the red illusion will dissipate in the middle of the night whilst you slumber, and you will wake up to a beautiful blue world. your fate is sealed.
2024-11-04 at 1:03 AM UTC
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Just checking who's crazy
im not crazy im the only sane one left
2024-11-03 at 6:15 AM UTC
in
NiS Promo!
nooo dont do it you have so much to live for omg
Took the Demon Machine back to the store and they tried to replicate the issue but couldn't on their monitor, so I had to buy a new monitor. I was planning on getting one during Black Friday anyway. Got it all home, and WHAMO! The pixel was still fucking there. I think they "couldn't replicate it" because the mess of singular errant pixels was hiding behind the thick layer of dust and grime on the monitor they were using to test it. I knew a new monitor wouldn't work. Well, I didn't know. I really thought the monitor might help. There was a chance. A slim hope.
Had to go all the way back, with scronny dutifully lugging the busted piece of shit up and down stairs and halfway across town both times. Traded that bitch in and got me a new one. She's... she's not throwing pixels at me. Not a feisty one like that.
No longer pulling my hair out.
Some of the stuff I've found online from people with issues that sound similar to what I've described seems to imply it's definitely a hardware thing, and man... I just don't know. I struggle to believe hardware issues could manifest like this. For one, it seems too... mundane... and the fact that when there's a "dead"/undead pixel that's NOT tied to my cuursor's movement, I can cover it up with my cursor... it all reeks of some kind of software/driver issue. Especially since running nVidia's own display driver cleanup tool genuinely seems to fix or at least greatly reduce occurrences of The Bug.
Still think I'm gonna have to take it back to the shop though. I honestly don't know where else to go from here. Or, at least, I have some ideas, like ripping out the ASUS bloatware root and stem and reseating hardware, but I'm not going to be able to go scorched earth on The Bug until I know for certain that I can't get a working replacement.