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Last post by DoubleX - February 08, 2026, 12:07:23 pm

I just made my 64th, 65th, 66th and 67th published songs:
DoubleX - Letting Everybody Down

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Current version: 1st(8 Feb 2026)
When I'm too unable to finish anything, I'll be just letting everybody down no matter what I do or not do, and I can't just claim that it's at least partly their lessons to learn to deal with disappointment, so sometimes being so incompetent is already an unforgivable sin in itself  

DoubleX - Beautiful Sorrow

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Current version: 1st(8 Feb 2026)
Usually most people mostly avoid all kinds of sadness, but for those who can keep peacefully facing the deep wounds of others and themselves, what they experience can become a beautiful sorrow, as long as they're neither deflecting their pains to the others nor holding those of the others on their own  

DoubleX - Fallen Apart

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Current version: 1st(8 Feb 2026)
If you've to hold something together but it's meant to be fallen apart, you can only slowly watch how it's gradually torn into shreds until you can't even find any last bit of pieces remaining. Although we all know we shouldn't cry for split milk, sometimes we'll still suffer so immensely that we just can't stop crying so painfully X( 

DoubleX - Doomed Destiny

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Current version: 1st(8 Feb 2026)
As the mankind needs to develop AI to counter the increasing number of elderly and decreasing number of newborn under the dying global economy, the technologically advanced nations are forced to join the AI arms race until it can mostly replace most human jobs most of the time.
But then the 1% elites controlling those AI will treat the rest of the 99% as liabilities wasting resources rather than assets running the societies, so those 1% will use AI to gradually squeeze the living space and resources available to those 99% while forcing them to slowly rely more and more on those AI, causing those 99% to have no choice but to fight each other more and more violently for survival, thus decaying their already miserable world to be a hell and their already painful lives to become nightmares.
While more and more people realize this will likely be the future of the mankind before they naturally die, it's a doomed destiny that even those 1% elites can't stop it, or they'll soon have no place in the inevitable AI arms races

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Last post by DoubleX - February 05, 2026, 09:32:33 am

I just made my 63rd published song:
DoubleX - Enjoying Suffering

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Current version: 1st(4 Feb 2026)
While many think that both the heaven and hell are very far away from the existing civilization, they're actually both within the mankind all along. Those lucky enough to keep enjoying suffering while spreading its positive meanings to the world are already living in the heaven right here and now; Those unlucky enough to keep trying to escape and resist suffering while cursing any apparent cause are already living hellish lives that are much worse than even the worst death. Just as Sisyphus can never run from his fate but can always change how he understand and face it, nobody can skip any deep and immense suffering inherent to all human beings but we can all learn to painfully enjoy them in altruistic and sustainable ways  

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Advertising / Re: DoubleX Music Room

Last post by DoubleX - January 25, 2026, 10:39:33 am

I just made my 62nd published song:
DoubleX - Completely Ruined

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Current version: 1st(25 Jan 2026)
Just when it's about to succeed, it suddenly becomes completely ruined; Just when you think something's nearly finished, it turns out to be completely ruined long ago without you knowing; Just when you feel close to someone you deeply trust, all of a sudden you're completely ruined by that someone; When more and more parts of your lives are completely ruined, you may as well just let everything about you to go completely ruined as well  

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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.