Author: Sparky

Catch-up because I have lost control of my life

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This post is being written with the grating sounds of a goddamn lawnmower going off outside.

I still insist that Twitter brainrot nullifies any traditional blog post since I can just keep dumping my thoughts over there, buuuuutttt…

Catch-up

Last thing I mentioned was redoing my PC after the video card issues I was having… And I did!

It was both frustrating and pretty fun to build. Most of my issues come from me being way too rusty with building computers, specially with modern hardware. Ignoring my several rookie mistakes, the NZXT H7 Flow is a pretty good case to build in.

Work has still been somewhat unpleasant, so I’ve been (very slowly) proceeding to splurge on stuff for myself. Just these past two weeks had to play some 4D Chess with a friend to be able to trade in my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2020) for a Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra that I had been eyeing on for far too long.

The tablet itself is really big, but also really thin and moderately weight. The case I got bumps it up to a bit thicker and noticeably heavier. Technically huge for a lot of people, but it’s also not that big once you actually use it. That being said, the screen is still wide, so holding it on portrait mode is borderline ridiculous.

All that’s left on my splurge list would be an Xbox Series X and a NAS. Just hopefully waiting for a Black Friday sale on the Xbox… if that even happens. After that, it’s back to working some more before finally going for a NAS sometime next year. Hopefully. Maybe.

 

Birdsite

The whole world is well aware about what’s going on with the Twitter. Regardless of whatever happens there, I’m still reachable through the links located on the homepage. Don’t really have anything to add that hasn’t been said.

What's next?

idk the fuck I know.

I do want to write more here, but eh… Let’s see how it goes. Peace out.

 

(PS: The loud lawnmower is still going)

Computer woes (and work hell)

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Not me casually dusting off the blog section of my site to just type things that won’t fit on twitter dot com without making a thread about it.

It’s so weird how I’m often sought after by friends and family (and a few others) to help them when their computers go bad, but my own intelligence plummets when it’s my own PC having issues. Though most of it came from not having the money to fix things at a moment’s notice for a long time.

Only bringing my GPU over (and two drives), there’s been some oddities with odd freezing and locking up. I previously used to have a full tower ATX case and I didn’t even use that to the fullest. I wanted to downsize to something more compact and since my GPU could fit in this case, I went for a mini-ITX build.

Can you do it? Absolutely. Should you? Hmm… depends.

I don’t know if the wonky electricity we had a few years back set this card on a slow course towards death, amplified by the increased heat from being in such a case (also hot climate).

YouTubers makes building stuff like this look easy, but it was actually the thoughest one I had put together, to the point where I *really* don’t want to be fiddling with it except for taking it out to dust it.

Odd, spontaneous glitches, more locking up, constant BSODs with VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE… yeah…

This boi is thicc. So I ordered a new case to go along with it.

…and a motherboard…

…and a cooler…

and…

I’ve been dealing with so much shit at work this year that honestly, I don’t care. About fucking time I splurged on myself with something relevant to my interests. Also because I’m pretty much unable to game on my PC at the moment and that is not very gucci after returning from a rough day at work.

Hoping to be able to take advantage of the bigger case to make a cleaner build. Definitely put a temporary dent on some other projects, but. It’s okay, I guess.

I’m not dead yet, just tired

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Active for a bit, disappear for a long time? Yeah.

Our local government has been hellbent on… “economy”, so it’s been trying to have things “return to normal”. Being thrust from mostly working remotely from home to at the office full time (at 7 AM) while still in a pandemic takes its toll on anyone over time. I have barely been able to find the energy to draw thanks to this toxic work-home-work loop.

Sure, some stupid shit may be brewing at work, but it’s not so bad, I guess.

What’s the boiling point for this vicious cycle? Break away from my life-long tradition of just wasting my free time off work and actually going on a mini vacation with a friend. Like, actually leaving home for a few days, no family involved.

Honestly? It was pretty fucking great, despite a couple of compromises.

There was something so… liberating… about just being able to break free from my own sheltered self even if it’s just for a bit. Pretty sure it ended up unlocking a few things in me I didn’t know I could even feel in the first place. Most of my personality for the latter half of my life to date had been that of a generic NPC out of protection from others. 

Besides, it’s not like I’ll end up doing dumb shi-

 

Oh.

I am now a certified degenerate.

A Blog, But More Than A Decade Later

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The year was 200X. It was the late 2000’s. A teenage kid liked to get on his crappy Dial-Up internet. Said kid took part of a few forums here and there, also had an interest in blog-like websites. Mostly going around through a certain Mega Man (Battle Network) fan site and a Pokémon glitch forum, along with starting to get his feet wet with furry content. It was me, Sparky.

But wait, not really. I didn’t really had a set pseudonym back then. The name “Wolf” was eventually associated with me, but it was still really just a minor handle for me to be identified by others. At one point I did set out to try to make a little blog of my own, much like most blogs at the time. They were humble and simple, unlike the more complex and… “commercialized”? Probably not the correct word, but it’s certainly not like it used to be. Continue reading →