• sibannac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    I just finished Badurs Gate 3 on a gaming laptop I got from a yardsale a decade ago. Victory is bittersweet and a slideshow.

  • Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    My Haswell box gave out last year. Didn’t bother trying to revive it cause it wasn’t cost effective. Gave me a good 9 years of service though. Anyone want an rx580?

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOPM
      6·
      2 months ago

      It’s been a long time for me. My peak PC gaming days were spent playing Warcraft II head-to-head with a friend over a modem. That was on a Macintosh Performa 550. I also had a ton of fun playing Myst and Flashback. I stuck to consoles after that.

      Now the only gaming in my house is my kids playing Minecraft on a Dell OptiPlex 5040 that I saved from the dumpster at work because I’m a cheapskate. No dedicated GPU, 8GB RAM, but it gets the job done.

      • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        a Dell OptiPlex 5040 that I saved from the dumpster at work because I’m a cheapskate.

        You are absolutely not a cheapskate for doing that. That’s being resourceful. You save money that way and can put it towards other things that matter more. Nothing wrong with that. Why spend a few hundred dollars for a new laptop/desktop when you can just get one used that will run for another 2-4 years before it dies?

  • Alchalide@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    When you build a pc at the end of the last year, but nearly everything released since then is trash.