Dear Wacom, you suck. -Major (Or How to get your Wacom Tablet to work 100% of the time)

 

It sure does.

     I own a Wacom One 14 inch tablet, like the picture above shows. My wife bought it for my son who is an aspiring graphic designer, and after a setup fraught with errors and outright lies, he decided he was better with a keyboard and mouse and it ended up on my desk. I use it for a small monitor on a stand for Discord, but it has a matte finish, so I'm going to buy a small narrow monitor to replace it, and it will go on my wife's desk soon. Overall it's responsive, the pen is nice, but has an almost blurry image even at its native 1080p.

Exhibit A - My current desk as it stands today, tablet- stage right.

Let me give you a break down of setup as defined by the instruction manual:

1. Plug it in to the PC VIA usb and hdmi
2. Plug in the USB power supply into anything
3. Download Wacom software and enjoy!

Actual Setup of the Wacom Tablet (Any product):

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Plug the Wacom tablet into a HDMI to Display Port adapter
3. Plug in your first (and second monitors if you have more that one) into the PC without the tablet connected via hdmi/display port adapter and start the PC
4. Download the Wacom software
5. Plug USB from the dongle in the back into the PC, from the same dongle that the HDMI is coming out of
6. Plug the other USB from the main cable before the dongle into a 2 amp or better USB phone charger USB socket, not into the PC or anything under 2 amps
7. Make sure USB cable is straightened with no kinks, this is important
8. Once Wacom software is installed, plug USB C dongle end into the Wacom tablet, but ONLY FACING TO THE LEFT. This is very important, and cannot be skipped.
9. Shutdown the PC, do not restart. Only shut down.
10. Power back on. 
11. Screen of Wacom will be black, but the PC seems to recognize another monitor connected, this is fine. You may lose your desktop as the blacked out screen of the Wacom is now your main monitor.
12. Unplug the Wacom table from the dongle only, still making right it faces to the left, and plug it back in.
13. The screen should come on as a third monitor, but will now be your main monitor and labeled as your #1 monitor, so change that in display settings.
14. Enjoy!

     The above directions are not an exaggeration in the slightest, just google potential issues and see what comes up on reddit. Hundreds of threads all trying to diagnose the same issues but nothing will work. The HDMI to Displayport adapter seems to be the only way I can get the tablet to work 100% of the time. If you use the HDMI with the steps above, it will periodically work, or you may have to install the software again and keep trying. The USB type C dongle, typically can be plugged in any direction or way and it works the same, but this port is not actually a USB Type C port, it's just shaped and acts as one, and only when the cable that comes off the elbow is pointing to the left. This is not some bullshit I'm making up here, check out the threads for yourself.

TLDR; Wacom makes a product that is good to use, but is comically bad to setup. 

Sol Bianca - [1990] Full OVA Eng Dub

 

 Insane visuals, great animation for it's time, and really memorable quotes and scenes.. Sol Bianca has it all. 

Metal Skin Panic MADOX 01 (1987) Full OVA

 

Berserk [1997] - Full series!

 

All intro and outro removed, episode 1-25 1080p with no ads!

If you want to start the Manga, click here for the complete Google Drive link, translated to english of all 40 books. Don't trust google drive? Here is the link to the Archive.org repository. 

Ghostbusters Smoking Supercut

 

I've been posting some smoking videos and pics lately.. it's no secret that I smoked for 20+ years almost two packs a day, so I'm feeling kinda nostalgic for it. 

Video Rental Stores from the 80's & 90's - Picture Post

 

Space Adventure Cobra (1983) Full Movie!

 

James Bond in space, sexy robots, dude with a gun hand.. an epic adventure!

Just a reminder - Mel Brooks had a hit Hip Hop song about Hitler

 

To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap) was filmed and made for the movie of the same name, but was cut from the film due to length. For whatever reason the song was a hit in several countries and was featured on Top of the Pops as seen above. Norway thought it was especially funny, where it went #1 for several weeks. 

Hajime Sorayama - Sexy Robots

Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989) Full Movie!

 

100% NSFW. Watch at your own risk!

     The OVA that started it all and invented tentacle rape.. and really brought erotic horror to the forefront of the genre. Adapted from a popular anime and ultra violence as well as sadomasochism added for good measure.. you know, for flavor. It was crazy enough that Penthouse famously bought the rights and split it into four movies for the american market. Now we can watch it unfiltered on youtube! Hooray!

Nothing like a four-breasted ring side rodeo to set the movie off. 

I would typically review the movie and put some more stills on here, but I don't think anything that makes this movie a landmark in horror/fantasy is appropriate for my blog, even this one. All I can say, is watch it, come back here, and leave some horrified comments.