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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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I can't think of a phrase for this one.
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"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Please don't spoil it for others
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Why would I?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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[1446] This Lock Isnβtβ¦ βPickyβ - YouTube[^]
I was a bit surprised by this one.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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He forgot to try picking it with a blob of PlayDoh.
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Something about a lock with [xxxx] first in the title. I knew who this was before I even clicked  That was a good one.
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Is it even a lock when it doesn't... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I've said it a million times. Locks only keep the honest people honest.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Looks like the graphics are...uh, more than the original. I hope my machine can keep up.
TTFN - Kent
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I think I played that yonks ago - it looks very familiar!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Holy crap you mean there is supposed to be a story line behind the game, I thought it was just a shootem up like Doom.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I am playing Diablo Immortal on PC just now! 
I have a 10 years old console controller.. iz no gud 
I am getting used to mouse and keyboard, it ain't bad!
But any controller recommendations guys?
EDIT
Buying this one, only $36! Wont have buyer remorse! 
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I've tried a few, and found the cheaper end of the market to be pretty much useless - I now have a Microsoft XBox 360 controller (wired USB) which has survived a few years now and is pretty much excellent for driving / flying games like GTA V (but I switch back to keyboard and mouse for the shooty bits, particularly if I'm on a drive-by mission).
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I thought that it was only me that did that. I really canβt get use to the controller when on foot in GTA. My kids laugh at me when they see me swapping between controller and mouse/keyboard.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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On foot you want accuracy, and mouse / KB is better for that. For driving / flying, you want analog inputs - which means a controller.
It's like the old Doom days: a mouse equipped player would easily demolish one playing just on the KB because he could turn faster and aim better.
For me though, trying to driveby on controller is just horrible - my "accelerate finger" has to fire, and my "brake finger" has to hold for aim - and then I can't turn the car while aiming, and drive off the edge ...
Let 'em laugh - then destroy them in PvP!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I know exactly what you mean about driving and shooting with a controller!
If youβre not aware, and you have a yacht in the game, Capβt Darcy missions are shelling out 4x $$$ and RP at the minute
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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And yachts are half price (or less) this week.
Guess what I bought yesterday?
The fine Aquarius "Fy Nghwch" is anchored off Vespucci Beach for a total cost of $R* 5.9M 
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CHKDSK and Windows Explorer "Properties" agree very well on disk capacity up to Four TeraBytes.
Thereafter, CHKDSK appears to get flustered.
Twenty minutes of searching the internet gives me a faint clue that something called the GUID Partition Table is somehow involved in all this; maybe, depending on the phase of The Moon and the Asteroid Belt.
Anybody reading who wants to explain this to me, I'm quite ready to read your words.
================LONG=======BORING==========DETAILS=================
I purchased some external USB drives.
They are (what I call) quite large: 2TB, 10TB, and 16TB
(Those are marketing numbers, not true computer science values)
My cost per TeraByte was in the range of...
- $5.17 For the small one
- $2.29 For the large one
These costs use the definition: One TeraByte = 2**40 Bytes; i.e., 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes,
My friend who is way smarter than I am tells me that I have been ripped off, and that those kinds of prices don't exist today.
He says that, when I run CHKDSK, I am going to learn my lesson about deals that are too good to be true.
So I ran CHKDSK on all three of these new great buys.
I happen to have an External USB drive with a cost of about $25.00 per TeraByte which I also included as a control observation.
The ten-minute-internet expert in me learns that CHKDSK works only up to Two TeraBytes
But then...
My own observation shows that it works fine at Four TeraBytes
And then...
CHKDSK gets confused with my two larger drives (10TB and 16TB)
And then...
The twenty-minute expert in me starts reading about the GPT (GUID Partition Table)
And then...
Win 10 Disk Management tells me nothing about any of that
And so...
I ask on CodeProject; those guys tend to have working brains.
THE TESTS WITH NUMBERS
(N.B., "Western Digital" is a real company brand name; the others are totally contrived)
2TB // HOT USB DRIVE
CHKDSK REPORTS: 2047982080 KB
2047982080 * 1024 = 2,097,133,649,920
WINDOWS EXPLORER "PROPERTIES" GIVES PERFECT MATCH
4TB // WESTERN DIGITAL USB DRIVE
CHKDSK REPORTS: 3906999296 KB
3906999296 * 1024 = 4,000,767,279,104 BYTES
WINDOWS EXPLORER "PROPERTIES" GIVES PERFECT MATCH
10TB // DAFTLY USB DRIVE
CHKDSK REPORTS: 1649913856 KB
1649913856 * 1024 = 1,689,511,788,544
WINDOWS EXPLORER "PROPERTIES" SHOWS DIFFERENT NUMBER: 10,485,604,810,752
16TB // POPART USB DRIVE
CHKDSK REPORTS: 3499077632
3499077632 * 1024 = 3,583,055,495,168
WINDOWS EXPLORER "PROPERTIES" SHOWS DIFFERENT NUMBER: 16,777,195,028,480
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Chances are your friend is right: you have been ripped off.
It's very easy for a drive to report a larger capacity than it actually has, and by not having any wiring for the more significant address lines (or more accurately the block number high addresses) can successfully write and read back from all of that capacity.
Except ... When you come to read back the earlier stuff you wrote you find it's corrupt - because it's been overwritten by the later stuff.
It's happened to me with some cheap large microSD cards, to the point where I only buy SD, USB sticks, and SSDs in general from one company (Sandisk) because I've never had a problem with them.
If you go to somewhere like Fleabay, Alibaba, or Wish and see cheap large capacity stuff it's almost certainly a scam.
Sorry.
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