Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Meowpheel He knows and stops. He can chew, but not clamp down as he does.

Then why do you have scars.

@Meowpheel As a puppy of around 14 weeks, he has less of what we know as dog teeth, and more little blades.

Here's the thing. The ability to pierce with these teeth is not the issue: He has none. He can chew, but that doesn't hurt unless he gets overzealous and slams his jaws down, at which point he gets the treatment you described above. At most that just leaves little dents. He has no biting power.

But as I mentioned, these teeth are like blades. So if he starts chewing, which is fine, when lying down next to me, that's what we want. But if he is higher on energy, bouncing around too much, what will happen is he forgets to let go, and thus those "Blade like" puppy teeth cut.

His claws are still far worse, being you know...claws, but little sharp puppy teeth exist to tear, rather than bite. That's where the problem comes from. He grabs hold and forgets to let go when he gets excited, so for a short time, he gets overzealous, but soon calms down when he sees he has done damaged.

He actually becomes very attentive with licks and such when he realises what he has done, and he is, mercifully enough, getting better.

It's a learning process. He is still in the stage of his life where everything is something to nibble on.

Well then that's good, he's learning.

If you want to minimize the damage to your arms then, you should try to "get hurt" before it happens. When you think he will get rowdy (should be easy to recognize his behavior since you play with him) then do a preemptive yelp.

Dogs do this too, it's actually rather funny when they start to cry from nothing at all.

(You should still try to make him chew on toys, not you, btw. It doesn't matter if he's hurting you or not)

Ugh, so Windows updated, and not only the network settings were freezing up/lagging horribly, but my internet stopped working completely. Had to struggle just to revert the update, put me in a crappy mood. I calmed down, though...but....ugh.

@Joeynator3000 That's why I always postpone the updates.

i was there just to beat up people that were eating fancy food. i ordered the wonton soup as a set up to start a fight in there, as i heard they always forget the ton in the won so that was motive for me to bash some heads. oh trust me i ate before i got there. i ate a hot dog i found in the cemetery right next to the chinese buffet.

have you ate there before? they serve a mean frankfurter if i must say so myself.

agreed

From what I can tell, they don't allow you to do that anymore. I've checked everywhere and there's no way to set it for manual updating.

@Joeynator3000 You can't select 'remind me later' anymore?

hey! hey! hey!
were talkin bout brawlers here!

You can ask to be reminded later, but they eventually happen.

It still has the update downloaded and installed, it only asks you that when it needs to restart your computer.

Yep, computers are a pain. I've recently spent a lot of time restoring mine from a previous backup, then slowly reinstalling things and fixing other things to get my computer back to how it was, then re-restoring it from the backup again after the problems reemerge.

At least I figured out the source of my problems. For whatever reason, whenever I tried uninstalling Monster Hunter Online, it would cause Windows to forget about a lot of other unrelated programs.

So my computer is all fine now, but RIP lost GTA saves.

Speaking of PCs, even though mine ran Skype, XSplit, streamed to Twitch, and did PUBG at 1080p60 Medium settings yesterday...it was running at full pelt and I cant help but wonder if a GPU upgrade is on the cards for this year.

A few specs first, to see what fellow tech heads reckon:

*DirectX 12 (Obviously)
Windows 10 Home - 64-Bit

CPU:*

Intel Core i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs, 8 listed by DX12), actually runs at 3.7GHz.

GPU:

Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
Approx. Total Memory: 12218 MB
VRAM: 4058 MB
Shared Memory: 8159 MB

RAM:

16GB DDR4
Speed - 2400MHz

Upgradable to 64GB, 2 pools of 2.

Well, I suppose weather-wise, drizzly, humid, and foggy beats clear and freezing...barely. Granted, it's possible to get four seasons in a week or less where I live, so...XD.

I've been happy with the weather so far but today, I had to experience -20°C for the first time this winter. It took longer than I expected. I hope it doesn't stay that cold.

And since people are talking about computers, I can agree that they can be a pain. My laptop hasn't been working properly for quite some time now. I restored my computer back to its initial state when I had a problem where it had 100% memory usage even when I didn't have any programs open. I don't have that problem anymore but I have three others. My laptop doesn't turn itself off correctly, the screen goes black but it's still on, I have to hold power button to turn it off. The volume jumps up randomly when I start watching a YouTube video or anything else that has something to do with sound. It's really annoying if I'm watching Twitch and it decides to buffer, the volume might go up in those situations as well. It also plays the disconnected device sound when I happen to bump my table. I blame Windows 10.

Windows 10 poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!

Don't forget to paint your door frame with lamb blood before the last plague happens.

I hear red paint works fine too.

So Im looking at a potential GTX 1080.

Too0o0o late, it's already happening, and it started with @SheldonRandoms FINALLY changing his Christmas avatar from last year! (even tho it still needs to be edited since TOAST)

An end of an era THESE has been.