So basically another Carrington Event. Which is actually not impossible, and nobody knows what would happen if a geomagnetic storm of that size would occur today.

I bought an Asus Zenbook 14 about a year ago, specifically for immediately installing linux on it and doing some light gaming (I also have a linux desktop)

It has been surprisingly good. When the windows setup launched, the fans were spinning up loudly. I wiped the laptop and installed NixOs. Suddenly the fans went quiet, and I got an estimated battery life of around 11 hours with light usage, excellent.

It has an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU with 780M graphics. I was surprised at what you can run on this. Even Elden Ring was working smoothly on low to medium settings. And the laptop weighs around 1.2kg. I found it even more practical to carry around than my steam deck. (which I’ve sold)

Overall pretty great experience. Planning to build an Egpu to connect to the USB4 ports so I can add a bit of extra horsepower with an external GPU when needed.

It’s also very nice to have a computer which you can just take with you and play games with friends at their place or connect to the television and just play games (or other media) on the big screen.

I also have 2 8bitdo sn30 controllers that I can just take everywhere because they’re so compact and I use it to play games together on the go.

Not sure if it can be considered old timey, But I enjoyed Caves of Qud-

I have a laptop with a AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS myself. Not sure if it counts as lowspec. But it didn’t cost much and it’s 1.2kg.

I was surprised by what games I could play on this while on the go. Most of the things I play on my desktop work fine on this laptop. Even things like elden ring are playable. It’s crazy what you can achieve with integrated graphics these days.

It’s pretty amazing how we can adapt to use the mental tools we have to still live in a ‘normal’ way even when we are very weak in certain aspects.

Yeah, I’ve seen so many games drawing inspiration (or even very closely copying) slay the spire. Just shows how good it really is.

I have a feeling that this is also influenced by people that experienced (emotional) trauma. Some people dissociate from their feelings as a result of things that happened in the past, and this can also impact their ability to visualise things. (Because their brain is protecting them from re-experiencing their trauma)

Wasn’t Slay the spire released in 2019? Great choice though, there is also a multiplayer mod which works suprisingly well

Inscryption is really a good showcase of what makes games fun, and packed with so many things to discover and hidden things.

God hand, what a wonderful choice! Nothing really comes close to the ass-slapping action of that title. And the clunky controls actually make it feel more fun and unique.

The clocks change every minute. I’ve seen some from deepseek and qwen that looked ok. But kimi seems to be the most consistent

This is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.

How long would it take you to sketch something like this? I like how the shapes are not too precise or sharp, but at the same time it perfectly captures the landscape

Vidyascape, a faithful recreation of the 2007 runescape experience.

All the quests are implemented and the xp rate is slightly higher than regular osrs.

It feels fun to re-experience this, and removing the pressure of a monthly subscription makes it much more enjoyable. They are running it since 2014 without any hiccups.

I don’t even listen to music on a regular basis when I’m inside. It’s more something I would do actively from time to time, say a couple of times per month.

This style of sketch looks really nice, have you been drawing for long already?