#PC Assembly

[aerink-vt]

Things have been a little quiet cause I've been really busy lately.. including building my first ever PC! It was really nerve-wracking, and it's been a bit of a journey, but it's been such a dream now to have a PC + ethernet. Hoping to return to streaming by this weekend! 🤞🩵

(I've since moved the wire away from the fan, this is a pic from the other day lol)

[utilitycaster]

I'll be missing the live wrap-up but i wanted to say it's been disheartening but sadly unsurprising the way a lot of people who started with Campaign 3 talk about Marisha and Laura especially. It feels as though they see them as little more than vessels to provide Laudna and Imogen content. They get outright mad when people ask them questions in the AMA Firesides or 4SD about their jobs in Critical Role as a company, or other characters they've played, or their personal feelings about things they enjoy. A lot of them hate the Cobalt Soul despite Marisha explicitly and repeatedly saying it's incredibly meaningful to her, and are vocal about this, but will attack you if you say you're not a big fan of Laudna. Their approach to Keyleth feels like little more than a convenient opportunity for them to say "you can't ever criticize Marisha! Look at the harassment she received" but they'll then direct this claim towards anyone, even people who watched C1 live and experienced that in real-time and opposed it. They'll engage in harassment themselves and claim it's in defense of Marisha, then turn around and shit talk the Cobalt Soul and yell about how the Ashari are evil Ruidusborn haters and Beauyasha is boring.

And to be clear I have a longstanding and documented history of disliking obnoxiously parasocial behavior or invasive/repetitive/overly generic panel questions. I think, and I mean this genuinely, that it's completely fine and reasonable to be a CR fan who is here for characters only, and isn't interested in the cast. Indeed, I think a lot of early fans of the show were mostly here for the story of Vox Machina, and I respect the people who didn't connect to the Mighty Nein nor have an attachment to the cast and politely stepped away. I am not demanding everyone love every piece of merch nor every creative direction choice lest they disrespect Laura or Marisha; that is not how this works. But there's a difference between "I'm not really interested in anything but Keyleth, so I'm only tuning in to TLOVM chats!" vs this entitled distaste, verging on disgust, among a certain set of C3 fans when Marisha and Laura especially spend even a minute of their out-of-character time talking about anything other than Laudna and Imogen. If you do this, you cede the right to any "they're having fun/it's meaningful or comforting or makes them happy" defense (which, to be clear, I do not think is a valid argument with regards to the quality of a story, but which a lot of these people hypocritically invoke) or "if you dislike this female character or F/F ship you're a bigoted person," especially when you resent the actual real-world women behind your pretend characters for choosing to answer a question about anything other than what you personally care about.

And ultimately, I think that if you are dismissive and resentful towards the bulk of what the cast/company does (this includes when you turn this resentment towards fans for daring to ask questions about anything else, even in places that aren't at all C3-specific like panels or cast fireside AMAs, or places where the crew or the cast themselves are the ones actually choosing which questions are answered), it is childish and embarrassing to then act like you are being wronged and your opinions cruelly disregarded simply because something of which you only like one small facet fails to cater to you. You don't have to like it; but you showed up to part 3 of a trilogy and got mad that the creators sometimes talk about parts 1 and 2.

[lemontartmart]

I can't find the post but i was inspired by the person who drew their PC as a robot so here's Miku PC!!! Miku PC just wants to have a good time and be your friend!

Irl Miku PC pics

[wormboytrav]

while i wait for my new pen to arrive have some more IT at the DWMA shenanigans ft. me

[biveii]

hello fellow elevator regretters. throwing my bive design at you. this is mostly for me, while i figure how to draw her, but i wanted to share :-)

[toghomevideo]

if they didnt ban female presenting nipple, this blog was on track to beat my main. oh well.

[anonymocha]

nothing more intimate than operating on a robot girl… checking up on her sensor systems by connecting her to your computer… and then unscrewing her head plate to see the physical state of her controls, seeing the entanglement of her wires and rows of circuited boards… or opening her chest to clean the dust off her power systems… you need to keep your hands covered with anti-static gloves to touch her delicate structures, be gentle with the cables in her body… whatever

[plebeiangoth]

*I'm worse than a proud parent*

I mentioned Barbie, so now I gotta share more baby photos

I apparently don't have recent photos of her, the top one is the most recent one on my phone. (God how I don't miss that gross brown carpet in the bottom photos.) Nor do I have any up-to-date photos of her hardware. ☹️ And I'm too lazy to do anything about it right now.

But this was my first-ever PC build and is still my daily driver and gaming beast! I wonder if I'll ever see the day when I can't see the case underneath all the stickers

Will have to take new pictures soon, the translucent red plastic needs to go. It's supposed to mount a fan but the way I have the fans configured and with her current GPU being fuck-off huge, a fan doesn't fit there. Also it's cracked and ugly. So I want to replace it with either plain clear acrylic or tempered glass to keep the airflow balanced and to see the light show better. Honestly leaning toward tempered glass because apparently it's much cheaper than acrylic and looks infinitely prettier

[frogseasons]

as a non-tech-y person whenever i see people people fucking around with emulators and mods on video games its like witnessing an arcane wizard power…. magic of Computer and Devices…. i know the tomes exist to reach such a level of magicraft but they are only accessible to those with hours of study in Magic Computer and 2000 gold coins worth of spell components

[bloodpen-to-paper]

FOREVER'S BACK FOREVER'S FUCKING BACK THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL

[cloud-ya]

I feel the pain of laptop memory, I mostly play on laptop cause my phone isn't great but I had to buy an external SSD to play with it since I otherwhise wouldn't be able to use it for much at all, tho mine isn't even a gaming laptop

gaming on laptop is such a scam 😔 but that's all I could afford for now as it was starting to be a real emergency with my old laptop choking more and more on anything

[transgaysex]

does anyone have any tips on how to gather the courage for several big expenses

[aoitakumi8148]

[Left behind] 𝟙 of 𝟙.

𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓐𝓵𝔀𝓪𝔂𝓼 𝓗𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓐 𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓮, 𝓝𝓸 𝓜𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓒𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓜𝓪𝔂 𝓑𝓮.

Come close, and I will touch you. Talk to me, and I will relax. Bound me to your rules, and I will remain a volunteer. Punish me, and I will accept it. Take the organ along with the flower I give you, and your precious life will be saved. Vanish, and the eternity will make us more hollow than ever. We can't continue together, we can't die together, but perhaps the very power of this unhealable wound will help me to keep my bits of humanity...

[brutalgamer]

Thrones of Decay brings the rot, new DLC coming for Total War: Warhammer III

A mixture of free and paid DLC is on the way for Total War: Warhammer III, headlined by Empire, Dwarfen, and Nurgle heroes.

[doctorwalrider]

Xennie says hi!!

[n1ghtwarden]

see before this update i did toy with having the possibility of minth having multiple endings (i.e she will travel with some of the party and see the world) but with her family converging aboveground i cannot see her just washing her hands of them (esp since her sos'umptu has her daughter still in menzo) and walking away from that entirely. ALL ROADS LEAD TO MENZO (half of them are probably planning to betray each other to crown themselves leader of this free city state menzo is likely going to become)