ninglor03

Ninglors Log 111

23.04.19 – 29.04.19

April Progress:
8/6

Completed Games:

Won/Gifted Games:

Bought Games:

Played this week:
Dishonored 2 Quantum Bla

KARAKARA

3 hours, 7 of 7 achievements, ★★★☆☆

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I promised to write this, so here we are, my review of KARAKARA:
We are on earth, somewhere in an unknown future, after an unknown disaster happened. Humanity mingled with other species, therefore human with animal ears and tails are pretty much standard, whereas the “normal” human has become rare. It’s pretty much said they lack in... whatever. Like doggo humans, have doggo abilities, I guess? Still no idea though, why ppl might turn blue-ish. But never mind me :D
On top of not remembering a thing about the disaster, ppl don’t know how the technology from before the disaster works or can be fixed. So they just use whatever they find until it’s broken. Funny thought. But honestly? I can’t imagine a situation, where everything is just lost, yk? Like EVERYTHING! That would mean every person somehow lost the memory or whatever. Oh, maybe, that was the disaster. Still wouldn’t explain so many dead ppl. Ugh, whatever. The story is lacking? Yeah.
Never the less I enjoyed the actual story, bc the rest is background info and forms the setting and so on. In this future-y world there is this diner - ? Outside of town. Which is odd enough. And there are these two ppl running it. And since they have way too much work to do, they are looking for a help. So yeah, they get the help. And triangle problems. And then more problems. And then… they lived happily ever after. So that was cute.
Music wasn’t too annoying. Voices neither – which is unusual for me. Normally I very much dislike having a game in one language and the voices in another. The Pics where nice enough. So yeah, that was ok :)
Hidden LEWD rating: Very low?
Recommendation? Guess so?


Cat Story ahead!
Cat story temporarily on hold – sry! :(

So I’m having PC trouble. The serious kind. I recently got a new Case for my PC. Maybe you do know – or you don’t – I had trouble with the on switch being on top. Also with cats sitting ON top. So I got a tower with the button on the front. So far so good. Next problem I had: My PC used to freeze every now and then. Basically ever since I had the PC. Which is pretty annoying, but it was rarely, so I didn’t think too much off it. Until it became more recent. Then my brother suggested that maybe my power supply might not be getting enough air. Which in fact wasn’t that surprising either, considering it getting the air from below plus the old case didn’t have that much room under it, so… cat hair? Ventilation? Error. After that info I started vacuuming the bottom every time my PC crashed. I did indeed help. But the other trouble stayed soooo, yeah. New Case.
Now it worked fine for four days. Everything fine. Nin happy. Then on Friday I had 2 freezes. Ugh. Nin starting to be annoyed. Saturday: two more. Nin super annoyed and ready to cry! So now I basically am a bit helpless. My brother suggests I should get a new power supply – maybe it’s just not enough and never was. Plus I have one more ventilation compared to before, so maybe that’s killing it constantly? Yeah, ordered a new one. Just no idea how long I might be without PC atm. I even think about getting steam back on my laptop and game on my laptop, but honestly? I’d rather not. It’s by now my writing and browsing PC and I don’t really wanna go back playing on it.
I’m sad :(
I’m demotivated.
I’m worried.
Oh, dear god of tech and PCs! Pls make my PC work again! \o/

Also I’ve been ill since Easter Sunday. Friday was pretty good, but then I had to go Saturday (yesterday) out since I had a loom workshop and I really wanted to do it! – I did and it was great! – Now I feel a bit worse again. Buuuuut I’m pretty sure I’ve got nothing in my calendar up til Thursday, so I should be fine :)
Hope you are all doing fine! No cold/flu anywhere? worried

As stated before:
I’m happy to paint for each and everyone of you. Only fee are the material and shipping costs \o/
If you wanna give me something extra, that’s totally up to you and not expected ;)h

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Have a lovely week!
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Trent

Ugh…sorry to hear about your computer problems, Nin. :(
Being sick for so long is already awful, and PC problems on top of that is just unfair. Hang in there, and happy painting! <3

ninglor03

Aw, thanks. I’m doing the best I can here :)
Plus I’m feeling better. Today I only feel as is my nose is… uh… closed? No longer THAT sickly ;)
And I’ve played yesterday a few hours. So we are getting sometimes somewhere. Still I did order the new power supply thingy :)
Yay! Painting! \o/ Although I didn’t really come round to do so, bc of sickness :(

Formidolosus

Ahh man! Sucks to have PC issues. Generally when it’s cutting out, it is because something is overheating. It’s not limited to power supplies only. If it runs normally when you’re not gaming but cuts out when you are gaming it could be your CPU or GPU heatsinks and fans are not cooling enough. The cut out is a safety feature to prevent the chips from being damanged. Download GPU-Z and Realtemp to check what your temperatures are doing. Normal operation on a CPU should be at around 40 degrees. And a GPU that’s not being used should be around 55 degrees. If they are higher than that when it’s idle, then try and run a game and see what they jump up to. If one of them is getting close to 100 degrees, then that is probably what’s causing the black outs. Sometimes all that’s needed then is to blow out the heatsink and it’s enough. We used to live next to the highway and I had to clean out my PC every few months or else it would cut out from overheating. In fact that used to be my sign it was time to clean the heatsinks.

It can also be caused by not having enough power from the power supply, but unless you recently added new parts that are using more power it would have always been a problem from when the PC was new. Either way you are getting a new power supply so hopefully if that was the cause it would also fix it. There are calculators online that can tell you your specific power needs based on what components you have, to make sure you have enough power.

ninglor03

Sadly it’s not limited to gaming. In fact the last few freezing moments happened while I wasn’t gaming at all! Only talking via Discord and doing nothing else. Also it often happens while I’m not at my Pc and once I come back it’s all dead :(

Indeed it did happen right from the start. But it was way more iregular at the beginning. So I never thought too much about it.
Well my bro is a bit of a pro on the subject (yes, I confess, when I asked ppl to help me putting a new pc together I did that without him, bc at the time he was very reluctant to help me with anything) aaaaand he did rough calculations and suspects it’s not enough power. And yeah, now I have one more ventilation system on board, so I figure it might really be the prob. But I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for the input though :) <3

Formidolosus

Well if it always did that, then yeah, it is almost certainly not enough power, coupled with increasing power draw over time if the cooling is less effective than it was. Hopefully your new power supply fixes the issue!

ninglor03

Let’s keep our fingers crossed :)

Amitte

Sorry to hear about your PC! :C Electronics can act moody, can’t they…

I need to tell that tip to my boyfriend! Granted, he doesn’t have enough money to buy the games he wants, but still… :/

Also, hmm… how about playing NEKO-NIN exHeart, if you ever get it? For the namesake! Nin, nin! ^^

ninglor03

Well I am very unlucky with tech. Plus I have no idea what I’m doing with it. So the moment my system/hardware what ever is failing me, I’m a bit at a loss really :(
There was a time I when I still played at my dads PC and he complained EVERYTIME how the system was broken after I used it. Like WTF! What did I ever dooooooooo? I only played Sims! How can that break the system! sob sob

Yeah, I know. But game companies need the support. Well some of them certainly do. Others… also do or the games end up being way more expensive for the poor ppl who actually do buy them :D
Do it! Buy games! \o/

Oh… wait. I’m right now looking into it!
Well I guess you are absolutely right! I do indeed need that game!
Since your bf is now starting to buy games he could totally get that one for me, right? :D
The NEKOPARA games are already in my lib, so yay to me :D

Amitte

Same! While everyone else’s stuff breaks because of painfully obvious reasons, mine is just like “welp, I decided today that I’m not gonna let you use me anymore. total shutdown!” Glad they don’t self-destruct, at least.

Yeah, they do! I know they do ^^ Still, I gotta buy him the game he wants most soon or he’ll crush me, lol. Also, it seems I’ve got a lot of games from companies he doesn’t like? (Easily half, maybe a third of my physical PC games are from EA, and recently, when I started playing Deadpool while he was watching, he was very disappointed to learn that Activision published it, for some reason.) I am earnestly buying my games though! (Unless I get them for free, in which case, YAY :D)

Yup, yup! It’s kawaii neko ninjas, what more could you wish for? There are multiple games, too, if we like the first one! (I still haven’t played any of them either… ;w;)

Ah, NEKOPARA… I have to play that, too! Fortunately the new Monthly Theme is on my side :D

ninglor03

Yeah, it’s apparently not the Power Supply. Gotta order something new. Bc it’s fun getting new parts - and realizing they don’t fix the problem. I’m telling you, in the end I’ll have a new PC \o/

Uh. I honestly don’t care which company makes what. As long as I enjoy the game, that’s fine, right? :D
Deadpool. Uh, damn! I actually would like to play it. But I’m pretty sure it’s not even on my WL thinking What happened here?

Ninjas! We all want Ninjas! \o/

Ha, yes, the monthly is indeed on our side. Only… I’ll not really come round to play all of them. There are soooo many games waiting for me! ;(

Amitte

That reminds me, just yesterday dad told me a story of how he once decided to buy a new phone battery (so he doesn’t have to charge the old one so often) and instead of getting the one that looked original, he chose one that was more bootleg-ish. Whoever sold it to him even listed instructions on how to get it working, but in the end, dad thought it wasn’t worth saving the money (bootleg was cheaper, after all), because the new battery worked as bad as the old one. So, you’re not the only one!

Yeah, same! As if I care about the beef one franchise’s fans are having with the company while I’m just fine enjoying another franchise of theirs. I’m not knowledgeable on things that happen in companies (mostly, I’ve read about stuff concerning VN publishers, as that’s a small niche), but as looong as nooobody’s getting huuurt… sweatdrops

Yeah! I’ve seen a playthrough of it online months (if not years) ago, and decided I want the game for myself. Quite a while later (last year, actually), I went to a local con that always has a game marketplace - cheap, expensive, PC, console - whatever you’re looking for. So there I got a bunch of games (most of which still remain Physical Mysteries - I gotta make that an event on my profile, hoo hoo!), for PC and consoles - funny thing is, I was about to give up on browsing at one point, but then I thought “Okay, wait. I’ve stood in line for quite a while and I’m only one person, so I can stay here as long as I want (aka I’m only holding up one person, not the whole line, in a way), so why not dig deeper?” And so I did. After digging through numerous copies of whatever games there were, I reached in and pulled out… Deadpool! Man, I was happy. And it only took me 7 months to play it! (lol) God, I love Deadpool. It’s that kind of unhealthy love which I should be ashamed of, but man I just can’t. >///< Anyway…
Well, it’s safer to get it on consoles than Steam, I believe… there were multiple instances of it getting taken down and going back up again on Steam, from what I know. (While games that remain off Steam can still be bought on PS, at least that’s what I can vouch for - bless Alice: Madness Returns)

On one hand, stealthy and sneaky… on the other hand, NYA! :3

Aw, I know the pain! :( But let’s do our best! After all… we’re all in this together~ (please kill me xD)

ninglor03

Hey, sry. Totally didn’t forget you, just… ugh… so much going on in my brain. Totally not good atm -.-

Well, we don’t always have to understand dads, right? :D

Uh, sneaky find! And don’t worry about it lying around for a while, most of the games are happy to wait - or did u ever encounter one, that complained to you about being left behind? ;)
So you’re on the safe side :)

Hope your month works out great \o/

Amitte

Nah, it’s okay! Let it be known to whoever might read this, that as I’m writing this, I’m struggling with sleep debt which has to be because I insist on staying up later than I should and playing on my Vita. Damn you, Steins;Gate, and your immersive story! …and again, you’re not the only one! Although reasons might be different.

Yeeeah… it’s pure dad logic :D

Yup! Gosh, I still remember I dashed out almost all I’ve had at hand at that con… wasn’t the money I earned, but damn did it feel good. Non-gamers wouldn’t understand the joy of having splurged on a stack of games, even if I could buy, uh… a third of a game console for that? nervous laugh
Oh, I know for a fact they look happy when still sealed… although easily half of that collection of mine seems to be squeaking something about wanting to be opened… but I don’t know if I’m ready. The advantage of boxed games is, after all, the ability to play them later on - in case Steam ever goes down or something befalls the Internet (although neither sound plausible at the moment), as long as the OS isn’t too new for the game, it should install and launch no problem. Especially visual novels, which I really wanna get more physical copies of.

Aw, thank you! Same to you, actually! For now, I gotta straighten out that sleep debt and arrange my weekends to have as much free time as I can get ^^

UlverHausu

i hear ya, it’s infuriating. i was really unlucky myself, i went from an old corsair dying , i thought, screw it i need to get a new GPU anyway.
i ended up buying an Rx580 the cheapest was an armour mkII.
big mistake, it was crashing more than ever.
i tried everything, and it’s still not fixed. if i have the power saving modes enabled, it will freeze and lose signal to the card on every game loading screen.
It could be the new psu, or amd drivers or windows build, i still dont know

ninglor03

Aw man, I’m so sorry to hear! :(
Right now I’m at the point where I say, I’ll get new parts until the prob is fixed. Luckily my dad gave me a fund on christmas I can use in which ever way I want - plus no idea how high the fund is, so I’ll just keep pushing I guess :D
So either it’ll be solved with the power supply right away ooooor… later :D
(And sry, I’m not English native, so I really have no idea about the names for PC parts in English hide)

UlverHausu

Im certain you could get better help here or on other forums. But it seems wiser to narrow down the issue before buying new parts
you can easily check temperatures, see if anything is overheating. There should be programs that test PSU stability as well

ninglor03

Tried that. There never was anything suspicious though :(

uguleley

Ugh, PC troubleshooting is very frustrating. Like in your case, random freezes is one of those vague symptoms where it’s not easy to pinpoint what’s causing the issue. I don’t have enough knowledge to give advice, so I wish you good luck that you and your brother figure out the issue sooner than later!

ninglor03

Hope so too! It’s a pain if you played for hours and totally didn’t save… and EVERYTHING IS JUST GONE! ;(
Luckily it’s my gaming only pc. Imagining my writing might just be gone like that is a horror! shock

Lucky Thirteen

Ouch, I’m sorry to hear about your PC & health problems, Nin :( I wish you the best of luck, hopefully you’ll feel better soon and will manage to solve the PC issues ❤️

ninglor03

Thank you! <3
Health is constantly improving. PC… well… yeah :|

GiseIIe

vacuuming is bad for your pc parts!! the static charge from the vacuum will ruin your parts in the long run.
for calculations for your psu you could use pcpartpicker if you know what your components are.
also!! the buildapc subreddit will be very helpful if you ask for help explaining everything

ninglor03

But… I only vacuumed from the outside. And it seemed to help. Although now not so much, bc it can’t be the problem anymore thinking
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll give it a try, if the new part doesn’t help :)