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@RichardDeeming I have a topical one, which you are welcome to set. The email link in this post should work...
Cheers,
Peter
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I might borrow that if today's easy one manages to go unsolved. 
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- Homer
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I don't normally do this, but ... since I'm not up tomorrow anyway ... 
Mean American about distorted top right? (8)
Let me break that down for you:
Mean
American
about
(distorted)
top right? (8)
Just use your eyes ...
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Top right on your post says 54minutes ago
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A few days back, I was encouraging people to watch the rerun of Total Wipeout. Having seen the first 10 minutes, (that's all I could watch!) of the first episode on Saturday, I'm back to tell you: don't watch it. The BBC have TOTALLY RUINED it.
In replacing Richard Hammond & Amanda Byram, with Freddie Flintoff & Paddy McGuinness, the BBC have managed to achieve the almost impossible. They have turned a very funny game show into something that is embarrassing and painful to watch. Just like they did with Top Gear! 
I feel so compelled to stop this travesty, that I have set up a petition on Change.org. You can help by signing the petition - here:
http://chng.it/rjBfPWP5kN[^]
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Oh, when you said "rerun" before I thought you meant repeating old episodes. Didn't realise they were new ones.
Not that I would have watched them anyway, I rarely watch "live" TV. Netflix or Prime are my only sources for watching stuff.
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Yes, they are repeating old episodes. But they've been hacked to remove Richard Hammond & Amanda Byram. Replaced by Freddie Flintoff & Paddy McGuinness doing a, (very amateurish and unfunny) voice-over. Truly appalling.
modified 11-Aug-20 9:35am.
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A hack so they don't have to pay royalties to Richard and Amanda?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: A hack so they don't have to pay royalties to Richard and Amanda?
Probably. But whoever made that decision should be fired. It is unbelievable how bad they've managed to make it!
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5teveH wrote: Having seen the first 10 minutes, (that's all I could watch!)
No worries. After seeing the first 0 minutes I had no interest.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: No worries. After seeing the first 0 minutes I had no interest.
Good choice. But if you want to see how it should be done, there are plenty of the old episodes, (in their original form), on YouTube.
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Yesterday I posted this The Lounge[^]
Well I connected the laptop to external monitor via VGA and Saw that after Power On, It goes into blue screen of death
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION dxgkrnl.sys failure
Many attempts to go into safe mode or whatever has failed. Its just too adamant and Don't know what happens after it restarts.
So Did I move forward one step or backward. Was Happy to see atleast some screen but then it was more frustrating.
cheers,
Super
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It's worth trying a restore disk, but ... that's an indication that your graphics hardware may have failed (which would explain your lack of a picture at all).
I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.
Yeah, Its not a big deal to buy new one. But I would prefer to buy as choice and not as a compulsion. .
My aim is to not bow down to Laptop. I want to make it work and then show it a middle finger and buy new one. Am I too cynical?
cheers,
Super
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"Cynical"? No.
"Hopeful"? Possibly. 
And "new lappie time" means what? A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it?
My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.
Not necessarily. If the games are online multiplayer, then yes. But if the games are individual with offline modus, might be a yes but there is a chance of NO too.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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I don't use it myself, but I thought the whole point of Steam is that everything is stored (or at least replicated) online. That is, you could blow away your OS, reinstall, provide your credentials to Steam, and it would figure everything else on its own, from your profile to your game ownership to your saved progress.
Of course that's always been one of my objections to such systems. I'd much rather own some media that I can reinstall from, than re-download tens of gigabytes worth of data.
Yeah, I'm old-school in that way...
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I would say that there are still games that save progress locally (i.e. TombRaider 2 or Deponia)
You don't need to buy them again, and you can reinstall them after formats or new devices without a problem, but that doesn't mean that you play in their servers.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: I would say that there are still games that save progress locally (i.e. TombRaider 2 or Deponia)
For sure.
The only online game I play is GTA Online. It was installed from DVD (although I understand you can get it through Steam), and the game nags you if it can't reach the servers while playing, but tells you your progress is being saved locally nonetheless and will be resynchronized as soon as it can reach them again.
I've seen it warn me plenty of times that it couldn't reach the servers, but I have zero reason to believe I've ever lost any progress.
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But you say, GTA Online, all online games have that, specially the multiplayers, but solo games that allow to play with steam offline... not sure about the MUST synchronize.
I had to restart Deponia after an image reinstauration.
Might have been an error on my side, though.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Right...as I understand it (and I keep forgetting about this, since I'm not a Steam user) you can buy/install older games through Steam, and those games might predate Steam itself and not know anything about it or try to sync state and the like. In that sense, you're absolutely right, Steam is just the delivery mechanism and a game not designed for it would work just as if you had purchased/installed it from disc. And it's not Steam's responsibility in that situation to bring back your saved state between one machine and another...
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I once replaced the flat video cable of an HP laptop with a lot of blood, sweat and tears, only to have it failing on some other component a week later 
So if your latop is old, I would not spend too much effort on it.
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As a thought - have you tried to boot in safe mode?
Hold down CTRL+F8 during startup, and see if that works. If it does, it's likely a driver problem, so reinstalling graphics drivers could solve it.
If it doesn't, it's likely a hardware fault.
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