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[Alkarii]

Looks like the venue for that match forgot to pay the gravity bill again.

[Liraxus]

Hey um, so my Computer screen broke and I was wondering how much repairs would be, the LCD is cracked so it just sorta bleeds everywhere.

[TheStranger]

I love stiff or high-risk moves. Someone should dig up that video of Stan Hansen punching Vader so hard his eyesocket broke and his eyeball almost popped out

[D-vid]

Hey um, so my Computer screen broke and I was wondering how much repairs would be, the LCD is cracked so it just sorta bleeds everywhere.

Getting a new one is probably cheaper, especially if your screen is older.

[Liraxus]

Hey um, so my Computer screen broke and I was wondering how much repairs would be, the LCD is cracked so it just sorta bleeds everywhere.

Getting a new one is probably cheaper, especially if your screen is older.

I bought it about 2 years ago, can't be THAT old...

[Bappie]

I just got a phone call saying something about something wrong with my computer.
They told me to open run and put in some text.

I put the text in Google instead, all the websites were computer help sites saying its a phishing phone call scam.

lel

[Alkarii]

I had gotten that same phone call several times when we didn't have a working computer. I had to tell the guy the last time that they had called several times, and I had told them that we do not have internet, and that the only computer we had would not turn on because it didn't even have a power supply or hard drive. Then I asked him how they'd be able to detect my computer getting a virus like that.

[Brekkjern]

It's hilarious to spin up a virtual machine and let them into that one instead and see what they do. Especially if it's running Linux and you pretend that you don't understand why it's not the same as Windows.

[DarkSurfer]

Hey um, so my Computer screen broke and I was wondering how much repairs would be, the LCD is cracked so it just sorta bleeds everywhere.

Getting a new one is probably cheaper, especially if your screen is older.

I bought it about 2 years ago, can't be THAT old...

In monitor land, it really isn't that much. You can get a decent new monitor for about 100 bucks, which would be what it'd roughly cost for repairing anyway, depending on how deep the damage is.

Fo' example, I bought my 24in LED Dell monitor for about 170 bucks and that was 4 years ago.

[Ersatz]

I've always been able to play music in my head after I've listened to it long enough. I thought everyone did that but I've come across people who told me they didn't and said it was weird. Is it not something everyone can do? I mean everyone gets a song stuck in their head every once in a while, but apparently not everyone can consciously play any song they want in their head?

[The Nightman]

Yea, I do that too. As soon as you mentioned it, Slayer's "Seasons in the Abyss" started playing in my head.

[Riku]

That's a skill called audiation (the ability to mentally comprehend music well enough to deliberately reproduce it entirely internally). It is something that generally takes a lot of practice, whether you take in the original data through reading music (immediate synthesis), or from memorizing a song you've heard (rote synthesis). I would imagine that if you are particularly prone to memorizing things in an organized way, and if you can sing on pitch, it is entirely reasonable that you could have built this as an on-demand skill for rote synthesis. Or, if you haven't built up the physical coordination in your voice to sing on pitch, if you can tell what "on pitch" is still supposed to be, then you have at least the foundation for building this skill.

Really practiced musicians can do this without hearing the song before, and just looking at printed music, but this is even harder than your version (I still have trouble with processing too many parts at once while reading, and theory/composition is my wheelhouse).

[Exeres]

I didn't know that was a thing, I figured everyone did it.

[Riku]

Well, I mean, there's a difference between mentally forming the string of information for humming a melody, and actually playing back all parts and lines of an entire song, from bass line to synth overtone, with every hit and wash on the drumset. Most people fall into the first category, some can do the second with their favorite album that they've heard 239486324 times, but it's less common for someone to be able to fully and independently reproduce any song they think of in their head.

[The Nightman]

I can do it with everything in a song that I've heard, except the drums. I don't listen to the drums much when I listen to music, so I mostly just fill that in with a generic drum beat when playing it back in my head.