If you happen to run into a girl with the same frequency you would in some dating sims, they will think you are a stalker. But don’t worry, you just have to know how to load your earlier save file… You did create a save point, didn’t you?
But it DOES improve computer performance. It’s the universal law of cupcake. ALL things are improved by delicious cupcakes. Oh look puppies, so cute, add cupcakes, even better. Fancy Italian dinner, delicious, throw in a cupcake, double delicious. Sexy girls kissing, who realistically doesn’t like that, add cupcakes, and you don’t even have to queue the cheesy cliché sexy time music. Cupcakes = winning
They have no effect on computer performance; however, they do affect user performance, and user mood. Improved user mood will have the effect of making the computer APPEAR to run better, and thus further improving user satisfaction and mood. Before you know it, this cycle of user mood / apparent performance / cupcaky goodness will spiral upward into a greater sense of euphoria and accompany feelings of Nirvana, until the user actually passes into a greater state of being as an entity of pure joy.
I’m willing to bet that the total RAM is 64 gigs, not a single stick of 64 gig. I’ve seen boards with 8 slots, and 8 sticks of 8 takes us to 64 quite nicely (I want to say I’ve encountered some 16’s as well, but that’s taking things a bit too far)
I don’t know. He’s got: i7 3820 CPU, 64 gb ram, 128 SSD boot drive, 2 Tb storage drive, gigabyte 650TI overclocked Graphics card, xoner x2 sound card, on a DX79TO intel motherboard. Built the whole thing himself, from scratch. And I think he’s using the latest Windows upgrade, not sure.
laptop or desktop computer?
desktop towers (ie not iMacs but instead Mac Pros; or equivalent machines) have proper-sized fans which allow for 32GB RAM cards and have 4-8 RAM card slots on-board (last I checked in early 2012; they hadn’t made a new mac tower in fivish years, just added better upgrade options)
Laptops (ie MacBook Pros, or equivalent laptops) can on the fringe hold the 16GB RAM cards with 4(I think?) RAM card slots; I do not recommend sitting such a laptop on your lap, you will likely burn
And I’ve just double checked those specs, they were the ‘official’ come in the box numbers for the Mac Pro (2009 high-end model), un-officially it can take 128 RAM with customization.
The mac-boxes made since have the same max specs with less card slots to get there (refinement of the same computer rather than adding in any more excess; if they wanted they could double the RAM capacity by adding the option for 8 RAM card slots back in)
Someday I will obtain a Mac Pro and it’s hardware will be more than I will ever need, at least until (screwy stuff like) quantum computers and computer-to-brain interfaces become commercial products
20 bucks…..I don’t know how much is the rate of exchange of Malaysian Ringgit to USD but 20 bucks where I’m from can net you stuff from cooling fans to USB controller.
Amber has an…unhealthy fixation on those cupcakes. Just the thought reduces her to gibbering madness. It’s too bad she won’t be getting any. At least she can be happy for Amazi-Girl!
Man, there was a book series I read as a kid where there was this superhero powered by cupcakes that his mad-scientist siblings made, and they’d give him a different power each time. Can’t remember what the title was.
It’s the other guy that’s weirding me out. His expression reminds me of Walky’s freaked-out-by-Dorothy expression. I’m assuming he’s lovestruck by Amber, but doesn’t know how to approach her, because he doesn’t have a toy monkeyape to throw at her head.
Danny will find the one obscure food Amazi-Girl is allergic to, bake her cupcakes containing said food, and set off the smoke detectors in the community kitchen while making them. Then accompany Amazi-Girl to the ER because she ate the smoky burnt cupcakes to be nice and had an allergic reaction.
Far more sensible would be one of the ‘quiet spots’. L2 is a good spot, and it has the advantage of being hidden from the direct observation if you’re on the Earth. Totes fucked if you’re ever into it deep with space aliens, fo rizzle.
Yeah. She should be more careful. This could spiral out of control and send the poor boy headlong into a life of crime… and… I actually like this. Continue on, Amber.
I like how this Amber is doing exactly what Amber|Prime did when she got Faz to buy her a computer, only she’s speaking directly for Amazigirl rather than slipping notes into strategy books.
Here’s hoping Danny goes to Gigi’s for the cupcakes.
Damn! after midnite and no cupcakes…sigh. well, I will just have to wait until tomorrow. By then I will not crave them. No calories for me. However, I will have cupcakes anyway. So that when midnight rolls around again…I will eat them.
This reminds me of that storyline near the beginning of Shortpacked, where Amber tricks Faz into buying her a laptop. Why does she do that? I mean, besides all the sweet loot she gets out of it.
I googled it, sadly it isn’t. On retrospect the name is crazy….but then, most of them are anyway.
I might need to get a serverboard googleing around – nothing could power the pentagon these days. 4 max on most.
I expect 70’s Superman comic-book-style hijinks! Amber and Danny eventually schedule a lunch meeting, on the same evening that Amazi-Girl and Danny have a date! Meanwhile, the Congresswoman is smashing up the campus! Will she choose boyfriend or battle? Romance or right? Justice or jayjayplaying? In next week’s thrilling Amazi-Girl — “A Date With Death”!
(I wondered a while back if, since Amazi-Girl is now a slightly more conventional superhero, she has an archnemesis or supervillain. Sydney Yus seemed the most viable candidate. Faz came in at a close second.)
You’re really reaching for it, you know? Although I admit it does appear Joe may’ve designed his supersuit based on a girl who looks startlingly like Amber, to think that Amber is Amazi-girl is just crazy talk.
Amber being Amazi-Girl seems to easy, now. Plus, some of the stuff we’ve seen Amazi-Girl do more than suggests [i]actual[/i] superpowers, which I just don’t think Amber has.
I’m starting to think that Amazi-Girl is android, or something that looks like Amber, because Amber built her.
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Danny is so unobservant it’s adorable.
He will figure it out. There is no way that he cannot. I am only curious as to whether he’s going to play it cool and let Amber have her own rope.
Never underestimate the power of a Danny to be completely oblivious, no matter the size of the cluebat beating down on his skull.
Like I said in the last comments, mediocre sneakiness is all you need when dealing with Danny.
It’s why he makes such a great Lois. At this point he’s a better Lois than Lois herself.
So anything above a critical fail will do.
You might even be able to fudge it with a critical fail…
I wholeheartedly approve of your icon!
sounds creepy with the super dark avatar.
But how do cupcakes improve computer performance??
It doesn’t improve computer performance but it does improve your relationship performance.
So life really is like a dating sim then… cool!
No wonder everything people say just sounds like gibberish to me.
That depends on whether you’re a Clanger or not…
Well, yeah. It’s just that there’s no strategy guide.
No one wrote a stategy guide?
Man real life has the worst fanbase ever!
Well, technically there are some strategy guides but some people think that it’s a load of crap.
I think Amber is trying to be the strategy guide.
If you happen to run into a girl with the same frequency you would in some dating sims, they will think you are a stalker. But don’t worry, you just have to know how to load your earlier save file… You did create a save point, didn’t you?
Actually, by giving the user of the computer a sugar rush, the cupcakes could give the illusion that the computer is actually SLOWER.
But it DOES improve computer performance. It’s the universal law of cupcake. ALL things are improved by delicious cupcakes. Oh look puppies, so cute, add cupcakes, even better. Fancy Italian dinner, delicious, throw in a cupcake, double delicious. Sexy girls kissing, who realistically doesn’t like that, add cupcakes, and you don’t even have to queue the cheesy cliché sexy time music. Cupcakes = winning
But puppies eating a cupcake you wanted to eat later doesn’t make puppies better!
OOOH I like the new sliding comment box!
I’ve always found that a good dose of vitamin cupcake can really help prevent PEBCAK errors.
They have no effect on computer performance; however, they do affect user performance, and user mood. Improved user mood will have the effect of making the computer APPEAR to run better, and thus further improving user satisfaction and mood. Before you know it, this cycle of user mood / apparent performance / cupcaky goodness will spiral upward into a greater sense of euphoria and accompany feelings of Nirvana, until the user actually passes into a greater state of being as an entity of pure joy.
…now I want a cupcake, too.
You just described the end goals of transhumanism replacing cupcakes for technology. I’m pretty sure your plan is better.
Well, you can use the computer to extrapolate a model of the entire universe from the cupcake, and create the Total Perspective Vortex.
All the cupcakes.
cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakes
Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakes
In her faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
The gambit will work perfectly until he has any reason to complain about a!g behind her back.
I have 8 gigs of ram.
…
That Motherboard makes me feel like a primitive.
My brother built himself a computer with 64 gig of ram.
He’s a firm believer in the concept of “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth OVER-doing”
HOW THE HECK did he manage to come across a 64 GB Ram? And how is it compatible with his computer?
I’m willing to bet that the total RAM is 64 gigs, not a single stick of 64 gig. I’ve seen boards with 8 slots, and 8 sticks of 8 takes us to 64 quite nicely (I want to say I’ve encountered some 16’s as well, but that’s taking things a bit too far)
I don’t know. He’s got: i7 3820 CPU, 64 gb ram, 128 SSD boot drive, 2 Tb storage drive, gigabyte 650TI overclocked Graphics card, xoner x2 sound card, on a DX79TO intel motherboard. Built the whole thing himself, from scratch. And I think he’s using the latest Windows upgrade, not sure.
laptop or desktop computer?
desktop towers (ie not iMacs but instead Mac Pros; or equivalent machines) have proper-sized fans which allow for 32GB RAM cards and have 4-8 RAM card slots on-board (last I checked in early 2012; they hadn’t made a new mac tower in fivish years, just added better upgrade options)
Laptops (ie MacBook Pros, or equivalent laptops) can on the fringe hold the 16GB RAM cards with 4(I think?) RAM card slots; I do not recommend sitting such a laptop on your lap, you will likely burn
And I’ve just double checked those specs, they were the ‘official’ come in the box numbers for the Mac Pro (2009 high-end model), un-officially it can take 128 RAM with customization.
The mac-boxes made since have the same max specs with less card slots to get there (refinement of the same computer rather than adding in any more excess; if they wanted they could double the RAM capacity by adding the option for 8 RAM card slots back in)
Someday I will obtain a Mac Pro and it’s hardware will be more than I will ever need, at least until (screwy stuff like) quantum computers and computer-to-brain interfaces become commercial products
I have a MacBook Pro 2009 DDR3 and the highest amount of RAM compatible with mine is 2 4GIGS of Ram totaling to 8 gigs
Does he not play games? That video card is a clear weakest link.
It’s a desktop. He’s using it as an audio workstation. The idea was to make a computer that he wouldn’t have to upgrade in a couple year’s time.
Perhaps he has 8 slots in his motherboard and each has an 8 gig stick?
Dinah may be my spirit animal, but Amber knows where my heart lies.
I have misspelled the name of my spirit animal. I am hanging my head in shame.
Amazi-Girl Gambit: Ask for computer motherboard, when you really want cupcakes. Awesome. 🙂
I want a motherboard made of cupcakes. I want an E-Z bake desktop.
My last computer pretty much became an easy bake oven with how often it overheated.
I had a laptop that doubled as a skillet on the bottom. We can make a kitchen.
This comment link gave a whole new meaning for “Internet Cafe”
20 bucks…..I don’t know how much is the rate of exchange of Malaysian Ringgit to USD but 20 bucks where I’m from can net you stuff from cooling fans to USB controller.
Where I’m from too bro. But she probably has that kind of stuff already, just not a fancy motherboard.
Hello neighbours.
Amber has an…unhealthy fixation on those cupcakes. Just the thought reduces her to gibbering madness. It’s too bad she won’t be getting any. At least she can be happy for Amazi-Girl!
Cupcakes give her super-strength,
Chocolate cupcakes give her ultra strength.
And if you add sprinkles…look out.
Triple chocolate cupcakes give her diabetes.
Diabetes: Amazi-Girls kryptonite? News at 11.
In a coincidence, diabetes is also not invited to partake in Amber’s raids. Nobody knows why this is, besides the fact that it is a disease.
Man, there was a book series I read as a kid where there was this superhero powered by cupcakes that his mad-scientist siblings made, and they’d give him a different power each time. Can’t remember what the title was.
If I may, there is one thing you may have overlooked:
Cupcake frosting.
And the cupcakes themselves.
I mean….cupcakes!
I’m sure Joe would think Amber for the cupcakes, if he was willing to risk his cover.
Or even thank her (oy, my fingers)
I have a bad feeling that if you give Amber the cupcakes, she will eat them before you have a chance to give it to Amazi-Girl.
Hey, no one can withstand the lure of cupcakes.
Amazi-Girl could really use that motherboard for her crime lab, but it’s the cupcakes that are proven invaluable in subduing villains.
“I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for Amazi-girl and her Cupcakes!”
Bouncy cupcakes.
Big, bouncy cupcakes. 🙂
Cupcakes? is that what you kids are calling them these days? What’s wrong with bazongas, or sweater puppies? You kids and your slang.
They’re more effective than Hostess fruit pies!
Cupcakes are a damn fine second place.
The gravatar makes this sound far more defensive than it is.
This is officially my favorite pairing.
Also $20 worth of cupcakes would be like…3 dozen wouldn’t it?
That’s a lot of cupcakes.
Amber/Cupcakes, you mean?
They’re going to have a threesome with Danny/Soda
Coupled with the original DoA OTP Walky/McNuggets, the only conclusion I can think of is that food will be your best love.
Ha! There’s a wave of “gourmet” cupcake places in my area, where each one is like $3.
Who doesn’t like cupcakes? No one, that’s who. They are cakes in a more convenient form you don’t need a fork or plate to consume. Genius.
If you’ve got a problem with cupcakes, you’ve got a problem with me.
Okay it’s been decided. This weekend I am making cupcakes. TRY AND STOP ME!
Judging from your gravatar, that would be futile.
GALASSO’S PIZZA (AND SUBS) (also cupcakes) cannot be stopped.
But it can only power one tenth of the NSA.
The blonde guy sitting behind Danny’s eyes/glasses are freaking me out
He learned too much about programing and reached nirvana.
You mean Nerdvana?
I’m sorry, that was awful. Here’s me pushing the joke too far to compensate.
*Scrolls up and looks* Holy shit that is terrifying. Thank you in advance for all the nightmares I’ll be having soon.
It’s the other guy that’s weirding me out. His expression reminds me of Walky’s freaked-out-by-Dorothy expression. I’m assuming he’s lovestruck by Amber, but doesn’t know how to approach her, because he doesn’t have a toy
monkeyape to throw at her head.Danny will find the one obscure food Amazi-Girl is allergic to, bake her cupcakes containing said food, and set off the smoke detectors in the community kitchen while making them. Then accompany Amazi-Girl to the ER because she ate the smoky burnt cupcakes to be nice and had an allergic reaction.
However, that does seem like a brilliant plan to learn her true identity. Should’ve thought of that sooner.
The entire day, and no one points out that if Danny brought cupcakes, Amazigirl might literally be eating out of his hands? FOR SHAME!
Amber is making a lot of assumptions about Amazi-Girl …
Besides being lumped together and generalized about, it’s the one thing women hate the most.
But I gotta agree with Amber here…cupcakes are pretty frickin’ rad.
I want nothing to do with Pinkie Pie’s cupcakes
Brave Sir Robin ran away
Bravely ran away away
When Pinkie raised IT’s ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled…
I would too though…unless they were Red Velvet with cream cheese icing. Then I would stab someone for them.
Never accept the invitation when Pinkie Pie invites you to come make cupcakes
Wait, Amber wanted something that could power the Pentagon. What is she really after?
That would be the perfect location for “Amazi-girl’s hall of Justice:” ™
I would rather having it ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! I’m sorry, that will be the last time I will ever do that.
Far more sensible would be one of the ‘quiet spots’. L2 is a good spot, and it has the advantage of being hidden from the direct observation if you’re on the Earth. Totes fucked if you’re ever into it deep with space aliens, fo rizzle.
I’m an idiot that can’t read. Ignore! Ignore!
Getting advice from Amber about Amazi-girl. This can only end well.
Ah, the poor person dating problem. I’ve been there, my friend. I’ve been there.
Don’t push your luck Amber. Amazi-Girl doesn’t date Richie Rich ya know.
Right?
Yeah. She should be more careful. This could spiral out of control and send the poor boy headlong into a life of crime… and… I actually like this. Continue on, Amber.
It will be like Batman and Catwoman. But this one is between amazi-Girl and Danny-O.
Good thing no one mentioned “that” before.
You sound like an anime dancing around mentioning some new special move or power up.
Hey, thanks.
I like how this Amber is doing exactly what Amber|Prime did when she got Faz to buy her a computer, only she’s speaking directly for Amazigirl rather than slipping notes into strategy books.
Here’s hoping Danny goes to Gigi’s for the cupcakes.
CUPCAKES
SO SWEET AND TASTY
CUPCAKES
DON’T BE TOO HASTY
CUPCAKES
CUPCAKES! CUPCAKES! CUPCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKES!
…I apologize. BUT IT COULDA BEEN WORSE!
Now, where ah those cupcakes? Ah’m ready t’ chow down!
…I think our gravatars might be opposites.
…not muffins?
So this comic gave me a craving. But it’s past midnight and I have no cake mix I do however apparently have half a can of chocolate frosting.
It’s half as good.
Wait, people eat cupcakes for reasons beyond the frosting?
I eat them in one bite.
Damn! after midnite and no cupcakes…sigh. well, I will just have to wait until tomorrow. By then I will not crave them. No calories for me. However, I will have cupcakes anyway. So that when midnight rolls around again…I will eat them.
and its all your fault.
I’m beginning to think that Danny and Amber deserve each other, and I don’t mean that as a good thing.
Amber, you are making this so much more difficult than it has to be. Are you even thinking of the end-game?
What the fuck. I’m Pamela now? I used to be a ninja turtle until I took a Gravatar to the knee…
This reminds me of that storyline near the beginning of Shortpacked, where Amber tricks Faz into buying her a laptop. Why does she do that? I mean, besides all the sweet loot she gets out of it.
I appreciate a girl who knows her priorities ^_^
*squeee!* Avatar jackpot!
Yeah. Who in their right mind does not like cupcakes?
Me. Everyone always puts fucktons of frosting on them, and I hate frosting. Therefore, cupcakes are usually inedible for me.
Is that a real mobo? I could do with more Ram…AE and 3DS max eat it like anything.
Fortunately my cupcake supply is fine.
Doubtful but I know what you mean. Working with Max and Unity open at the same time can be painful. I just doubled my RAM and it helped a lot though.
I googled it, sadly it isn’t. On retrospect the name is crazy….but then, most of them are anyway.
I might need to get a serverboard googleing around – nothing could power the pentagon these days. 4 max on most.
Man. I’m going to need more Danny density jokes.
I expect 70’s Superman comic-book-style hijinks! Amber and Danny eventually schedule a lunch meeting, on the same evening that Amazi-Girl and Danny have a date! Meanwhile, the Congresswoman is smashing up the campus! Will she choose boyfriend or battle? Romance or right? Justice or jayjayplaying? In next week’s thrilling Amazi-Girl — “A Date With Death”!
(I wondered a while back if, since Amazi-Girl is now a slightly more conventional superhero, she has an archnemesis or supervillain. Sydney Yus seemed the most viable candidate. Faz came in at a close second.)
GUYS!
I think we’ve all been wrong about who Amazi-girl is.
I think it might be Amber – this arc seems to be hinting at it. Yeah, yeah, blasphemy, I know. Still, it’s only a _little_ bit of a crazy theory.
You’re really reaching for it, you know? Although I admit it does appear Joe may’ve designed his supersuit based on a girl who looks startlingly like Amber, to think that Amber is Amazi-girl is just crazy talk.
Amber being Amazi-Girl seems to easy, now. Plus, some of the stuff we’ve seen Amazi-Girl do more than suggests [i]actual[/i] superpowers, which I just don’t think Amber has.
I’m starting to think that Amazi-Girl is android, or something that looks like Amber, because Amber built her.
Guess I should have used a real HTML tag, instead of a BBS one.
I thought Amazi-Girl was Sal
You have paid no attention to anything…
No, no, no Amber is SpiderCar.
Amber is a woman after mine own heart.
Amber has used one of George Carlin’s seven words, I am turned on like you won’t believe.
cotton balls?
with iceing to match her costume.
And the taste of JUSTICE to satisfy her hunger.
..