Well, I’m building another graphics computer
to make it easier to produce this comic.
I started with an I7 7600K, 3.5″
spinning hard drives, and a GTX 980 Ti.
Now I’m using a wet I7-11700K with a RTX 3090.
The one I’m building now will have an
AMD 9950X CPU and a wet 3090Ti,
all NVME storage (3), and a custom water cooling loop.
I’ve been buying parts for a while now,
from Amazon and ebay.
No matter how much you hate USPS, it’s not enough.
The brands I trust for my builds are
AsRock, Western Digital, and Corsair.
Mostly because of their customer service,
on the rare occasion that I’ve needed it.
I will never buy another Crucial or Seagate product,
for that same reason.
I’m not wealthy. couldn’t do it without your Patreon,
thanks!
Ah, my system’s getting old, and it’s been lagging.
As it is, I’ll have to get more externals for storage.
That 2080 I got wasn’t a ti as claimed, so that’s
not helping any. it has the same stats as my 1080ti,
but it isn’t as fast during slicing or rendering. Plus,
I’m looking at better, more reliable printers, but
they are costly.
How much extra storage do you want?
5TB external HDD: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VNTFHD5?th=1
You don’t save much by going smaller.
What else do you need to improve your computer?
Better graphics card? More memory?
I have lots of spare parts.
Yeah the card I got is ok, just not what I’m used to.
Used to be I could have a game running in the
background while slicing a gcode or rendering a stl.
Now just the game and a this comic causes a lag.
A GPU, and a better wet heat sink would be a help.
My son keeps playing the lottery, “I got a feeling”
he says. I hope he’s right heh.
It didn’t say, I’m hoping it was.
It might just be the same model.
Says a lot if that plane could fly
itself to a safe landing! I left a
comment saying that the ejection
seat rocket might have pushed
the nose down enough for the
aerodynamics to take over. It said
the engine idled until it ran out
fuel too.
ok then time line is messed up…
when they first met Miral was preggers and knew it…
and Brian commented on it.
so,, as i see it. this would be three months after birth.
But… It was revealed in 789 that her superiors knew, when she
was clearly NOT showing in panel4. We discussed that she was
showing, “carrying high”, in 838, during her first meeting with
Ahmya. Not nearly as pronounced as in that vote incentive later
but visible. And since then we’ve had Ahmya’s meeting with her
father and effort to regain her honor with Miral, Miral seeing that
it was necessary for the Empire to make that reclaiming more
than an act of martyrdom, the acceptance of the union of Clan
Cherow and Family Shimizu, and I don’t know what all else. I
can see the spin that Miral has had time to gestate and deliver,
I can’t see the spin that her gestation has retreated to not
obvious yet. But it’s PC’s story, and if he’s changed his mind
I will happily accept the retcon and see the reason for it later.
(But it IS a retcon.)
Having thought this out more, it’s possible the (imitation leather?)
jacket Miral was wearing during her first meeting with Ahmya was
padded to help her feel more like later stages of pregnancy were
going to feel like and get her used to it. That is the most pregnant
she’s ever looked in a story panel, so maybe I’m wrong. And we
haven’t seen that jacket again that I recall.
Ah well I’m glad the baby made it unhurt then.
That’s always the biggest issue with shooting,
often the baby is lost, or it triggers a premature
birth. Well, in humans anyway.
Yup, real life bites. Your car clunks and you
take to the garage he starts it and drives away
and no clunk.
What happened to Kora-Bo’s braid? It is short.
They are suppose to drive a customer’s car carefully.
So they might not of triggered the noise. A Clunk is
commonly a bad CV/UV joint or a bad shock mount.
I just tell them to get in and you let them listen.
My father is getting worse, he woke me the other
night insisting there was someone in his bathroom
and last week he claimed there was an animal on
his bed under some clothes. The hallucinations
have started… I’ll have to bring it up during his
appointment next friday.
I almost commented on the discussion about 38
caliber rounds lack of lethality. But I didn’t.
The hang glider which went up on a draft is something else entirely.
This is in the comic, so a comment seems more appropriate.
While a parachute, particularly the older style dome chute, has
(relatively) stable equilibrium, a glider has (mostly) unstable
equilibrium. Thus, while a parachute dropped from a height with
only a dead weight will generally float to the ground at a
predictable rate without the chute collapsing, a glider similarly
equipped is unlikely to be able to catch an updraft and soar into
the sky.
Consider a paper airplane. Throw it properly and it will sail for
a while before it becomes unstable and crashes. Drop it and it will
drop to the ground without flying. The cats dropped the hang glider
with dead weight. It should have behaved exactly like the paper
airplane.
hello, and welcome.!
glider, not ‘hang’ glider.
dropped was used in general context.
it was pushed launched,.
another that did not make the news. at AF academy,
cadet failed to tie down a glider.
overnight a strong wind picked up the craft.
and carried it 25 miles (tracked it with radar)
where it landed, safely…
max height was 10,000 feet but most
of the flight was at 8,000 feet…
I take it you didn’t consider the possible updraft
along the face of the cliff?
I’ve heard a number of tales where an unsecured
hang glider too close to the edge of a cliff,
got caught with an updraft and flew off,
without its pilot.
Most hang gliders are essentially,
nothing more than kites.
Heck, there’s even videos at airports where
high winds have picked up small
planes for short,
usually catastrophic, flights without crew.
(There are some
videos where hurricanes did the same to larger
passenger jets,
but I’m fairly Certain, most, if not all,
of those were special effects from movies.
All the times I have seen someone toss a rock or
branch off a cliff on a windy day and they don’t
just fall, much less anything aerodynamic. Wind
speed and directions plays a roll too. if it was
dead air, yes it would drop straight down. But
all cliffs have some updraft. Early mornings and
late afternoons the temperature differential can
cause very strong updrafts. Watch the video
Rob posted, that’s a clear example of what can
happen with the right wind differential.
My oldest was always trying to prank me, he’d
often try hiding and jump out. NOT a good idea.
After his 3 failed attempts, I turned it back on
him. He was hiding behind the trash cans one
night planning on jumping out on me, I just
leaned over the cans and screamed. I didn’t
know he could jump that high! A little later
we were on a long road trip, my wife made
him and a friend go with me since it was night
when we left, they were to make sure I didn’t
fall asleep at the wheel. Maybe an hour into
the trip, they both fell asleep. Big help huh?
Anyway I had a sure-fire way to end his
attempts, I reached over and turned on the
dome light and screamed in terror! My son
bashed his head on the window, his pal hit
his head on the ceiling… No more attempts
on my son’s part and his buddy was very
wide awake 😉
Ah, what might have been.
Well, I’m building another graphics computer
to make it easier to produce this comic.
I started with an I7 7600K, 3.5″
spinning hard drives, and a GTX 980 Ti.
Now I’m using a wet I7-11700K with a RTX 3090.
The one I’m building now will have an
AMD 9950X CPU and a wet 3090Ti,
all NVME storage (3), and a custom water cooling loop.
I’ve been buying parts for a while now,
from Amazon and ebay.
No matter how much you hate USPS, it’s not enough.
The brands I trust for my builds are
AsRock, Western Digital, and Corsair.
Mostly because of their customer service,
on the rare occasion that I’ve needed it.
I will never buy another Crucial or Seagate product,
for that same reason.
I’m not wealthy. couldn’t do it without your Patreon,
thanks!
Anybody want to buy a good used computer?
I have more than I need. Way more.
I’d say yes, but right now I can barely “pay” attention heh.
What do you want to do with it?
Ah, my system’s getting old, and it’s been lagging.
As it is, I’ll have to get more externals for storage.
That 2080 I got wasn’t a ti as claimed, so that’s
not helping any. it has the same stats as my 1080ti,
but it isn’t as fast during slicing or rendering. Plus,
I’m looking at better, more reliable printers, but
they are costly.
How much extra storage do you want?
5TB external HDD:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VNTFHD5?th=1
You don’t save much by going smaller.
What else do you need to improve your computer?
Better graphics card? More memory?
I have lots of spare parts.
Yeah the card I got is ok, just not what I’m used to.
Used to be I could have a game running in the
background while slicing a gcode or rendering a stl.
Now just the game and a this comic causes a lag.
A GPU, and a better wet heat sink would be a help.
My son keeps playing the lottery, “I got a feeling”
he says. I hope he’s right heh.
PC, I recommend keeping it as a back up or file server.
Networking the old machine with the new one could help
Your render time.
I don’t know about the other geezers here,
but I remember when a GTX was one of the
rarest and best muscle cars.
HA! True, we’re just a bunch of
aging ‘puter nerds I guess…
😛
I remember those too.
I thought that was a GTO.
https://musclecarclub.com/plymouth-gtx/
somebody’s complete “WTF!”
on finding that glider years later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXt_m79jK1A
Wow, and he flew it again years later?
That plane should be in a museum…
it is,,thats the plane behind him…
It didn’t say, I’m hoping it was.
It might just be the same model.
Says a lot if that plane could fly
itself to a safe landing! I left a
comment saying that the ejection
seat rocket might have pushed
the nose down enough for the
aerodynamics to take over. It said
the engine idled until it ran out
fuel too.
saw it and him at the museum
thats how i knew about it
idle – 1 hour and 45 minutes
since it was winter, farmer did
not know, till they told him..
The surgeons learned that Miral is pregnant,
but they won’t say anything.
The information is hers to share, not theirs.
wait…
she knew she was preggers
when she met Ahmya.!!
unless this is number two.?
https://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-845/
panel 4
No, this is still #1, it hasn’t been that long.
Maybe four months, total.
ok then time line is messed up…
when they first met Miral was preggers and knew it…
and Brian commented on it.
so,, as i see it. this would be three months after birth.
Miral might have carried the baby high up,
my wife was low so the baby sat on her spine…
SO many back rubs…
But… It was revealed in 789 that her superiors knew, when she
was clearly NOT showing in panel4. We discussed that she was
showing, “carrying high”, in 838, during her first meeting with
Ahmya. Not nearly as pronounced as in that vote incentive later
but visible. And since then we’ve had Ahmya’s meeting with her
father and effort to regain her honor with Miral, Miral seeing that
it was necessary for the Empire to make that reclaiming more
than an act of martyrdom, the acceptance of the union of Clan
Cherow and Family Shimizu, and I don’t know what all else. I
can see the spin that Miral has had time to gestate and deliver,
I can’t see the spin that her gestation has retreated to not
obvious yet. But it’s PC’s story, and if he’s changed his mind
I will happily accept the retcon and see the reason for it later.
(But it IS a retcon.)
Having thought this out more, it’s possible the (imitation leather?)
jacket Miral was wearing during her first meeting with Ahmya was
padded to help her feel more like later stages of pregnancy were
going to feel like and get her used to it. That is the most pregnant
she’s ever looked in a story panel, so maybe I’m wrong. And we
haven’t seen that jacket again that I recall.
Ah well I’m glad the baby made it unhurt then.
That’s always the biggest issue with shooting,
often the baby is lost, or it triggers a premature
birth. Well, in humans anyway.
Yup, real life bites. Your car clunks and you
take to the garage he starts it and drives away
and no clunk.
What happened to Kora-Bo’s braid? It is short.
Damn. I forgot to bend it so that it would show.
Thanks for catching it.
It looks like it clipped under her top,
just a minor oops.
They are suppose to drive a customer’s car carefully.
So they might not of triggered the noise. A Clunk is
commonly a bad CV/UV joint or a bad shock mount.
I just tell them to get in and you let them listen.
I tend to drive like I hate the car, brings out
any issues early on.
My father is getting worse, he woke me the other
night insisting there was someone in his bathroom
and last week he claimed there was an animal on
his bed under some clothes. The hallucinations
have started… I’ll have to bring it up during his
appointment next friday.
Ugh… filter got me.
Nothing like a child (any species) giving
adults the “I told’ja so!” look.
I almost commented on the discussion about 38
caliber rounds lack of lethality. But I didn’t.
The hang glider which went up on a draft is something else entirely.
This is in the comic, so a comment seems more appropriate.
While a parachute, particularly the older style dome chute, has
(relatively) stable equilibrium, a glider has (mostly) unstable
equilibrium. Thus, while a parachute dropped from a height with
only a dead weight will generally float to the ground at a
predictable rate without the chute collapsing, a glider similarly
equipped is unlikely to be able to catch an updraft and soar into
the sky.
Consider a paper airplane. Throw it properly and it will sail for
a while before it becomes unstable and crashes. Drop it and it will
drop to the ground without flying. The cats dropped the hang glider
with dead weight. It should have behaved exactly like the paper
airplane.
hello, and welcome.!
glider, not ‘hang’ glider.
dropped was used in general context.
it was pushed launched,.
another that did not make the news. at AF academy,
cadet failed to tie down a glider.
overnight a strong wind picked up the craft.
and carried it 25 miles (tracked it with radar)
where it landed, safely…
max height was 10,000 feet but most
of the flight was at 8,000 feet…
I take it you didn’t consider the possible updraft
along the face of the cliff?
I’ve heard a number of tales where an unsecured
hang glider too close to the edge of a cliff,
got caught with an updraft and flew off,
without its pilot.
Most hang gliders are essentially,
nothing more than kites.
Heck, there’s even videos at airports where
high winds have picked up small
planes for short,
usually catastrophic, flights without crew.
(There are some
videos where hurricanes did the same to larger
passenger jets,
but I’m fairly Certain, most, if not all,
of those were special effects from movies.
Note the word “catastrophic” in relation to
unplanned flights.
Note “possible” and “likely” are different.
Also, an untended glider has no extra weight.
Different beast altogether.
All the times I have seen someone toss a rock or
branch off a cliff on a windy day and they don’t
just fall, much less anything aerodynamic. Wind
speed and directions plays a roll too. if it was
dead air, yes it would drop straight down. But
all cliffs have some updraft. Early mornings and
late afternoons the temperature differential can
cause very strong updrafts. Watch the video
Rob posted, that’s a clear example of what can
happen with the right wind differential.
I found this years ago, I didn’t know it was on
Youtube! And I thought I was high energy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
I-I-I I can’t breathe!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GFcrLhV4mnw
And I thought I was vicious prankster…
This guy deserves a reverse Darwin award…
My oldest was always trying to prank me, he’d
often try hiding and jump out. NOT a good idea.
After his 3 failed attempts, I turned it back on
him. He was hiding behind the trash cans one
night planning on jumping out on me, I just
leaned over the cans and screamed. I didn’t
know he could jump that high! A little later
we were on a long road trip, my wife made
him and a friend go with me since it was night
when we left, they were to make sure I didn’t
fall asleep at the wheel. Maybe an hour into
the trip, they both fell asleep. Big help huh?
Anyway I had a sure-fire way to end his
attempts, I reached over and turned on the
dome light and screamed in terror! My son
bashed his head on the window, his pal hit
his head on the ceiling… No more attempts
on my son’s part and his buddy was very
wide awake 😉