Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!
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Welp, figured out why my digital copy of Anomaly Hunter: Observation Duty keeps crashing to the home screen of my Xbox immediately upon starting the game: on the storefront in tiny letters under the name it says "Not compatible." God damn it, thanks, Microsoft. Not only for offering the game for sale on a platform you already KNOW it can't be used on, but for further allowing me to BUY it without so much as a warning that it can't be used on the platform I bought it on. I'm so mad, right now, I could just...
So Dragon's Dogma 2 has only one save, and in some cases it can be corrupted. You are kind of screwed if you are on console, whereas if you are on PC, you should download this.
www.nexusmods.com
Why the fuck do I have to download a mod just to get a game to work? What about the people that don't know about that and get their save corrupted or... are on console?
DD2 Save Manager
DD2 Save Manager will keep track of your saves and allow you to set them as active as you play the game, virtually giving you infinite save slots.
www.nexusmods.com
Why the fuck do I have to download a mod just to get a game to work? What about the people that don't know about that and get their save corrupted or... are on console?
I hope they give you your $ back.
Crew 2 did not work, I think as it hates that I have my accounts to my various apps linked, which is required in many instances. Not gonna unlink them for a game I got for $1. Tried on Steam 1st and they did give me my $1 back.
Ticked that I went to log into my OG Xbox One (2013). As the kids lived with me when I got it, 3 profiles. For some reason, it wants me to re-authorize on all of them. F'em. Playing PS3 instead.
No refunds for digital purchase, and no easy way to get in contact with an actual human to plead my case. It was only $10, but still, it was MY $10, and they literally sold me a bill of goods.
I am so sick of all the construction 
and utility work that keeps popping up in every place I'm driving towards, or is within my destination.
and utility work that keeps popping up in every place I'm driving towards, or is within my destination.
I’d put a complaint in. Product is defective and there was insufficient to the point of non-existent warnings available for you to make an informed purchasing decision.
I might research other avenues besides links on Microsoft's website, but for $10, I'm not going to waste too much time. I recall years ago when I somehow wasn't able to access my account at ALL, and raised enough dust that I managed to get someone on the phone, but for the life of me, I have NO idea how I got there.
Understandable. I actually got a $10 refund from Sony, when a game I downloaded, wouldn't work on my PS4. Slice, Dice, and Rice. When I got my PS5 last year, the game would work all of a sudden. I guess I was really unlucky at the time and something was my PS4, and would not play that game no matter what.
Rubbernecking at a car accident/pulled-over vehicle on a highway should be punishable by immediate and permanent loss of driving privileges. Twice in the last week and a half have I seen traffic on a major highway slow down to less than half the speed limit, in all three lanes, because of a police car having pulled someone over. You're not going to get to see a dead body; KEEP FUCKING DRIVING!
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JoJo still checks in regularly to clean up. Just report the offending threads.
Speaking of Sony and refunds, I wish I could refund Nine Sols. The PS4 port has memory management issues that means area transitions are likely to crash the game. It's usually 50/50, but certain triggers will crash the game 100% of the time.
There's a list floating around that has mapped out the minefield of glitches and how to work around them, and I can verify the game is technically beatable if you're willing to treat the thing like you're trying not to wake up the ebola honey badger across the room, but my position is I shouldn't have to. Not that it matters any. Sony's is that so long as the devs are aware there's an issue at all, that must mean they're working on it, and therefore I can go fuck myself.
There's a list floating around that has mapped out the minefield of glitches and how to work around them, and I can verify the game is technically beatable if you're willing to treat the thing like you're trying not to wake up the ebola honey badger across the room, but my position is I shouldn't have to. Not that it matters any. Sony's is that so long as the devs are aware there's an issue at all, that must mean they're working on it, and therefore I can go fuck myself.
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The human body sucks. Flex your leg too hard and you'll get a cramp in your calf that will make you fall over in pain. Brilliant design for when you're sprinting.
Not too much of a complaint, but I dropped and unsubscribed Second Wind, Sphere Hunter, and Gaming Brit. I'm sick and tired of all their shit or they are really boring now. I'm satisfied not watching them anymore. Especially GB.
So Microsoft has this Rewards program where you can gain points for using their products, like doing searches on Bing for example, which you can then redeem for stuff like gift cards or free Gamepass and stuff. Wasn't great or anything, but I didn't mind those couple minutes a day for the occasional Bol gift card. Except this month, they have been reducing the point gain and streak bonuses left and right, by half or more. Must be their Christmas present.
Guess they want to get rid of it by nerfing it into the ground so people fall off. 'Conclude' no likes it, then use that as an excuse to shutter it altogether.
Guess they want to get rid of it by nerfing it into the ground so people fall off. 'Conclude' no likes it, then use that as an excuse to shutter it altogether.
Not sure if this is a complain train, but the eagle has landed on it -
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Gather round children, and let me tell you the story of some fucking bullshit with regards to my new PC build in 3 acts.
Act 1
Our story begins last week. I had planned to do a computer upgrade on Sunday. It was going to be simple, just update my bios, slot in a new CPU (5700x3rd upgrading from a 3600x), and a new GPU (7800xt upgrading from a 5700xt). On Saturday before I've had a chance to touch any components my PC dies while just watching youtube. Blue screens and tells me that there's a hardware issue. I try rebooting a couple of times and continue getting the bluescreen error. I think it's the SSD, but I hope that it's the RAM. I leave for the day as I had previous plans, and decide to troubleshoot on Sunday.
On Sunday I start trouble shooting. First thing I do is try booting the computer, it still blue screens with the error message telling me it's a hardware issue. I have an extra kit of ram, so I decide to swap out the ram. The computer boots to blue screen again. I restart the computer, it doesn't boot, won't even go to bios.
I check the debug lights on the motherboard, it's telling me it's a CPU error. I try swapping the ram back to the original kit, it's still telling me there's a CPU error.
I decide that there's 3 things that could potentially be wrong. Either the CPU is dying, the CPU socket on the motherboard isn't providing power to the CPU correctly, or the PSU isn't supplying power to the motherboard correctly. I don't have another CPU to test with on hand, but I do have an extra power supply at my parent's house, so I go and grab it (they only live 25 minutes away). I come back with the power supply and try to run the CPU with its own power supply dedicated to it, still nothing.
At this point I can't tell if the issue is the CPU or the mobo, and in order to get the 5700x3D like I'd planned I need a working 3000 series CPU to update the bios on my mobo, which I don't have. I decide to take the easy way out and throw money at the problem, and just buy a new mobo, cpu, and ram.
I go to microcenter and pick up the parts. I consider also buying a new CPU cooler, but they don't have the one I want in stock, so I decide to chance that maybe the cooler I have will be AM5 compatible. I bring home the parts and start building. My cooler is not AM5 compatible, I order a new cooler from Amazon and have to wait until Friday because of the Holidays.
End Act 1.
Intermission.
Begin Act 2.
It's Friday, the CPU cooler arrives, and I put together the system. I try to get it to post. It manages to go to BIOS, but boot message tells me that there's something wrong with the SSD.
I start doing research about the error message and find out that Crucial SSDs (which I have) have a problem with ASUS motherboards (which I also have). Apparently there's some faulty firmware with the SSDs that prevents the mobo from being able to read the temperature of the SSD, and shuts it down to prevent overheating. This can be solved with a firmware update. The problem is that I only have one SSD, my boot SSD, and I can't boot into windows to be able to download the firmware.
I reach out to a friend of mine, and ask him to make me a windows boot drive, and he also lets me borrow an external SSD.
I pick up these items, and I give him a 16 gig kit of DDR4 ram, which I no longer need as I've switched to DDR5. This kit of ram is the exact same speed and manufacturer as the ram that he uses in his computer already, and will give him 32 gigs total.
I return home and try to boot my PC from the windows boot USB. Windows will not install to an external SSD. I take apart the external SSD (with my friend's permission), take out the M.2, crack open my computer, install it. Windows refuses to install to that drive. I remove the old M.2 that I have and put the new M.2 into that slot. Windows refuses to install to that drive. I try reformating the drive. Windows refuses to install to that drive.
I call my friend to let him know of my issues. A new plan is set. I'm going to take my old M.2, put it into the external M.2 enclosure, bring it to my friend's house tomorrow morning, and try to see if it's readable, and if it is maybe update the firmware or at least download any data on it.
An hour later my friend reaches out to me, he has installed the ram I gave him into his computer, his computer now no longer works. The debug LEDs on his motherboard are flashing a CPU error.
End Act 2
Intermission
Begin Act 3
I arrive at my friend's house the next day, Saturday, at 11am, SSD in hand and hope in my heart. He invites me inside and offers me chicken soup. He has spent the morning fixing his computer. It is now operational, but only with the new RAM that I had given him, his RAM is borked, but he's figured out that his RAM works in certain single channel configurations, so it seems like one of his sticks is bad. We futz around with it for a while and figure out that his RAM will work if it's overvolted. His PC is working fine again. We try to read my SSD and are unable to. It's either corrupted or dead. We try to boot from my SSD. This results in a blue screen.
More money will be thrown at this problem, we go to Micro Center. I buy a 2TB Samsung 990 EVO SSD for more than 50% off, and my friend buys himself another 32 gigs of RAM, on sale for 40% off (for the sake of system stability to replace the RAM with a faulty stick).
We go back to my house, rebuild the computer again, add in the new SSD, install windows, everything works.
My simple upgrade of a CPU and GPU turned into a full system rebuild where the only thing left from my prior computer is the case and PSU. But...given that the problem was apparently a dead SSD, and a faulty stick of RAM causing an error to read as a CPU issue I may still basically have a fully functional second computer. I need to reassemble the old computer and test it with the SATA SSD I have. (I was unable to use this SATA SSD for testing prior because I can't find the SATA cable for my power supply, but I do have a second power supply from my old computer that I grabbed from my parents' house, and can use that for testing.)
Now I'm redownloading all my games and testing for system stability and temps, and benchmarking.
Also, when testing the M.2 SSDs I basically had to take apart and rebuild the computer like 7 times because the CPU cooler i bought is so massive that it makes it impossible to get to the primary M.2 slot, and also makes it very difficult to unlock the GPU from the mobo. I actually ended up ripping the GPU lock off the mobo because it was so annoying to have to unlock it each time.
Now the mystery, how the fuck did a stick of RAM cause both mine and my friend's computers to register massive CPU errors? We both did research and it shouldn't be possible. We need another sacrificial PC to test things on...for science.
Act 1
Our story begins last week. I had planned to do a computer upgrade on Sunday. It was going to be simple, just update my bios, slot in a new CPU (5700x3rd upgrading from a 3600x), and a new GPU (7800xt upgrading from a 5700xt). On Saturday before I've had a chance to touch any components my PC dies while just watching youtube. Blue screens and tells me that there's a hardware issue. I try rebooting a couple of times and continue getting the bluescreen error. I think it's the SSD, but I hope that it's the RAM. I leave for the day as I had previous plans, and decide to troubleshoot on Sunday.
On Sunday I start trouble shooting. First thing I do is try booting the computer, it still blue screens with the error message telling me it's a hardware issue. I have an extra kit of ram, so I decide to swap out the ram. The computer boots to blue screen again. I restart the computer, it doesn't boot, won't even go to bios.
I check the debug lights on the motherboard, it's telling me it's a CPU error. I try swapping the ram back to the original kit, it's still telling me there's a CPU error.
I decide that there's 3 things that could potentially be wrong. Either the CPU is dying, the CPU socket on the motherboard isn't providing power to the CPU correctly, or the PSU isn't supplying power to the motherboard correctly. I don't have another CPU to test with on hand, but I do have an extra power supply at my parent's house, so I go and grab it (they only live 25 minutes away). I come back with the power supply and try to run the CPU with its own power supply dedicated to it, still nothing.
At this point I can't tell if the issue is the CPU or the mobo, and in order to get the 5700x3D like I'd planned I need a working 3000 series CPU to update the bios on my mobo, which I don't have. I decide to take the easy way out and throw money at the problem, and just buy a new mobo, cpu, and ram.
I go to microcenter and pick up the parts. I consider also buying a new CPU cooler, but they don't have the one I want in stock, so I decide to chance that maybe the cooler I have will be AM5 compatible. I bring home the parts and start building. My cooler is not AM5 compatible, I order a new cooler from Amazon and have to wait until Friday because of the Holidays.
End Act 1.
Intermission.
Begin Act 2.
It's Friday, the CPU cooler arrives, and I put together the system. I try to get it to post. It manages to go to BIOS, but boot message tells me that there's something wrong with the SSD.
I start doing research about the error message and find out that Crucial SSDs (which I have) have a problem with ASUS motherboards (which I also have). Apparently there's some faulty firmware with the SSDs that prevents the mobo from being able to read the temperature of the SSD, and shuts it down to prevent overheating. This can be solved with a firmware update. The problem is that I only have one SSD, my boot SSD, and I can't boot into windows to be able to download the firmware.
I reach out to a friend of mine, and ask him to make me a windows boot drive, and he also lets me borrow an external SSD.
I pick up these items, and I give him a 16 gig kit of DDR4 ram, which I no longer need as I've switched to DDR5. This kit of ram is the exact same speed and manufacturer as the ram that he uses in his computer already, and will give him 32 gigs total.
I return home and try to boot my PC from the windows boot USB. Windows will not install to an external SSD. I take apart the external SSD (with my friend's permission), take out the M.2, crack open my computer, install it. Windows refuses to install to that drive. I remove the old M.2 that I have and put the new M.2 into that slot. Windows refuses to install to that drive. I try reformating the drive. Windows refuses to install to that drive.
I call my friend to let him know of my issues. A new plan is set. I'm going to take my old M.2, put it into the external M.2 enclosure, bring it to my friend's house tomorrow morning, and try to see if it's readable, and if it is maybe update the firmware or at least download any data on it.
An hour later my friend reaches out to me, he has installed the ram I gave him into his computer, his computer now no longer works. The debug LEDs on his motherboard are flashing a CPU error.
End Act 2
Intermission
Begin Act 3
I arrive at my friend's house the next day, Saturday, at 11am, SSD in hand and hope in my heart. He invites me inside and offers me chicken soup. He has spent the morning fixing his computer. It is now operational, but only with the new RAM that I had given him, his RAM is borked, but he's figured out that his RAM works in certain single channel configurations, so it seems like one of his sticks is bad. We futz around with it for a while and figure out that his RAM will work if it's overvolted. His PC is working fine again. We try to read my SSD and are unable to. It's either corrupted or dead. We try to boot from my SSD. This results in a blue screen.
More money will be thrown at this problem, we go to Micro Center. I buy a 2TB Samsung 990 EVO SSD for more than 50% off, and my friend buys himself another 32 gigs of RAM, on sale for 40% off (for the sake of system stability to replace the RAM with a faulty stick).
We go back to my house, rebuild the computer again, add in the new SSD, install windows, everything works.
My simple upgrade of a CPU and GPU turned into a full system rebuild where the only thing left from my prior computer is the case and PSU. But...given that the problem was apparently a dead SSD, and a faulty stick of RAM causing an error to read as a CPU issue I may still basically have a fully functional second computer. I need to reassemble the old computer and test it with the SATA SSD I have. (I was unable to use this SATA SSD for testing prior because I can't find the SATA cable for my power supply, but I do have a second power supply from my old computer that I grabbed from my parents' house, and can use that for testing.)
Now I'm redownloading all my games and testing for system stability and temps, and benchmarking.
Also, when testing the M.2 SSDs I basically had to take apart and rebuild the computer like 7 times because the CPU cooler i bought is so massive that it makes it impossible to get to the primary M.2 slot, and also makes it very difficult to unlock the GPU from the mobo. I actually ended up ripping the GPU lock off the mobo because it was so annoying to have to unlock it each time.
Now the mystery, how the fuck did a stick of RAM cause both mine and my friend's computers to register massive CPU errors? We both did research and it shouldn't be possible. We need another sacrificial PC to test things on...for science.