Post 10,000 & the Life of a Crouton

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 28 2013 21:28 GMT

1240 days and 10,000 posts later, this is some of what I've been up to.

Moved away from home (800 sqft 1 bed 1 bath apartment). These are mostly taken right when I moved in.

Living Room
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Kitchen
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Bathroom (Toilet Leak)
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Bedroom
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The working-man closet, minus several pairs of pants.

The casual closet. Go give blood, nerds.

Didn't have my bedframe and boxspring for about a week. Views from either side.

Balcony View At Night
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Few weeks later:
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Built a new PC:
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CPU: i7 3770K (4.6 GHz)
Video Card: Ares II (HD 7970 x2 w/ CLC)
Mobo: ASRock Formula OC (z77)
RAM: 8-8-8-24 1600Mhz 2x8GB
Case: Xigmatek Elysium
PSU: XFX 1250W
Heatsink: Kraken x60 (Corsair h100i or Swiftech H220 are better buys, imo)
SSDs: OCZ Agility 3 (240GB), Samsung 830 (512GB) x2 (Extended)
HDDs: Seagate ST3000DM (3TB) x2 (Mirrored), Samsung HD204UI (2TB), Seagate ST31500341AS (1.5TB)

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Finished a year at current job (software developer) and got a raise at my review :D

The things you were REALLY after:
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The things you were very much not after:
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My trademark.

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And finally, can't forget about my pretty sizable album of Korean idols. It's only a fraction of the 47,838 I have, though.

http://cratonz.minus.com/uploads

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

April 28 2013 21:48 GMT

i love me house tours and kpop

lubu42

United States314 Posts

April 28 2013 22:03 GMT

Nice Blog ^__^ I love these kinds of tours

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

April 28 2013 22:34 GMT

I will be doing the same in some months!

Moving out 2090 km away from the place I lived my whole life so far

Kimoleon

United States210 Posts

April 28 2013 22:37 GMT

Grats on 10k post Cratonz :D:D:D Although you're not that far away, we miss you~ ^^;

Those pictures though wowow, some of those Jiyeon pictures look okay

Spekulatius

Germany2413 Posts

April 28 2013 22:48 GMT

Congratulations, old man!

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 28 2013 22:50 GMT

I believe your computer has met the minimum requirements to play League of Legends

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

April 28 2013 22:53 GMT

Nice computer! Also, so amazing to move away from home the first time. The freedom is priceless.

Sh1bby

Germany711 Posts

April 28 2013 23:04 GMT

Congratz to 10k. Toilet leak pic and Jiyeons/Hyomins in one post - do not approve.

btw, the minus link in your sig redirects to the minus start page because of the slash at the end.

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

April 28 2013 23:16 GMT

#10

Congratulations!

Here's to many more posts

Always cool to get a glimpse into the lives of other TLers. Nice room, setup, and everything, and enjoyable blog to read, so many pictures haha ^^

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17727 Posts

April 28 2013 23:20 GMT

#11

I like how you have a collection of idols just eating/drinking lol.

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

April 29 2013 00:06 GMT

#12

Oh my god ils you have a drone icon instead of an scv icon now!! O_O

terrOne

Italy172 Posts

April 29 2013 00:28 GMT

#13

That computer is just badass

DenTenker

United States606 Posts

April 29 2013 00:37 GMT

#14

Nice place. Awesome computer.

Congratulations on 10,000 posts!

Grettin

42381 Posts

April 29 2013 00:42 GMT

#15

nice looking place! congrats

FlaShFTW

United States10170 Posts

April 29 2013 00:43 GMT

#16

god damn shes hot *drools*

congratz man! nice place and computer!

NeoIllusions

United States37500 Posts

April 29 2013 01:03 GMT

#17

The life of old man Craton.

Where you live now?

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

April 29 2013 01:40 GMT

#18

Congrats on 10k, I used to enjoy your BW steam !

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 29 2013 02:00 GMT

#19

I wanted to take a "this is it now" picture, but my room is a real mess because I've been too lazy to finish unpacking from my business trip + I got a bunch of packages before the weekend. Not to mention I have cables running along the floor right now (eventual plan to run along ceiling somehow).

I actually have the recliner facing a side wall now and a little 32" TV I got from moving in. It's nice to not have to flip a monitor around anytime I wanted to watch something from the recliner.

On April 29 2013 07:50 Chairman Ray wrote:
I believe your computer has met the minimum requirements to play League of Legends

I was thinking of going for quad GPU just to be safe.

On April 29 2013 07:34 fabiano wrote:
I will be doing the same in some months!

Moving out 2090 km away from the place I lived my whole life so far

I only went about 20 miles or so. Shortened my commute from an hour each way to maybe 25 minutes.

On April 29 2013 08:20 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
I like how you have a collection of idols just eating/drinking lol.

I've been accumulating these for months in preparation.

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17727 Posts

April 29 2013 03:15 GMT

#20

On April 29 2013 09:06 Aerisky wrote:
Oh my god ils you have a drone icon instead of an scv icon now!! O_O

I decided to switch my loyalty to the swarm.

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 29 2013 03:40 GMT

#21

Still an inferior race.

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

April 29 2013 03:44 GMT

#22

On April 29 2013 12:15 Ilikestarcraft wrote:

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I decided to switch my loyalty to the swarm.

You... motherfucker D:

Well, as long as you switch to toss eventually~

Zariel

Australia1285 Posts

April 29 2013 03:57 GMT

#23

Congrats on moving out of home, the next phase of your life begins.

Here you start levelling up on other skills in life such as cooking, laundry and cleaning. An EXP table for cooking for example:

New receipe: 50 EXP
Existing receipe: 25 EXP
Call mum for advice: 10 EXP
Perfect Steak: 60 EXP
Invite a friend over: 40 EXP

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17727 Posts

April 29 2013 05:27 GMT

#24

On April 29 2013 12:44 Aerisky wrote:

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You... motherfucker D:

Well, as long as you switch to toss eventually~

Will never happen lol

LlOoKkIi

Korea (South)473 Posts

April 29 2013 07:45 GMT

#25

Congrats on 10k! Also I will start giving blood soon( Need to regain honor to shameful to family TT)

Oh and never am I not after eunji's (or sunny kkk).

MasterCynical

505 Posts

April 29 2013 09:46 GMT

#26

grats on your 16th post!

you deserve it

rainei

Canada1316 Posts

April 29 2013 11:12 GMT

#27

On April 29 2013 16:45 LlOoKkIi wrote:
Congrats on 10k! Also I will start giving blood soon( Need to regain honor to shameful to family TT)

Oh and never am I not after eunji's (or sunny kkk).

wow sunny?! What a gat.

Kittan

Poland3999 Posts

April 29 2013 11:31 GMT

#28

Grats on the 10k, Craton! Onto 25k and beyond!

You served the hyper addictive mix of BW and kpop right when I started coming to TL and I remained hooked to this day <3

NicksonReyes

Philippines4431 Posts

April 29 2013 12:36 GMT

#29

Life begins at 10k.

OpticalShot

Canada6330 Posts

April 29 2013 13:26 GMT

#30

Grats on 10k, I miss your BW streams haha all dem kpop breaks. You dirty Hyomin fanboy. Enjoy new living!

AsmodeusXI

United States15536 Posts

April 29 2013 15:24 GMT

#31

omg so old man =P

Psychonian

United States2322 Posts

April 29 2013 17:10 GMT

#32

Grats on 10K!

Psychonian

United States2322 Posts

April 29 2013 17:11 GMT

#33

On April 29 2013 12:57 Zariel wrote:
Congrats on moving out of home, the next phase of your life begins.

Here you start levelling up on other skills in life such as cooking, laundry and cleaning. An EXP table for cooking for example:

New receipe: 50 EXP
Existing receipe: 25 EXP
Call mum for advice: 10 EXP
Perfect Steak: 60 EXP
Invite a friend over: 40 EXP

Sorry for double post but this is just an epic win.

ieatkids5

United States4628 Posts

April 29 2013 17:35 GMT

#34

how do you folks have so many freakin posts? >___<

LosingID8

CA10828 Posts

April 29 2013 21:20 GMT

#35

On April 29 2013 12:15 Ilikestarcraft wrote:

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I decided to switch my loyalty to the swarm.

you have no soul

also wow @ those SSK gifs

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 29 2013 22:38 GMT

#36

Would exercise with SSK and KMK. And by exercise I mean watch them.

Glenn313

United States475 Posts

April 29 2013 23:03 GMT

#37

Congratulations!

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 30 2013 00:13 GMT

#38

Here's part of my room present-day.

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

April 30 2013 01:38 GMT

#39

Ooooh nice setup for sure. Looks really snazzy :D

Craton

United States17250 Posts

April 30 2013 02:16 GMT

#40

My other folding table (5') is along the wall to my right, which makes sort of a cheapo L-desk. I find it rather convenient since I have basically no desk space when using three monitors (they're 22" Acer x223w on left and 27" Dell U2713HM on mid/right if didn't mention it earlier). I brought my old craptastic 22" Acer v223w to work and RMAed my other x223w for repair (buzz/flick on backlight). I dunno why the v series was so much worse than the x series, despite being newer and the same size/cost.

I'd like to get a better TV at some point and maybe move that one to my bedroom, but it's not much of a priority. I use my old laptop for bedroom TV, but it struggles with some high bitrate 1080p video so connecting the small TV would probably overwhelm it.

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