TGW-1541
Chapter: 02 High Society
Location: chen resident, station meeting room
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Gauntlets are thrown.
Gauntlets are thrown.
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Mother/ daughter conversation
is not going mother’s way.
All Katrina needs in panel 8 is fangs.
She’s already well on her way with the goth thing,
fangs only would make sense.
I thought that this would be the first page created with my
new-built computer…
The one that it took me almost a year to afford all the parts for…
The one that I spent many hours in my little machine shop,
making custom parts for…
The one that a trial showed renders images four times as
fast as my current one…
But I’m still dealing with software glitches. *sigh*
At least I purchased the memory and storage in early
October, just before the prices went up 5X.
AMD 9950X processor. 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM.
4X Sabrent 4TB NVME Gen 4 storage.
Arctic 360 Pro AIO.
Corsair 1200 watt power supply to feed two EVGA 3090 FTW
graphics cards.
AsRock Taichi Creator motherboard.
Arctic fans.
Assembly was a nightmare. Couldn’t find a case that would hold everything.
And I’m still not finished. At least it runs cool, it just sounds like a jet aircraft while under load.
Now it’s just a matter of getting everything to play nice together. Soon.
What you’re describing sounds like a computer I had drooled over
some years back, but that all sat in an end-table sized case. You
might have to go that way, unless you’d like me to bring back
Frankincase heh!
(I think I can strip out a mini-fridge and cut
sheet metal to cover the front and back…)
Wood-grain of course 😛
I have it in a Lian Li Vision that I got for free. It’s black, I wanted white,
but free? Hell, yes. It works because the motherboard tray can be moved
up, which I had to do so that the bottom GPU would clear the bottom fans.
Motherboard + GPUs wouldn’t fit in any other case I could find.
Then the 3090s wouldn’t go into the Pcie slots because some MB components
were too high, so I had to buy a pair of 7/8 inch card risers, so the cards wouldn’t
mount in the case GPU slots. I had to machine a 7/8 inch aluminum riser for that…
It’s been a nightmare of custom fabrication.
I can guess, standing in that run down shed, wailing away on strips
of sheet-metal shaping them into rails and z-mounts, I remember it
well. Not to mention searching for the copper/brass stand-offs so the
motherboard didn’t touch the framework, but it still had ground. it
was like making a motor mount for a different electric motor out of
plate steel and 2 in angle iron, only in miniature. I had wondered if
there was a way around the different GPU sizes. I envy the 3090s,
the 2080 I have not isn’t as fast as the 1080. When I thought about
making a Frankincase again, I had an idea of making a logo that
was a computer case with Frankie’s head and arms sticking out of it,
cartoon style of course 😉 Thumb up and a stupid grin 😀
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah… Have you actually LOOKED at what your kids are doing?
People can exist in the same universe and NOT effect the other in the slightest.
This woman is so simple minded that her attempt to level the playing field just
cost her her freedom and maybe her children. My eldest was into music and
electronics and my youngest was a grease monkey like me. What kind of person
would I be if I sold off his tool box to by a new guitar for my oldest? good lawd…
Go ahead GC, try it, then you’ll learn what FAFO means. Just another corrupt
government worried that free trade will cut into their bottom line and their easy
jobs harder. Teresa’s fangs weren’t vampire fangs, they were wolf fangs BTW.
At least, that’s my take on it 😀
I brought this story up to my youngest, only I used selling his guns instead.
He said I’d still have my Katana and my knives and you’d be leakin’, HEH!
have you been on a ‘Snapon’ truck.? guns are cheaper.!!
kid after my heart. guns, knives, swords, bows, axes, ect…
and others i have in,, abundance.!
Yeah I have, and a MAC truck as well. Which is why
I said his toolbox at first. Craftsmen is only slightly
better, I mainly bought that, since they has free
replacement on the USA-made tools. I was a pro
mechanic, they would stop at our shop monthly.
But he loves his guns, so I knew it would hit deeper.
I loved Snap-on however, I had a wrench set from
them, and I bent a 1 1/4 combo wrench into an arc
on one job, the Craftsmen wrench would have snapped.
When I went back to the truck on their next visit the
driver laughed when I handed him the wrench, them
handed me a new one, no charge.
i’ve been mech-ing 60+ years. getting paid for it 50+ years…
for some strange reason,, i own a lot of Stanley… go fig..
but i have 3 shop boxes,. Snapon, Mac, and Stanley.
and 2 boxes of “loner tools.” .. ones i know wont come back.!
and most of those, are the ‘cheap gift’ ones,. ($20 plastic brief
case. with 100 tools.. o.0 )
I hear you, my father started me out as a boy, the only reason I
stopped was blowing out my back the second time. 3D printers
help scratch the fabricator urge in me, I’ve already made new
handles and catches for the cabinets here. I would have retired
from the job next year if that didn’t happen.
Keep in mind, my son thinks the “Zombie apocalypse” is
coming, and what training he’s had would mean squat
in that, so bang-bang stab-stab is his best option heh.
Correction: Craftsmen is only slightly better cost-wise.
Snap-on had the durability beat hands-down.
Food for thought:
https://youtube.com/shorts/UnsQjOc82NE
That is VERY true…
I begin to think Sarah is reading trauma (real or imagined) from
her own childhood in to overlay the truth of her children’s lives.
Not that that’s any excuse for criminal activity (both figuratively
in what she did to her kids and in this instance legally). And not
even necessary. Unless she is living so beyond her means her
credit is shot, given this home and her dress, she could have
afforded a top-notch computer. Or to upgrade the one Melissa
has.
From what I’m getting from the story is Mommy thought Jimmy was over-shadowing
Melissa’s social standing, so selling his laptop to buy her a new one was to fix that at
the cost on Jimmy’s school scores. Sarah did not understand what her daughter was
doing nor did she try, she just decided that she needed “help” by throwing Jimmy
under the bus. But she did not think for one second that she might get in trouble or
caught. This is a case of child abuse, nothing less, Melissa is her golden child and
Jimmy is the problem that needs taken down a notch.
But since Melissa isn’t feeling any of that, my bet is Sarah felt
overshadowed by another sibling, possibly justified, possibly
because that child was exceptional but possibly because they
were a pampered, favored ‘golden child’ — and she’s repeating
her parent’s mistakes while feeling like she is avoiding them.
And I agree she intentionally sabotaged Jimmy. That is not the house
of someone who can’t buy or lease their kid a topnotch computer.
What kind of parent does that? She has psychological issues.
(She dropped the pearls in panel 4. Too late to pretend you’re
poor now, we all saw them.)
There’s an isekai anime called “Do You Love Your Mom and Her
Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?” The mom in the title has issues
too, but one of the others is constantly pushing her daughter,
demanding she always finish first and cheating for her, claiming
to do it for her while making her miserable. To an anime-typical
ridiculous extent, when it’s clearly for the mom’s own ego. I
see a bit of that in Sarah.
OK at this point I’m confused by the Empire’s definition of “all of
space”. I assume the orbital space of inhabited or developed
planets is within that planet’s (inhabitants or users) governance
and not “a free travel and trade zone”. Otherwise security is
impossible. When the Demons’ fleet moved against Earth, they
had no problem intercepting them as soon as they were detected.
Is the whole of the Sol system (and by extension the systems of
other stars) the territory of the inhabitants (or other users if no
one lives there)? If so, does the Sol system include the Kuyper belt?
The Oort Cloud? (NASA was excited when the Voyagers entered
“interstellar space” by passing the Heliopause, but they aren’t
anywhere near the Oort Cloud yet.) And that’s all relevant via
what appears to be the GC’s main navigation method, FTL and
hyperspace, but they’re at least aware of the wormhole network.
(OK, not stated yet that it’s the SAME network as the one Xanadu
is in the center of, or that the Core’s picture of that network is
only a small part of it, or exactly how that all fits together.)
Surely Katrina isn’t saying everything outside an atmosphere is
open range.
Interstellar space is the space between planetary systems. the GC
thinks that anywhere they have control of is theirs. Even the dust
clouds between systems. It’s an excuse to demand membership
and fees/taxes from anyone in “their” space. So unless they plan
on sending their entire fleets to patrol all the space between planets
and systems, they are the dog barking at a squirrel that’s since
jumped to a different tree and is long gone.
I’m sure the fallout will be something akin to ‘maritime law’ here
on Earth IRL — which as you know isn’t understood or accepted the
same way by everyone. Used to be ‘territorial waters’ were three
miles out. Then for some applications they were 200 miles out,
except where they ran into other ‘territorial waters’. And you know
what a mess the claims are in the South China Sea now.
But I would like to know what the Empire considers the extent of
Sol’s ‘planetary system’. If I were guessing I’d say the Kuyper Belt
is included and the Oort Cloud is not. Keep in mind that the Empire
will recognize other system’s rights out to an analogous limit I’m sure.
as to why “All of space.” cuz she knows ‘maritime law’ only works IF all agree.
and the 3 miles was great till you had ships that could hit you from 15 miles out.
then they found precious minerals at 150 miles out…
then you have the clowns who claim it because they can.! example –
the guy who claimed NASA invaded and stole rocks from his “claimed” asteroid.!
I think I remember that, NASA stabbed themselves in the foot about that,
they were “selling” stars and celestial bodies off to raise money, and most
just wanted a sheet of paper saying they did, that guy took it as legal.
Dragged them into court and everything.