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New PC specs + Comic drawing + Upcoming 50K views.
14 years ago
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So I got a new PC about two weeks ago, finally ridding myself of the POS Packard Bell I previously owned. Seriously, that thing was only good for people who watch movies on their PC... I think the biggest improvement, aside from components, is the fact that the new PC has an actual airflow, and... oh, I dunno, FANS?
Yes, the Packard Bell had no fans at all. That's how shit it was when it came to keeping things cooled.
Anyway, new rig;
Case: Antec Six Hundred v2 (ATX)
Motherboard: ASRock P67 Pro3 B3: socket 1155
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K: socket 1155 i5 quad core (4x3300Mhz)
CPU Cooler: Scythe Katana
Memory: Kingston Valueram DDR3 Memory, 4GBx2
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 with aftermarket cooler Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus
SSD: OCZ Vertex2, 60GB
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 2TB, 7200 rpm
PSU: Aerocool Horsepower 750W
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit
Fun times ahead! It can keep 100FPS easily, but since my screen only has a 60Hz refresh rate, I keep on vertical sync to have the smoothest looking performance for me during gaming. I mean... is the human eye capable of seeing 100fps differences? Probably, but don't care..
Point two: drawing comics.
GAAAAWD! I'm such a slacker, I only have two weeks left to draw 2 pages, ink 3 of them, and color all 5 of them. I'll be pushing back my gaming habits to focus on those pages.
But Dalehan, what are you drawing?
Glad you should ask, imaginary spacemonkey.
I'm currently still drawing 5 pages of the Dalehan and Rumbottom storyline I want to draw. It's for my comic author course, and in the end we'll have our pages bundled in a professional looking "catalog" comic. I'll be buying 10 of them for myself in case I want to hand it out somewhere or keep them as part of a portfolio. For this reason alone I want these pages to look crisp and pro, so I can't slack off on them any longer.
The original idea was to have a short story, based around the global concept of "Zombie". At first, my initial idea was to draw a short story about a superhero who had fallen from grace. Actually... imagine the plan of Syndrome in The Incredibles, if he went through with it and succeeded (selling his gadgets to everyone in the world, making everyone super. And if everyone would be super, then no one would be super anymore).
The "hero" would be a fat, chubby plumber who would have to fix toilets and sinks for the new generation of superheroes, because in their decadence, they could barely do anything else besides fighting crime. So after that, he realizes that plumbing was "his power", and would revive as a plumbing hero.
Also, Bicycle Repair Man comes to mind here! It's not the most original story in the world, but frankly... I'm bad at storytelling.
So it isn't about a plumbing superhero, but about Dalehan and Rumbottom. Will they be slaying dragons or fighting hordes of orcs and goblins?
No, they aren't doing that in the current comic. Heck, it's not even a short story, I used the format of the 5 pages to deliver a fragment of a longer, ongoing storyline. Sort of like you'd buy a weekly comic magazine, and there'd be an ongoing storyline. The pages pick up in a point in the story where the two heroes first meet the female heroine in a mage's tower, ending in a clue to where they'll be headed off to next.
I chose this format to have an effect that'll "wet the appetite". A short story is just that, a short story. Going with a story fragment, I might succeed in making people curious for more. "Who are these two? How did they meet? What is their journey? What'll happen after this moment?".
Overall, the 5 pages aren't "interesting" with a colorful explosion of action, but remember, this is also an experiment for me to see what I'm capable of.
So, will we ever get to read a full story? I'm already wet with anticipation.
I appreciate the false enthousiasm, figment of my imagination, but at this point even I can't tell.
I might end up drawing a full story in a webcomic format (Wordpress / Comicpress comes to mind), if I can find a right balance for me to dedicate time to it.
But for those who're interested, I'm currently laying a couple of foundations for some short erotic comics, again to test the waters. I'll have
resari helping out some for ideas and dialogue with it, too.
Amg I'm almost at 50K views? I should draw something up for that! D:
WELL THAT LAST BIT WAS SUCKY AND SHORT WASN'T IT! :D
Yes, the Packard Bell had no fans at all. That's how shit it was when it came to keeping things cooled.
Anyway, new rig;
Case: Antec Six Hundred v2 (ATX)
Motherboard: ASRock P67 Pro3 B3: socket 1155
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K: socket 1155 i5 quad core (4x3300Mhz)
CPU Cooler: Scythe Katana
Memory: Kingston Valueram DDR3 Memory, 4GBx2
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 with aftermarket cooler Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus
SSD: OCZ Vertex2, 60GB
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 2TB, 7200 rpm
PSU: Aerocool Horsepower 750W
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit
Fun times ahead! It can keep 100FPS easily, but since my screen only has a 60Hz refresh rate, I keep on vertical sync to have the smoothest looking performance for me during gaming. I mean... is the human eye capable of seeing 100fps differences? Probably, but don't care..
Point two: drawing comics.
GAAAAWD! I'm such a slacker, I only have two weeks left to draw 2 pages, ink 3 of them, and color all 5 of them. I'll be pushing back my gaming habits to focus on those pages.
But Dalehan, what are you drawing?
Glad you should ask, imaginary spacemonkey.
I'm currently still drawing 5 pages of the Dalehan and Rumbottom storyline I want to draw. It's for my comic author course, and in the end we'll have our pages bundled in a professional looking "catalog" comic. I'll be buying 10 of them for myself in case I want to hand it out somewhere or keep them as part of a portfolio. For this reason alone I want these pages to look crisp and pro, so I can't slack off on them any longer.
The original idea was to have a short story, based around the global concept of "Zombie". At first, my initial idea was to draw a short story about a superhero who had fallen from grace. Actually... imagine the plan of Syndrome in The Incredibles, if he went through with it and succeeded (selling his gadgets to everyone in the world, making everyone super. And if everyone would be super, then no one would be super anymore).
The "hero" would be a fat, chubby plumber who would have to fix toilets and sinks for the new generation of superheroes, because in their decadence, they could barely do anything else besides fighting crime. So after that, he realizes that plumbing was "his power", and would revive as a plumbing hero.
Also, Bicycle Repair Man comes to mind here! It's not the most original story in the world, but frankly... I'm bad at storytelling.
So it isn't about a plumbing superhero, but about Dalehan and Rumbottom. Will they be slaying dragons or fighting hordes of orcs and goblins?
No, they aren't doing that in the current comic. Heck, it's not even a short story, I used the format of the 5 pages to deliver a fragment of a longer, ongoing storyline. Sort of like you'd buy a weekly comic magazine, and there'd be an ongoing storyline. The pages pick up in a point in the story where the two heroes first meet the female heroine in a mage's tower, ending in a clue to where they'll be headed off to next.
I chose this format to have an effect that'll "wet the appetite". A short story is just that, a short story. Going with a story fragment, I might succeed in making people curious for more. "Who are these two? How did they meet? What is their journey? What'll happen after this moment?".
Overall, the 5 pages aren't "interesting" with a colorful explosion of action, but remember, this is also an experiment for me to see what I'm capable of.
So, will we ever get to read a full story? I'm already wet with anticipation.
I appreciate the false enthousiasm, figment of my imagination, but at this point even I can't tell.
I might end up drawing a full story in a webcomic format (Wordpress / Comicpress comes to mind), if I can find a right balance for me to dedicate time to it.
But for those who're interested, I'm currently laying a couple of foundations for some short erotic comics, again to test the waters. I'll have
resari helping out some for ideas and dialogue with it, too.Amg I'm almost at 50K views? I should draw something up for that! D:
WELL THAT LAST BIT WAS SUCKY AND SHORT WASN'T IT! :D
Out of curiosity, what was the impetus for getting an SSD?
I still don't understand where the crashes kept coming from when the HDD went kaput twice in a row. Something tells me it was due to heat, but how could it not be seeing how there were no fans at all? The only fan there was was on the CPU, and even that one was more prone to suck in more hot air than expell it. SHITTY BUILD WAS SHIT!
I'm not using SSD for games, but it was recommended to me by the builder to install the OS and several core application on it (hence it's only the 60gig version), giving me a speedy load time when I'm booting Windows (10 seconds-ish). I believe it also has a lower risk of getting the hardware broken through normal use, since there are no moving parts, soooo it's a bit safer to put the core system on. Don't quote me on this though!