Reddit as a whole was an absolute cesspool, I don't deny that. But some of us were lucky enough, through lots and lots of searching and trial and error and weeding out of bad eggs, to find a few places where we felt welcomed and accepted without judgment.
I'm sorry that you never did!
Luckily, I think Beehaw and Blahaj are doing an admirable job, and I'm happy to be a part of it!
Oh, thanks for the link. I'm sorry I missed that discussion, but it's good to know I'm not the only one who'd be interested in a space like this and I'm glad the admins are aware of the need.
This was not at all my experience in the specific community I'm asking about recreating here, which is why I'm asking.
I also don't agree with the take that extremism of some form or fashion is the only natural course of human discourse. I'm sorry your experience of people has left you with such a negative view of them.
If you like Harvest Moon, the new games are trash but the Story of Seasons games are really good for scratching that itch.
Metroid Dread and the Metroid Prime Remaster are both excellent.
In spite of their technical limitations and lazy graphical fidelity, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are legitimately fun games.
DioField Chronicle and Triangle Strategy if you like strategy games.
Octopath Traveller 1 and 2, Bravely Default II (the first game was a 3DS title), and the Xenogears games if you like story heavy RPGs.
There are decent multi-platform ports like The Witcher 3 and Persona 5 Royal if you missed them, as well.
I'm inclined to agree that the CPU might have been set incorrectly / have a bad pin, especially after the black screen and BIOS errors after updating.
Unfortunate, but it happens to the best of us.
Do you mean you're getting an error message saying the "selected file is not a proper BIOS file"?
Or are you getting a different error? If it's the above, you'll need to remove and redownload the updated BIOS, as it was corrupted during download, and you'll need to make sure you have a stable connection while downloading to avoid it happening again.
If you're getting a different error I'd need to know the exact wording to help any further.
Since what everyone else has suggested hasn't worked, there's 3 more things to test:
Update your BIOS. Depending on the age difference between your CPU and your MOBO, the BIOS might not be configured correctly for your CPU and thus half your RAM is unable to be addressed.
Test your RAM sticks and memory slots individually. Put your sticks in the primary channel (per your MOBO specs) one at a time and reboot to see if they're actually working. Then try moving them around to see if the issue is a bad slot, rather than a bad stick.
Are you sure you're not running a 32-bit OS? You'd be capped at 4GB system memory on 32-bit Windows, for example, no matter how much physical RAM you have.
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