I have now just ordered Escape from Catrina and the Original Series on DVD before they go out of print!
I encourage people to do the same, before they disappear!
I also got Japanese Transformers before it goes away as well.
I am sure I have annoyed enough people with my obsession, but I wanted to show off a collection of releases that Shout! Factory has done over the years!
The Power Rangers DVD is signed by both the Black and Blue rangers!
Just watched the 2017 MLP movie on Netflix for the first time, and it was actually pretty decent for a children's movie.
I seem to keep finding myself coming back to this place every so few months to a few years LOL
The show just keeps being interesting every time I decide to watch it again, I guess I will forever be a brony, not that there is anything wrong with that.
Anyways, still been busy doing part-time work, surviving a pandemic, doing Twitch livestreams, making YouTube videos, making perler bead art, etc.
Basically, I have a lot of hobbies and things to do.
And thanks to my return to being a brony again, I might be doing more pony-related artwork and whatnot.
Good to be back AGAIN.
If anyone cares to know, I have been away from many months to a few years... oops.
But, I have been working on a lot of YouTube videos, specifically Let's Play's and reviews, so you can imagine how much video editing has taken up my time and energy.
I feel bad that I haven't been in contact with you guys on the forums... I haven't even watched the show in a long time, that I have not even started season 6 yet, so you can imagine how far behind I am in the fandom.
I have also been busy looking around my home city for a job in IT work, but nothing has come up, and I cannot afford to move outside my city, so I am having a lot of trouble with a bit of my personal life.
So, that is what I have been up to.
Hope you enjoyed that cliched story I told... LOL
My 500 Watt power supply came in today, but not my graphics card yet! (It says it's still in Toronto, ON)
Just to let you know, my graphics card is going to be the ASUS GTX650-E-1GD5, hopefully this is enough to please me.
Even though I already bought the power supply, is 500 Watts enough to power both the motherboard and the card?
(This card gets power from the motherboard, no slot for the power supply cable)
Old PSU = 300 W
New PSU = 500 W
GPU card power required = 75 W
I wanna make sure I did the right thing, this is my computer and no one else's, so this is my risk.
I finished watching Series 1 and 2, and I am happy to know this exists, and also happy to finally watch it!
I love his (the Doctor) attitude, he always seems to know what to do no matter what the situation.
I love the way he talks and acts towards others. One minute he is mad, the next he is as calm as ever. It's hilarious.
As for the companion(s), they are awesome. They get to travel with the Doctor and have some fun adventures through space and time. ...I am jealous.
The TARDIS on the other hand ...is as cool looking! I love the blue box look. This is what makes it different from other spaceships: it actually looks like something human-made!
The episodes are of quality and seem to follow everything accurately (according to my past classes in high school)!
Everything about this is awesome! Plus, good writing!
I really don't know what else to say, others could probably explain it better than I can!
I have had this computer for a few days now, and I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade the parts inside?
I want to turn this computer into a gaming pc.
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
M11AD
Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz
8GB RAM
64-bit
Intel HD Graphics 4600
1TB 7200RPM HDD
300W PSU
Windows 8 upgraded to 8.1 for free
I thought to post it in a blog, since I already posted something in a thread, and I did not want to bring back a dead thread (if it is dead).
My first chkdsk didn't find anything, neither did Malwarebytes...
I am currently running a second chkdsk at the moment.
My laptop symptoms are:
After a few minutes, my HDD light is solid, then when I try anything that involves accessing the HDD (opening Windows Explorer, opening My Computer, Defrag) it freezes to the point where I have to hard reset. I could still move the mouse, but that doesn't help me very much.
I also can't open task manager or anything else...
Since chkdsk couldn't find anything, I have a feeling this might be more than a problem that I can solve...
I also don't think fresh installing anything is going to solve anything anymore...
I really hope these guys I see can do something... (replace the hdd or whatever else they can do)
For now, I will either have to use my parent's Vista or my iPad for a while...
My current laptop is working fine now, after a chkdsk (2 bad clusters) and a defrag overnight, but I really REALLY hope my laptop can last long enough through school.
If all comes to worse:
I wanna get a new laptop, but I am still cautious about stuff that works on Windows 8. I still wanna use stuff like Steam and iTunes, but I see mixed results from a Google search.
But on the other hand, I wanna be able to use Windows 7 Home Premium again on a new "bad cluster"-free hard drive. Though, I don't know if problems are going to occur again on the same laptop.
I do see Windows 7 computers for sale at FutureShop, but almost none of them have dedicated graphics...
UPDATE:
For anybody who is tech-savvy, take a look at this:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
399360 file records processed. File verification completed.
945 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 60 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
471828 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
399360 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 741 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 741 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 741 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
36235 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
35934720 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x2790000 for 0x10000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x279a000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 24952
of name \Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-directx-directdraw_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_60fa9493d9b24564\ddraw.dll.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x2412000 for 0x2000 bytes.
Read failure with status 0xc00000b5 at offset 0x2413000 for 0x1000 bytes.
Windows replaced bad clusters in file 236786
of name \Windows\System32\catroot\{F750E~1\PABBD0~1.CAT.
399344 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
95279035 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Adding 2 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
976657407 KB total disk space.
594834108 KB in 341665 files.
174728 KB in 36236 indexes.
8 KB in bad sectors.
532423 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
381116140 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244164351 total allocation units on disk.
95279035 allocation units available on disk.
It's freezing very often on me at the moment...
I am currently running chkdsk on it... So far it found a bad cluster, where ddraw.dll is located...
I have a feeling this isn't good...
Could someone please lighten the mood for me?
Update: looks like chkdsk found another bad cluster: PABBD0~1.CAT
I hope this isn't too bad...
NOTE: My laptop was discontinued apparently...
NP300V5A-S05
i5 - 2450m
GeForce GT 520MX
8GB RAM
1TB 5400rpm HDD
My laptop started to get the Black Screen of Death, it couldn't boot, so tried different solutions.
Startup Repair
Restore Point
Memory Diagnostics
Samsung Recovery Solution 5
Nothing worked.
Apparently, SRS5 made it even more worse; when I tried to do a complete restore, my laptop now has the "BOOTMGR is missing" prompt.
No matter what I do, I am trying to get this thing back up and running, so for now, I will use my mother's computer.
I am also trying to download an ISO file of Win 7 Home Premium (My machine uses that), so we will see how that turns out.
He thinks I am not even a brony yet, because I am not doing what the "freak bronies" do. (Can't say what they do, because it is gross. You should know anyways...)
I think I should ignore him.
Yes, I put this in a blog, because it was too long to put in a status update.
I don't know what it is but yesterday morning and night my wireless speed was acting up, the speed NOT SIGNAL kept fluctuating. But only if I plug it in directly through ethernet, it maintains a constant speed. It wasn't like this before!
I use wireless devices from my bedroom, since it would be very impractical to have wires going all over the house. Plus my iPad, 3DS, etc. don't use Ethernet...
The wifi was fine when I came home from work yesterday though, it also is working fine this morning as well!
WTF is going on?
Before anyone asks, I have tried different channels, and have also had it on auto channel scan.
Is this due to failing hardware?
DK Bongo Drums for GameCube
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for GameCube
New Super Mario Bros 2 for 3DS
Jurassic Park on NES, SNES, and GameBoy
Godzilla for GameBoy
Resident Evil Code: Veronica for Dreamcast
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for Genesis
Zombies Ate My Neighbors for SNES
Spider-Man Vs. Kingpin for Sega CD
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for Atari 2600
Donkey Kong for Atari 2600
Mario's Time Machine for SNES
Art of Fighting for SNES
Pebble Beach Golf Links for Genesis
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Genesis
Disney's Aladdin for Genesis
Disney's Pinocchio for Genesis
Lego Racers for N64
Veronica Taylor talked to me in her Ash Ketchum voice! It made my day!
I bought:
Sega CD Games Green tea KitKat Mother 3 Fan Translation repro cart GBA Magic Pengel PS2 Knight Rider NES Framed Aladdin wall poster CC Lemon (It tastes like regular lemonade, if you must know)
I got autographed: Lucario and Mystery of Mew DVD by Veronica Taylor (Ash Ketchum) Smash Wii U by Sean Schemmel (Lucario) Power Rangers Season 1 Vol 1 DVD by David Yost (Blue Power Ranger) and Walter Jones (Black Power Ranger) Phantom Menace DVD by Andy Secombe (Watto) Return of the Jedi DVD by Tim Rose (Admiral Ackbar) CastleVania SotN PS1 by Rika Muranaka ("I Am The Wind" composer)