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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Bye Bye, Monolith
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:20:08 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:41 this Monday (GMT):
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:10:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>Right, MTX is one reason, but it's somewhat hard to play any modern
>>games on an older linux laptop :P but if i do get the chance i may try
>>some?
>
> That is definitely a more insoluable issue, and one reason I generally
> avoid laptops for gaming. But then I'm lucky enough that I'm currently
> in a place where I can afford more than one computer, and I know not
> everyone is there yet. 
>
> Still, I'm often surprised at how capable modern laptops often are.
> While they rarely can play games on highest-detail settings, probably
> won't reach the blessed realms of 60fps, and may struggle with the
> most modern titles, it's amazing at how well they can perform with
> games even a few years old. A colleague was playing "Sons of the
> Forest" on a stock two-year-old HP laptop and it was impressive it
> could manage that. Heck, I've played my silly truck-sim game on my
> ten-year old laptop and -even if I did have to crank down the detail
> levels and it sometimes chugs- its still a fun experience. Given how
> (comparatively) underpowered these machines' GPUs are, its amazing
> what they can manage. 
>
> But I'm still sticking with my desktop for real gaming. Just being
> able to upgrade it over the years makes it worth the investment;
> there's nothing like slamming in a new GPU and watching games that it
> used to struggle with suddenly fly like an eagle (or am I mixing
> metaphors?)
>
> TL;DR: I don't have a summary here. I'm just rambling :-)


Fair enough. I've only used this laptop for emulation, indie games (with
low requirements), and Disco Elysum.
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