TheMightyEthan

Yeah, I looked up the answers to maybe 5 puzzles, and hints to maybe 2 more.

Yeah, his mom was an American citizen, and by statute anyone with at least one citizen parent is a US citizen, provided that parent has been to the US at least once in their life. The Constitution requires that in order to be president you must be a "natural born citizen", and it's never been decided whether that includes someone like Cruz who has citizenship from birth under a statute rather than under the Constitution itself (which grants citizenship to anyone born in the US).

970 vs 980 is the chipset, and is independent of the amount of RAM the card has.

Replaced the power supply and no smell, so either that was the problem or it's a really weird coincidence.

Are you saying that you don't believe the Chinese calendar was designed millennia ago specifically to capitalize on this moment? Heretic!

Probably timed specifically to capitalize on people who want more after the Witness.

I have a Amazon branded Visa card that gets me rewards points I can spend at Amazon.

Amazon Prime's 20% off new games sure is making me a lot more prone to impulse buys. Though with some rewards points I had this one ended up only being $3.69 out of pocket.

Thank Christ Almighty.

Yeah, my initial thought was that it was the PSU, but I really didn't want it to be the PSU because this PSU came with the case and is a weird shape and I was worried about finding another one that would fit. Upon closer inspection, however, I realized a panel can be removed and a regular sized PSU will slot in, so now I'm happy because that was probably about the cheapest component to replace.

After further investigation (read: turning it on for a while until the smell got strong, then sniffing around the inside) I think it's the PSU. So I ordered a replacement, since I can't think what else to do other than start replacing parts.

So my HTPC is making a kind of burning smell, and I can't figure out what's causing it. I opened it up and blew out the dust from everywhere I could find (there wasn't much), it functions normally and nothing is visibly wrong. I have no idea what to do.

Yeah, the Samaritan story was awesome.

Well that would have helped if I'd actually clicked on the article...

I'd wondered if that was the same Chris Evans, had to google to make sure it wasn't.

I came in here to post that! Also, there's a beta to sign up for, which confuses me. I hope it's not a portent of multiplayer (time trials are acceptable "multiplayer").

If you run into an impossible one you can fail it intentionally and then run back and solve the previous puzzle again which will generate a new random one for the one you failed.

I think you're right about this one being impossible. Certainly impossible in the amount of time you're given.

That's cheating!

I didn't know there was such a trick. I just knew that pausing reset the puzzles.

It requires activating all 11 lasers, solving the "certain challenge", and beating the game. It does not require solving every single puzzle.

I was just giving you a hard time.

w00t!