a functioning Apple ID. Great. And then you spring it on me that the "apps are not linked to my Apple ID." Wat.

Apparently all the Apps are linked to the PERSONAL account of the person who owned this laptop last. Someone I can't really contact especially since they are likely in Denmark now (long story). And you can't change the account manually. So I'm like...okay FINE just restart the damn machine then.

Then it spends 20 minutes updating...something? I'm not sure what the hell it updated because when it was done I still had the same updates queued in the App store. Apparently upgrading to the new OS MIGHT (Google seems unsure) allow you to change the Apple ID Apps are linked to. Of course clicking that requires billing info etc. and I just don't feel like jumping through more hoops at the moment. So this will stay broken for the time being.

Also, I might have mentioned this before, but this is essentially the last chapter in the saga:

dr.schwa: all right mac, I opened a new finder window. Where’s the hard disk at? YOU LIE
dr.schwa: it is really hard to find how big my hard drive is
dr.schwa: on my mac
eme: hmmm
dr.schwa: guess mac users dont need to know this information
eme: i don't actually know where to go to find that on my laptop lol
eme: but i have a little program an ex showed me that measures that all for me lol
dr.schwa: christ in a hat. I needed to minimize everything, go to the desktop with finder and use the “go” option to find the computer and THERE is the HD
dr.schwa: 54GB
dr.schwa: is that…the size or how much I’m using...?
dr.schwa: how much I’m using
dr.schwa: god how hard is it that to say
dr.schwa: it just says “size”
dr.schwa: k this is a 250GB
eme: good job apple
dr.schwa: I think that was only 5 minutes, but I feel like a significant chunk of my life is now gone
dr.schwa: all the stuff I googled was useless

Basically I wanted to know how much hard drive space I have on this device...for logical reasons. It took me some time to figure out where to find that. The three methods (yes three different ones) that I found all didn't help. Sigh.

Results

Figured out what was causing the pain in my right side and it was the same thing that it always is. It's not life-threatening. I just get to sit around and wait for it to get better as always. Better than surgery. I can eat/exercise however I want again. Within reason. In a bad mood because of a fight with a family member. Because if it isn't the answer you wanted, it's obviously cancer.

Life is Strange video is prepared. It will be released this week.

Nick and I finished the base game of Trine 2. We're on to the DLC now.

Almost done editing all the original Gauntlet footage. We'll be continuing that soon unless Mesk and HKS want to drag me through more high level areas in Warframe full of death and despair and hilarity.

With holidays coming I'll likely have limited access to computers from the 23rd-26th. It's going to be busy. I will have uploads queued, however, if you're expecting videos.

I'm going to go grab a coffee and work on being less frustrated.

EDIT: Went for a walk at lunch and I'm in a bit better mood. However, mystery of the day...on our way back we counted 41 empty bread bags. Either a garbage bag full of them opened or someone was doing something crazy with a hell of a lot of bread. No matter what the story is...what does someone do with that much bread? Then Oliver suggested this.

Hard Drive Space

Was having issues sharing this with someone so I'll share it with all of you. This was my hard drive state about 2 weeks ago. It hasn't changed much other than my F and C drives have slightly more space.

Flavourless Mush

Now I know why the kiwis I bought were on sale. When sliced open, they are flavourless mush.

Four more days until I know more about what's causing me pain in my right side.

I'd make today a soundtrack Thursday, but I forgot my headphones at home. The other ones I have are mostly broken and hurt my ears.

I got past the first section of Fire Emblem Awakening on Lunatic mode (i.e. Chapter 11), sat through the forced romance cause I was neglecting my support and training for Chrom, and pushed forward into Chapter 12. Started the level and I wish I could be recording DS games because my reaction was priceless. You get taken right to the preparation menu with no cutscene so I'l like "okay, let's see what we're up against." Immediately around me I see 4 knights, 2 cavaliers and 1 paladin (which I didn't realize was a paladin until I started). I scrolled to the left and said "oh god" because there were 5 more horse dudes and more knights. Scroll up and started swearing said "oh god no" and saw that the whole map is just covered in knights and horse dudes. A good number of them are tier two. I look at the map clear requirements and see "Rout Enemy" and there's just this outraged cry of despair you hear from me and I see that it's 43 units vs my 13 units. I have 3 tier two units. THREE. Only TWO of my units can withstand an attack from that paladin. The rest can be one-shotted. I should see if I can grab a screen of this...anyway I quit to go level my dudes on risen (which are easy aside from the bosses which have 60 HP and do 51 damage -_-). I can literally rant about Fire Emblem for hours so I'll stop.

I'm still sad I missed out on the Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition. Currently my only option are the scalped ones on Amazon etc. selling for like...$300 which I'm not inclined to pay. That would be ridiculous considering other expenses.

I'm stuck on the plant level in Myst 3. Don't tell me what to do. I'm missing something stupid obvious. I know it.

I may work on Evil Within backwards as I want those files off the laptop and I have no where to put them.

Working on a special Life is Strange video that will be released next week. It's mostly done. Just need to fix a few areas.

Actively working on editing the rest of the SR4 footage, Gauntlet footage and one more ESO video. Actively recording Fire Emblem Path of Radiance. I need enough space to finish Gauntlet, SR4 and Dead Space 2. Evil Within, Bioshock Infinite and Murdered are the problem since they are full LPs still.

This week in the world of work: Tiger Telepathy, making fun of Facebook's code (though we learned it actually links back to a picture's URL when it scrapes the page not make a copy), excessive Christmas decorations in the other office that shares our building (including a movie theatre, stormtroopers, LEGO displays, Christmas trees, projectors etc.) and the one site I work with FINALLY renewed their security certificate.

I have a script for the first area of an RPG almost done.

I did not lose any laundry this week.

Nice Pancreas

These last few weeks have been quite the adventure in gigantic swings of good and bad luck. Thankfully whenever something bad happens there seems to be good luck in those bad things. Device for music breaks catastrophically > decides to randomly function again. Forget the laundry on top of my car and drive away > return to see nothing got run over. Need to leave my car in a parking lot for two days due to a medical emergency > doesn't get towed or broken into. Need to wait a total of 10 hours in a hospital waiting room to find out why I have stabbing pains in my chest only to find out they can't find anything wrong > there's nothing wrong with me and, I quote, "have a very nice pancreas." 

I was even well enough to go to an adults only night at the science centre last night (despite lingering nausea), which was nice cause we got tickets to it over a month ago. Saw a show about Pluto that was apparently "too much science" for the guy next to us. Because I mean, who the hell wants to experience science in a science centre. It was entertaining to watch 18+ people playing with science displays intended for children (including full-grown adults climbing through the indoor playground...with a height limit of four feet), and flocking around a number of puppies and cats that one organization brought in. There were also snakes and spiders to pet (I passed...mostly cause the line for it was long) and a human-sized hungry hungry hippos. 

So I should be able to upload more videos again starting tonight. I was a little over-dramatic the other evening as I was sitting on the bathroom floor at the time waiting for nausea to pass. I got some Fire Emblem levels on my DS done though so I suppose there's that. That desert level was really killing me for awhile. I was probably complaining about this in my last post. 

Also, was really entertained by a dude who felt the need to tell me how I wasn't a very nice person on YouTube after I commented on a guy who was upset that I had the audacity to joke about Dungeon Siege instead of just playing it. I mean, I'm so lucky to have someone policing my niceness levels these days. I don't want to literally turn into Hitler. Maybe this fine moral guide will scroll down the page and scold the young gentlemen who called me a bitch and told me to "lick his butthole." I mean if he's so concerned about how nice I'm being, he should certainly be interested in telling this lovely individual to mind his language. That said, I suppose I got the brunt of it because I'm just a horrid little hellspawn. It's okay; we'll hug it out. Maybe it'll purge the meanness from me. 

Blaze of Glory

That feel when you place a box of clothes on the top of your car and then forget to move it to the trunk, and then drive away with said box on the top of your car only to realize it five minutes down the road in a sudden, cold panic, returning to find it in the middle of a residential intersection. It's okay, only 3-4 cars full of people saw me scooping underwear up off the pavement in the middle of the road.

And then I get back into my car and this is playing on the radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o

I'm pretty sure this is the second time that song has been playing at an awkward time.

So now I'm in a mood for Westerns.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Watched this for the first time for a class in university actually.
Red Dead Redemption - Never actually played this one...though I saw a lot of hilarity courtesy of my brother. I think Mesk and HKS did some silly things with the horses in this game too.
The Great Silence - Was recommended.
Compilation - Spice it up for the last entry here.

The device I used to play music normally in my car died completely yesterday though it happened to be at close to full battery. It wouldn't turn on even after connecting it to a computer. Then of course when I was showing it to my brother it decided to work, so now it's...charging? This week has had massive spikes between good and bad luck. That and a slap on the wrist from my new doctor for failing to get my bloodwork done. Then she calls later and is all like "yeah and now you can get these done too while you're at it."

Started uploading Path of Radiance today if you're interested in watching me play the video game equivalent of a board game. I uh...tend to get exceptionally foul-mouthed when playing Fire Emblem games so that should be entertaining for some of you.