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Toil and tears for three long years. Plus big news. 59th jou
15 years ago
This is my head.
Well, I survived three years here on Fur affinity... relatively intact. A lot of stuff happened during that time. Some good, some bad but I had a good time overall. I do wish I had more feedback though. More on that later.
I made mention of my IRC channel on FurNet a few times and something must have happened since my last journal. One of my channels named #bellyofthebeast gone through a mini-explosion of new people. Well over a dozen faces showed up here and there since that last journal. I don't know if it had anything to do with it, but it is an unusual spike. A few of them actual came back too. I have a tendency of scaring off people so anyone staying is welcome news. Now if I can figure out how to prevent the others from escaping, I'll be all set.
I did gain two people in my tamer channel #The_Lair and a return of an old timer. Made the sting of losing the two old timers previously a little better. Still a small channel with little activity though. Not exactly a beehive of activity I originally wanted.
Well, at least on of them doing well enough though there have been a few spats of drama. I guess it is growing pains in a way. They have settled down... for now. I'm sure there will be more in the future. I'll just weather out the storm when they happen.
Onto my FA page. I finally busted through the barrier of 680 watchers. Every time it gets close to that number, people would drop out. It been going up and like that for a couple of months. Then a few weeks ago, I punch past that number. Of course it been bouncing up and down as usual since then but now at a higher number.
Ok, now for the big news I am sure most of (the few) of you want to hear. I ordered my Quadcore computer. That's right, I am on my way of restarting my 3D stuff after the long drought. My 2D art has been such a dismal failure and my writting barely made a blip. My lack of feedback on my current works have been disappointing so going back to 3D should improves things... well I hope.
The reason my 3D works got cuts short is several fold. The computer I did the renderings was quite old even by standards three years ago. As I tend to go overboard, the modeling took forever. The short thirty seconds test clips even took twenty-four hours just to render. Frustrating but I had some freetime by then to plow through it.
Then the real life drama hit. What a nightmare that roller coaster ride was. Well, that sordid story should be well behind me now. Still took a toil on me. It also evaporated all that freetime since the fun days.
It is on its way and is estimated to arrive in a couple of days. I been saving for it and jumped when I found a great deal. It is a refurb but I am saving hundreds of dollars that way. It come in an hideously ugly case but I don't mind. What got me hooked was the specs for the price, an i7 with 9GB of ram and a GTZ260 video card. Not too bad I must say. This is the first time ever that I have a system this remotely modern. I have always made do with computers several generations back. My current computers are old hand-me-downs P4s. Got them dirt cheap or even free but it is fine time I treat myself to something presentable.
Sure, I'll be getting back into gaming. Done a little of that with that big upgrade of putting that Black Friday Nivida 9800 video card in my 3.0GHz P4 tower. That made it a little more tolerable to play with but still way behind the times. This new system will be the biggest leapfrog I done ever as well.
I think that pretty much covers it. Knowing me I probably forgot something as my norm. I'm sure those few reading this knows that all too well.
I made mention of my IRC channel on FurNet a few times and something must have happened since my last journal. One of my channels named #bellyofthebeast gone through a mini-explosion of new people. Well over a dozen faces showed up here and there since that last journal. I don't know if it had anything to do with it, but it is an unusual spike. A few of them actual came back too. I have a tendency of scaring off people so anyone staying is welcome news. Now if I can figure out how to prevent the others from escaping, I'll be all set.
I did gain two people in my tamer channel #The_Lair and a return of an old timer. Made the sting of losing the two old timers previously a little better. Still a small channel with little activity though. Not exactly a beehive of activity I originally wanted.
Well, at least on of them doing well enough though there have been a few spats of drama. I guess it is growing pains in a way. They have settled down... for now. I'm sure there will be more in the future. I'll just weather out the storm when they happen.
Onto my FA page. I finally busted through the barrier of 680 watchers. Every time it gets close to that number, people would drop out. It been going up and like that for a couple of months. Then a few weeks ago, I punch past that number. Of course it been bouncing up and down as usual since then but now at a higher number.
Ok, now for the big news I am sure most of (the few) of you want to hear. I ordered my Quadcore computer. That's right, I am on my way of restarting my 3D stuff after the long drought. My 2D art has been such a dismal failure and my writting barely made a blip. My lack of feedback on my current works have been disappointing so going back to 3D should improves things... well I hope.
The reason my 3D works got cuts short is several fold. The computer I did the renderings was quite old even by standards three years ago. As I tend to go overboard, the modeling took forever. The short thirty seconds test clips even took twenty-four hours just to render. Frustrating but I had some freetime by then to plow through it.
Then the real life drama hit. What a nightmare that roller coaster ride was. Well, that sordid story should be well behind me now. Still took a toil on me. It also evaporated all that freetime since the fun days.
It is on its way and is estimated to arrive in a couple of days. I been saving for it and jumped when I found a great deal. It is a refurb but I am saving hundreds of dollars that way. It come in an hideously ugly case but I don't mind. What got me hooked was the specs for the price, an i7 with 9GB of ram and a GTZ260 video card. Not too bad I must say. This is the first time ever that I have a system this remotely modern. I have always made do with computers several generations back. My current computers are old hand-me-downs P4s. Got them dirt cheap or even free but it is fine time I treat myself to something presentable.
Sure, I'll be getting back into gaming. Done a little of that with that big upgrade of putting that Black Friday Nivida 9800 video card in my 3.0GHz P4 tower. That made it a little more tolerable to play with but still way behind the times. This new system will be the biggest leapfrog I done ever as well.
I think that pretty much covers it. Knowing me I probably forgot something as my norm. I'm sure those few reading this knows that all too well.
Great to hear some good news like that. I look forward to see what you are capable of with a good system like that one. :D
If I keep myself from going overboard, I should be able to make stuff that is rare especially the freaky stuff. Going to be a fun ride if I can get everything up and running. Well, the computer here so if you don't hear from me in a long time, I'll be buried in messing with the new system indeed.