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« on: February 21, 2017, 10:52:52 PM »
The reason why I haven't been posting anything here lately is because my beloved computer of the last 7 years died on me recently - and when I say died, not only did the motherboard die but so did the CPU - but they went out in a blaze of glory! And honestly, 7 years is the longest I've ever used the same computer. Normally, I've upgraded every 3 to 4 years if not even more frequently. But I was so satisfied with the way the computer worked that I never saw any need to upgrade. But alas, computers don't last forever...
But anyway, I'm currently using a friend's computer that he no longer needs because he upgraded about 6 months ago to a new computer. Eventually I will upgrade on my own, but I don't just walk into a store and buy off the shelf because I've yet to ever find an off the shelf computer that has all the features that I like to have, so I buy all the hardware separately and put everything together myself. I've started looking around for what I want, but apparently I'm not the only one who has wanted what I want because nearly everything that I want to buy is currently out of stock due to high demand. So, it looks like I may be using my friend's computer for longer than I would like. But hey, things could be much worse - I could have no computer to use while I wait to get exactly what I want. But on the other hand, I'm having a hard time getting this computer to do things that I totally took for granted with my sadly departed one, like play huge Blu-ray quality MKV files (that I created to get screen caps of the Blu-ray versions of the two original films because it's not possible to get captures directly from the Blu-ray discs). I can play them, but for reasons I haven't quite figured out yet, the video and sound are out of sync (which they never were when played on my computer) - and that makes it rather hard to get captures of short bits of dialogue that might be needed to explain what's different - and in particular what's different in Scene 62, which is next to come up after where we left off - which is why I've yet to pick up where we left off. But today I came up with a few different ideas to try to fix the problem, and hopefully one will work. If not, I'm not going to hold off posting here much longer because I don't want to fall too far behind. In the future I'll simply go back to whatever I post to add whatever I can't currently do...