Did you ever want to play questions?

Shouldn’t you post more? Aren’t you entertaining us down here in the ATL?

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Can any of you smarty-pantses recommend a not-terribly-expensive laptop that would be good for gaming (along with writing and internetting and so forth)?, please and thank you?

What kind of games (and price range)?

Disclaimer: Not smart, no pants… ?

Steam games (GTA, Batman, Spiderman, Wolf Among Us, etc.), around $1000-ish?

Related: is it normal for a laptop hard drive to fail immediately upon booting it up? Stupid Dell computers, amirite?

Have you consulted Dr Google?

(and wow, aren’t those things ugly?)

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Your looking at an i5 8GB RAM,1TB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M…

unless you care a little less about gaming and more about general performance, then bump up to an i7 with integrated intel graphics…

or you could go down the APU route but maybe not the best for not tearing out one’s hair?

Oh… and don’t I always go for Asus? Although MSI seems to do a nice range and they’ve been getting more reliable, apparently?


ETA:

These are UK prices, so add about 20% performance for your buck I guess?

AAAAaaaand I hate the UK… 40% would be closer… fuckin hell we get fucked over… sob?

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Jeeesus… don’t I keep forgetting about the fucking MASSIVE price disparity between gear over there and here?

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Haven’t I heard that about the cost of those new Nexii?

Are you bearing in mind that over here they never include the fucking tax, which drives me nuts?

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Thanks, @miasm and @daneel, won’t my spouse be happy to have a starting point in the search for a new laptop? Doesn’t it suck to have a computer fail when you’re not necessarily super tech-savvy?

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The nice little ASUS ROG is about the same price in dollars as it is in pounds… maybe about 70 bucks difference… just… WHY???

What it isn’t for you? Don’t you want to play TF2 with us?

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youse guise play tf2?

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Well I do anyway… shouldn’t more of us actually join the BoingBoing group on steam? Maybe make a habit of some TF2 or some co-op game of choice?

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there’s a boingboing group on steam!?

Damn!.. do any’all play quake?

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yes @beschizza started it i think… quake? would you believe I sort missed out on that one at the time?

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Hmm, hopefully my quake skillz are transferable, it’s just another pixel-hunter right?

I am all the way on the other side of the pond so my ping is gonna be something ridonculous in the 200-300 range but whatevs, maybe I can lure summa y’all away to the dark side in quake live?

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Has anyone seen the Babadook? Am I wrong in thinking it’s a metaphor for the mental health of women, especially mothers? Wasn’t it creepy as fuck?

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Myself, @monkeyoh and @miasm at least, I think?

Are you onto something? Maybe so?
And didn’t that film stay with me for weeks afterwards?

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Hand jobs. …wait what?