tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33940649547239902392024-03-05T00:08:12.644-08:00Fist BumpEat Raw Meat. Punch a bear in the faceVlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.comBlogger841125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-68026191120306661592017-08-30T07:40:00.003-07:002017-08-30T07:40:37.187-07:00Current updateSo my job was supposed to end this friday and then I'd be able to go
back to playing 3 days a week with the others and streaming more. But
yesterday a different part of the government poached me so I'm signed up
for another 3 months. Not complaining, as if I play my cards right I
should be able to save up enough for a disney world trip next year!
Which means some videos created of the holiday with Jed, Austin and
Jonna and Cody and maybe not all of them I dont know, all depends how
free they are at the time. I'm sure we'd have plenty of time to
organize it. But yeah fingers crossed.<br />
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Theres a chance they might keep me longer but that depends n whether they can fit a new position in OR if the girl whos job I'm taking over decides to come back from her sudden almost 2months holiday that she told noone about and cant be contacted either. You'd think they'd fire her right? Oh no. Lets wait and see if she still wants her job. pffffffft. <br />
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Other side news, Jeds wife is in hospital getting her appendix out. Shes been running a high fever while there but I'm sure everything will go ok because it pretty much has to. When its all said and done I dont think the hospital bill will cheer him up either. Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-73644279302757266022017-07-22T03:47:00.000-07:002017-07-22T03:47:07.031-07:004 yearsThings have been a bit everywhere lately. Getting a new job last month but knowing next month is the end of my contract period is a real annoyance. Still trying to find something more long term so I can afford that disney world trip. Its always looking more and more like I'll never get to go because its just so bloody expensive.<br />
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For the moment though the only thing I'm thinking about is my cat who died 4 years ago today. The crippling grief I felt has finally passed, though it took a few years, and the only thing left is absolute emptiness and sadness. The only thing I have is being able to say hello to he spot I buried him when I leave or come back home since its near the stair case when I come in. I'm probably one of the few people that do something like this. Its pretty much a pointless effort and it makes me sad every time I do it, but I do it. And I dont expect to stop. If hes in some sort of fantastical spirit mode I like to think hes sitting there acknowledging me each time. If not. well, this world is as shit as I know it to be. Either way I'll keep on doing what I'm doing because thats just how I am.<br />
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<br />Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-88350584176924962972017-05-17T07:16:00.000-07:002017-05-17T07:16:11.893-07:00Further streaming plansSo the other day we all had a pretty fun time playing L4D. Jonna finally managed to join us and it was a blast. We're hoping she'll be able to join us again when shes next free, but that might not be for a couple weeks or so. Jeds planning to start streaming himself. His internet connection isnt the best so it cant really be game related unless its something very specific. But he'll be doing some drawing instead so you're free to chat with him while hes at it. You may even see him making some panels for our comic!<br />
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As for me I plan to do a little streaming too, now that my PC is working again. It'll be some random stuff, none of the big titles that everyone else streams. So with luck most of the week the channel will have someone streaming something. Jed on some afternoons, myself on some late late nights, and the weekends with all of us. There is a chance we might get slack now and then, but thats just how we are sadly.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-54130051863593057572017-03-06T09:11:00.003-08:002017-03-06T09:11:50.836-08:00And that is the end of thatCurrent update on my rubbish. Still havent figured out what cable I need for my video card. Got answers from some tech people, the videocard makers, but not the power supply makers who are being beyond annoying right now and slow. But in the end it doesnt really matter now because things have changed.<br />
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It seems the brother of the friend I norrowed the motherboard from wants it so he can upgrade his system. He doesnt know what his cpu is but his excuse is the system is 5 years old. This board I borrowed? Is 5 years old. I have no idea what hes expecting. Needless to say I have to waste my savings, little that they are now, to buy a new system.<br />
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I cant be stuffed buying a motherboard and installing everything again for a 4th time. And parts of whats left of my computer are starting to give me issues, like the usb slots on my case. So I'm just going to order a new setup and have the store put it together and test it out before sending it.<br />
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I had saved enough to keep me going and paying bills for this year if I had issues finding work. But once I buy this set up I'll have enough for about 4months. And then I'll be forced to go onto government support for money if I dont find a job by then. I absolutely detest doing it. Others have no problem. For me its humiliating and soul destroying. The last time I was on it I was hoping every day was the last day of life because I'd gone for a stupid length of time before I finally found work.<br />
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Hopefully I can find a job soon. Otherwise I see a very miserable and depressing future coming soon. On slightly more happier info, Jed and myself are going along quite nicely with our comic. Hopefully turns out entertaining.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-2793103592899989532017-02-27T10:35:00.000-08:002017-02-27T10:35:46.653-08:00Its not even funny now!!Most of you, or at least some of you, have known about my pc issues over the last 3-4months. It's kept me from playing a few weeks at a time. The previous one was my motherboard dying, which was the sole reason of all my pc issues over the past couple years. I had planned on upgrading, not last year but the year before that, to replace my 6 year old hardware, but money was a problem. I had placed my date for last year sometime. Managed to finally get a job I liked, and then bam! No more job as thats how the world seems to work for me. So pc upgrade was shifted to this year, realistically near the end of it. <br />
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Unfortunately my motherboard decided my plan sucks and couldnt hang on any more and died around december. Or january, I forget. Any way, as luck should have it my friend had a spare board that was in many ways similar to my current one so I went over his place and took it to test my system. Thankfully all worked fine. Obviously I still need to buy my own one, but right now I cant.<br />
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3 weeks ago by video card decided to finally say FUCK YOU and died also. That 560Ti had lasted me since 2011, ran plenty of games at high, it was a damn beast of a card. Whats amazing is one of its 2 fans died a couple years back or so, and the legend kept running with pretty low temperatures still. Truly a masterpiece of technology. I had planned on upgrading to the 970, but again money said no. I then planned on upgrading to the 1070 or 1080, money again said no. So I was hoping to wait till the new cards came out this year so that the older cards would go on a better discount. Well that plan went out the window too. <br />
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So this is the main reason you've been seeing spaced out uploads and much less streaming. Jeds also fairly here and there because of his kid and wife, and Austins usually busy with his channel. If all 3 of us arent on at the same time then we usually just give out couple days a week of gaming a pass. <br />
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I tried to see how long I could go before I could buy a new card and be up and running, seeing my choices with the limited money I had etc. The cheapest decent card to upgrade to would be the 1060. Anything below that would be a waste of money as I'd replace it in a couple years anyway. I dont like the temporary card stuff. I buy for long run. I finally snapped and decided the 1060 would have to do, and the thing can go on my savings which arent much and I was hpoing to keep them aside for important stuff like bills and food until I found a new job. This bloody back injury is taking longer than I hoped to get better so I havent been applying for things, but hopefully that will change soon.<br />
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Anyway, the 1060 in my area costs around $460 This is still a bit brutal as I had expected by now it would be lower. I noticed amazon were having a special sale, something like 40 or or whatever, $260US. With postage and converted into my currency, it would be around 360. I thought that was too good to ignore. Because it seriously is. No way will that card be anywhere near 360 here for the next year or so.<br />
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And this is the reason why you havent seen us on, especially the last couple weeks.<br />
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Now as for the card I finally received it a week and a half ago. I had planned on installing it and being ready the the previous weekend that just passed. But my plans were screwed because I dont have the correct cable to connect it to my power supply which is like 8 years old or something. Yes, most of my pc is old because I'm a poor poor POOR bastard who cant even afford a fucking disney land trip despite aiming for one over the past couple years. But thats another story for another time. But mark my words, I WILL ride those damn teacups before I die.<br />
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I wasnt sure what cable I needed because this card has an 8pin cable port. My power supply has 2 6pin outputs for video cards. So my thinking was a 6pin to 8pin cable should be fine. But then I thought maybe it wont have enough power and might need 2x 6pin to 1 8pin cable. My previous card had 2 6pin ports so I needed a cable from both 6pin ports on the power supply because 1 wouldnt give enough power.<br />
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Anyway I emailed my videocard creator, my powersupply creator, and a tech board I'm used to. Tech board said 6 to 8 is all I need. Video card said 2x6 to 8. So I'm like ok this is going well. PSU people? No reply yet. So I called them up and the lady who picked up said the tech guy, who happens to be the ONLY FUCKING TECH GUY FOR THE ENTIRE COMPANY FOR ALL AUSTRALIA, was on holiday and wont be back for a couple days. I was absolutely stunned. Asked her how can he be on holiday without a replacement? She said he has a replacement, but hes not a tech guy to help me. Pretty USELESS replacement. I asked her if theres any other branch somewhere I can message. She said yes, I can contact the main headquarters in taiwan. I said brilliant, whats the email. She gave me it then said, btw they're on a holiday there for the next couple days. My jaw dropped.<br />
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Sp long story short, my plans for getting up and running for next weekend are completely out, and I'm hoping to make the following one after once I know wtf I'm buying. Cable is going to cost me about $30 so yeah, I'm exactly running blindly into this. And so because of this you wont see us for a little bit longer. Doing my best to change this. But I wanted to thank you all for somehow enjoying our stuff enough to want to follow and support us. We're not super hardcore like all the other channels and streamers, but we do our best with the limited time some of us have. <br />
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Again, we love and appreciate the bloody lot of you. Thanks for still being here with us.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-20359505136444483652017-02-15T13:40:00.000-08:002017-02-15T13:40:05.938-08:00Well done PC. Well done..So by now everyone knows about my pc issues and how my motherboard finally died. Thankfully my friend had a spare board and let me take it to see if my pc would run again since I cant afford a new board right now. Thankfully it worked. Everything was going smoothly for a couple weeks until........ the video card died.<br />
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Thats right. My card decided that today on our lord gpus 6th year of life, it was time to say fuck you and finally die. To be fair I'm surprised its lasted this long since one of its 2 fans hasnt worked for the past couple years. Though the temps were always good despite this.. Testament to MSI's amazing gaming series of cards. I had planned on upgrading back when the 970 came out but couldnt afford it. My next plan was the 1070, but again couldnt afford it. I was hoping my aging 560Ti could make it to the end of the year in hopes I could afford it then. Sadly I wasnt given that luxury and now I'm without a gaming computer. The only reason I'm online at all is because the cpu has a built in graphics card. So its fine for anything except for games. Well, it can play some things in potato quality, but its beyond shit. Whats sadder is my phone can handle graphics 6 times above what this joke can do. But at least I can get on the internet and edit videos I have saved up.<br />
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Because of this set back I'm not sure when I'll be able to stream again or play anything because I really cant afford to buy anything. I guess its good I didnt buy For Honour, since I wouldnt be able to play it. Of course I didnt buy it because I cant afford it. SEE A PATTERN!?<br />
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I'll just spend my time making blog posts and uploading videos to the youtube channel and also the patreon. Keep me from snapping and shooting up the entire country. Not that I can afford a gun. I'll just make shooting sounds. Probably cant afford those either.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-52141036810890462312017-01-27T13:06:00.003-08:002017-01-27T13:06:36.708-08:00Oh So BrilliantLets see... Oh yes. This is to let you all know that Jed and myself have been working on a comic. BUT CON!! I hear you shrill! We already know you were both working on a comic! There are some pages linked on the blog!! <br />
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Yes this is true my delicious little tramps. However we've decided to turn that into a proper comic. None of this 3-4 panel web comic shit. Its going to be a proper comic full of adventure and romance! And by romance I mean there will be cleavage. Its going to have those two same characters and some of the panels we put up will be reused and incorporated into this new format. But there will also be some changes. We're hoping to get to around 40-50 pages before we look it over and decide if we're happy with it before we start showing it off. Obviously this will take a while depending on how slack I am and how busy Jed is. But fingers crossed it goes well and we dont lose interest like last time.<br />
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I also finally went out and bought a new light for my room. I'll be installing it sometime next week. Hopefully It'll give me much more light. Maybe my webcam will like it more and I might use it now and then. And I finally got my Skeletor statue out on display. Heres a dodgy photo of it. I'll be making a video of it a little down the ways with some proper high quality photos and putting it onto the patreon. I absolutely love it. Wish it was larger though because it would really show off all the insane detail. It's about 21" tall, although thats the tip of the staff.. The head is probably around 17-18". It's still a great size. I look forward to getting Evil Lyn and putting her next to him!<br />
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<br />Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-21643754880034395632017-01-13T08:30:00.000-08:002017-01-13T08:30:04.299-08:00The back is not pleasedOne of the latest things with me has been a newfound hate I have for my old injured back. Back when I was 21 I lifted something far heavier than I should have and far too quickly because my boss was being an absolute cunt. I felt a little twinge in my lower back which later turned into stupid pain. Typical nerve damage. I was actually surprised to find out quite a few people I know have the same problem.<br />
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Any way the pain is brutal and it screwed me for years. Only 5 years ago I found a simple back exercise that would counter all pain so I wouldnt feel it again. Problem is I need to do it once every couple weeks to keep it good. Sadly people get lazy. No pain, no problem. I'd go for months without doing it and suddenly be all OMG the pain is there again, like this should be a surprise.<br />
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Normally the pain has always focused on the lower back, which made simple things like leaning slightly over the sink while brushing teeth, picking something off the floor, or even getting out of bed an absolute nightmare for a few weeks till my exercises did their thing. This time it did something completely new. The back pain was there again. But I could feel the nerve that got screwed deciding to do something new.<br />
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You know when you pinch that nerve that in the back of your shoulder blade or neck, and you just cant turn your head without crying? I got that in my lower back. But it decided to move more to my hip which was totally new. This caused a knock on effect. My legs from my thighs to my calfs, were SCREAMING in pain. Like I'd walked for 2 days straight and then had them set on fire. I'd never experienced anything like this before. Standing was very painful. Sitting was more horrible. But lying down? Impossible. I couldnt even sleep because of the pain. And my pain threshold is stupidly high which says something.<br />
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After about 3 days of this and 2-3 hours of sleep at best, I decided to take some painkillers. This is something I never do. Not even if my head is exploding with the mother of all headaches. I've probably taken some once in the last 5 years. I wasnt expecting anything since they're just standard. But much to my surprise after about 20min the pain went away. It would only last half the day so twice a day I was taking them. I guess since I never take them their strength is full power for me. Unlike my mum who eats them every day at the smallest pain she gets. <br />
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I did this for about 3-4 days which really helped. For the past 2 days I've taken none. The pain is still there, but its much less now, so my exercises seem to be shifting into gear finally. I can still feel the issue which makes me worry that the nerve is still fucked off and could be triggered into being stupid again if I do the slightest wrong thing. One of the strangest things though was losing my flexibility. The day before my body died, I could easily do the splits. Martial arts history blahblahblah. Now I cant even lean over slightly with my legs straight. Its like all my muscles have clenched up and refuse to do anything. I'll wait another week and give myself more time to heal before I try and test out my flexibility again and see if its come back. It pisses me off because it takes months of daily stretches and I'll rage if all that effort has been wasted. At least I'm not feeling completely suicidal anymore. That pain was something you could only read in legends.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-72238437524277114682017-01-11T22:12:00.000-08:002017-01-11T22:12:01.084-08:00A generous long pauseWell that was almost 2 months since my last update. Guess I have a few things to put down this time. Mind you there hasnt been that much good to bother posting about. A month back my pc decided to just implode on itself. Bluescreen crash and then refused to boot up into windows again. Just reset loop of hell every 5 seconds, I figured my faulty SSD had finally decided to pass on. The things been screwy for the past 3 years. Pretty impressive considering its 5 years old and only has a 1 year life expectancy. So I pulled it out and replaced it with one I bought a year and a half back, during a time I thought it was about to die since my pc kept freezing twice a day. Weirdly it started to behave when the replacement came in so I never bothered to install it because of laziness mixed with paranoia.<br />
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But moving on, I put the new drive in and thought this might be a good time to install windows 10 since almost everyone has been positive about it and it was a free update. One thing I hate doing is reinstalling windows. Something always goes wrong when I do. So I'm going along, installing the programs I need to get me going. And slowly but surely I'm starting to notice small things that arent right. And some big things. One of them was whenever I recorded or streamed, peoples voices would sound a little hollow and with a bit of an echo. It was very annoying. Didnt matter if I was using teamspeak, discord, whatever. The other persons voice was always dodgy. So I spent a couple weeks troubleshooting with my own knowledge and then scouring the internet for people with the same issues. Nothing seemed to fix it. Another issue I had was some of my motherboard utilities wouldnt work with win10, which was an extremely annoying thing. Especially since I'd gotten another bluescreen while playing a game to test. Also my mic, if I were to mute myself for a little and then unmute, it would keep me muted until I unplugged it and plugged it back in again. Streaming to twitch wasnt working properly either. The quality went to hell and the stream kept break all the time. It was infuriating.<br />
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There were a few other things that slowed me down as I tried to fix this or that. In the end I decided to reinstall win7 thinking this would sot out my issues. I did like a few things about 10 but since I couldnt fix anything I was pretty much forced to go back. Unfortunately some of my problems were still there. Primarily the voice echo. After another week or so of trying to sort it out, I finally fixed it. How? Logitech had changed their drivers last year when their contract with ScreamingBee ended. Which meant a few voice altering modules were removed. When I reverted back to a driver that had these still, the echo was gone. So I'm super happy. Streamiing works again and all my drivers are back on. Though I am getting an annoying bug when I launch the OBS software to stream. It auto lowers my volume down to 10%, which makes no sense. I can live with it if I cant figure out how to fix it. <br />
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I did get another bluescreen so this got me paranoid. I stress tested my memory which came up fine. So I thought maybe its a windows thing since it hadnt updated fully because microsoft purposely broke the update feature to force people to move onto 10. So I had to manually download a crapload of them. A few days later I got the crash and reset loop issue again. I got my system working again by unplugging the SSD and plugging it back in again. So this cancelled out any theory about damaged ram. My guess is my motherboard must be faulty. My system is going on 6 years old now so its no surprise. But I cant afford to upgrade anything so I'll just have to grin and bare it for a while and just hope it doesnt die.<br />
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I havent installed everything yet since I'm moving slowly, and I really hope my editing software doesnt give me any freak issues. But what I've learned from this is if you have an older system, dont update to windows 10. All the people I know who have it and love it have upgraded their motherboard in the last couple years. People with fairly older ones have issues because the drivers and such dont seem to get updated. After a month of stress it seems to be ok now. This is the reason I havent updated the youtube channel. Super sorry. Should be back to normal now. Theres a bunch of other stuff I wanted to post but I'll wait a couple days before putting that up. This page is already long enough. Thanks for reading!Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-40508923757323546412016-11-17T03:44:00.000-08:002016-11-17T03:44:26.863-08:00A Breeding ground of sicknessThats pretty much the best description I can give of my workplace. Someone is always sick. And not just 1 or 2. Generally its a few. And they are ALWAYS sick. They stay sick for like 2-3 weeks. When they get better, someone else has the sickness. A couple weeks later? You guessed it. They're sick again. In the almost 5 months I've been working there, everyone has been sick at least twice. Me? I've been managing to hold my own and not catch anything because I'm psychotic when it comes to cleanliness. I have antibacterial wipes, hand wash, everything. They touch something near me, wipe it down.<br />
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This week, my second last week there, everything changed. I finally caught their diseases. I rarely get sick. My problem is my lack of sleep has helped me catch this. I only get like 3-4 hours normally. Its just how I am. Now that I'm sick I'm waking up every hour or 2, so I'm getting even less. All week I've felt it burn up in the evening, but the next day feel like its gone. Today though was a whole different story. Nose, throat, cough, all of it. Absolutely pissed. One of the girls at work asked me if I caught a cold off such and such. I said no. I've caught it off EVERYONE. Obviously I'm not happy.<br />
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Tomorrow is friday, and I'm calling in sick because fuck it. It'll be my first day off in 5 months compared to everyone there who have had 2-3 weeks off for sickness each. Next weeks my last week. And lets be honest. Who the fuck am I even going to impress. They're all on permanent contracts, spent large parts of the day just chatting away. Meanwhile I'm doing my work and chatting little. But thats just how it is. This is how it always is for me.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-35495082799794271802016-11-12T05:26:00.000-08:002016-11-12T05:26:26.905-08:00I cant fucking do thisYou know you go through things that arent good, and you get to a point where you're just numb to them and expect them to happen and just say oh well fuck the world and keep going. Thats me on a daily basis. With the added in bit of hoping a truck takes me out sooner or later.<br />
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But then this sort of BULLSHIT happens and I just cant handle it. My favourite manga creator Izumi Matsumoto, is dying. He created Kimagure Orange Road, my absolute favourite manga of all time. I've seen the tv series probably 4 times through. The only other celebrity who died that upset me this much was Christopher Lee. Admittedly, Lee was probably 10 times worse for me, but someone would have to be second place after him. There are very VERY few people who will upset me when they pass on. I can probably count them on 1 hand.<br />
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So yeah. Fucking saddened by this. And just to rub salt in the wounds, I found this fucking kickstarter that had gone up last april and didnt even know about it!!!!!<br />
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So many things I would have wanted from there. I probably would of gotten the $900 tier for sure. Would have loved to do the $1450 to get the sketch done by him but thats a big jump that at the time I dont think I could have afforded. To be fair the $900 would of been out of my budget but I would of closed my eyes and gone for it. Its like the world is constantly wanting to fuck me over. The past couple months have been absolutely bullshit for me. But what can you do. Roll over and let the rest come again.<br />
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I will absolutely miss this guy. He created something magical for me that even to this day I still love to death. I look forward to getting my hands on those omnibus volumes, which I'm blindly believing will go retail with luck, and if the gods are kind they will finally bring out the KOR series on bluray because of his passing. He'll always be a legend to me.<br />
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In other news my friend Royce has been heckling me into writing out my story ideas and getting an artist to commission them into a comic book and putting them up on indiegogo/kickstarter since there seem to be heaps of comics getting funded that look rubbish. I'll admit I'm seriously thinking about it and sorting out my current ideas into a more fleshed out order. I originally had them as stories for books, so it'll take a little tweaking to get them as a comic. But if I do go ahead with it I'll put up details here about some of the ideas. If I dont get extended then I'm 100% doing it since I'll have nothing to do and will need to keep my mind away from suicide lolololVlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-29143375888145762062016-09-10T08:58:00.006-07:002016-09-10T08:58:55.668-07:00Blast from the pastThis has been an interesting week for me. But the highlight was getting in touch with a friend I havent spoken to in 25 years. See, next month my high school reunion is happening. Obviously I'm not going because fuck people. I'm not one for gatherings. But going through the facebook page thats been set up for it I decided to see how everyone I knew has been faring. Then I noticed the name of one person who I have always wanted to track down but never could. This is the brief story of a girl who was not only my first love, but also my best friend in highschool.<br />
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We used to spend heaps of time together. Most times I'd walk her home after school, we'd meet up on weekends to go to the library for study, go to places to eat, visit the cinema etc. We never dated, though I could have easily if I wanted to. But I was more happy having her as a friend. Now the problem with this is some others were annoyed by me. She was one of the popular girls, and there were guys who were interested in her and saw me as a constant blockade. I remember one time 3 of them cornered me and told me to either ask her out or stop hanging out with her so much because noone could approach her. Told them shes a friend, they can go ahead and ask her out, nothing to do with me. Clearly this didnt make me too popular with some people. But fuck them.<br />
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Anyway, the last 2 times we spoke were pretty memorable. I'll start with the final. Walking her home from school, suddenly she turns on me and just loses it. I was like wtf. She started yelling at me saying how she couldnt believe I hadnt asked her out to the graduation, similar to a prom for my american friends. Another friend of mine had asked her to it and she had accepted. Berated me how she was expecting me to ask her, how her parents were even expecting it too. In all honesty I didnt want a date for it. I was happy to go with friends and just do my own thing, not be dragged around for dances and have to focus on one person only. So for me it was a bit of a relief someone had asked her as I was expecting on the final day to just be automatically nominated by her whether I wanted to or not. A weird thing to feel towards the girl you were in love with. But thats me.<br />
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So the second final time we spoke was the catalyst for everything. I was at home doing something or other when the phone rang. I picked it up and on the other end I could hear her crying. She was over a friend of ours house and apparently he had told her I'd called her a bunch of bad things, like slut etc. So shes sobbing and asking how could I say such things, she thought we were friends etcetc. Through the entire tirade my brain was working furiously. Had I said these things? Did I say them and just forget? Surely I must have if shes crying like this. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that not even offhandedly had I said any of this. Then I realized what was really happening. One of my best friends had decided to stab me in the back because he was interested in her. This was betrayal of the highest order. And thats when everything changed for me.<br />
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I finally answered her by admitting I'd said those things. I was done. As heart wrenching as what was happening, I was over it and didnt need any more drama that highschool brought. When she got off my friend hopped on and his tone, which I still remember to this day with absolute fury, was almost accusing. Shes crying, he said. Those things you called her were really uncalled for, he said. At the time I couldnt believe it. I questioned myself again. Had I said them after all since he sounded so sure of himself. Was he maybe misunderstanding or mishearing something I'd said casually. No. By now I was 100% certain. Fuck you I thought. I told him to make sure he kept her happy. And then I hung up and went andlocked myself up in my room with whatever was left of my shattered mind. Funnily enough they broke up a couple months or so later. At least thats what I recall. I'm not completely sure since we didnt hang out after that again. He tried to keep in contact with me, but after a little realized I wanted nothing to do with him.<br />
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It was pretty much on that day when I realized, despite my positive outlook on everything, that people sucked and majority of them were fake. It took a couple years more before I'd fully cursed the world and everything in it. My profiling of people became inhumanly accurate. I would always have friends asking me for advice on things or relationships, because my brain had somehow evolved to see past all the layers of bullshit. Even to this day a friend of mine showed me pictures of 3 guys she was sort of interested in. I told her what I expected each one of them to be like, down to 1 of them most likely having the ability to cheat. She was floored since that guy, who looked fairly normal in his photo, had cheated on a previous girlfriend. Which made me ask the question, why the fuck are you even interested in him to begin with. But then I realized people just love drama.<br />
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Any way, after graduation which was year 10, we all went to a new school that covered years 11-12, and then followed onto university. We ended p never speaking again. She found a new circle of friends and I lost all contact. I've always wanted to tell her that I never said any of those things. Its been smashing around in my head frequently since then. One of those moments where you wonder how things would of been had you said or not said something, and wanting to rewind the clock. I'm still content with what I did. What I'm not happy about is not having the chance to tell her later that it never happened. So when I saw her name on the facebook post I decided to message her a couple months later. I had to gather my courage. After all what sort of reaction would I expect? Anger? Indifference? Could be anything. But I'd decided it didnt matter. I needed to do this for myself, to finally get it out of my system so I could move on. Amazingly enough she was outright shocked.<br />
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I wont paste up the entire conversation, but these are a few lines from it just for gossip sake - 'Omg....I don't know what to say....you were my closest friend in high school the one person I thought would be there always......You made high school bearable, it was us against the school......I remember the break before we started Year 11 and you turned to me and said that things would change and I was like no it won't it will be fine....Lets get together sooner rather than later. Free most weekends, would love to catch up on the last 25 years.''<br />
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So yeah, I was pretty made up with that. Easily the best reaction I could of hoped for. In case you're wondering, yes shes married and has a couple kids. So no, I will not be doing some bullshit romcom movie style of finding my highschool sweet heart and marrying her. Because that stuff never happens. But I hear you ask, what if she were single? Would I have followed through with anything? No, I would not. Many years ago I chose friendship. I'm still happy with that choice and dont regret anything. Logic states I'd still be happy to continue that trend.<br />
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So thats my big thing. Your eyes are probably broken from reading so much. If they are, I encourage you to abuse Jed. Abuse him thoroughly. And tell him I sent you. I think next weekend is when we'll probably meet up so that should be fun. At least conversation wont be boring. We have 25 years to catch up on.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-23164756801473770522016-08-17T08:19:00.001-07:002016-08-17T08:19:28.660-07:00I really should update moreSo I took a little break. 22rd of last month was 3 years to the day my cat passed. So I was in my own little world for the past few weeks. The only reason I didnt go completely catatonic like I usually do is because I've been working so slightly distracted. Sadly its affected my concentration at work and my level of stuffs have been a little mediocre. Will be snapping out of it after this week and going for gold. The one irritating thing about work is that I'm having to be around people. And you all know how I just loathe that. For the first time in many years I've found myself thinking maybe a girlfriend might be a good idea. Bullshit right? This isnt me. Need to do something about this new broken thinking.<br />
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One thing I must share is one of my trainers at work Sonia, in the middle of being trained she said she thought I was familiar when she first saw me and then said its because she saw my blog years back. Obviously this floored me. She mentioned about the update long ago where myself and a couple friends cosplayed as GI Joe characters, and then said she was into cosplaying and creating her own outfits. I mean I know quite a few cosplayers, but I didnt know anyone who actually made outfits so this was very cool. I checked out her blog and found this.<br />
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She made that. Ridiculous talent right? Looks completely professional. The most I ever managed to create out of a needle and thread was a pillow case. And I dont think it could be described as a pillow case. Thats far too flattering for it. She also does things like this for childrens parties...<br />
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Tell me that doesnt just blow your mind. Balloon characters. First thing that came to mind was the character Skuld. But thats me. Right now she isnt doing much of these types of things cause shes about to have a baby, which is pretty amazing. So she'll be taking a break for a bit. If you want to see her blog heres the link-<br />
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So whats new with me... Oh, I got a new addition to my Ariel family.<br />
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I've also finally done it. After 5+ years of looking for a camera, I have finally chosen one. Had my eye on it before it came out, and the reviews and features sold it for me. And this is after watching many videos, looking and reading many website reviews and photo displays etc, no rushing into this. Its the Panasonic GX85. The deal came with 3 lenses which was super good and saved me like probably $400. Pretty good considering it only came out in April. Sadly they havent sent it yet and its been over a week. Most likely stock issues. Very frustrating because I need this damn thing. I need to learn it inside out so I can start taking some cool pictures and be prepared for Disney Land/World next year. Again, only happening if I dont lose my job by then. So you never know really.<br />
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Anyway almost 1am and I have to be up in 5 hours. I'll add more possibly tomorrow. As well as upload a new video. By tomorrow I pretty much mean tonight. No promises cause I'm shit at keeping time.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-25315106125904370362016-07-21T06:06:00.002-07:002016-07-21T06:09:35.593-07:00Disney is doneSo I finally got all the disney statues I REALLY wanted. Passed on a few because of the standard reasons like lack of space, lack of money, only a big fan of a few select characters instead of the entire range, etcetc. I went after the 3 main ones I love. Ariel, Maleficent, and Belle. I got a couple others like Aurora and Anna because I loved those designs of them, and an Elsa that actually looked good so Anna wouldnt feel alone. She wouldnt though since she has Ariel to keep her company. Anyway here it is!<br />
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Clearly my favourite is Ariel. Thats a given since shes the best. The large Maleficent I have wanted for a very long time. I love the classic animated look and this statue was amazing. I only got the Jolieficent one because I thought the design for it was excellent. Plus she was awesome as her. Still PISSED they turned the greatest villain disney had into a good character, but I still enjoyed the movie heaps. I just see it as an alternate reality version of her. She doesnt need a love story to show why shes evil. Shes just evil. Theres no other reason other than she just wants to fuck the entire world over.</div>
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The beauty and the best one in the lower left corner thats on a little stand, thats also a music box which I thought was pretty cool. I was also not expecting the top left one of her to be so huge when it came in. I'm just glad I could fit them all onto my shelves. Dont think I'll collect any more for a long time since I've taken up 2 shelves already. They'll have to be something special. But I'm still prepared to buy more Ariels since I'm biased to the core for her.</div>
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Now that I'm done I'll have to work on my Alien shelf. Bit annoyed I need to wait till september for a couple things to come out that I need badly to complete my childhood wants. Plus Hot Toys Ripley end of the year. Cant wait. But yeah, getting that 1 step closer to looking around my room and just seeing happiness all around.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-56763882091342560202016-06-14T13:05:00.001-07:002016-06-14T13:05:24.444-07:00PC scared meThe other night my pc did something very special. It froze. Its been quite a while since it last did that so it was a bit of a surprise. But it was a hard freeze. So I had to hold the power button down for a while and hard reset. Half hour later or so, it froze again. This time when I restarted it the thing did something frightening. It would load for 3seconds, make a little beep, then reset. And continue until I hard reset it. It just wouldnt stop this cycle. So I'm thinking omg what if my motherboard or cpu is finally dead. I mean this pc is getting on in years. Maybe if I'm lucky its the ram. But its hard to pinpoint.<br />
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So the next day I got up and took the system outside, used a hairdryer to blow out as much dust as I could. Figured a good clean would be worth it since its been ages. After that my plan was to remove everything and plug them in one at a time to see what might be broken. Removed the video card and unplugged the hdds inside. I know my SSD drive is faulty so that was in the back of my mind, Decided to be a liiiiiittle lazy and leave the cpu and ram in. Turned it on, worked fine. There goes my original theory of mboard, ram, or possibly cpu being broken. Plugged the hdd in, turned on again fine. Plugged in all my hdds and the system still turned on without a problem.<br />
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So now I'm wondering wtf could of caused this. I have a suspicion one of my front usb slots could be faulty. Could have caused the reset and then some kind of weird...SOMETHING. I'll be avoiding that slot from now on and seeing if it'll happen again.<br />
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One thing I discovered though was 1 of the 2 fans on my video card doesnt spin anymore. Not going to lie, I knew -A- fan in my system was having issues since I'd hear it whirr everytime I turned my pc on. But couldnt figure out which one it was. Havent heard the sound in a while now. I guess I know why. I did decide to check my computers temps just to be on the safe side. CPU and GPU temps were fine even after playing games for a couple hours. So that was encouraging.<br />
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Will admit I was a little frustrated before all this since I thought I'd have to buy a new system. Mainly because its just getting so old. I mean a 560ti video card is like 5 years old. Everything else inside even older. The annoying thing is I definitely cant afford it right now so I was preparing to go into a vicious amount of debt. But thankfully I'm sparred this for a little while longer. Lets see how far I can go. With luck, another year. By then I'll be needing to upgrade for sure. Most games run quite well on high. Some on max, some on medium. But come next year I think I may start to struggle.<br />
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But yeah. Things are positive for the moment.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-31429736587368779912016-05-19T14:33:00.003-07:002016-05-19T14:33:42.356-07:00Eeeeee new star trek series!So excited! You know people used to ask me what do I like more, star trek or star wars. I really couldnt say since I like scifi lots and I'm pretty much there if theres space ships etc. Then I look over and notice my ST Original series bluray set, TNG bluray set, and the Enterprise bluray set. Plus all the movies and the new movies too. And despite liking star wars, well some of them, I dont own anything except a storm trooper pop figure. Still didnt really click. Then I saw the teaser for the new star trek tv series and omg I got super excited. So I guess I prefer star trek. Mind you its unfair to compare since its a tv series which means theres heaps more enjoyment. I mean I've loved the Clone Wars and now Rebels star wars series. Yeah, I think I like quantity. With lasers.<br />
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At the moment I'm putting together some tiers for the new patreon...uh...tiers. To be honest I'm completely unsure about a couple of them, but oh well. The 3 of us have come up with some ideas to start off with and we'll probably alter and add stuff down the track via feedback from everyone. <br />
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So I wanted to take a moment and bring up some crap news. Jeds car absolutely died the other day. Needless to say he's feeling pretty bummed out over it which is no surprise. Now this wouldnt be such a big issue if he wasnt already paying off an obscenely high hospital bill he was saddled with when the doctors almost accidentally killed his wife during child birth because they're fucking inept at their jobs. But thats something to rant about over another time.<br />
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Anyway, one thing about Jed and myself is that we dont like to ask for help from others. We're too proud and stubborn and set in our ways. So I'm going to do this for him, despite being uncomfortable about it, because I'm a bro. And bros do things for bros. Even when it isnt a safe or smart thing to do. Tag-Rock throwing in the part, asked my friends? SURE I replied!<br />
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So if anyone wants to offer Jed any help by donating a few dollars to help him out with his car troubles, that would be beyond amazing. You can either click the button here or any of the donate options on the youtube page or twitch channel. I'm sure he'll personally thank anyone who donates, after I get a little bit of an earful from his prideful loud outside voice for doing this. I'll be hearing it any way since I'll be tossing him my share of the patreon money for the next couple months or so to help him out since I'm not working currently and thats the best I can manage. But yeah, thanks for any support with this. And bless your little pretty faces.Vlahkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01599020459768244337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3394064954723990239.post-60101888041808781302016-04-23T13:58:00.000-07:002016-04-23T13:58:33.528-07:00Good and BadSo this week has been productive. Finally had a job interview in a branch of the government that I've been trying to get to for years. Thankfully I had a little help in getting it since I have a friend that works there and is in the recruiting section also. Funny thing about Australia, or maybe everywhere I guess as I expect people dont like saying it, the government sector here is heavily biased towards women. People like to scoff when I say this but any time I tell them to go to an office and start counting the employees to see the male to female ratio, they refuse. Probably because they dont like reality going against what they believe.<br />
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Any way, before I went in I asked her on the phone how many guys are in her section, just for fun. She said 0. That actually surprised me since I was expecting 2-4 out of a couple dozen. But yeah, 0. So I get there and around the buildings outside I just see women. People walking out of the buildings, women. People getting out of cars, women. Not going to lie, I felt a little weird. Like I'd just stumbled into an amazonian settlement. She left me inside and it was her and 2 other women interviewing me. She didnt ask any questions thankfully and I'm guessing she told her boss and the other lady she wouldnt because it would just get way too awkward. Everything went fine and out the door I went. Now heres the super funny bit. As I step out the door of the building someone calls to me. Its a man. It also happens to be a friend I hadnt seen in over 15 years. So that pretty much floored me.<br />
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So by next friday I should find out whether I'll be working in an office thats completely filled with women. Not gonna lie, my biggest fear will be if multiple girls have synchronized PMS days. Pray for me...<br />
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Also I cut myself earlier when shaving. Just a small cut. But this cut is the douche of all cuts. It just WONT stop bleeding. I pressed a tissue to it for a while, nothing. Did that dodgy cut a little piece of tissue and stick it to it, pulled it off after 20min, still bleeding. So I firmly pressed a tissue to my face for an hour. The area went numb. The bleeding has finally stopped. Will do my best not to make any suddeny facial motions till tomorrow. Luckily I'll be going to sleep soon so I should be good. Wont shave tomorrow to allow it to heal a bit more. Maybe I'll leave it for a couple days. Stupid thing! I should laser my face so I never have to shave again. Again, pray for me.<br />
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So the people call me back and tell me....that the battery was flat and they jump started it first try. How the fuck. How the actual fuck! Between my dad and myself we've owned half a dozen cars over the past 40 years. Jump starting a car is childs play. But oh no. The god of cars has his eye on me, and hes being an absolute douche. I should probably make a nickname for him since hes been stalking me for the past year. But I cant think up anything better than cuntface.<br />
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Two? TWO?!?!! A mid 80s show suddenly gets TWO for no reason! And thats when I realized that laugh was god. He knew I wouldnt pass up the first one, but decided no, I'm going to break him. And then there were two. Even I know my limits. I definitely can not afford this right now. I have been beaten. Thankfully this one doesnt come out till september, supposedly, so hopefully it wont sell out before I can get the money together for it like the first one, which is sold out almost everywhere and not out till the end of the month. A little surprised they went with 2 bikini's and not something different. I tell you if they release the 3 characters together I'm going to go absolutely mental and probably kill someone for money.<br />
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I do many things for them, and some of them are errands for my mum and taking her to places since she never had the courage to learn to drive. And with dad having some eye problems over the past half year (nothing serious, getting better), he hasnt been driving too much either. They kept hassling me to let them buy me a car. I kept refusing. My mum is just a housewife and my dad retired last year, so its not like they're swimming in money to just throw towards a car when I'm not working either. So I held off for 6-7months or whatever. Last month I finally caved and with immense disgust in myself allowed them to buy one of my choosing.<br />
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A 2014 Nissan Pulsar ST. Its not brand new, but considering its only a year and a half old and only done 45,000km, it was pretty good. Also saved us 5grand off the price of a new one. It might not be much considering, but when 10k was the limit we originally wanted to spend, 15k is a huge jump. But the rest of the cars just didnt have what I was after in terms of reliability, handling, and transmission. It was either this or a 2012 Corolla, which is a great car also. But the gear shifting mechanism they used is just really weird for me. <br />
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Seriously look at that. I already know I'll screw it up at some stage and shift one too far up or down and the car will do what I'm not expecting. I know the limits of my brain when it comes to adapting. This is one challenge it would fail. I did a test drive anyway to see what it felt like. Definitely not for me. Although the car itself felt great. Some other cars were fairly crap. The Mazda M3 was pretty excellent too.<br />
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Anyway, the funny thing about this car is that its a pulsar, had 45k on the distance travelled, and was $15k. My previous car was a pulsar, had 45k distance travelled, and cost $15k. So I guess sentimentality gave it the extra points. I'm definitely happy with how it feels and performs, and my parents are happy I can finally drive around again and not stay at home 99% of the time. Mums delirious with joy since I can once again do her errands. <br />
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