Archive of ‘computer gaming’ category

06
Jul
2023

Now we’re actually making substantial progress!

categories: computer gaming; word count: 226 words

Bub’s games have been loaded onto the gaming laptop! All I have left to do is defragment the HDDs that are in it or hooked up to it, both of which being low on space due to his games… that will free up some more space, and then consider looking for a folding table or laptop desk that can be kept in one of our bedrooms to facilitate easier use of the laptop — as it stands right now, making room on the desktop computer’s desk to use the laptop is onerous, requires some effort, and is almost like playing a real-life version of Tetris…

Yeah, we’ll have to improve the layout of at least my room to make gaming on everything in here feasible.

I also pre-ordered a few video games for Bub that will release on or around Christmas, and at that they’re ones that he is really, really going to like. And I pre-ordered him an Atelier remake that’s supposed to come out in a… week… or two? And to finish off his birthday, I am considering getting him a copy of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin on Steam so he can play it whenever he wants on the Steam Deck. He currently has a copy of it on Epic Games right now — that was the first gaming app it was released on.

02
Jul
2023

I am almost finally done updating the laptop!

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 154 words

I’m still going to have to get larger hard drives for it at some point in the future, but so far this is progress.

All of his Battle.Net games are loaded onto it and all of the EA games he has are loaded onto it. I’m just shuffling things from Steam around on the three available hard drives, and that seems to be giving me a bit of wiggle room to get all of these games of his onto this computer. His PC game collection has slowly and steadily grown over the years, and I use the laptop for other reasons in the event I need to be able to use — or do something on or with — another computer, so it certainly has its purposes. Bub has known that I’ve been downloading his games onto it for a day now and is happy as long as I continue to do that for him.

01
Jul
2023

I hate how annoying these purchases have to be.

categories: computer gaming, personal; word count: 288 words

I got our gaming laptop back and the keyboard is no longer scuffed! Bub is stoked.

In the interim, I am now shopping around for a three to five-terabyte HDD that will fit inside the HDD bay of a laptop to maximize the space that Bub has to hold games. If these aren’t made yet, I’ll keep my eye out until something gets made that I can improve his hard drive space with. At this point, I might settle for a larger external HD, even though I don’t like the idea of having to hook an external hard drive up to a laptop unless I have no other choice. Admittedly I am better at putting hard drives into desktops than I am laptops, and hooking up external hard drives to… whatever they need to be hooked up to than this, but I’ll manage.

I am also continuing to pre-order games for Bub that will come out around or before Christmas, to cover a few of those purchases at a time per month so that they don’t get to be too much in the last few months before Christmas! Monster has been collecting DVDs to watch in the portable DVD player that a friend of mine was nice enough to gift him, so I pick up a few of those each month with the intent to be able to give him something he really wants for… well, his birthday and Christmas. Luckily some of the more obscure cartoon DVDs that he manages to find through Google or YouTube are available for really affordable prices.

If I can manage to find a larger HDD for a laptop than what we currently have though, I will go on and get it.

09
May
2023

I should have gotten around to this sooner, but…

categories: computer gaming; word count: 260 words

Even though we’ve been using the… desktop to do almost everything that we’ve been doing, I decided to begin repairing the laptop since we’ve had it for several years now and it is beginning to show signs of age. There are some keys on it that have scuffed to the point that Bub doesn’t want to use them any more, and I know the battery in it needs to be changed because we might actually have gotten this laptop at the start of the pandemic. Almost all of these things are things that I can do from home, and what I may need help with I have a fairly good idea where to get that help from in a city that boasts… what, 100,000 people? At any rate, this is a city that I would like to move out of, although not precisely for that reason. Until then, I’ll be working on fixing this laptop… and if that doesn’t pan out, as these things tend to arrive at old age faster than their desktop counterparts, I’ll begin looking for another laptop in the interim. It is what it is. I do like this one, but the keyboard scuffs exceedingly easily and I am not the biggest fan of the world of replacing HDDs in them.

I am kind of torn though because if they make 5TB HDDs, I would like one in the bay that I have available.

I would also like not to open this thing up more than I absolutely have to, so I am looking at limiting that.

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