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FINDING LANDO ON RAYA | (l.norris)
summary: you are bored in your hotel room and find Lando Norris on Raya, what will happen if he texts you?
wordcount: 5.7k words
pairing: landonorris x fem!reader
warnings: smut, oral (f and m receiving), p in v
notes: seeing that video, did things to me, my first smut so please be gentle!! Comment your thoughts please also please pretend that you don’t need to be a celebrity to see others
You were in Amsterdam for a work trip, discussing business with possible new clients. The client that was scheduled on your last day, canceled the meeting the night before, because of some emergency that came up, so you being bored in your hotel room during the early afternoon, you checked Raya. You downloaded the app with your friends back in London to see who comes up and check out celebrities that had a profile there. You weren’t big on dating apps, you had Tinder but only to make fun of the jerks that were registered.
Nothing serious ever came out of the dates you had, Raya was your new hope. Maybe going on dates with celebrities would be better, maybe they wouldn’t be such idiots, in the end, you could always talk to tabloids and tell them what an asshole he was. They knew that risk and they wouldn’t just send dickpics out of the blue.
Going through the profiles you found some Instagram celebrities, but non caught your eye, you could clearly see the fuckboy in them.
You almost wanted to close the app, but saw a brown-haired boy named Lando Norris. You followed Formula One and watched as many races as you could, always keeping a close eye on the younger drivers, who just looked absolutely delicious. With Lando getting P2 in Silverstone and Hungary, you shifted your attention to him, stalking him on Instagram and finding him legs clenching sexy. You never would’ve thought you would find him on such an app. He could just scroll on his Instagram followers, chose a random person, and hit her up, she would open her legs in seconds, not that you were any different.
You clicked through his pictures, a black and white one of him looking like the dessert he is, one of him partying, and one of him with his friends and pulling a weird face. The three pictures showed his personality perfectly. Sexy, outgoing, and funny. You analyzed the profile further, looking at his profession which said, Formula One driver, age twenty four, wasn’t he twenty three? After a quick Google search, you checked that he was indeed twenty three years old. Lando Norris cheating his age, you saw what he was doing.
Visiting Amsterdam from London, just like you.
You didn’t hesitate for a second but clicked straight on the heart, hoping that maybe he liked you as well and before you could blink, a page popped up, and the words: ’You and Lando like each other!‘ flew across your screen.
You couldn’t believe it, he liked you as well. What? How?
What should you do now? Text him? Ignore it? You couldn’t ignore him. Meeting Lando was a one in a million chance. You wondered what he was like in real life, was he as funny as he appeared in all of the videos? You tapped on his chat and thought about what you wanted to say. Something sweet? Something funny? Something flirty? Or did you text him something about Formula One? You were about to exit the app and text your best friend, but then you saw a bubble appear, indicating that he was typing.
/////////////////// Meanwhile at Lando’s //////////////////////
He sat in his hotel room watching something random on Netflix when his phone made a sound, a sound that he specifically set for Raya. He removed his eyes from his MacBook and took his phone in his hand, he recognized your name from earlier. He looked for some fun on Raya, wanting a quick fuck to forget the busy weeks he had. So when he scrolled through the profiles and found yours, he was kind of drooling. You looked stunning in the pictures you put up, one of you in a park, sitting on a blanket and enjoying the sun, the next one was you, sitting on some random stairs in front of a house you found in Notting Hill and the last one was one of you sitting in front of a cake, made for your birthday. A big pink twenty two was piped on the white frosting while you smiled at the cake. You were surprised by the whole day your friends had prepared for you. Due to you moving to London for your job, you had no one at first, because of your job you got to know a lot of people and some stuck with you, surprising you for your birthday.
You looked super hot in all of your photos, choosing them with a laugh with your friends, saying how many creeps were going to slide in your dms.
So when Lando read: ’You and Y/N like each other!‘, he didn’t waste a second of not answering you. He thought you were perfect, from London and in his age range and not ugly. Lando clicked on the private chat and typed in his usual message, every time he used this, not one girl said no.
Hey there! You look absolutely gorgeous
What are you up to babygirl?
You almost let out a scream. He was a flirt, a big one. What should you do? Text your best friend and ask for help or just handle this like a pro and see what the outcome is. You decided to go for the second, if he wanted to meet up, then it was because of you and your texting and not because of your best friend that basically wrote the text for you. So you replied to him, if he was flirty, you would be too.
Hiya Handsome
Not much, chilling in my hotel room
What about you?
You wanted to keep the conversation going, so you obviously wanted to know what he was up to. If someone would have told you weeks ago, that you would be texting with Lando Norris on your Amsterdam business trip, you would have laughed at the person. You dreaded this trip, of course, it was fun traveling at the cost of the company but it was also lonely. Maybe texting Lando wasn’t that bad after all, he could be your company for the last day.
You didn’t have to wait too long for a reply from him, after seconds he had read the message and the bubble appeared again. He was not only fast at driving then.
The same
I‘m bored as hell
What are you doing tonight?
Oh god. What now? That was practically him asking you if you were free later. Of course, you were but that was not him asking for a date where he would kiss you on the cheek good night. That was him asking for a quickie and you knew it. But would you still meet him? Obviously! It’s not every day you get to meet one of your celebrity crushes.
Not much, had a client meeting but he canceled so now I‘m free
Thought about going out and seeing the city but am not sure, they said that rain is coming later
Why you asking?
You knew why he was asking, but you wanted to seem innocent. In your head you already started planning your outfit, you had a lot of serious outfits for work and barely anything nice to wear for a non formal meeting. But you were so happy you packed some lingerie, you had to because almost all of your normal non sexy underwear was in the laundry, which you forgot to put into the washing machine. Typical you.
It’s my lucky day then
The clouds are already really dark, seems like you can’t go out tonight :(
Wanna come to my hotel and maybe we could order some food? I‘m kinda craving some McDonald’s
You seem lovely
And it happened. What are you gonna do now? In the end, he was still a stranger, someone you did not know. He could be fully different from what you saw and knew of him on the internet. Oh god, what if he had some weird kinks and was going to pee on you or something? You just hoped he was normal in and out of bed. And McDonald's? Isn’t he an athlete that had to follow some strict diet? Did fastfood even fit in there? What were you going to answer to the ’you seem lovely‘? That was probably something he texted every girl, so you chose to ignore it for now.
That’s a bummer
You could be a serial killer and kill me before I get the chance of saying goodbye to my loved ones, but McDonald’s does sound nice
But does it fit into your strict diet, mister McLaren’s number one driver?
Were you actually going to meet him? You needed advice from your best friend. She knew what to do, you were sure, she always did. In the end, she was one of the humans that pressured you into downloading that app in the first place.
The serial killer existence is not giving me the kick as it used to, so don’t worry, I‘m over it
I also don’t have any more space for the corpse in my basement
McDonald’s it is then
Someone did their googling, I see
It’s the break, I can do what I want
Also, my trainer will not know about this, and what he doesn’t know, he won’t get mad over
Are you still there?
Hello?
Babygirl
Where did you go
The serial killer text was only meant as a joke, I would never do something like that, it would ruin my career
You chuckled, did he really think you were scared by the obvious sarcastic text? Cute.
If you retired from the serial killer being, then fine
I watch you drive around in circles every weekend, don’t get your hopes up, I didn’t google you
And what if I already texted your trainer and told Jon about this? ;)
Are we impatient? Am I that special that you can’t go a minute without me? Atta boy
You let out a sigh, it’s official now. You were going to meet up with Lando Norris. Then you could see how he really was and compare him to all the fan fictions you‘ve read. You really needed to sort out some outfit.
You comin‘? That’s sweet
So I got myself a fangirl? Just don’t be a Max Verstappen lover, I want you to be on my side
And if you did text him, you will get punished later ;)
You are gorgeous, just wanted to make sure that I was the only one inviting you for dinner tonight
Oh god, hallelujah. Now you kinda wanted to text Jon and see what his punishment looks like. You could feel the heat and the pulsating between your legs already and you haven’t even talked with him face to face yet. You needed to get there soon.
Sure, I always take a free meal, sent me your address? :)
Nah, I actually like George Russell but he didn’t answer me on Instagram… :(
So you‘ll do it
Now I kind of want to text him and see what that means… maybe I’ll send him a picture of you biting into a burger later
And no, no competition for you
Ah btw, what’s the dress code? I didn’t pack much fancy clothing except for my work stuff. Are we thinking sweats? Or else I’m gonna turn up in a work dress
The George Russell comment was made up, you never texted him but wanted to play a little with Lando. You didn’t know how to put the dress question in a flirty comment, you weren’t even sure if he was actually trying to get you into his bed. Maybe he was just looking for someone to accompany him for eating McDonald’s.
It’s the Hilton in Amsterdam, there‘s only one
I‘ll send you someone to pick you up, don’t worry
And that’s sad, I can’t get George to come here so quickly, guess I’ll be your only company tonight
Do it and you won’t be able to walk tomorrow
Please come in your sweats!! That’s the most comfortable for eating McDonald’s and chilling, besides, I won’t look at them when they‘re laying on the floor, so put on whatever you feel comfortable in
Yep, that was not just an ’I‘m bored’ dinner. Alright. You could feel your panties getting slightly damped when you stood up and walked to your suitcase. Fishing out dark grey sweatpants and a white crop top. You needed to shower before you went there, get cleaned up, and shave. What color of lingerie would you put on? You had no idea, maybe you should ask him since he‘s also not subtle about dropping hints about where this night would lead.
That’s nice, thank you!! What time will he be here?
Alright alright, sweats it is then, what color are we thinking for lingerie? I have some red, blue, yellow, burgundy and white
You were bold here, that wasn’t normally your case of flirting but he was just as forward as you were, so why hold back? And you really needed help choosing the color. What if he didn’t like yellow?
He‘ll be at yours at 6:30 pm if traffic is alright
Baby, I won’t make it through dinner if I know what you‘re wearing underneath
You‘re making things very hard for me already and I haven’t even touched you yet
But I love the color blue, babygirl
Put on whatever you feel comfortable in
He was the sweetest even while flirting. And him sending you a driver? Was this the princess treating your father always talked about when you were younger? But you were sure he didn’t have in mind what was coming for you after dinner if you would eat dinner before the sports session Lando had planned.
I‘ll see what I can do then
See you later handsome ;)
You hoped into the shower, washing your skin twice with the summer like smelling shower gel. Peeling your skin to make it super soft as well as shaving every hair you saw. You knew that men shouldn’t care if you had hairs on your body or not, but you felt better if you did. You were also happy, that you washed your hair yesterday evening so you did not have to worry about it now.
It was very difficult, to not touch yourself. The pressure that build up down there was almost unbearable, but you wanted to wait for Lando, it was his job now to make you feel good, you just hoped 6:30 pm would come soon.
When you got out of the shower you dried your body and tapped the screen of your phone, it was 4:48 pm. Enough time to get your makeup done and stress yourself. So before you did anything else, you applied some body cream to make your skin super silky.
Now sitting down in front of the hotel window with your travel mirror in hand, you started on your makeup. You didn’t want to overdo it and ruin this night, but you also wanted to look like something. So you did a light makeup, only applying products that weren’t heavy on your skin and looked almost natural.
The next time you took your phone in your hands to check the time it was 5:29 pm. Only an hour. You could do that. You decided to text your best friend the new details.
So you did just that, applying Parfum on your ankles, between your thighs, and even spritzed some behind your ear. You just hoped he would like your Parfum. Packing together some things you would possibly need for sleeping over. New underwear, makeup remover, your face cream, and your phone charger, you doubt he had two. You put on your sweats and the crop top over the blue lingerie, was that even the right thing? Meeting up with him just for a quickie? He won’t remember you by next week, did you really want to go through that? You would get attached to him and he is never going to text you.
The next time you tapped on your phone it was 6:24 pm, you spent the last twenty minutes wandering around in the hotel room trying to get rid of the butterflies you felt. It was exciting meeting up with someone when you knew you would have a good night, ending it with pleasure. So you gathered everything and made your way downstairs to the lobby, you waited there for a car to roll up to your hotel.
When a black Mercedes rolled up, you made your way outside and the driver got out of his car.
”Are you Miss Y/N Y/L/N? I am here to pick you up on Mister Norris‘ behalf.“
”That’s me, thank you.“
You got into the car and waited for him to start driving, he wasn’t very talkative which you were thankful for, the nerves were getting the best of you, and you weren’t sure if you would even be able to talk a normal sentence without stuttering.
When you arrived at the hotel, the driver turned to you.
”I wish you both a good evening. His room is number 1283, the left elevator and then you need to press button twelve for the twelfth floor.“
”Thank you so much for picking me up!“
With that, your door got opened and you looked at the person with a disturbed look, seeing that it was only a Portier you relaxed. You weren’t used to this luxury. Thanking the guy that opened your door, you got out and went into the hotel to the left elevator, pressing floor twelve. The doors closed and you looked at yourself in the mirror one last time. This was really happening. Before you knew it, the doors opened and you stood on the twelfth floor, now you only needed to find room number 1283. You followed the signs that were everywhere on the walls and a minute later you stood in front of the door.
With a thumping heart, you knocked at the door waiting for Lando to open it.
He answered with a big smile and tousled hair, he was dressed in some black sweats and a black T-shirt, looking handsome as ever.
”Hey, come in.“
”Hi, thank you.“
You stepped in and Lando opened his arms for a hug. Hugging before fucking, alright. He loosened the hug and his eyes scanned your body.
”You look absolutely gorgeous, Baby. Even better than on your pictures.“
”Thank you, but you aren’t that bad either, you look very handsome, I like your hair like this.“
”Yeah?“
You nodded.
What now? The sexual tension was already unbearable, you wouldn’t survive dinner. You both were practically eye fucking the other.
”Let’s sit down first?“
”Sure!“
With that you went to the cream-colored couch, sitting on it and having the perfect view over Amsterdam.
”But if you are a serial killer, do tell me. At least I want to say goodbye to my family.“
You had no idea what you were saying, you wanted to lighten up the situation but what should you do?
”Nah don’t worry, not anymore. And you‘re here for work? I read you’re from London?“
”Yes, had some meetings with clients. I moved there for my work, I love it there. And what about you? Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be in some exotic place for holiday?“
”Kinda, I visited Tomorrowland yesterday to see my friend Martin Garrix and tomorrow I have tire testing for Pirelli, so no holiday for me just yet.“
”Ah that’s fun, what are you doing for the holiday?“
”I rented a yacht for my friends and family, you should come!“
”Oh, yeah“, you blushed, ”let’s see if I still want to see you after tonight, maybe you have a small dick.“ you smirked. You wanted to get to the point of why you were here. The wet panty proofing it to you, dinner could wait, the wetness between your legs not.
He looked at you with an open mouth.
”Me and a small dick? Baby, you have no idea what’s coming.“
With that, he put his hand on your thigh dangerously close to your core. You let out a shaky breath.
”The thing is, I joked about not making it until dinner, but I really don’t think I can resist you that long, knowing you’re probably wearing sexy lingerie under your sweats and crop top.“
You could see his eyes getting a shade darker than they were when you first saw him.
”Why don’t you find out for yourself?“, you wanted to sound sexy and just prayed to whatever lord, that it did.
And before you could think about it for another second, he took you and placed you in his lap, putting his hands on your waist. His lips looked absolutely delicious, you wanted to taste them, feel them on yours. As if Lando could hear your thoughts, he pressed his lips on yours, moving them, and slipped his tongue into your mouth searching for yours. You let out a quiet moan and nudged his tongue with yours. Your hands found their way into his hair, slightly pulling on the strands, hoping that that was something he was into.
Your lips creating the loudest sounds, every time they smacked together, taking deep breaths in between. Lando left your mouth and his kisses wandered slowly down your neck, leaving a trail of wetness behind (not only on your neck) and he slightly bit the skin of the side. Without you realizing it, you moved your hips against his, dryhumping him. Lando’s hands wandered under your crop top and slowly pulled the material up, to remove it, you held your arms up to make it easier for him. When the dark blue lace appeared, he let out a breath.
”Fuck babe, you’re killing me. Even better than I imagined.“
You could just hum because he immediately attached his lips to your chest, sucking on the skin that was now freed. That felt so fucking good. Your hands went back into his hair, attaching themselves to the brown curls.
”Le-Let me“, you pressed out, wanting to explore his neck as well. That was one thing you always found sexy, his thick neck, you wanted to touch and kiss it and now you finally could.
He let go of your chest and looked at you with big eyes, you pressed a kiss on his lips and did the same then he did minutes prior. Wandering down his neck and slightly sucking, you didn’t want to leave a hickey but some sucking never hurt anyone. Satisfied with what you did, you let go of his skin and licked over the said area, feeling him shivering under you. You could also feel something hard under you, and if you were correct you wouldn’t be disappointed. It felt the right way, thick and long enough but not too long.
With a quick heartbeat, you left his lap and slowly made your way in front of him, you wanted to see for yourself if you were correct. So you sank to your knees and looked up at him through your lashes, he groaned and his head fell backwards.
”Fuck babygirl, you make it so hard for me, I could just burst right now.“
”I make things hard for you? Oh Lando, trust me, I know.“
With that, your hand slipped across his bulge, giving it a gentle squeeze. His eyes focused on you again, he could almost see how hungry you looked at his dick as if it would be your last meal.
”I want this off.“
You tucked at his sweats, impatient to finally get to his member you haven’t met yet.
”Impatient are we?“, Lando acted all cocky now, but you both knew, that when you touched his dick with your delicate hands, he would turn into a puddle. With that, he lifted his hips and you were able to pull the sweats down, seeing him wearing no underwear.
”No underwear?“, you asked with crooked eyebrows.
”Figured I didn’t need them since you were going to remove them anyway.“
When his sweats was finally pulled lower to where his dick was, his member sprung towards you, he wasn’t fully hard yet but you could work with that. You gave his sweats the last pull and they were pooling at his feet, you immediately got to work. Not wasting a second of not touching him, you grabbed his member, which laid heavy in your head, and let a thread of saliva fall onto his head, moving your hand up and down, spread the fluid evenly, feeling him hardening with every stroke you gave him.
”You‘re killing me. That feels so fucking nice.“
The praise made you smile. At least he felt satisfied, that was already good.
”Put it in your mouth babygirl.“
So you did just that, you opened your mouth and gave it a long lick, from the bottom, to the tip. Your lips closed around his head, circling it with your tongue. Looking up, he had an open mouth and his eyes looked satisfied, you wanted to do more, slowly taking his member down your throat. Lando let out a moan and reached into your hair with his hand, making a messy ponytail to hold on to.
When you reached your limit, you grabbed the rest of his dick with your hands, following the movements you did with your mouth.
”Fuck baby, that’s enough, or else I‘m going to cum down your throat, I want to taste you first.“
With an unsatisfied hum, you let go of his dick and pouted.
”Let me take you to the bed.“
You nodded and he pulled you back onto his lap, standing up as if you weight nothing and walking with you into the bedroom. The bedroom was nicely decorated and from the window, you could see a beautiful sunset, but that wasn’t something you wanted to pay attention to. He sat you down on the soft bed and you shifted to the end of his bed, laying your head on his pillow. You inhaled the scent that came across your nostrils, fully smelling Lando. If you wouldn’t be up to different things right now, you would turn around and never stop sniffing his pillow. Was that creepy? Probably.
”You need to tell me, when I need to stop, yeah?“
You nodded, not being able to say anything, excited for what was about to happen. He laid on his chest between your legs, tugging your own sweats down. With a groan he let his head fall onto your thigh, seeing your lace panty made him weak in the knee, thank god he was laying down.
”Did you put Parfum on your legs? God baby, you‘re so fucking sexy.“
”You like it?“
”Are you kidding? Fuck yes.“
He placed kisses on your thighs, and with each kiss, he got closer to where you needed him the most.
”I can smell you from here baby.“
You propped up your legs and he removed your panty with a swift move. Seeing your glistening core, he almost drooled.
”You‘re so fucking wet and I didn’t even touch you properly yet.“
”Ever since you texted me, I was almost not able to resist touching myself.“
”Fuck Baby.“
Before you could respond he licked with his flat tongue over your pussy, collecting most of the wetness that left your core already.
”You taste so sweet, Angel.“
With a groan you placed your hands in his hair, pulling on the strands again.
He flicked your bud of nerves several times then went back to toy with your entrance. A moan escaped your mouth when he inserted his tongue inside of you and with his nose he nudged your clit.
”Lan-“
”Go on, cum for me Y/N.“
Without a warning he inserted his pointer and middle finger into you and focused on your clit with his tongue, moving everything in a rhythm together.
”Fuck Lando, I‘m gonn-“, and before you could finish that sentence, your back arched and the pleasure washed over you, leaving a pulsating feeling in your core. With one last lick, Lando got up and positioned himself over you, his face glistening with your juices.
When he pressed a kiss on your lips you could taste yourself and let out a groan.
”Your skin is so fucking soft Y/N“, Lando said while he caressed your sides.
”Are you ready to take me?“
You just nodded, not being able to say a word. He already made you feel so good and he wasn’t even in you yet, you needed him, you needed him bad.
”I need you, Lan.“
”Good girl. Do you have a condom?“
”No but I‘m on birth control, you don’t have to use one, as long as you’re clean.“
”I sure am.“
His dick twitched at the thought of feeling you without a rubber, the skin on skin contact making him feral.
Taking his cock in his hand, and moved his tip through your folds, wetting his member. He looked you in the eye, silently asking you if you were ready. You nodded your head and pulled his head to yours to press a kiss on his lips, which he returned, sucking your lower lip into his mouth before pulling back and focusing on the cock in his hand. Slowly pushing his tip to your entrance, you closed your legs around his back and nudged him to push more into you. He slowly slid fully in you, as you gasped at the new sensation and felt full. He filled you up perfectly, it was like you were made for each other, stretching you in all the right places. He stood still and waited for your nod of approval to move. You clenched around his cock.
”Fuck Y/N, do that one more time and I won’t be able to hold back.“
You giggled and nodded your head, indicating him that he could move. He pulled his dick out and forcefully pushed him back in. You both moaned at the sensation.
”I hope you know how good you feel, it’s amazing.“
Your eyes rolled in the back of your head at this compliment. You loved this dirty talk he did, complimenting you. He took his hand and started to play with your clit while still pounding in you. You could feel yourself getting dizzy, the new stimulation giving you the perfect pleasure.
”Fuck Lando, you’re making me feel so full.“
He grunted at that statement. Speeding up with his movements, as well as rubbing and flicking your clit. Your moans getting higher with every thrust.
You could feel your release getting closer.
”Lando, I‘m gonna cu-”
”Baby cum for me.“
With that you felt your inside snap and the orgasm taking over your body, your eyes rolling in the back of your head and your legs started shaking. While you were on your high, Lando went and left kisses on your neck, slightly sucking, leaving faint purple bruises behind.
When you came back down you focused on Lando, clenching around him, trying to get him to cum as well. Sinking your nails into his shoulders and leaving little crescent moons on his skin, they would probably still be seen tomorrow. He groaned and his head fell down on your shoulder, panting. You could feel him painting your insides white, you moaned at the feeling.
”Fuck darling, you feel so good.“
He did some last thrusts to ride out his orgasm and then almost let all of his weight fall down on you. Your hands immediately went into his hair, stroking it while he still had his now softened dick inside of you. He lifted his head and pressed his lips on yours, moving them and creating smacking sounds.
Slowly pulling out, you could feel his and your mixed cum dribbling out of you, enjoying this sensation, Lando sat up and swiped his thumb over your labia, liking how it looked. He wiped his cum covered thumb on the white bed sheet.
”I‘d love to stay here with you, but I need to pee. It’s not very romantic but I don’t even wanna know what happens if I don’t.“
You sat up and Lando replied with a: ”Yes, please go, it’s important. I don’t want you getting a bladder infection after having mind blowing sex.“
You scoffed and got up, ”Mind blowing?“
”What is that supposed to mean?“
You turned around looking into his face, you both were smiling brightly, still having that post sex glow, but also because you joked about the sex you just had. It was fantastic. You started walking towards the en-suite bathroom.
”You were good Lando, but mind blowing? I don’t know.“
”My cum dribbling down your thigh is saying something else.“
You blushed and looked down at your thigh, seeing the white drips rolling from your core. You didn’t know what to say to that and went to the toilet to do your thing. Returning just shortly after, you sat in the bed next to him.
”You want to order some McDonald’s and stay over?“
Part two
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there's this really cool phenomenon that happens sometimes with computer-illiterate people (especially on the internet) where they'll ask me/someone else with a CS degree how to do something relatively complicated/nonobvious, like commenting "how do i download this file" directly on a github repository, or bailey asking me to get her Skyrim installation with upwards of 50 mods that have not been updated in months to launch without throwing a fatal compatibility error, or someone at my old job asking why our proprietary software wouldn't launch after he updated a robot drive; and when the CS person in question starts explaining using basic industry-standard terms like "driver" and "command line" they get snappily told that not everyone knows fancy computer jargon like they do, so they slow down and define every single basic term as they encounter it, which takes forever (especially via text/over the internet) and inevitably results in the other person going "wow that sounds way too complicated for me", and eventually the CS person gets tired of having to explain networking troubleshooting procedures as if to a toddler, and they tell people to just google the terms they don't understand to find a better explanation online than whatever they (the CS person) would have written, at which point the computer-illiterate person goes "wow, this is why everyone thinks tech bros are so stuck up and elitist". yes i worked in tech support for a year and a half why do you ask
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Someone might have already asked this but I really need to know everyone's illegal tips and tricks because they're literally vigilantes who don't obey the law already but probably have even crazier things up their sleeves
Dick: fires attract too much attention and unnecessarily put first responders in danger, so if you wanna destroy someone's house or building, go for the method that can easily be blamed on natural causes: flooding
Jason: if you're gonna jack a car, break the rear window so you don't have to sit in glass
Tim: to find stock photos without the watermark, reverse image search it on Yandex to get the watermark-free version
Damian: a 250 Iranian Rial coin has the same dimensions as a $2 Canadian one at 1/125th of the value and machines only read the shape (same for 100 South Korean won vs. U.S. quarters)
Duke: if you want to download any movie, put "index," "Google Docs," or "parent directory" at the end (i.e. "The Dark Knight Rises parent directory")
Cullen: get out of paying at restaurants by having a friend dress up as a cop and forcibly remove you from the premises
Stephanie: as long as you look the same/similar to when you did in college, keep using your student ID for discounts
Cassandra: if you're getting tailed by the police, call 911 and report a drunk driver near your location
Barbara: if you're transporting something you shouldn't have, carry it in a package addressed to yourself—police legally can't search through your mail
Harper: no one questions a person in an orange vest and hard hat, so put some on before removing anti-homeless spikes
Carrie: if you wanna steal snacks from a gas station, put them in a drink cup and just pay for the drink
Kate: tattoos are commonly used as a witness/security footage identifier, so cover them if you have any or get fake ones if you don't
Alfred: avoid paying taxes by registering yourself as a religious leader and setting the congregation place to your house
Selina: sex offenders are the perfect robbery target—their addresses are publicly available, they can't own guns, and they've already lost everyone's sympathy
Bruce: it's easier to forge signatures by learning how to write them upside-down or sideways since you force your brain to focus more on the details
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After pulling my hair out getting a VM of Win95 running, only to forget to install the graphics drivers and wonder why the colours of my game were all wrong, i can only marvel at your soft-hardware necromancy. How do you learn this stuff? What do you do when you encounter a filetype you've never seen before? (What do i even do with the file CD_AUDIO.kpx?) Can you download all your knowledge into my brain?
I mainly learned this stuff by just fucking around with computers for a long time (I think I got my first computer in 1993, so I'm coming up on my 30th anniversary of being a Big Nerd). You pick up stuff eventually.
Also yes. Setting up Win95 VMs is hard (real hardware is also hard, for the record) . The bearsoftware VBE drivers seem to have some glitches but they work well enough, and the scitech display doctor drivers work better... If they work. Sometimes they are a nightmare to get working. My advice is start your win95 VM setup, immediately work on getting everything working (graphics/sound/networking drivers), then clone or savestate that shit. Then you have a working base to build on. Don't dirty your clean base, just clone it when you need to start fresh because you've messed it up somehow.
As for an unknown file, my first approach is usually a hex editor. Look for signature info towards the top of the file, Google that. I find that's more useful than searching on the extension, because extensions are reused too often. Sometimes you can search the full filename or game name plus extension and hit gold, but sometimes you just get nothing, and then it's up to you to figure it out.
So the first step is make sure you have a hex editor that can do integer decoding. I usually use HxD. See the data inspector on the right?
It's decoding the value of the number at the position of the cursor. This is very handy. File formats tend to have commonalities, like a count of how many sub-files there are, either right up front or at the end. (up front is more common these days, but in the Old Times it was easier to put them at the end, because of RAM limitations. That's why Zip has the index at the end)
That's a good place to start, because once you know how many subfiles are in there, you can figure out where they are, and deal with them separately. Often you only care about one part, so this lets you ignore most of the bits.
The other big tip I can give you for figuring out files is to be hands on. You don't have to just stare at a file and go WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!
Change the file. Make a backup and then edit parts of it. See what changes in the program when you do that. Or if it's something the program writes out, save a basic file, than change something minor, then save it out again to a different file. Now you can compare the two and see what changed!
The next step up for figuring out an unknown file format is to reverse engineer the program that reads/writes them. Use a tool like Ghidra/Ida Pro, and disassemble the EXE. Figure out where it reads and writes the datafiles. This is often easy to find, you can look for imports on CreateFile/OpenFile or search for strings like the filename.
Another option is to hybridize your tools: use a debugger (I use OllyDbg usually, but it is getting long in the tooth sadly) and set a breakpoint on file opening. Run the program and step through all the files it opens and then you'll find the time it opens the file you care about. Now that you know where it is, you can locate that same function in the disassembler/decompiler.
Anyway. There's a bunch of tools and they all can help with different parts of this sort of reverse engineering, and it's often just about collecting as much info as you can, and then trying to compile it together. I usually have a text editor open on another monitor, and just keep a sort of running journal of anything I learn, so I can easily refer back and cross-reference things.
Also keep in mind that even if you can't solve the whole problem, you can learn some things, and it's useful to share that with the world. Sometimes just getting part of the solution means it'll inspire others to help finish the work, or point out stuff you missed.
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SAGAU?
The SAGAU or Self-Aware Genshin Impact AU, especially Imposter AU, is a very intriguing concept... if we never counted the mischaracterization and irony of some of the characters.
I mean, the Archons are being batshit crazy hunting over you when these little hypocrites are doing the same thing with having similar faces with their statues, and their damn people never connected the dots on how the Archons are just beside them playing 'guess who' (Zhongli and Venti, I'm talking to you)?!
And where is Celestia in all of this shit (in some fics)?
So I have a great idea to explain why the characters are acting like medieval men with pitchforks in my version of the AU.
There are two real-life Genshin events that inspire me to do my twist on the AU:
Hoyoverse's plan is to create a virtual world by 2030, with Genshin Impact as the "prototype". They are also keen on putting an effort into AI-related research.
The recent controversy regarding the famous anti-cheat driver used in Genshin Impact is allegedly used for malicious intent by hackers, where it kills antivirus processes and services for mass-deploying ransomware.
I was also inspired by the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and the Real Girl", where a video game character, "GIFanny", who is from a dating game simulator (inspired by real Japanese dating sims), became sentient and zaps her programmers to oblivion when they try to delete her. Heck, her most prominent ability is the power to override computer functions, transfer herself between electronics, and can download a person's conscious mind into the digital world, thereby uniting that individual with her forever.
In short, she's a Yandere. Perfect.
Because of all of these, this SAGAU idea was born.
What if the rabid attitudes of the characters in SAGAU Imposter AU were caused by a computer virus attack on a certain vulnerable code in the game that was intended to introduce an AI for the developer's incoming virtual reality project?
The AI was designed to create the characters, whether playable or non-playable, very interactive in the digital world. The technology allows for the characters to gain 'sentience', to allow them to talk and interact with the players without any difficulty.
Unfortunately, because it was slightly unfinished, the code was vulnerable to hacks and computer bugs that could possibly attack the code, and eventually, the game installed by the player.
The hacker, who is also a Genshin player, eventually finds out about it and made a computer bug to try how it will affect the game and warn others about the danger it causes. Then they posted it on some shady website under the guise of a private server or something.
And there was this unlucky player, who unknowingly opened the computer bug this hacker had sent when they wanted to open a private server (the player doesn't know how to obtain them so they stumbled on this website).
Unknown to both of them, the AI had been affected by the virus differently than they expected. The characters, the lore... it all changed and twisted to something different.
The characters were now sentient, but the virus had made their personalities deviate from their actual personalities in the original lore, and the AI added one thing to the now-changed lore: the existence of the "Creator", the Almother of Celestia and Teyvat who made the fantasy world by the flick of their hand.
The virus, now knowing the existence of the Creator, created an imposter based on what it had gotten from your user preferences, and your social media accounts. Just like real-life malware does: stealing your identity online... to rule Teyvat and at the same time, fully infecting the game and the computer, finally sending the infected codes at a fixed time, this time on the surface web (like Google, Instagram, etc.)
Since they are now sentient, the AI can recognize the virus spreading on the game, and release their last resort to combat the imposter and the virus itself: bringing the real Creator to Teyvat by any means. The golden blood rushing in the Creator's veins acts like an antivirus or the cure to the game.
The Creator will also have allies intended to help the real one navigate through Teyvat. The Chosen Vessels, including a certain little Archon (with her being connected to the Irminsul, served as the AI's server), will help the Creator defeat the Imposter and their now corrupted Acolytes.
And the unsuspected player, who just loved playing Genshin Impact as a means of escaping reality, was the victim of all of this.
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Chapter 48 of Harrow the Ninth
Ahh, I've missed Gideon POV
At first I thought that the double douchebag comment was about Lyctorhood in general, but then I remembered that Gideon was totally 100% for getting eaten by Harrow. I guess Ianthe is just a double douchebag because Gideon considered both Ianthe and Naberius douchebags, so now they are a double douchebag
Oh Gideon, wanting to kick Crux down the stairs 100% makes you awesome
(Actually, reading it again, I'm not sure if she means "fantasizing about kicking Crux down the stairs doesn't reflect well on me because kicking people down the stairs is bad" or if she means "the fact that I never kicked Crux down the stairs doesn't reflect well on me because I never did it")
But don't worry, Harrow thinks you're great regardless
So like, to what exact degree have the second-person parts of this book actually been through Gideon's perceptions? Or are they Gideon's experience filtered through Harrow's perceptions? Like, if Harrow hallucinated something that was not there, would Gideon have seen and reported it? Earlier Gideon said that she couldn't actually see out of Harrow's eyes during that part, so maybe she was just getting second-hand information from what Harrow saw, or thought she saw, and reporting on it? If seeing Cytherea's body was a hallucination, it does make sense that Gideon wouldn't question it, since she's not used to questioning the things she sees. But, maybe Gideon was actually perceiving stuff herself, somehow, and everything that Harrow reported actually happened, including Cytherea's body under the bed, and Ianthe telling her that stuff didn't happen was just gaslighting? Now I'm not sure anymore
I love everything about this
Oh god, this isn't just a tumblr meme, it's actually a quote from the book
So Mercy ducked out to go kill Harrow, and just never came back, and Harrow left for obvious reasons, and then Augustine left for currently unknown reasons, and then Ianthe abandoned Gideon the First because she's just like that. I hope Gideon the First doesn't die because of this, I've sort of settled on him being maybe the only good Lyctor at this point
So he also came to whatever conclusion Mercy came to based on Gideon's eyes, in a lot less time, and it has something to do with John, and he's also had some thought about Mercy, so maybe he knew she was ducking out to go kill Harrow. Ok. I still don't know what the significance of this is. You know, it is kind of funny how much of this plot is hinging on people's eye colors, because I can't actually tell people's eye color in real life, like I feel at this point that Gideon's eyes must be like broadcasting the bat signal or something for everyone to be reacting to them this quickly. Like, I can see if eyes are light or dark, but are the light eyes blue, or grey, or green? I have zero idea. I don't think I could actually tell unless I went up to someone and stared at them from three inches away, or something. And while I was googling for pictures of what amber eyes actually look like in reality, I remembered that I don't even really know my own eye color, either. I was always told it was hazel, and that's what it says on my driver's license, but then when I joined the Sims 2 fandom like 15 years ago and downloaded some custom hazel eyes thinking I was going to go make some sims with my eye color, those eyes were a completely different color than my eyes, and I learned that by "hazel" people usually mean the kind of eyes that are like partially brown and partially green, whereas my eyes are definitely a single solid color all the way through and if I actually look at the wikipedia page on eye color, they do look most similar to the picture for the amber eyes. But then wikipedia also says this:
which is a pretty good description of my eye color, and I think also a good description of the picture on the wikipedia page for amber eyes. So I've got no idea, honestly. By the way, I can't find any other source online for this statement about hazel sometimes meaning hazelnut-colored, every site I can find seems to use the brown-mixed-with-green definition. The four sources in that image are not about language use with respect to eye color descriptions, or about eye color genetics, they're just miscellaneous eye studies in which eye color was a variable and all four of them divide all possible human eye colors into one of three categories: blue/grey, green/hazel, and brown. I can't read the full articles, but for all I know these references are just meant to mean "some scientists classify eye color this way for simplicity's sake". There's one person on the talk page of the wikipedia article claiming that the definition of hazel = hazelnut-colored is the main one and the brown + green definition is specious, but they seem to be contradicted by the entire internet. So what is hazel? What is amber? What are Gideon's eyes supposed to look like? What color are my eyes? I don't know. I don't know the answers to any of those questions
I am living for the Ianthe/Gideon banter
I appreciate Gideon for this more detailed description of the Cyrus and Valancy nude art that Harrow could not bring herself to give us
Did Gideon get "so many" letters from Harrow? The only ones I remember from Gideon the Ninth were the various snippy notes that Harrow left her after she went to go adventuring in the facility, and after the siphoning challenge, but I'm not sure that qualifies as "so many". Did Harrow write letters to Gideon before they came to Canaan House?
I have to wonder under what circumstances Harrow thought Ianthe might run into Gideon that she gave her this letter. Did she expect this exact thing to happen? I got the feeling at the beginning that she had some other ultimate plan in mind for Gideon besides her sharing Harrow's body. Also, didn't Harrow work very very hard to not achieve One Flesh One End with Gideon?
And of course, the sunglasses will hide Gideon's eyes, for when she goes to talk to John. I would have thought this was part of Harrow's plan, except I'm also like 100% sure that Harrow also has no more idea about what Gideon's eye color means than Ianthe does
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Gideon just cannot resist the that's what she said joke even while clearly having some Big Feelings
I feel like Ianthe thinks she's in a completely different genre of book. She wants to be this clever, aristocratic lady in a fantasy of manners that's full of intrigue and backstabbing and then she falls in love with some dude (or some woman, maybe) and has to keep that from unraveling all of her plans, but instead she's in this gross body horror story where love isn't keeping a lock of someone's hair, it's giving yourself DIY brain surgery in order to prevent the destruction of their immortal soul after they died. I think she does know why Harrow did what she did, though, I think she said so herself in that one chapter we got that was from her POV. She's just trying to stir shit here. But more fool her, I'm pretty sure Gideon already thinks that Harrow removed her memories of her because she hated her, I don't think there's any way that Ianthe could hurt Gideon here that Gideon hasn't already done to herself
I feel like Harrow and Gideon came away with very different impressions of what exactly went down during the Pool Scene
I'm still not entirely sure how right Gideon is about this and how much of it really was just Ianthe trying to use Harrow. And I think it's hilarious that she immediately comes back to "she was a hypocrite for getting upset about the necrophilia"
Is there going to be any love confession in this story that is not completely fucked up?
This is obviously supposed to be some sort of joke, and it was mentioned repeatedly in that "what's the worst joke" poll, but I don't get it at all
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Since i said i'd make it available, here under the cut is what i did to get museum of anything goes working:
I tried wine first, because that's the sane thing to do. Or rather, i tried to try wine first. I couldn't figure out how to get it to accept the game file.
So i pivoted to dosbox, because i knew that can run games of the correct approximate era.
I got it to open the game! ...kind of. I got it to tell me that the game needs windows to run.
That's fine! This is a solvable problem. I made a virtualbox instance with windows 3.1 installed in it.
This turned out to be harder than expected, because i had to install both msdos and then windows 3.1, and i had to do command line things for that.
Which, again, is fine, but i didn't know the right commands offhand, so i had to look them up.
I then had to install cd-rom drivers in order to open the .iso file in the instance.
And the game ran! I walked around in it a little bit to make sure!
But there was a problem.
Two problems, rather.
Two very big and obvious problems.
There was no sound, and it had 16 colors rather than 256.
I turned to the internet. The internet said to install sound and color drivers.
So i tried to install sound and color drivers. This went poorly. The sound drivers caused a number of error message but did not cause sound, and the color drivers broke the instance such that i had to edit the windows system files from the command line in order to be able to open windows at all.
Eventually i grew tired of this.
One of the threads i looked at for help suggested trying windows 98 instead, as most 3.1 programs will also run in that and it works nicer with virtualbox.
I made a windows 98 instance in virtualbox. I got it to run. It took a few tries, but, you know, eventually it worked.
And then somehow i broke it so badly that virtualbox not only went "we're forcequitting this kthxbai" but also DELETED THE ENTIRE INSTANCE.
I still don't know how i managed that.
In any case, it was clear windows 98 wasn't meant to be.
This meant i had hit a dead end with virtualbox. So i asked my parent, @the-real-seebs , for help.
"Why don't you run windows 3.1 in dosbox?" Seebs asked.
"What." I said.
"Windows 3.1 isn't actually an operating system, it's a program that runs on top of msdos."
"WHAT."
So i went back to dosbox and tried to get windows 3.1 running there.
This worked great! The sound and colors worked perfectly there! Everything was going swimmingly.
And then it threw an error message when i tried to open the game.
Googling the error message turned up nothing.
Like, "0 results" nothing.
So i was back to the drawing board.
Desperate, i googled "run windows 3.1 games on linux" and the internet said "hey, have you tried lutris?"
And i went "oh yeah..... lutris...... the thing i downloaded to help me troubleshoot among us and then never touched again....."
I poked around a bit and found some scripts that claimed they could open a windows 3.1 instance in lutris if you provided the actual files.
I provided them the actual files. I received error messaged in turn.
They were pretty easy errors to fix, just some missing packages. So i got the missing packages and tried again.
The error messages stopped. The instance quietly failed when i tried to open it.
I found the logs, which complained of more missing packages. This was fine and fixable.
Until they asked for a package that doesn't exist for the version of linux i'm on.
So that was that for lutris.
At this point i had been working on this for about ten hours. I asked seebs for help again.
Seebs said she couldn't help me, and suggested i ask some software furries she's friends with for help.
I resolved to do that in the morning, and i went to bed.
Pretty much as soon as i woke up i asked the software furries for help.
"Have you tried qemu + freedos?"
I had not, having not previously heard of either.
Qemu turned out to be a neat little editor that runs from the terminal, which means you have to type in all the commands yourself without a user interface.
Or you can paste them in from the guide you're clinging to like driftwood, which is what i actually did.
I think freedos is an open source alternative to msdos. I'm not 100% sure. I wasn't processing things like that very well because they weren't relevant to my Task At Hand.
I had to do things like:
Make a fake hard drive!
Install freedos on the fake hard drive!
Open the fake hard drive in qemu!
Once more install windows 3.1!
And it was all very cool and sexy and hackery.
It seemed to be working perfectly!
Until i closed it and tried to re-open it.
There are only so many times one can read an error message before accepting that one has been bested this time.
I think at this point i cried a little.
I went back to dosbox, because maybe i was missing something.
Maybe the windows files were borked.
I tried a different set of windows files.
They opened fine. They had working sound.
By god they had working sound.
The instance played a single note, repeatedly, something like twice a second.
I couldn't figure out how to make it stop.
But that didn't matter, because i got the same error message when i tried to open the game.
The only thing that had worked remotely stably so far was virtualbox, so i turned once again to virtualbox.
This time, for sound, i used one of the tutorials i found for doing this in qemu instead of the tutorials i found for doing it in virtualbox.
And, of course, they worked.
Because i live in a comedy of errors or something.
This left only the colors to figure out.
The general wisdom i had gleaned was that the built-in options would break the virtualbox ui, and the drivers would break the windows installation (as i had discovered repeatedly earlier).
The solution was to use patched drivers. But i couldn't figure out where to get them or how to make them.
Truly at my wits end, i opened a youtube video that claimed to be a tutorial for getting the colors to work.
It said, of course, that this requires patched drivers.
It said, there is a link to the drivers in the video description.
And so there were.
And they worked.
I opened the game and it looked and sounded perfect.
At this point, i had been working on this for a total of 15 hours.
I am unstoppable and inevitable.
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SHARE THE BABYGIRL DRIVERS SPREADSHEET RN!!!! pretty please <3 we need to know
Do you want to be annoying and find your favorite drivers via spreadsheet?
Well you're in luck, because I'm also annoying :)
Download a copy of my template from google drive here!
Including the vital BABYGIRL SCALE! Who will be ur ultimate bbygrl?????
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Oh my gosh!! I'm so excited for you about your trip! I know you won't see this until you get back but I hope it was wonderful :) I'm actually participating in a study abroad to south korea for two weeks in the summer - any tips or recommendations would be so greatly appreciated!
It was wonderful ! Everything I hoped for and more. It made me want to go back as soon as possible.
I hope your trip will be as good as mine. I don't know if you'll stay in Seoul or go to other smaller cities like I did but here are a few things that might be useful to know, from my limited experience there.
A few apps that can be really helpful :
Naver Map : Google maps isn't the best in South Korea so to go around easily, you should download Naver map.
Papago : if you go outside of Seoul, people often don't or barely speak English. So if like me you only know a few words in Korean, you should have this app to communicate easily.
Kakao T : even though there is an extensive transportation system in South Korea, sometimes talking the taxi (which isn't that expensive) is easier. For that, download Kakao T ! If you're in Seoul, be careful, the traffic can be horrible.
Kakao Talk : almost everyone communicate using Kakao Talk so if you want to interact with people and make friends, having a kakao talk account is a must.
A few things I would recommend :
Try all sorts of Korean food, it's so delicious and so cheap (at least compared to where I'm from). If you go outside of Seoul, try to know the local specialties. If you have a local with you, he can point you in the direction of the good stuff, often less touristy. But be careful of the spice level !
Take a break at a coffee shop. There are so many of them everywhere and they're often really nice.
Cars WON'T STOP for you. Be careful when you cross the streets, people drive fast and don't care.
Have a T Money card with you ! This will allow you to travel freely by bus or metro. You can buy one and recharge it at any convenience store and it works in all of South Korea! Also bus driver don't have time to waist so enter fast and get out fast. Never sit in a spot reserved for old or pregnant people and hang on if you're not seated, the ride can sometime be a little rough.
Be sure to have enough cash on you. My card was supposed to work but I had problems with it in lots of places.
If you are in Seoul for your whole stay, try to go elsewhere, even for just a week end. I would recommend Gyeongju, this place was magical.
And lastly have fun and enjoy !
This was a bit long but I hope it can be even just a little bit useful !
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New SpaceTime out Friday....
SpaceTime 20240419 Series 27 Episode 48
The most detailed view ever of the expanding universe
Astronomers have released the first-year data from DESI -- the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey – providing the most detailed view ever of the expanding universe.
Solar Observatory discovers its 5,000th comet
On March 25, 2024, a citizen scientist in the Czech Republic spotted a comet in an image from the SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, which has now been confirmed as the 5000th Sun grazing comet discovery.
Soyuz returns to Russia with love
Russia’s Soyuz MS 24 capsule has returned safely to Earth landing under blued skies on the Kazakhstan steps.
The Science Report
Up to 70% of the world's wine growing regions threatened by climate change
Young people with mood disorders less likely to get their driver's license and are more likely to crash.
Study warns drinking 100% fruit juice is linked to weight gain in children.
Skeptics guide to Avi Loeb’s alien technology claim
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Question about Baldur's gate 3.
My friend gifted me the game and I got so excited but I can't play it 😭. It's stutters like crazy and I've tried turning everything on low, I change all settings around, I even removed and reinstalled my drivers but nothing helps.
Does anyone know why it does this or how to fix this? I've searched reddit and google but nothing seems to help and I just want to play with my friend 😭
Update- it was my RAM. I downloaded some extra 😏
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Indycar Driver Lore
Indycar Driver Lore Masterlist
William "Will" Steven Power
Birthdate: March 1, 1981
Hometown: Toowoomba, Australia
Residence: Charlotte, North Carolina
Height/Weight: 5’10”/155lbs
Rookie Year: 2005
Team: Team Penske
Follow him on: Instagram Twitter YouTube
Career Stats
Champ Car
2005: Walker Racing - 22nd Overall
2006: Walker Racing - 6th overall
2007: Walker Racing - 4th Overall
Indycar
2008: KV Racing Technology - 12th Overall
2009: Penske Racing - 19th Overall
2010: Team Penske - 2nd Overall
2011: Team Penske - 2nd Overall
2012: Team Penske - 2nd Overall
2013: Team Penske - 4th Overall
2014: Team Penske - 1st Overall
2015: Team Penske - 3rd Overall
2016: Team Penske - 2nd Overall
2017: Team Penske - 5th Overall
2018: Team Penske - 3rd Overall
2019: Team Penske - 5th Overall
2020: Team Penske - 5th Overall
2021: Team Penske - 8th Overall
2022: Team Penske - 1st Overall
2023: Team Penske - 7th Overall
-Reigning NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Will Power returns to Team Penske for the 2023 season.
-He is a two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion and the winner of the 2018 Indianapolis 500.
-Power is also the all-time INDYCAR SERIES record-holder for pole positions and has won at least one race in each of the past 16 seasons.
-In 2020, he started Will Power Kart (WPK) to help aspiring racers with two, unique chassis he developed with Kart Republic.
-Off the track, Power enjoys spending time with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Beau, playing the drums and working out in his rigid regimen that includes swimming, cycling, weightlifting and rowing.
Iconic/memorable moments
INSIDE THE RACE // WILL POWER AT WEATHERTECH RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA
Will Power calls Scott Dixon a wanker - IndyCar iRacing challenge @ Barber
Damien Power on his Indy Car racing brother Will
2018 Indy 500 Onboard: Will Power Final Lap, Team Radio, Victory Lane
INDYCAR 36: Will Power
2011 Indycar Toronto - Will Power and Dario Franchitti controversial incident
Will Power & Helio Castroneves 2014 Christmas
Holiday Outtakes with Will and Helio
Will Power Flips Off Officials (the infamous double birds)
Google Search - Will Power
Helio and Power Show Their Dance Moves
IZOD IndyCar Drivers Hélio Castroneves & Will Power Talk Virtual Reality And Gaming
Penske's Helio Castroneves on competition with Will Power
Behind the scenes with Will and Helio
Doug and Drivers: Will Power Gets Honest About Indy, Qualifying and More
Penske Drivers have some Fun
CHEVY PACE CAR // WILL POWER AND JOSEF NEWGARDEN
Will Power's perseverance
IndyCar driver Will Power speaking Australian
Potential IndyCar win escapes Will Power after he can't get refired on pit road | Motorsports on NBC
Will Power makes his European Indycar peers eat American food
Dale Jr. Download: Will Power in NASCAR?
Will Power breaks all-time Indycar pole record at Laguna Seca
Yippee - IndyCar press conference goes off the rails with Will Power driving
Rearview Reflection - Will Power
Will Power PISSED Throws Gloves At Sébastien Bourdais IndyCar Detroit 2013 Race 2
Would Will Power be content if his career ended tomorrow?
IndyCar champ Will Power introduces his book
Q&A with IndyCar driver Will Power
MP RETRO: 2013 IndyCar Spring Training with Power and Hinchcliffe
IndyCar's Will Power admits to his pre-race ritual of eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich
Get to know Will Power's Australian roots
Rock-IN-Roar 500 (Will drumming)
Mark Webber Rescued Will Power's Racing Career in 2004
Will's book - The Sheer Force of Will Power
Will is the third of four sons (eldest is an accountant, second is a dancer and Damien is a comedian). His great granddad (also called William Power) was a motorbike rider and had time records across Australia while his dad raced the lower rungs in Australia. He got into Penske thanks to Helio Castroneves’ IRS trial and impressed then enough to get seat time after Helio came back but in Sonoma that same season he had a crash that broke his back. During his recovery, he learned to play the drums.
Will had an intense rivalry with Dario Franchitti but they have become good friends since Dario was forced to retire. Up until a few years ago, he had a reputation for being hot-headed and prone to outbursts of anger. Lately, he’s been open about his anxiety and negative headspace and credits his wife, Liz, as being his rock and helping him learn to manage his emotions, resulting in a much calmer and focused Will. But even with that, his sense of survival is sketchy at times. He loves chocolate milk yet is very lactose-intolerant. He is also colorblind and his wife and mother-in-law are known to pick his clothing to prevent clashing.
Fanfic Lore
Historically paired with Dario Franchitti during the height of their rivalry and Simon Pagenaud while they were teammates. Also Mark Webber (F1) but that ship usually had a power imbalance and was not favorable to Will.
Despite those ships, Will is often cast as asexual in fics.
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Sam, was it you who rb'd that AO3 shot paying tribute to the IT guy? One fear, was it? How long after that did ... Sam. Sam, was that a dodgeball
LOL yes it was, about a week before, and don't think I didn't think of that when my power cord failed and I had to email the IT guy on my phone.
I'm supposed to meet up with him in the office next week and hand over this laptop, get a replacement, and go on my merry way, so I’m going to spend some time this weekend making sure it’s fit to be used by some other poor bastard once the port gets replaced.
I don't keep much open in browsers, to be honest -- I make a point to empty my browser of open tabs every Friday, fannish stuff is all done through Drive, and he knows not to go poking around because I'm The One With All That Confidential Data, but if he needs to open Firefox to download a driver, he at least now won't get the Slack channel where we bitch about our jobs or a google doc about Askazer-Shivadlakia or whatever nonsense I'm looking at on Etsy. :D
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Hello! I know your content is aimed at something else, but I'm just at a loss that I can't find a solution to the problem. In my country the Sims community is not as developed as in the West, so I'm trying. to contact you, because I have been watching you for a long time and consider you a very nice person. I've been trying to stop gshade for a long time, but every time my game just breaks! the screen turns black and pixelated. Perhaps you know what is causing this problem or someone in the comments? or can you send a link where you downloaded it from, please?
Good morning! First, I'm so sorry you're having troubles with your PC, it can be really frustrating and I'm sure it's even more frustrating when everything about it is in English. I'm going to try my best to explain what I know below but sort of vaguely so hopefully none of it gets lost in translation / is easier to understand.
To download gshade, you're going to go to this link right here.
Installing gshade can be a little weird because it's not a mod. I would suggest watching this tutorial here. I know English isn't your first language though so I'm not sure how helpful an American voice will be but maybe you could still follow along step by step visually.
I did go ahead and Google this issue and I found someone saying it has to do with your graphics processor. To find out if this is the issue you're having, and if you've installed the program correctly, when you load into the game and pull up gshade when you're in game it will look like this
Hit these two buttons "force load all shaders" and "active to top"
Once you've done that it will then look like this with more options
Start unchecking all of those boxes one by one to see if it's one of the shaders that's giving you the issue.
I also recommend making sure the drivers for your PC are updated too because I had no idea that was a thing until recently!
If none of this works, I would recommend trying Reshade instead to see if maybe that's better for your PC, though I do Gshade is usually a little easier / more PC friendly.
If Reshade or Gshade end up not working at all, I would try messaging this simblr account and see if maybe they have a solution since I've seen them give out advice for it before.
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actually, here, have a list of the add-ons i use that make my life so much better (they’re all for firefox but many have a version for chrome):
- adblock/ublock origin, obviously
- ublacklist, lets you block sites from google results
- ao3rdr, lets you block tags (drivers you hate, for example) from ao3 search results, among other things
- xkit rewritten, if you use tumblr without using xkit i’m honestly slowly backing away from you rn. lets you completely overhaul your dash/functionality, from restoring full timestamps on posts to color coding posts to hiding tumblr radar and tumblr live to hiding all instances of single posts and dozens of other things.
- video downloadhelper and hls downloader, detect videos on every site you visit and enables you to download them even if the site is trying not to let you (some exceptions, geoblocked videos for example) including in hq/1080p
- privacy badger, makes sure advertisers don’t track you, including ones who ignore your ‘do not track’ warning
- search by image, right click any pic and it uses the classic (non-radar) google reverse image search, or several other sites you can choose from
- sponsorblock for youtube, automatically skips/mutes intros/outros, ‘this video is sponsored by’, personal endorsements, etc (with an option to disable individual skips)
- save webp as png or jpeg, self-explanatory
and, most importantly, this one turns your youtube status bar into nyancat <3
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hi! could please tell me a bit more about how and why you rebooted your laptop? does it help speed up its processing? clean up unnecessary files? i want to do something similar to my laptop but am too scared it will delete important documents and programs from my drives.
Yeah, no problem!
My laptop started bluescreening a lot (one day it did it 5 times...) and I couldn't figure out why so my last resort was resetting it and hoping that whatever was causing it would get wiped. It didn't, because the issue turned out to be a faulty Nvidia graphics driver. Installing an older driver fixed the issue and it hasn't BSOD'd since. Thankfully lol (BSOD=blue screen of death)
Wiping your laptop every couple of years can speed it up, especially if you download or install programs a lot, but it's honestly not something you really need to do to keep it running efficiently. If your computer's suddenly acting weird, like BSOD-ing or lagging when it didn't used to, then resetting it could potentially help.
I'm running Windows 11 and it had a feature in the reset options to keep my settings and some important files but it wiped everything else. This included programs, photos, downloads, and some UI personalization options. It generated a .HTML file that listed all the programs it uninstalled and linked to the website to redownload them, if it could find it, which saved me a shit ton of effort after the reset. Windows 10 might do this too, but I'm not sure. If you go to the reset menu the wizard will let you know. I have no idea how resetting works on Macs, sorry...
If you do decide to reset your laptop, I recommend backing up all of your personal files onto either an external hard drive or the cloud. You get something like 12 or 15gb with a free Google Drive account and I think 8gb with Dropbox? so if you don't have an external HDD, those are some free options. You can uninstall them after you get your files back.
Here's a guide I referenced before resetting my laptop that explains some of the options in more detail:
The guide mentions it too, but resetting takes a long time and the completion percentage will hang at a number for a while, like mine sat at 63% for like 30 minutes before continuing. Don't turn the power off, just let it do its thing. My laptop had a lot of files to wipe and IIRC it took it about 90 minutes to fully reset.
OH ALSO make sure any sites you have two-factor authentication enabled on are up to date because, man, talk about a pain in the ass if you no longer have the device/email it'd send the auth request to lmfao
Good luck! Hope it goes well if you do choose to wipe your computer.
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