Egg timers are for wussies. A real woman relies on her inner sense of timing. Which did warn me that 'hey, aren't you forgetting something?' in time to save the rice.

Ah, I see. Well, then it's clear that you'll have to buy a replacement laptop, not just a new motherboard.

Overcooked rice with veggies and black bean sauce..

Start making dinner, go back to computer while the rice cooks, install and configure a new music player, get distracted by a blog post, spend some time searching YouTube for a video to link to in replying to that post, find that the rice is now boiling dry.. ETA: Add water and frozen veggies to the ...

To be honest there were several puzzles where I got stuck. The robot-in-maze room was just hard to solve, but there were other times where I'd missed a small clickable detail that contained essential info.

What's a Nicodemus?

Well, the game tells you that there are six endings in total and which ones you have seen. Slight hint: Your current path will give you another ending, and should give you some hints how to reach the True ending. Technically a spoiler, but not much of one: For completion's sake you should do ano...

Isn't Super Eurobeat the gold standard anyway?

Aw. That sucks. Manufacturer warranty is often three years. I guess they know how close to cut it so they don't have to replace/repair all those failing laptops.

Why is it called 'Eurobeat' if it is more a Japanese thing than a European? Silliness.

Don't stick out any limbs outside the carriage. Cave walls and velociraptors are dangerous.

Hopefully you have some warranty left then. How old is it? Try entering the service tag (5-7 digit/letter code on the bottom of the laptop, next to a barcode) on .

No luck with that either? That's bad indeed, as it means that your laptop's video card is dead to the world.
What model is your laptop? I could help look up some technical stuff.