arise sir ghost

[sideways]

The new laptop arrived! Rather earlier than I was expecting, given the estimated arrival date was the 24th of June, but I'm not about to complain. Set-up has gone smoothly enough, and while it would be nicer to have a proper desk instead of a small kitchen table, I'm overall thrilled by the end result. The functioning is so far swift and clear; I've a good monitor to accompany it; and while less storage was the compromise for not breaking the bank, I'm not too worried as I don't play the heavyweight games on PC and I have another 450GB of external harddrive storage that I think I'm going to bulk store some of the smaller indie games on. Also, Steam HAS saved most of my on-going progress so I don't have to figure out how to transfer any of that across! Hooray!

Amusingly (or exasperatingly?) there is no denying that gaming laptops are still marketed towards a particular demographic, however. The laptop itself is all gunmetal and dynamic edges, and it came with a pack of obnoxiously edgy stickers: gas masks! skeletons riding motorcycles! a severed hand, skateboarding! It doesn't feel like it's any kind of a trade secret that video games are played by an enormous variety of people, but... here we still are.

I instead pulled out some old stickers I bought yonks back and then never used, and so has new laptop been named Ghost in honour of the Destiny Ghost gracing its cover. Also because gunmetal and dynamic edges.

I concluded the day by playing StarCraft for the first time since I was fifteen years old. So much fun. Did I mention it's completely free now? 

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

Hooray for Ghost's safe arrival! \o/ (Oh, man - those stickers, though...)

[sideways]

Tough stickers for TUF GAMING. Maybe I'll use the tiny star stickers someday.

[silverflight8]

Yay, laptop early delivery! And nice that it is working well out of the box.

Ugh I know what you mean about it being so firmly male-marketed. So dumb.

[sideways]

I'd feel a bit cheated if it wasn't working well out of the box! And yeah, gaming laptops just always seem to have... such a look, before we even get to the marketing of the games themselves. Just. Be neutral, y'all.

[khronos_keeper]

Ooooh, I'm actually looking to get a new laptop myself. What kind did you get? I'm lured by the promise of edgelord stickers.

[sideways]

LAUGHS. Far be it from me to deny someone their right to edgelord stickers. I'd give you mine if I could.

Laptop is an Asus Tuf A15, of which there are a couple of models that offer slight spec varieties. I'm liking it! Running both the games I've tried without a hitch.

[anneapocalypse]

Yes, I'm a girl, yes I'm a skeleton on a skateboard wearing a gas mask. We exist! ;)

Congrats on the new laptop and here's hoping it works well for you and you have a good time with it!

[sideways]

Honestly, it's not even the masculine bent so much as the suggestion I'm somewhere between the ages of 15 and 20...

[amovingtarget]

Early surprises are THE BEST I hope you have lots of fun gaming something :D

[sideways]

I AM thank u