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Probably common knowledge on this sub, but Bis is the Poppunk/Eurodance group that provided the outro music for the Powerpuff Girls. Their discography is somewhat varied, but they tend to dig into Poppunk and dance, sometimes combining both. Due to their involvement with PPG I discovered some of my favorite songs, including Dead Wrestlers and Kill Ur Boyfriend.

XIII was a cel shaded FPS game designed to look like a comic book.

I recall certain retailers (Mostly Meijer, a grocery store in the Midwest) had special copies that carried a sticker that read something like "You must be 17 to buy this game" similar to the "Check ID" sticker on State of Emergency, though I think this was more serious and not a goofy marketing stunt to seem edgy.

It's kinda funny because XIII is really not an edgy game at all, it's actually pretty tame by M rating standards. There's some stylized blood, but it's pretty minimal. Most parents probably wouldn't bat an eye to be honest. I'm pretty sure its actually rated low enough that kids can play it in some countries.

Unlike State of Emergency, there doesn't seem to be any photographic evidence of this being a thing.

The laptop is a new-ish MSI Raider, it was given to me.

I've used Mint on and off as a daily driver for about a decade now, this is a relatively new problem I've been dealing with for the last year and a half.

If the laptop is open and doing something light, the fans run at a relatively low speed. Only kicking up if I'm playing a graphics intensive game in performance mode or something with the RTX GPU fully enabled.

The problem is, it doesn't matter what I was doing prior. I could be doing light programming work in sublime with the fans hardly running at all. I close the lid, and the fans go absolutely nuts as if I'm playing a VR game with Raytracing or something.

Turning on or off the discrete graphics doesn't change anything. Performance or Power Saver doesn't change anything.

I'm worried that I'm eventually going to burn out the motors because of this.

I currently have it set to go into Suspend mode when the lid is closed, and I suspect that might be the issue. I'm aware some distros have a Hibernate mode, I assume that's closer to the behavior I desire but Mint doesn't have that mode for some reason.

Other than distro hopping or getting a new laptop, what do?