Ok.

if you are going for gaming only, you can save money on the CPU

basically you can go graphics power (gaming) or CPU power (video editing, computer modeling, etc)

But yeah what's the newest shit you wanna play my dude?
>inb4 Kingdom Come

trying to make a PC to do both will cost you as much as that gaming laptop. BUT it will do both, unlike the gaming laptop

With the rise of GPGPU a good GPU can actually carry you in other applications. It depends on if your program is set up to use the GPU or not and if your GPU is expensive because it's overbuilt (AMD) or over-engineered (nVidia).

I don’t know what else I’d really like to play. I’ve never done much with computer games. It would be nice to be able to use Microsoft products at home again. MacBooks suck with number crunching.

Computer games are endless

If you focus on only AAA stuff, it looks like maybe there aren't a lot of computer games.

So it really depends on what type of game you like playing.

Ok

The games list goes all the way back. Dosbox will help you with the older stuff. What genres do you like?

Strategy, adventure/exploration, rpg I guess.

@Beemann

Like RTS/TBS? For adventure do you mean action adventure? Point and click?
For RPGs I can make a big ol list tho

Like red alert two kind of stuff.

Maybe action adventure. I do like Mario games. Even though I stink. Lol

Pokémon is an rpg genre.

Yeah okay, so SupCom is a good 'un, Age of Empires, Total Annihilation. If you're into less basebuildy stuff, Company of Heroes, World in Conflict, RUSE

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a fun game in terms of exploration and strategy. That being said, it is also a third person shooter which you may or may not like. You are basically fighting a drug cartel in Bolivia but the way the enemy AI is programmed, you can choose whether you want to handle a situation stealthily or go all out guns a blazin'. The playable area is absolutely massive, which is why I say it's a good adventure/exploration

We're talking RDR2 massive

Ok. Cool.

For RPGs, are you only keen on turn based stuff? Or is real time stuff fine as well?

I don’t think I’ve ever done real time besides something like super smash bros.

Smash isn't an RPG but okay
If you wanna try realtime stuff I would absolutely recommend Baldur's Gate 2 specifically

Relatively easy to get into, 1 isn't essential for understanding the story

If you want something inspired by an RPG series and real time with exploration, and don't mind clunky games with 90s graphics, System Shock 1 is great

Same with Deus Ex and its early 00s visuals

This is a good list. Thanks.

STALKER and Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines are buggy as hell but good also

And no problem. These are all pretty cheap and 10+ years old too so they'll run on what would be a toaster by modern standards

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Lol.

Que?

Edmonds beach is so far away

The toaster joke is funny

Get walking

I dont need to go

Just thinking about how far I would have to drive to get there

I've been having a discussion somewhere else on Brexit and came up with what started as a joke but the more I talked about it the more I wondered if it might actually happen. I'm curious for this crowd's thoughts on it. If Britain leaves hard, what are the possibilities that England, Wales, Scotland, and N Ireland end up collectively or separately as Canadian provinces?

Why would they ever do that?

If they discover that as an independent state they have no leverage to maintain their standard of living?