Snap, Crackle & Pop

Lmao! I'm not sure how to respond to that?! I guess it's probably the first time I made a practical suggestion though, so you're reply is highly understandable...!

I'll have a chat with old Be'elzebob, see if he can do anything about credit ratings old chap, but I can't promise - he has to find 'bub first, know what.

I was certainly raised in the presence of evil, but we weren't wealthy orphans - had to make do with a small box truth be told. I don't know what it originally contained, but there were printed allusions to some kind of magic whirlpool device on the outside - perhaps it's where I learned my dark magic skills? Or simply where I found the ability to pick locks with paperclips - has gotten me out of the occasional scrape with the law as I aged!

There was another chap who lived in a nearby box as well, he taught me the mysterious art of what one could manage to borrow from pockets, especially when putting various adhesive products to good use. He called the technique "wick-dipping" yet I fear his strange stories actually related to something more nefarious, as he often insisted on placing an old newspaper over his lap when explaining the nuances of dipping one's wick for pleasure. Needless to say I was young and innocent at the time, and he was older than one, and a bit creepy too - Frenchman I believe, ruddy Johnny Foreigner if nothing else.

Anyhow old chap, I have gone on far too much about my sad history, so here's wishing you luck with that paperclip and sticky tape - one has to learn how to dip your wick in a professional manner, say you?

Best regards in your endeavours, and tally ho, rather?!

The Hat :)

That's the spirit or dark spirit old bean, what what?

Everything is open to comedy, everything can be ripped apart and made fun of, what what

Humour, that's what separates us from Politicians and single cell amoeba.

Toodly pipsky old bean
 
That's the spirit or dark spirit old bean, what what?

Everything is open to comedy, everything can be ripped apart and made fun of, what what

Humour, that's what separates us from Politicians and single cell amoeba.

Toodly pipsky old bean

You Sir, have spoken the absolute truth there!! Humour also separates us from the aforementioned Johnny Foreigner brigade - I won't mention any nationalities in particular, Mon dieu!
(Only joking in case there are any angry people out there!).

If one cannot mock one's own past, then it wasn't worth living! Good show skipper ;)
 
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You Sir, have spoken the absolute truth there!! Humour also separates us from the aforementioned Johnny Foreigner brigade - I won't mention any nationalities in particular, Mon dieu!
(Only joking in case there are any angry people out there!).

If one cannot mock one's own past, then it wasn't worth living! Good show skipper ;)

Yes, well, a steady thought and a sense of appropriateness is what makes humour more interesting and deep old bean

Bally well thank you old bean, what what

I have taken the liberty of stealing, did I say stealing, I meant borrowing the image .

Brings a Bally tear to ones eye, sniff!

Thank you
 
Conjured up the image in my head on the first read. Had to take it to the next level. Shame your profile image is only 100x100 ish pixels, a tad blurred. Would have done a better job if 4 times larger.
Make use of the image as you wish!
Hope you get your crackles uncrackled.
 
Hello old beans,

Any of you Bally well fine Cmdrs getting any static on your headsets?

I seem to be getting quite a bit recently.

One is an Xbox One player.

Yes, I have tried different controllers, I own 7 of the Bally things, what what.

Any responses that do not include the following references would be greatly appreciated:

1. Get Gud
2. Console Peasant
3. Lol, F...ing console players
4. My mum is looking for you?

Toodly pipsky old beans

I think my mum may be looking for you...
 
No need to understand me old bean.

Not even my Headmaster did, or the police, or Special Branch.

Insane, danger to the public, most likely to end humanity, blah, blah,blah.

All just words used to hold one back and make one feel a sense of guilt over the bodies.

Did one say bodies? One meant to say victims.

Did one say victims, one actually meant to say collateral damage.

Did one say collateral damage......

Well, I guess we all know where this conversation is going?

Tatty bye and may one also venture a stiff upper lip?

PS.
Those bodies are not mine and they were in the cellar when one moved here.

PPS.
Port and Cigars anyone?, Hmmm? No?
Yes thank you, spot on ole sport
 
I'll go for some Port and a Cubano if you have any to share please Lion?

As for expanding on something @Gully_Foyle said above, I guess it's possible that there is a stubborn piece of dust in your socket? Perhaps a small shriveled piece of a corpse?!

This might sound like I'm winding you up old chap, but I promise I'm not - find a paperclip and unfold it, then bend a piece of it back on itself sharply, so it's long enough to poke into your headphone socket to the bottom. Probably best to switch it off for this though!
Then get some sticky tape, and wrap it around the newly bent paperclip pokey thing, but wrapping it backwards on itself. It's a fiddly job, so you can pinch the starting end of it between the bit of paperclip that you bent back on itself (hope that makes sense).
Then, make several wraps of the tape onto itself, so the sticky bit is on the outside, but wrap tightly so it'll fit inside the jack socket.
Then you have a jack-cleaning pokey device, that you can use to gently poke in, and it should pull out any little bits of dust, body parts, or other carp that might be stuck in there.

It's a fiddly little gizmo, but only costs a couple of pennies, and may help out. It solved one of my old static headsets.

But from your description, I worry it might not be the answer sadly, as you mentioned hearing other voices on the static - were you around any combat areas, or using a fighter, or near a station, that could be faking a voice bleed through? Just a thought, but it could be part of it.

I hope this helps, although I suspect the issue you're describing is a little more complex. Especially as it coincides with the update perfectly. Anyhow, give it a go, will be interesting to see if it works.

I think sticky tape was around in the fourties so should be available, which is something. Good luck you old rascal, and hope it helps!! ;)
And 4 thargoids hearts.
He's got ash in his socket again!
 
Hello old beans,

Any of you Bally well fine Cmdrs getting any static on your headsets?

I seem to be getting quite a bit recently.

One is an Xbox One player.

Yes, I have tried different controllers, I own 7 of the Bally things, what what.

Any responses that do not include the following references would be greatly appreciated:

1. Get Gud
2. Console Peasant
3. Lol, F...ing console players
4. My mum is looking for you?

Toodly pipsky old beans

Try xbox settings (i.e. from dashboard) > network settings > alternate MAC> clear

Will trigger a reboot in the process. Can help clear up audio
 
Glad you like it...

...I see a lot of room for improvement in it, but I figure for just a bit of forum fun it's be good enough, to iron out the remaining niggles would be hours upon hours of work :-(
 
Hello old beans,

Any of you Bally well fine Cmdrs getting any static on your headsets?

I seem to be getting quite a bit recently.

One is an Xbox One player.

Yes, I have tried different controllers, I own 7 of the Bally things, what what.

Any responses that do not include the following references would be greatly appreciated:

1. Get Gud
2. Console Peasant
3. Lol, F...ing console players
4. My mum is looking for you?

Toodly pipsky old beans
Well bally Hell, me old feline- oriented Commander, I've been having a similar trouble to your fine self these past few days. As fellow appreciators of the Latest Liz, I think we can mutually agree that the crackles and pops emanating from our headsets are bloody well not quite up to snuff, wot? Our fine Mrs. Windsor would never allow such a thing! It really is to be met with sighs of disparagement - one should not be required to put up with the difficulties our lads faced in the Doubleyou-Doubleyou's.
In my experience, the sounds - to quote our Republican friends across the channel - of le cric crac croc seem to coincide directly with a rather insufferable and annoying lag that has been taking place in the game recently. Why - I can barely play the game while keeping this forum, the news, Youtube and a particular website which shall remain nameless but involves the participation of certain young people of the female persuasion with a significant dislike for clothing all running at the same time!
It truly is not to be bourne.
May I suggest, my leonine friend, you close all external apparatus...pardon me; external apps and filter out the Carriers which are quite common in these parts these days. The reduced load might have a beneficial effect on your game's lag - it has for me - and possibly take a second or two to sip a bit of tea once upon arriving? I'm not sure if it would help the old X-box, but it does on the PC. It really is a distressing condition - especially in the Rings, where I have been plying the old bang-and-grab, don'tcha know - but allowing the old box to load everything right after Jump seems to help a bit.


Ta!

Edit:
'Allo again old boy! OK - since we seemed to have similar issues, I spent some time looking at my PC and solved my own issue - it might perhaps help your Xbox.
Now - please understand I don't know anything about computers, but I do know machinery and a certain amount of electronics, so I merely apply what I know looking into this thing.
In my case, the issue was heat. This was a really great gaming PC a few years ago; it's now quite obsolete but I like it. :) I replaced the heat sink a couple of years back, solving an earlier problem when the first one crapped out. I'd also added a draw fan, built a plenum around the whole shebang and that puppy pumped the heat out like no-one's business - under heavy load (like combat in ED) it ran about 35 degrees. I just took it apart, scraped off the old grease, gave all the fans a good cleaning and polished up the CPU and heat sink's contact plate. Regreased, replaced the plenum and she's back to her old speedy 35 degree glory with no stuttering or crackling.
Your Xbox might need a good fan and heatsink cleaning - something to check, anyway.
Cheers, old chap!
 
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