"The manuals I come with clearly read "I cut."" – onions, lelDisclaimer: Due to school sapping up a lot of my time and most of my arts being poured into projects as a result, I have nothing very artistic to show right now, but I will soon.Welp, as if on schedule or something, here is a blog from yours truly. It's probably gonna be a bit lengthy, but whatever.— This is the last thing I did on my mech contest entry for HAWK3N around last month. Fleshing out the legs, though I don't think these will be final, I'll probably go with a more nimble look in the end.
The rest of this is a hobby blog basically.— Last month I ordered myself a new airsoft gun, a -real- (lol) airsoft gun. I got it for around $160 off Airsoft GI. It's an M4A1 with the S-System RIS, but for those who need a familiar face to put it on, it's the same M4A1 seen in Modern Warfare 2, lol.Shoots about 410 FPS because it's a field gun, a little hot for my CQB purposes, so I'll need to get a different spring for it eventually.Long story short, I eventually wanted the gun to have more flare than the straight black and dark gray receiver look. This is how it turned out after I had fixed an issue with the motor connectors and motor height which was an absolute pain.
The handguard is an olive green that's hard for my shitty ipod touch 4G to see.This shows it better.
— In oooother news, I did this little project today in which I incredibly proud and lucky at the same time.See the laptop I've had for the past maybe 2 and a half years is a 2.5 grand gaming laptop (desktop replacement class or whatever the fuck that means), and a few months ago I over-torqued one of my fans after blowing some C02 into the exhausts to get some dust out.Well I heard a really peculiar 'ZOOM!' sound, and later on down the road I started hearing a grinding noise, a few months ago the fan just finally completely died and I started seeing temperature rises.ANYWAYS, I figured that wasn't the only issue, and as of two days ago I started to suspect I had to reapply thermal compound, which I've never done. Just the thought of touching the heat sink and actually seeing the CPU and GPU chips with my own eyes would make my nuts scrunch up. But it was either do that, or continue idling my CPU at 70C, and maxing under load at 99C+ and fuck my CPU up.So here I was at the crossroads: continue running my system amazingly hot and damage the lifespan of each, or completely wreck my whole system trying to fix it (or potentially do the job right and have a win-win situation).Enough talk– Images.— Everything taken apart, MOBO flipped, CPU and GPU completely cleaned of the fucked up job of a factory pasting that was there.
— Seriously, it looked like a tube of AS5 busted a nut all over my chips. The stuff had spilled and hardened wayyyyy over the edges and onto the surrounding silicon itself. Wtf Asus.
— Clean
— Clean heat sinks
I was going to use AS5 (Arctic Silver 5) but as it does many people, the 200 hour break-in period turned me off, so I got Arctic Ceramique 2. My biggest worry was that I'd apply too little and fuck up my CPU or GPU, or I'd apply too much and fuck up my CPU or GPU. I used the dot application method, applied pressure, figured I did a good enough job, and began to put everything together. Moment of truth and I pressed the power button, and BAM, IT WORKED– wait what? What the fuck is this!?
** This is not my desktop, this is pretty much what I saw on boot. Green vertical lines in all black areas, and horizontal pink lines in most areas of color.— So yea, I researched on the issue which leads my bad anxiety to trigger a massive panic attack in me thinking I had fucked up my GPU and either shorted it out or fried it with high temperatures. Alas, I came to an alternative, and that was the fact that my LSVD cable may be faulty or loose, which I believed to be true. The only way to test this last resort theory was to plug it into an external monitor, luckily I run a dual screen setup, and the picture was clear as day… soooo, crisis averted. Here are the results I've gotten so far.Old thermal compound-CPU idle average- ~75C | GPU idle average- ~65-70CCPU max load- 99C | GPU max load- 90CNew thermal compound-CPU idle average- ~58-63C | GPU idle average- ~55-58CCPU max load- 80C | GPU max load- 80CSo yea, I'm pretty happy with those results seeings as though my room is consistently pretty warm.But blahblahblah I've been talking too long, technology is picky as fuck, because after doing some stress tests via gaming and monitoring the temperatures, I noticed that the screen issue had fixed.. itself, um?Yea anyways, operation was highly successful and scary as fuck. -Never again-.Until like, next month or something when I drop a bunch of art by or whatever. Seeya in the active users list. (my god this was a messy blog)
The rest of this is a hobby blog basically.— Last month I ordered myself a new airsoft gun, a -real- (lol) airsoft gun. I got it for around $160 off Airsoft GI. It's an M4A1 with the S-System RIS, but for those who need a familiar face to put it on, it's the same M4A1 seen in Modern Warfare 2, lol.Shoots about 410 FPS because it's a field gun, a little hot for my CQB purposes, so I'll need to get a different spring for it eventually.Long story short, I eventually wanted the gun to have more flare than the straight black and dark gray receiver look. This is how it turned out after I had fixed an issue with the motor connectors and motor height which was an absolute pain.The handguard is an olive green that's hard for my shitty ipod touch 4G to see.This shows it better.— In oooother news, I did this little project today in which I incredibly proud and lucky at the same time.See the laptop I've had for the past maybe 2 and a half years is a 2.5 grand gaming laptop (desktop replacement class or whatever the fuck that means), and a few months ago I over-torqued one of my fans after blowing some C02 into the exhausts to get some dust out.Well I heard a really peculiar 'ZOOM!' sound, and later on down the road I started hearing a grinding noise, a few months ago the fan just finally completely died and I started seeing temperature rises.ANYWAYS, I figured that wasn't the only issue, and as of two days ago I started to suspect I had to reapply thermal compound, which I've never done. Just the thought of touching the heat sink and actually seeing the CPU and GPU chips with my own eyes would make my nuts scrunch up. But it was either do that, or continue idling my CPU at 70C, and maxing under load at 99C+ and fuck my CPU up.So here I was at the crossroads: continue running my system amazingly hot and damage the lifespan of each, or completely wreck my whole system trying to fix it (or potentially do the job right and have a win-win situation).Enough talk– Images.— Everything taken apart, MOBO flipped, CPU and GPU completely cleaned of the fucked up job of a factory pasting that was there.— Seriously, it looked like a tube of AS5 busted a nut all over my chips. The stuff had spilled and hardened wayyyyy over the edges and onto the surrounding silicon itself. Wtf Asus.— Clean— Clean heat sinksI was going to use AS5 (Arctic Silver 5) but as it does many people, the 200 hour break-in period turned me off, so I got Arctic Ceramique 2. My biggest worry was that I'd apply too little and fuck up my CPU or GPU, or I'd apply too much and fuck up my CPU or GPU. I used the dot application method, applied pressure, figured I did a good enough job, and began to put everything together. Moment of truth and I pressed the power button, and BAM, IT WORKED– wait what? What the fuck is this!?** This is not my desktop, this is pretty much what I saw on boot. Green vertical lines in all black areas, and horizontal pink lines in most areas of color.— So yea, I researched on the issue which leads my bad anxiety to trigger a massive panic attack in me thinking I had fucked up my GPU and either shorted it out or fried it with high temperatures. Alas, I came to an alternative, and that was the fact that my LSVD cable may be faulty or loose, which I believed to be true. The only way to test this last resort theory was to plug it into an external monitor, luckily I run a dual screen setup, and the picture was clear as day… soooo, crisis averted. Here are the results I've gotten so far.Old thermal compound-CPU idle average- ~75C | GPU idle average- ~65-70CCPU max load- 99C | GPU max load- 90CNew thermal compound-CPU idle average- ~58-63C | GPU idle average- ~55-58CCPU max load- 80C | GPU max load- 80CSo yea, I'm pretty happy with those results seeings as though my room is consistently pretty warm.But blahblahblah I've been talking too long, technology is picky as fuck, because after doing some stress tests via gaming and monitoring the temperatures, I noticed that the screen issue had fixed.. itself, um?Yea anyways, operation was highly successful and scary as fuck. -Never again-.Until like, next month or something when I drop a bunch of art by or whatever. Seeya in the active users list. (my god this was a messy blog)
saw that blog title, was instantly like "is dat some El-P?" Cancer 4 Cure has some of his greatest lines. most cohesive album of his imo. i got into him through I'll Sleep When You're Dead but it only had a few stand-out tracks. his new live videos are awesome too heh.
Yea man ever since you posted that one song when we were on a hip-hop topic a while back, I've been digging it hard. I still haven't gotten around to buying the album yet since there's a bunch of others I wanna get, but I'll do it at some point.
I also checked out the Run The Jewels collaboration album which was pretty sweet.But yea, not much art for now unfortunately, just tiny hobby projects here and there, are comes soon, and thanks.Ohhh,duh.
I'm really liking that top rail in what-your-ipod-makes-appear-OD! I used to hate tan guns (except the KAC PDW and the SCAR), but I've grown to like two-tones and tans over the past year. I'm very slowly experimenting with it.
I've got a fully tan SCAR, and a fully tan M4. But here's a two tone tan M4 I have:Holy revive, Batman!
Yea, know what, I hated tan guns myself for a while, but I eventually started to hate the all-black even more. It's more realistic, I guess, sure, but it felt super boring to me. It also was bugging me that the whole gun was this matte black, but the receiver is this dark gray which really threw me off.Dope guns btw, really wanna get my hands on one of those angled fore-grips, a few extra mags, and maybe a Masada down the line. One of my favorite guns ever.How the hell do you have all of these in Canada anyway? lmao. I've always wondered that.Yeah, I actually started wanting a tan gun, when I would look over at my wall of guns, and it'd just be a mess of black.
I also realized that while most guns are manufactured in black, there's a reason that special forces troops paint their guns tan (and I've even started to think that an HK416 looks wrong in black, even though it's the same as an M4 with a different upper. I have a WE HK416 Open Bolt, and it's…So wrong…)The primary theatre of operations for nations who outfit their militaries with ARs is in Africa and the middle east, where there's a lot of sand. Canadian Arid CADPAT, and now MARPAT and AOR1 are tan, and fit in well with much of the Afghanistan terrain, and the two tone guns (or even cammo'd guns) are much better than a black outline of an M4.For the same reason, I'm experimenting with an olive green handguard/stock on another M4, for woodland play (probably won't get to use it until next spring though). Anyway, you should definitely grab an AFG. They're kind of cheap, and you can get a knock offs for even cheaper. Deal Extreme used to have some, but I can't find them anymore. A Masada is pretty awesome. It's a gun I'd like to pick up one day. Unfortunately Magpul has stopped making them for airsoft, so I should probably pick one up soon. As for getting these guns in Canada…Money…It's far more expensive in Canada, haha.Usually you just buy from the very few Canadian retailers. Even if the gun is legal for import, it'll likely get seized at the border anyway, and you won't see it for the next 24 months while the RCMP find time to chrono some kids toy gun to see if it's legal or not. Guns are usually 2 to 3 times as expensive as the states.