아빠.Dev Blog

The Great GPU Dilemma So there I was, staring at my aging GTX 760, knowing it was well past time for an upgrade. This trusty old card had served me well for years, but modern games were starting to make it wheeze and struggle. Like many PC enthusiasts facing a major upgrade, I found myself caught in the middle of the age-old debate: NVIDIA or AMD? Both companies have been trading blows for years, each offering compelling reasons to choose their silicon. Let me walk you through my thought process and how I ultimately ended up with my current setup. ...

Note: Some links contain affiliate links. Most affiliate links will me noted affiliate. What Another Keyboard? So last month I got myself a new keyboard. It was a Kemove Snowfox and I got mine from Aliexpress because it was cheaper and shipping was free to Korea. I have been using it for about a month. I didn’t mod it and was just stock. I was getting used to it.. But as a programmer using Visual Studio there were some hard choices. ...

As Always, I was strolling through Netflix for anything to watch. There are a few conditions that must be met when I look for something. It must be fun I have to understand the language or it has to have captions. The reason for #2 is that I want to “listen” to it while I work or I want to “read” it while I do some household chores. So in that context.. ...

Disclaimer: If you are here for a professional review, go back. Trailer Trailer 1 Trailer 2 Review I always loved robots. My first games that I played was Super Robot Taisen on the SNES(SFC). I have watched all the old Gundams, The Evangalion series. And some years ago I watched the first Pacific Rim. It was nice. I never understood why the robots were so colorful. But it was nice to watch. ...

Reason So I usually go by some other alias’ when I use the internet. But for this blog, I wanted some name that I could possibly use later on if I ever decide to make a game myself. Meaning I was looking for a lot of things. I even went far to search for a “random company name generator”. But one day, I sat down with my son, who just started talking, to play around with him. He is in a babling stage and just likes to talk alot.. Even if we can’t understand it. But one of the most things he says is “아빠” or “엄마” meaning.. Dad and mom respectively in Korean. I already wanted a .dev domain and 아빠.dev just seamed nice. I googled “아빠” and they read it like “Appa”. But Appa seamed more like “아파”(hurts). I wanted something smoother and went for abba. But we all know ABBA right? And the domain was taken anyway. I was disappointed. Then my son called me again “아-빠”. THAT WAS IT!! Hence the name “a-bba”. ...