Samwise the Awesome's Alternative Space

DeviantArt was messing with me, So I'm creating this to back up my art, showcase some of my favorites, etc.

[newvegascowboy]

HEY YALL!!

I've been thinking about doing a follower giveaway for a long time since I haven't done one in YEARS. You are all so wonderful and sweet, so I'm doing a giveaway!

The giveaway will run from today (December 26th) to January 31st!

Winners will be chosen by a random picker the first week of February and will be announced February 4th.

RULES

Must be following me - this is a giveaway for my followers after all. You can reblog to a sideblog, but make sure to let me know your main so I can check!

Likes and Reblogs count as separate entries - you can enter twice with a like and a reblog!

All characters/fandoms welcome! - This is a fallout blog, but I'm not limited to fallout ocs.

Winners must respond within 48 hours of being contacted or a new winner will be chosen

Thank you guys!!! I love and appreciate you all so much!!

[flakmaniak]

So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.

[hotvampireadjacent]

#someone in the notes mentioned shut up windows 10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 

i haven’t used this myself but i’ll be looking into it

[self-critical-automaton]

Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.

[leylin3]

the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is "Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing" it's at the very bottom under misc.

[hunter-rodrigez]

There are 2 programs that will turn Windows 10 from an advertising riddled, bloated mess into a useful tool.

10AppsManager

With one click, this will remove ALL THE BLOATWARE Windows comes with. Seriously, you need NONE OF THESE apps, and if you do, you can just uninstall all the ones you don't need individually.

Winaero Tweaker

This program will give you almost complete control over Windows 10's behavior. Disabling the web search in the start menu, op rightfully complained about, is just one of the many things this thing can do

For example, with a single setting you can turn off any ads from microsoft, system-wide

It is a powerful tool, but it can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily every single setting comes with an explanation about what it actually does, and most settings can be easily reversed.

[manga-and-stuff]

Tech tip from my personal blog

[nehirose]

reblogged in the hope that i'll eventually both remember AND have the executive function (AT THE SAME TIME) to actually sit down and deal with this. win10 really is terrible.

[akaluan]

Also, if you’re like me and utterly unable to handle the weird tile-style menu and just want to go back to the days of lists that make sense, check out OpenShell https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

It’s a very simple program, and it turns the tile menu on win10 into something much more logical like this

Which i will never be able to live without, so it goes on every win10 machine I have to use regularly.

[beesmygod]

everyone in this post goes directly to heaven

[samwisetheawesome]

Just some Lantern Corps OCs

[samwisetheawesome]

Happy N7 Day!

Mass Effect has some of the coolest armor around, of any IP

Also, ridiculously complicated and hard to draw.

[samwisetheawesome]

Huge fan of Gravity Falls, love that kind of spooky urban fantasy stuff

.GIFfany was one of the best villains of the whole series

[samwisetheawesome]

These are from Jedi June in the past years. I really like how all these turned out.

[prussianmemes]

i think it's a mark of honor if a mutual picks your blog for their morning mass content scrolling spree.

when you see their icon 47 times in your activity log, they are knighting you.

[samwisetheawesome]

Figured that I might post my Firefly ship captains.

Carlos and Lucy Reyes are co-captains of the Coyote Azul.

Cass Banner is the captain of the Lavada.

Clara Blackburn is the captain of the Wrath of Argos.

Lastly, Iain Wright is the captain of Odin’s Raven.

[samwisetheawesome]

Here are the foils of the League of Seven, the Elder Syndicate.

Above are:

Dark Paladin, a corrupted soldier from the crusades

Elizabeth Bathory, a vampiric descendant of Dracula

Anansi the Spider, a Zulu witchdoctor

A Corrupted Lares, one of the guardian spirits of ancient Rome

Abrasax, a great Red Dragon, looking to awaken the Old Ones and enslave humanity

Vioreas Umbra, a necromancer

[samwisetheawesome]

Yol Toor Shul! by SamwiseTheAwesome on DeviantArt

Yol Toor Shul! by SamwiseTheAwesome

I missed out on the anniversary last week(?) but here’s my first Dragonborn

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[samwisetheawesome]

Is this the 'cougars in my area' I've heard about?

[samwisetheawesome]

In a fight, I think World War Hulk would win in a fight against Superman. He’s strong enough, much smarter, and willing to go to lengths that Supes won’t.

Plus, he’d steal some kind of magic stuff and go to town on big blue.

[samwisetheawesome]

Not sure if anyone remembers from a few years back now, but there was an awesome movie called Kung Fury

 (full movie awesomeness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_L…) This is one of the secondary characters, Barbarianna and her giant wolf. They hunt laser raptors in the Viking age.

[samwisetheawesome]

Idea I had a while back, post-apocalyptic Lord of the Rings.

[samwisetheawesome]

After Peter Capaldi took over in Deep Breath, I was inspired to draw these two. Probably my favorite Victorian Era lesbian private detectives that really deserve their own show.

[samwisetheawesome]

Here’s a boar-taur that I designed a few years back now

[samwisetheawesome]

This was originally a piece done because I wanted to make a warrior with pigtails.

What better way for a Norender warrior to display his martial prowess?