demagogue on 14/7/2017 at 15:18

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Asus ROG G752VT. Except for the motherboard fritzing out, it's honestly a pretty awesome gaming laptop that has the best features at the best price. As of 8 months ago when I was researching this it was easily the top choice.

I'm now suspecting the store gave me an Asus charger for the wrong model because it didn't really fit fully inside the slot (only about 3/4 fit in), and while it normally worked fine it sometimes gave a message like "incorrect voltage" when it wasn't pushed in all the way. I just thought it was a design flub on Asus's part, but now I'm thinking the vendor may have goofed. That's the best theory I have thinking back on it.

Then that makes me think about how complicated would it be to make a claim about it to the shop this late, and I'm already going to have to be dealing with a support call in Japanese to get it repaired as it is... It's interesting how much of a downer tech issues can be. It's just electronics, and even the cost doesn't really justify feeling so down. It almost feels like it's some kind of personal betrayal, like I trusted this laptop was going to take care of me ... So often I buy used ones, and those always last forever for me, but I finally decided to splurge for a brand new nice gaming & entertainment laptop, and that's the one that flips me the bird hardly half a year in.

Well anyway... it's still much better to pay to repair it than buy a new one. Just hoping they make it quick and easy for me. I'll call support tomorrow & get the ball rolling.

Renault on 14/7/2017 at 17:05

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Sorry to hear, VA, that's a rough one. I always hate hearing about situations where kids are being used as leverage. Any way to bring in a neutral third party to try to work things out? Probably not I suppose.

Pyrian on 14/7/2017 at 18:17

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Hmm. Sounds like time to lawyer up. I'm sorry.

heywood on 14/7/2017 at 21:13

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Sorry to hear of everyone's misfortune, especially Harvester, my condolences.

Yakoob - I assume you ruled out diet, e.g. gluten or lactose allergy? If so, have you thought about depression? A few times in my life I've gone through periods where I'm frequently tired, not sleeping that great, getting sick often and suffering some random minor health issues, procrastinating a lot, feeling apathetic and dissatisfied with work. I never went to doctors about it and each time it went away on its own after a change of scenery. Last time around, I finally realized it was depression. I've had some family and a couple coworkers go through this too, but they doctored up, visiting specialist after specialist and not finding any physical cause for feeling crappy.

VA - Ultimatums suck. I hope your wife comes to realize that reconciliation is impossible under threat. Having gone through something similar, sans kids, all I can say is that nobody should be making serious/permanent life decisions while emotions are boiling. It sounds like she needs time for her anger and grief to subside a little bit before she's ready to sit down and negotiate a divorce. If I were in your shoes, I would consider going through some marriage counseling anyway, even if you're sure you don't want to work things out, simply to demonstrate good faith and de-escalate the situation and give your wife time to accept things. Unfortunately, lawyers tend to turn things adversarial. I've had friends split up amicably up until they brought lawyers into it, and at that point their lawyers gave them plenty of good ways to punish each other.

In my case, my wife and I separated (unofficially) after 12 years of marriage. We did some counseling at first, even though I was not open to reconciliation at the time. We didn't rush it. I figured people don't just jump into marriage while they're infatuated, so they shouldn't jump into divorce while they're angry and bitter. We tried to treat each other like friends while we were apart, gave each other a shoulder to cry on, and didn't lawyer up. Having some space to settle down and get over the things that were driving us mad worked wonders and when we saw each other it started to feel like dating again. After a year I moved back. It's 8 years later and we have two young kids and our marriage is stronger than it was before. I know that things usually don't end that way, we were lucky, and didn't have kids to fight over. But even if we had gone for the divorce, it would have been much easier and less painful to go through after taking the time to let things settle down versus rushing into it. Good luck.

demagogue - Everybody buys Asus once. Their computers always look good on paper and get good reviews. But I won't buy Asus again and I don't know many people who will. Your experience is unfortunately typical.

Yakoob on 14/7/2017 at 22:32

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My condolences VA, that is a shitty situation :/ One thing I would add is to be veeery careful in all your communication with her - if she has a lawyer, it is likely she is keeping track of all messages and emails (and even record phone calls/convos if going crazy). So always remain polite, or she could use it against you.



Yeah mostly, i've been experimenting with my diet but every time I seem to hit something that works, it stops after a few days and I guess it was just a lucky fluke. I haven't gotten tested proper and haven't cut out lactose/gluten for a significant enough time, but eh, I've been eating those all my life and it never bothered me. I know you can develop allergies later on but I'm somewhat skeptical it's those two factors.

My mental state definitely has a big impact on it, and something I have been working on as well. But it's daunting that even on days when I am motivated and excited to do things, I can't. I was traveling with family a month ago and going thru museums was excruciating at times, I had to sit down every 15 mins, could barely pay attention to the stuff I was reading, even tho it was genuinely fascinating and a vacation time with cool people :/