Avohkah Tamer

Ha, I was going to blog pretty much exactly this.

I saw it 5 hours early too. 'Twas amazing.

Did you by any chance attend a certain software showcase event yesterday?

Buy Steam games, of course! ;D

And that "Avokah Tamer" guy. Man, what a loser.

Is IMAX better? I had the chance to try it out with The Avengers, but didin't because my friends didn't want it.

It depends on the movie. I mean, overall you'll be watching it in a clearer, higher resolution, but from a practicality standpoint, I personally don't think the higher ticket prices are worth it unless the 3D production is also decent.

If it's a choice between IMAX 3D and plain old regular 3D, though, I'd go IMAX.

So there actually is a BZPower Minecraft server that's still running?

Nooot exactly.

Takuma rents a dedicated Minecraft server for personal/private use as a SMP game with a few friends, but he also swaps out the map and allows use of the server for MatoroIgnika's semi-weekly BZPcraft challenges (Details/signups in MI's blog)

We need to bring back plushies. WHO'S WITH ME?

Not bad for essentially no time spent studying. =P

Minecraft > Studying anyways.

You're The Doctor, aren't you?

Aw dang, that was my guess too.

DAGNABBIT THIS JUST RUINED MY ENTIRE NIGHT

Alternately, come hang with Sumiki and Me and a bunch of other not-staff! We harass the staff and have fun too!

Do I get an official Not-Staff hat?

'cause that would be rad.

Oh, great. Now you've gone and broken everything.

If you throw 'em on Vimeo, you can embed them here!

Well, hal.dll crashing is Very Not Good, and this is coming from someone who works on Windows. Hal is the Hardware Abstraction Layer, eg. the thing that helps all your device drivers play nice with actual hardware. If it crashes with 0x124, odds are you have a pretty nasty hardware or driver issue.

 

Unfortunately 0x124 is notoriously tricky to debug because it could come from a variety of sources. Windows Repair helping suggests it's a driver issue, which is a good sign (comparatively speaking). I doubt Minecraft is the cause, though it's interesting that it isn't working. Does it simply not work at all, or does it crash after playing a while?

I'm helping him update his graphics drivers right now, actually. We'll see how that goes!

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)

It might be a weird bug with power distribution to your hardware...

Try going to Control Panel > Power Options and set your power plan to High Performance. That might just fix it.

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)

I really love the way you do your signature. Just saying~

Hmm, according to those error codes, it looks like the cause is most likely a hardware issue, not a Windows Update software issue

You mentioned seeing some sort of error about your graphics card? That could very possibly be the problem, if so.

(All computers have a graphics card/chip, often built right into the CPU/processor)

Any kind of information on error messages you might have seen (other than the bluescreens) would help me to narrow it down.

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)

Valve games like Portal and Portal 2 back up your save file automatically. As for other games, it varies.

Taking a quick look through your Steam games list, here are the save file locations you might need:

Terraria:

My Documents\My Games\Terraria

Knights of the Old Republic:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\swkotor\saves

(Note: If you don't see an x86 folder, it's under regular Program Files)

Cthulhu Saves the World:

My Documents\SavedGames\CSTW\Cthulhu Saves the World\AllPlayers

Breath of Death VII:

My Documents\SavedGames\BoDVIIPC\Breath of Death VII\AllPlayers

Plants vs. Zombies: (May be a hidden folder, but it's here)

C:\ProgramData\PopCap Games\PlantsVsZombies\userdata

Bastion:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\bastion\Content\Saves

Hope that helps!

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)

Yeah, I hate how it gives you barely any time to read the bluescreen before it reboots.

Thankfully, though, you can use this tool (Direct download link, 61KB zip file) to look at the error codes after the fact. No installation necessary, you just open the BlueScreenView application and it will pop up with a list of dumped log files from every crash, and all sorts of technical info.

If you click+drag to select a few of the most recent ones, then click File > Save Selected Items, it will let you make a nice little text file with info about each crash.

You can open the text file it makes, and copy/paste it here, and we can try to help troubleshoot the problem based on the info.

I've used this tool several times to diagnose crashes on my own PC, it's pretty handy for geeks and IT workers like me!

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)

MORE VILLAGERS.

 

NOTHING BUT VILLAGERS

 

I WANT TO VILAGERSURF, DO YOU HEAR ME?

VILLAGERSURF WITH FISTS FULL OF CHICKENS

From what I've heard about it it seems fun, but of course I don't know the server ip so I can't get on. Does anyone care to tell it to me?

Keep an eye on MatoroIgnika's blog for BZPcraft news and a signups post sometime in the second half of the week, and you'd be more than welcome to join up!

We usually hold our challenges at around 9PM Central time on Saturdays, and we give out the IP to all the contestants before starting.

How many hearts did I get you down to, anywho?

'bout three. It was a close one!

Maybe next time you'll actually beat me, nerd.

Nah, just kidding, you did great. =P

You should check out Tally Hall. One of the band members (Rob) is the guy behind "Shia LaBeouf".

They've got two albums so far. Their debut, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, has songs that range through several different genres, which include a lot of fun, surreal, absurd, and even some dark and sad themes. The band is often compared to the Beatles for their vocal harmonies and overall fun style.

Their second album, Good & Evil, is significantly more mature and serious than the first, but also a lot deeper and generally thematically unified, while retaining their same knack for original tunes and excellent vocal harmonies.

I'd go on, but I suck at music reviews/recommendations.

~ (^{A V}_T^O_A^H_M^K_E^A_R^H)