SanguineBrah

This game was fantastic. I bought it at launch and was so enraptured that I almost beat the whole thing in one sitting. I still have it on CD somewhere.

It has USB 1.1, which is very slow. You can run software from a hard drive if you have a PS2 fat. It is also possible to run from a network share or a PS2 memory card to SD card adapter. Some methods are too slow to play FMV without skipping.

The scar is true to the character from the original novels.

Yes and no. The GDPR applies to personal data, which is to say data pertaining to a personally identifiable subject. Data can be anonymised in order to satisfy the right for deletion, making it no longer personal data, so they can delete your name but keep the content if they want. This is what Reddit does when you delete your account - the content remains but they replace your name with [deleted]. Things get a little more dicey if you reveal enough information in the content of your posts to still render you identifiable, in which case they would be obliged to remove that information so that you could no longer be identified.

So many great point & click adventures coming out these days

Really enjoying this one. Definitely among the best time travel stories I've experienced. Beautiful art & animation. Great voice acting. It's Wadjet Eye at their very best.

The keycaps thing is a huge problem now because of the widespread use of Chromebooks with butterfly switches. 9 times out of 10 if one of those caps is torn off, the switch is permanently damaged and the whole keyboard needs to be replaced.

PDFs are perfect for the one thing they were designed for, which is publishing high quality proofs for printing. They aren't supposed to be editable. People just use them where they shouldn't.

Started this last night. The animation is gorgeous and the voice acting is mostly great aside from a few inaccurate accents. Very light on puzzles so far; the focus is very much on storytelling.

Ragebutt's advice is good RE: maintenance. I would take the back off, make sure it's discharged then clean around the anode cap and in general make sure there is not excessive dust/soot that could form a path for electrical discharge. Clean the anode with alcohol, apply a little dialectric grease to the cup and put everything back together. There is a decent chance that will help, just make sure not to wipe off the black paint on the tube - this is called "aquadag" and it is important to the operation of the monitor.

This monitor has no OSD or button to trigger a degauss. The coil will be wired directly to AC via a posistor, so it's entirely passive and will only trigger again when the monitor cools down.

The distortion is caused by the high voltage arcing over, which droops and interrupts beam deflection for a moment. I wouldn't want to run it this way for very long, because it can damage the flyback transformer over time (although the flyback could itself be arcing anyway).