anyway that whole detour in modding ended when, after stomping through pouting about how their mental health was so so bad please give pity it's just so bad (but how DARE anyone suggest 'maybe counseling or a self-help book'), they started in with "does anyone else get soooo jealous of asians because they're naturally pretty"
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seriously though can you. can you imagine. twenty seconds from a bus stop that hooks in directly to other public transport such as trains, subway, and other bus lines. and living in one of not just your country's, but the *world's* most important cities and cultural centers.
and they feel oh so isolated and alone.
meanwhile here i am, unable to drive, which in america means: welcome to being a shut-in! commuter trains don't fucking exist in the south! atlanta may as well be in another state!!!
newcomer to fashion server: it's just so hard, i'm really out in the middle of nowhere
server: oh? where do you live
newcomer: south london!
me: oh, are you far away from a bus stop so you can't access public transportation then?
newcomer: lol no there's one like 20 seconds from my house
me: ....
me: excuse me. pardon everyone. excuse me. just need to step outside for a moment
me: [ 15 MINUTES OF INVECTIVE-FILLED AMERICAN YELLING ]
PLUS i get to get cozy with my mermaid tail blanket (which my dog likes because it makes sitting on my legs extra cozy). so, win-win-win.
laptop gaming: IT'S THE FUTURE.
AND i get to game with my dog snuggling me off to one side, flopped on the recliner arm.
do YOU get to do that with AN OFFICE CHAIR WITH A DESKTOP YOU SIT AT?
N O P E
we all know who is the real winner folks!!! (me and my laptop!!!!)
@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/
30 y/o - token cishet - tumblr refugee. spoonie/15 chronic conditions in a trenchcoat/actual cyborg. just hangin' in there 