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Friday, July 29, 2011

Just shoot me

I've been so busy I havent had a chance to even post anything here.  Its like workworkwork do shit at home and then zzzz.  Thankfully that'll be ending soon.  I actually did a pretty stupid thing.   When I timed out my 4 weeks noticed I actually screwed the dates. You'd think 12th of july to the 12 august was 4 weeks right?  Not if you hand it in on a monday and the day ending is a friday.  5 weeks.  So beginning of the week I was all WOO LAST WEEK NEXT WEEK went to OH FUCK OFF when I realised I had 2 weeks left.  I've played like 1 hour worth of games in the last week.  So not happy.

I managed to finally go to this new japanese restaurant that opened up nearby.  Went with a couple friends, we had heaps of fun eating and chatting with the owners.  Food was awesome.  So going back again.  I also finally, and when I say finally I mean FINALLY, after 15 years managed to decide on a bokken to purchase.  Its basically made of plastic but its as strong as steel, yet really light.  I forget the actual term for the material.  All I know is its brilliant.  You can smash bricks with it and it wont dent.  Heres a pic of me holding it.


Its about the length of a proper katana, supposedly same weight.  I havent held one in a while but from memory its pretty close.  Good thing about this one is I cant kill anyone with it.  But I can sure as hell do some damage.

Been so frustrated with my system.  It doesnt play Witcher 2 too smoothly despite the video card being beast.  My cpu is too old and finally showing its age, although its hammered everything I've thrown it over the past 4 years.  I'm going to need to replace it which means new motherboard and ram to go with it.  Despite working all the time its also pretty hard to justify spending what little money you have on things like this, although I'm going to try.  Doubly hard now that I'll be leaving my job.  I'd also like to rage at people who have more powerful systems then me, saved up more money then me, and dont have a job.  A giant fuck you.

Anyway, a super awesome thing happened the other day.  Jed finally showed me the latest comic page for our story, practically finished.  I totally love it.  He put in a few of my ideas but everything we put out is a merge of both our ideas.  I just need to write up the text for it tomorrow since I'll finally have time to actually sit down, and then have him go over it with any changes he'd like.  With any luck we'll be able to finally post it up in the next few days.  Definitely no later then this coming week.  I'm going to say wednesday MAX, unless our jobs fuck us over as usual.  I hope you all enjoy it and with luck we'll be able to put out the pages a bit faster.  One thing I'd really love to do down the road, if we get a few dozen pages up and its popular enough, is maybe have fan submissions like guest artists/writers just for fun.   Either way should be fun whatever happens.

27 comments:

  1. i'm saving up about $600 dollars to build my own rig soon :)

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  2. I don't trust you with a katana.

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  3. Wouldnt be a first lol.

    If you need any advice on selecting pc parts when you're about to buy them feel free to ask.

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  4. I was wondering when you would update again. I was expecting rumours about how you died fighting off a thousand Ninjas while sitting on your couch with a plate of cake on one hand and a fork in the other.

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  5. If I was holding cake then the ninjas attacked at the wrong time.

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  6. I would say "oooooh shiny!!" but it's not :(

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  7. Ha well, Ninjas can smell cake from up to 100 km away. I guess trying to fight a cake and bokken wielding madman was a mistake.

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  8. ... Okay I'll try..."ooooh shi-" nah I can't.... sorry

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  9. How much did it cost? And what site did you buy it from? I MUST HAVE IT.

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  10. con this is the build i was thinking of going
    LOGISYS Computer CS1200BK ATX Mid Tower Optimus All Black Gaming Case
    MSI 870-G45 AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
    MSI Twin Frozr II/OC Radeon HD 6770 1GB
    OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W Modular High Performance Power Supply
    AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition
    G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
    ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
    and a old 500GB Blue hard drive

    if you have any suggestions i would love to hear it but my
    main goal for this build was a cheap gaming rig for casual
    gaming i don't expect to play something like the witcher 2
    on it with like max setting or anything but this is only
    going to run me about $580 (US Dollars)

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  11. i should have mentioned i one day might swap the Graphics Card for something a little more powerful
    something like the MSI Hawk Radeon HD 6870 1GB but nothing too serious i just want something i can play stuff like Fallout New Vegas Bioshock and any other game that i like or have on console but not be burdened with load times

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  12. Jumpman, that question depends on what country you live it. Full name is Cold Steel Bokken Polypropylene. Amazon you can get it for like $28US or so. I think. Australia anwywhere between $50-$60


    That pc looks decent enough for medium to low end things. But to be honest I'm no fan of adm/ati combinations. If its possible I'd recommend saving up a little more to make the system more powerful. The better it is, the less money you spend in the short term future. You add a simple $200 to that and you can get a really good one that should last you 3 years at least playing things at max detail.

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  13. what would you recommend? in truth i have a hard time with choosing a Intel CPU there are too many and always something different with each one and i chose the 6770 graphics card because it was slightly OC was in my price range of what i can save (i'm going to have to save for months :(<--no job) and i have seen some good reviews on it but for now i just needed something to play some simple slightly older games that i enjoy i almost decided on the Asus GTX 550 which is about $20 more but better which would bring it to about $600 i was also hoping to get a good heat sink later on i was thinking the Cooler Master V6 GT any thoughts?

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  14. I wouldnt bother with a heatsink. The stock ones are actually very good. Its really hard to choose parts now if you dont plan to buy the system for a long while yet. For example the new AMD cpus are out next month, which means everythng else gets a discount. The Intel ones arent out till the end of the year at least. I'd also always choose an nvidia card mainly because their drivers have the least amount of issues with games and they also have physX effects. The gtx550 is a decent card.

    But yeah like I mentioned, best to start researching parts a few weeks before you plan to buy something. I know all about saving for something when you arent working. Thats how I saved up for my japan trip lol

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  15. If i find that katana i will duel u!

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  16. hm u wold win most likely though since u can beat ninjas to death lol i would die the first hit

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  18. i may just wait till those new CPU come out and try to dish out the extra $100 something dollars extra for a better CPU but like i said i'm not expecting to run anything too extreme most games that are coming out aren't really my thing most games i see today are all about the graphics and i'm not totally impressed by graphics alone but most people aren't but none the less thank you for your opinion in helping me make a better gaming rig i truly thank you and hope you the best of luck :)

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  19. I'm not all about the graphics either but theres that 1 or 2 games that you cant sidestep. Witcher 2 being one of them for me. But just remember the better MOST of your pc is now the less you spend in future.

    Too many people go out and buy an average pc saying they dont want to play anything at max, just to play. 2 years later their systems are crap and they dont bother upgrading because they think its too expensive and then just stick to xbox. Upgrading smart keeps you ahead and is also the cheaper option in the long run.

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  20. yeah i finally decided on the GTX 560 its powerful enough to play most things at max and i'm pretty sure it can run Witcher 2 at about max settings (or so i'm told) but i really do appreciate the help iv been battling with myself over what parts and if i want to wait and save more for a while now and you seem like the type of guy i can truly trust when it comes to this kinda stuff :)

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  21. You got plenty of time, no need to rush. The games will be always be there.

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  22. lol that katana reminds me of my friend shes just like you burning us getting WAY to trigger happy and will kill us for a katana shes a handful but yet its still fun

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  23. If she's hot and rich, or one of those two things, send her my contact details. Natural Born Killers is about to get a sequel!

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  24. What can I say, I'm a natural ladies man!

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  25. lol how did i know you were gonna say that about my friend i told her and she keeps saying im like con jr now burn! ugh but i finally got my revenge

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