southsamurai

Heck yeah!

A very good friend gifted me one when he upgraded to the oled model, and it totally brought back my love of gaming. I hadn’t really been able to because of health issues, what with not being able to stay at my desk very long.

But this sucker? It’s running everything I’ve thrown at it so far. Baldur’s gate 3, and 2. Genshin. Stuff like stardew valley.

The worst one to get set up was genshin because they insist on having their own launcher. Makes updates a pain in the ass. Luckily, I don’t play it often, so I don’t care much lol.

I can be in bed, on the couch, even in the john if I want to, and enjoy the hell out of the experience. Worst case, I might have to fiddle with settings if the game doesn’t have native controller support, or piddle with stuff like heroic or lutris if a game is pissy installing.

There’s low resource games that would do fine. You aren’t gonna be able to run a graphics intense FPS, but I’ve seen people run Minecraft, stardew valley and the like on minis.

This is my favorite game, ever.

Well, video game anyway.

Why? It’s just silly enough, just simple enough, but also just challenging enough for that perfect casual gaming range that I prefer.

It’s almost like a game developer went looking to make something I can play even when I’m not in the mood to play.

What’s kinda weird is that the first few times I played it with my kid and wife, I didn’t like it. I’ve never liked first person play at all. But after a while, I got used to the and could actually kick back and enjoy the vibe.

Besides, there’s a quest in one section where the first half is all a set-up for a Sepultura reference. How the fuck can I not love that? Like, you know that whoever was working on that part was high as fuck, listening to the specific track, and went “heh heh heh, this is gonna be awesome”, and drops in the punchline that’s so subtle you don’t catch it unless you know the band and are paying attention.

It’s basically a game built good borderlands fans that are also d&d geeks.

Word. A company that says “hey, you own it, if you want to do the work” is a good thing

Ngl, when I do the occasional tablet or phone repair for someone that isn’t family or a friend, that’s around what I end up charging, with parts included, depending on the job. It’s extremely rare I’m willing to, but fucking around inside tight fitting devices with tiny screws and easy to screw up parts just isn’t something I’ll do cheap if I’ll do it at all.

Damn, I can hear the wheezing from here

That’s a lotta fucking Newports