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Quote from: Kagus on December 09, 2018, 11:42:36 am

harvestman

Now, I'm hardly an expert in taxonomy, but that's not a man. I think.

More verb than noun, I think? Not what it is, but what it would do if it were a bit bigger.

Gotta take it to the next level, wierd. "Only onlysheonly only onlytoldonly only onlyhimonly only onlysheonly only onlylovedonly only onlyhimonly only."

One that works

Less tongue in cheek, there's not much I do with a computer that a gaming rig wouldn't manage just fine. Don't do anything like video or photo editing, which is about as hefty an other hobby I can think of, hardware strain wise. OS... honestly, probably win10? Haven't looked at 11 much besides vaguely osmosising some stuff about renting licences and whatnot that makes me kiiiinda' leery. I sorta' want to stop using MS junk, but also aren't really at a place life wise where I want to go through the process of learning to use a notably different OS, particularly one that's notably iffy (if better, these days) on game compatibility et al. The less frustration and effort I have to deal with, the better. Can always dual boot later on :V

Similarly, I probably really should build one myself -- I don't exactly have the funds to legitimately justify the luxury/inflated price of prebuilt -- but I also really, really don't want to deal with the frustration or potential troubles of building a computer for the first time while I'm juggling all the other shit I'm dealing with. If it weren't for steam deciding to fuck me out of my couple-hundred bucks worth of library I'd probably hold off for a while longer

... anyway, beyond all that, the only thing I've really internalized as desired is the vague hardware specs mentioned. Having a CPU that's stronger than 3 ghz is my proverbial man's romance right about now. I've never owned a computer that went over 2.3...

Look up something like VNC (there are many others out there, not sure what the current state of play is with them though) for using your laptop as 'dumb terminal' to any new hardware.  (Which, assuming you don't stash it in some air-conditioned cupboard/rack elsewhere, isn't actually going to save you trouble with space. Desktops/underdesks are just better value if you don't think you're going to haul it about at all, including making it far more possible to incrementally/radically upgrade their components in future.)

That'd be better, aye. Had seen mention of networking stuff together, but that's an actual name to put to software, so thanks, ehehe. Probably a good better idea than the nonsense I was thinking about, so long as the "console" piggybacks the actual computer's graphics without issue.

The big thing space wise is I'm basically using half my bed as my "desk", and my room's small enough there's not really a better option. The ideal is basically a tower beside the bed with console-ish whatever sitting where the laptop currently is. The problem being current monitor design and the apparent utter lack of things-not-stupidly-priced that would keep a LCD monitor from falling over while standing on a bed mattress (as old/cheap as my own, anyway). Similarly, there's not really space for a stand with an arm or particularly decent place to screw one into the wall -- it's a fairly awkward space to work with, all things considered. Using a laptop as a dumb console is probably the cheapest solution I've seen so far (particularly since I already have a laptop to use), heh.

Don't think it'd be the cops, but probably fish and game or whatever? You'd think the CA would mention something but folks can just forget, et al.

Depending on the state there's varying regs regarding what you do about roadkill, especially if there's subsequent shots fired. Probably wouldn't be a big deal regardless, but better safe than sorry if you can handle it with a phone call or somethin'.

You could probably craft your own stand for way, way less than the asking price there.

Rackmount isn't a stand, exactly, though yeah, building something would be a lot cheaper. I'm just not exactly craft inclined at the best of days and really don't want to fuck around with it these days, regardless.

It's just pretty weird to me that the closest to what I'm looking for that seems to be on the market is a friggin' half-k+ thing designed for specialty IT/server work. You'd think something like an integrated keyboard/monitor, or just something that makes a monitor more stable without friggin' screwing it into something would be more of a thing. There just doesn't seem to be anything normal-civilian-ish out there for making a LCD screen able to stay up like a laptop's.

Huh. Initial look into rackmounts -- which seem like the way to go for basically-a-laptop you plug into another computer -- show them to be, like, stupidly expensive. 500+ bucks for a 17 inch LCD with integrated keyboard. You can very literally buy entire fully functional laptops for that.

Makes me feel like I've got to be missing something. I just want a monitor I can put on top of a bed without it falling over, which you'd think there'd be a market for but fuck if I can find it. Someone has to have figured out LCD with a wide base and enough weight to keep it stable is a good idea, right?

E: Like, there's stands coming out our collective asses, and plenty of tables and crap, but nothing that goes, "Look, I want this flimsy ass LCD to sit like a motherfucking CRT." Which is increasingly irritating because, having lived for a while with a CRT plugged into a laptop and both on my bed is basically what I want. Though a bit better balanced would be good. Laptop basically, just with the non-I/O stuff in a proper tower.

So Blood Card is a pretty neat Slay the Spire style card game, with a couple fairly unique mechanics going for it. It's relatively standard so far as card effects go, but the big twist is pretty straightforward: Your health bar is your deck. Damage discards cards, and when you run out of cards in your draw pile it's game over.

Another neat bit is the two-fold win condition: Your default is to get to the end of the run, going through all the rooms and killing the last (currently third, so far as I've been able to tell) boss. Your alternative win condition is killing the 666 hp grim reaper that (usually) shows up 3-4 rounds into each and every fight to try to murder everything there (including the enemies... which isn't always to your favor), with its HP persisting over the course of the game. Along the way you bash heads with a pretty decently sized host of varyingly difficult opponents in variously irritating combinations, gather your ever increasing pile of cards, and generally do the normal card game things.

Anyway, if you like slay the spire you'd probably enjoy it fairly well, and it's pretty cheap so hey.

... as a parting tip: Any card that automatically or indiscriminately damages enemies, in any way, shape or form, do not put it in your deck. You can conceptually use the things, but by and large they're functionally traps of self-ownage that will eventually get you beat in the face with an integer overflow joke level damage hammer (and that's not an exaggeration; I've seen one particular enemy reach 65535 projected damage). There's quite a few enemies in the game that react to being damaged in ways that not being in pretty tight control of what you're hitting, when, will cause you to get hard fucked.

Incidentally, difficulty wise it seems pretty up there, or at least random enough consistent performance is tough to manage. You can figure out some tricks or rules of thumb to get by (and luck out with the easier bosses -- my first "win" was killing Death during the first floor boss fight :V), but it's real easy to get beat into the ground if you run into the wrong enemy combination. I lost 20 something times before I managed my first victory, heh.

You can apparently buy a couple ounces of luminol off amazon, if you don't have a friendly neighborhood forensic department. Twelve bucks for a 2 oz spray, which I've no clue is a good price or not.