I worked in science, pre-clinical pharma, for 11 years before switching careers. I can fucking assure you that scientists and people really are THAT stupid about shit. Complacency from routines or experience is real as fuck.

like that one dinosaurs tail

Ankylosaurus

I scowl and scoff at randos that park on my street or longer in front of my house.

Tools and furniture are exciting!

The limit is skill and discipline.

Most people can’t even drive a car that is held on the ground by gravity. You want them to…fly?

In 1998 no less. Also, he plummeted 16 feet! Bah God!

Thank you for the recommendation!

That’s what I was wondering is should I play certain games and then skip others? I have a PS5, is it possible to play first at all?

Assassin’s Creed

I think when I tried it originally I wasn’t into the controls and how they felt. I’m more forgiving these days so I wonder if I’d enjoy the series now? I love a good story.

Yeah, the first ME you need to really just get in the right mind-frame that it’s old and the controls are clunky. I loved 2 and haven’t played 3.

You have to treat Horizon like a mystery and you’re a detective. I had a hard time getting into it and then I started to try and give a shit about why the world is the way it is and really listening to the logs I found. I finally got very invested and beat both games and loved them.

It won’t be for everybody though. I definitely wouldn’t play Forbidden West without knowing the first game’s story.

The first time I played Borderlands 1, I didn’t understand what it was going for and I didn’t like it. I picked it up years later and blasted through the entire series. It was a riot! I’m older, so all of the stupid references are fucking hilarious to me like the ninja turtles, Star Wars, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Lord of the Rings, Moby Dick, etc.

I appreciate this response. As I said in another post, the Steam Deck is intriguing! I wouldn’t mind one myself.

I do want to say that part of why a laptop is “needed” here is because he does record and edit YouTube videos of his gaming, so a Steam Deck wouldn’t allow him to do that unfortunately.

Oof, yeah, they shouldn’t need the shitty proprietary software when Windows is already installed!

Dude, I’m not getting a Dell! 😉

Good to know. Thank you! I’m in the US, just for reference.

Well damn. That’s was a great watch.

My son’s laptop worked for a year. Just a couple of weeks ago, he started to get the screen going black but you could hear the sounds. A restart would fix it. Then one day it didn’t. I thought maybe it was a dust issue causing overheating and the screen to shut off so I opened it up and blew out dust with compressed air, but it honestly wasn’t bad at all. So I pulled it into a different monitor and it would show up on that monitor, but the one on the device didn’t work so I thought maybe it was driver issues. I updated drivers, I updated Windows, then did a restart. Same thing.

After that, I tried to boot it into safe mode and then it just wouldn’t start up windows at all. Even plugged into a different monitor, I didn’t see the BIOS appear and the light would slowly flash white or green (can’t remember), but it would never get anywhere. Razer support made me prove it over a video call with several tech levels and then they told me I needed to go with my Razer Care.

Been a week and today they called me to say that they couldn’t replace my part so they settled and were cutting me a check for the price of my laptop. Now here I am and I am probably considering a Lenovo Legion or ASUS ROG now.

My hope is that this lasts my son long enough that he would rather have a desktop and that will give me the go ahead to just rebuild my old desktop with all new everything. 😂

I’m in the middle of a master’s program and career switch so I’m not keen on spending more than I have to.

Potentially. We have Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, PS5, my desktop, and he wants the laptop to take to other houses and play on occasion as well.

I really appreciate the context here! It’s food for thought.

Nice! Thank you for the info. I’ll keep looking into them as I keep seeing the ROG and Legion battle online via Reddit and forums.

I’ve had ASUS in the past myself. My current desktop mobo is ASUS and has lasted for years. It’s a budget mobo but it’s taken a lot of what I’ve thrown at it. I think it’s from 2012? 😂

I’ve seen ROG mentioned, but I’ve also seen people say that they feel cheaply built and there are mobo issues? Is that your experience?