The Ongoing Mac Struggle

Delta and friends almost have their LAG site up and running. I'll post the link when it's ready. I still need to do a video for Shauna, Nick and Delta that I promised. I just need to set something up for that. That or do one of my 2 min walking videos on my phone and get strange looks from people. Or get hit by a train while I'm not looking.

OH GOOD, my blog actually auto-saved properly. The next chapter in the mac saga: Chrome freezes completely, I click once and get a black screen for about five seconds and suddenly I'm back at the login screen. I login and all my programs and documents had closed. Not like I was in the middle of anything. Not at all. So I restart just in case and it takes about 5 minutes. No idea what any of that was about. Sigh...whatever.

Soundtrack Thursday:

As requested by Shauna: Fallout 4 radio music with DJ Travis. Who wants to take bets on how fast YouTube censors the crap out of this?

Mad Max Fury Road - Saw Junkie XL did a lot of their music (they do a lot of movie music) so I gave this soundtrack a shot. Really enjoyed this movie. Impressive effects and visuals.

LP Update:
-Dead Space 2 ALMOST done. I have had no motivation to attempt that final boss again.
-Fire Emblem Fates has been taking up all the time I should be spending on Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.
-Working on Murdered, Evil Within, Saints Row 4 and Gauntlet when I have spare time.
-No Mesk, Bioshock Infinite is not done.

I really want to start on Shadow of Mordor, To the Moon, Skyrim Dawnguard DLC and Pillars of Eternity. I won't have time or space for any of this until mid-April and that makes me a little sad.

RPG Update:
-More mapping done
-More planning done
-Battle system planning started

Next up will be finishing the Office NPCs, trying to configure the battle system and some rigorous TESTING.

Writing Update:
-Received some feedback. So far nothing crazy.
-About to start chapt. 2 rewrite and I finished some incomplete elements of v. 2.5

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.