I'm doing WTF XMFC math again. IMDB claims that Laurence Belcher played Charles as 12 in the 1944 sequence and that James McAvoy played him as 24 in the 1962 and on sequences. He would have been 29. At least. At most, he would have been 30. Because 1962-1944 is 18, not 10.
Okay, now I really am back. The PC is up and stable and the new watercooler a friend sent me (thank you!) is working. It definitely was the old fan that wasn't working.
Well. That didn't fix it. Anyone have a spare fan they can send me? Looks like my old system (which is, granted, something like 14 years old) is not compatible.
I may cry. My fan on my PC stopped working (it's an iBuypower water-cooler and it still goes through the motions, but it's no longer cooling), so I got some thermal paste to see if that was the problem. See inside for more of the tale of panic and woe.