austrian otaku

Eheheh, you fan boys sure got told again.

So yeah, I will stick with my iPhone 3G which can multitask now thanks to iOS 4 and I can hold it however I’d like to!

Yes, I’m still alive. No I didn’t give up on this blog. It’s just that:

1.) I can’t find much interesting stuff to write about.

2.) I’m busy job hunting… and playing Bad Company 2

Currently I’m rank 44 (Colonel II) and have already played over 300 hours.

So I guess I’ll have spent enough time online to judge the game.

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Some of you might know that my main/gaming rig was powered by an old AMD Dualcore processor from 2007. The power of that “thing” was enough back then but nowadays it is NOT. When my water-cooling systems pump started to make noises like a Leopard 2 tank a few weeks ago, I just felt like it’s time to get a new rig. So for my birthday, I got myself a few boxes full of shiny, new hardware.

Now let’s see what I got after the jump:

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It has been a while since my latest figure review because most figures released lately weren’t falling in my DO WANT category. Unlike this figure here which was pretty much love at first sight. After several months of waiting (including  2 months delay) Kiriko finally arrived here last week.

The original character was obviously designed by Shunya Yamashita for an anime/manga/figure/ novel/drama-CD project called “Enka Ōdō Dai Shōgun” from Studio Anima. Studio Anima did the animations for Metal Gear Solid 4, Valkyria Chronicles and Ninja Blade so this could turn out quite well.

More details can be found on the official homepage which is unfortunately only available in Japanese. http://www.studioanima.co.jp/dai-shogun/

The didn’t go with the original, purple colour scheme and used a light-purple-ish one instead. I guess this works far better for such a large figure after all.

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(This article is one again PC hardware/software related. Sorry for that, but there’s not much going on at the anime-sphere that would be worth blogging at the moment.)

Spring is coming and it’s time for a change…

…and that’s why I’d like to introduce my new waifu: a Sapphire Radeon HD5770 Vapor-X OC

Inside this article you will find:

- My GPU history

- HD5770: Inside and outside

- A look at temperatures and the 2D mode

- Benchmarks: DX9, DX10, DX11 in 1680×1050 and 1920×1200 (including recently released games like Bad Company 2)

- Conclusion

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Want to get an iBoard? Thanks to some fellow Austrians you can:

“de tastatur kinn ma nimma verwendn…na,  der is hin jetzt, gell?” –> LOL

You can get this thing constructed of two titanium PowerBook G4s on ebay!