RE: Whatta haul! Whatta haul!
01-03-2021, 05:08 AM (This post was last modified: 01-03-2021, 05:09 AM by classicdrogn.)
01-03-2021, 05:08 AM (This post was last modified: 01-03-2021, 05:09 AM by classicdrogn.)
Aside from a single pair of pants (there is no escape from The Curse of Adulthood!) I just got given money, as I have repeatedly insisted to all my relatives that there isn't much of anything I want that isn't too expensive to be a gift on the budgets any of them have. I expect I'll be using the combined proceeds to buy a better CPU cooler for the computer I built back in the spring (Noctua NH-D15, my proud beauty, you shall finally be mine!) since the stock cooler is... okay but stills sees things thermal throttling despite the house tending to be rather cooler than most people consider to be "room temperature" (65-70F vs. 72-75,) a couple of their case fans as well to replace the unfortunately loud ones I originally used, and a cheap-but-better-than-a-webcam digital video camera that can also serve as a proper 30 megapixel still camera when not attached to the desk-mount arm, as while I was basically born to be at my happiest in full lockdown my mother especially has been getting more and more stir crazy with such limited social contact, and I do occasionally have things I want to take pictures of.
Mostly posed toys TBH, but I'd put off some modding and painting on ones bought specifically for the purpose back as the weather was getting hot on the grounds that the less skin oil that got onto them the less of a pain it would be to glue and paint when the PVC plastics in modern Transformers are notoriously difficult to work with in the first place, and here it is halfway through the winter already and I haven't got back to it.
I thought about a better graphics card, but then laughed, laughed harder, and dismissed the idea, since the bottom end, two-generations-old cards are $700 these days and just that is over two times the "I'll be very cross with myself, and very sick of ramen noodles by spring" upper bound. The Radeon RX 580 is doing everything I ask of it anyway, so there'd be no reason to upgrade but vanity even if it was specifically the "Okay, this is comparatively crap, but I can afford it now and replace it later" option. I'm still salty about having my old system die just as the previous generation of CPU and GPU were about to be replaced, though at least I managed to be in that window when the prices dropped before everyone started buying whatever was in stock to keep busy and fulfill the telepresense needs during the recurring lockdowns.
Oh, and I also got $50 specifically earmarked for new shoes, since my sneaks are now old enough to drink and the fake-leather uppers have gotten stiff enough to start cracking across the top of the foot, but that has to wait until time, inclination, and open hours align to get to a shoe store, or at least a Wal*Mart, as mail ordering that kind of thing is iffy at best.
Mostly posed toys TBH, but I'd put off some modding and painting on ones bought specifically for the purpose back as the weather was getting hot on the grounds that the less skin oil that got onto them the less of a pain it would be to glue and paint when the PVC plastics in modern Transformers are notoriously difficult to work with in the first place, and here it is halfway through the winter already and I haven't got back to it.
I thought about a better graphics card, but then laughed, laughed harder, and dismissed the idea, since the bottom end, two-generations-old cards are $700 these days and just that is over two times the "I'll be very cross with myself, and very sick of ramen noodles by spring" upper bound. The Radeon RX 580 is doing everything I ask of it anyway, so there'd be no reason to upgrade but vanity even if it was specifically the "Okay, this is comparatively crap, but I can afford it now and replace it later" option. I'm still salty about having my old system die just as the previous generation of CPU and GPU were about to be replaced, though at least I managed to be in that window when the prices dropped before everyone started buying whatever was in stock to keep busy and fulfill the telepresense needs during the recurring lockdowns.
Oh, and I also got $50 specifically earmarked for new shoes, since my sneaks are now old enough to drink and the fake-leather uppers have gotten stiff enough to start cracking across the top of the foot, but that has to wait until time, inclination, and open hours align to get to a shoe store, or at least a Wal*Mart, as mail ordering that kind of thing is iffy at best.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus