City of Heroes : Oldie but Goodie! Let's check it out together!
Just checking in on one of my favorite games over the last 10+ years. Glad to see it back up and running! We'll test out the new Fallout gaming PC build on this classic Super Hero game!
City of Heroes Leveling up an ALT
Just trying to get my lower level ALT a few levels by running a fire farm in Architect Entertainment.
City of Heroes : Homecoming. Revisiting a GREAT game!
Just taking a stroll down memory lane by playing a quick fire farm in City of Heroes on a custom private server
Epoxy computer gaming desk... From Rough to RAVISHING!
Here is the build thread for those interested in seeing how it was built. https://pcpartpicker.com/b/t36scf
The culmination of several months hard work to build the ultimate gaming desk. Since I was doing a custom PC build why not do a custom desk build as well. I started there with Five 2x6 and cut them to 60" length, sanded them smooth and put them together with dowels and wood glue. We stained them black and laid out the seal coat of epoxy on them. We then placed the project on a flat surface that we sealed and covered with tuck tape to help it release once we poured the center epoxy. I mixed in some pearl white mica powder and poured a thin first layer in the center of the table. After that was cured we placed a mold in the center to block out for the surrounding edge of white pearl epoxy we would be pouring. Once cured we pulled out the mold and placed the non-working motherboards into the center along with 4 sticks of DDR3 DRAM then continued pouring clear epoxy till the entire surface was flat and covered. Last I routed the edges and gave them a scuffing to make them look frosted. I mounted the legs and routed out a channel on the underside for the RGB strips and placed an aluminum cover over to prevent light bleed.
Manually spooling up a Lycoming T53-L1B turbine compressor
Spooling up a Lycoming T53-L1B turbine engine with the compressor section open for viewing.
Fallout 4 inspired gaming desktop build... Nuka Cola!!!
My son, daughter and I talked about buying a new gaming PC for awhile and finally decided to take the plunge. Rather than just spend a bunch of money on a pre-built we thought we would build it from the ground up. After a lot of discussion about what we would build and how we wanted it to look and perform we went to PCPartPicker.com to make a parts list. We talked about the theme being Blood Borne but settled on Fallout Nuka Cola.
We liked the Nuka Cola case and motherboard that NZXT pre-built but we wanted a brand new look, the vertical GPU mount, we wanted better features from the MOBO as well as AMD processor support.
I ended up purchasing the NZXT H710i because we liked the look and the vertical GPU mount option. I planned out the paint scheme and got started printing out the stensils, tore down the case and prepped it for paint. I laid out a base white then placed the stensils, sprayed gold and then sprayed red. After it was dry we de-masked it and placed the Nuka Girl decal and sprayed clear over all the paint.
I laid out the stensils for the glass front cover and etched the Vault Boy and Vault-Tec logos. We then laser cut out some white acrylic with the Vault 111 and Fallout logos. I had Avery print us out some Nuka Cola stickers to cover the factory ones from Corsair. We also ordered a sticker from RedBubble for the reservoir that says "Half Lives Matter" I thought that fit the build style well. Lastly I purchased a Nuka Cola water bottle that we planned on using as the reservoir but the plastic was too thin to risk drilling into and filling with any liquid so we just filled it as is and used it for decoration.
We got all of the parts together and fired them up test bench style to make sure everything worked and sure enough we had some problems. The Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB DDR4 3600 DRAM would not allow the system to post so we ended up swapping it out for the Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4 3600 also from Corsair and it booted right up also after re-seati