Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

honestly, many people say that proper gaming can only be done on a desktop pc.

but i get to game with my dog sitting between my feet as they are up in my recliner.

i think we all know who's the real winner there

@knifethievingcrow CHRONIC PAIN SOLIDARITY... *very carefully reaches over to fistbump*

yeah i'd say deffo laptop then, honestly there are a lot of good choices out there. a lot of people get all PC MASTER RACE HURR and/or JUST PLAY CONSOLE about it but laptops are very viable for gaming these days. just gotta get one with some gpu beefiness and a lapdesk.

and then you can kick your feet back in a recliner and also game, and THAT'S THE TRUE REALM OF WINNERS, SAYS I.

@knifethievingcrow I WILL GLADLY HELP AS I CAN i have been living that laptop gamer life for a hot minute lol, first going away for college and then being disabled so comfy chair... important...

my other tips are just go ahead and budget in a usb mouse and a nice lapdesk so you don't accidentally fry yourself a little lol. my mouse is technically a ~gamer mouse~ but it was. 14 dollars off amazon. i haven't even played with the extra buttons yet lol. you're probably well ahead of me on that tho

@knifethievingcrow the other feature that i think is real nice: a solid state drive for your operating system.

ssds are a little less reliable in some contexts, and are more expensive so you'll probably only get one small one in there, but HOLY SHIT THEY FAST AS FUCK. i was all 'whatever' about this feature until i got it and now windows reboots, like, in a blink? it's so fucking fast what the fuck.

it's a nice thing but not really a huge dealbreaker if you can't find tho lol.

@knifethievingcrow personally i quite like my ASUS because it advertized a special cooling system to keep your wrists cool when you're playing games. (it just looks like a regular laptop tho lol)

as for what type of gpu, well, i often find looking up card by card is best, i'm not diehard nvidia or AMD. just toss a quick google of the specific card to see if people are like THIS IS AMAZING or THIS IS THE WORST EVER tbh. most are p good, but there are some occasional stinkers on both sides.

@knifethievingcrow oh hey, i do actually know some stuff about gaming laptops! or rather, laptops that can run games good. don't actually buy an official ~*gaming laptop*~ that looks like it's brought to you by mountain dew, those get a heavy upcharge lol.

the main things you'll want to look for:

1. a separate graphics card off the motherboard, with its own RAM

2. mention of a cooling system with some beefiness to it (and also plan to use it with a lapdesk)

@forAll52 it is extremely rude to not meow back at a cat who meows at you and when i am queen it will be mandated by law that you must respond in kind to every cat meowing at you

(also my dog isn't much one for barking 'conversationally' but i do totally hoot back at her)

@maple yeah it's been down for about 20, 25 minutes or so for me, stuck at connecting. twitter is similarly full of people screaming in terror, but they're on it, it looks like - https://status.discordapp.com/

@knifethievingcrow they were the company my high school went with for their laptop program... four years, and i never had a laptop that lasted the whole fucking schoolyear.

ok i think one did, but only because i was fine with typing around the pressure points of somebody's foot after they knocked my laptop bag down and stepped on it BUT ALL THE REST, HARD DRIVES, EVERY TIME.

at least i never lost a major project in progress that way 😂 but yeah i'm still on the Fuck Acer train

well, the last thing i posted to discord (because i rebooted it on account of my mod powers not working correctly in a server) was this

prophetic innit

@knifethievingcrow they're where i've bought my last, like, 3 laptops from, and i've gotten really nice deals each time.

(the only other advice i can think to give is that acer is the devil and i am still deeply prejudiced against their build quality. yeah it's cheap but it's gonna wear the fuck out. their monitors are ok but every thing with a hd i've had from them has busted in under a year. ASUS, though, is good! totally different brand, more solid build quality by far. but acER sucks.)

@knifethievingcrow i might actually be able to help you there!

newegg has a really robust search feature, and also stocks factory refurbished computers as well as has sales. they also cultivate reviews that are thorough, so you'll be able to get some good feedback.

i don't know if they do much international business, but if you're outside the US, you can at least use them as like a catalogue to narrow down what you might like and then look for those models more local to you. ^0^

so,

if katsudon is rice bowl with pork cutlet,

and gyudon is rice bowl with beef,

and unadon is rice bowl with eel,

...

what's a mastodon,

i posted this picture of my superior organizing skills and overnight two of the hooks fell off

so uh.... i think i might try hooks UNDER the shelves... the adhesive on the hooks is rated for up to 25 pounds, but they're also bigger than the edge of that shelf...

worst case scenario i'll find some cute hooks that actually screw in to the got dam wall lmao

whoops no wonder i'm stuck watching it try to connect after seeing a mysterious glitch in my mod powers, discord is down lol

at least i know from twitter that it ain't just me

organizing means making things cute right? right.

also honestly the more i hear it the less i buy "i was just trying to be shocking when i said that offensive stuff"

if you knew it was shocking you knew it was gonna be shocking for a reason, sugartits. don't put that in ya mouth if ya don't want the consequence

like you know it's bad when i - She Of The Proud Mayonnaise Blood - notice this shit

so much of this is just a nice coat of Sassy Gay Best Friend whitewash over black culture. forgive me if i don't think the "but i promise i didn't actually SAY the n-word!" is insincere when i see somebody lip synching along to a Nicki Minaj song in drag makeup while his followers screech DRAG HER SIS! SNATCH THAT WEAVE!... there's a base level of respect just not there and present for black creators

so, while watching videos about 'makeup artist drama' and so on because fuck you i'm full of nyquil and bad choices,

cis white dudes doing drag and in the makeup artist world aren't doing much more than gentrifying what black women have already done, huh