Daily Blog #65 · 4:38am Oct 6th, 2017
Hmm... I should probably update something, shouldn't I? Oh well. I guess that's what happens when midterms come 'round.
Random Fact: Up until around the early 2000s, games were often heavily optimized for certain platforms, going as far as being partially or even entirely written in bare-metal assembly code to bypass API overheads. However, with the fall of DOS, as well as the now-tiny amount of relative processing overhead taken up by using high-level languages such as C++ or C#, such levels of optimization are often unnecessary.
A buncha tests down, one more to go.
Watch the New Stories box, 'cause there's gonna be a little surprise waiting for y'all.
But it ain't me publishin' anything. It's more or less a bit of a social experiment... >:^)
I highly doubt that I'll be publishing much, if any, kind of romance or shipfic anytime soon. The closest I've ever gotten to that was just some light ship-fluff stuff.
When you're in Utah, where the tech boom's been delayed behind Silicon Valley for some odd half a century or so, it's actually quite hard to find any older hardware at reasonable prices on sites like Craigslist within even a 100-mile radius. Even then, typically the site is filled with people dumping mining rigs and old gaming PCs after upgrading, and given how I'm a pretty big fan of vintage computers, I've instead been pretty much buying everything off of Ebay and just waiting out the weeks of shipping time that comes with it.
...Not that I really have the money to actually buy much at the moment anyways. Maybe during the holidays or something. Seems like some older Xeon servers are getting quite cheap these days. Like as in, <$100 kind of cheap.
My "Gaming PC" is actually more of a conglomerate of new and used parts. An i5-2400 from a guy on Ebay who was salvaging office computers, 16 gigs of RAM new, (at first) a case from a garage sale, (now) a new but slightly noisy case off of Amazon, ~1.5tb across three hard drives, only one of which was bought new, and a brand-new GTX 1050ti that's nearing it's first year since being installed.
It's kinda funny. I usually refer to the system as my "Gaming PC", yet I hardly ever actually play anything outside of some occasional Minecraft and as of last week, Fallout. Besides those two, I mostly use the system for some 3D modeling practice, a bit of CGI rendering using PDN plugins, and a crapton of multitasking. Though, with how many things I typically have open at once, the 4 cores of the i5 seem to get a bit strained at times. Especially when I'm beginning my after-school routine of starting everything back up.
I should probably get an SSD. It'll definitely help with the boot-times of this PC. Or at least, the login time. The thing starts up faster than it logs me in, though that's probably due to the amount of things I've purposely marked to start up upon login.
Among those things: Chrome (for tasks like watching Youtube and writing stuff on Fimfiction), Microsoft Edge (School stuff. With how much I search things up, I'd might as well be earning some rewards points from Microsoft while I'm at it.), Firefox (Similar purpose as Microsoft Edge, though I'm logged into a different account), Steam (Because I'd might as well get through the auto-updates before things pile up), BOINC ('Cause aside from the occasional game, I'd might as well let the GPU be used for scientific research when I don't need it.), and Malwarebytes (Because of course you need an antivirus these days.)
Yes, I'm aware that I use three competing browsers all at once. You have a problem with that?
One browser that I occasionally use in addition to the other three but don't start upon login is Opera. I'm logged into my "TheMajorTechie" email on there, so I use that browser when I'm dealing with things on Google Drive.
That also means that I'm actually using a different email address than what I provide on Fimfic for everything else. Can you guess what it is?
I remember back in third grade my friend and I thought that the way you typed the @ symbol was to press the "a" key and the period key at the same time. That ended up with a ton of ".a" or "a." typed into stuff from around that time. Including my mysterious email account that I don't really have much use for anymore besides the fact that literally everything I've done up until last year was using that account. Even Fimfiction.
Ever cut yourself on the edge of a plastic panel that you just barely cut for your robot? Yeah. The plastic evidently wanted revenge for being cut.
One of these days I'll get something featured. One of these days...
