Hellö (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

Sorry for being quiet for so long, but the aftermath of my move was still very much catching up with me, and honestly, I was exhausted. The move itself went almost perfectly and everything worked out in the end, but all the things I had pushed aside during the move came back all at once afterward and demanded my attention.

Things like my day job, family matters, and all the other responsibilities I had temporarily put on hold needed to be dealt with. Long story short: I stayed busier than expected.

Now, though, I'm finally back in my normal workflow.

Or at least, that's what I thought.

I sat down to work, started loading up the 3D studio on PC, and after a short while the computer started crashing. It had happened before, so I already knew something isn't quite right with my pc. But now it was every 15 minutes. Crash, crash, crash, crash.

And I'm sitting there thinking, "What the hell is going on?"

So I checked the temperatures, especially my CPU temperature, and it was way too high. That's probably what caused all the crashes. Germany is currently experiencing absolutely ridiculous heat, and the room where my PC sits is not exactly ideal. The sun shines directly into it for most of the day, and it basically feels like a sauna. I'm sweating just from sitting there, and I don't have air conditioning.

So what do you do?

The PC fans were already running at maximum speed. Now look at my glorius solution (picture at the top) My solution was to remove the side panel of the case and point an external fan directly into the computer. Since then, CPU temperatures have gone back down a bit and everything is working again.

Crazy.

The only problem now is that I need to buy a second fan, because if one fan is permanently dedicated to the PC, I don't have one left for myself, and I'm genuinely sweating like I'm sitting in the desert.

Hopefully this heatwave in Germany eases up soon and things can finally return to normal. At least that's what I'm hoping for.

And if you happened to notice the completely random and definitely not intentionally placed coffee pads in the photo: congratulations. That was absolutely deliberate.

Anyone who has been following me on Patreon for a while knows that I am, or at least used to be, completely dependent on caffeine. These days I'm down to just one cup of coffee in the morning. (Please be proud of me.)

But those coffee pads you saw? They're really good. I can honestly recommend them. If you enjoy coffee even a little bit and have a compatible machine at home, they're fantastic.

Seriously.

They're Alberto Espresso coffee pads, 35 pads per pack. Right now they're on sale at the store near me for only €3. That's insane value. It works out to something like 9 cents per coffee.

Okay, that's not including water, milk, and sugar, sinc I'm more of a "coffee with training wheels" kind of person. I always need milk and sugar. Even so, these coffee pads taste really good.

So if you happen to see them on sale somewhere and you're already using coffee pads, that's my recommendation of the day.

But now that I think about it, I've spent surprisingly little time talking about the game in this post.

I don't know, I just felt like sharing what has been going on lately.

So I think I'll leave this post as it is and make another one right after this.

Yep.

Give me two minutes and there'll be another post, and this time it'll actually be about game development news.