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2 minutes ago, Jeevan said:
you can always look up the specs and see what is compatible with that laptop. I am with @a3quit4s though, could be a connection, so even replacing with exact same may get you nothing.
What current gen processor would be considered equivalent specs to this old GPU+i7 processor?
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8 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:
I’d probably look into an external graphics card or just replace the whole thing. It’s 10 years old. If that was running whatever graphical needs she has, a new laptop won’t be that expensive not since she probably wouldn’t even need a discreet graphics card at this point.
Interesting that when you remove the graphics card it works because it should actually be on integrated graphics all the time until it needs the graphics card, not the other way around. Have you tried booking it up to an external monitor with the card in? Not sure what that would prove but it is interesting. Could be the mobo?
Yea I tried connecting it to an external monitor while the GPU was still installed and we got the same result… there was no display.
She has been using this laptop all this time and is very used to it, so if changing out a $200 part will get her going again, I’d rather do that. The specs on this laptop seem to still be reasonably good even compared to today’s standards. It has 16gb of ram, i7 gen4 processor, 17-inch display and backlighted keyboard.
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My mother in law has an Alienware 17 Model P18E from 2013. She’s not a gamer… it was her work laptop for 3d modeling.
Recently I believe the GPU failed. There is no display when I turn on the laptop. When I remove the GPU, the display works. I think that means it switches over to integrated graphics on the motherboard.
I want to order her a new graphics card. I don’t have much experience with upgrading graphics cards, so I’m not sure if there are compatibility issues I need to be looking out for. I was thinking to just buy an exact replacement of the original nvidia 89T386-Z410A0 for around $150-$200. But if it’s not anything too expensive or complicated to do, I’d consider buying an upgraded graphics card.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what to get?
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2 hours ago, JamesRobot said:
I would always turn the Nintendo sideways or put something in front of it to block the red light. Worked every time.
Same here
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Apparently it’s 100% impossible to 100% this game:
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23 minutes ago, Nintegageo said:
9. The no save is this game's only real issue.
To overcome the no save, they gave you Links flute
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2 hours ago, Tulpa said:
Well, they only needed like one or two per Nintendo service center, and there weren't THAT many of those around. I remember the nearest one to me in the Great Plains was in Denver.
Plus, some of those might have used test carts instead.
I'd be shocked if more than a thousand were made, and I suspect it's somewhere lower.
Yea. I guess if you averaged 5 service centers per state that would make 250 of them. I wonder if they had more than one of these per service center
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I thought they stopped doing this at least like ten years ago!
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On 4/18/2023 at 3:50 PM, Nes Freak said:
found this listing in case anyone was looking for one. man they sure arnt cheap no more lol.
How many would you estimate are out there?
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@AirVillainI don’t like to assert life advice, but since your inviting us: only get into a permanent relationship if you want to be in it. You’re better off single than in a bad relationship. Only have kids if you are intending to stay in a permanent relationship, and you both want a kid and are committed to raising a kid together.
It’s a huge commitment, lots of work and you can’t undo it. But it’s also the extremely rewarding.
It’s fine if you don’t want to commit to these things. Your life is your experience, better make it what you want it to be. But if you ever change your mind, there’s always options, yea even if you’re old (even more so if you’re a guy). If you ever do change your mind about kids, don’t let your age turn you off. Just hit the gym and get young again. Your kid will still love you even if your old and that’s all that matters-
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35 minutes ago, Tulpa said:
Yeah, current projections seem to indicate that the world will top out at about 11 billion people, then cool it on the increase for awhile.
Humans are a resource, and we're actually managing to reduce hunger year after year despite increasing population. Proper housing can be an issue, though not for lack of space (we have enough space and buildings, we just don't utilize them worth a damn.)
We're nowhere near a Soylent Green situation.
Im not saying it’s gonna get that bad. But what will happen (unless we come up with a solution) is standards of living will decrease.
You have a baby boomer generation, (the largest demographic population) that has fully entered retirement around 2021. They went from being net producers (making stuff and saving money) in the work force to net consumers (making nothing and consuming even more stuff).
Its supply and demand. This large population is now consuming. The people entering the workforce are a shrinking population and they are simply not replacing the amount of people leaving the workforce via retirement. More consumption and less production means prices for stuff goes up.
The rate of workforce population reduction due to shrinking population is like 600-700k people each year. By 2025 that will be 1M per year. The two solutions we have are to increase production by automation. Or we need more skilled immigrants to enter the workforce, like RIGHT NOW.I think that it would be fine if the population reduced a bit, but a sudden dropoff like we are seeing can send shockwaves through society.
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On 3/25/2023 at 11:33 AM, BlackVega said:
If we talk about the topic of having kids then yes this is a tough one. My take is I believe you can decide 100% to have or not to have kids. Well, sometimes there are situations where you go too fast and you end up having a kid, meaning if you get a kid this is essentially your fault. Getting your sh1t together is the most important thing of all so if you can't get to take care of yourself then how are you supposed to take care of someone else? Maybe that's for the better. Even taking care of animals takes a lot of responsibility and genuine kudos for you for doing it. I get it sometimes people say something like "everyone should have kids". What sort of a shitty obligation is this? Besides, as I said you can choose not to have kids and decide if you want to have a partner or not and you can get to the point where you are perfectly happy either way
By the way, let's take a look at this graph. Do we need even more on this planet?
Also a message to the author of this topic: if you wanted to hear my take on having kids then there you go. Other than that, I have no idea what your other struggles are. I'm just unable to guess unless you tell us
Although the world population has been growing isnthe past, the current projections actually show that based on current birth rates and demographic trends, the world population has already begun contracting. In fact, the rate of contraction is so great that it is actually potentially going to be a crisis since (absent automation and incredible gains in productivity) a society required a large base of young people to be in the workforce to produce the goods and services that are consumed by the elderly retired population.
Japan currently has a population crisis. The Japanese did not innovate and automate because they a smart people, they did so out of sheer necessity. Without automation, they would not survive as a society, or at least with anything close to the same standards of living that they were used to.
Most developed nations are following in the footsteps of Japan demographically. We are just a few decades behind them. If anyone is interested, I can put up some graphs to show how this works
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Looking forward to seeing your assupo pics
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7 hours ago, Tanooki said:
But does the store have that much? There are a number of games that have gone out of their print scheme that touch 100+ on ebay now.
Some games are out of stock, but there’s a ton that are not. What game are you looking for?
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27 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:
Looks like LRG picked it up:
https://limitedrungames.com/collections/nintendo-switch-games
Nice. If anyone here ever needs an LRG title that they missed, I’d be happily to pick it up for y’all from the Limited Run retail store. I go there like twice a month. Cost plus shipping
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Third trailer. Mmmm hmmmmmmmm
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The black kid with big red lips is a classic racist meme from back in the day. Basically white people would do comedy skits and color their face black with shoe polish and put on puffy lips and mock black people by acting ridiculous (excuse me if you don’t like the term ‘black people’, but that’s what black people I know prefer). That’s actually where the term ‘blackface’ originated from (although I think nowadays people ignorantly misuse the word for anything and everything).
Racist cartoons back in the day would recreate these skits making black people as black as night and exaggerating their features, always making a mockery. This black kid on the Tom Sawyer box is drawn in the same style, although it looks kind of Japanese anime styled. Before jumping to conclusions about racism, I would assume the Japanese artist didn’t draw it to be intentionally degrading, rather he/she was probably just ignorant of the cultural sensitivity of this. You have to take into account that Japan had little exposure to American societal issues in the 80s and even less exposure to black people. It’s possible they just saw some old racist American cartoons from the era and copied it not knowing any better.
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Just as a comparison, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 52 million copies. It’s normally a $60 game, but with frequent $50 sales and $35-$40 sales for Holiday seasons, let’s average it in at $50.
$50 x 52M = $2.6B in salesLet’s assume half of those sales went through eshop and half through retail sales. Retailers take 20% of $1.3B =$260M
So Nintendo takes home $2.34B.. These numbers could be off, but they’re a good starting point for discussion.
They could certainly expand the company to make more resources available for working on movies. But they don’t need to be stealing their video game resources (like Miyamoto San) and spreading him thin on the video games.
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This game was readily available until like 2017, maybe even 2018 at Deal Tavern. I picked up a few copies for myself.
Deal Tavern had a lot of sealed GBA games that were available for like $30 until around that time
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Pretty much anything bought before 2018
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On 4/2/2023 at 8:54 AM, DoctorEncore said:
I wouldn't consider myself a graphics snob, but there is a certain level of quality that I expect from a modern game. The Switch is so incredibly underpowered that even first party games are performing at an unacceptable level. If you can't provide a stable 30fps at 720p (or 900p docked), then there is a real hardware issue and it really does affect gameplay. Just look at the latest Pokemon games. Yikes.
As I said, I'll hold off until reviews and probably even until Switch 2 (which I'm hoping will be here in March 2024).
I am convinced that Nintendo is intentionally making games that noticeably slowdown on the current Switch. It will help sell the new console when you can plug your existing Switch games into it and play them all at 60fps.
Tech companies (Apple!) have been known to intentionally introduce slowdown into older systems to persuade people to buy newer hardware. It would be no surprise if Nintendo was doing this, or at minimum if they just made the newer software push past the limits of the current hardware.
Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, Pokemon Violet, I’m looking at you.
I saw this 2022 article that talks about people noticing Switch slowdown:
https://www.slashgear.com/1061043/why-your-nintendo-switch-is-slow-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it/
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4 hours ago, RH said:
Numbers drop sharply after opening week. Well, they use too. The one big caveat to that use to be that if a movie came out in China a week or two later, China could give it a big boost.
This is spring break season, so there is a reasonable chance that some parents were waiting for this coming week, and possibly the following, to align with the spring break of their children. In that case, it could push it over $1B, but my gut is that it might not break $1B. Don’t get me wrong, I hope it does and I stopped paying attention to these numbers over 5 years ago and a lot has changed since then. But no, regarding Box Office numbers, I doubt it will, but who really know.
Have you looked at the dropoff post Covid? I wonder if the trend may have changed. Some people might want to wait until the big crowds are gone so they can have less germs in the theater.
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