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[anikom15]

Didn't some Wiis have issues with Brawl because it used a dual-layer DVD for more storage?

Or was that just made up by trolls on GameFAQs?

[Ventus]

Yeah I think that was something made up, I know my Wii can play Dual-Layer disk. I've been able to play and complete XenoBlade chronicles (Its Dual-Layer). So I know for d*** sure its not my Wii  

[Dawnlight]

Pointing out problems with a game that don't actually even exist doesn't make it broken, it just means you're lying to try and prove a point. 

That sentence was so not necessary. I don't believe it's fair to accuse Benji of lying. If you were to do that to another person, you are really leaving a pretty bad perception to the receiver. 

[KingPridenia]

Okay, my car is on the fritz and I don't know what's going on. Since Tuesday of last week, my thermometer, RPM gauge, speedometer and fuel gauge have been bugging out. At first, I thought I was just seeing things as an adverse effect of being stressed from work. But then I watched and noticed it wasn't my imagination screwing with me. Here are the effects I notice:

 

• While idle, my thermometer, RPM gauge and speedometer will jerk up for a split second and go back to the value it should be at. For instance, I'm stopped at a light and my RPM jerks up to about 2.5k for a split second before going back down to around 0.6-0.8. There is no impact on my vehicle. While driving, it happens, but not as often.
• While idle or driving, sometimes my fuel gauge drops to 0 for a split second before going back to what it should be at (at the time of typing this, I'm sitting on 3/4 tank)

Again, my car is running completely fine as if my meters weren't freaking out, but it does concern me that it could be something much worse and potentially very expensive wrong with my car. That and it's very easy for me to notice the whacked out meter readings.

[Shane]

Gah, got my list of classes for next semester (and some classes exclusively for term 3) and well, the grade 10 English teacher from my previous school that was supposed to retire last year (and the year before and the year before -- she has been there since my oldest brother went to school, and he's in his early 30s!) has moved to my new school and is teaching me two subjects (English and History), argh.

 

In case you don't know why I'm not looking forward to this:

 

So I got my School Report for Grade 10, I got mostly C (Standard) and B (Above Standard) grades. But I don't even know what's up with my English grade.

 

Firstly, I'd like to point out despite months of learning Romeo and Juliet with my English teacher, she seems incapable of spelling William Shakespeare's last name as we see the name Shakespear on the whiteboard. Apparently I had solid use of ICT skills yet we didn't even do anything computer related and yet she seems to be the only one who marked my literacy was at a standard level despite her multiple times telling me I have some of the best literacy skills in class - including her nominating me for the literacy award at graduation. In the end, I got a D (Below Standard). I'm not going to let that get me though because I got a lot of good feedback on my literacy skills elsewhere.

 

Also my numeracy skills have improved amazingly. That was my goal for Grade 10!

 

Not only that, she has a clear history of devoting an entire lesson of pure lecture should one person muck up. Be it 5, 10, 20 or 40 minutes, she will find something to rant on about. She overreacts too (usually she is all "get o-GET OUT" over everyone). A whole noisy classroom goes silent when she steps into the room, I'm not even kidding. She told me once that wearing slightly muddy shoes is not being hygienic in a cooking environment. What? And why English and History of all lessons? Argh. Not looking forward to this at all.

 

I also should get back to driving, I kinda stopped after my sanity went down hill at one point.

 

re SSBB: if it's not your Wii, it's your disk, one or the other. I know a lot more people with functional copies of SSBB, calling it a bad game due to having disk failures isn't really all that valid. Until you show me solid proof (=/= just telling me) that this problem has occurred on multiple disks, I'm not calling a game that isn't broken for me or anyone I know broken.

Edited by Charizard, 25 June 2014 - 10:04 AM.

[KingPridenia]

Okay, so remember how I told you guys about my car's gauges fluttering? Well, I was going home the highway and as soon as I turned onto it, my RPM gauge dropped at around 3,800 RPM, my speedometer at about 62 MPH, my thermostat at 100 degrees and my fuel at 1/8th of a tank. My father called the mechanic and tried to fix the problem himself, only to have it wig out again, this time keeping the speedometer broken at 67 MPH, my RPM at the 5,000 mark and gas tank just under half. Until this morning when I had to run my mother to work (seriously Mom, you're 57 and you can't / are unwilling to drive??)*, my meters were fluttering erratically for a while with my RPM going from 0 to 8,000+ in a split second and my other gauges acting in a similar manner. After a while, my car's meters started to function normally and from the time I got half way to my mother's job to the time I got home, my meters worked just fine.

 

Whelp, go figure that I'm to drop my car off at the mechanic tomorrow and my car decides to stop acting up (for now). Watch my car behave so that he thinks my father and I were pranking him. We'll see what happens when I go to work this evening and possibly if I have to pick my mother up before going to work. I think it's a faulty sensor and/or a short in one of the terminals. Hopefully if the problem persists and I go to the mechanic, he isn't going to bankrupt me. I would rage if I had all the money saved up I did only to have it all pissed away on one lousy repair. I can't catch a break.

 

*I think it's funny my mother doesn't have to learn to drive, but my father more or less FORCED me to eventually get my license since I'd have no other means of getting to/from college otherwise. Also funny how my mother complains when she gets stuck with her ride and dragged all over the place yet simply getting her license and stuff would fix that issue. Ugh, explaining anything to her will result in an Angry German Kid tantrum.

[Moonbread]

Yeah I think that was something made up, I know my Wii can play Dual-Layer disk. I've been able to play and complete XenoBlade chronicles (Its Dual-Layer). So I know for d*** sure its not my Wii

Not made up, a good friend of mine had a Wii that couldn't play Dual-Layer disks.

[anikom15]

That sucks!!

I've heard the second layer is just SSE cutscenes. I don't know if that's true. Were there any other dual-layer Wii games?

[Russ]

There were a few, but I think Brawl is the most popular. And yeah, my Wii had troubles with Brawl. If I played it for a while, my Wii would just spit out an error message about not being able to read the disc and shut off. Now the entire disc drive's broken, so I guess it still has a problem with dual-layer discs. As well as single-layer discs.

[anikom15]

That's surprising esp. considering Nintendo makes really sturdy hardware. I actually have a first generation Wii and it works fine. The disk drive is pretty loud though. My friend's Wii's drive died recently.

Edited by anikom15, 26 June 2014 - 02:58 PM.

[MarinaraSauce]

That sucks!!

I've heard the second layer is just SSE cutscenes. I don't know if that's true. Were there any other dual-layer Wii games?

 

That may explain why my Wii U was having trouble loading some of the cutscenes.  At first I just thought it was some issue with reverse-compatibility.

[Aevin]

Aevin's Cake-Making Adventures

 

So, I decided to make a cake from a mix we bought. Since there's only two of us, I usually half the recipe and save the rest of the mix for later. It called for 3/4 cup water, 3 eggs, and a stick of butter.

 

So I halved it, mixed everything up and put it in a pan in the oven. As I was cleaning up, it dawned on me that there absolutely wasn't half of a stick of butter left in the wrapper I was throwing away. I'd accidentally put a whole stick in when I was supposed to cut it in half! Oops!

 

Fortunately, it'd only been in there for a minute, so I took it out, poured the mix back into the bowl, and decided I'd just make the full recipe instead. I added more water, more eggs, and poured it back into a bigger pan. "Wow, this is really thin cake mix when you make it right," I thought. "But I've never made this type before, so I guess this is how it's supposed to look." I put it back in the oven, and went looking for the box to see how long to set the timer for.

 

Then, I realized the box was back in the cupboard where I'd put it. With half the cake mix still inside.

 

So I took it out of the oven, poured it back into the mixing bowl, mixed in the rest of the cake mix, and put it back in for take 3.

 

It'll be a miracle of this thing turns out. I'm worried it will be too oily from the cooking spray I used on the pans getting mixed back in with the rest ...  I'm not usually this scatterbrained, I swear!

[Russ]

I've been guilty of doing very similar things. Only in the Ochem lab, rather than the kitchen. Which, as you might imagine, has somewhat harsher consequences.

[Shane]

Cake experiments are always fun if you get to lick the spoon!

 

In all seriousness, let's hope for a miracle then.

[Aevin]

Cake experiments are always fun if you get to lick the spoon!

 

In all seriousness, let's hope for a miracle then.

It's delicious. And very, very blue.