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11-Aug-20 1:37

Even with a hint? Good grief ...

Mean American about distorted top right? (8)

Mean        MEAN
American        US
about             RE
(distorted)  (anag)

top right? (8)
USERNAME

Just use your eyes: look in the top right of this page and what do you see? Laugh | :laugh:

So ... as it's unsolved today it reverts to @Peter-in-2780 or @RichardDeeming - I'll let them work out which between them.

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super11-Aug-20 1:40

11-Aug-20 1:40

OriginalGriff wrote:
top right? (8)

cheers,

Super

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musefan11-Aug-20 1:45

musefan

11-Aug-20 1:45

I got "Profile" and "Reputation" at one point. Obviously wrong letter counts. "Username" just didn't click for some reason.

I also hadn't seen that you posted a hint until just now.

Well done for going 3 days unsolved. A couple of stinkers in there where you were really pushing the rules, but nothing that I could really argue as invalid.... perhaps just... pure evil Laugh | :laugh:

OriginalGriff11-Aug-20 2:24

11-Aug-20 2:24

I genuinely though all three of 'em were pretty easy - though this one had deliberate misdirection built in! Big Grin | :-D

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Greg Utas11-Aug-20 2:01

Greg Utas

11-Aug-20 2:01

Original Griff wrote:
Good grief ...

You took the words out of my mouth! Poke tongue | ;-P

Peter_in_278011-Aug-20 16:08

Peter_in_2780

11-Aug-20 16:08

@RichardDeeming I have a topical one, which you are welcome to set. The email link in this post should work...

Cheers,
Peter

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Richard Deeming11-Aug-20 22:10

Richard Deeming

11-Aug-20 22:10

I might borrow that if today's easy one manages to go unsolved. Smile | :)

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OriginalGriff11-Aug-20 1:10

Re: WSO CCC OTD 2020-08-11 - a hint.

11-Aug-20 1:10

I don't normally do this, but ... since I'm not up tomorrow anyway ... Big Grin | :-D

Mean American about distorted top right? (8)

Let me break that down for you:

Mean 
American 
about 
(distorted)

top right? (8)
Just use your eyes ...

pkfox11-Aug-20 2:06

pkfox

11-Aug-20 2:06

Top right on your post says 54minutes ago Big Grin | :-D

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5teveH10-Aug-20 22:05

10-Aug-20 22:05

A few days back, I was encouraging people to watch the rerun of Total Wipeout. Having seen the first 10 minutes, (that's all I could watch!) of the first episode on Saturday, I'm back to tell you: don't watch it. The BBC have TOTALLY RUINED it.

In replacing Richard Hammond & Amanda Byram, with Freddie Flintoff & Paddy McGuinness, the BBC have managed to achieve the almost impossible. They have turned a very funny game show into something that is embarrassing and painful to watch. Just like they did with Top Gear! Frown | :-(

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musefan10-Aug-20 22:23

musefan

10-Aug-20 22:23

Oh, when you said "rerun" before I thought you meant repeating old episodes. Didn't realise they were new ones.

Not that I would have watched them anyway, I rarely watch "live" TV. Netflix or Prime are my only sources for watching stuff.

5teveH10-Aug-20 23:23

10-Aug-20 23:23

Yes, they are repeating old episodes. But they've been hacked to remove Richard Hammond & Amanda Byram. Replaced by Freddie Flintoff & Paddy McGuinness doing a, (very amateurish and unfunny) voice-over. Truly appalling. Frown | :(

modified 11-Aug-20 9:35am.

Gerry Schmitz11-Aug-20 5:48

Gerry Schmitz

11-Aug-20 5:48

A hack so they don't have to pay royalties to Richard and Amanda?

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5teveH11-Aug-20 6:09

11-Aug-20 6:09

Gerry Schmitz wrote:
A hack so they don't have to pay royalties to Richard and Amanda?

Probably. But whoever made that decision should be fired. It is unbelievable how bad they've managed to make it! Frown | :(

ZurdoDev11-Aug-20 3:58

ZurdoDev

11-Aug-20 3:58

5teveH wrote:
Having seen the first 10 minutes, (that's all I could watch!)

No worries. After seeing the first 0 minutes I had no interest. Big Grin | :-D

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5teveH11-Aug-20 6:11

11-Aug-20 6:11

ZurdoDev wrote:
No worries. After seeing the first 0 minutes I had no interest.

Good choice. But if you want to see how it should be done, there are plenty of the old episodes, (in their original form), on YouTube.

Update on my Laptop woes

super10-Aug-20 21:38

10-Aug-20 21:38

Yesterday I posted this The Lounge[^]
Well I connected the laptop to external monitor via VGA and Saw that after Power On, It goes into blue screen of death

SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION dxgkrnl.sys failure

Many attempts to go into safe mode or whatever has failed. Its just too adamant and Don't know what happens after it restarts.

So Did I move forward one step or backward. Was Happy to see atleast some screen but then it was more frustrating.

cheers,

Super

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RickZeeland10-Aug-20 21:44

RickZeeland

10-Aug-20 21:44

I think you need a rescue disk: best-system-rescue-discs-for-windows[^]
And maybe one of these: tools-to-fix-windows-errors[^]

OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 21:48

10-Aug-20 21:48

It's worth trying a restore disk, but ... that's an indication that your graphics hardware may have failed (which would explain your lack of a picture at all).

I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.

super10-Aug-20 21:59

10-Aug-20 21:59

OriginalGriff wrote:
I'd suspect that it's probably new lappie time, I'm afraid.

Yeah, Its not a big deal to buy new one. But I would prefer to buy as choice and not as a compulsion. Big Grin | :-D

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My aim is to not bow down to Laptop. I want to make it work and then show it a middle finger and buy new one. Am I too cynical?

cheers,

Super

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OriginalGriff10-Aug-20 22:01

10-Aug-20 22:01

"Cynical"? No.
"Hopeful"? Possibly. Laugh | :laugh:

And "new lappie time" means what? A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it? Dead | X|

super10-Aug-20 22:10

10-Aug-20 22:10

OriginalGriff wrote:
A whole day reinstalling software and configuring it?

My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.

cheers,

Super

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Nelek10-Aug-20 23:49

Nelek

10-Aug-20 23:49

super wrote:
My biggest issue is if I can retain the advancement in various games level I have been playing via steam. I don't want to start from Level 0.

Not necessarily. If the games are online multiplayer, then yes. But if the games are individual with offline modus, might be a yes but there is a chance of NO too.

M.D.V.

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dandy7211-Aug-20 2:45

dandy72

11-Aug-20 2:45

I don't use it myself, but I thought the whole point of Steam is that everything is stored (or at least replicated) online. That is, you could blow away your OS, reinstall, provide your credentials to Steam, and it would figure everything else on its own, from your profile to your game ownership to your saved progress.

Of course that's always been one of my objections to such systems. I'd much rather own some media that I can reinstall from, than re-download tens of gigabytes worth of data.

Yeah, I'm old-school in that way...