Friday, 20 January 2017

Anti-Feminist Rant!.. or have some common sense!

Men have more drive in the workplace NOT because of some mythical patriarchy, but because they are genetically built that way.

job = prestige = chance of family.

If we apply that to a woman.. its falls apart.

why? because a woman doesn't need prestige to have children. and so she doesn't have to earn the respect of it. and so she will never respect it like a man does.

If a man.. your man.. is happy giving attention to his hobby, congratulations! you have a good man. Don't belittle his hobby, in fact, give him attention for it and he might get better at it. If you are worried he is bored with you, he isn't. It's natural male behaviour, it how he learns how to teach your children.

He is not out cheating on you and you know where he is. He is not squandering money on drugs or gambling, as long as the bills get paid, he doesn't cheat or hit you or the children (within reason.. I mean if my son steals my wallet and crashes my car, he's goiny get a shock when I belt/punch him in the face.. but I'm scottish ymmv) and he spends at least an hour with you a night, DON'T cheat on him.

Women do NOT get paid less than men.

WHY? because it's ILLEGAL! you can sue for it.

Women don't chase higher paying jobs, as a NATIONAL AVERAGE. not per person.. per person yes women get paid less, because they take part time jobs because it suits them. it makes them happy.. while men KNOW they *must* take full time jobs for their wife to RESPECT them.

The same people who believe genetics determine our state of existence, also believe that we can break that state .. OKAY:

1. If you believe that state can be broken, then self determination can rule our interaction in society, with the human state being unavoidably fallible, and that you can never truly see from another person point of view:

Q: how can so few people shape society and be correct across all fields with all people.

A: You cannot.

And to all those who answered 'We're not monkeys now': fail. Come back when you have a non-monkey answer.

Wrestling with human fallibility is a huge subject that can't be answered with one liners.

A few months ago, 18th April 2016, I wrote on Phil Mason's Wikipedia talk page, on how valid a critic he was against the feminazi. The article was being discussed for deletion that he was not noteworthy enough. here is what I wrote:

 "Phil Mason aka Thunderfoot, is Anita Sarkeesian's main opponent in Third Wave Feminism aka Feminazi .. If I were to go over to Anita's page and delete it.. how long until it was restored?? Phil Mason.. while I am Catholic and do not agree with all his views, is an important figure in 'Gender Balance' regardless of his other work or accomplishments.If Wikipedia allows her to have a page.. oh the irony! and not Phil Mason.. it's just another reproof of Gender inequality and that we in the West, are broken as a society. which in my humble opinion we are! Anita is well documented as having faulty research. Especially by Phil Mason. peace."

A user (I will not name) interfered with my comment, and so a 'edit war' began which was reported (by myself and I suspect him). The comment was deleted by a wikipedia administrator, and I assume employee as their name was in gold. Wikipedia, which strives to be 'unbiased' is in FACT BIAS! bias towards the evil propaganda that Anita Sarkeesian spouts.

Do YOU see the irony? in my comment I had complete confidence of wikipedia non-bias stance.
The other editor did not interact with my comment for reasons within the wikipedia guidelines, but because it bested his argument and beliefs. And A.S. gets her way like a spoilt child, with many white knights charging in body-shielding waving her banner of evil propaganda.


PUH-Lease!

Just because many were taken in by her does NOT mean we should be, and a valid open discussion on whether or not she should be allowed to represent ANY group of human beings should be established!

Think am done for now.. do you blame me?

flip!





Monday, 19 December 2016

Gibson Guitar Models.. Standard Special Junior Custom etc

Hullo

want this out of my head..

5. Supreme
4. Custom
3. Standard
2. Special
1. Junior

list two

7. Supreme (Supra is a variant imho)
6. Custom
5. Professional
4. Standard
3. Deluxe
2. Special
1. Junior

list three

8. Supreme*
7. Custom
6. Professional or Artist
5. Standard
4. Deluxe*
3. Studio
2. Special
1. Junior


list four

9. Supreme*
8. Custom
7. Artist
6. Professional
5. Standard
4. Deluxe*
3. Studio
2. Special
1. Junior

Notes:

*Supra is a variant imho. And Deluxe is also used for Supremes but stripped down ones
* the SG3 came in a special standard and custom variant, but was basically a deluxe in that it was experimental and meant to slightly compete with the SG standard, but for less money.
Deluxes are traditionally experimental. it is only recently that Gibson have begun using this Model on their SG types.

I wish to assign the closest Heraldic Inlay to each guitar model. (with Pictures!)

This all for fun and no one will ever read it.. so have fun me!


9. Supreme*

8. Custom


7. Artist




6. Professional







5. Standard

4. Deluxe*


3. Studio

Studio Alt. Three moons align with crescent moon on the 5th 12th and 17th frets only.




2. Special


1. Junior


What would I do if I were Gibson CEO?

Juniors and Melody Makers, Specials, Standards and Customs of each body type.

Studios I think, were intended to be for the studio only hence their name, and so not at all decorative. This has verged wildly. On Studios, I would have coil splits, cap and bass cut switches so you can get any tone when you are in the Studio, like the Deluxes, but Deluxes should be decorative, like Studio + Decoration, nice MOP inlays like the Standard, but the Deluxe < > Diamond.

Professionals and Artists should be this equivalent but to the Custom, being even more decorative than the Standard, again, many switching options. IMHO they should have model optional Floyd Roses.

Supreme, being all these things and flame maple/quilt maple tops, and all switching options.

IMHO

The Studios are the experimental Specials. With the Specials having light decoration and the studios having almost none. The moons illustrated above are to represent 'working all night' in a studio. with only the headstock, 5th 12th and 17th fret having any decoration. EG.. a 'SG Studio' would have no scratchplate and the pickups with be screwed into the wood with a rubber or foam balancer, 4 speed knobs and no disc to indicate the pick selection. Often the wood would not be stained at all, just a light coat of sealer and then the hard gloss is applied. If you don't like the look of it.. put stickers on it hehe. It's a studio, its not meant to look good, its meant to perform! If you want something better looking, then buy the SG Special ;) 

The Deluxes are to compete with the Standards, except with experimental switching options (coil splits/ unusual pickups and configs, like single coil sized humbuckers + 24 frets).

The Professionals do something similar to the Deluxes, but as mentioned are to compete with the Custom but up the game seriously, with Piezo undersaddle acoustic style pickups or with MIDI and USB, all offered with optional Floyd Rose or hard tail at *no extra cost*. No flame maple top on the Professional, but optional extra of decorative MOP vines on the fretboard at cost.

The Artist being highly decorative and having greater switching options than the Standard, with Flame Maple Cap (at least 1/4 inch thick) fretboard vine or or hearts or ivy or tigers climbing a tree or puppies/kittens playing, if ordered from an online retailer you will get one that they send, but as an extra incentive to buy direct from Gibson, Gibson will let you choose one of the 5. By doing this kind of thing, I am *making* Gibson EARN their money instead of just sitting back and charging 3 Grand* for basically nothing more than a standard.

Putting the 'Custom' back into 'Custom'.. I'd let people order online what they wanted their Custom to be, from a set of both traditional options and Decoration options. That's it.. your guitar how you like it.

The Supreme being as the above, but instead having access or ALL the RANGE options, every. single. one.


The Flowerpot Inlay on the Supreme sometimes misnomered at the 'Smashing Champagne Glass'.. a real 'Smashing Champagne Glass Inlay' should be done, this is to signify a opera singer smashing a glass with her voice.


Supreme alt


OR 





* 3 thousand dollars

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Borderlands : The PreSequel .. Story thoughts..

Ahoyhoy

Jack is not evil. He only becomes evil when Lilith destroys his self worth. THEN he IS evil. But why?? why did she do that? .. she had no nobler goal than he did, her worth is not more than his? her morality was worse than his for much of the game. being a rented goon, and then betraying him for profit.

In the events of Borderlands 2.. I now see SHE was the reason Jack killed Roland, becuase she had betrayed him.. and then disfigured him; adding injury to insult. He became a psycho after that, and so all the bad stuff that happened to his daughter Angel.. could have been averted if Lilith had not disfigured him.

why?? why did she do that.. i think i gotta go back and check the story.

Saturday, 6 August 2016

YT Comment on the Anti-Feminism Australia channel.

Thanks for the video. liked.

I'm a christian traditionalist (and so is my fiancee, she is Asian Latino).

In the West third generation feminism has spoiled and corrupted women, sometime around the 1980's second generation feminists completed the work started by the suffragettes in the 1850's. It was *then* they should have stopped. From that point on all they have sown is disharmony, selfishness and gender law-bias. There is a saying 'technology for technology's sake'.. after the completion of the work, the following banner waving became 'feminism for feminism's sake'. an unending social club for womens .. a football team that all women are indoctrinated into from birth that they should be privileged.

No wonder Western men now seek out countries that have first and second generation feminism when looking for a mate, and not the evil female supremacy of the third. A woman's nature is meant to compliment a man's nature, not destroy it by making them effeminate* and afraid to speak.Most western men act like the eunuchs of old around their partners. Indocterend by western society from birth. I cannot even watch a western movie without at some point a feminist agenda rammed down my throat. OK OK.. we get it, you don't need us anymore.. we'll go elsewhere gladly!

It's respect. Men are paid in respect and women are paid in attention. For women, rape is forced sexual congress and being made to surrender their body (rem there is a seal on female virginity for a reason). For men, rape I feel takes a equally disturbing, but very different turn. If a woman is in a relationship with a man, say married, then cheats and bares another man's child, and *her husband* raises the child without knowing, a cuckoo, then that woman is akin to a murderer in my opinion. Many men kill themselves after this happens. And the woman.. she just walks away..

For women rape is bodily. for men rape is 'financial emotional investment' and 'value of self' lost.

Because you see.. it's in a man nature to strive for respect. It is the core of his being, men will work harder longer if they think it will get them a woman they love. Men will work harder to achieve respect from his children, from his wife. If she pays him the respect she owes him, that he earned from her already, then he will care about his investment in her emotions and listen to her, even picking up on her facial expressions.  But all that is gone now, it's lost. Why? becuase of 30 years of third gen feminists busy spoiling women over men, robbing men of being themselves. WHY ARE WOMEN AFRAID TO GO OUT AT NIGHT? RAPE? HAHA..no. it is your nature, you were born with it, it the reason you might seek out a mate that is not afraid. The same why my nature is when I imagine some stranger coming in my house at night and me bashing his brain in. it's my nature. Feminists; you can intellectualize all you like.. but if women are afraid at night and you keep blaming rape, eventually you will be found out by being proven wrong.

Too many women in the west act like men, and too many men act like women.. I could write more on this, but why bother? i'll just not go to the west and leave western women with the men who didn't feel they had a choice but to marry inside their own country and put up with all the female privilege.

Recently a western journalist made a video about all the things that arab men have.. it sounded amazing! You were showing a starving man a banquet!.. becuase all the things the arab men have.. the western women have here too!.. if you don't do as she says.. she threatens to divorce you and take all your stuff. Even if you have a simple fight, she might go and cheat on you becuase she doesn't have to respect you. If she becomes unhappy for whatever reason and you are still happy..she will tell you to get out of your house becuase 'she's leaving you'. crazy! women here are.. i'll just say it: 'evil and don't know it'.

The 'human' thing to do is: she leaves and wants nothing. expects no friendship.
That's respectful.

Oh I seem to have written a blog article.. oops!



*rem they are born to be masculine and dominant.

Monday, 18 April 2016

Feminazi.. or Social Experiments on Boiling Frogs..

Hullo

Let's talk about the advent of modern feminism.. firstly I'm a christian traditionalist. It's what makes me feel that the universe has some part of it for me, it's an opinion but also an emotional concern, one I cannot live without.

I was much like most men.. a boiled frog in the scalding hot water of modern feminism.Until I got to experience a country that had only first and second generation feminists, and got to see what it was like to be *cared* for and *valued* as a man. My whole life, which I thought was normal, I had never experienced the company of a feminine woman, and suddenly I was surrounded by caring women. This as you might imagine opened my eyes to what the world was 25 to 30 years ago, with second generation feminism.

The West is ruined now.. its a train wreck of society, crashed somewhere on the side of 'Silent Hill' a nightmare. I believe in dignity for women.. these are our sisters our daughters our mothers aunts grandmothers..Second Generation was the completion of the work started by the suffragette movement, completed sometime around the 1980s.

Q :What purpose is Third Generation Feminism?

A: To rob men.

It's very simple, once the work was completed they continued.. hoisting the banner for their cause.. whether they realized it was done or not, didn't seem as important to them, as to have it all.

It the nature of a man, to strive for respect, it is NOT in a woman's nature, a woman's nature is to seek community and personal security. they NEED that.. its written in to their emotions, just as much as men need prestige respect..men abhore humiliation, it is the opposite of a man's nature.

Q: Do I rule my wife with an iron fist?

A: No, in fact she has a lot of choice in our relationship, I do reserve the last say in something, and I tell her to cover up because it humiliates me when she goes around uncovered outside. Showing other men what should be kept secret for me.

She pays me the respect I earned from her. Which is what Third Generation Feminists are taught not to do now.. ' you don't need a man' and so his value and efforts are less. often made a joke by feminist women.

Third Generation Feminism is a horrible social experiment.. to see how much torment men can take. everywhere I go.. every movie I watch .. has some feminist message about how low value men are, and how great strong attractive women are.

They should have stopped in the 1980s. they had everything that was fought for. This is IT.. this was what men had! we didn't have anything else greater than you, but what we had you took anyway and laughed at us for yielding. that sums up Third Gen Feminism today.. The Feminazi.. an evil fascist ideology, besetting western men with very very slow slavery.

Q: But how can you compare the two, fascism and feminism?

A: An ideology with a sole purpose of promoting an agenda, regardless of facts and empirical evidence. Use of propaganda to forward said ideals again regardless of facts and empirical evidence.
A World Order agenda that seeks to destroy opposing opinions, regardless of democracy or free speech.

I think you are getting where I am coming from.. and the feminists do not need to kill anyone as long as they get their way. If they do not like a man.. they divorce him, regardless of his investment with her.

Such woman; abandoners and cuckoos.. are like rapists and murderers to me. To abandon family for self satisfaction?? Men live miserable lives, they need comfort to be happy, so they invest time with a woman who is meant to give them comfort for the rest of their lives. but no longer. It's just not worth the effort..and so something is broken.

Women who cheat and bear a child to another, and the husband raises the child as a lie. such a woman should get life in jail.

Children thrive best with two happy parents who love each other..but now very strange days beset us.

I've written enough for now.. but no doubt ill be back. This topic upsets me and i often feel I should write about it.


Progression of Gender Inequality According To Me:

1600's to 1700's:



1800's:

1960's:




1970's:




1980's:








1990's:






2000's:




2010's:


Update: 18/04/17

The balance of power is a thing that has to be 'set' this takes much time, if we look at the wage equality laws as a 'trigger' event, then it might take up to 50 years for it to be fully activated. But feminist are oblivious to the required amount of time to change the balance of power without wrecking society, and even worse, they keep manufacturing 'trigger events' even when the power was balanced in the 1980's. One such trigger event is the global media slant to feminist politics, like some sort of fascist propaganda campaign to turn in your relatives to win fabulous prizes, daily the male western psyche is bombarded with messages of how 'utterly useless and worthless their existence as a western male is and they should either become a puppy dog or kill themselves'.. useless: how futile their existence is as a western man, worthless: lacking value, and that their values are defunct currency, as women now control the 'thought stock exchange'.

They keep triggering events in our society, and the men are too weak to stand up and tell them 'no, too far!'. I would guess we have around 200 years of trigger events at this time, instead of the 50 years that was needed in the 1980s.



Update: 30/05/2017

My first article on gender equality :HERE:

"A feminine woman knows how to compromise.. it is not sex that is the weapon.. but her thoughts on him. If she has put in the work already.. he will *actually* care about her facial expressions and not just be blank to her inside. He CARES about the investment of respect he has in her heart!!"

I have been thinking more and more about this ^

I want to add, by showing submission to your husband, he becomes much more sure, the children are in fact his, and not that you are cheating on him and getting him to raise the children who are not his.
If he tells you to cover up your cleavage in public and you do it, then he can feel you are not looking to cheat on him or even better that you are not cheating already. Building up that he has the final say in something, means he is more likely to listen to you when you say something contrary to the action he has chosen for you both as a couple. HE OWES you.. When a man sacrifices his finances for the good of the couple, it goes much deeper for him than the money, he is staking his reputation, his prestige, his intellect on that you won't cheat on him and so humiliate him, he is building up respect with you, that YOU OWE him back by submission, he submits first by giving up his own desires to fulfil yours financially, then you in return show him you are willing to cooperate with his desires by giving him charge of the social interactions you both have, this builds a platform of which you can both interact, don't worry, he knows well if you keep not agreeing with his decisions, he is throwing away the respect he build up with you, and he should start listening to you.

In modern society; it's function or better to say malfunction is quite different. Man is the beleaguered participant in a trial pet homing initiative that is marriage. He is to be slightly tolerated, never listened to, spoken to with disdain and exhaustion of trial, patronized, dismissed, infantized without the virtue of being considered cute, but instead tiresome.  

WHY would ANY man want to live like this??

None would, but since Feminism has brainwashed men, they don't know what women are doing to them is wrong.

It's crazy in western society right now, all men are afraid of looking women in the eye in the streets in case they call the police.. yes it's that crazy!





Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The Perils of being a Man in this Society


First posted on Tall Dating Blog.

Posted on Sun, Sep 01, 2013 16:58





Hi!


Today.. and this year is a landmark year for me, I visited Asia for the first time and got meet feminine women.. I came back and went 'Oh wow! these women seem like men now!'



Here's an example.. that has happened to me personally.. I'm a human being.. I was walking down a street while there, I almost tripped on a curb, my eyes darted around and 2 women who did not know and hadn't spoken to, had a quick expression of concern on their face that I might fall over. Here.. if I fall over, as humans do from time to time and a woman (this happened to me in my twenties, I don't make a habit of it) .. I get a look of derision. What has gone wrong?? Where are the women who actually respected and cared for men?? they vanished long ago.. a myth these days..like watching an old Jason and the Argo movie.



Submission.. that's what's missing. I don't mean the kinky kind.. I mean for men it's about respect. Striving for respect is in a man's nature.. not a woman's. When you read that and if you just thought 'yes! it's in a women's nature' .. then already you're lost.. grow a set, and pay for your GF's enhanced surgery. That sounds dismissive.. so I offer the proof of what I say.



Did you ever hear you mother calling your father a rude name? That hurt him more than he can describe.. not just because she did that, because even married couples sometimes fight or be rude to each other, it's normal. But because she did it in front of the children. His humiliation was something akin to..finding out his daughter slept with many men.. something in that region but not quite as bad. But in the 'Top 5'..




Did he buy her flowers, tell her she's pretty.. open his heart in secret to her? then she can at least keep quiet until they have some time alone to have the fight! She can at least not say bad things to him in front of his friends or snipe him in the back to her friends.. that's what her sister-in-law is for.. not 'strangers' outside the family. She can at least cover up her cleavage in front of his family. .. but don't get me started on all that.. married women dressing like they are still single! ooft!




If you believe in the natures of human beings.. evolution.. by rights he should have badly beaten her for this great humiliation in front of *his* child.. (I think women forget that he has a bond to them too...) To express the hurt she made him feel. but we are civilized (to clarify.. being Scottish, men don't hit women here and vice versa .. it's borderline taboo.. unless you're a heroin addict). She should give him the respect he already earned from her. yes earned. He put the time in with her. The children got fed. The roof was kept above the heads. You could say 'ah many women can do this now!' and you'd be right.. so then for men there is now NO incentive to maintain a family.. because of THAT attitude.. and the children start out from a broken home. Why not just sleep around?? Do what you like to women and leave? There was a good reason women behaved the way they did.. to tie a man down was important! So she made flipping sure she gave him the respect he had already earned from her.



That was her submission to him.. not some machination of him disrespecting her! It's pure fantasy! taught to girls when they are little that every man they meet is doing something to them, as adults they are left with the vague sense that they are being disrespected without understanding what the interaction is.



A feminine woman knows how to compromise.. it is not sex that is the weapon.. but her thoughts on him. If she has put in the work already.. he will *actually* care about her facial expressions and not just be blank to her inside. He CARES about the investment of respect he has in her heart!!



But all of this Western women will never see again!! because feminism teaches women 'it's okay to be selfish, it's okay to be wrong and declare you are right.. and even when proven wrong.. it's okay because you can say you're a women and he should not try to hurt you' .. did I just describe the definition of relationship injustice??



Men here now.. are so close to wearing womens clothing just to please women it's crazy. they pretend and over-pretend to be 'the nice guy' that much that women are having a hard time having a good sex life with them.. because they remind them too much of other women.. their hormones ordered a man!! not a sissy.. who is too scared to lay down the truth and be themselfs!



Do you feel is if I was dominant in my words? good. I'm a man.. pleased to meet you!

Monday, 26 August 2013

Dream a little dream of me.. (1090FX speculation and thoughts)

Hi guys

been thinking about this off and on for around a year now. AMD 1090FX

AMD produced the 990FX two years ago now.. and at the time, their heads were up in the clouds with APU innovation, and quite rightly they should be proud! the AMD APU's today boast the best IGP's you can buy for cash money! they even let you crossfire these with low end cards, they have also released couple of chipsets for the FM socket. already you can see they have put a lot of work into this new innovation.. this is perhaps why.. as yet no 1090FX chipset.

The 990FX while good in it's day .. is getting on a bit.. I recently joked with a friend 'there is code in that chip, that even the Tardis can't translate' not true.. but I thought it funny at the time. The question for me was 'Do AMD expect me to give up and change to APUs, just to get a new chipset??' .. you might say 'oh the 990FX is fine!' and yes, you'd be right.. its fine.. okay.. acceptable. does the job. .. but if I could dream..

The 1090FX would have.. on chip drivers. An expanded UEFI flash chip much greater in size, which includes every driver for the whole motherboard.

And built in wifi.. why? surely no gamer ever uses wifi.. erm..correct.. I wouldn't trust it either... but when I do a fresh install it is so valuable and hassle free to have wifi handy for internet access, handy for a second network path (streaming from/to other comps) handy for sharing internet access to other computers.. not essential..but..

I would like to see more RAM slots on the motherboard, 4 is okay.. mediocre.. but 6 or 8 appeal to me, meaning I would not have to lose usable RAM modules to gain overall capacity, also if I choose I could put smaller capacity modules in and use the channels perhaps more effectively* ...

I would like to see DDR3.. but in the DDR4 range of speed, supported on the cpu memory controller and the next FX chipset/cpu range to have out of the box 3Ghz northbridge. at least. .. yes at least AMD! .. feeling totally narky about AMD's pants northbridges. I know the plan is system on chip, but cmon! if the northbridge is slow it chokes both the RAM and the PCIE bus.. flip! and we are meant to be happy with 2 something gigahertz and a tiny *token* heatsink? the Vishera is a fine chip but you put her in old clothes.. how are we meant to show her off when her dress is so tatty ..and all her friends (fans) know it! She should eat cake of a less 'Great Expectations' variety. or to put it another way, you can't kung fu kick Intel wearing clogs.

PCIE 3 with up to 6 lanes.. why? because we know this chipset is to last a couple of years and by then AMD and Nvidia might have opened up SLI/XCF to greater than 4 cards per respective multi protocol. I would like to see x16 only lanes.. why when the bandwidth effects so little? But when gaming in SuperHD you DO take an impact for x8 lanes.. this is only from my experience in SLI.. but check it out for yourself.

Unified northbridge southbridge and vrm/mosfet motherboard location with a big heatsink and fan slapped on. Something like Intel does now. Yes, this is copying them a bit.. quite a bit, but really they got this right! it was staring everyone in the face for years and they got there first.

I want to talk a little about AMD's plan for 'system on chip' ..To quote Futurama '..Welcome to the world of tomorrow!' .. why can't we have performance APUs beside the consumer ones? It makes total sense to me.. I really like Nvidia, they are familiar and very smooth. but if AMD started dropping the high end GPU's into a performance APU.. I think it would be, to pun, 'game over' for Nvidia. Crossfire IGP high performance.. ready to go! high end CPU and high end GPU combined with a high end card.. oh flip! .. but to regress, AMD don't have a chipset good enough to handle all of this.. being honest I don't know the FM chipsets first hand at all, but i don't think they are ready yet.. why? because if they were, AMD is smart enough to be doing this already. I had a look at the FM chipsets.. while they seem, efficient enough for now, in a year or two's time, I don't think this design is good enough to maintain the idea of a performance APU.

8 CPU cores, 2 GPU cores, Cache, Memory Controller, Northbridge, SouthBridge. I often think.. who cares how big the end chip is? the Vishera is sizable, but even if we had it twice the size, yes, that might sound stupid because of heat issues, but bear with me.. the performance we would get is unlike anything any other company could touch or think of touching. Heat issues would be very bad, yes, correct, but you're dealing with enthusiast chips here..

'go water, or go home'

I heard an acquaintance say on the subject of current AMD cpus. I think that is a witty and not altogether untrue quip.

System on chip solves the chipset problem, only copper and plastic remains.. I guess writing this I talked myself out of wanting the 1090FX chipset and my true desires came out.

Do I want AMD to 'win' flip no! I think a open market is a healthy market, but do I want them to do well.. yeah I kinda do..

peace


Dava





*but i am unsure of this as I have never had the opportunity to see many channels used effectively.

The Seasons of a System Builder ..

[This is intended to be a light-hearted fun article, please enjoy ...and try not to be too serious, as it would make the ponies cry!]

Hi guys!


Well it's summer.. which I call 'building season' , I like staying up late at night working on a build with the window fully open, hearing the sounds of my town during the night.. I pretend I am in some sort of Alfred Hitchcock-ian New York, like the movie 'Rear Window' except without all the murder business. Recently I thought this should be dubbed 'Building and Case Tidying season' ..and if you have no money for parts.. then a case tidy is not the worst thing you could do instead.

Summer is too hot to bench.. as you may know, it is not until Winter that the usual main benching happens, this is called by many 'Benching Season'. I live in Scotland and during Winter It gets pretty cold.. not too bad.. but sometimes pretty cold. Ambients from 0C to 8C is the norm. I have my PC on my Windowsil, so the heat escapes straight away, in winter I enclose my curtains around my Rig, leave both windows open a crack. warm inside the house and cold outside. nice!

Summer has many mixed blessings for builders, gaming gets a little harder because of the ambient temps, and so the noise must increase, but on the other hand.. you get to build! those long..loooong sunny lazy evenings.. leading quietly into the night ahead..as dark falls.. sometimes its hard.. pouring of sweating, sometimes peaceful..

The '1 am break' for me is not really a 'break' but I always seem to stop for a little bit and think about life. then around 2:30am .. it suddenly gets cold here.. good thing because.. otherwise I would forget to eat.. I go into my kitchen and close the rear window and get something to eat.

Autumn (for me YMMV) is 'Gaming Season'.. the new releases come out.. like a débutante meeting her male fancies at a ball. This happens in Spring also, but if you indulge me a thought, Spring is for new friends, Autumn is for old friends. Spring gaming is harder with the temps vs noise, but all that didn't seem to matter.. as 'we' are just coming out of the darkness to see the sunshine.

peace

Dava

I realize this is is not my usual canter, I write about the clutter that fills our lives that should be gotten rid of.. your rights to not have old junk annoying you when you are doing something technical. but y'know gotta have a heart too..

An Underdog Has It's Day..

Hi guys
So.. I wanted to talk a little about.. that ol'stick, the one that sits in the corner unnoticed.. but looming ever present..

AMD vs Intel. its not really 'vs' as the old fanboi-ism of yesteryear is dead like 'zombie + shotgun' .. the community has matured somewhat, and at least much less often do we hear the heated words of blind stupidity & brand loyalty without an actual 'reason'.

I use and like.. even a fan of AMD, I also like Nvidia's cards.. I like Intel Core2Quad & 2Duo too..but what I really wanted was to share some background for the newcomers to building, what on earth happened that AMD could even challenge Intel at all. For a long time.. Intel was king with the Pentium range.. no one could touch or even think of touching them..

But in 2005 (era roughly) AMD released the first 64 bit cpus.. then a year or so later dual cores.. they really caught Intel napping.. fast asleep like a little child after a bedtime story, and warm glass of milk. AMD stormed the market after years of having so-so cpus, they gave Intel a shock that ran to the 'cores'. Intel had only the Pentium 4 and quickly whipped up the Pentium D, which was a 'nightmare in drag'.. an awful horror movie where the hero is also the villain.

Well.. as you can guess. Intel was supremely embarrassed, and when they heard AMD had four cores coming...this is when they pulled their act together, like a lonely guy with a hot GF 5 days before an ugly break up. They created the Core2 Series.. it is still to my mind a thing of great beauty.. like walking around a beautiful building made of silicone.. a masterpiece.

AMD *did* bring out their 4 cores.. but it was much like the aforementioned zombie.. and still to this day should be shot on sight. AMD brought out the Phenom 1 (one) series, as contrasts go, it was the opposite Intel's structural wonder. So much so Intel gave AMD a slap in the face with release of the Q8xxx range.. just to show everyone, that even a poorly made Core2Quad could beat the Phenom 1's. and it did.

This hurt AMD is ways that would last until the Vishera came out, only last year. The Phenom one had set AMD back 4/5 years.. a boring three hour movie that you could hear the other movie goers breathing by industry standards. what happened?.. The Phenom II series kept fans alive, but didn't even touch any of Intel's stock offerings.

Intel had built on the Q9xxx .. and refined it to create the Core-i series..refining a masterpiece in efficiency. wow. Mensa start taking notes! and Intel still do to this day. the original Zambezi FX series, was a disappointment, for the fact that Phenom II could outperform it.. it wasn't until the Vishera FX came out only last year.. we had a new king in the AMD camp. The 8350 (i feel) sits nicely between the I5's and the I7's of Intels range, with the 8320 on level pegging with the top i5. all of the i7's beat the 8350 without question, but the 8350 'clips at the heels' of the lower i7's not reaching but.. almost.

it's my old adage 'AMD for price & capacity, Intel for performance & efficiency'. truck vs race car.. and this last truck, Vishera, was full of soldiers ready to shoot zombies.

peace.
Dava

Realworld Performance and What It Means to You...

For years many enthusiasts have debated hardware, I am one of them, you probably are one too, seeing you are here, on OCN..

But in these times the gaps become shorter and shorter I feel, between competitors, and we get much more 'bang for buck' then we ever could have imagined ten years ago..

it's only when a company with a large user base makes a mistake that the community really takes notice these days..

I am going to do some barrel scraping now, so cover your ears if you have sensitive hearing!

AMD vs Intel

many many moons in the past AMD trumped Intel, for one shining moment for many. and then it was gone. not to be repeated. But now with the new line from AMD, which I have myself, why should I buy a Core i7? it performs better than my CPU, its desktop performance (meaning Windows response) is better but also cost 7 times the price of my CPU. these things now seem small to me because I feel I realized something, that nowadays we have powerful enough hardware to run everything, not like the bad old days of processing video or photoshopping, now we can comfortably run a whole OS at a good speed and play the latest PC games for a reasonable price. 'Is this an advert for AMD?'..no it was my little way of saying I am happy with my rig, and feel the Vishera 8350 is a fitting processor to be AMD's flag ship.

In the 'realworld' I gain nothing moving to Intel now.. sure you could say 'but you will get more frames in games' or 'your single thread apps will start faster' but yknow.. I'm not that fussed.. even worse.. I'm actually happy with the Vishera..oh. my!

Now, to every story there are two sides..I know this.. let's take Intels..

The reason Intel has done so well is because they worked harder and smarter than AMD, over 70% of the world's CPU's are Intel, they hand pick geniuses, in all fields to fit the job that the person was born to do. and it shows in the results. I am not dis'ing AMD staff, I only say that Intel were/are richer and smarter for many a'year out of the years on top. Core 2 was a masterpiece, a breakthrough of vision, and at the time AMD had the original Phenom series, which, I feel, was not up to par. Had it been golf.. they were Tiger woods and we.. were.. the ball boy.

Again Intel comes to us with a masterpiece! the Core i series.a thing of beauty in a world of architectural silicone. why? because we know how well and efficiently it performs, and this adds beauty.

But will I buy it? no. would I buy it if i were rich? possibly. but it wouldn't be something that I would ever notice.

I mentioned Photoshop and video encoding before..

If you max out your board with very reasonably priced RAM (around 100 to 150 pounds) and a sensible CPU, (AMD or Intel ) You can work faster and be more versatile than has ever been possible in the history of computing.. flip! shove on youtube and facebook while your waiting! your system wont even notice.* I drop entire games to memory and forget for hours on end. only to come back to a still working game.

More Bang for Buck!

I feel we have came to point where, the difference is slight.. it is slighter than it has ever been.

I could go on about how much I like Nvidia.. but yknow what? right now AMD has the edge in both price and power.
I'm still with Nvidia though.. they were my first gaming card by accident. fondly. smile.gif


So i'll stop dithering and come to the point, what does paying double the price get me? not much, only a few frames more.

1. if you have an SSD

2. a modern OS.

3. quite a lot of RAM.

4. a current gen mid to high range card.

5. a current gen CPU with 6 cores or more.

What do we need all this power for? rendering? folding?
What happens in the next two gens.. what do we need all that new power for??

Soon we will out-grow operating systems, the hardware is too powerful.. no. the OS is too weak.

I have Windows 8 now.. its a bit of a pain and flakey at OC, but okay i guess.. but then again I have used Win98.

These are the things of museums.. the little window that goes side to side, minimizes and maximizes.

We have the power in out PC's now that MS had pushed us to have with Vista, but I find 'the same IS the same'.. bring on holograms and give us a challenge, involve us like every sci-fi move has promised us since we have been children!


Dava

*IF your a PRO reading this and are thinking about the office computer, no. .. please buy either professional dual socket or suffer the consequences.

NOTE: this has kind of turned out as a little ad for AMD which it wasn't supposed to. it was meant to be what is all this power for? and why do we ever need more? ALL OS's are getting bland in contrast to this powerful hardware that we all have now.

Last on the Shelf..

The Last on the Shelf, that one, you think 'Oh! wow! a 3D game for that cheap.. but still not sure if i should risk it.' It gathers dust on the bottom of the bargain bin, and haunts your thoughts as you leave the shop.

'maybe I should'a got it??'

Here are some games that gave me mixed feelings, spoiled by stupid things and some bargains I found & really liked.

Far Cry 2

My friend said to me when I was thinking about buying Far Cry 2* 'It's a good game..well I dunno.. it has this thing were the enemies KEEP re-spawning, even after you clear out a camp 5 minutes later they come back..' HE was soo right, it's FAR too large a map for the enemies to re-spawn AT ALL! The game itself is engrossingly beautiful* the game play and mechanics are of a industry standard, on a par with well made games of it's time.. but this one little thing.. ruined the game. one thing.

What a shame! this was to be my holiday in Africa, I had enjoyed Jerusalem and Hawaii .. but I could not bear this niggle, soo i can't comment on the story because i didn't get to know much of it, which is another shame, as I had enjoyed the story so far.


Rage

Rage was the kind of game that's for casual FPS players, not in anyway an RPG... hold on, this was a post-apocalyptic game done in conjunction with Bethesda and I WASN'T to expect some heavy RPG elements? oookay..

I was all whiny baby at the time due to the Interplay/Bethesda lawsuit.. the thought of losing a Bethesda Fallout tinted my glasses darkly to this game, if this was our backup for Fallout incase Bethesda lost..we were in trouble.

but the game itself was standard fair.. but had no story, I didn't own the game but had a LoveFilm subscription, I got to the second disc and sent it back. enough said I suppose.

Battlefield 3

okay so there ARE going to be fans of the game on here, I know that. but I bought this game in anticipation of HUGE maps, the use of interesting vehicles.. and unbeknown to me, reliable game mechanics.

I installed all 20+ GB on my Xbox, and set off for my adventure, the first mission is the sniper mission.. well, I happen to be the sniper for my group, ..I don't like another sniper beating me, no snipers do, I spent two hours trying to find him and take him down, only to find out it was 'part of the story'' no, no, no. I haven't played BF games before, this was my first one, I had heard of the big maps and reasonably assuming, or so I thought, it was 'open' like an Open World game, it wasn't.

For the remainder I played the game, my hand was held, which culminated in two things, I was coming out the church, faced with about 8 to 10 hostiles I took down the first few out in the open, with not too much of a problem, but I was noticing, a pull of 5 degrees to my right on every shot, it was ticking me off, but i just went with it, I came up to the end of the street and there was like 6 guys shooting at me and I died. respawn. ..'okay I'll flank them.' The game designers had bottlenecked me in the worst way I could think of..invisible walls and fake obstacles.

I have a little talent for flying.. but after this the bad taste in my mouth just wouldn't go away, so on the jet* mission, I was so disappointed all I could think of was selling the game. on the same day I got it.


Invisible walls are my pet hate in games, they go right up there with Norton AV for PC repair*, Invisible walls, show a lack of imagination, they were used, and rightly so by Devs in the 90's due to lack of powerful hardware, they were justified.. today its like 'What on earth were you thinking??' you have no excuse, stop being lazy! I could grief on this for a whole article but no. not here. not now.


Good Games.

I have had some surprises in the last year.

I bought Bioshock 2, then 1, and totally got into Steampunk FPS. I had been a Fallout fan a year since before Bioshock, soo around 2010. I had been wary of Bioshock because I had watched the film at the start BS1, it seemed anti-catholic (which I am) but I was mistaken.. to my delight it was an anti-secular game. but I'm not going to review Bioshock here, as it's well known, and one of my new favourites. The surprise find was 'Singularity'

Singularity

Wow what an amazing game! it contained two* of the things I dislike most in games but I was riveted to the story!

the toys were fun, if a little limited, but overall good time had by all. a mix of fierce and easy-going game play, I did this game on the hardest setting and didn't run out of ammo or weapons and kept wanting to come back. I didn't play anything else except a little Minecraft and kept wanting to know more about the story. Activision 's Steampunk FPS, might not be widely known, but it made quite a hit with me.

It's full of spoilers and I am very tired, so I won't go into the plot except to say.. Russia, Cold War, Time Machine.

Night Sky

This is a chillout/puzzle game*... if you own a PS3 and have played Flower it's very much in the chillout frame of mind, Flower is more chilled, but Night Sky has some amazing 'moods' in it. Like Flower you need to play it, to know it, so again, I won't say too much, the music is spot on, although the puzzles *can* become frustrating at times, for the most part they are easy enough and require more brains than skill.

I got this game as part of a Humble Bundle, and I played it on Ubuntu, the OpenGL version is much much better than the DirectX version, which does not allow you to Scale the res. or go full screen.

I think I need my bed, so I'll leave it there.

if you want to comment, please do so, it encourages me to write and lets me know this article was read wink.gif

Peace

Dava





Notes


*XBL version, not PC.

*(even on DirectX 9)

*(even though i could tell it was a fun mission)

*(that AV just will NOT uninstall if you have slow-ish PC!)

*invisible walls, having my hand held.

update/06/Aug/12:

I saw Rage on steam for £6.99, & bought it ..and I can see it is a beautiful game. closed in, but beautiful.

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