u/SolidEllie

🔥 Hot ▲ 126 r/lotr

I'm a gigantic dolt.....all this time in my entire existence I was wondering "Why would there be a dark mountian called Mount Doom? So comically evil sounding", until I recently learnt its not "Doom" in the English sense we have now, but its original terminology?

Like, it's not literally Doom like how we know of the word Doom in english language.

I'm kinda ashamed to be thinking that of course, the Dark Lord sauron would forge the ring in a generic evil sounding place called Doom. Like, how cliche.

I ONLY just learnt that its name basically means Judgement/fate/Destiny in terms of Tolkien's time.

I think this detail completely makes me recontexualize so much of the final critical moments leading to the Ring's destruction, since it now makes more sense why the fate of the entire Middle Earth rested in this mountain.

As opposed to me simply thinking, "Damn, that mountain was evil and scary".

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u/SolidEllie — 3 hours ago

This is really random and somewhat obscure, but back in the day, WWE had a mobile game called WWE Immortals, and one of the characters in it was Brock Lesnar and in January 2015 is his Cyborg-themed skin. Funnily enough, for WWE 2K16 pre order in July 2015 was....Arnold and T-800 skins.

Always thought that this was basically Terminator Brock haha.

u/SolidEllie — 1 day ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 569 r/ResidentEvilRequiem

"Leon, while you lay there, hopefully as uncomfortably as can be, I want you to listen to me. I want you to digest this because before I leave with Zeno and unleash Elpis, I have A LOT of things I want to get off my chest...." Grace right after she made up her mind to follow Zeno and betray Leon.

"Firstly, why'd you leave me with only ONE ammo when you gave me your gun?" :P

u/SolidEllie — 1 day ago

Hey all, my gaming laptop (Zephyrus G14) started having this weird issue. Singleplayer games start acting as if its having a lag spike. And then it goes back to normal. Happening with even old games. Any help for the cause of the issue and/or fix would be extremely helpful!

Its been happening for a few weeks now. Weirdly, it happens in basically EVERY game, not even high GPU/CPU intensive ones. Here I'm playing Borderlands 2, and as you can see, it plays fine until suddenly it feels like everything starts getting choppy and jittery. The audio either remains normal or spazzes out, but usually these last for 15-20 seconds until it comes back to normal.

It happens every 3-4 mintues.

Any idea what could be causing this? Is it a GPU issue (doubt it) or CPU, or something else entirely? I've run antivirus, did a cleanup, updated the drivers.

The ONLY possible thing I can think of is maybe I need to replace thermal paste?? No idea, but as you can see, the games don't lag entire time, its a sudden almost lag-like spike, even in singleplayer games, and then it goes back to normal. Everything else seems fine. I could be in an intense fight with 100+ fps, but be in an empty room or in this case, just exporing the map when suddenly it starts to stutter.

Is this a sign my computer is basically dying LOL?

If anyone has any tips/advice or had similar issues, PLEASE let me know.

Specs:

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics, 3301 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
  • 16 GB RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Thanks!!

u/SolidEllie — 3 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 88 r/GamingLaptops

Hey all, my gaming laptop (Zephyrus G14) started having this weird issue.

Its been happening for a few weeks now. Weirdly, it happens in basically EVERY game, not even high GPU/CPU intensive ones. Here I'm playing Borderlands 2, and as you can see, it plays fine until suddenly it feels like everything starts getting choppy and jittery. The audio either remains normal or spazzes out, but usually these last for 15-20 seconds until it comes back to normal.

It happens every 3-4 mintues.

Any idea what could be causing this? Is it a GPU issue (doubt it) or CPU, or something else entirely? I've run antivirus, did a cleanup, updated the drivers.

The ONLY possible thing I can think of is maybe I need to replace thermal paste?? No idea, but as you can see, the games don't lag entire time, its a sudden almost lag-like spike, even in singleplayer games, and then it goes back to normal. Everything else seems fine. I could be in an intense fight with 100+ fps, but be in an empty room or in this case, just exporing the map when suddenly it starts to stutter.

Is this a sign my computer is basically dying LOL?

If anyone has any tips/advice or had similar issues, PLEASE let me know.

Specs:

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS with Radeon Graphics, 3301 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)
  • 16 GB RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Thanks!!

u/SolidEllie — 3 days ago

Found this image in the "extras" section of RE7 in the Official RE website. Any idea what is is supposed to represent?

An interesting piece of art, but from what I recall (played the game a few years back), I don't recall any characters in a top hat and briefcase? I assume the girl is supposed to represent Eveline? But what's with the guy, and why is there a mirror reflection?

Granted, this could've just been a concept/promo art but I'm curious what's the story being told.

If someone has any interpretation, would be helpful! I love discussing stuff like this about the series.

u/SolidEllie — 5 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 308 r/FantasticBeasts

Okay so you're telling me a Grindelwald, a dude with no problems killing muggle babies without a shred of remorse....never planned to make Horcruxes? Bullshit.

It's kinda hilarious that in the Wizarding world franchise that Voldemort is said to be the only user in recent memory to have Horcruxes. Mind you, the need to commit murder to split the soul, which Vodemort does only 6 (or 7?) times, meanwhile, Grindelwald here, one of the darkest wizards, casually be going around killing muggle babies nonchalantly and not even producing a SINGLE horcrux???

I just find it....extremely unbelieveable. The dude probably had a killcount in the hundreds. And even unlike Voldemort, he was wanted WORLDWIDE!

You're telling the the so-called Messiah of the wizarding world who was to free the wizards from the shackles of Muggledom....didn't plan any contingency? Didn't have a single backup of Horcrux?

Even Regulus Black knew of them, so it's less about the knowlede but I guess more about the application.

Do you think it was hubris? Do you think Grindelwad was SO sure he wouldn't die that he didn't even consider making a horcrux? Maybe he didn't want to risk the soul-split thingy? Maybe he just thought the concept of horcrux was beneath him somehow? LOL. I just think it's kinda BS that we are to assume he never had one made.

u/SolidEllie — 6 days ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 533 r/CasualConversation

Is there such a thing where you feel like you went to bed at night, and you "blinked" and it was morning and time to get up?? Like you swear no time passed and you're still tired. Is there a name for this phenomena?

Okay so it didn't happen recently but sometimes when I was younger, I could swear I'd to go bed hoping to get a nice sleep. And then I'd basically blink (or just close and open my eyes) and its as if my brain skips over the sleep and rest part and fast forwards everything to the morning. It was such a strange phenomena that I'd be genuinely confused and sad because it didn't even feel like I slept.

Best way to describe it would be when in some videogame day/night cycle shift. It was just jarring.

Is that a thing? Does anyone know what I'm talking about or am I crazy?

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u/SolidEllie — 7 days ago