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Last post by DoubleX - January 18, 2026, 09:24:08 am

I just made my 61st published song:
DoubleX - Point Of No Return

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Current version: 1st(16 Jan 2026)
For almost everyone ever existed, life itself will eventually reach a point of no return. For some it's almost certain that the path will lead to heaven, for some others it's most likely going straight to hell, and for the rest the destination can be a total unknown. But the common ground is that nearly no one can go back even slightly after this, or the results will be much worse for basically everyone involved. So roughly speaking, all one can do is to continue to walk through all these til the end, regardless of what has happened and what will occur  

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Last post by DoubleX - January 10, 2026, 11:43:42 pm

I just made my 60th published song:
DoubleX - Unbreakable Vicious Circle

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Current version: 1st(11 Jan 2026)
When every part of your lives become worse and worse but you can't stop your contaminated cores from further rotting, it means you're in an unbreakable vicious circle, so all you can do is to witness how you'll eventually fail to hold your corrupt selves together  

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Last post by DoubleX - January 04, 2026, 08:44:38 am

I just made my 59th published song:
DoubleX - Deeply Touched(Mental Pain Relief)

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Current version: 1st(4 Jan 2026)
When so many people offer so much so needed help so effectively, it'd only be natural for many of these victims of the disasters, the helpers and those just witnessing all this to be so deeply touched by all the benevolence that they'll really want such altruism to become the norm of the rest of their lives  

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Last post by DoubleX - January 01, 2026, 07:57:58 am

I just made my 58th published song:
DoubleX - Reflective Solitude(Mental Pain Relief)

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Current version: 1st(1 Jan 2026)
When you're seriously hurt and suffering from severe losses, choosing either "reaching out for external connections and helps" or "consciously digesting the pains alone" can be okay for you. While sometimes your hearts want to open your wounds in front of your deeply trusted ones, there will be times your bodies will want to have a reflective solitude, and both are just natural needs during the healing processes, as long as you can maintain your awareness thorough the journey

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Last post by DoubleX - December 25, 2025, 05:17:02 am

Updates
DoubleX - Bitterly Cold
Current version: 2nd(25 Dec 2025)
Major Changes:
Fixed too many minor inconsistencies to be listed exhaustively here

I just made my 55th, 56th and 57th published song:
DoubleX - Bitterly Cold(Mental Pain Relief Variant)

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Current version: 1st(25 Dec 2025)
If you ever become homeless, you'll likely feel bitterly cold outside, so it'd be nice to at least have some temporary shelters for you to sleep for a short time, and it'd be even better when there will always be helping hands when you need them the most, causing the cold to be not so bitter anymore  

DoubleX - Not Lost Forever(Mental Pain Relief Variant)

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Current version: 1st(25 Dec 2025)
When you almost lost everything at once, it'd only be natural for you to feel that all is permanently lost, but sometimes they're not lost forever, and one day some of them will likely either come back like the old times, or have replacements that suit you a lot better than before  

DoubleX - Repairing Broken Hearts(Mental Pain Relief Variant)

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Current version: 1st(25 Dec 2025)
If you're still immensely suffering from the tragedy, it's hard for your hearts to be not broken, and it'd be normal for you to look away from the debris of your once complete hearts for quite some time. Although collecting those shattered pieces bit by bit every day is usually a tedious but necessary process when repairing broken hearts, you'll most likely know when it's time to start doing so, so there's no need to force yourselves into hurrying up  

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Last post by DoubleX - December 07, 2025, 01:36:35 am

I just made my 54th published song:
DoubleX - Starting Again(Mental Pain Relief)

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Current version: 1st(7 Dec 2025)
Everyone has their own rhythm and timing, especially those who has just lost everything after the tragedy, and they'll eventually start their lives again. While we might feel an immense sense of urge to "help" them recover sooner, these supports should be offered as options readily available to them, since we're just the choice givers and they're the ones being the choice makers of their lives, all to avoid our benevolence from deteriorating into subtle pressures, as this could ironically be their last straws. 

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Electronic and Computer Section / Windows hardware upgrade with ...

Last post by Blizzard - December 04, 2025, 02:28:19 am

I had a very specific issue recently.

I had a Win 10 machine that I wanted to upgrade (motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.). In order to ensure I wouldn't have issues with Windows reactivation on new hardware, I logged into my MS account so that my machine and the Windows key are registered there and I could easily reactivate it.

After the hardware upgrade, I couldn't get into Windows anymore! Due to the hardware change it would not ask me for my password, but ask me to setup a PIN. But in order to setup a PIN, I needed an Internet connection. Due to this being new hardware, I didn't have any drivers installed and network wasn't working so I was stuck.

Even after disabling the PIN requirement with some magic, it would still ask me for my password which it couldn't verify without an Internet connection. I tried using WinRE and the installation recovery to access the registry, but since I have a RAID-1 setup and those tools don't have RAID drivers, I couldn't access any OS data from the outside either (e.g. to change registry entries).

After 2 days of blood and tears I finally managed to get it working. I ran the recovery mode of a Windows installer from my USB, side-loaded the exact RAID driver I had been using in the OS from my old motherboard (which luckily worked on the new one). After gaining access to my RAID array, I made a copy of cmd.exe and named it utilman.exe or something like that. This allowed me to boot back into Windows and by pressing the accessibility button, I would get a Command Prompt window. I created a temporary admin account with all privileges and no password. Finally I could log into Windows and install the LAN driver! Yay!

But this actually wasn't the end of it... My ISP has some weird issues and I think they keep assigning me banned IPs from time to time as I had issues logging into my MS account a week earlier as well. (I also have issues with some other websites and keep getting captchas often.) I was able to circumvent the issue by connecting to my phone's WiFi hotspot at that time. And this time I had to do the same. While on normal LAN I simply couldn't log into my MS account.

Even though I lost two days on this, at least I didn't have to nuke my Windows installation. It's a complex setup for development and it would have taken me at least a day and a half to install everything. Not to mention the user data I have there. I had backups and everything, but it's still annoying. This is part of the reason I use RAID-1 in the first place (I had my OS SSD die.)

So yeah, Microsoft can stick its stupid MS account requirement up their ass for all I care.

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Last post by DoubleX - December 03, 2025, 09:02:30 am

I just made my 53rd published song:
DoubleX - Heartfelt Condolences

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Current version: 1st(3 Dec 2025)
Your tears will be seen, your voices will be heard, and your sorrow will be validated. It's normal for you to feel sad, and it's okay for you to ask for prolonged supports. You'll need time to accept what happened and it's totally fine, so you don't have to rush yourselves when trying to restart your lives. There's no need to soldier on all by yourselves, as you've our heartfelt condolences. We might not be able to do much for you, but at least we can try to make your situations less difficult.

P.S.: It's the 3rd of my music that made me weep, but this time it's mainly due to the devastating catastrophe they've experienced rather than this music itself, as it's so depressing for me to even just watch the live videos that I couldn't finish watching any of them, just to try to know what really happened

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Last post by DoubleX - November 30, 2025, 10:05:36 am

I just made my 51st and 52nd published song:
DoubleX - Facing The Storm Together(Mental Pain Relief)

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Current version: 1st(29 Nov 2025)
Although we all know that every storm, however how hostile it's to us, will eventually end, not all of us can persist until then regardless of whether we want to, especially for those being alone and lost their shelters, so maybe we can try to stay with each other and face the storm together, to hope that we'll all make it to see the sunrise  

DoubleX - Rest In Peace(Mental Pain Relief)

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Current version: 1st(30 Nov 2025)
While we don't claim to feel or know the same pain as you did, at least we want to try to empathize and understand what you've experienced, and none of you deserved such a tragedy, so we wish you can all be finally free from any further suffering, and hope that you'll instead become eternally blessed.
May you all rest in peace, and you'll always be remembered. 

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Last post by DoubleX - November 19, 2025, 06:09:15 am

I just made my 50th published song:
DoubleX - Banished Negativity

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Current version: 1st(19 Nov 2025)
When the social norm becomes more and more inclined to avoid "negative people", especially for those using spirituality as a disguise of the underlying just-world hypothesis, you'll likely want to hope for never being very negative for long, or being able to help yourselves to return to at least apparently enough positivity on your own if that ever happens, otherwise you'll probably "deteriorate" into a part of the banished negativity and become effectively quarantined by the society, although it could be a karma boomerang if you refused to help every other "negative people" in the past when you could've helped at least some of them