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A long needed update

Emphy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:05:25 +0000

Got a new graphics card at The Gathering ’10

And a bunch of manga.
Let’s start of with Tsuiteru Kanojo (ツいてる彼女), I didn’t actually mean to buy this one, but the site I bought from didn’t have any pictures, and wrote the name only in romaji.
I actually wanted Tsuiteru Kanojo (ツイてるカノジョ)
See that, exact same fucking romanization, so when the site only wrote the title in romaji, how the fuck should I know there where two mangas with the same title. >_>
Haven’t read it yet though, let’s just hope it’s good.

Second, Nana to Kaoru (ナナとカオル), this book be quite interesting. (Sidenote: this is not hentai, despite what the cover would make you think.)
I’m guessing there will be about 5 volumes, so still a bit to go.

And again, yes, cpmasked.
I have now realized I must stook up on this stuff before an eventual ban.
There probably won’t be one, but one can never be to careful.
At least if you consider all those bat shit insane feminist groups out there.

And Urusei Yatsura (うる星やつら)\Takahashi Rumiko (高橋留美子) Illustration book
Rumiko is also the mangaka for hit series like Ranma 1/2 Maison Ikkoku and Inuyasha, should you think anything looks familiar.
So here, have a shitstorm of high-res pictures.

Ah yeah

Emphy — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:36:43 +0000

New chassis for my computer, it looks kind of simplistic, and I like that.

But there’s actually enough space for about 15 HDDs and it’s also built with three layers, to silence out all the noise.
Let’s just say I approve.

This also means that I can bring my PC to LAN parties without killing my back.

Bag of eee

Emphy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:38:22 +0000

I bought a “Bag of Holding” from thinkgeek, ViD recommended it, and the bag actually seems larger on the inside than on the outside. (Just like they say on their site)

And I bought myself an eee, the 1000h version, sure, the 1000he version is out, but I think the minimal update don’t justify the greater cost.

I’d like a white one, but they didn’t have any left.
So far I’m satisfied, and most of my strategy games works just fine even though I’m fully aware it’s not intended for gaming.

Arcade stick

Emphy — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Yesterday I went to Oslo and picked up my Arcana Heart 2 arcade style controller at Neo-tokyo. :3
It’s from hori (hori.jp) and it feels just like the real thing.
The reason I choose the arcana heart one is because it doesn’t looks so “boring” (white+pink and a pretty nice faceplate) and because I like arcana heart.

Some pics:

(It reads “Sugoi! Arcana Heart 2″)

I’ve yet to play arcana heart 2 with it though.
But what I did play was “The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil” (Touhou 6) and “Immaterial and Missing Power” (Touhou 7.5). (Using a triolinker from hkems)
I almost finished Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on hard first try, considering I haven’t played shmups in a long time and that I’ve never tried it with an arcade controller, I would say that’s pretty good.
The controls in Immateral and Missing Power felt flawless.
Hori = quality.

disk repair

Emphy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:10:47 +0000

I disassembled my 1TB MyBook and put it in the freezer overnight.
I managed to recover about 400GB of my stuff that way, so I guess I’ll do it again.

And I bought a new 1TB WD Elements, I like those drives, compact, cool and seems pretty sturdy.

Even more misery.

Emphy — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:00:19 +0000

Well, my 1TB WD MyBook started screwing with me.
I’ve removed it from the case and started using it as an internal drive, so now it starts up atleast.
The problem is, it turns itself off after approx. 2 minutes, then I have to restart my power supply to get it working again.
Its transfer rate is 4MB/s instead of 70-80MB/s, so I can’t really backup my files, its just too slow.
And I’d hate to see all my stuff go down the drain.

Updated my computer

Emphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:22:54 +0000

I put in 4 extra gigs of RAM, as i mentioned earlier.
And I put two 300GB (Actually 279GB) disks in a Raid 0 array and installed Windows 7 on them.
Installed the silent knight II CPU cooler and overclocked my q6600 to 3.0GHz.
My 3dmark06 score increased from a little over 10000 to almost 16000. (And that’s without clocking my GPU)
(I think my CPU was a serious bottleneck to the rest of my system)

The gathering -Day 4-

Emphy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:51:42 +0000

I got more ram for my computer, got 8GB now, it’s nice, but I’ve gotten “out of memory” or whatever a couple of times later on.
Those who say 8GB of ram is obsolete for “normal” computer activities have no clue about what they are talking about.

Taco buffé with Nekoflaa

Reached 2 TB uploaded on DC++

The gathering -Day 3-

Emphy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:14:22 +0000

I got disqualified from the Stepmania compo for not sending in my scores in time…. someone decided to take my seat and start an super smash compo, so I had no chance of delivering any scores before they finished -_-”

Bought a Raid controller for my computer.

I attended a conference about Windows 7, where we discussed a lot of other stuff too. (NT, Dos, unix, os x)
It went on for over 3 hours, at first I thought it was supposed to be about 1 hour, that wasn’t the case though.
But I don’t regret it, we were let in on a few “secrets” if I may. Such as approximate release date for RC1 :3

The gathering -Day 1-

Emphy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:31:18 +0000

Yes, nice.
Up at 6 o’clock, out of the town at 7, arrived at “vikingskipet” 10 o’clock.
Standing in line for 3 hours and 10 minutes o_0 with rain pouring down, and the wind blowing, it was hell.
They gave out free copies of farcry 2 and and the new warhammer game, I didn’t get any, neither did any of my friends, they totally ignored us, while everyone else got both games or even multiple copies.
Sure, I have farcry 2, but that’s on the xbox 360, I wanted the pc version.
Sure, I don’t really have a strong desire to play warhammer, but it would be nice to get SOMETHING AT ALL.

Katt (endre) jumped straight into the line with us so he didn’t need to stand in line for 3 hours.
I got 2 TG t-shirts, both saying “I’m cool”, since the theme this year was fire and ice, and I sat on the icy side. (They had “I’m cool” and “I’m hot” t-shirt depending on which side you were on. I’d love to get both, but I really shouldn’t complain, I weren’t supposed to get 2 t-shirts anyway.)

I played the first round of the stepmania compo, right after starting over on sutte hakkun, my save got deleted

I also got a Silent Knight II CPU fan for my computer.

TBC