Evening Enothera

kamidoodles:

analogwatch:

bellisadinosaur:

I believed:

• stoplights were controlled by people underground pushing buttons
• green, not white, was an indicator of GOOD, while red, not black, was BAD, so green-eyed monsters were good and red-eyed ones were bad (confusing me about an urban legend I’ve forgotten involving green eyed monsters)
• characters in movies had tea parties inside the VHS tapes when you weren’t watching them
• babies came from being married and asking God for them (teen abstinence commercials really confused me)
• a vampire lived in the toilet (in the u-bend, to be precise, and flushing the toilet would alert him to a defenseless person washing their hands and it freaked me the fuck out)
• Arnold from Hey Arnold wore a dress or skirt, not a collared shirt
• people were robots or hallucinations

I also hallucinated dragons out of my ceiling lights and people in my drapes, and voices telling me something very important that I could never remember.

…yeah.

I totally believed the stop lights and Hey Arnold ones too.

My childhood bathroom freakout was that there were always skeletons hiding behind the shower curtain. I refused to pee unless the curtain was open and I could see the entire bathtub.

When I first moved to the states, I never had heard crickets. My new room at my stepfather’s parents’ house had a duck mobile hanging from the ceiling. I firmly believed that the ducks were chirping out death threats and were going to kill me, as I frequently ran out of my room crying, “THE DUCKS ARE COMING.”

I have (and still do >.>) freaked myself out over patterns in stucco / sheets / odd blobbed garments by thinking it looks like something terrifying. >.>

When on a trip through the Redwood Forest, I kept saying I was afraid of the forhest because the trees were going to kill us. 

I used to believe that the chance of precipitation in the weather forecast was actually a forecast of how much of the day it was going to be raining.

I also thought that “The Pit of Eternal Stench”, in the movie Labyrinth, was “The Pit of a Turtle’s Stench”, and the turtle had had too many beans for lunch and had gone underwater to try to muffle his farts.

I was afraid of the furnace at my grandparents house, because the grating on it made it look like a giant spider with it’s legs tucked in front of it. I refused to go into that room alone because if I did it was going to eat me.

kamidoodles:

enothera reblogged your post: Seems I spoke too soon.

Do you have an Intel graphics card?

I think so? I have whatever came with this laptop.

I had a similar problem with my work comp a few months ago. And it was the driver for the graphics card. There should be a sticker somewhere on the laptop for the graphics card, so double check it and get the make/model info (might be on the bottom).

Or (I run vista at home so this might not be totally accurate) go to the start menu> accesories>system tools and run system information. In the side bar you should be able to expand hardware reasources and highlight memory. This’ll bring up a big mess of text on the right. If it’s got an Intel Graphics card you should see something like “Intel Graphics Blargity Number thing” repeated a couple of times in the mess of text that comes up. Otherwise keep an eye out for the words Nvidia, or Radeon.

Copy down that info, and search google for the manufacturer’s driver website. Ie:

“Intel Graphics Blargity Number thing driver” and download the most recent version from the manufacturer.

Hopefully that’ll fix it.

kamidoodles:

kamidoodles:

Mass Effect crashes whenever I bring up the pause menu. :C Running Windows 7, and through steam. Help?

Getting this:

Rendering thread exception:

General protection fault!

History: OpenAdapter() Address = 0x9c3c570 (filename note found) [in C:\Windows\system32\igdumd32.dll]

 

Do you have an Intel graphics card?