Ah yes. Those 'I'm a real fucking moron' moments. They're especially best when it happens in public.

So if I understand this correctly, Naz is playing graphically demanding games while the computer's plugged into a UPS along with a bunch of other stuff... while the UPS is in battery mode??

What the hell, Nazrin?

I thought it was weird the computer kept working, even though it normally shuts down right away whenever an alarm sounds from an electricity shortage. The Naz person's reaction on hearing the dialog in panel 3 was priceless. :-)

Reader-added tags include "Can't call yourself a clever commander now, hey, Nazzie?", "Bull's-eye, eh, Naz-san", and "The Case Records of the Great Detective Kogasa-san".

The survey feels sorry for her...sort of:

Let's comfort Naz-san.
• Pet-pet
• Tousle-tousle
• Smear-smear
• Lick-lick
• Flop-flop

At the second panel I thought it was overheating, but then: "SRSLY? Gaming on reserve power? Who the hell does that?!"

Coconut said:
So if I understand this correctly, Naz is playing graphically demanding games while the computer's plugged into a UPS along with a bunch of other stuff... while the UPS is in battery mode??

What the hell, Nazrin?

It's fine, because she's Nazrin!!

Coconut said:
So if I understand this correctly, Naz is playing graphically demanding games while the computer's plugged into a UPS along with a bunch of other stuff... while the UPS is in battery mode??

What the hell, Nazrin?

Kogasa speculated that she just plugged in too much stuff and went full-power, so rather than going in battery mode, UPS sounded an overload alert, because its transfer capacity was not enough. This is theoretically possible, but I never actually experienced this, because my ups is always working on 30-50%, and I don't even know if it has an overload alert :3

But I'd rather speculate that Nazu's UPS is sensitive to low voltage, and her AC power voltage is normally already close enough to threshold, so when she causes overload, voltage drop a little bit more and UPS goes battery-mode, while AC power is still on. This situation is quite common where I live - "normal" 220V can drop to 185-175, especially at evening.

Moonspeaker said:
Unfortunately, I'm not having much luck finding out what that last sound effect means. It's not in my dictionary sources, and general online searches mainly turn it up as a nickname for someone or an abbreviation of "notta no da".

The only thing that comes to mind is this - but I doubt Mizuki's suggesting to ride Naz, lol.

¤ necho necho

Type-kun said:
Kogasa speculated that she just plugged in too much stuff and went full-power, so rather than going in battery mode, UPS sounded an overload alert, because its transfer capacity was not enough. This is theoretically possible, but I never actually experienced this, because my ups is always working on 30-50%, and I don't even know if it has an overload alert :3

But I'd rather speculate that Nazu's UPS is sensitive to low voltage, and her AC power voltage is normally already close enough to threshold, so when she causes overload, voltage drop a little bit more and UPS goes battery-mode, while AC power is still on. This situation is quite common where I live - "normal" 220V can drop to 185-175, especially at evening.

Mine can drop up to 150V in peak hours, so I need to muffle the UPS in this hours.

The most bothersome problems always have the most simple solutions, don't they? At least Nazrin-san knows now for future reference. I bet she did have quite the priceless look on her face!

For the poll, tousle-tousle, more than a pet, but less than smear-smear, whatever that means.

• Nottan-nottan

This is it: post #862981, post #863626, post #1099073

Brightlight said:
This is it: post #862981, post #863626, post #1099073

That'll work, thanks.

Oh yes, I recognize this problem. Usually my PC - connected to my HDTV - is on a UPS and runs perfectly fine. Fire up a resource intense game and the UPS alarms start going off, mostly when something CPU heavy hits, such as loading a zone or stage or whatever.