#::~fish and 8gb memory cards~ chip::

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Data: Dagger

Chip: Sword

Snap: Bow

Miss Red: Staff

Fawn/Mun: Lance

tag urself fantasy weapons

bow: considerate, healing personality, gentle voice, attentive, open fields watching the clouds, constantly talking about love, thought to be lazy at times, always in their thoughts

sword: protector, adventurous, late nights looking at the stars, the warmth of a sunset, usually late but always with reason, amiable, the gayest one, overly idealistic 

dagger: frank but fair, the first smell of rain after a hot day, sleeping in, cold drinks, sensible, doesnt share much about themselves, cares deeply, needs caffeine  

axe: brave, persistent but stubborn, rather use action than words, loud and boisterous, unmannerly but always apologizes, kind hearted, really likes dogs, the sensation of finally lying down in bed after a hard day

lance: cautious, practical, dumbass passing, overly defensive at times, prefers sweets to savory, the first to offer advice, a safe person to be around, probably bi

staff: intuitive and careful, writing poems, mid day tea, not the most athletic, sarcastic and witty, over working, lack of sleep, loyalty, probably really into frogs tbh

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The Aftermath of an Explosion

Cogs gently turn and a soft whir starts up as Chip lifts his head, blinking his photoreceptors as his internal components come online. Immediately he could tell something was amiss. His father and brother stood above him with worried expressions, another Walter Worker at the back tapping at a computer, the wires plugged into the ports in the back of his neck, the metallic scar of welding across his face, the unfamiliar green of his right eye. Fletcher smiles at him, tears in his eyes as he places his hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay, Chip. You're alright now. Just- take some time to set yourself back up, we have...a surprise of sorts for you."

He looks sideways at Data, giving his other "son" a cheery grin as he stands and backs away a little.

"And don't you tell him either!"

He steps backwards and quietly addresses the other Walter Worker, leaving the two brothers alone. Data kneels next to Chip, handing him a clean shirt to put on.

|What do you remember?|

[Huh?]

|What...what year is it to you?|

Chip pauses for some time, gears turning in his head as he tries to remember through the blanks in his memory.

[I...I dunno. All I can remember is-]

Glitched images flash in his mind, terrible images of darkness, blood, a black cat, coupled with screeching sounds of crying, laughter, a demonic whisper. The images fade away, Chip staring blankly in horror.

[...Noffin. I remember noffin.]

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Basic Comprehensive Guide to Computer Hardware,

for all you beautiful writers or those who just wanna know about computers!

I’m tagging this as sasusaku because of the post I made earlier about helping writers with computer stuff. Hopefully that will help those lovely people find this post and save it as a reference. For your convenience, this long post is under a read more.

This post was made 9th July 2019 and will be updated with more information.

So first of all, we’ve got several major computer components: the Central Processing Unit (CPU),motherboard, main memory (RAM), secondary storage devices (such as an SSD or a hard drive), input and output devices (known as peripherals),and a Power Supply Unit (PSU).

Other important, but nonessential components include: the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) (a non-embedded GPU), a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), water coolers, wireless network adapters, and extra cooling fans. 

The CPU:

The Central Processing Unit is the part of the computer that actually runs programs. It is the most important part of the computer, because without it, the computer cannot run software. When a computer is performing a task that a program tells it to do, we say that the computer is running or executing the program.

How the CPU works: 

A computer’s CPU can only understand instructions that are written in machine language. Because it is very difficult to write entire programs in machine language, other programming languages have been invented. 

The CPU is designed to perform simple operations on pieces of data. For example, reading data, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, relational operators, etc.,

The CPU understands instructions written in machine language and included in its instruction set. Each brand of CPU has its own instruction set. 

In order to perform meaningful calculation, the CPU must perform many operations.

The CPU does nothing on its own, and must be told what to do. That’s why we have programs! A program is nothing more than a list of instructions that cause the CPU to perform operations!

Although a program can be stored on a secondary storage device, it has to be copied into the main memory, or RAM each time the CPU executes it. 

The CPU executes a program in a cycle of 3 steps: 

Fetch: read the next instruction from memory into CPU.

Decode: the CPU decodes the fetched instruction to determine which operation to perform.

Execute: the CPU performs the operation.

Here’s what my particular CPU looks like:

I have the intel i7-9700k processor, which has 8 physical cores. It’s a really good processor! It’s also quite cute. One of my favorite things is that inside my lighting software, iCUE (corsair utility engine) I can see the temperature of all my components, including all 8 cores inside my processor! 

Motherboard:

The purpose of the motherboard is to have a central location for all the main components of the computer. Since they’re all mounted/inserted on this board, they can communicate with each other and work together! Sweet!

Here’s what my motherboard looks like, isn’t she cute? 

The square in the top middle of the motherboard is the CPU socket! That’s where you mount your CPU. There are lots of different types of sockets for different brands of processors. The 4 channels to the right of that square are the ram channels. The L shaped covers at the top left contain the voltage regulator (my particular motherboard also has a small fan right there to cool it off), and the plates below the CPU are heatsinks. The solid state drives are beneath these heatsinks.

Main Memory (RAM):

The Main Memory, or RAM (which stands for Random Access Memory), is where the computer stores a program and the data used by the program while the program is running. 

For example, suppose you’re using a word processor like Microsoft Word to write something. While you are writing, both the word processing program and the piece you’re writing are stored in the main memory.

We call the main memory RAM because the CPU is able to quickly access data stored at any random location in the RAM. RAM is a volatile memory used for temporary storage while the program is running, so the contents of your computer’s RAM will be erased when the computer is turned off. Inside your machine, RAM is stored in chips. It’s really cute! 

Here’s my ram:

It’s the Corsair Vengeance RGB pro. My particular ram is 4x8, which means I have 4 sticks of RAM, each at 8GB. That means I have 32GB of RAM! 

Secondary Storage Devices: 

Secondary storage devices are used to hold data for long periods of time. Programs are stored here and then loaded to the main memory when needed.

So, we’ve got several types of secondary storage devices:

Disk Drive: Magnetically encodes data onto a spinning circular disk.

Solid State Drive (SSD): Faster than a disk drive. Has no moving parts, and stores data in solid state memory.

Flash Memory (flash drive, memory stick): Portable, no physical disk. Usually used by connecting it to a computer’s Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication port and appears to the computer as a disk drive, but does not contain a disk.

Optical devices (compact disk (CDs), digital versatile disk (DVDs)): Data is encoded optically as a series of pits on the disk surface. CD and DVD drives use a laser to detect the pits in order to read the encoded data. Optical disks hold large amounts of data, and for that reason, recordable CD and DVD drives are commonly used for creating backup copies of data.

Here are my SSDs, (solid state drives): 

I have 2 of these Samsung 970 pros under the heatsinks of my motherboard, both 1 TB each. They’re a lot faster than a hard drive because they don’t have any physical moving parts. They’re also a lot smaller and cuter! 

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU):

The GPU is designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in order to accelerate the creation of images. They can either be embedded in the motherboard (like most laptops or low-tier desktops) or be on a video card. 

So pretty much, your GPU does a lot of arithmetic! It’s very powerful and necessary for playing heavy games or editing videos. 

Here’s my GPU: 

This is the ASUS GTX 1080 ROG STIX RGB GPU. Lots of acronyms there, but she’s really cute! She has 3 fans to keep her cool while I’m playing Skyrim and Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. She’s also got some HDMI ports and stuff on the back there. That’s how you connect your monitor or VR to her! 

So a lot of you have heard of the GPU hype lately, I’m sure. So, there’s a couple types of GPUs.

TI: stands for titanium, and just means that it’s more powerful than the graphics card without it. So the ASUS GTX 1080 TI ROG STRIX RGB is more powerful than my GPU, the ASUS GTX 1080 ROG STRIX RGB. The TI versions of graphics cards have more shader processors (cores and shit) that are able to carry out specialized processing and rendering tasks that are required for your computer to display stuff on your monitor.

GTX: nobody really knows? Grand Tourismo Xtreme? Graphics Technology Xtreme? Sounds cool though.

RTX: Ray Tracing! Ray tracing is a rendering technique that can produce incredibly realistic lighting effects. Basically, an algorithm can trace the path of light, and then simulate the way that the light would react with the virtual objects it hits in the generated world. 

Cooling Systems: 

So, there’s a lot to unpack here. You can do mineral oil (submerge your entire computer in a fish tank of mineral oil! No thanks, that sounds really inconvenient for maintenance.) regular fans, water cooled, and I’m sure there’s much more shit I haven’t even heard of. Today we’ll be talking about fans and water cooling.

Fans: lots of different kinds. They spin to cool your computer down! 

Tip: When cleaning your fans on your computer, you need to hold your fans still. When they spin, they generate power to the motherboard (think of it like a computer windmill) and can cause it to overheat and get messed up. A lot of people like to clean their fans using compressed air for convenience, but if you let the blades spin freely while you’re blowing air at them, they will generate too much electricity for the motherboard to handle. 

There’s many kinds of fans, like SP (static pressure), AF (airflow), and ML (magnetic levitation). There’s a lot more that I haven’t really studied. I personally like my ML fans because they’re pretty and super quiet! 

Water Coolers: 

Water coolers take advantage of the basic principle of thermodynamics- heat moves warmer objects to cooler objects. As the cooler object gets warming, the warmer object gets cooler. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1lNwCKs-c

This wonderful youtube video bu Tao of Tech does a really fantastic job of explaining. I feel that the visuals he produces are much more effective than my typing. 

This is my water cooler, the Corsair H150i Pro. 

The block with the Corsair logo is referred to as the water block or the CPU block. This sits directly on the CPU on top of the motherboard. The fans sit on top of the radiator at the front of my case, although it’s possible to mount your radiator and fans in the top of the case as well. 

There are two types of water coolers: AIO and Custom. 

AIO stands for all in one. The water cooler above is an AIO loop. The water inside does not need to be changed because it’s a closed loop! I love my water cooler because there’s a lot less maintenance on it than using a custom loop! 

A Custom loop consists of larger tubes, a reservoir, and a pump. You need to replace the water inside it every so often (I’d say like 6-8 months but I have friends who have left it in there for years). The tubes and all have to be cleaned out, and the custom loops are quite bulky. However, it makes it very easy to liquid cool both your GPU and CPU simultaneously and can in some cases be more efficient than an AIO loop. You really need to know what you’re doing when you build a custom water cooling loop, but they can look super cool and perform really really well. 

One popular brand of cooling fluid (my computer science friends and I lovingly call it computer water, the forbidden drink) is thermaltake. There’s lots of different colors for you to customize your system! 

Here’s an interesting video from JayzTwoCents on his custom loop with 2 year old fluid! He drains his system in this video. It’s pretty sweet.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8wwxGPGApU

I HIGHLY recommend JayzTwoCents if you want to know more about building PCs! 

Input Devices:

Input is data that the computer collects from devices. An input device is a component that collects data, usually from the end user (you!) For example, keyboards, mice, touchscreens, and cameras are all input devices.

Disk drives can be considered input devices because programs and devices are retrieved from them and then loaded into the computer’s main memory.

Output Devices:

Output is data produced by the computer for people or devices. This data can be text, image, audio, or bit stream. An output device formats and presents output. This may be a video display (your monitor, or screen), or a printer.

Disk drives and USB drives can be considered output devices because data is sent to them to be saved.

Here’s my machine. Try to identify which parts are which! 

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sleeby,,,, sleeby boyes,,,,,,

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{Eh, I've already lost both my arms and got them replaced, what's a leg to all that?}

[Snap, we're not taking your leg off.]

{Why not? I'll just get Keenan to carry me.}

|I'm not letting that filthy shifter anywhere near you-|

"'Ey! I'm stood right here! And no, I'm not gonna let you be legless."

{The only other thing is sentimental value and I'd rather not loose anything like that.}

[Technically, won't a leg have sentimental value too?]

"....Woah."

“Your payment can either be something of incredible sentimental value to you or your left leg.”

[brobot-boys]

Aesthetic boards? Hell yeah.

Chip:

Snap:

Data:

other characters coming soon???

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A beanie with a propeller on top for Chip!

[Bruv! ‘Ey, bruv!] Chip exclaims, leaning into the doorway of Snap’s room. 

{What’s up Chippy?} The younger cobalt bot says, not looking up from tuning his guitar.

[Look at my hat!] He says with excitement, pointing to the curious beanie he had found, wanting to show it off.

Snap’s eyes light up slightly as he sees Chip in a beanie, at first curious as to why he was copying his style, but then notices the propeller on top. {Wha- uh…What is that?}

[It’s my beanie!]

{…Usually they have…bobbles on top or somethin’…}

[Well mine’s cooler cus it’s got a propeller on top!]

He stares at Chip for a couple moments before going back to his guitar, doing a test strum before fiddling with the tuning pins again. {It looks weird.}

[Wha- You look weird!] Chip frowns at his brother, knowing that he was only teasing. He then crosses his arms, looking away with a dramatic flair. [Fine then! I’m gonna find someone who’d like my better hat!] Walking out (not forgetting to close the door behind him), Chip goes in search of someone who would appreciate his taste in good headwear.

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*Sings* "Ice cream man! give 'im a hand!" *hands the boys an ice cream each. Data= vanilla, Snap= chocolate, Chip= chocolate chip*

[tHE GREATEST MAN IN ALL THE LAND!] Chip continues, smiling happily as he realises that it’s chocolate chip - chip, like him!

{Aw, neat.} Snap says quietly, noticing the similarity but difference between his and his twin’s ice creams, appreciating it quite a bit.

|Hah, they’re kinda like us! Thank you, anon.| Data smiles. 

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"I'm not a vampire" from FIR (Snap), "Best Friend" from Queen (Data), and "Honeybee" (Chip) From Sprocket

{Nice song choice.} Snap grins, giving a thumbs up.|Hah, thank you. I’m honored.|[Y-you-! You chose Honeybee? For me? Ah, gosh! Thank you!] Chip smiles, unable to contain his happiness.

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"Where the heck did you guys go?" Dex aseked, raising a brow as he casually twirled a drumstick in his hand. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYS!" Sprocket ran and launched herself at Chip, knocking him over. "....Hi!" she added, Specter peeping in through the doorway.

Well! This is a story and a half.

"Unfortunately, we had some family business--" Data pauses as he sidesteps Sprocket, allowing her to crash into Chip. "--to attend to. It...took longer than we expected, and we're sorry about that."

"SPROCKET I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!" Chip stumbles back a little, staying pretty upright, and is practically crying, hugging his gal tightly with one arm while he attempts to wave at Dex and Specter.

Somehow, Snap seems even more nervous, despite the fact that his anxiety was usually eased significantly around the cousins, waving and sinking into his oversized hoodie. "'Sup." He mumbles.

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A couple of notes about some things

Basically more for myself to expand on fully with a character list and timeline and such, but also for people to understand what the hell I'm going on about XD

They're open for being questioned about too! :D

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The Ondor extended family + history

Chip, Snap and Data are the "sons" of Fletcher Ondor, son of Arcaenus Ondor, the circus master, and brother to Mortikai. Fletcher grew up wanting to become a robot creator and was employed by Walter Robotics, initally creating Chip and Data, then later Snap. He was "lost" a few years after Snap's creation in a dimension dubbed the Somewhere Else, which he has yet to come return Ford-Pines-from-Gravity-Falls-style from. Mortikai followed in his father's footsteps to become the next ringleader of the family circus, but Arcaenus' abusive nature brought him to make a deal with a dark spirit and from that has been gifted immortality (the kind where you don't age but can die from wounds) and the ability to shapeshift into four feline forms. Mortikai has a wife and daughter, Emilia and Ango, as well as adopted son Tobias, who is a shapeshifter who can turn into a german shepherd, the two effectively being the brobots' cousins. Mortikai is also the right hand man of the dark spirit, dubbed Dark Brink in the legends it comes from, and orders those under it's power, aka proxies. Minor Creepypasta vibes I know XD Two of them currently work under Mortikai when he is at the Manor as a Walter Worker, Keenan Fulmine and Mia Falaz, both of whom are working to become Engineers. Keenan is a lion shapeshifter with powers of electricity control, while Mia is a self proclaimed technomancer (primary control over metals and minor control over fire, water and electricity) and has built two crude robots in her short time alive.

(Random notes: Snap has a slight crush on Keenan, Keenan and Mia are exes, and Ango always wears a mask to cover the scarring on her face)

Amalgamate

Amalgamate, also known as Mal, is the name given to Chip when he was taken over by Dark Brink. He is named so because inside the one robot chassis the mind of Chip mingled with the dark spirit and created Snap, so effectively there were three minds piloting one chunk of metal. He would have a different appearance based on who was in main control - Black eyes with white pupils when DB was in control, regular light blue eyes when Chip was in control, and dark blue eyes when Snap was in control. Mal was easily agitated, with DB bringing out the worst in Chip's personality and manipulating him into doing unspeakable things. This forced fusion was put to rest when Mortikai rebelled against his "master" and overloaded Chip, which resulted in his head exploding, hence his scarring and green eye. Snap's individual personality was salvaged and patched together with strings from both of his brothers before he got his own body.

(If anyone is interested in roleplaying with him, then that's possible by either playing in his time era (early 1900s) or via the power of blue portals to bring him to present day :))

Danger Data

Dark Brink has it's sights set on using the brothers for it's plan (whatever that is), going after the eldest brother many years later and into present day. It convinces Data that it's not going to harm him or his brothers and slowly manipulates him into believing that anyone who isn't immediately related to him is out to harm him and his family, and that he must take them out before they do so. Occasionally, he will allow the spirit to inhabit his body, Mal-style, except that Dark Brink has learned his lesson and keeps these experiences brief, as the creation of more emo brothers that know exactly what you're up to wouldn't be too good. It's clear to tell when Data is in these states on influence, as his photoreceptors will glow red, a function implemented into him after the whole Mal incident. In this state, his brothers are usually the only ones who can bring him back and convince him that no one's going to hurt them.

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Chip's is his hat, who he got from a young human boy he made friends with while in England. He keeps it with him everywhere he goes, either on his head or in a pocket for bag.

Snap has all sorts of odd trinkets he deems lucky, all of them hidden in a shoe box under his bed. Anything from dies to sea glass to funky rocks. He keeps fidget toys in there too, when they're not in his pockets.

Data has a gem wrapped in leather chord that he wears at all times, hiding it underneath his shirt. A friend of his human cousin made it for him to ward off evil spirits, as we all know what could happen if a certain one gets it's way with him.

Fanbot Friday Prompy #165

Does your fanbot carry a lucky charm?

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I'm so tempted to give Chip a kazoo

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HAPPY EASTER :D

This should not have taken as long as it should have but oh weeeelllllll

Data is only sad because he didn't get an animal to dress up as

Snap is keeping the hat he loves it

Chip is just happy to dress up

So yeah! Happy Easter guys! I hope yous had a good one! :D

Also tomorrow I'll be posting the thing I planned for April Fools Day because I was very useless today and I'm too tired to finish what I've done so far :')

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The boys as things me and my cousin have said today

Snap: There's a cat using my foot as a pillow and I'm too afraid to move

Chip: WHERE IS THE THINGAMIEJIG?!?! THE THING?!?! AAAAAAAAAAA??!?!! It's in my bag isn't it oh no

Data: *looking at the other after they just came in from the rain, knowing full well it's raining* oh woah you're drenched is it raining or something???

Mal: Hey can you come here a second? *throws thing at them* Thanks

Fletcher: *very softly* oh no

Mortikai: what do you mean "bring a gun"? what're you gonna do, shoot a ghost?

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Snap, despite them being his favourite animal, doesn't trust black cats. Chip would be the one trying to make friends while Data cautions him about it.

Which OC would attempt to pet the black cat crossing their path, and which OC would immediately run away?