Paradigmshift's Room
Here is my submission for the Otacool room. It's a small room, but I make do with my otaku collection in spacing it out and trying to make it aesthetically pleasing. Excuse the poor camera work, as the lighting in my room is pretty terrible, and I was forced to use flash.
Also was able to post a pic of myself playing Left 4 Dead with 3D Vision.
Name (or nick name) - Paradigmshift, AKA Richard
Age - 23
How many years you have been an otaku - Started off anime with DBZ and Cowboy Bebop when I was young, but only seriously started collecting and joining the ranks of otaku in college
Nationality - Chinese American
Outline of your collection - ~150 bishoujo anime figures, 2 HT action figures, 8 video game figures, 1 MR lightsaber, 1 Automatic Electric Airsoft P90 replica, various other otaku merchandise such as wall scrolls, artbooks, etc
How much your collection cost - priceless to me, but the total amount of money I spent on this is probably pegged at ~15000 USD
Your fave item - Too many to choose from! The MaxFactory Haruhi extravaganza is probably my favorite anime set, while my HT Dutch (Arnold from Predator) is my most badass figure
Your website address - http://threedeecomplex.wordpress.com
Anything else you want to say - I'm also a hardware otaku, as evidenced by my 4 computers in a single room, as well as my triple monitor setup, and my 3D Vision glasses. Also a heavy gamer as well. PC and PS3 are my gaming machines of choice.
When you enter my room, this is what you will see.
42" Toshiba REGZA 1080p LCD HDTV, along with my file server and backup computer, which houses:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 overclocked to 3.2 GHz
MSI P43 Neo3
2x2GB OCZ Reaper DDR2-1066 RAM
EVGA NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640MB GPU
2x250 GB 7200 rpm HDD
620W Rosewill PSU
DVD Burner
My Master Replicas lightsaber and with my AEG P90, along with some of my larger figures.
To the left of entering my room, you will see my movie and PC Game collection, along with a few more figures
My sleeping zone.
The wireless keyboard and mouse control my Home Theater PC.
My two latest acquisitions from Otakon:
Kannagi artbook signed by director Yutaka Yamamoto
Ah! My Goddess Colors signed by Kikuko Inoue, Belldandy's seiyuu
HT Iron Man and Yoko
My main computer's specs:
Intel Core i7 965 EE
Asus P6T
3x2GB OCZ Platinum DDR3-1600 RAM
2 BFG NVIDIA GTX 280 1GB GPUs in SLI
MSI 9600 GT 1GB GPU for PhysX and running my other two monitors
2x500GB Seagate Barracudas in RAID 0
500 GB Seagate FreeAgent external HDD
DVD Burner
850W Corsair PSU
Antec 900 ATX Case
Here is the PS3
You can see my old laptop peeking out from beneath the shelf.
My Home Theater PC is to the bottom right, its specs are:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200
ZOTAC Geforce 9300 Mini-ITX motherboard
2x2GB OCZ Fatal1ty DDR2-1066 RAM
1 TB WD Caviar Black HDD
LG Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
Me playing Left 4 Dead with my Yoko oppai mousepad using 3D Vision. Boy do I need a shave...
My monitors are:
Samsung 2233RZ 22" 120Hz monitor (For Geforce 3D Vision, the glasses you can see there as well)
Acer 19"
Westinghouse 19"
LoL i have that seagate hard drive too and the Yoko mouse pad (though I don't use it regularly). I do want that DK Yuki >.< And the Mikuru bunnygirl too! Very nice room ^_^
Although I'm fast running out of space, and if this keeps up, then my room will start to end up looking like your's lightning! Utterly jam-packed with goodies but dangerous to anybody who actually wants to live there :P
You just make sure not to overdo it XD I moved some of my stuff from my room to the guest room just so I can clean up a few things, but that room feels like it's filled already 0.o I'm surprised I'm able to fit in so much. Hopefully you won't run out of space too soon ^^;
Unfortunately I don't have another room to move my stuff into. If it gets really bad, I might actually have to start renting off-site storage up here in Manhattan.
Ooh, so jealous of your Black Lagoon figures! Well, there's quite a few other figures as well, but mostly the Black Lagoon ones, haha!
Nice room set-up. :)
Thanks! Black Lagoon is one of my favorite shows, which is why I went after all the figures. I can't wait for the 3rd season as well.
Great room! Wallscrolls are awesome-finished installing mine recently (though basically all you have to do is measure here and there and nail a nail~)
Very nice figure collection and incredible hardware! Really, its incredible!
Gotta agree with the hardware.. Awesome stuff :D
Thanks guys, building computers is a hobby second only to anime and gaming for me. Once new hardware comes out, I feel an uncontrollable need to upgrade or build a completely new machine.
Ah, I don't have that urge as much - still with mostly 6 year old parts, but always spend a few hours a week mingling with my hardware-seeing how it works, where is what. I think my first victim was my GB Color - have been taking stuff apart ever since~
I know what you mean.. If there's a job here that lets you assemble computers for customers, I'd take it even if the pay is as much as the minimum wage. Gotta love tinkering with the parts and all that stuff.
And I love the smell of a newly built PC.. XD
I do building computers mostly for friends right now, but if I do find some source where I can get a lot secondhand/used computer parts for cheap, I might actually start something akin to a community service where I build cheap computers for needy families so that they can go online too from their homes.
Doing charity is always nice.. Just wow *teary eyed*
Aside from the wires and the back of the TV rack everything looks good.. Gotta love how you've organized the boxes/dvds and stuff.
Oh and I spot 'Ahnold' guarding your desk..
Yeah, I build that TV rack myself using spare wood obtained from Home Deport and left over from previous home improvement projects. AHNULD was sent from the future, programmed to protect my desk.
Wow.. Awesome stuff :D
Nice Diggs. How do you like that Infamous game? I have it still sealed; thinking of returning it.
I'm enjoying it, its one of the better sandbox games out there. Its comparable to Crackdown, if you've played that one before. Its main competition right now is Prototype, I can't decide which game I like better.
For me, its Prototype - open world concept mastered - being one of the reasons.
They are both good, but I still think GTA has the concept down to a tee, and the GTA cities always feel the most alive and vibrant. However, there's a different type of open world game I'm into right now called Armed Assault II. That's a hardcore military open world, where an entire island with both civilians, rebels, and enemy army is open for you and your Marines to go through doing whatever you want.
I always had this weird feeling while playing Prototype.. I just dropped from God knows how high, timed the glide so that I won't smash the ground and the military just shrugs it off XD
Its even funnier when you are disguised as one of them and just fly in from a skyscraper after running up a vertical wall and they are like "Yes sir, you don't seem suspicious at all, please enter our secret military base!"
Very nice set up along with lots of goodies. I'm sure you'll need some new space soon. ^^;; But I have to say, 4 PC in a small room = HOT!! How do you handle it? I can't survive with my desktop in my room.
Serious air conditioning over the summer, but in the winter, I don't need heating at all, my computers all are giant space heaters! My next build might be a liquid-cooled system to alleviate some of the heating issues.
Ah, really nice. I'm not sure how far the liquid cooling have gone since I worked at a computer store a while back, but I was told by one of the techs that condensation happens so you're computer might get screwed using liquid cooling systems. Not sure how accurate his info was, but I wasn't one to find out. ^^;;
I think if you have a good radiator and well-made piping and tight seals, that shouldn't be an issue. Although I might do something totally off the wall and try this: http://www.pugetsystems.com/submerged.php
That's interesting - I saw your signed Kannagi artbook, but all I had to do was get a glimpse of the signature before I thought "Kannagi"?
xP The way she signs...it resembles the Kannagi logo.
I also can't wait to get to New York Anime Festival this year. Yoshiyuki Tomino, a scriptwriter for Astro Boy and the director of the original Mobile Suit Gundam will be there. Talk about old school. Also Yui Makino will be there as well, she was the voice of Misaka in Welcome to the NHK and Sakura in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Hounding anime celebrities for their autographs should be my new hobby after figure collecting!
O_O Yui Makino also did some songs for ARIA! I want her signature! >< Definitely can't make it down to New York though... orz
...so I now know there's at least one other Richard on here =P
I see you didn't forget your towel either.
Sweet stuff man.
Thanks, us Richards need to stick together! :P
Nice room! Triple monitors, checked! Hardware otaku, checked! Real TV, checked! Bookshelves double duty as display cabinet, checked! No figures below knee level, checked! PS3, checked! Chinese, checked! I say that's enough checked!
Hahaha thanks! I just wish I had better shelves to display my figures, but alas, they have to serve double duty as dividers and as bookshelves/DVD shelves/etc.
It's really not a bad way to display your figures, and let me explain my points. It's all about line of sight, I don't care what brand of cabinet you are using, the reality is anything below knee level are outside of your line of sight when you are standing up. Sure you can stand back and look at the bottom levels but then you can't see any details and therefore defeat the purpose of having a glass cabinet. Before I picked up on the dollfie, the bottom 30 inches of all of my bookshelves are filled with books, manga, model paint, etc. Fortunately, the dollfie are tall enough that even standing on the bottom level, they are quite visible to me even with me standing up. And that's why I reconfigure my display cabinet the way I did.
That's a great way to quantify what I was thinking in my gut the whole time I was setting up my figures. I guess I felt it would be too much effort (lol, lazy guy here) to bend over or kneel down to get a good view of my figures, so none of them ever go below waist or knee level.
I knew I can't be the only person who had considered the line of sight problem! The problem is not being lazy or what not, it's ergonomics. Go to any art gallery and you will see nothing is positioned in a way that requires you to bend down to see it.
Wow awesome room and nice lightsaber.
Thanks, its my only one though. I would like to get my hands on some more Master Replicas lightsabers, Darth Maul's double lightsaber would be my next choice, but where would i put it...?
wow. how much did you get your Nvdia Ion for? its not released over here yet ;_;
Unfortunately, the motherboard in my Home Theater PC is not an ION, as it doesn't use an Atom CPU. It uses the same onboard graphics (NVIDIA 9300/9400) as an ION though, but its CPU socket is LGA775, so it uses standard Pentium Dual Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs. There are ION versions of my motherboard out now though.
wish I have Ah! My Goddess Colors, signed by Kikuko Inoue is an honor man ^^
Thanks Yamada, I actually didn't have anything for her to sign initially, but then they made us wait for the second autograph session because there were too many people lined up for the first one, so I took the initiative and went to the dealer room and picked it up.
Ah someone enjoys KyoAni. *-*
Great look pad you got there ! +1 for Valkyria Chronicles !
Left 4 Dead player, nice. Love yours lucky star posters.
What edition is this?