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[Alfarif]

Hello Gaf! It's nothing special, but the cost of living is some of the highest in the country. My setup (for some reason the back lighting behind the TV looks weird in photos; it's uniform looking in person and not three blobs of light):

That blue really makes the colors pop without making it look like they're in torch mode.

 

[guest1321]

That blue really makes the colors pop without making it look like they're in torch mode.

I was going to say the same thing. I really was only focused on the shot with uncharted on the screen and I thought the contrast of the desert colors to the blue was what was making it look so good. But looking back at it, even with the fish and a blue screen it still looks superb.

Where those lights DIY or did you buy them somewhere?

 

[Footos22]

Got the lighting for £18.99.not recommended the left side started flicking like mad last night.
So had to take them down, felt like i was going to have a fit.
Will be changing for Ikea dioders this weekend.

You can change the colour of the Ikea ones i think they are £30 instead of £20 though.

 

[guest1321]

Got the lighting for £18.99.not recommended the left side started flicking like mad last night.
So had to take them down, felt like i was going to have a fit.
Will be changing for Ikea dioders this weekend.

Do those change colors or are they just a variable brightness with white?

 

[whitehawk]

My setup as of 2012.

Dude I want your basement.

 

[Azure Phoenix]

Got the lighting for £18.99.not recommended the left side started flicking like mad last night.
So had to take them down, felt like i was going to have a fit.
Will be changing for Ikea dioders this weekend.

If Dioder is the one that's a long bendable plastic strip then I can highly recommend it, if you stick it along the top, left and right edges of the back of your TV the lighting is perfectly even. The only minor gripe I have with the Dioder is that the white setting seems to have a slightly blue/green tint.

 

[jcm]

Grainy phone pictures incoming!

The gap on the entertainment unit with the loose cords is where the Xbox 360 would be. My brother had taken it into another room at the time this was taken.

I guess it's the angle or something, but your messy desk looks like a pretty, abstract still life in the picture on the monitor.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

I was going to say the same thing. I really was only focused on the shot with uncharted on the screen and I thought the contrast of the desert colors to the blue was what was making it look so good. But looking back at it, even with the fish and a blue screen it still looks superb.

Where those lights DIY or did you buy them somewhere?

Hi, these are the lights I have. Cyron LED Lighting 6 Pack System. They cost around $130.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000V1NW7G/?tag=neogaf0e-20

There are prob. a dozen different colors that you can use and a setting that changes to music.

 

[Wrekt]

Console area not pictured yet. It needed dusting and I'm lazy.

Back isn't so pretty

 

[derder]

Hello Gaf! It's nothing special, but the cost of living is some of the highest in the country. My setup (for some reason the back lighting behind the TV looks weird in photos; it's uniform looking in person and not three blobs of light):

Looks good. You def need some curtains, though.

 

[Cannon Goose]

I guess it's the angle or something, but your messy desk looks like a pretty, abstract still life in the picture on the monitor.

Now that my messy desk has been viewed as art I will never clean it!

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Grainy phone pictures incoming!


http://i.imgur.com/B2zPk.jpg

The gap on the entertainment unit with the loose cords is where the Xbox 360 would be. My brother had taken it into another room at the time this was taken.

nice tested cup

 

[Yes Boss!]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Watching a movie!

Crappy space but I have excellent views each day:

 

[dark10x]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Where exactly do you live?

 

[Yes Boss!]

Where exactly do you live?

Eastern afghanistan, close to the pakistan border.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

Here are some small phone shots. Haven't really decorated all that much.

 

[RibbedHero]

Eastern afghanistan, close to the pakistan border.

You're an American Soldier right? Nice place you have there though.

 

[MadmanUK]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Crappy space but I have excellent views each day:

Stay frosty Boss!

 

[Yes Boss!]

You're an American Soldier right? Nice place you have there though.

Yeah, american. Super cozy now! I'm so pleased with all the shelving stuff built myself with scrap wood. And I did some cable management...something I never do at home.

Stay frosty Boss!

I think the coldest it has gotten is -6 celsius...about -20 farhenheit. Cold but not deathly cold.

 

[Ingram]

Stay frosty Boss!

He's the real Ice Man.

 

[Chittagong]

Yes Boss wins the most bad ass setup in the thread. I was going to ask how his stuff doesn't get nicked in a second by people breaking in but then realized that the assault rifle must help in that.

EDIT - damn did I spot even a Vita? Must be the only Vita in Afganistan

 

[Yes Boss!]

EDIT - damn did I spot even a Vita? Must be the only Vita in Afganistan

Not yet. Just ordered a nice Pink case and a cradle for it from japan. Just waiting for amazon to ship one to me at the end of this month. I'll probably get it mid march since mail is pretty slow here. That and Under Defeat!

 

[Tiktaalik]

Yeah, american. Super cozy now! I'm so pleased with all the shelving stuff built myself with scrap wood. And I did some cable management...something I never do at home.



I think the coldest it has gotten is -6 celsius...about -20 farhenheit. Cold but not deathly cold.

That's surprisingly not that cold... I'd have thought that being landlocked like that it'd be much colder than that, like -20 C.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Not yet. Just ordered a nice Pink case and a cradle for it from japan. Just waiting for amazon to ship one to me at the end of this month. I'll probably get it mid march since mail is pretty slow here. That and Under Defeat!

Yeeaaah, Under Defeat!

Y'all better recognize.

 

[Jb]

Yeah, american. Super cozy now! I'm so pleased with all the shelving stuff built myself with scrap wood. And I did some cable management...something I never do at home.

Wow. Can't even begin to imagine what day to day life must be over there. Nice setup though

 

[Threi]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Watching a movie!

Crappy space but I have excellent views each day:

I respect the hell out of this setup.

 

[teamaxe]

This is my favorite post in this thread.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

You should mount a Playstation Move Sharpshooter next to the M4.

 

[Miggytronz]

 

[XPE]

You should mount a Playstation Move Sharpshooter next to the M4.

Thats ok until one night he picks up the wrong thing and shoots his TV

 

[Fuzzy]

Thats ok until one night he picks up the wrong thing and shoots his TV

Or worse yet, takes the wrong one out on patrol.

 

[oatmeal]

I will be posting pics soon...

Here is how it has looked for the past 2 years (only pic I could find was from Christmas 2010...not much changed at all).

But Saturday I get my new stuff in and will post pics...

See above for old set up...

New set up (still doing a few things, changing curtains, etc.)

(EDIT)
Sucks how washed out the picture looks. It actually looks great.

And we flipped the room around, putting shelving adn stuff in the built ins.

 

[Acrylic7]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Watching a movie!

Crappy space but I have excellent views each day:

Thats a snipers Dream house

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Two things.

1) That's a projector screen, right?

2) Is your baby just chillin' in the corner there?

 

[oatmeal]

Two things.

1) That's a projector screen, right?

2) Is your baby just chillin' in the corner there?

Yes and yes! 110"

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Yes and yes! 110"

I like the frame around the screen, kinda makes it look like an enormous flat screen TV.

 

[oatmeal]

I like the frame around the screen, kinda makes it look like an enormous flat screen TV.

It's built like that.

Elite Screens, I got it on Amazon for around 320. Great deal, kind of a pain to build, but it looks fantastic. I need to start beefing up my sound system to match, though. It's not bad, but it could be beefier.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Looks good. You def need some curtains, though.

Thanks, I'll get to it eventually.

See above for old set up...

New set up (still doing a few things, changing curtains, etc.)

(EDIT)
Sucks how washed out the picture looks. It actually looks great.

And we flipped the room around, putting shelving adn stuff in the built ins.

I like this; looks comfy.

 

[Mattlikewhoa]

I'm a projector user myself (Nice to see more on here). What projector are you using oatmeal?

 

[oatmeal]

Epson 8350

I'm really impressed with it so far. For the price, it's great. About 1500 bucks got me the projector and 110".

It doesn't have 3D, but I didn't want to start collecting them.

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Those of you who have lighting behind your TV, do you attach it to your TV, or the wall behind it?

 

[Bgamer90]

Those of you who have lighting behind your TV, do you attach it to your TV, or the wall behind it?

I have a rope light behind my TV and I put the rope light on the wall using basic screw in hooks.

 

[Cheska]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Aww. Is that a picture of your cat in the upper right corner? If so, that's super sweet.

 

[Duxxy3]

Admit it, you're trying to find Shambala!

 

[Yes Boss!]

Aww. Is that a picture of your cat in the upper right corner? If so, that's super sweet.

Just a generic cat/card :-( The others are a Pippi Longstocking (with Old Man and Herr Nelson!), a coffee shop in San Francisco, and a Japanese/Indian looking card. Stuff my twin sent me. I do have some cat nephews but they are maine coons and live in San Francisco.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Hell of a view, YB!

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

what's your MOS boss?

 

[Yes Boss!]

what's your MOS boss?

Combat Medic. I've got mad respect for the dudes I go up these mountains with. I go with about 140 lbs on me but they go with even more.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

mad respect for YB. Hell of a setup.

 

[ChocolatePuddin]

Finally moved to a slightly bigger place as promised a few weeks ago! Still small but an excellent place to game on my PS3 and watch my indian movies. All ready for my forthcoming Vita and I've finally got an arcade stick arriving in time for Under Defeat!

Ya dude that M4 just chilling there on the wall is pretty badass, coolest thing I,ve seen in a gaming setup.Do you ever play medal of honor and then quickly run outside and shoot a tree or something just too see how close the game came to the accuracy of the weapons and the terrain in Afghanistan??Since you are living in a real life level from the game that could be pretty cool.