I am a gamer again!
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:37 am
So the pandemic has been pretty good to Laura and I. We kept our jobs and we can both work from home easily. The hardest part is loss of social life. She is fine being at home, but I am a huge extrovert (had any of you ever noticed??) and miss bars, parties, basketball and seeing people on the regular.
I have a coworker who games with his wife as a primary lifestyle and she convinced Laura to start playing Terraria, which lead to The Raft, and on to a whole host of survival and other games. Problem is, she was using her work computer and it is a MacBook Pro. Strong enough for a few games, but it wasn't sustainable.
She is not a Windows person, and did everything she could to avoid the inevitable. We had an eGPU, two GPUs, two different MacBook Pros, and multiple weeks of tinkering before it became apparent that Mac gaming, even with Bootcamp and eGPU just isn't a thing. It's more expensive and less reliable and we gave up on it.
I am not in any mood to build a PC, so now we have two matching Alienware desktops. More than enough horsepower and got a great deal through her company and my veterans discount.
My Steam name is rsdeuce and you can find me playing No Man's Sky right now. We are on Discord with multiple different people (even got my Mom gaming again) and it has been great for scratching the social itch that I can't get during Covid-19. I don't know that I am ready to sniff an MMO anytime soon, but I would love to play something with the old crew if everyone is still active out in the multiverse.
I am really happy with my setup, although the monitor isn't a 'gaming' monitor. This was my Covid present to myself.
Here is the beast itself:
I have a coworker who games with his wife as a primary lifestyle and she convinced Laura to start playing Terraria, which lead to The Raft, and on to a whole host of survival and other games. Problem is, she was using her work computer and it is a MacBook Pro. Strong enough for a few games, but it wasn't sustainable.
She is not a Windows person, and did everything she could to avoid the inevitable. We had an eGPU, two GPUs, two different MacBook Pros, and multiple weeks of tinkering before it became apparent that Mac gaming, even with Bootcamp and eGPU just isn't a thing. It's more expensive and less reliable and we gave up on it.
I am not in any mood to build a PC, so now we have two matching Alienware desktops. More than enough horsepower and got a great deal through her company and my veterans discount.
My Steam name is rsdeuce and you can find me playing No Man's Sky right now. We are on Discord with multiple different people (even got my Mom gaming again) and it has been great for scratching the social itch that I can't get during Covid-19. I don't know that I am ready to sniff an MMO anytime soon, but I would love to play something with the old crew if everyone is still active out in the multiverse.
I am really happy with my setup, although the monitor isn't a 'gaming' monitor. This was my Covid present to myself.
Here is the beast itself: