Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

Are there any phone nerds present here? My Android phone keeps asking me for a password, but I don't remember ever setting a password. My phone has a PIN, and a pattern lock, but no password. What to do?

@Octane have you tried 0001?

@kyleforrester87 Can't tell if it's a joke or not

But it doesn't work.

@Octane Have you tried putting it an bowl of rice?

Oh, my bad that is for something else.

Default passwords or pins are sometimes set to 0000, but it vary for each manufacturer.

Failing that it will contacting customer support for whatever brand of phone you have or network you are on. If there is a shop you can go to they could help. For instance my contract is with O2 and they have shop in the town centre I can go to for stuff like that.

@Octane hmm that is weird. Have you tried 0002?

@Octane Could the password be the numbers which your pattern lock would represent on a phone panel?

I've not explained that very well but hopefully you'll get what I mean

@Octane It’s probably your Google account. It would be the same as the password for Gmail or YouTube or any other Google service you use.

@kyleforrester87 but have you tried 0002?

If it were me, I’d use the number 8843, it’s easy to remember because it’s the pin code for my bank card.

@kyleforrester87 One of my mates used to write his PIN on the back of his debit card in case he forgot it when he went to get money out. He stopped when we pointed out the flaw in his system

@Gremio108 yeah that’s pretty dumb. You put your card in to the reader to input your pin face up, so why would you write it on the back?

@kyleforrester87 I think that was his idea of data protection

@Gremio108 ah method to the madness then!

@KratosMD Depends on what security settings you have. IIRC correctly you can either have it to remember the password or ask you to enter it every time you make a purchase using your Google account.

My phone will request for the PIN to be entered every few days to unlock the screen (it's usually done by fingerprint or face recognition), and as far as i know you can't disable it. And I wouldn't want to either.

@kyleforrester87 @Gremio108 My pin is the same for everything, so if that gets found out I'm FUBAR.

I hate passwords and passcodes. I blame them for the rise in gun violence over the last 50 years. They probably are causing global warming as well.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
Continuing the discussion from the other thread elsewhere, per your request.

I'm sure it's more work, but I think I could deal with a room full of barely adults easier than a room full of children whose bodies are coursing with hormones and mischief.

Despite having known about it for years, I've actually never probed into the details of what that game is about. Your reaction has piqued my interest, though!

Yeeeeeeeah. This sort of situation is why I take a VERY lax attitude toward emulation when it comes to OOP games that haven't seen a re-release. Downloading ISOs of games like this online might not technically be legal, but morally, it's perfectly harmless.

So... yeah. PCSX2 is your friend in this scenario.

I felt the same way about the Clock Tower games, but they sound way worse than they actually are in this respect. The enemies in these games tend to be more annoying than scary, and, from memory, I believe Haunting Grounds was the same way.

I'm half-tempted to play my old copy after finishing up Clock Tower 3. We'll see.

Definitely too nervous to play Outlast, though.

Sorry for the slightly late reply @Ralizah! It was our trip to the butterfly farm yesterday... There wasn't too much mischief from those kids... One child did get a little spooked as a rather large butterfly landed in his face but other then that it was pretty uneventful 😁

It's a survival horror set in England in the 1930's. You play as a 19 year old girl called Jennifer who due to certain events ends up finding herself in an orphanage that has a Lord Of The Flies type situation with her having to deal with the "Red Crayon Aristocrats" in order to escape.

It's a psychological horror more-so like Silent Hill (... I haven't played any of those though actually) with like a bit of Brother's Grimm thrown in.

It's a very bittersweet game in tone and the fact that I work with children... It probably hit me harder watching it.

I've dabbled with that stuff like the first two Shin Megami Tensei's. Basically it alongside a Pokémon rom hack or two.

Looking up the Clock Tower games again. Yeah they aren't all that scary. The SNES one is probably the creepiest of them as the others are just campy and goofy as hell 😂

I'm not great with first person horror at all (Same reason I haven't played Resi 7. I'm kinda hoping Resi 8 isn't first person). I never did anything more then the starting minute of Outlast myself (my son bought it and played it through though. He seemed to enjoy it)

The scariest game I've actually played all the way through was probably Fatal Frame/Project Zero 2... I hate ghosts and the first person camera combat did not help 😅

Yeah both games feature dog sidekicks @Arugula (The dog's called Brown in RoR).

Never played either one myself just heard of RoR through reputation thanks to it being a horror ps2 game that's been banned in parts of europe and in turn the sheer rarity of it.

I've heard Rule Of Rose has some pretty bad combat because the company ran out of budget and had to release it before they could polish it up. I think they're defunct now too (Yup. They only had 2 games in fact which is a shame)

Apparently they were originally going to partner with Sony for the project (Sony actually approached them about making a horror game) before Sony eventually backed out entirely.

£200 at the very least @Arugula though there's a factory sealed and professoinally approved copy on Ebay and Amazon for £2,500 😅

Hell my copy of Persona 3 FES is worth £100 at least because of Koei never reprinting it in europe!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Hahaha, some games are just worth a mint. Even relatively common games like Paper Mario TTYD and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance on the Cube can go for almost £100 now.

@Arugula Go have a look! If you find it then you could be sitting on a small fortune!